Benjamin Wittes

I am your host, Scott R. Anderson, Senior Editor at Lawfare, thrilled to be back with you all again as we dig into the week's big headlines.

Joining me once again for this week's episode is among my panel of experts, none other than Lawfare Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin Wittes, Ben, thank you for joining us.

And being here right on time, which given your recent scheduling woes, is particularly impressive.

Thanks.

It's the Lawfare Podcast.

I'm Benjamin Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare, with Anastasia Lopatina, Lawfare's Ukraine Fellow, and Jimmy Rushton of the Kyiv Independent.

Kyiv is entering this cold season with these new attacks.

When we're running out of Patriot interceptors, when Russia is using its new drones that are a lot harder to shoot down, we're facing this.

And folks, you, and I mean you, are watching Lawfare Live.

I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with four different Lawfare senior editors in reverse alphabetical order, Loren Voss, Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff, Eric Columbus, and Anna Bower.

And, uh, we are starting with the US Army, or at least the DC National Guard, um, uh, or the non-DC National Guard deployed in DC, because the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has heard oral arguments in a challenge to the deployment in DC.

And Loren Voss listened to it all.

You too, uh, should dye your hair red to raise money for the Greek Chorus Foundation, and we are gonna leverage this, and some celebrity, I don't know if it's gonna be, you know, uh, uh, Ashley Judd, um, uh, who's very interested in foreign policy, or, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, or if it's gonna be Bono or if it's gonna be Sean Penn.

I don't know who it's gonna be, but one of those people is gonna be like I can humiliate myself for more money than Wittes can raise, and, uh, I like this giving away batteries thing.

Somebody's gonna do it because people are pissed off at Donald Trump for, uh, making the situation in-- with the energy situation worse.

And so-

Ah.

Um, the, the joy of being a fake lawyer is that somebody can attach who isn't even a lawyer to your name as, like, almost a, a, a, a Homeric epithet.

Fake lawyer Benjamin Wittes as a...

But that they can't lay a glove on your legal arguments.

Uh, and she does a podcast three times a week lately.

Um, and she knows, well, you know, who all the players were and, and, uh, what all the organizations and NGOs, uh, were and how they worked and, and, uh, she's especially good with the whole really sticky question of, uh, the, the Lawfare gang, Norm Eisen, Mark Elias, Ben Wittes, uh, um, the, the NGOs that they're associated with, Brookings, et cetera.

And she knows that whole...

She's mapped that out pretty good.

They are an important ally.

But to see this coterie of, you know, the Tucker Carlson, uh, MTG gang going off on the Jews all the time has been a pretty troubling thing.

Um, uh, you know, ironically, if anybody wants to go off on the Jews, and I'm a Jew, it happens, a New York Jew, um, but, you know, please go off on Norm Eisen and Marc Elias and Ben Wittes and, and the Lawfare gang, you know? There are some guys who really are misbehaving, but nobody's touching them, you know?

No, you, you, you're right.