The politics of DOJ and the law of DOGE
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It’s our regular mash-up with none other than Molly Jong-Fast, in which Molly fires legal question that have been occupying her at Harry, and Harry reciprocates with political questions for Molly. This mash-up is in the middle of the burgeoning Department of Justice scandal over the Eric Adams prosecution, and Harry presses Molly on whether the scandal will have political legs. Molly meanwhile seeks to understand whether some of Musk’s crazier antics are legal and how they could be challenged. And that’s just the beginning! Always a lively and informative back-and-forth when these two interrogate each other!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Talking Fed's one-on-one, deep-dive discussions with national figures about the most fascinating |
| 0:14.1 | and consequential issues defining our culture and shaping our lives. I'm your host, Harry Littman. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to another law politics mash up with me, Harry Lidman, and Molly Jong Fass on what |
| 0:28.5 | seems to me like a pretty crazy wild day in law and politics. I nevertheless want to take a |
| 0:36.1 | second besides saying hi to Molly. Everyone knows, |
| 0:39.2 | special correspondent for Vanney Fair, host of the podcast, Fast Politics as I'm talking. She has |
| 0:46.3 | last week in California. In California, we hung out. We both talked to Chris Hayes. But again, |
| 0:53.2 | the big headline here is you've got a new book |
| 0:56.9 | coming out in June. You want to just give us a quick skinny on that? I mean, I have a new book |
| 1:01.2 | coming out in June, but it's miles away. But yes, it's called How to Lose Your Mom and it's, |
| 1:07.0 | it'll be interesting. So wait. I hope I'm going to talk about it then. I get to go first on this time. I checked last time. All right. So wait. We'll come and talk about it then. |
| 1:11.7 | I get to go first on this time. |
| 1:13.3 | I checked last time. |
| 1:14.3 | All right. |
| 1:14.7 | All right. |
| 1:15.1 | All right. |
| 1:15.4 | Go, go. |
| 1:16.0 | And it's really important to me. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm totally obsessed, as you won't be surprised to hear with what's happening at DOJ. |
| 1:23.6 | Yes. |
| 1:24.2 | It's totally clear to me as a DOJ alum and someone steeped in that culture that this is huge and very, very clear. |
| 1:35.9 | But my question slash concern is, Molly, do you think this penetrates the public mind and kind of rings, you know, comes home |
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