Weaponization of Government; Defamation; Trash TV

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week: Asha and Renato discuss Jim Jordan’s committee and his “whistleblowers”; more Dominion lawsuit information; and trash TV. GOP WITNESSES: WHAT THEIR DISCLOSURES INDICATE ABOUT THE STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN INVESTIGATIONS DemocraticStaffReport https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2023-03-02_gop_witnesses_report.pdf Subscribe to our podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M-S-S-W Media.
0:08.6	So, Asha, is a-S-W, a problem for the FBI? So, Asha, is Jim Jordan's weaponization committee a problem for the FBI?
0:15.0	Eh, it's complicated.
0:17.0	I'm Asheringappa.
0:21.0	I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special agent and I'm a legal and national security analyst.
0:30.0	And I'm Renata Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.
0:38.0	And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a sound bite or a tweet.
0:45.0	So, where do we start?
0:51.0	Well, one thing I let's start with,
0:53.7	because I think it's really interesting
0:55.7	and I think we're going to have different perspectives on it,
0:58.0	is this Washington Post story about disagreements
1:01.4	between the DOJ and the FBI.
1:03.4	I mean, it's very, very rare that such disagreements are public.
1:08.6	In other words, I, you know, just so people understand
1:11.6	when you are conducting a criminal investigation
1:14.5	DOJ prosecutors lead kind of lead investigations at least that's the DOJ perspective that we
1:19.9	lead investigations and direct FBI agents and there's often disagreements
1:25.0	between us. I had more disagreements at the DEA but there is agreements
1:29.1	that the disagreements often with the FBI but those we get resolved internally. You rarely see news
1:35.2	articles about it and this suggests to me that there's some pretty disgruntled
1:38.8	people probably at the FBI who were talking to reporters about it.
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