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Deadline: White House

“Friday night purge”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on the right-wing podcaster tapped to be deputy FBI director, angry voters voicing their frustration at Republican town halls across the nation, and Trump’s sudden firing of the U.S. military’s top officer. Joined by Ryan Reilly, Andrew Weissmann, Tim Heaphy, Alexis Loeb, Charlie Sykes, Eddie Glaude, Helene Cooper, Major General Steve Lepper, Amy McGrath, Amb. Michael McFaul, and Simon Shuster.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone.

0:09.3

It's 4 o'clock in New York to direct the day-to-day functioning of the agency responsible for preventing and investigating terror attacks, responding to mass shootings, investigating international drug cartels and gangs,

0:22.4

fording cyber attacks, and arresting violent criminals and investigating public corruption,

0:27.4

among other things.

0:28.9

Donald Trump has tapped a podcaster and right-wing media personality who once said this,

0:34.2

quote, my entire life right now is owning the libs. That person is named Dan

0:39.9

Bongino. He will be the deputy director of the FBI, the number two, at the country's top

0:45.8

law enforcement agency. It is a job that does not require Senate confirmation, not that

0:51.0

Republicans have had any objection to any of Trump's picks anyway. But if you're not

0:55.4

familiar with Bongino, here's a small sampling of the things he's had to say over the years.

1:01.9

Trump is an apex predator. He's the Lion King. Trump went out there tonight and did what Trump does.

1:07.9

He's the shark in the ocean and he acted like it. He lost no one from his

1:11.9

base, no one. Shame on us if we don't enter the legal profession and start to pull people out of the

1:17.2

DOJ. I have no problem with Donald Trump investigating Jack Smith either, and you shouldn't either.

1:22.1

Jack Smith doesn't have a pardon. What happened yesterday with President Trump and the targeting

1:26.9

of him and his attorneys by this piece of human scum,

1:31.1

all of these people targeting him in the Justice Department that have forfeited any semblance of allegiance and fidelity to the Constitutional Republic.

1:39.1

I do not need power drunk, pseudo monarchs, little mini tyrants in my supposedly conservative

1:48.9

county, though, sending out ridiculous childlike amateur hour edicts demanding people wear

1:55.5

masks and situations where the risk of transmission is somewhat close to zero. You can take your mask mandate and shove it right up your...

2:04.6

The karate, man.

2:07.5

I never thought I never thought I'd have to use it in real life.

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