Defending Democracy: Ty Cobb on Law, Power, and Truth

On KZSU Stanford’s Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine hosts Ty Cobb—former Trump Russia investigation attorney and one of the world’s leading white-collar/government investigations lawyers—for an urgent conversation about the core challenge facing the U.S. today: attacks on the rule of law. We move beyond the political and policy challenges of the day (which Ty discusses regularly on CNN and other networks), to focus instead on unprecedented insider candor about democracy under threat. Cobb argues that process—not partisanship—must steer truth-finding, even as free-speech threats, norm-breaking, and a judiciary with limited enforcement power strain the system. Tracing his path from Grand Canyon Trust […]