1 00:00:15,396 --> 00:00:22,036 Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello, Deep background listeners. Noah Feldman here. I've recently 2 00:00:22,036 --> 00:00:25,876 Speaker 1: started making regular appearances on Axios Today, the daily news 3 00:00:25,876 --> 00:00:29,876 Speaker 1: podcast from Axios. I always have great conversations with host 4 00:00:29,996 --> 00:00:32,796 Speaker 1: Nila Budo, and I hope I'm able to shed light 5 00:00:32,876 --> 00:00:35,636 Speaker 1: on the legal issues that are making headlines. Here's my 6 00:00:35,716 --> 00:00:39,476 Speaker 1: latest interview on Axios Today. If you like getting smarter faster, 7 00:00:39,796 --> 00:00:42,476 Speaker 1: you can subscribe or listen wherever you get your podcasts. 8 00:00:42,836 --> 00:00:44,676 Speaker 1: I've made it a daily habit, and I hope you 9 00:00:44,716 --> 00:00:48,956 Speaker 1: will too. Lots of people have questions about the constitutionality 10 00:00:49,036 --> 00:00:51,556 Speaker 1: of whether or not it's legal and if there's any 11 00:00:51,596 --> 00:00:55,396 Speaker 1: historical precedent to try former President Donald Trump for impeachment 12 00:00:55,516 --> 00:00:58,116 Speaker 1: since he's no longer in office. I thought I would 13 00:00:58,116 --> 00:01:01,476 Speaker 1: pose this question to Axios Today's resident legal scholar, Harvard 14 00:01:01,516 --> 00:01:05,156 Speaker 1: Law professor Noah Feldman. Hi, Noah, Hi, Niland. Nice to 15 00:01:05,196 --> 00:01:08,236 Speaker 1: be promoted to being a resident at Axios. Feels good. Good. 16 00:01:09,356 --> 00:01:11,796 Speaker 1: There is a legal precedent, and for this we have 17 00:01:11,876 --> 00:01:16,036 Speaker 1: to go back to Ulysses S. Grant Secretary of War 18 00:01:16,836 --> 00:01:21,836 Speaker 1: William Bellknap. What did we learn from his case? Bellknapp, 19 00:01:21,916 --> 00:01:23,876 Speaker 1: who had actually been a Civil War hero but was 20 00:01:23,876 --> 00:01:26,116 Speaker 1: probably not so well suited to become Secretary of War, 21 00:01:26,796 --> 00:01:30,316 Speaker 1: had through his wife, been getting unlawful profits from somebody 22 00:01:30,316 --> 00:01:33,596 Speaker 1: he made an appointment for, and that was figured out 23 00:01:33,676 --> 00:01:37,516 Speaker 1: towards the end of the Grant administration. Minutes before he 24 00:01:37,596 --> 00:01:40,036 Speaker 1: was about to be impeached, on the floor of the House, 25 00:01:40,276 --> 00:01:42,876 Speaker 1: he ran, literally, you can't make the stef up to 26 00:01:42,916 --> 00:01:45,236 Speaker 1: the White House to resign, in the hopes that he 27 00:01:45,276 --> 00:01:48,876 Speaker 1: would avoid the embarrassment of being impeached. But they impeached 28 00:01:48,956 --> 00:01:52,316 Speaker 1: him anyway. After he'd already resigned. The House impeached him, 29 00:01:52,596 --> 00:01:55,316 Speaker 1: and it went to a trial in the Senate. A 30 00:01:55,436 --> 00:01:58,116 Speaker 1: bunch of senators claimed, not a majority, but a big 31 00:01:58,196 --> 00:02:01,396 Speaker 1: number claimed, much like a bunch of Republicans have already 32 00:02:01,436 --> 00:02:04,996 Speaker 1: claimed in the Senate, that you couldn't try him because 33 00:02:05,156 --> 00:02:08,476 Speaker 1: he was already out of office. A majority said, as 34 00:02:08,516 --> 00:02:11,076 Speaker 1: indeed was also said with respect to Trump, that they 35 00:02:11,076 --> 00:02:13,836 Speaker 1: could go far with the trial, and ultimately bell Napp 36 00:02:13,916 --> 00:02:16,236 Speaker 1: was not convicted by the Senate, with a lot of 37 00:02:16,276 --> 00:02:18,796 Speaker 1: the people voting not to convict him, saying that their 38 00:02:18,836 --> 00:02:20,876 Speaker 1: reason was not that they thought he wasn't guilty, but 39 00:02:20,956 --> 00:02:23,036 Speaker 1: that they thought it shouldn't be possible to do it. 40 00:02:23,116 --> 00:02:24,916 Speaker 1: So what you take away from all this is that 41 00:02:25,276 --> 00:02:28,356 Speaker 1: has someone been impeached late and then tried in the Senate? Yes? 42 00:02:28,796 --> 00:02:31,636 Speaker 1: Was that person convicted? No? Who is it up to? 43 00:02:32,156 --> 00:02:34,556 Speaker 1: You guessed it? It's up to the Senate. The Senate 44 00:02:34,596 --> 00:02:37,116 Speaker 1: gets to make up its own mind on this question. 45 00:02:37,476 --> 00:02:40,116 Speaker 1: But who in the Senate? Like the essential question here 46 00:02:40,236 --> 00:02:43,636 Speaker 1: is can a private citizen be impeached? Right? Like, that's 47 00:02:43,996 --> 00:02:48,076 Speaker 1: what the constitutionality goes to. Well, that's the way the 48 00:02:48,076 --> 00:02:50,676 Speaker 1: Trump people would phrase it. I think the House managers 49 00:02:50,676 --> 00:02:52,476 Speaker 1: will phrase it the other way. They'll say, can the 50 00:02:52,516 --> 00:02:54,676 Speaker 1: President of the United States who has been impeached while 51 00:02:54,676 --> 00:02:57,156 Speaker 1: he was still in office be tried by the Senate 52 00:02:57,156 --> 00:03:00,676 Speaker 1: when he's out of office when there remains the possibility 53 00:03:00,996 --> 00:03:05,116 Speaker 1: that after conviction he could be barred from running for 54 00:03:05,196 --> 00:03:08,396 Speaker 1: office again, Namely, there is a live issue. So that's 55 00:03:08,396 --> 00:03:11,396 Speaker 1: how the House manager would put it. And the answer 56 00:03:11,436 --> 00:03:13,316 Speaker 1: is we're never going to know the definitive answer to this. 57 00:03:13,356 --> 00:03:14,916 Speaker 1: We're just going to have a lot of debate around it, 58 00:03:14,916 --> 00:03:16,356 Speaker 1: and then we're going to get a vote on whether 59 00:03:16,436 --> 00:03:18,836 Speaker 1: to convict Donald Trump or not to convict him. And 60 00:03:18,876 --> 00:03:21,436 Speaker 1: it'll still take a two thirds vote to convict him, 61 00:03:21,476 --> 00:03:23,996 Speaker 1: and if he's not convicted, some people will say, you see, 62 00:03:23,996 --> 00:03:26,716 Speaker 1: it was unconstitutional. Other people say it was completely constitutional. 63 00:03:26,796 --> 00:03:29,076 Speaker 1: But we didn't have two thirds of the Senate. So 64 00:03:29,156 --> 00:03:31,156 Speaker 1: I love the story of Balnat because he hired the 65 00:03:31,156 --> 00:03:34,556 Speaker 1: best lawyers money could find, and at the time those 66 00:03:34,676 --> 00:03:39,556 Speaker 1: lawyers argued it wasn't constitutional that he be impeached. Do 67 00:03:39,596 --> 00:03:42,596 Speaker 1: you think that's the case that former President Trump's lawyers 68 00:03:42,636 --> 00:03:45,436 Speaker 1: will also be making. We know for sure they'll make 69 00:03:45,476 --> 00:03:47,116 Speaker 1: it because it's already been made in the court of 70 00:03:47,116 --> 00:03:50,596 Speaker 1: public opinion, and because forty five senators already said they 71 00:03:50,636 --> 00:03:53,156 Speaker 1: agreed with it, and that's enough people to block the 72 00:03:53,196 --> 00:03:56,956 Speaker 1: president from being removed from office in this instance, not removed, 73 00:03:56,956 --> 00:04:00,196 Speaker 1: but rather blocked from running again. So you know for 74 00:04:00,396 --> 00:04:02,996 Speaker 1: sure that that argument will be made. And as I said, 75 00:04:03,156 --> 00:04:05,396 Speaker 1: the argument can be made. It's been made in the past. 76 00:04:05,476 --> 00:04:08,236 Speaker 1: It hasn't necessarily prevailed in the past, but some senators 77 00:04:08,236 --> 00:04:10,636 Speaker 1: agreed with it. My own view, if you ask me 78 00:04:10,676 --> 00:04:13,716 Speaker 1: about the fundamental underlying constitutional question, which I admit you didn't, 79 00:04:14,316 --> 00:04:16,796 Speaker 1: is that on the whole, there's no reason to think 80 00:04:16,836 --> 00:04:18,516 Speaker 1: you can't go forward when he's out of office. The 81 00:04:18,516 --> 00:04:21,356 Speaker 1: Constitution doesn't say you can't. And what's more, of the 82 00:04:21,356 --> 00:04:24,796 Speaker 1: founding generation was very familiar with impeachments that took place 83 00:04:24,836 --> 00:04:26,916 Speaker 1: after people left office. In fact, that was their normal 84 00:04:26,996 --> 00:04:29,516 Speaker 1: form of impeachment that they inherited from Great Britain, and 85 00:04:29,516 --> 00:04:32,636 Speaker 1: they did it all the time. So I don't think 86 00:04:32,676 --> 00:04:35,116 Speaker 1: there's any historical reason that it shouldn't be possible to 87 00:04:35,116 --> 00:04:37,236 Speaker 1: do it. And if you say, well, it's just symbolic, 88 00:04:37,356 --> 00:04:40,156 Speaker 1: it's not just symbolic, because they're still at stake the 89 00:04:40,196 --> 00:04:42,716 Speaker 1: possibility that Trump could be barred from running for office again. 90 00:04:43,076 --> 00:04:46,436 Speaker 1: And if the framers had wanted to eliminate that possibility, 91 00:04:46,796 --> 00:04:49,276 Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't have created a mechanism where the president 92 00:04:49,436 --> 00:04:51,476 Speaker 1: could actually be blocked from running again, or anyone who 93 00:04:51,516 --> 00:04:53,556 Speaker 1: is impeached could be blocked from running again. Why is 94 00:04:53,556 --> 00:04:55,676 Speaker 1: it clear that the power to determine this arrest in 95 00:04:55,716 --> 00:05:00,716 Speaker 1: the Senate. Because the Constitution puts the power to impeach 96 00:05:00,796 --> 00:05:03,476 Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives explicitly, and it puts the 97 00:05:03,476 --> 00:05:07,236 Speaker 1: power to convict in the Senate explicitly. And under Supreme 98 00:05:07,236 --> 00:05:11,436 Speaker 1: Court precedent, where the Institution assigns a specific role or 99 00:05:11,436 --> 00:05:14,036 Speaker 1: function to a branch of government. The courts will not 100 00:05:14,276 --> 00:05:18,596 Speaker 1: step in and second guess that branch, because the courts 101 00:05:18,596 --> 00:05:20,916 Speaker 1: see this as what's called a political question, a question 102 00:05:21,156 --> 00:05:23,636 Speaker 1: specifically given to one of the political branches of government, 103 00:05:23,636 --> 00:05:26,836 Speaker 1: in this case, to Congress, and so the Supreme Court 104 00:05:26,876 --> 00:05:30,196 Speaker 1: will not step into rule on the constitutionality of this. 105 00:05:30,356 --> 00:05:32,036 Speaker 1: It will be left to the Senate, and the Senate's 106 00:05:32,036 --> 00:05:35,956 Speaker 1: word will be final. As a constitutional law scholar, what 107 00:05:35,996 --> 00:05:38,596 Speaker 1: are you watching for in the trial next week? What 108 00:05:38,636 --> 00:05:42,556 Speaker 1: are you listening for in the arguments? I think there 109 00:05:42,596 --> 00:05:45,796 Speaker 1: are three main defenses that are likely to be raised, 110 00:05:46,276 --> 00:05:48,836 Speaker 1: and the first is the one we've already mentioned, the 111 00:05:48,916 --> 00:05:51,636 Speaker 1: idea that even if Trump were guilty, it doesn't matter 112 00:05:51,676 --> 00:05:54,676 Speaker 1: because it's unconstitutional to put them on trial. That argument, 113 00:05:54,716 --> 00:05:56,676 Speaker 1: as I said, I think is wrong, but it's a 114 00:05:56,796 --> 00:05:59,556 Speaker 1: nice convenient excuse if you're a Republican center and you 115 00:05:59,556 --> 00:06:02,436 Speaker 1: want to vote to acquit the president, the former president, 116 00:06:02,916 --> 00:06:04,756 Speaker 1: and you don't want to go on the record as 117 00:06:04,756 --> 00:06:06,836 Speaker 1: saying you think that the attack on the Capitol was fine, 118 00:06:07,356 --> 00:06:10,516 Speaker 1: and so it's a very appealing argument, so unquestionably it 119 00:06:10,556 --> 00:06:13,996 Speaker 1: will be made. The second argument is an argument based 120 00:06:13,996 --> 00:06:17,316 Speaker 1: on free speech, and the first Amendment, and this argument 121 00:06:17,556 --> 00:06:20,196 Speaker 1: I think is wrong, but it's an argument that does 122 00:06:20,276 --> 00:06:23,396 Speaker 1: have some value to it, and it goes like this. 123 00:06:24,156 --> 00:06:28,076 Speaker 1: It says, under criminal law, if you charge someone with 124 00:06:28,196 --> 00:06:31,516 Speaker 1: incitement to violence, which is what the article of impeachment 125 00:06:31,596 --> 00:06:35,156 Speaker 1: charges the president with, we have a controlling case called 126 00:06:35,316 --> 00:06:38,396 Speaker 1: Brandenburg against Ohio that states the legal standard, and that 127 00:06:38,516 --> 00:06:42,196 Speaker 1: legal standard says that to be convicted of incitement, your 128 00:06:42,236 --> 00:06:46,916 Speaker 1: words have to be directed at inciting imminent lawless action 129 00:06:47,556 --> 00:06:50,356 Speaker 1: and have to have been likely actually to do so. 130 00:06:50,716 --> 00:06:52,356 Speaker 1: Now the latter part is taken care of because the 131 00:06:52,396 --> 00:06:55,556 Speaker 1: president's words were followed by a criminal act, a series 132 00:06:55,556 --> 00:06:57,676 Speaker 1: of criminal acts in the Capitol. So the key is 133 00:06:57,876 --> 00:07:01,996 Speaker 1: were the president's words directed to inciting violence? And someone 134 00:07:01,996 --> 00:07:05,116 Speaker 1: could argue under the standard, if the president were criminally charged, 135 00:07:05,596 --> 00:07:09,996 Speaker 1: that he didn't explicitly say that the cap should be breached. 136 00:07:10,356 --> 00:07:13,756 Speaker 1: Nor is it possible to prove definitively beyond a reasonable 137 00:07:13,836 --> 00:07:18,356 Speaker 1: doubt in an ordinary criminal court that he intended to 138 00:07:18,396 --> 00:07:21,716 Speaker 1: produce imminent lawless action. And if that's all true, it's 139 00:07:21,756 --> 00:07:23,716 Speaker 1: a lot of ifs, But if that's all true, then 140 00:07:23,756 --> 00:07:26,916 Speaker 1: you probably couldn't convict Donald Trump in a criminal court 141 00:07:26,956 --> 00:07:29,916 Speaker 1: of incitement. You're talking about a criminal court, but this 142 00:07:29,996 --> 00:07:32,716 Speaker 1: is the Senate, So how does this work. This is 143 00:07:32,756 --> 00:07:35,156 Speaker 1: not like a criminal court because it's the Senate that 144 00:07:35,276 --> 00:07:38,276 Speaker 1: is doing mose correct, And you're getting now to why 145 00:07:38,316 --> 00:07:41,676 Speaker 1: I think this argument is wrong, But I'm still ventriloquizing 146 00:07:41,716 --> 00:07:45,716 Speaker 1: what Trump's lawyers would say. What they'll say is, well, 147 00:07:45,836 --> 00:07:48,396 Speaker 1: a high crime or misdemeanor is supposed to be a 148 00:07:48,436 --> 00:07:52,036 Speaker 1: crime under the law. No, that's wrong, and I so 149 00:07:52,236 --> 00:07:55,596 Speaker 1: testified at the last impeachment round. But there are some 150 00:07:55,876 --> 00:07:58,556 Speaker 1: tiny number of professors who have claimed such a thing. 151 00:07:58,596 --> 00:08:00,956 Speaker 1: So they'll claim that. They'll say, well, it has to 152 00:08:00,956 --> 00:08:02,956 Speaker 1: have been a crime, and this wasn't a crime, or 153 00:08:03,076 --> 00:08:08,236 Speaker 1: their fallback option, slightly less embarrassing would be to say, well, 154 00:08:08,476 --> 00:08:11,476 Speaker 1: the First Amends and is in the constitution, so when 155 00:08:11,636 --> 00:08:15,916 Speaker 1: we decide whether to remove someone from office or to 156 00:08:15,956 --> 00:08:20,436 Speaker 1: punish them for incitement, we ought to be informed by 157 00:08:20,436 --> 00:08:24,156 Speaker 1: that First Amendment standard as interpreted by the courts. Not 158 00:08:24,276 --> 00:08:26,036 Speaker 1: that we're bound by it, but it'd be nice to 159 00:08:26,036 --> 00:08:27,836 Speaker 1: think about it. And if that's the case, they'll say, 160 00:08:28,156 --> 00:08:31,356 Speaker 1: you shouldn't convict Donald Trump. That's a defense that, while 161 00:08:31,396 --> 00:08:33,516 Speaker 1: again I think is wrong, is a defense that I 162 00:08:33,516 --> 00:08:36,356 Speaker 1: can imagine being made with a straight face by a lawyer. 163 00:08:36,356 --> 00:08:38,236 Speaker 1: It's not the kind of thing that would get you disbarred. 164 00:08:38,876 --> 00:08:40,956 Speaker 1: And then, last, but not least, you should watch for 165 00:08:41,076 --> 00:08:44,556 Speaker 1: whether they're actually willing to come out and say, as 166 00:08:44,716 --> 00:08:46,916 Speaker 1: people did in defense of the president in the last 167 00:08:46,916 --> 00:08:49,676 Speaker 1: impeachment trial, that what he said in his speeches and 168 00:08:49,716 --> 00:08:52,556 Speaker 1: what he did was fine. You know, remember that Donald 169 00:08:52,556 --> 00:08:54,516 Speaker 1: Trump said that his call with the president of Ukraine 170 00:08:54,556 --> 00:08:57,356 Speaker 1: was perfect. I imagine somebody will get up there and 171 00:08:57,396 --> 00:08:59,596 Speaker 1: say that the speech that Donald Trump gave on January 172 00:08:59,636 --> 00:09:02,436 Speaker 1: sixth was perfect, that there was nothing wrong with it. 173 00:09:02,636 --> 00:09:05,116 Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with telling people, you know, that they 174 00:09:05,156 --> 00:09:09,876 Speaker 1: should you pursue resistance to the government of the United States, 175 00:09:09,916 --> 00:09:12,996 Speaker 1: because after all, the election was, after all, really really stolen. 176 00:09:13,556 --> 00:09:16,836 Speaker 1: And you know, the lawyers may make an argument to 177 00:09:16,836 --> 00:09:19,596 Speaker 1: that effect, and there may be some constituency in the 178 00:09:19,636 --> 00:09:23,076 Speaker 1: country and in the Senate that is responsive to that 179 00:09:23,196 --> 00:09:26,236 Speaker 1: kind of extreme he didn't do anything wrong argument. I 180 00:09:26,276 --> 00:09:30,876 Speaker 1: wonder how that works illegally if you have house managers 181 00:09:31,116 --> 00:09:37,076 Speaker 1: making the argument that he incited insurrection, and then you 182 00:09:37,196 --> 00:09:42,316 Speaker 1: have Republicans and President Trump's attorney saying, well, he didn't 183 00:09:42,316 --> 00:09:45,836 Speaker 1: incite insurrection because he won the election. It was stolen 184 00:09:45,916 --> 00:09:48,636 Speaker 1: from him. How does that even reconcile legally when it 185 00:09:48,676 --> 00:09:51,956 Speaker 1: sounds like they're in two different planets. Well, that happens 186 00:09:51,956 --> 00:09:55,276 Speaker 1: a lot in cases of legal dispute and legal argument. 187 00:09:55,396 --> 00:09:57,276 Speaker 1: If you think about it this way, the Trump lawyers 188 00:09:57,316 --> 00:10:01,076 Speaker 1: arguments are the classic defense lawyers arguments. One, this whole 189 00:10:01,076 --> 00:10:04,396 Speaker 1: trial is unconstitutional. Two, even if he did the things 190 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:06,276 Speaker 1: you said, they were protected by the Constitution and the 191 00:10:06,316 --> 00:10:08,836 Speaker 1: First Amendment. Three, he never did them. After all, he 192 00:10:08,876 --> 00:10:12,076 Speaker 1: never actually incited anybody. And for he's actually the president 193 00:10:12,076 --> 00:10:13,036 Speaker 1: of the United States. I mean, they have to be 194 00:10:13,036 --> 00:10:14,596 Speaker 1: a little careful about saying that because if he's the 195 00:10:14,596 --> 00:10:16,916 Speaker 1: president of United States, he can be put on trial 196 00:10:17,236 --> 00:10:19,076 Speaker 1: in the Senate. So they're gonna have to not overstate 197 00:10:19,116 --> 00:10:21,676 Speaker 1: that case too strongly. But you know that's not uncommon. 198 00:10:21,756 --> 00:10:23,716 Speaker 1: You know. The best thing for a defense attorney to 199 00:10:23,756 --> 00:10:26,276 Speaker 1: do is suggest to the jury in this case, the Senate, 200 00:10:26,356 --> 00:10:28,916 Speaker 1: that we are living in a completely different universe than 201 00:10:28,956 --> 00:10:32,196 Speaker 1: the universe occupied by the prosecution. That's garden variety of 202 00:10:32,196 --> 00:10:34,916 Speaker 1: criminal defense, and it's something that you reasonably could expect 203 00:10:34,956 --> 00:10:37,076 Speaker 1: Trumps lawyers to do too. How much of this, though, 204 00:10:37,116 --> 00:10:39,476 Speaker 1: do you think, is about proving a case versus making 205 00:10:39,476 --> 00:10:43,236 Speaker 1: a political case. It's ninety nine percent about making the 206 00:10:43,236 --> 00:10:46,796 Speaker 1: political case. At this point. The question is whether Trump's 207 00:10:46,836 --> 00:10:49,076 Speaker 1: lawyers think that the best way to make their political 208 00:10:49,116 --> 00:10:53,276 Speaker 1: case is also to make the legal case. My long 209 00:10:53,436 --> 00:10:57,956 Speaker 1: term prediction is that after the Senate does not convict Trump, 210 00:10:57,996 --> 00:11:00,636 Speaker 1: which seems like the most likely outcome by a big stretch, 211 00:11:01,316 --> 00:11:03,436 Speaker 1: that Trump will then want to go to the public 212 00:11:03,556 --> 00:11:07,556 Speaker 1: and say, you know what, I was indicted in the 213 00:11:07,636 --> 00:11:10,436 Speaker 1: articles of impeachment and I was acquit it. So everyone 214 00:11:10,516 --> 00:11:13,116 Speaker 1: can move along. There's now been an official finding of 215 00:11:13,116 --> 00:11:15,556 Speaker 1: the United States Senate, the relevant body, that says I 216 00:11:15,596 --> 00:11:17,756 Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. I have nothing to do with 217 00:11:17,756 --> 00:11:20,236 Speaker 1: what took place on January sixth. You know He's going 218 00:11:20,316 --> 00:11:22,956 Speaker 1: to say that, and that will be his pivot point 219 00:11:22,996 --> 00:11:26,316 Speaker 1: for the beginning of his process of rehabilitation. And so, 220 00:11:26,556 --> 00:11:28,796 Speaker 1: in my mind, the strategic value of the trial from 221 00:11:28,836 --> 00:11:33,076 Speaker 1: Trump's perspective is to make sure that he is not convicted, 222 00:11:33,116 --> 00:11:35,916 Speaker 1: which shouldn't be too hard from his perspective, and then 223 00:11:36,116 --> 00:11:39,116 Speaker 1: use that as the pivot. So the politics will come 224 00:11:39,556 --> 00:11:42,556 Speaker 1: from the Senate vote that says he is not removed. 225 00:11:43,756 --> 00:11:46,636 Speaker 1: You can find Noah Feldman on Deep Background, which is 226 00:11:46,676 --> 00:11:50,116 Speaker 1: a podcast he hosts. Thanks Noah, thanks for having me.