Sen. Warner: Trump’s Firing Spree Looks Like Watergate!
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, me, Sam Stein, managing out at the Bullwark, and I'm joined by Senator Mark Warner of |
| 0:04.1 | Virginia, who was gracious enough to come on and talk about, I don't even know how to describe |
| 0:10.5 | what's actually happening in the Eastern District of Virginia with the U.S. attorney there, but the |
| 0:15.2 | latest, as of 10 minutes ago, I should say we're recording this at like 245 on Monday, September |
| 0:21.9 | and 22nd, President Trump intends to appoint his personal former defense attorney, |
| 0:27.4 | Lindsay Halligan, to the role of U.S. Attorney of Eastern District of Virginia. |
| 0:32.5 | Over the weekend, he fired the U.S. attorney there, Eric Seibert, and the reason he did so explicitly, as I understand it, |
| 0:41.5 | well, explicitly, period, was that Cybert was not going after Letitia James, |
| 0:47.3 | who had brought charges against Donald Trump, obviously, in Trump's time out of office. |
| 0:52.2 | Senator, what is happening in your state? |
| 0:55.9 | I mean, it's, it's, it's, well, let me take two minutes and just, I know everybody follows |
| 1:03.3 | of the ballworkers all, follows all the process stuff. But the way we do U.S. attorneys, |
| 1:09.0 | and we did this under Biden, under Trump, under Obama, |
| 1:13.0 | Tim Kane and I, we have a bipartisan group, and they take anybody that wants to apply to a U.S. |
| 1:18.1 | attorney. |
| 1:19.2 | They review them, and then we interview three to five, and we know when there's a Republican |
| 1:25.3 | president, you know, we've got to pick people with good Republican credentials. We still want them to follow the law, but we a Republican president, you know, we got to pick people with good Republican credentials. |
| 1:28.9 | We still want them to follow the law, but we want to, you know, we recognize the president's got a right to pick who we want. |
| 1:34.5 | He doesn't have to pick the people we suggest. |
| 1:37.9 | So starting with the Western District of Virginia, the other, we'll come to East District in a second. |
| 1:43.2 | Western District, we second. Western District. |
| 1:50.3 | We picked two great names. Trump White House said these are great. Matter of fact, one was the Republican Speaker of our State House. He was the guy who was picked. He was in for about a couple |
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