Eric Holder

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The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · Eric Holder: Institutions Have Failed Us, the American People Have Not · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

You saw that as well with regard to Republican AGs, Republican presidents as well.

And the only time the Justice Department and attorneys general got into trouble was when that line got blurred.

One quick example.

I made the determination that we weren't going to support the Defense of Marriage Act

Consequential decision could have political ramifications, but I thought that was something that should be decided in the White House.

President Obama didn't know about that determination, and I didn't tell him about the decision that I had made until I was at a Super Bowl party at the White House.

I guess we would announce it on Tuesdays.

It was the Sunday before.

And he said to me, boy, I'm really glad that that's what you decided because that's where I wanted us to be.

But I didn't think it was appropriate for me to share with you what my views were.

Now, that, I think, shows a healthy relationship between a White House and a Justice Department when it clearly does not exist between the so-called Justice Department that we have now and the White House.

Anybody who is a critic of this administration has to think in the front of his or her mind, the back of his or her mind, that they're going to look at something, some part of your life, and somehow construct out of whole cloth a case against you.

But that can't stop you.

Because as Jim Comey said, you know, he had great faith in the system.

I've got great faith in the people of this country, whether they serve on grand juries, whether they serve on trial juries, such that if they come at me, I'll get through it.

I haven't done anything wrong.

It's like when they were going to try to investigate the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota.

And I said, well, what's the charge?

Felony disagreement?

Right.

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