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you know that uh this being the eric metaxis show it's the show about everything we like to

talk about everything um we don't always get to talk about everything, but we try.

Today, we're talking about something very significant.

I call it the FBI.

That's my just personal abbreviation for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Anyone paying attention knows that the FBI, sadly, has fallen on hard times,

and that's being very, very polite about it. We have with us Thomas Baker, who was with the FBI for 33

years, who has written a brand new book, very important book, folks, called The Fall of the FBI,

how a once great agency became a threat to democracy. Thomas Baker, congratulations on the book,

and thanks for coming on this program. Thank you, Eric. I just want to let my audience know, doing 33 years with the FBI,

you know a little bit about that organization, perhaps even more significantly. You were the first

FBI man on the scene when President Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton, and you directed the

FBI's, you oversaw the FBI's handling of that.

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