Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling

author and full-time troublemaker.

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world

clear.

We try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and

other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

Rick, I don't understand what Bill Barr is doing.

What do you mean you don't understand what Bill Barr is doing?

Bill Barr is doing exactly what's in the little authoritarians' playbook.

He is surrounded the dear leaders palace with loyal troops.

In this case, they are a bunch of guys from mysterious places in the federal government

that the Bureau of Prisons and the Customs and Border Patrol and other things that you

don't think of as guys who are frontline law enforcement officials, but they're now

surrounding the White House and surrounding the President's, the Trump and Bunker, so

that he feels secure and doesn't have to weep into his pillow at night because college

kids are outside yelling mean things about him.

Those cops or whatever those army fatigue troops in Washington, DC, who are they?

Okay, these guys and the ones that have been making a lot of news, in part because they

are all there without any sort of ID.

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