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Why DOJ Halted the Eric Adams Case

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Justice Department tells prosecutors to halt proceedings against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Several judges throw up roadblocks to President Trump’s governmental overhaul. And Hamas says it will refuse to deliver Israeli hostages this weekend, throwing a ceasefire into doubt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Tuesday, February 11th, and you don't need a statue to guarantee your liberty. We start here.

0:38.8

The Justice Department announces it's halting its case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

0:44.8

The Justice Department hadn't evaluated the strength of the evidence.

0:49.0

Is this a case hitting a dead end or is this a political favor with political tradeoffs?

0:55.6

Stop me if you've heard this one before. President Trump's fate may lie in the courts. If the Trump administration doesn't comply

1:01.2

with a court order, what's it for? His vision of overhauling the federal government runs straight

1:06.3

through judges, but could he just ignore their answers? And Hamas holds back hostages with a ceasefire on the

1:13.6

line. This is the biggest snag in the agreement so far. This wasn't expected. Why a high-risk

1:19.4

negotiating tactic might have been spurred on by the White House. From ABC News, this is Start Here.

1:28.4

I'm Brad Milky.

1:35.1

Yesterday, President Trump issued a pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted of trying to sell President Obama's vacant Senate seat.

1:44.0

And while Blagojevich is a Democrat, these two have a history.

1:47.0

Before his trial began, Blagojevich appeared on Trump's old show Celebrity Apprentice,

1:51.0

and in Trump's first term, he commuted Blagojevich's sentence.

1:54.0

Trump said the 14-year sentence was too harsh, even for blatant corruption.

1:58.0

Well, now this pardon wipes his slate clean completely.

2:00.8

To which critics have said, this is how corruption works.

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