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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity in the late seventies,

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when a lot of the FBI and DOJ's excesses came

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to light, and there were a series of congressional hearings,

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most famously in the Senate, but also a couple in

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the House that led to massive reforms as to how

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the FBI and DJ did its business. But very few

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of those reforms, with exceptions, with the exceptions of some

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restraints on the intelligence community and the activities that the

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FBI did in terms of national security, very few of

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those reforms were written into law. Most of them became

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matters of policy and departmental norms. And the problems with

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policies and norms is that they could be changed by

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any incumbent who comes along. So we are quickly seeing

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that when you have people like Pambondi and Todd Blanche

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and before them Emiel Beauve who view their job not

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as to represent the people of the United States, as

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every federal prosecutor states when they stand up in court,

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but rather to represent the White House. You no longer

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have a building full of public servants. You have a

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building of in house council. And that is not what

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the country needs, and it is not what the executive

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branch's oath to the Constitution requires.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's just talk about the fact that why we

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have a building full of in house council is because

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the idiots that are running the department keep firing all

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of the public servants. And this is Todd Blanche bragging

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about firing two hundred prosecutors at SEAPAC back just a

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week ago in March twenty sixth. Just take a listen.

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Speaker 3: I represented President Trump in the Manhattan DA case and

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in Jacksmith's prosecutions. There is not a single man or

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woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to

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do with those prosecutions. Over how many how many have

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been canned, over two hundreds, over two hundred either left

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before we came in because I knew it was coming,

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or were fired or took early retirement. They are no

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longer employed by this department.

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Speaker 2: So dumb, dumb when you do that right, and you

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wonder why Pam Bondy and others can't go out and

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actually prosecute people because A you don't have the attorneys

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in place to do it. B the ones you do have,

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which just brought in from you know acme prosecuting company

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down the street and don't know the case file, don't

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know the seriousness of what the matter is before them.

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As you know, the FBI can investigate a ham sandwich

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on someone's lawn, right, but the DOJ is the one

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that has to be the one to prosecute the homeowner

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or the individual put the sandwich on the lawn. If

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there's no law broken, if there's no facts that require

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a legal action, what do you do? You need lawyers

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who understand the difference between oh, investigating something and prosecuting something,

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having you know, just made up crap that I can

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say because I can say it, and having the facts

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that actually prove what I just said to be in

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violation of the law. So where does the department go

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when you've got the idiocracy firing the good people, bringing

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in hand me down lawyers. Sorry, but that's what you

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are at this point because you don't know what you

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don't know. Yeah, I mean, look, Michael's looking at me like,

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I don't know how much of that I want to

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step in.

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to step a call. So look, when I

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was in law school, admittedly twenty five years ago, getting

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a job is an assistant. You attorney was the pinnacle

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that a young lawyer could reach. It was the most prestigious,

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It was the most challenging, It was the most exciting,

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and you could do it while serving your country.

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Speaker 2: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

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seven pm Eastern on ms now