CAFE Insider

In this episode of CAFE Insider , “The Executive’s Privilege,” Preet and Anne break down the political and legal questions around President Trump’s recent executive action, the latest in the legal fight over the House Judiciary Committee’s attempts to compel testimony from former White House Counsel Don McGahn, and the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Asso...

CAFE Insiders can enjoy this recording of Preet reading his note, "Housework 2020” and read his note in the CAFE Insider Newsletter every Thursday.

A weekly Note from Elie is part of the CAFE Brief, and Insider members can listen to a recording of the note the same day. Please enjoy Elie reading this week's note, "Hey AG Barr, If you don’t know, now you know,” and read his note in your inbox every Friday.

On this episode of United Security, “Arms, Protests, Ballots,” Lisa Monaco and Ken Wainstein break down politically charged national security issues making the headlines, including:  -- The legal and policy questions raised by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to bypass congressional review on an $8.1 billions arms deal with Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates; -- The legal authorit...

In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Jeffrey Toobin talks about his writing craft and how he manages to write so many books.  Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community. For references and supplemental materials, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-bonus/stay-tuned-bonus-8-5-jeffrey-toobin/

In this episode of CAFE Insider , “Threats Foreign and Domestic,” Preet and Anne speak with Ben Wittes, the editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, about the revelations that the Department of Homeland Security compiled and disseminated “intelligence reports” on journalists who reported on Portland protests, including Ben himself. They also break down President Trump’s threats to ban TikTok, his twee...

A weekly Note from Elie is part of the CAFE Brief, and Insider members can listen to a recording of the note the same day. Please enjoy Elie reading this week's note, "The Amateurish Dystopian Surrealism of Michael Cohen's Gag Order,” and read his note in your inbox every Friday.

CAFE Insiders can enjoy this recording of Preet reading his note, "Appearances Matter, But Not to Barr’” and read his note in the CAFE Insider Newsletter every Thursday.

In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Jake Tapper talks about his fiction writing and what Preet should ask Jeffrey Toobin during their interview next week.  Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community. For references and supplemental materials, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-bonus/stay-tuned-bonus-7-30-jake-tapper

In this episode of CAFE Insider , “Barr Fight,” Preet and Anne discuss Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, President Trump’s recent deployment of hundreds of federal officers to American cities as part of “Operation Legend,” and the release of Michael Cohen from prison after a federal judge called his re-imprisonment “retaliatory” in response to his plans t...

CAFE Insiders can enjoy this recording of Preet reading his note, "Hurdles One Inch High on the Track’” and read his note in the CAFE Insider Newsletter every Thursday.

A weekly Note from Elie is part of the CAFE Brief, and Insider members can listen to a recording of the note the same day. Please enjoy Elie reading this week's note, "Barr Cannonballs Into a Pool of Corruption,” and read his note in your inbox every Friday.

In this episode of the United Security podcast, Lisa and Ken make sense of the recent Twitter hack which has renewed concerns about cyber vulnerabilities related to the upcoming election; escalating tensions between the U.S. and China with the Trump Administration’s decision to close the Chinese consulate in Houston and the Justice Department’s indictment of two Chinese nationals; and reporting th...

In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Professor Eddie Glaude ruminates on patriotism and reacts to Princeton’s recent decision to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: “President Eisgruber’s message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy sch...

In this bonus material from a special episode of Stay Tuned , “Scenes from the Mueller Probe,” Anne Milgram talks to Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, about his time reforming FBI’s forensics lab, that time he prosecuted Vincent Gigante, the boss of the Genovese crime family, and a death penalty case he defended early in his career as a young lawyer.  In t...

In this episode of CAFE Insider , “Portland, Vance, and Voting Rights,” Preet and Anne break down the controversy surrounding the use of federal officers to arrest and detain protesters in Portland, the most recent legal maneuvering in the Manhattan District Attorney’s pursuit of President Trump’s tax returns, and the Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place (for now) a lower court order which d...

A weekly Note from Elie is part of the CAFE Brief, and Insider members can listen to a recording of the note the same day. Please enjoy Elie reading this week's note, "Miseries of MDC are Ghislaine Maxwell’s Incentive to Flip,” and read his note in your inbox every Friday.

CAFE Insiders can enjoy this recording of Preet reading his note, "Leadership in Crisis’” and read his note in the CAFE Insider Newsletter every Thursday.

In this bonus from Stay Tuned , Preet asks Senator Cory Booker a lightning round of questions about being Newark’s mayor, who he wants to play him in a biopic, and his favorite party game.  Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: Street Fight (dir. Marshall Curry), StreetFightFilm.com , 2005 Jonathan D. Tepperman, “Complicating the...

In this episode of CAFE Insider , “Pardon Me?” Preet and Anne break down President Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his friend and advisor Roger Stone, the unusual circumstances under which Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen is returning to federal prison, the pair of long-anticipated Supreme Court decisions concerning Trump’s personal financial records, and the congressiona...

A weekly Note from Elie is part of the CAFE Brief, and Insider members can listen to a recording of the note the same day. Please enjoy Elie reading this week's note, "Ghislaine Maxwell and the “Would You Cooperate” Game," and read his note in your inbox every Friday.

On this inaugural episode of United Security, “Bounties, Bolton, and COVID-19,” Lisa Monaco and Ken Wainstein discuss recent reporting that the Russians paid bounties to Taliban linked militias to kill U.S. service members in Afghanistan, make sense of the Bolton saga including a breakdown of the pre-publication review process for former government officials, and provide an update on the resurgenc...

In this bonus from Stay Tuned , FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub discusses her time as counsel to the House Ethics Committee and offers some hopeful examples of election reform.  Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: James Bornemeier, “‘How-Not-To' Guide: Helping Politicians to Go by the Book,” Los Angeles Times , 5/13/1992 “Gener...

In this episode of CAFE Insider , “Ghislaine, ICE & DOJ,” Preet and Anne discuss the recent ICE decision to force foreign students taking online-only college classes back to their home countries; the indictment in SDNY of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate and enabler; and the news that Richard Donoghue, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, is taking a n...

CAFE Insiders can enjoy this recording of Preet reading his note, "Some Modest Leadership Advice’” and read his note in the CAFE Insider Newsletter every Thursday.