Andrew Weissmann and Michael Weiss: Valentine's Massacre
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Hey, y'all, I hope you're listening to the Bullwark Podcast with me every day. But as we're learning in the first few weeks of the Trump administration, a lot of crazy shit can happen in 24 hours. And stuff can happen after I tape. Or stuff can be really crazy and important, but not make it into the hour that I have with you guys. I don't know. Here's some examples from the last week. Maybe Elon Musk will try to shut down an entire federal agency. Or Trump will try to turn a foreign country into the Riviera of the Middle East. Or J.D. Vance will tweet out that saying, I am a racist is not a cause for firing in this administration. When that stuff's happening, and I have a little five or ten minute rant that I want to get out. Thanks for watching.
If we're going to be suffering throughout all this, come hang out with us. Subscribe to Bulwark Takes. We'll be seeing you around. Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Today is the 7th anniversary of the Parkland tragedy. I hate that we only discuss these horrors in like the couple days after they happen and then move on. So more to come on that next week. But we've put a link to Fred Guttenberg's Orange Ribbons for Jamie charity in the show notes. Please go ahead and... Give him a little love and support and everybody else that was affected by that tragedy. But today we are jam-packed with news. In segment two, we've got Michael Weiss on Trump's negotiation or submission to Putin and Xi, whatever you want to call it. But first, he's back already.
We've got a lot of relevant news for him. It's Andrew Weissman, former FBI general counsel, former Justice Department prosecutor, chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of New York. He's now co-host of the MSNBC podcast, Maine Justice. He's got a newsletter on Substack. We got Weiss Weissman. If only we had Alan Weisselberg. We could have the full gamut. Panoply. Right.
Why did senior DOJ officials resign over the Eric Adams investigation?
Thank you for returning so soon. We're in a little bit of a pinch, and the news is just screaming for you, given what happened yesterday at DOJ. Six senior Justice Department officials resigned. Rather than comply with the order to drop the Eric Adams investigation, they include basically the entire public corruption unit at DOJ. Who needs that? Plus Kevin Driscoll from the criminal division. And then most notably, the U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon. So what the fuck happened? Let's start there, Andrew.
Okay, what do we know? We know that there was a meeting last Friday with Danielle Sassoon and her deputies. She was in charge of, and her office was in charge of, the criminal case against the mayor of the city of New York, Eric Adams. It was brought about nine months ago. And the defense lawyers were there and Emil Bove was there. He is the acting deputy attorney general. New York minute ago, he was one of the criminal defense lawyers for Donald Trump. So he is a placeholder for the Trump administration in that position. And he's going to become the number two to the number two when Tom Blanche becomes the deputy attorney general. His confirmation hearing is pending in the Senate right now. Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche.
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