Geoffrey Berman on ‘Holding the Line’
The Lawfare Podcast
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Do You Think the Halkbank Case Is the Most Shocking of the Cases?
There's a direct line between donald trump's interpersonal relationship with a regeptip erduan, and the pressure that you guys were getting. And i was thinking, ok, there is a roll for foreign affairs to affect prosecutorial judgments. I think the idea is where it fits into the pattern of prior accepted practices, like in spy exchanges. Is the difference here that trump was kind of acting in his personal interest? Or does one fit into a long pattern of spy exchanges, and the other doesn't?
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