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Stay Tuned with Preet

DOGE Legal Drama

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In an excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the legal challenges to DOGE’s controversial initiatives. Should DOGE’s actions be suspended while litigation continues? And how have federal judges questioned Elon Musk’s official role in DOGE?   In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss:  – The resignation of New York’s top FBI official after he resisted President Trump’s effort to purge his office; – DOJ’s pushback against the interim D.C. U.S. Attorney’s reported efforts to open an investigation into comments made by Senator Chuck Schumer about Supreme Court justices; and – Concerns that the Trump administration might defy court orders. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. To become a member of CAFE Insider head to cafe.com/insider. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Preet here. Joyce Vance and I are back with a new episode of The Insider podcast.

0:07.5

First, we discussed the resignation of the top FBI official in New York after resisting President

0:12.6

Trump's effort to purge his office. Then, DOJ's pushback against the interim D.C. U.S.

0:18.6

attorneys reported efforts to open an investigation into comments made by Senator Chuck Schumer about Supreme Court justices.

0:26.2

Also, the ongoing legal battle stemming from Doge's actions, and finally the concern that the Trump administration might defy court orders.

0:34.5

If you're a member of Cafe Insider, head to the insider feed or click the link in the show

0:39.3

notes of this podcast to hear the full analysis. Stay tuned, listeners, stick around for an excerpt from

0:44.9

our conversation. To hear the full discussion, become a member by heading to cafe.com

0:50.3

slash insider. Now on to the show.

1:00.5

Thank you. slash insider. Now on to the show. The issue here, to my mind, is not necessarily political or ideological or pro-Trump or

1:07.7

anti-Trump. It's really all about something that's really common sense,

1:10.9

about which reasonable people can have some different opinions, and that is the possibility

1:15.8

that sensitive information could be or may already have been shared outside the Treasury Department.

1:20.6

And by the way, speaking as a citizen, observing this from some distance, I have not gotten

1:26.7

complete comfort that everything is happening

1:29.6

in a meticulous, rigorous, careful, and sanitized way. You have a lot of nonsense that gets put up

1:36.8

on the board by Doge that people are beginning to document, claiming that there's $8 billion

1:41.9

in savings or $9 million in savings and realizing

1:44.3

that's false and incorrect.

1:46.8

When they're trying to correct false, incorrect, waste, fraud, and abuse, there's this whole

1:51.1

debate in connection, I think, with a different case that we can talk about if you want,

1:55.0

where there's a dispute about whether or not Elon Musk has any formal role within the

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