You say that you believe Barr forced you out of that job at SDNY because he no doubt believed that by removing me he could eliminate a threat to Trump's re-election.

How was your work as U.S. attorney a threat to Trump's reelection?

Well, at the time I was fired, the Southern District of the York was working on a couple politically sensitive cases.

One of those cases is the Steve Bannon, We Build the Wall case.

And we were very close to indicting that case around the time I got fired.

And Barr knew about the case.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the McCrack podcast.

We are back after a week off for Labor Day.

I'm J.D.8 Sexton.

I'm here with Nick Hausman.

Nick Hausman last week was traveling, moving around,

mostly kept completely and utterly quarantined away from breaking events.

Is that true, Nick?

I was off the grid for like almost four of those days, and I'd managed to stay off of the news for the other three.

An incredible, you say as if you were avoiding using heroin. That's wonderful.

I will say it's a Herculean task at this point

to avoid news in any way, shape, or form. I think you were to be commended for this feat.

You know what's interesting is I discovered that I really don't use my phone for much anything,

but Twitter news. And I was fidgety. I had nothing to do. You know what I ended up doing?

I deleted like a lot of apps on my phone that I didn't need anymore. And I don't know about you, but on my text messages notification, I've always had 10, 15, 20, 3rd. I never opened, it's just sitting there forever. I scrolled all the way back years to finally check all those texts I hadn't opened before. So now I have a beautiful zero, you know, notification on my text messages.

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