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Trump DOJ plunges into chaos as Bondi firing engulfs the department & uncertainty grows · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Chaos at Donald Trump's DOJ. Officials are ramping up revenge
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  Speaker 1: probes in the wake of Attorney General Pam Bondi's firing.
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  Speaker 1: The Washington Post reporting quote uncertainty at DOJ as top
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  Speaker 1: officials vie to replace Bondi, prompting quote concern from some
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  Speaker 1: over the lengths to which they may go to impress Trump.
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  Speaker 1: MAGA favorites Harmeet Dlon and former Fox News host Janine
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  Speaker 1: Piro have both made moves that are quote viewed by
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  Speaker 1: insiders as efforts to raise their profile and jockey for
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  Speaker 1: the President's attention, like this one initiated by Dylan, who
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  Speaker 1: currently oversees the DJ's Civil Rights Division, demanding all Detroit
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  Speaker 1: area ballots from the twenty twenty four election. She wrote,
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  Speaker 1: DOJ wants the twenty twenty four ballots so it can
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  Speaker 1: determine whether election laws were followed.
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  Speaker 2: Fact check there is.
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  Speaker 1: No evidence of widespread voter fraud in any recent presidential election,
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  Speaker 1: that includes twenty twenty four, which Trump ended up winning,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. In fact, while he lost Detroit in
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, he made gains with voters there over his
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  Speaker 1: performance from twenty twenty, So this all part of Trump's
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  Speaker 1: sweeping effort to probe past elections. As he doubles down
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  Speaker 1: on his quote big lie FBI director Cash Ptel making
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  Speaker 1: the unusual announcement that arrests related to the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: election are now imminent.
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  Speaker 3: We've got all the information we need. We're working with
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  Speaker 3: our prosecutors, the Department of Justice and the Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Todd Blanche and we are going to be making arrest
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  Speaker 3: and it's coming and I promise you it's coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: And now one of the lawyers involved with trying to
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  Speaker 1: overturn the twenty twenty election, Joe di Genova, is leading
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  Speaker 1: a quote grand conspiracy probe into former federal officials who
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  Speaker 1: investigated Trump, reaching all the way back to the Russia
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  Speaker 1: probe in twenty sixteen. Didgenova sworn in just hours ago
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  Speaker 1: as counselor to the Attorney General. Trump's retribution probes have
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  Speaker 1: been largely unsuccessful, scrutiny from both legal experts and career
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  Speaker 1: officials rejected by grand jury's. A senior federal prosecutor in
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  Speaker 1: Miami withdrawing from an investigation into former CIA director John Brennan,
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  Speaker 1: reportedly due to concerns over the legal viability of the
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  Speaker 1: politically charged case pushed by Trump loyalists. All of this
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  Speaker 1: escalating ahead of what's sure to be a contentious mid
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  Speaker 1: term election cycle. Is Trump works to erode faith in
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  Speaker 1: our electoral system. It's always good to see you. What
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  Speaker 1: is your response to Trump's doj now escalating the probes
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  Speaker 1: into past elections? And I particularly want your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the figure that is Joe d Genova. What that signals
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  Speaker 1: to you, a person who's been so deeply invested in
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  Speaker 1: the big lie leading an investigation where he has already
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  Speaker 1: publicly concluded that there was a conspiracy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, right out of the gate, he's got
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  Speaker 4: a conflict of interest.
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  Speaker 2: He represented President.
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  Speaker 4: Trump in his personal capacity when he was challenging the
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  Speaker 4: results of the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 2: And now here he is, after having made.
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  Speaker 4: Some really outrageous statements at that time, leading the charge
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  Speaker 4: into this investigation. There's not even a pretense of credibility here.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we know that there have been a number
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  Speaker 4: of investigations into Russia's connections with the election in twenty
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  Speaker 4: sixteen that began the Russia investigation. There was Robert Muller's report,
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  Speaker 4: there was a Senate Intelligence Committee report, there was one
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  Speaker 4: by our own Intelligence committee, there was an Inspector General report,
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  Speaker 4: and finally there was John Durham, who was the Special.
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  Speaker 2: Council appointed by William Barr.
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  Speaker 4: None of them found that there was any conspiracy, that
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  Speaker 4: there was anything wrong with looking into this. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: having read and studied the Muller Report, I assigned it
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  Speaker 4: to my students in my national security class. It would
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  Speaker 4: have been a dere election of duty for the FBI
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  Speaker 4: not to have investigated Russia's ties with the election in
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  Speaker 4: twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: So, Barbara, when you look at all of the chaos
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  Speaker 1: that is coming out of this DOJ and the FBI
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  Speaker 1: right now, do you read the moves that these different
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  Speaker 1: people are making as being sort of desperate attempts to
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  Speaker 1: stay in the president's circle at a time when he
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  Speaker 1: is starting to release people from his cabinet. We hear
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  Speaker 1: the reporting that he's interested in firing more people. Cash
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  Speaker 1: Betel's one of the people who's come up at times
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  Speaker 1: in that reporting, for example. And so are they just
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  Speaker 1: kind of trying to make Trump happy because they know
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  Speaker 1: this is sort of part of his list of greatest hits,
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  Speaker 1: or do you think there's a real project building here
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  Speaker 1: from the retribution campaign to what we're seeing on the
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  Speaker 1: election front.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's always dangerous, I think, to try to speculate
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  Speaker 4: and what's in the minds of either Donald Trump or
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  Speaker 4: any of the people that he has appointed to office,
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  Speaker 4: because I don't know that they think like the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of us.
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  Speaker 4: But it is certainly a pattern that we saw the
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  Speaker 4: firing of Pam Bondy. Some of the reports indicated that
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  Speaker 4: President Trump was frustrated with her inability to charge his
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  Speaker 4: political enemies criminally, and so as soon as she leaves
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  Speaker 4: and now there's this fan and a need to find
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  Speaker 4: a replacement. Suddenly we see Todd Blanche issuing a weaponization
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  Speaker 4: report that to me seems baseless about prosecutions under the
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  Speaker 4: Face Act involving abortion clinics.
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  Speaker 2: We see Harmy Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Launching an inquiry into Michigan about fraudulent ballots when there
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  Speaker 4: are none.
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  Speaker 2: It's been dispositively considered by courts.
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  Speaker 4: Here in Michigan, and so this too seems like an
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  Speaker 4: effort to sort of curry favor. And then, of course
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  Speaker 4: the so called Grand Conspiracy in Florida, where there's an
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  Speaker 4: effort to subpoena people and perhaps charge people and installing
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  Speaker 4: Joe Degenova after we see the departure from this case
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  Speaker 4: of a career prosecutor amid reports that she didn't see
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  Speaker 4: that the case.
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  Speaker 2: Was strong enough to bring.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know the motivations, but we do seem,
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  Speaker 4: I think, to see an intensification of these efforts to
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  Speaker 4: file criminal charges or make some hay. And even if
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  Speaker 4: if these cases don't see the light of day, if
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  Speaker 4: there are no criminal prosecutions, people are talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: It's in the news, and so it just advances that
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  Speaker 4: false narrative that our elections are rife with.
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  Speaker 2: Fraud and cannot be trusted.
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  Speaker 4: And I worry about what that means for the twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six and then maybe even the twenty twenty eight elections.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And I hear from voters all the time
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  Speaker 1: that they are interpreting it that same way. They're concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the upcoming midterm elections being undermined. I have to
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  Speaker 1: ask you very quickly about this bombshell reporting from the
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic about Cash Betel, just to get your assessment of
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  Speaker 1: what the FBI has essentially become. Of course, he has
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  Speaker 1: denied this. The most striking section of this reporting. I
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  Speaker 1: know our viewers have heard so much about it today,
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  Speaker 1: But it is the section where they describe essentially officers
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  Speaker 1: needing to use sort of swat style efforts to bust
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  Speaker 1: through to try to get to Patel. They describe someone
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  Speaker 1: who has been drinking incredibly heavily, something that we know
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  Speaker 1: the President, who does not drink, does not like in
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  Speaker 1: the people around him. But when you just see the details,
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  Speaker 1: the depth of the details in this report, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think the FBI has become.
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  Speaker 4: Well, obviously I don't know whether these reports are accurate,
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  Speaker 4: but I will note that the sources quote dozens of
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  Speaker 4: people across all parts of interactions with the FBI, and
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  Speaker 4: the reporting seems sound. Of course, cash Pttel has challenged
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  Speaker 4: it and claims it is defamatory.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if it's true.
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  Speaker 4: But if it is true, this is such a farfall
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  Speaker 4: from what the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: Was when I worked with agents.
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  Speaker 4: You think about the epitome of the FBI director was
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  Speaker 4: Robert Mueller, someone who was Ramrod Strait, who was a
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  Speaker 4: person who worked hard, rolled.
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  Speaker 2: Up his sleeves, and served with honor.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, one of the goals I've always heard
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  Speaker 4: at every level of the FBI is don't ever do
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  Speaker 4: anything in your personal or professional life that could.
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  Speaker 2: Bring shame to the FBI.
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  Speaker 4: That is the FBI way that you do things, not
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  Speaker 4: only the right thing, but you do it the right
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  Speaker 4: way and for the right reason. And so if these
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  Speaker 4: reports are true that we've got a director who is
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  Speaker 4: not just drinking on duty, but drinking to the point
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  Speaker 4: where he's unable to do the job, not only is
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  Speaker 4: that bringing shame to the FBI, but it is making
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  Speaker 4: our entire country unsafe.