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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news and Today, Bloomberg Lajos,

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Speaker 1: Greg's Store and Michael Best discuss how Donald Trump's presidency

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Speaker 1: will be impacted by several open legal cases involving the

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Speaker 1: president elect. They speak with Robert Bennett, a partner at

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Speaker 1: Hogan Levels and President Clinton's lawyer during the Paula Jones case,

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Speaker 1: and Michael Gerhard, a professor at the University of North

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Speaker 1: Carolina University School. Is all this private litigation manageable or

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Speaker 1: will inevitably be a major demand on the new president's

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Speaker 1: time and or and or a major distraction for him? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the answer to that is yes, litigation is

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Speaker 1: quite burdens some civil litigation. I was unable to convince

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court in the Clinton case. Uh So the

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Speaker 1: answer clearly is as unless the courts who are handling

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Speaker 1: the particular litigation are very deferential to his schedule, which

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Speaker 1: I think they really have to be. Michael. One question

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Speaker 1: that's going to come up if in fact he has

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Speaker 1: to litigate these things and they're not too deferential to him.

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Speaker 1: Is is it better to do that, get these a

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Speaker 1: lot of the way early, get them as many out

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Speaker 1: of the way as possible before he becomes president, or

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Speaker 1: should these be postponed awhile to let him get his

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Speaker 1: feet what is president at least before he has to

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Speaker 1: deal with the litigation. I'm not sure either of those

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Speaker 1: is going to turn out to be as critical a

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Speaker 1: question as simply trying to follow the schedule that the

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Speaker 1: court has already set up, um, and then trying to

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Speaker 1: manage process or procedure and discovery and everything else, um.

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Speaker 1: And as Mr Bennett just point out, and as Clinton

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Speaker 1: versus Jones, the Springboard itself said, UM, this is all

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Speaker 1: going to come down to sort of the trial judges

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Speaker 1: ability and really authority to be able to manage the

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Speaker 1: procedure and of the particular cases, um, that we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna come down to probably individual cases and

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Speaker 1: how the judges in those cases, UM think they can proceed.

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Speaker 1: And it may well be that, given the complexities of

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Speaker 1: a president, lex time and and everything else, that they'll

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Speaker 1: get slowed down because of that. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: that they'll come to a standstill apart from whatever the

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Speaker 1: merits and issues are with respect arising a niche and

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Speaker 1: every one of those cases. That's Michael Gerhard, a professor

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Speaker 1: at the University of North Carolina University School, and Robert Bennett,

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