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That way. that future justice departments will do that sort of thing again for criminal friends of some other corrupt future president. you can't just let that slide if the justice department has been used for corrupt purposes to help the president's friends. you can't leave that standing az precedent. that has to be addressed. that has to be readdressed. but that's just the start of it. two federal judges already have ruled that the justice department under donald trump and trump's attorney general, william barr, lied to the public and the court about president trump's own potential culpabili...

The republican senate did leave him dangling for nearly three years. and that could have been the end of it. but president biden remembered he had been a good nominee. they didn't let the republicans have the last word in terms of the way they treated him. biden renominated him and they got him through. so there. late is better than never. they didn't forget him. and that's something. and that, of course, that same kind of small j justice was at work, of course, when president biden picked his attorney general, right? president obama, as you know, had nominated a judge named merrick garland to...

Wouldn't be corrected in terms of accountability, it would be continued under the new leadership under the biden administration. we knew it had to be cleaned up. we hoped that it would be cleaned up. i don't think anybody expected it would be continued. we're going to have more on the e. jean carroll case, that shocking decision coming up a little later in the show. we're also watching closely now in terms of how the justice department is going to go after reporters' sources, after this kerfuffle with the "new york times" reporters, under the source of propublica about rich americans radically...

President that future corrupt presidents will use. what did merrick garland do in response to the revelations of that misbehavior by a justice department official when it came to seeking reporter sources? what did he do? at least for a while during the biden administration, the justice department kept doing it, kept seeking the reporters' records and not telling the news organizations what they were doing. at least for a while. at least until it started to come out. come on. i mean, i get the poetic justice of putting judge merrick garland in this really big, prestigious job after he was so mi...

And said this statement from donald trump was him carrying out the official duties of the presidency of the united states and therefore the government will defend in this case. it was a shocking thing right to say that this was an official act by the president. but the point of that acts by william barr was to immunize trump and also to make the case go away. legally the u.s. government could not be sued for defamation and so far succeeded in this shocking ploy and if he was able to get the government itself swaps in to be the defendant instead of trump, while the government cannot be sued for...