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40: Spies, Bannon & DOJ Action

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4.910.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The #SistersInLaw come together to look at the limits of executive privilege and the likelihood that Steve Bannon is arrested.  They also discuss the steps the DOJ is taking to reform the criminal justice system by investigating police and prisons, before breaking down the recent arrest of the two spies in West Virginia and the legal differences between thinking about a crime and attempting it.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to hashtag Sisters in Law with Kimberly Atkins' store, Joyce Vance,

0:17.2

Barb McQuade, and me, Jill Wine Banks.

0:20.5

Today we will discuss the possible arrest of Steve Bannon, the Department of Justice's

0:25.6

Move toward Police Investigations, and the case of the spies recently arrested in West

0:31.6

Virginia.

0:32.8

As always, we look forward to answering your questions at the end of the show.

0:37.1

But before we get to all that heavy-duty stuff, I wanted to talk about Gruden and his

0:43.3

emails.

0:44.7

Anybody have any thoughts on that, Barb?

0:46.7

Do you want to start?

0:47.7

Because you're our sports guru.

0:49.7

Yeah.

0:50.7

John Gruden, the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, and formerly the host of Monday Night

0:56.5

Football for many years, resigned in disgrace after it was revealed that he was sending emails

1:04.2

back and forth.

1:05.2

He came out as part of an investigation, an internal investigation into sexism in the Washington

1:11.4

Redskins organization.

1:12.6

But he sent emails that were racist, homophobic, misogynistic, everything you can imagine

1:20.0

under the sun.

1:21.0

It was awful.

1:22.0

And he resigned, which is the right thing to do, but in doing so, he also said, I don't

1:28.4

have a blade of racism in me.

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