Best David Harrell Podcasts (2025)

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Lawfare Daily: Cullen O’Keefe on the Impending Wave of AI Agents 37:52

2h ago37:52

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Cullen O’Keefe, Research Director at the Institute for Law and AI, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare, and Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss a novel AI governance framework.…

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PRL 5-13-25 Mike Mullis, Mack McCarthy, Rahjai Harris, Bryce Williams, Brandon Manning 2:22:34

12h ago2:22:34

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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine Peace Negotiations with Mykola Bielieskov 55:43

3h ago55:43

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Donald Trump was confident he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine in a matter of days or weeks. It’s now been more than three months since Trump’s reelection, and even a short-term ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia remains elusive. Why did Trump fail? And what can really force Russia to stop the war? To answer these and many other questions, Lawfa…

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PRL 5-12-25 Ellerbe, Brian Bailey, Justin Hardy, Caiden Norman 2:23:55

1d ago2:23:55

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The Brian Bailey Show 5-12-25: Shane Winkler, Todd Gibson 59:33

1d ago59:33

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 9 1:38:47

22h ago1:38:47

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In a live conversation on May 9, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce, and Lawfare contributor Preston Marquis to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the order for the…

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Lawfare Archive: Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders with Maya Kornberg 48:55

3d ago48:55

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From February 22, 2024: As a new report on the intimidation of state and local officeholders from the Brennan Center for Justice points out, “The January 6 insurrection at the Capitol seemed to mark a new peak in extremist intimidation targeting public officials. But it was hardly the only act of political violence to break the period of relative s…

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Lawfare Archive: Christine Fair on Developments in Kashmir 46:07

4d ago46:07

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From August 27, 2019: On August 5, the Indian government announced that it was revoking “special status” for the states of Jammu and Kashmir, enshrined in Article 370 of its constitution. Since then, the government has instituted a lockdown in the Kashmir valley, hundreds of people have been detained, there have been mass protests, and tens of thou…

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PRL 5-9-25 Darryl Strawberry, Tony Dunn, Brian North, Morgan Ahlers 2:24:44

5d ago2:24:44

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Lawfare Daily: Ben Brooks on the Rise of Open Source AI 44:36

4d ago44:36

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Ben Brooks, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and former head of public policy for Stability AI, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss a sudden and significant shift toward open-sourcing leading AI models and the ramifications of that pivot for AI governance at home an…

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PRL 5-8-25 Zach Kaplan, Tyler Snead, ECU Club Baseball, Greg Hudson, Danny Beal, Parker Byrd 2:24:53

6d ago2:24:53

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Lawfare Daily: Resisting Democratic Backsliding 49:51

6d ago49:51

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In recent years, political scientists have given a great deal of attention to “democratic backsliding”—the slow erosion of democracy by aspiring authoritarians. The events of the last several months in the United States—with attacks from the Trump administration on the press, higher education, and any center of power outside the White House—make th…

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PRL 5-7-25 Ken Watlington, Brooks Hill, Holton Ahlers, Miss East Carolina 2:25:03

7d ago2:25:03

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Rational Security: The “Shaving Face” Edition 1:06:35

7d ago1:06:35

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin “The Beard” Wittes and Anastasiia (and Ava) Lapatina to discuss the week’s biggest national security news stories, including: “A Waltz on Thin Ice.” Weeks after the SignalGate controversy, Mike Waltz is out as National Security Adviser and set to be nominated as U.N. Ambassador. Secreta…

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Broken Engagement: Veteran China reporter Bob Davis on his new collection of interviews 1:15:47

7d ago1:15:47

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This week on Sinica, I chat with veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Davis, who has covered the U.S.-China relationship for decades. He recently published a new book called Broken Engagement, which consists of interviews with U.S. policymakers who were instrumental in shaping American policy toward China from the George H.W. Bush administratio…

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Lawfare Daily: Alexis Loeb on Kleptocracy and National Security 45:55

7d ago45:55

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In her recent Lawfare article, Alexis Loeb—a former deputy chief of the Jan. 6 Capitol Siege Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and a current partner at Farella, Braun, and Martel—discussed Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo dismantling the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative. On today’s episode, Loeb joined Lawfare Associate Editor Olivia …

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PRL 5-6-25 Mike Mullis, Mack McCarthy, Shane Winkler, Brandon Manning, Caiden Norman 2:23:23

8d ago2:23:23

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Lawfare Daily: Digital Forgeries, Real Felonies: Inside the TAKE IT DOWN Act 47:59

8d ago47:59

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The TAKE IT DOWN Act is the first major U.S. federal law to squarely target non‑consensual intimate imagery (NCII) and to include a component requiring tech companies to act. Long handled via a patchwork of state laws, it criminalizes NCII at the federal level—both authentic images and AI-generated digital forgeries—and requires that platforms remo…

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PRL 5-5-25 Ellerbe, Justin Hardy, Brian Bailey, Wade Minter 2:25:28

9d ago2:25:28

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Listen to God || David Sanders 30:21

9d ago30:21

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The Brian Bailey Show 5-5-25 HS Baseball Playoff Review: Jason Mills, Pat Mcrae, Corey Skinner, Ronald Vincent 1:00:43

9d ago1:00:43

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This Program Offers New Hope for Fentanyl Users 45:03

9d ago45:03

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A new way of administering buprenorphine—a gold-standard medication that combats opioid addiction by reducing the need to use drugs like fentanyl to function—is helping people reduce their fentanyl use without the painful withdrawals that keep many users away from other versions of the medication. The new protocol, which the Downtown Emergency Serv…

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 2 1:36:54

9d ago1:36:54

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In a live conversation on May 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, the decision by a judge …

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Lawfare Archive: Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy 39:28

10d ago39:28

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From July 27, 2020: Anne Applebaum is a columnist, writer, historian and most recently, the author of "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lore of Authoritarianism," a book that explores why authoritarian ideologies are on the ascendance in countries as diverse as Poland, Hungary, Spain, the United States and Great Britain. Benjamin Wittes spoke w…

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Lawfare Archive: Greg Johnsen and Scott Anderson on the Fight Against the Houthis 50:19

11d ago50:19

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From January 16, 2024: Over the last two months, Houthi militants have waged more than 27 attacks against merchant shipping and U.S. and partner forces in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, purportedly in response to the war in Gaza. These attacks have significantly disrupted global shipping and surged the Middle East into…

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PRL 5-2-25 Brian North, Tony Dunn, Parker Moorer, Morgan Ahlers 2:23:00

12d ago2:23:00

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Lawfare Daily: Social Security, the ‘Death Master File,’ and Immigration Enforcement 51:49

12d ago51:49

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As the Trump administration seeks to escalate its immigration crackdown, the government has turned to a concerning source of information for data on immigrants: the Social Security Administration. Reports indicate that Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative and the Department of Homeland Security successfully pushed Social Security officials to provide access…

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PRL 5-1-25 Zach Kaplan, Danny Beal, Brooks Hill, Greg Hudson 2:24:50

13d ago2:24:50

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Lawfare Daily: The Crisis in Kashmir 34:14

13d ago34:14

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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Tanvi Madan, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss the April 22 terrorist attack in Kashmir. Madan explains how the crisis has evolved, the escalation options available to India, and the limited influence of the United States, China, and other powers to c…

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PRL 4-30-25 Ken Watlington, Rahjai Harris, Holton Ahlers, Are You Smarter Than Wes? 2:21:40

14d ago2:21:40

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Rational Security: The “Keeping It 100” Edition 1:12:48

14d ago1:12:48

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds and James Pearce to talk through the week’s big national security news, including: “Rounding the ‘Feels Like It’s Been a Century’ Mark.” As President Trump comes to the end of his second first 100 days in office, he and his supporters are laying claim to FDR’s mantle as the presid…

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Lawfare Daily: Andrew Bakaj on Whistleblowing and DOGE’s Activities at the NLRB 34:07

14d ago34:07

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Andrew Bakaj, Chief Legal Counsel at Whistleblower Aid, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss a declaration by a National Labor Relations Board employee Daniel Berulis that DOGE facilitated the exfiltration of potentially sensitive information to external sources. The two also …

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PRL 4-29-25 Mully, Mack McCarthy, Jim Szoke, Jason Nichols, Bryce Williams, Brandon Manning 2:25:27

15d ago2:25:27

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The EU-China Relationship in the Age of Trumpian Disruption, with Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP 1:06:46

15d ago1:06:46

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This week on Sinica, I chat with SCMP Senior Europe Correspondent Finbarr Bermingham, who joins from Brussels where he's been covering the EU-China relationship in fantastic depth and with great insight. 3:17 – EU-China relations in early 2025: the effect of the 2021 sanctions, who advocated for engagement versus confrontation with China, and the i…

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Lawfare Daily: The President, Congress, and the Power of the Purse 48:25

15d ago48:25

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In today’s episode, Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Matt Lawrence, Associate Professor of Law at Emory; Eloise Pasachoff, Professor of Law at Georgetown; and Zach Price, Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco to discuss a new paper on “Appropriations Presidentialism,” or how the executive br…

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PRL 4-28-25 Ellerbe, Brian Bailey, Justin Hardy, Caiden Norman, Dixon Williams, Antwan Staley 2:25:38

16d ago2:25:38

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Brian Bailey Show 4-28-25 Brett Wellman, Spencer Pattison, Kris Dumschat, Danny Beal of Down East Bird Dawgs 1:00:25

16d ago1:00:25

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Talking to God || Kelly Neville 33:46

16d ago33:46

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 25 1:34:17

16d ago1:34:17

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In a live conversation on April 25, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce, and Lawfare Contributor Preston Marquis to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including the arrest of …

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Lawfare Archive: The Legislative Dog That Hasn’t Barked 48:01

17d ago48:01

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From April 11, 2022: The period after Watergate and President Nixon's resignation saw an unprecedented barrage of congressional efforts at reforming the executive branch. The period after Donald Trump's departure from office has seen no comparable spree of legislative action—at least not yet. In a recent Lawfare article, Quinta Jurecic and Andrew K…

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Prude or Lewd at Denny Blaine, Harrell Flexes His Muscles, and State Budget Axes Successful Homeless Program 33:22

18d ago33:22

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First up, why are state lawmakers planning to decimate a successful Seattle homeless program? Then, things get a little cheeky as we discuss the lawsuit over alleged “lewd behavior” at Denny Blaine Park. Plus, Mayor Bruce Harrell throws down the gauntlet with an impromptu push-up contest at a middle school. Is he the "world's best mayor," or just r…

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Lawfare Archive: The Spymasters with Chris Whipple 52:02

18d ago52:02

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From September 16, 2020: What is the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? How should directors handle arguably illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of information during times of crisis? To get at these questions, David Priess sat down with Chris Whipple, a documentary filmmak…

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PRL 4-25-25 Corey Gloor, Alex Harper, Morgan Ahlers, Brian North, Tony Dunn 2:25:26

19d ago2:25:26

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Lawfare Daily: Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities 32:03

19d ago32:03

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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Michael Sulmeyer, who was the top Defense official for all aspects of cyber policy in the Biden administration. Sulmeyer discusses the cyber threat landscape, different roles and missions, how Artificial Intelligence might be leveraged, and the key role of allies in cyberde…

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PRL 4-24-25 Zach Kaplan, Jeff Nadu, Alex Harper, Greg Hudson 2:25:39

20d ago2:25:39

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Lawfare Daily: Ideological Exclusions and Deportations with Julia Rose Kraut 52:40

20d ago52:40

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On today’s episode, Julia Rose Kraut, author of the book “Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States,” joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about that book, originally published in 2020, and how it can help us make sense of the Trump administration’s recent immigration and deportation p…

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PRL 4-23-25 Ken Watlington, Mike Minascalco, Patrick Mason, Zach Agnos, Rahjai Harris 2:26:00

21d ago2:26:00

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Rational Security: “The More You DOGE” Edition 1:22:19

21d ago1:22:19

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, and Kevin Frazier to talk through the week’s big national security news, including: “Aliens vs. Predators.” Despite forceful legal pushback—including by the U.S. Supreme Court—the Trump administration is working hard to continue its campaign to remove foreign aliens it…

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Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy 52:07

21d ago52:07

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This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, I speak with Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, about how China's policy toward its minority nationalities (or minzu) have shifted from their older, Soviet-inspired form to the policies of assimilation we now see. 2:29 – How the so-call…

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Lawfare Daily: Mikhail Zygar on Putin, the Russia-Ukraine War, and Press Freedom 50:18

21d ago50:18

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On today's episode, Mikhail Zygar, a renowned Russian journalist living in exile in the U.S., the author of multiple books on Vladimir Putin, and the author of The Last Pioneer substack, joined Lawfare Associate Editor Olivia Manes to discuss his experience as the founder of one of the last independent Russian media channels, TV Rain. They talked a…

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