Andrew Weissmann
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5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 May
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So another thing that has been reported is that he, according to the New York Times, after the Trump election, met personally with Eric Adams to work out the strategy that Eric Adams should use in meeting with Donald Trump in order to undermine the DOJ case. So this is the person who's the number two at the Justice Department figuring out how to undermine their own case, which smacks
of sort of obstruction. You want to talk about sort of potential obstruction of justice. I mean, that is unbelievable to be meeting with the defendant to talk about what's the strategy to make it look sort of good and put the packaging on this and lipstick on a pig. Crazy.
So let me just address what I think can happen in this particular case. There are a number of things. One is the thing that's never going to happen, which is the Senate could actually do something because they do have the Todd Blanch nomination before them. So they could actually call him back.
They could investigate all of these things that are pipe dreams because, as you said, they have no backbone and they're not doing anything. Right. So that's one. Two, and I think much more realistic is that Judge Ho is going to have a hearing. That is the judge overseeing the case. And that could be really explosive. And he could require Emil Bove to appear to talk about what's going on.
Three, Kathy Hochul, the New York state governor, has the authority to remove the mayor. I don't know how she doesn't exercise that at this point. I know that she is talking about, gee, does that undermine democracy? But I think there's an equally good argument that when the mayor is so conflicted and has, as I said, this choke collar on, he is not representing the people who elected him.
He is representing somebody who was not elected as mayor of New York, which is the president of the United States. And he is also directing ICE and his people to violate local law. So she has sort of every reason to say it actually upholds democracy to say there needs to be a new election because this person cannot be operating in an unconflicted way. So those are three things.
I also think you're going to see, and this is sort of, you know, in my little nerdy world, I think with respect to lawyers, I think you're going to see complaints in the bar with respect to Emil Bove's license, because there'll be allegations about what he is doing and the impropriety of it.
And the bar associations that are supposed to oversee us and have done a pretty good job with respect to people like Rudy Giuliani, for instance, I think you're going to see some action there. Again, I know that's sort of a small bore in terms of democracy writ large, but in terms of my little profession, it's kind of nice to see people policing themselves.
Well, widespread support. For Sassoon? Every single person I know within and alums within the FBI, outside of the FBI, Justice Department, everybody is fully supportive. I think that is why you were seeing so many people resign. And so I don't know how... Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche and Emil Beauvais go forward leading this organization.
I mean, you need a certain number of horses to pull a wagon along. And there is widespread revolt. And just to be clear, it's not just because of policy. It's because of these people are trained to adhere to the rule of law.
Yeah. I was hoping this would be like, remember when Biden was elected? One of the great things about it was like, every day you didn't wake up and look at your phone and just be like, I don't want to wake up today. I just want to go back to sleep.
Jesus was talking about this all the time. It's really funny. I saw that in the Bible. There was a whole sort of like hit list of where, you know, with charity, there's a whole sort of waterfall.
Which one of these things is not like the other? Yeah. Don't you think, though, Tim, I mean, you're the political guy, I'm the legal guy. So don't you think this is J.D. Vance is so irrelevant to the administration in terms of, I mean, he's there for a reason, like the tech by reason, that's sort of hit the play there. But I mean,
He just seems like that is not where the action is in terms of, I think he's going to be a much more traditional vice president, which is like out of sight, out of mind. And this is his effort to somehow be relevant. But it reminds me, he famously was said, the J6 defendants, we obviously need to separate out the violent ones from the nonviolent ones.
And about a New York minute later, the president pardoned everybody. Right. So he's just clearly out of the loop and not being sort of respected as part of the team.
Senator, what I said was I didn't do the recording.
That's why it says we, as you highlighted.
It's kind of my people. I used to when I was a prosecutor and defense lawyers would come in and say and make presentations. There's a certain point where you'd say, you know what? Good luck to you with the jury. Like, make that argument to the jury. You want to say that we does not include me. Go for it.
The problem for Kash Patel is he tried to, every time he was confronted with his own prior words, he would do this kind of dance, or he would say it's out of context when the senators were actually reading his exact words. And it also misses the entire import. I mean, the import of everything he was doing for the last few years was to say, I am fully embracing, along with Donald Trump,
The politically oppressed January 6th defendants, they are political prisoners. And then he turns around in his confirmation hearing and says, no, but I didn't mean the violent ones. And also, I'm not really aware of everything everybody did. So when you're showing me bad people, well, maybe I wasn't including those. I mean, it's just a completely different story.
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