Elliot Williams

a great percentage of these folks are actually political conservatives.

This idea that it's this left wing, deep state behemoth out to take over America and ruin its values is simply not true.

These are people who, particularly in the national security context,

transcend or traverse Republican and Democratic administrations.

And that's a good thing.

And I'll be the first to tell you, having worked in all these agencies, that fine, policy's gonna shift from one president to another.

Things were different under Bush than Obama, than Bush 41, than Clinton.

And in a way that's good for America.

It keeps us sort of thinking about what's truly important to us, evolving, working together and so on.

What we're seeing here is not a normal partisan shift.

This is not the normal ebb and flow between left and right at the Justice Department.

And this is the erosion of core values of how the organization ought to admit.

And I think ought to exist.

And I think to me, the worst part of it is if folks are following the hiring of these US attorneys who haven't been confirmed by the Senate at all.

You saw it in New Jersey with Alina Haba, Trump's former lawyer.

Again, some of the personal connection to the president.

You see it in Eastern District of Virginia with Lindsay Halligan.

also unfit for the role, not put in it by the president of the United States, not confirmed by the Congress.

And what supporters of the president aren't seeing is that this is actually screwing up.

I was gonna say a bad word, but you know, it's still early in the morning.