Trump mulls firing FBI director, as DNI accuses Iran of election interference
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🗓️ 22 October 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily |
| 0:05.7 | 202 for Thursday, October 22nd. In today's news, the CDC expands its definition of who is considered a close contact for |
| 0:17.0 | coronavirus purposes. |
| 0:19.3 | The maker of OxyContin pleads guilty to three felonies as part of an 8.3 billion dollar settlement. |
| 0:25.7 | And Barack Obama makes his 2020 debut on the campaign trail with a blazing critique of his |
| 0:31.3 | successor. |
| 0:37.0 | But first, the big idea. President Trump and his advisors have repeatedly |
| 0:41.0 | discussed whether to fire FBI director Chris Ray after the election. |
| 0:46.1 | It is a scenario that also could imperil the tenure of Attorney General Bill Barr |
| 0:50.6 | as the President grows increasingly frustrated that federal law enforcement |
| 0:54.9 | has not delivered his campaign the kind of last minute boost the FBI |
| 1:00.0 | provided in 2016. Devlin Barrett and Josh Dossy report that the conversations among the President and |
| 1:06.7 | senior aides stem in part from their disappointment that Ray in particular but Barr as well |
| 1:12.0 | have not done what Trump had hoped, which is to claim or even |
| 1:15.9 | hint that Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, or other Biden associates are under investigation. |
| 1:23.0 | In the campaign's closing weeks, |
| 1:25.0 | the president has intensified public calls for jailing his challenger, |
| 1:29.0 | much as he did for Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:31.0 | Trump has taken to repeatedly calling Biden a criminal, not just without evidence, but also without |
| 1:35.8 | even articulating what laws he believes the former vice president might have broken. |
| 1:40.8 | People familiar with the discussions tell Devlin and Josh that Trump wants official action |
| 1:45.2 | similar to the announcement made 11 days before the last presidential election by then FBI |
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