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The Bulwark Podcast

Did the FBI Get a Pass on Jan 6?

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Romney's text message to Mitch McConnell renews questions about what law enforcement knew ahead of the attack on the Capitol. Plus, the weak counter-programming planned for Trump's prosecutions, and the foolish ploy against Judge Chutkan. Ben Wittes joins Charlie Sykes for the Trump Trials.

show notes:

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five-observations-about-the-georgia-special-purpose-grand-jury-report

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Visit your nearest showroom. Donald Trump still faces 91 felony charges but Republicans in the House of

0:42.4

Representatives have

0:43.3

decided to engage in a little bit of counter programming beginning an

0:47.2

impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Meanwhile it's been a week of a lot of

0:51.9

motions hearings and orders and we're going to be catching up with all of that in a moment.

0:56.5

But first, let's talk a little bit about Mitt Romney. Up for that, of course, it is Thursday,

1:02.3

which means I'm joined by Ben Wittis,

1:03.7

editor-in-chief of Law Fair. Ben you up for talking a little bit about

1:08.6

Mitt Romney? I'm excited to talk about Mitt Romney.

1:12.8

Let's just start with some of the revelations in that

1:14.8

a rather extraordinary Atlantic article by McKay Coppins,

1:18.2

which maybe I've become too cynical and jaded,

1:20.9

but it's always interesting to me to read about a politician who is actually introspective, who, you know, thinks about things like, you know, history and the fragility of civilizations and death and the verdict of

1:35.8

posterity and all those things and apparently he would have used a crowbar on old

1:41.4

file cabinets to look at old notes that he'd made and just turn them over to

1:45.0

McKay, McKay Coppins.

1:47.1

You know I wrote in my newsletter today that he's leaving the Senate pretty much the way he came in. He was the conscience of the Republican

1:56.0

Party, which made him a very, very lonely man. And so here is this former presidential nominee,

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