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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Donald Trump says he should not be impeached as President, since there was ‘no quid pro quo’ on a phone call where he asked the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. But does quid pro quo need to be explicitly stated to be a legal issue? And can private citizens like Rudy Giuliani represent America on foreign policy issues? Get the new Shredders album from Doomtree!

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0:00.0

On September 15th, 1983, Mario Cuomo and Tom Keene gave some unusual instructions to the Port Authority.

0:09.0

That's the agency that's responsible for most of the bridges, tunnels, and ports in the region.

0:14.0

It's supervised by both the governors of New York and New Jersey,

0:18.0

and in 1983, they were Cuomo and Keene.

0:22.0

Port Authority officials were told to refuse to allow Andre Gromico to land at any of the airports in the region,

0:29.2

as he'd done many times in the past.

0:32.1

Gromico was the Soviet Foreign Minister and he was planning to go to the

0:35.6

38th session of the United Nations in New York on September 27th.

0:40.8

Kian told reporters that he and Cuomo accomplished what we wanted to accomplish with the airport

0:46.4

ban.

0:47.4

We demonstrated the total indignation of the people of this country over the Soviet action, and Mr. Gromico obviously received our message.

0:57.4

The governors of New York and New Jersey were protesting the destruction of a Korean Airlines

1:01.6

flight by a Soviet fighter plane over the sea of Japan on September 1st, 1983.

1:08.0

The missile destruction of the plane killed 269 people, including 61 Americans,

1:15.0

and it had departed from Kennedy Airport.

1:18.0

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

1:20.0

Here or throughout the world.

1:22.0

Our prayers tonight are with the victims and their

1:24.9

families in their time of terrible grief. Our hearts go out to them.

1:28.6

The whole incident caused an international uproar. But could the governors actually do that? The

1:35.0

incident caused an international uproar. But could the governors actually do that? The background here is complicated.

1:38.0

A spokesperson for the UN said the governor's ban

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