Multimedia Resources

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Video Links

Video 1: www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/blumenthal-this-meeting-is-evidence-of-criminal-intent-991815747936

Description: Blumenthal: This meeting is evidence of criminal intent

Video 2: www.nbcnews.com/watch/nightly-news/fast-and-furious-agent-speaks-out-44453955882

Description: In his first TV interview, an agent at the center of the botched “Fast and Furious” gun trafficking operation tells NBC’s Michael Isikoff that he was told he needed more evidence of criminal intent before the gun buyers could be charged with anything

 

Audio Links

Audio 1: www.npr.org/2017/12/07/569080957/will-the-mueller-investigation-unearth-a-crime-legal-reporter-says-it-s-complica

Description: “There is not going to be a neat ending,” New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin says of the investigation into Russian meddling. A central issue is whether a sitting president can be criminally indicted

Audio 2: www.npr.org/2015/11/25/457341937/effort-to-change-system-for-nonviolent-drug-criminals-hits-snag

Description: Effort to change system for nonviolent drug criminals hits snag

 

Web Links

Web 1: www.mackinac.org/19579

Description: Strict liability and public welfare offenses

Web 2: www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/will-congress-reform-criminal-intent/544014/

Description: A debate over mens rea stalled the last push for reform. Now, a similar battle could be brewing