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The DOJ’s “Thursday Afternoon Massacre”

Start Here

ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Top brass at Justice Department offices resign, rather than follow a Trump administration directive to stop prosecuting New York City Mayor Eric Adams. An Afghan national is arrested after allegedly driving into pedestrians in Munich. And a delayed CDC report shows three cow veterinarians contracted bird flu without realizing it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Friday, February 14th, and there's no love lost between these offices. We start here.

0:41.7

One of the nation's top prosecutors refuses to follow the Trump administration's directives and resigns instead. Did you personally request

0:47.3

the Justice Department to drop that case? No, I didn't. Had the case against New York City Mayor

0:51.9

Eric Adams prompted a federal power struggle.

0:55.8

A car barrels through a political demonstration in Munich.

0:59.2

We saw a very badly damaged stroller at the scene, shoes, absolute carnage across the road.

1:05.3

Many assume this was a clear act of terror by an asylum seeker, but could it be more complicated than that?

1:11.3

And dozens of people have gotten confirmed cases of bird flu, but how many others don't know

1:16.2

they have it?

1:17.0

None of them reported exposure to infected cattle.

1:19.8

The disturbing CDC report that arrived three weeks late.

1:25.1

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

1:28.5

I'm Brad Milky.

1:33.5

I remember during President Trump's first term, when he fired the FBI director at the time, James Comey.

1:41.6

Comey described President Trump as someone who was transactional, driven entirely, he said,

1:46.4

by personal loyalty.

1:47.9

He asked for my loyalty personally as the FBI director.

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