CAFE Insider 10/21: Mick Mulvaney's Mess

In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "Mick Mulvaney's Mess," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram break down Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s walk-back of his quid pro quo Ukraine comments made at a press conference last week. Listen to the full episode with a free 2-week trial of the CAFE Insider membership. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS MULVANEY’S PRESS CONFERENCE Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s press conference (video and transcript), 10/17/19 Mick Mulvaney’s interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, 10/20/19 Trump Doral & The G7 “What Is the Emoluments Clause?,” Encyclopedia Britannica “Trump was already violating the emoluments clause. Grabbing the G-7 is even worse,” The Washington Post, 10/18/19 “Trump Has Just the Place for the Next G7 Meeting: His Own Golf Resort,” The New York Times, 8/28/19 President Trump’s tweet announcing that the G7 in 2020 would no longer be held at the Trump National Doral resort in Florida, 10/19/19 “How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success,” The New Yorker, 12/27/18 Quid Pro Quo Admission The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Congress.gov “Mulvaney Says, Then Denies, That Trump Held Back Ukraine Aid as Quid Pro Quo,” The New York Times, 10/17/19 Trump’s “perfect call” tweet, 10/1/19 Letter sent by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to the General Prosecutor of Ukraine in 2018 raising their concerns that the Trump Administration could unduly pressure Ukraine into obstructing the Mueller investigation by withholding funding, 5/4/18 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.