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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

DOJ files to dismiss NYC Mayor Adams case after request set off wave of mass resignations

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of The ReidOut, Joy Reid covers the mass firings of federal employees—potentially hundreds of thousands—ordered by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Plus, we discuss what many consider to be America’s shame on the world stage as J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth fumbled through the Munich Security Conference. But first, Trump’s take on law and order, as we seemingly now live in a country where the rule of law apparently comes second to what Trump wants. Top officials in Trump’s Justice Department—who also happen to be his former criminal lawyers—have pressured prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, citing interference with the administration’s immigration priorities. Listen now to this episode of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Thank you all for joining us as well tonight. We have a lot to get to, as you can imagine,

0:03.5

in the next hour of the readout, including the start of mass firings of federal employees,

0:08.9

possibly hundreds of thousands of people put out of work by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

0:14.5

Plus, America's shame on the world stage as J.D. Vance and Pete Hanks said blunder their way

0:19.8

through the Munich Security Conference.

0:23.3

But we begin tonight with Donald Trump's take on law and order, as we now live in a country

0:27.8

where the rule of law comes second to whatever Trump wants. We saw that on day one when Trump gave

0:33.8

full pardons to the 1500 January 6 insurrectionists, including the hundreds

0:38.7

who violently attacked law enforcement officers. Considering the MAGA mob were called to the capital

0:44.3

by Donald Trump, the rule of law did not apply to them. And it continues to this day with the

0:51.0

pressure campaign by top officials in Trump's Justice Department, some of whom

0:55.2

happened to also be his former criminal lawyers to have the corruption charges against New York

1:00.8

Mayor Eric Adams dropped, in part because they were interfering with Adams' ability to focus on

1:06.9

the administration's immigration priorities. As of today, seven top federal prosecutors and

1:13.4

officials, including the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon,

1:19.3

have resigned in protest. The seventh resignation coming this morning from Hagen-Scotton, an assistant

1:27.1

U.S. attorney at the SDNY who didn't hold

1:29.8

back in his letter to Trump's acting deputy attorney general Emil Bovi, writing,

1:35.0

no system of ordered liberty can allow the government to use the carrot of dismissing charges

1:42.0

or the stick of threatening to bring them again to induce

1:46.3

an elected official to support its policy objectives.

1:50.5

He also wrote, but any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not

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