Carrie Johnson
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1,251 appearances
127 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Carrie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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especially if he thinks that Republicans are going to lose the House this year anyway.
Just the mere fact that they've initiated this, that you have to get a lawyer, you have to come up with a strategy, you have to have these conversations, is the point, right?
The intimidation is the point.
Definitely.
Virtually everything that's happened over the past week could have been predicted on inauguration day.
President Trump returned to the White House promising to investigate his perceived political enemies.
And after the election, people were worried about DOJ, but changes there have been more sweeping and more quick than many of them feared.
The Supreme Court in the immunity case made clear President Trump and future presidents are largely immune from prosecution for their official actions in office.
And so this is an aggressive Justice Department under Trump's full command, really the culmination of statements he made on the campaign trail.
Yes, several Democrats this week told us they've heard from the FBI and agents who want to interview them.
They say this is an infringement on their First Amendment rights and potentially their rights as lawmakers as they try to do their jobs.
One of them, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, has gone so far as to sue the Pentagon, which has been threatening to reduce his rank and benefits over what he said in that video.
Yeah, a real whirlwind.
On Sunday night, Jerome Powell, the Fed chairman, made a video explaining that he seemed to be under criminal investigation for testimony he gave on Capitol Hill about renovations to the Fed's buildings.
Powell basically said this was a smokescreen that
President Trump wants to get rid of him because the Fed wasn't moving as quickly as Trump wanted on interest rates.
And then a few days later, FBI agents showed up in the morning at the home of a Washington Post reporter.
They took two laptops, a phone and a smartwatch.
The Justice Department says this is tied to an investigation of a federal contractor who's been accused of retaining government secrets.
But to search a reporter's home is a stunning step, one that past administrations had avoided and one that also may run afoul of a federal privacy law.
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