These Trump DOJ Subpoena Revelations Are Like Watergate on Crack

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has been busy lately. In this episode of The New Abnormal, Molly Jong-Fast chats with FBI agent Peter Strzok about “Watergate on crack” aka these Trump DOJ subpoenas. Plus! Journalist Francesca Fiorentini takes on America’s hypocrisy and Sen. Alex Padilla (CA-D) drops the mic about the immigration debate. If you haven't heard, every single week The New Abnormal does a special bonus episode for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast’s membership program. where Sometimes we interview Senators like Cory Booker or the folks who explain our world in media like Jim Acosta or Soledad O’Brien. Sometimes we just have fun and talk to our favorite comedians and actors like Busy Phillips or Billy Eichner and sometimes its just discussing the fuckery. You can get all of our episodes in your favorite podcast app of choice by becoming a Beast Inside member where you’ll support The Beast’s fearless journalism. Plus! You’ll also get full access to podcasts and articles. To become a member head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there, it's Vicky Patterson from the podcast The Secret Two, the show where I go on a mission
0:04.8	to find out the secret of everything with my all-star crew of celeb guests. And this week,
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0:41.1	game. Tason says apply. Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and welcome to The Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.
0:50.8	I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at The Daily Beast. We're here to have fun,
0:56.3	sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science that help make
1:02.3	what's happening in the country and the world clearer. Our world has been turned up to a down.
1:07.4	On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how to
1:12.8	get ourselves out of it. And I'm producer Jesse Kennan. I'm here to make sure things don't go too far
1:17.6	off the rails. Today we have an excellent episode with California's junior senator and former
1:22.4	California secretary of state, Alex Padilla. And then we will have former FBI agent, Peter Struckon,
1:28.3	to talk to us about the fuckery around the surveillance of Trump's enemies. But first,
1:32.9	we have the host of the BITUATION podcast, Francesca Fierntini. Welcome, Francesca, to the new abnormal.
1:40.0	Thank you. We're very excited to have you. I feel very safe. I'm vaccinated. That's right.
1:46.1	And we're doing this on remotely. So you're even safer. Indeed. Microphones transmit a lot of
1:55.0	droplets. Oh, yeah. I'm a stand up. So I've definitely contracted a few things.
2:02.1	Maybe that's not from the mic. Maybe that's from sleeping with comics. Just kidding.
2:05.7	That's right. So it's been a very exciting week with Joe Biden trying to sort of mend fences
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