The politicization of the Justice Department

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today on Post Reports, Matt Zapotosky reports on the fight for independence within the Justice Department after Attorney General William P. Barr intervened in the sentencing guidelines for Roger Stone. Political reporter Aaron Blake breaks down the New Hampshire primary results, and what they mean for the Democrat’s race for the White House. And columnist Monica Hesse says that questions of Elizabeth Warren’s electability are a self-fulfilling prophecy for her supporters.

Four prosecutors quit after Attorney General William P. Barr shortened Roger Stone’s sentencing request, one sign of turmoil engulfing the Justice Department.

Sanders takes the New Hampshire primary. Can he keep up the momentum to Nevada?

Since 2016, the question of a candidate’s electability has mutated into an abstract panic over whether any woman can be elected in 2020.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.8	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post-Kolley.
0:07.8	How are you?
0:08.8	He there, it's Simon from the Post.
0:10.8	Hey, it's Dave Farranty from the Post.
0:12.3	Have you got a seat?
0:13.6	This is Post Reports.
0:15.2	I am Martin Powers.
0:18.7	It's Wednesday, February 12.
0:23.2	Today the fight inside the Justice Department, the lingering questions in the Democratic primary,
0:29.4	is an ongoing fear about electability.
0:35.9	So on Tuesday, four career prosecutors, all of whom had been prosecuting Roger Stone, the
0:41.5	president's close personal friend, quit the case.
0:45.7	And Matt's Apataskia, my National Security Reporter here at the Post.
0:50.6	And so this was widely interpreted as somewhat of an active protest.
0:55.2	So why did these prosecutors resign?
0:57.9	There's no real other way to interpret this than as an active protest.
1:01.4	So we sort of have to flash back to the Roger Stone case because he's kind of critical
1:06.3	here.
1:07.3	So Roger Stone, as I mentioned, is a confidant of President Trump.
1:11.1	It is alleged that I was less than truthful with Congress.
1:14.7	That's false.
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