They Don’t Want Borders. They Want Your Ballot (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell
The Bulwark
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Weissmann explains to Sarah Longwell the new filing from officials in Georgia’s Fulton County election office attacking the FBI's search of the county's election records last month. They also discuss the latest around ICE cases in Minnesota and get to Sarah's rapid fire questions.
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| 0:00.0 | I bet you're right. I guess in my mind, I was just sort of thinking they were like, oh my God, we cannot get another video of our people lying. |
| 0:07.4 | Sarah, you're so naive. You're so naive. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the illegal news. I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark, and Andrew Weissman is back again to |
| 0:21.9 | help us break down this week's legal or illegal news to me. We'll see which one it is. Andrew was a DOJ |
| 0:27.2 | lawyer for more than two decades, and he now hosts the main justice podcast as a contributor to MS Now. |
| 0:33.6 | Andrew, thanks for coming back. It's great to be here. And you know what I like to see in my podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | I shouldn't say mine. I do this podcast with Mary McCord, Maine Justice. Amazing. Amazing. |
| 0:44.9 | Love her. And used to be, used to be prosecuting Donald Trump for obvious reasons that title changed. |
| 0:52.3 | So, but if you recall when I was last year, I told this story about going on this motorcycle |
| 1:01.1 | in Paris in the middle of the rain to get to France 24. |
| 1:05.2 | But I liked that you, obviously, it impressed you so much that you are now wearing your |
| 1:10.6 | French attire in homage to my story. |
| 1:14.9 | You can tell this is French. You know. This is what they put the French Navy in. I was like, |
| 1:20.3 | I would like something militaristic, but not from America. Yes, it's got, it's got the stripes and it's got the buttons and somewhere in a closet |
| 1:30.3 | somewhere I have I have one of those things which, you know, like somewhere in your childhood |
| 1:35.3 | you're given. But it looks good on you. You know, I thank you. Can I just, I'll do, I'll do |
| 1:41.6 | the story this week that I will tell you since you brought it up. I didn't know we were going to go here. But one of the weirdest things that happens when you start doing podcasts and people can see you is that people like notice what you're wearing. And one of my favorite things that I wore as a human, just on my own was this designer named Claire V. As a human, not as a podcast person. |
| 2:03.0 | Well, I mean, like, yeah. |
| 2:04.5 | But as a human. |
| 2:05.7 | Before people told me about opinions they had about my clothing, |
| 2:09.5 | there was just like the stuff that I wore. |
| 2:11.2 | But anyway, Claire V noticed that I was wearing her stuff. |
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