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The Strategy of a Lawless Regime

Main Justice

MS NOW, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord

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4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Pam Bondi is out, SCOTUS hears birthright citizenship, and Trump keeps trying to restrict mail-in voting. Plus: Trump's suggestion of war crimes in Iran.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice.

0:06.0

It is Tuesday morning, April 7th.

0:09.2

I am Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with Mary McCord, my co-host.

0:13.3

Hello, Mary.

0:14.1

Hello, and good morning.

0:15.6

That's probably the brightest sounding I'm going to be.

0:18.5

So this is another one of those days.

0:20.8

So everyone sort of fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be. So this is another one of those days. So everyone sort of fasten your seatbelts.

0:23.3

It's going to be a bumpy show in the sense that we have so much to talk about.

0:29.0

By the way, Mary, do you know that phrase about fasten your seatbelt?

0:32.3

It's going to be a bumpy night.

0:33.9

It's from a movie.

0:35.1

Not airplane.

0:36.4

That's a good guess. It's really, I think it's my all-time

0:40.3

favorite movie. It's a movie called All About Eve from the 1950s. It's Betty Davis, who says,

0:48.1

fasten your seatbelt. It's going to be a bumpy night. Well, I am not doing that justice,

0:52.4

but I think we should get on with turbulence.

0:55.2

Speaking of turbulence, we had turbulence at the Department of Justice last Thursday with the

1:00.5

firing of Pam Bondi. I could not have set it up any better. And, you know, from my perspective,

1:06.6

good riddance to Pam Bondi. But the problem, of course, is who and what is going to replace her.

1:12.4

I mean, right now it's Todd Blanche, and he is serving in the acting capacity, but then there

1:16.8

are other names that are also being bandied about what can't happen is he cannot be both nominated

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