The Department of Justice in the U.S., the FBI, are filled with people like this.

And these are people who are not self-promoters.

They do not like to tell their own story.

They cannot start a sentence with I.

They start that with we.

These are team players who don't want anything but to do good in the world.

They're not interested in politics.

And I get very concerned when I see how easy it is to demonize these people for political

ends, when these are the very sort of people, I think we should be celebrating.

Hi again, everyone. It's now 5 o'clock in New York.

Institutions are only ever as strong and good and decent as the people who work inside of them.

And that fact is no truer than at the United States Department of Justice,

a bedrock of American democracy since the beginning,

a place where the law used to be

held above high ideals above everything else. In the 10 months of the Trump administration so far,

DOJ has seen its workforce gutted and purged, a purge of career officials by the Trump

administration solely because they had worked

on cases that somehow touched or investigated Donald Trump himself or his supporters.

We just saw the suspension of two prosecutors who referenced January 6 and what it actually was

in a court filing of a rioter on unrelated chargers. And Trump last week called

out for the prosecution of special counsel Jack Smith himself, along with other former Justice

Department officials for their work on investigating his efforts to overturn his defeat in 2020.

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