Quick Take: Twitter Is Not America

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Michael speaks with Miles Taylor and Former Congressman Joe Sestak about the new third party, Forward, and the FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

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0:00.0	Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners, Michael Steel here with another quick take from the
0:12.5	Michael Steel Podcast.
0:14.3	Check out what's going on right now.
0:17.0	Welcome back everybody.
0:18.2	We have this great conversation with Miles and Joe and we want to pick up and bring
0:23.0	all of this to a finer point given the news that's been roiling the country for the last
0:31.9	36 or so hours with the execution of a warrant for a search of the property of former President
0:44.1	Donald Trump down in Mar-a-Lago for documents, classified documents that the President took
0:52.6	with him when he left office back in January of 2021 and there's been a lot of noise around
1:03.1	this process, certainly from Republicans Kevin McCarthy now declaring he wants to investigate
1:10.0	the DOJ and Democrats largely staying silent.
1:18.0	If you were having such a great week talking about all the votes that the President was
1:24.3	winning in the House and Senate, but this is serious business.
1:30.2	As I say to folks who have been chopping on this, it is hard to get a warrant period.
1:40.3	Just as a general course, it's not an easy thing to get.
1:43.9	These judges have to sign off on it.
1:46.4	It is triply hard to get a warrant for the execute a search of a former President's
1:54.3	home.
1:56.5	The idea that the State Department, Justice Department took its time, vetted this, got
2:02.4	a judge to sign off on it, tells us that there's something serious here.
2:08.0	Because this rot is my word that we see coming out of the Trump era permeating our nation's
2:20.1	politics.
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