It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on the IHeart

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We have so much to get to today.

Christopher Ray out as the FBI director.

I think the definitive no-confidence letter, 11 pages came from Senator Chuck Grassley.

It is devastating.

It says he will resign in January.

He told the employees that he intended to resign in January.

He knows that Donald Trump is going to replace him.

And his failures are numerous.

We'll go into a lot of them in the course of the program today.

He had an opportunity after James Comey politicized the FBI when he was director.

And frankly, what he did was despicable.

He just continued the practice instead of restoring the FBI as the world's premier law enforcement agency not being weaponized or politicized.

That was the opportunity he had. Under his watch, he allowed the Biden-Harris administration to allow millions and millions and

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