Trump vs His Own FBI
The Bill Press Pod
BP Pods
4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is waging war against his own FBI. The memo is coming and the GOP might be overplaying their hand.
Trump laid out his intention to get something done on infrastructure in the SOTU, but can he get it done? The Hill's Melanie Zanona tells us.
Plus, an update on the Russia investigation with Pema Levy from Mother Jones and Faiz Shakir from the ACLU is in studio!
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| 0:48.6 | He had the greatest television audience of any state of the union address ever says Donald Trump and he is |
| 0:57.7 | lying it's another big Donald Trump lie why are we surprised hey hello everybody |
| 1:06.9 | what do you say it's a Friday believe it or not and here I am on a Friday. Friday, February 2nd, the Bill Press show. How about it? So good to see you today. And thank you so much for joining us. It looks like this is the day that Donald Trump is going to release. That calling it controversial is the wrong word. |
| 1:27.7 | It's just a phony, manufactured document by a wacky congressman from California. |
| 1:35.1 | And Donald Trump is that the FBI and the Department of Justice say would be very, very dangerous to release, could imperil our national security. Donald Trump is going to do it |
| 1:46.5 | anyway because he thinks it'll help him undermine and discredit Robert Mueller, the chief |
| 1:52.5 | counsel and everybody at the FBI. Just imagine if it were a Democrat that were declaring war |
| 1:59.6 | against the FBI, what the reaction would be. |
| 2:02.2 | Oh, man, that's just the top of the tip of the iceberg today of all the things we've got to talk about. |
| 2:08.5 | It's a busy Friday. |
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| 2:17.3 | particularly Donald Trump's reckless disregard for the leadership of the Justice Department in releasing this memo. |
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