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Welcome back everybody to Michael Steel Podcast, really engaging, fun conversation with author.

I'm also hesitant to say new author because his brother's written like he's been doing this for, you know,

you know, 20, 40 years, you know, but the book Central Park West is a crime novel which is quite the

rage from New York to DC to Miami to California. People love it. I'm glad we're talking about it.

I didn't want to shift a little bit because I got James Comey so.

You know, don't get this this moment too often. I will start big and then we can get a little

bit more narrow into thinking and what's your assessment right now when you're looking at

as someone who's been inside the bubble with the former president,

certainly your leadership of the FBI and sort of the fits and starts of all of that.

How are you assessing the institution right now? We've got Republicans running around talking

about defunding the FBI. This is the same people were bitching about the Democrats, those

Democrats who were talking about defunding local police and they wanted to fund the friggin FBI.

We know that has an impact whether you're talking about local police and certainly the many women

who serve in the agency on morale. It has an impact on how they go about their jobs. What's your

assessment of where things are right now? I think the agency is suffering by the agency. I mean,

the many women who make it up. Look, it's insane to think there are Republicans are walking around

saying the FBI is a bunch of leftist, Marxist targeting Republicans. It's just anyone who knows

the FBI law enforcement, that's just crazy. It's crazy. But people keep saying it and even though

people inside the FBI know it's nonsense, know this sense, which is the fact that they've heard from

both wings of the politically engaged part of our world that you're out to get my team. They know

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