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On this episode of Stay Tuned, “The Fate of the World in 2020,” Preet answers your questions about:What constitutes impeachable conductThe authorities that Chief Justice John Roberts can assert in Trump's impeachment trialReports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t have the votes to block impeachment witnesses


The guest this week is Ian Bremmer, the Founder and President of Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk and research firm. Bremmer is also the president of GZERO Media, which features short videos, podcasts, and explainers to help break down complicated global issues, and is an Editor-at-Large and Foreign Affairs columnist at TIME Magazine.




REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

THE Q&A

JOHN ROBERTS:"John Roberts Can Call Witnesses to Trump's Trial. Will He?," New York Times, 1/27/20"Rebuke From Roberts Signals His Limited Role in Trump’s Senate Trial," New York Times, 1/22/20


MITCH MCCONNELL:"McConnell Says GOP Doesn't Have Votes to Block Impeachment Witnesses," Wall Street Journal, 1/29/20


THE INTERVIEW

EURASIA GROUP TOP RISKS: “Top Risks for 2020,” Eurasia Group, 1/6/2020“Top Risks for 2019,” Eurasia Group, 1/7/2019“The Fate of the World in 2019,” Stay Tuned with Preet, 1/8/2019


DAVOS: Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Currency/Penguin Random House, 2017“Ian Bremmer reveals what business and political leaders are discussing behind closed doors in Davos,” Eurasia Group and Business Insider, 1/24/2020“Climate Change Takes Center Stage at Davos,” New York Times, 1/20/2020“Trump Focuses on Economy at Davos, Seeking a Counter to Impeachment,” New York Times, 1/21/2020“Greta Thunberg on Averting a Climate Apocalypse: Davos 2020,” World Economic Forum on Youtube, 1/21/2020


TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOREIGN POLICY: Donald Trump Tweet about Bremmer, Twitter, 5/27/2019Bremmer's tweet apologizing about the quote, Twitter, 5/27/2019“A political scientist caused confusion when he made up a Trump quote. The president noticed,” Washington Post, 5/27/2019“Mattis says Iran downing a US aircraft should be met with retaliation,” Military Times, 12/3/2019“Zuckerberg talks Warren ‘existential’ breakup threat in leaked audio,” Axios, 10/1/2019“After Contentious Interview, Pompeo Publicly Accuses NPR Journalist Of Lying to Him,” NPR, 1/25/2020“Prince Charles: We need a new economic model or the planet will burn,” CNN, 1/22/20Ian Bremmer, “How the Trump Administration’s Israel-Palestine Peace Plan Will Change the Middle East,” TIME, 1/28/2020


EXTRAS: “A Large Blank World Map,” Wikimedia Commons “Is it Appropriate to Undo Two Shirt Buttons at Work?” Wall Street Journal, 12/11/2014


THE BUTTONWatch: 2020 Grammy Awards"Alicia Keys honors Kobe Bryant in moving Grammys opening speech," LA Times, 1/26/20


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In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "Nuts & Bolton," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram discuss the bombshell revelations that former National Security Advisor John Bolton wrote in the manuscript of his forthcoming book that President Trump tied releasing aid to Ukraine investigating the Bidens.

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On this episode of Stay Tuned, “POTUS on Trial & A Military Mind,” Preet answers your questions about:Whether foreign policy is exclusively in the purview of the executive branch and what that has to do with impeachment of President TrumpWhy Lev Parnas is able to sit for public interviews while out on bond while Roger Stone is bound by a gag orderWhether Chief Justice John Roberts has veto power during the Senate trial


The guest is Admiral James Stavridis. He spent 37 years in the U.S. Navy and earned four stars, served as the 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and forayed into academia as the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His most recent book is Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character.




REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

THE Q&A“Alan Dershowitz’s Strange Constitutional Arguments on Impoundment and Foreign Policy,” Lawfare, 1/22/20Transcripts of Rachel Maddow’s first and second interview with Lev Parnas, 1/15/20“Roger Stone Lost His Appeal Of The Gag Order Barring Him From Posting On Twitter, Facebook, And Instagram,” BuzzFeed News, 10/22/19Senate Resolution 483, “To Provide for related procedures concerning the articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, President of the United States,” Jan 2020“Trump’s Impeachment Trial a Perilous Duty for Chief Justice,” New York Times, 1/14/20


THE INTERVIEWStravridis’ most recent book: Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character, October 2019Stavridis’ column for Time: “Why Trump’s Generals Have Abandoned Ship,” 1/3/19“‘You’re a bunch of dopes and babies’: Inside Trump’s stunning tirade against generals,” Washington Post, 1/17/20General Ulysses S. Grant’s book, Personal Memoirs, 1999Michael Shaara’s book, The Killer Angels, 2004Steven Pressfield’s book, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, 2005“Trump invites disgraced Navy SEAL who posed with a dead ISIS captive he was accused of murdering to Mar-a-Lago,” Business Insider, 12/24/19“Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward Gallagher,” New York Times, 12/27/19The North Atlantic Treaty, April 1949“What Is NATO’s Article 5?,” History, 8/31/18Stavridis column for Time: “Why NATO Is Essential For World Peace, According to Its Former Commander,” 4/4/19My Big Fat Greek Wedding, IMDb, 2002


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In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "Mock Trial," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram discuss the trial rules proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which Democrats argue give a helping hand to the White House and make it impossible to have fair proceedings.

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On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, "Born to Poll," host Preet Bharara answers your questions about:

-- Former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's move to withdraw his guilty plea

-- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement naming the House Impeachment Managers

-- The documents provided to the House Intelligence Committee by Rudy Giuliani's associate, Lev Parnas

The guest is J. Ann Selzer, the president and founder of polling firm Selzer & Company. She is one of the country's most widely-respected pollsters and has been overseeing the Des Moines Register Iowa poll almost every year since the 1980s.




REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

THE Q&A

MICHAEL FLYNNMr. Flynn’s Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty And Unopposed Motion for Continuance, 1/14/20“Allocution,” Legal Information InstituteFederal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 11. Pleas, Legal Information Institute“Michael Flynn moves to withdraw guilty plea, claiming government ‘vindictiveness,’” Washington Post, 1/14/20 

IMPEACHMENTPelosi Names Impeachment Managers, Speaker of the House, 1/15/20“Who are the impeachment managers prosecuting the case against Trump in the Senate trial?” Washington Post, 1/15/20Documents provided by Lev Parnas to House investigators“Ukraine prosecutor offered information related to Biden in exchange for ambassador’s ouster, newly released materials show,” Washington Post, 1/14/20“Meet the Trump Donor Who Allegedly Stalked America’s Ambassador in Ukraine,” Daily Beast, 1/14/20 

THE INTERVIEWElizabeth Winkler, “The Pollster Who Figured Out Iowa’s Quirky Caucuses,” Wall Street Journal, 1/3/2020Brianne Pfannenstiel, “Bernie Sanders Leads the Iowa Poll for the First Time, Weeks Before the Iowa Caucuses,” Des Moines Register, 1/10/2020Iowa Poll Methodology, Selzer & Company, 1/10/2020Brianne Pfannenstiel, “Iowa Poll: Pete Buttigieg Rockets to the Top of the 2020 Field as a Clear Front-Runner,” Des Moines Register, 11/16/2019Iowa Poll Methodology, Selzer & Company, 11/16/2019Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, “What the Heck is Going on With Tom Steyer’s Poll Numbers?” FiveThirtyEight, 1/13/2020Clare Malone, “Ann Selzer is the Best Pollster in Politics,” FiveThirtyEight, 1/27/2016Nate Silver, “Ann Selzer on Youth & Minority Turnout,” FiveThirtyEight, 9/26/2008Steven Shepard, “Ann Selzer’s Secret Sauce,” POLITICO, 12/12/2015Jonathan Allen and Amie Parmes, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, Penguin Random House, 2017J. Ann Selzer, Tweet about Iowa Poll Timing, Twitter, 1/2/2020J. Ann Selzer, “How Cruz and Sanders Defied the Iowa Polls, Including Our Own,” Bloomberg, 2/2/2016“Kerry Comes Back to Win Dramatic Caucuses,” CNN, 1/20/2004Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg, “Last-Minute Scramble as Caucus Night Nears,” New York Times, 12/31/2011Liz Halloran, “Is Huntsman Wrong to Skip Iowa?” NPR, 6/21/2011“For Gauging Goofiness, Majority Back Iowa Poll,” New York Times, 1/29/1990


THE BUTTONClip of Doug Collins on Fox, 1/8/20“Preet Bharara to Georgia congressman: You've hit a shocking new low,” CNN, 1/09/20Preet’s first, second, and third tweet about Rep. Doug Collins, 1/8/20Doug Collins’ twitter apology, 1/10/20


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In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "'Impeached For Life,'" co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram discuss the The politics at play in the impeachment trial of President Trump, expected to begin next week, and the role of Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside of the proceedings.

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