Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity in the late seventies,
when a lot of the FBI and DOJ's excesses came
to light, and there were a series of congressional hearings,
most famously in the Senate, but also a couple in
the House that led to massive reforms as to how
the FBI and DJ did its business. But very few
of those reforms, with exceptions, with the exceptions of some
restraints on the intelligence community and the activities that the
FBI did in terms of national security, very few of
those reforms were written into law. Most of them became
matters of policy and departmental norms. And the problems with
policies and norms is that they could be changed by
any incumbent who comes along. So we are quickly seeing
that when you have people like Pambondi and Todd Blanche
and before them Emiel Beauve who view their job not
as to represent the people of the United States, as
every federal prosecutor states when they stand up in court,
but rather to represent the White House. You no longer
have a building full of public servants. You have a
building of in house council. And that is not what
the country needs, and it is not what the executive
branch's oath to the Constitution requires.
Speaker 2: Well, let's just talk about the fact that why we
have a building full of in house council is because
the idiots that are running the department keep firing all
of the public servants. And this is Todd Blanche bragging
about firing two hundred prosecutors at SEAPAC back just a
week ago in March twenty sixth. Just take a listen.
Speaker 3: I represented President Trump in the Manhattan DA case and
in Jacksmith's prosecutions. There is not a single man or
woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to
do with those prosecutions. Over how many how many have
been canned, over two hundreds, over two hundred either left
before we came in because I knew it was coming,
or were fired or took early retirement. They are no
longer employed by this department.
Speaker 2: So dumb, dumb when you do that right, and you
wonder why Pam Bondy and others can't go out and
actually prosecute people because A you don't have the attorneys
in place to do it. B the ones you do have,
which just brought in from you know acme prosecuting company
down the street and don't know the case file, don't
know the seriousness of what the matter is before them.
As you know, the FBI can investigate a ham sandwich
on someone's lawn, right, but the DOJ is the one
that has to be the one to prosecute the homeowner
or the individual put the sandwich on the lawn. If
there's no law broken, if there's no facts that require
a legal action, what do you do? You need lawyers
who understand the difference between oh, investigating something and prosecuting something,
having you know, just made up crap that I can
say because I can say it, and having the facts
that actually prove what I just said to be in
violation of the law. So where does the department go
when you've got the idiocracy firing the good people, bringing
in hand me down lawyers. Sorry, but that's what you
are at this point because you don't know what you
don't know. Yeah, I mean, look, Michael's looking at me like,
I don't know how much of that I want to
step in.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to step a call. So look, when I
was in law school, admittedly twenty five years ago, getting
a job is an assistant. You attorney was the pinnacle
that a young lawyer could reach. It was the most prestigious,
It was the most challenging, It was the most exciting,
and you could do it while serving your country.
Speaker 2: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at
seven pm Eastern on ms now