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Welcome to Talking Feds, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal

topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman.

When Trump was elected, we knew we were in for some kind of miserable set of outcomes within

the federal government. And sure enough, the carnage there has been staggering, nowhere more so

than at the Department of Justice where the wreckage runs deep.

Even under the best conditions, restoring its integrity will be a long and arduous process.

But the alarming surprise of the second month has been Trump's outlandish assertions of leverage

over powerful sectors of civil society,

including big law, big media, and the academy. And we've learned to our chagrin that even the

biggest and richest players in the country can be brought to their knees by Trump's threats. And, as always with Trump,

these mafia-style strong-arm tactics have absolutely zero foundation in legitimate executive power,

but are nakedly part of his endless personal reprisal campaign. It's the same dynamic that prompted both of his

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