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Impact of U.S. Withdrawl from Iran Nuclear Deal | Todd Sechser

University of Virginia’s Todd Sechser, a senior fellow at the Miller Center who is one of the nation’s foremost experts on nuclear security issues, talks with Les Sinclair about the impact of the U’S. withdraw form the “Iran Nuclear Deal”

Todd Sechser

Now streaming: A guide to UVA's top podcasts, Part 2

As an assistant professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center, Nicole Hemmer knows a thing or two about history. Hemmer and her co-hosts, independent scholar Neil Young (no, not that Neil Young) and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, an associate professor of history at the New School, bring their historical expertise to examine three topics each week at “Past Present.”

Nicole Hemmer

PolitiFact: Can Robert Mueller subpoena Donald Trump? A look at the legal precedents

Saikrishna Prakash, professor and Miller Center senior fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the court might decide that asking for a set of materials, such as tapes, is different from demanding that the president sit down for an interview. Trump’s lawyers are laying the groundwork to argue that a subpoena for questioning would be overly broad, he added. "They are trying to make it look like the special counsel is engaging in a massive fishing expedition," Prakash said. "They could fight the subpoena on the grounds that it isn’t specific, and that battle could stretch out for years."

Saikrishna Prakash

How Donald Trump Could Make History by Pleading the Fifth

While Trump has the same rights as any other citizen to avoid incriminating himself in a legal probe, the move could still hurt him. “The benefits are all legal, but I think the detriments are political,” says Saikrishna Prakash, professor at University of Virginia Law School and Senior Fellow at UVA’s Miller Center, which has a partnership with TIME. “If he pleads it, there will be many people who say that he’s hiding some kind of crime. Of course, the court can’t infer guilt from this, but we’re free to draw whatever inferences we want as members of the public.”

Saikrishna Prakash