S2 Ep127: Is This The DUMBEST Scandal in History?
George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you keep pushing the envelope and keep militarizing the streets, sooner or later, you could have a massacre. |
| 0:12.2 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to George Conway, explains it all to Sarah. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark. |
| 0:20.3 | And because I am definitely not a lawyer, |
| 0:22.9 | I've asked George Conway from the Society for the Rule of Law to explain the illegal news to me |
| 0:27.5 | and to you every week. And we are back. Hey, George, how you doing? Good. How are you doing, Sarah? |
| 0:33.6 | Good. You know, we had a cool live show in D.C. this week. We missed you there. We're going to be in New York on Saturday. I can't wait to see all our friends from New York. But first, before we go to New York, we've got to go down to the Eastern District of Virginia, where James Comey pled not guilty. And Letitia James got indicted, which is our big breaking news of the week. |
| 0:57.8 | But before we get into all of that, can you remind me who the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of |
| 1:03.2 | Virginia is and why the Eastern District is now the administration's preferred venue for prosecuting |
| 1:09.9 | political rivals? |
| 1:19.3 | Well, the actual answer to your question is that the United States, the district of, |
| 1:22.8 | the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States Attorney's Office, the Eastern District of Virginia is vacant. It has not been filled. Oh. Yeah, though, no, I mean, there's this woman who has been |
| 1:30.6 | signing documents there. Her name is Lindsay Halligan, and apparently she's some kind of |
| 1:37.8 | insurance lawyer who's never practiced criminal law before. And she is going around masquerading |
| 1:43.9 | as U.S. attorney, but she is not, in fact, |
| 1:46.8 | the U.S. attorney because there's an actual, there are the things called statutes that Congress |
| 1:51.7 | enact. And one of those statutes basically says that you can appoint somebody temporarily to be, |
| 1:58.1 | that the Attorney General can appoint someone temporarily to be a U.S. attorney in a |
| 2:05.2 | district, but only for 120 days. And then the court gets to appoint somebody. And that happened. |
| 2:12.1 | And there was a man named Eric Siebert. The president didn't much like him because apparently, |
| 2:18.6 | according to news reports, |
| 2:26.8 | he didn't want to indict baselessly Mr. Comey and Ms. James, and he was forced to resign, |
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