How to prevent political lies
You’re probably familiar with Andrew Weissmann, who among many other things was general counsel at the FBI and now teaches law at New York University and is a legal analyst on Substack and MS NOW. His full bio is here.
Weissmann’s new book, “Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America,” was published two weeks ago and is number one on the New York Times’ best-seller list for nonfiction.
Here are the video and transcript of Weissman discussing the book with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carol Leonnig at D.C.’s Politics and Prose bookstore.
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