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Hello and welcome to a special edition of Talking Feds. Special for two reasons. First,

I'm obviously not your usual host, Harry Letman. This is Matt Miller, filling in for Harry today.

And second, for today's episode, I'm the only former fed in the room. Instead, we're going to do

something new and talk to three of the most well-sourced reporters covering the Justice Department

and try to find out just what is going on over there right now. I served as the Chief Spokesman

for DOJ during the Obama administration and the DOJ press corps used to beat me up regularly with

tough questions. Today, I finally get to turn the tables. Our guests for this episode are Evan

Perez, CNN's Senior Justice Department correspondent. Evan's been on the DOJ beat for more than 10 years

covering the administrations of both parties. Devlin Barrett, DOJ reporter for The Washington Post.

Like Evan, Devlin has been covering DOJ for more than 10 years and has seen just about everything

under the sun, though I think a few new things in the past couple of years. And finally, it's gotten

weird. And finally, Katie Banner, who covers the Justice Department for the New York Times.

Katie is a relative newbie to this beat, having joined it last year. But you wouldn't know it from

her reporting. She has turned out scoop after scoop after scoops and is joining the beat.

And in fact, if you've been paying attention to the news the last week, you know that all three of

our guests have been breaking major stories. But they've agreed to a one-hour ceasefire to be with us

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