Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - We’ll Do It LIVE! — Jeanine Pirro

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, joins Bill for an exclusive interview about her role in Washington, D.C., leaving Fox News, and working with President Trump.  Judge Jea...nine also talks about fighting crime and terrorism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:05 So welcome to We'll Do It Live, and who better than to do it live with? Then Judge Jeanine Piro, everyone. Here she is. You don't see much of her because she's so busy these days. But we snagged her, and I am very happy that you're happy. And I mean that. Thank you. Because I didn't know, you know, this five thing was a cushy job.
Starting point is 00:00:35 Come on. This Fox 5 thing you're sitting there. If you can put up with Gutfeld, that's all you get. Oh, boy, if that isn't the point. Right, right. But it's a cushy job. It's like, okay, here's a lot of money. Just sit there and then you say a few things and you go home.
Starting point is 00:00:52 This is a hard job, but not a lot of people know what you do. What do you do? Well, first of all, the five, was, you know, not a cushy job. It was a great job because you get hair and makeup and you make money and you know, you have to be up on the news. You know that. I mean, you were in the business and you were at the top of the pyramid when you were in that business. But this job is Janine or me going back to my roots. It's the job that I started and it's a job that I love. I love criminal justice. I love the idea of fighting on behalf of the victims of crime. I like enforcing the law. I believe in law and
Starting point is 00:01:42 order. I believe in the Constitution. I believe that things have gotten so out of whack that we really needed to, you know, kind of readjust what was happening. And when I saw that Washington, D.C. at the fourth highest murder rate in the nation, comparable to the capital of some third world country, as recently as two years ago, I said that's a kind of place where maybe I have something to offer. When the president called, first of all, I was honored, and I knew that it was something that would feed into my wheelhouse.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Although I was a local DA in a county of a million people, is much larger than the district that we're in right now. I was elected and reelected and reelected again. So I had to, you know, be out there in the political sphere. Here, I could do the job and I'm accountable to the people and, of course, the president. Okay. But you're the DA of Westchester County, just north of New York City. And everybody knows what you do. When there's a crime committed in Westchester County, it comes into your office. You decide. whether to prosecute the crime, and then when you make your decision,
Starting point is 00:03:02 the other attorneys go and they prosecute. Here, you got the Attorney General of the United States, okay, right across town, all right? You got a mayor that's not affiliated with Trump. It's a locally elected mayor, Muriel Bowser. So it's almost like a mosaic. So say somebody in D.C. murders somebody on federal property. Your case or the DA's case?
Starting point is 00:03:40 I am the DA. I mean, or the Attorney General's case. Okay, here's a difference. Remember we talked about the DA handling local crime, street crime, and then you have the federal United States attorney. My office in D.C. and as the United States attorney in the District of Columbia, I am both. I am both the local prosecutor
Starting point is 00:04:01 and I am the United States Attorney. I am a double hatter. Everything that happens is mine. So the Attorney General of the United States. Right. Right. She doesn't get involved
Starting point is 00:04:14 with the street crime or anything like that in the district. She is, it's no longer, she, the Attorney General, of course, is now acting top of lance. Okay, but to the extent that the president
Starting point is 00:04:27 has decided that he is going to make D.C. safe and beautiful with his executive order, then I am one of the only, if not the only United States attorney who has dual jurisdiction of street crime and federal crime. I am the only one in the country that does both. The attorney general then oversees the FBI, oversees the crimes that cut across the road line. Right. Right. Right. Now, I was surprised I had seen. Pam Bondi on St. Patrick's Day. Nice conversation.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Always got along with her. I'm surprised that she left. Does that surprise you? I think she was asked to leave. That's my understanding. I'm not surprised because the president wants things done. And he needs someone who is going to aggressively pursue the agenda that needs to be done. And so now I think he sees in Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general.
Starting point is 00:05:33 A more aggressive person. Okay, I don't think there's any doubt about that. Yeah, and I think that that's what the president wants. Okay. Do you have anything to do with the Epstein situation? Absolutely not. Okay, because that vexed Pam Bondi. That vexed her.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Yes. She made an initial mistake by saying, I got this file, and then everybody goes, oh, what file? Let me see the file. Yeah, and a client list and all that. But you don't have anything to do with Epstein. No, no, no, because there isn't anything in my jurisdiction that involves any of the Epstein victims. And if someone had a case where they want to claim, and I just started a hotline, a tip line for Eric Swalwell.
Starting point is 00:06:17 Once it was determined in California that he has been engaging in inappropriate, if not criminal behavior, allegations, that, you know, I would look into it. as well. So just as I'm doing that with Swalwell, I'll do that with any crime victim. I am an aggressive prosecutor. As long as it took place in the D.C. area. Right. All right. So tell me why the nation's capital had so many murders. Why? I'll tell you why. The nation's capital had so many murders because there was not a focus on law and order. There was not, we have a D.C. Council. The D.C. Council has laws that cover the superior court. They can be murderers and they can be, you know, assaults, sex crimes, burglars, robberies. But they allow for the kind of sentencing that is so absurd, Bill, you would be stunned.
Starting point is 00:07:15 So if you have someone who is under the age of 25 and kills three people in the D.C. court, not even the federal part of my job, but the local. and the court gives him 30 years for one, 30 years for another, and 90 years. Because of the D.C. Council, after 15 years, he can get out. He doesn't have to prove he's sorry. He doesn't have to say what he did was wrong. They just figured he was under 25. We've got to give him another shot.
Starting point is 00:07:47 So you're saying that the D.C. City Council, elected by the locals. By the locals. Too soft on crime? Too soft on crime? is a kind way of saying it. What they are doing is they are allowing young people, teenagers, to commit crimes in my view, but allowing them to go into the juvenile justice system
Starting point is 00:08:09 and the family court where the focus is not punishment, deterrence, or retribution, it's rehabilitation. But that rehabilitation is yoga and ice cream social. There's no accountability. And so these young punks end up, with a rap sheet a mile long. By the time they get to me, Bill, they're committing a murder. I look at their juvenile rap sheet. They've got robbery, car theft, they've got burglary, assault with a dangerous weapon. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:08:40 This is like New York... Worse. It's worse than New York. Definitely worse than New York. Because when I was a prosecutor in New York, if you committed a murder at 14, I could prosecute you. Here I cannot. But you know New York has changed its laws to make it even. easier for the miscreans to race of course around. Now why?
Starting point is 00:09:00 Why the elected City Council of Washington, D.C. decide to go soft on crime? You'll have to ask them, Bill, but what I can tell you is that they think that young people need to be coddled because their prefrontal
Starting point is 00:09:20 cordial, whatever, the prefrontal corticals area is not fully developed. and they are not capable of making reasoned decisions. But my question to you, Bill, is, does it matter to you, God forbid, if you were shot, whether it's a 15-year-old who shoot you or a 50-year-old? The consequences to you are the same. And what if it's my daughter or my son?
Starting point is 00:09:42 Yeah, it's even worse. Right. Okay? And so they are not inclined to focus on the victims. They are focused on the young punks. Right. Is that changed since you've been here? No.
Starting point is 00:09:55 And in fact, we are demanding that they lower the age of accountability to 15, 16. They're not allowing. And they're fighting you? Well, they're not doing it. Look, the mayor Bowser, and by the way, the way to solve these issues is, first of all, thank President Trump, the executive order, make D.C. safe and beautiful. He gives us the resources. I work with Mayor Bowser and the chief of police every day. we have a great relationship
Starting point is 00:10:24 because we have a fundamental belief that we can make a difference So Bowser has come over to your side? I had a press conference with her today on a car theft ring that is international and stuff. What was the source of this conversion? Because she was always a far left person. You know
Starting point is 00:10:40 what? Is it your personality? Oh, it's my over personality overcame her. So she's totally changed. She may have all I know is the Muriel Bowser that I know is a Muriel Bowser. or that I like, that I can work with. We're doing another press conference on Friday
Starting point is 00:10:56 on domestic violence, international theft ring. Tomorrow I'm doing something on sea scam and scam compounds in Southeast Asia. I mean, we're fighting all kinds of crimes. This is the best job in the world. I can do terrorism and bring back. You covered Benghazi. I covered Benghazi.
Starting point is 00:11:17 I got the ringleader. We knew who the ringleader was from the get-go. Did anybody do anything? No. I got together with Marco Rubio, Cash Patel, and we brought back a guy named Bakush. I was on the tarmac for the transfer of control of this individual. And I met him, and now we're prosecuting him. What was the link to D.C. on it?
Starting point is 00:11:40 We handled terrorism, where Americans are killed abroad. Okay. I'm also handling the locker. Any kind of terrorist activity abroad. Outside of the country. Yes. That's in your jurisdiction. I did not know that.
Starting point is 00:11:52 This is the biggest United States Attorney's Office in the country. I had no idea. Well, you know, if you give me another hour, I'll tell you about it. I mean, nobody knows. Yeah. National Guard, they're still here. Yep, and I'm glad they're still here. And unfortunately, you know, one of the National Guard was killed.
Starting point is 00:12:11 And another one is recuperating Sarah Bextram and Andrew, who I talked to his mother and continue to talk to him on a regular basis. You know, we're close to our victims. You know, the intern you heard about who was shot at 10.30 at night, caught in gunfire, this intern who was working for a congressman from Arkansas. His mother and I are the best of friends. She never thought this case would be solved. MPD. solved the case. Muriel Bowser, Chief of Police, solved the case. We worked together. We work day and night on this case. Who has jurisdiction over the National Guard in D.C.? Oh, that is a great question. Well, that's me.
Starting point is 00:12:51 You ask great questions. I would say that the president does because there is no governor. Okay. So that I think is the correct answer because the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief, and the National Guard is part of the military. So of course, it would come back to him. And how long is he going to keep the guard here? You know, obviously you'd have to speak to him about it, but I think that he would come back to him.
Starting point is 00:13:20 that, you know, the president is focused on the 250th anniversary of the country in the 4th of July. And he wants a clean D.C. He wants a clean D.C. And we have brought crime down. Homicides are at the lowest rate in recorded history. But right now we're seeing a little uptick. Why? Because the weather's getting nicer. People are coming out. But we made 12,000 arrests under this federal enhancement with the local police. We've taken something like, I don't know, 1,300 guns off this. You know, those are 1,300 fewer guns that people can use to kill other people.
Starting point is 00:13:54 Now, can the guard take the guns or can they just detain? Well, the guard can work. They always go with the local police, but they have their own guns that they can use, which is what happened with Lackenwall, who came from the state of Washington and decided to kill the two or two. So wherever the National Guard goes, they take the local, Metro, D.C. police with them. Yes. Yes, but no, you'll see them on a street corner alone. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:19 Okay, and they're there to deter crime. Okay, whether or not they could make an arrest, they would probably, you know, concert or confer with MPD or other police agencies. Can they stop a miscreant from running? Yes, absolutely. Okay, they can. They can detain, yes.
Starting point is 00:14:36 So there's another tool of control to stop people from committing crimes on the street. Yeah. You know what's happening, Bill? People are able to go out to dinner. they're able to walk the streets. You sound like Trump. Because it's true.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Okay. It's true, Bill. I hear it all the time. Every time Trump says, I say, when are you going to buy me dinner? Yeah, he could buy both of us dinner. Okay, that brings us to your appointment. Now, some say that Donald Trump makes his appointments based on friendships with people who've been loyal to him. Is that a fair assessment?
Starting point is 00:15:16 I don't know. I'd have to look at all of his appointments. appointments. Oh, that's a dodge. No, it's not a dodge at all. It's a direct answer to your question. If you want to ask me if he appointed me because of our relationship, I would say to you, he knows me, he knew me as a DA, he knows me as a fighter, he knows me as an individual who believes in law and order, and I believe in him as well. But you were very supportive of him when you were on Fox. I was. I was because I know the man. I've known the man for almost what, 36 years. He's been at my home. I've been at his homes. You know, I see him on the street
Starting point is 00:15:53 when I was DA in the 90s. Did you say you understand Donald Trump? Nobody understands Donald Trump. You know who does? Malania. They so? Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. So I don't know if that's a fair assessment about the president appointing people that he feels have been partial to him. I think that's a way. I don't know that he knows everyone that he's appointed. I mean, you'd have to prove that he knows everyone. He doesn't necessarily know them. Right, but he reviews it. I know that.
Starting point is 00:16:27 He's not going to put on anybody from MS. It's not going to be working for you anytime soon. Yeah. Okay, because he always is a grudge. No, because, you know, these are the people who indicted him and indicted him and indicted him again. It's a grudgeon, you know. Both you and I know that I'd say, 80% of that was just garbage.
Starting point is 00:16:48 It was garbage. It was made up stuff. It was horrible. I can tell you I was a DA in New York, just like the DA Alvin Bragg. I was a county judge, just like the judge who was there trying the case, Judge Marshawn. Okay, I held both those positions. That trial was so ridiculous. There was no crime.
Starting point is 00:17:06 It was beyond the statute. This is the real estate fraud. The real estate fraud, which is insane. Yeah. And E. Gene Carroll? Are you kidding me? Yeah. Bloomingdale?
Starting point is 00:17:15 Yeah. Wasn't it Barney? No, it was Bloomingdale. Wasn't Bloomingdale? I mean, I'm sitting there going, what? Yeah. Okay, that could never have happened. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:26 Yeah. So when you were on the five, you were very, I think you were the strongest of the crew out there saying, this is a bunch of crap. Because I know the man, and I can speak to the man. I can speak to who he is, what he's like, when he parties, late at night. early in the day, seen him with his kids, seen him with his family.
Starting point is 00:17:51 I've seen him on the street. I know the man. And everyone wants to make him something that he's not. And the truth is, Bill, the very fact that he survived everything that they threw at him tells you that this is not an ordinary man. So don't expect ordinary responses from him every day of the week. He's a different kind of guy. He is, I mean, the man has armor around him.
Starting point is 00:18:13 I don't know how he does it. He's a vampire. No, I don't think he's a vampire. I'm going to tell him he said he's not going to take you to dinner. He's going to take me to go. Yeah, he never sleeps. Oh, he does. He used to call my house.
Starting point is 00:18:24 I know. When my ex works for him, Janine. He'd say, where is he? Right. Like, hold on. It's all night. He's working all night. Yep.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Thank God for America. So you're sitting there at the five, and you're making good money. It's a very successful program. And you get the call. Yeah. How long did it take you to say, I'm going to dump the TV thing and I'm going to go into public service? Didn't take me long at all. Let me explain something to you.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Sometimes the most difficult decisions are not all that complicated. Because when he made that phone call to me... He did it personally. He called me. Yeah. You called you. It was, it went right to my... right to my soul. This is who I am. This is how I want to, you know, maybe end my career. Who knows?
Starting point is 00:19:24 This is a job that I love. This is a job where I go in every day and I can't wait to get there. I mean, I haven't even told you all this stuff we do. I'm the DA here. I'm the federal prosecutor. I do terrorism. I do civil cases. I do. I defend agencies. I go, I prosecute agents. I mean, this is a huge job, huge office that I had to turn around, Bill. It was a neglected office. People were quitting. People were getting fired. I don't even who the DA was under Biden.
Starting point is 00:19:54 The guy's name was Matthew Graves. United States Attorney. He was a United States Attorney. We're not called DAs. We are United States attorneys. Okay. I'm sorry, Matthew. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:04 But yeah, I saw his picture. I never knew who he was either. No idea who it was. Yeah. So it took you... It took you less than a day to say yes, It was about a day and a half? A day and a half?
Starting point is 00:20:17 Yeah. It was like, I didn't think you have a great life, a great job, you work for a great company. It wasn't that. It was like, you got to do what's in your heart. You just got to go. Okay. Did Jesse Waters cry when you made me a day? I talk to Jesse a lot.
Starting point is 00:20:37 I talk to Jesse and to Emma. Through an interpreter? Or do you just talk to him? I do talk to him. And, you know, I miss Harold. I miss Jessica. I miss Dana. That was a good crew, right?
Starting point is 00:20:52 It was a great crew. We all liked each other. That's why it worked. Right. So despite all of the trappings of that, because usually you get it the other way. Usually the public servants want to get on television. Make the big money. Get the glamour.
Starting point is 00:21:11 You go the other way. Maybe I'm not that smart, Bill. I don't know. I don't know. I know how much you're making now, and I know how much you made over there. So maybe you want to discuss your finances with me. But you took a humongous pay cut. It's ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:21:28 The pay cut I took was ridiculous. Right. Yeah. Didn't matter? It didn't matter. The money didn't matter. It didn't factor. It was as wonderful as that was.
Starting point is 00:21:39 And, you know, the old take the yellow legal pad, do the pros, do the cons. You know, the cons are, you have to move, you have to leave your dogs, you have to do this, you have to do that, you're not going to... One line is who you are. Well, you were always that way, though. What way?
Starting point is 00:21:57 I've known you, what, 25 years? At least. Yeah. But you were always a woman of passion in the sense that there were certain things you wanted to accomplish, and you did. You did everything. I don't know about everything, but I'm happy.
Starting point is 00:22:12 isn't anything you haven't done, you built your way up in the legal area, conquered that, good job. Now you're in the federal area, and you drove the Fives ratings up to where they are. So you've done pretty much everything. I wrote a few books along the way. I had two kids along the way. Yep. And I think the one thing that I kind of, you know, that I miss is, you know, that that solitude that you have in your own home. Sure. But you still have your home.
Starting point is 00:22:53 You didn't sell it. Tell me, no, I didn't. No, you're going back. Not so far. Right. But I miss home. I'm in an apartment. Which sometimes it just feels like a suitcase.
Starting point is 00:23:04 You know, I'm like. Well, the way you work, you're not there very much. I'm not. I'm not. And I miss my dogs. The dogs. But you don't have to walk them. See, that's a good part. I never did. I let them out. I have property. Just let them out and they run around? Yeah, it's all. And the coyotes don't get them? No, no, coyotes don't dare.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Do you ever get the ire of the Trump haters? Yeah, I don't care. I don't even. I know you don't care. But are you subjected to that? Look, this is big difference from New York. Yeah, oh, it's different. Huge. Okay. Now in New York, they don't like, Hey, it's O'Reilly, hey.
Starting point is 00:23:44 Yeah. Okay, but that's right. And I yell back at them, by the way, when they come in, man, go right back at them. But here it's more in the back. Yeah. Boom, boom, okay? And there are people who are working for President Trump
Starting point is 00:23:58 who have come under that scrutiny that they're not invited anywhere, they're shunned by people, people, you experienced that. I don't care. I don't need to be invited anywhere, Bill. I understand that. But have I experienced it?
Starting point is 00:24:16 Yeah, I think I was here two weeks, and I was sitting outside. I have the marshals with me, and I'm sitting outside, and some guy comes out with a big placard and says, Piro's a fascist, and he caught my attention. I said, oh, that's me! And so the marshals are like, I said, I want to go talk to this guy. You're not going to talk to him. They saved you from yourself.
Starting point is 00:24:38 From myself. You know that, Bill. Because I wanted to fight with them. They're over here. When I walked in there, they patted me down. So they're taking good care of you. Yeah, they're great guys. Okay, but I know you're not invested in any of that as social stuff.
Starting point is 00:24:54 No, I'm not. I'm not. But there are people who have taken it right on the chin, particularly lawyers. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. And that's their livelihood. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Yeah, I already know my livelihood's pretty much down to this compared to what it was. Your livelihoods are a lot bigger than theirs. But I'm just wondering how blatant that Trump hatred is in the Washington so-called swap. Well, let me throw a statistic at you. 95% of the people in the district voted for Kamala Harris. Do I need to say anything else? These are people who sit on the juries. These are people who sit on the grand juries.
Starting point is 00:25:37 You know, these are people who do not love Donald Trump. There's no question about it. But what am I going to do? I have a job to do, and I'm going to do my job. And the only way to do that job is to work with the judges. It's to work with the mayor and the police and people who don't like me to try to find common ground. But here's something interesting. Your conviction rate is high despite the juries being left.
Starting point is 00:26:02 The conviction rate is high. There are a few cases that, you know, CNN and some of these other places will say, oh, my God, they're losing these cases. They're losing, you know, they didn't get an indictment in this case. You know, but the truth is that there's only 10% of the cases I'm not prosecuting. Now, follow me. Matthew Graves, the former U.S. attorney you never heard of, didn't prosecute 65% of those cases. Wow.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Yeah. So everybody knows that I am taking on all comers. You go after a victim in the district. You go after anybody and I'm coming for you. And if the jury says guilty, wonderful, they say not guilty, I'll take it. It's fine. Now they know there's going to be accountability. There's going to be arrests.
Starting point is 00:26:52 But it looks to me like you're making some inroads in persuading these jurors. Yeah, I think there is. I think they recognize that what we're trying to do is make it better. And you have to lie to yourself, Bill, to say things are worse under Donald Trump. Yeah, you can't. They have to admit it unconsciously. In D.C. Right, in D.C.
Starting point is 00:27:14 In this district. It's totally different. Now, the media. So you're a part of the pro-Trump media. I mean, let's be honest about it. But most of it's anti-Trump. Okay. Are you going to the Correspondent Center?
Starting point is 00:27:30 Yes, I am. So I'll be there, too. I'll see you there. But I'm being there as a reporter. Really? Not as a guest. Okay. Because if anybody does something untoward, I'm going to confront them.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Good. I don't want you prosecute me, by the way. Yeah. Okay. All right. I'll give you an interview. I'll give you an interview. I said, I don't want Piro on my case, so there's just a line.
Starting point is 00:27:55 But that's why I'm going. Interesting. Because I don't want the office of the presidency attacked at a stupid dinner. I appreciate that. Which could absolutely happen. Yeah. Okay, you know, Dan Rather and Donaldson put out this dopy letter and, you know, forcefully confront the president. Like, what does that mean?
Starting point is 00:28:19 These people are unhinged. I think so. There's no respect for the office. I mean, the way we treated President Obama. was we disagreed with him, but we didn't create chaos. They disagree with us and they create chaos, violence, and all kinds of problems. And you see that? I do see that.
Starting point is 00:28:41 I absolutely do see it. Okay. Does it affect your job in any way? No. No. And my job, though, Bill, is to turn that office around from a neglected office, the kind of... You already did it. No, but I mean,
Starting point is 00:29:01 Getting these prosecutors to go in there as a tip of the sphere, we're here representing the victims. We're not here representing any politics. We're here representing the victims and going after the criminals. You know, there's no, there's no, I don't want people like, oh, you know, they don't like us and this or the. I don't care. Get that out of your mind. Put your blinders on. This is who we are.
Starting point is 00:29:27 I support you in everything that you're doing. I think there was a little like hesitation at the beginning. Right. And, you know, I did a recent report in San Francisco on how that city is devolved into the unbelievable chaos because laws weren't enforced. Interesting. Okay?
Starting point is 00:29:47 So we did that on News Nation and it was a big hit. And what I learned from that was that there are prosecutors who don't care about the law. Damn right. You're right. They care about advancing their careers. With their followers and their ideologues. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:08 Yes. So the guy that gets beat up, you know, and his nose broken and teeth knocked out. Pays the price. They don't care about him. Right. And so you've been able to banish that, do you think? I think so. I think to a great extent, Bill, I've been able to do that.
Starting point is 00:30:25 I think that, you know, this whole idea that, you know, this whole idea that, anyone is there or anyone is impacted because of politics. I just stripped them of that completely. And when we go into court, we go in on the facts and the law. And sometimes we get pushed back from judges. And our job is push back the judges. I think before me, they didn't push back so much. Before me, it was like, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:30:52 The judge doesn't run this office. Judge doesn't tell us, and I was a judge. Judge doesn't tell us what to do. We decide what we do. we're going to do. We decide whether there's going to be a plea. We decide what we think the sentence should be, and that's how far we go with this case. Nobody's going to control us. I've been around long enough to know who holds real power in this country, and the IRS is at the top of that list. They don't need a judge to seize your home, freeze your bank account, garnish your wages. They can do
Starting point is 00:31:23 it. Even the president of the United States has faced multiple IRS audits, with the best legal minds in his corner. You deserve the same. The IRS is under staff right now. Their process is broken. And if you do not speak their language, you lose. Now, I've done my homework, America Tax Group as a direct line to the IRS. No waiting, no guessing.
Starting point is 00:31:51 You will know exactly where you stand. If you're listening to me right now, pick up the phone. 888, 300. 8.35. Don't wait for the IRS to make the first move. When they do, it's already too late. Americataxgroup.com. Again, Americataxgroup.com. Did you have a tough time picking your team? Because number one, you don't know the turf coming down from New York. Number two, the turf is left. Yeah. Did you have a tough time assembling these people? Yes. Yes. I had a tough time. I was short 90 prosecutors and 60 legal assistance.
Starting point is 00:32:34 90. 90. How many is total in your office? 400. 4 something, 430, something like that. That's a big crew. I keep telling you it's a big office. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:45 And 90 prosecutors, 60 legal assistance. I was short 150 people. All right. And then what happened was they started firing people. And then people started leaving because they thought they were going to get fired. And my message to them was, you be a good prosecutor. You get in there and fight to fight, and I don't care who you are. You do the job.
Starting point is 00:33:08 And so the ship is calm. We've turned it around. I'm still short prosecutors, because historically this office is one where people move in and out of very quickly. But at the same time, we've got some really good people in my front office. I brought one of my assistant DAs who worked for me years ago. He was one of my best investigators, Steve Vandervilden, a guy from Congress, brilliant guy, Carlton Davis. And my pals of my principal AUSA is someone who worked in the office for 13 years. I brought in a guy from NASA, NASA NSA, who's my executive AUSA.
Starting point is 00:33:48 I have a great team. And I am very hands-on, Bill. You can't get away with anything in the office. Don't bullshit me. Well, you tried that at Fox with me. it didn't work. This U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan got screwed. We were involved with that at all?
Starting point is 00:34:07 I think that there were some information that she needed from our office that we were able to provide her, but all of that information from the office was from, I think, 2017, 2019, but we were not asked to work on the case. You know, I think she probably, could have used more help?
Starting point is 00:34:31 Well, I mean, look, Comey, the former FBI director, guilty as sin. I'm sorry. I'm a due process guy. But the guy did it. I mean, misled Congress. He had his friend put stuff out to the New York Times. He denied he didn't do it. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:49 And Ms. Halligan was right in the middle of this. The press, of course, all on Comey's side. Right. And I'm going, what this? Yeah. And it didn't look like she had much help. I don't know that she did. We gave her the help that we could based upon what she needed,
Starting point is 00:35:08 but that help should have come from Maine Justice. Should have come from the Attorney General? Yes. Okay. How often do you talk to the president? I talk to him when I talk to him, which means I'm not going to answer your question. Why?
Starting point is 00:35:28 Because the press asks me that question all the time. I don't answer them. Well, but what's the downside? Frequently. No, I speak to him frequently. Okay? Frequently. Don't ask me to define it.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Well, he calls you whenever he wants to call you. Yeah, he is the president. Okay. How often does he call you? He calls me occasionally. Yeah. Mostly to yell at me. Okay?
Starting point is 00:35:50 You know how it is. Yep. But he's the president. I actually have to keep my phone on. all night. Yeah. And because I want to help. You know, I'm not, I'll tell him, you know me.
Starting point is 00:36:06 If he asked me, I'm going to tell him what I think. Yep. A lot of times I didn't want to hear that. You're kind of like me that way. Yeah. If I ask you, you're going to tell me what you think. You like that with him? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:21 No deference? You know, now that, you know, I work for him, there's like, you know, Mr. President, Mr. President? I say, Donald, no. No, you got to call Mr. President. Yeah, of course there's deference. He is the president, and I am one of his appointees. I have tremendous respect for him. And I am honored when he calls me. Does he ask you questions that go beyond your job, policy questions? I'm not going to talk about what I talk about with him. But I'm not asking you specifically.
Starting point is 00:36:52 I'm not, yeah, yeah, that's specific enough. That's specific enough. That's it. That's as far I'm going. You believe that he trusts? Well, that's a stupid question. Of course he does. We wouldn't bother calling you. So I'm not getting anything here? You're stonewalling me here? No. You're not getting anything. Now, if this was a factor, I'd have to, you know. Yeah, you'd have to beat me up. But I'd be an extra nice. Yeah, yeah. I'm very grateful for you being extra nice here. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold.
Starting point is 00:37:38 And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax advantage, gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401K, tax and penalty free. With billions and precious metals delivered thousands of five-star reviews and an A-plus from the Better Business Bureau, you can trust American Hartford Gold as I do. Please call 866 501-5201 or text Bill to 65532. Again, that's 866 50101 or text Bill to 65532. Quick question. How do you normally get your medication? Because there is a better way.
Starting point is 00:38:26 When you need something, it's always a hassle. You call a doctor. Next appointment in days away. You sit in a waiting room full of sick people. Then you stand in line at the pharmacy. Sometimes that don't even have what you need. That system is slow, frustrating, outdated. But there's one pharmacy doing it a smarter way.
Starting point is 00:38:47 All-family pharmacy. You go online, Online, choose what you need, fill out a quick medical form, and a licensed doctor reviews your request and provides a prescription, if it's appropriate. Then they ship it right to your door, stock up on essentials like antibiotics, Ivermedkin, and 300 other prescription medications. Please go to all family pharmacy.com slash bill. Use code Bill 10 in order to get 10% off your order. But, you know, one of the things that I think is important for me to say in light of everything that we've talked about is that the new attorney general, the acting attorney general, a Todd Blanche. I think he's doing a great job. Tough guy. A tough guy, experienced guy, very aggressive, knows the president. I think it's going to be a great run for him.
Starting point is 00:39:41 He's got a lot to sort out. He has a lot of people who believe in him. Yeah, but that whole attorney general situation now, because you know if the midterms go against President Trump, you know what the hell is going to happen here. Well, how's going to break loose? Ready for that? Am I ready? Sure. I'm one of the good news stories.
Starting point is 00:40:11 You just said it yourself. All right. So you're ready for nutty, loony, I hate Trumpers. you know, trying to denigrate him using the legal system. Absolutely. Yeah. It's nothing new to him. Have you anticipated it?
Starting point is 00:40:27 I mean, guys thought about it. Absolutely, you think about it. I mean, I've been around a long time, Bill. You know, I understand how they play. We all understand how they play, what they're going to do, what they will do to get power back. You saw how they got power the last time. I mean, everything from the Russia hoax and, you know, the liars, leakers, liberals. Right. It would be foolish for them to impeach him.
Starting point is 00:40:51 You think so? I do. The nation has had enough for that. Yeah. And independent voters, they're not going to go for that. But there are other ways to do it. How? They can trump, pardon a pun, anything they want.
Starting point is 00:41:10 And make it almost impossible for him to govern unless the system, the legal system, steps in and says, bull, this is garbage, and we're not going to entertain this. And you're still going to have the power to do that, even if the Democrats win. But I think that the Attorney General, yourself, going to be the bullwark there. You guys are going to be the first one in defense when the Trump haters, if they get control of Congress. Well, they're coming at us. There's no question.
Starting point is 00:41:46 Right. How would you describe to somebody who lived in Poland what the atmosphere politically is in Washington, D.C.? How would you describe that as somebody who has no idea? Well, first of all, you know, Washington, D.C. is filled with politicians. And I think that politicians themselves are just less than credible to begin with, most of them. Okay? What I've seen since I've been here, is that, you know, there's a lot of lobbyists and a lot of parties and a lot of this and that. I mean, there are very few of them who were so committed to getting the job done as opposed to just fighting with each other. All right, that is the game. It's to make them look bad.
Starting point is 00:42:31 And we're not even a part of it. Forget, not even pawns. We're not even part of the thing. And then when you go outside of Congress, then you've got just the haters. The people who believe that they know more than everyone else, who may be experienced in the law, and that, you know, we're all corrupt and that, you know, Trump and the prosecutors
Starting point is 00:42:54 and the court system, you know, we're just trying to put people in jail and that we're not protecting anybody. And, you know, if a cop gets assaulted, too bad, he probably deserved it. Or in one case, we had a police officer who was brought in, I think it was an FBI agent. He was brought in, and he was African-American,
Starting point is 00:43:14 and the juror said, in the deliberation room, because they come and tell us. Well, they only brought them in just to make sure that you realize that we had someone black working on the case. I mean, it's just, it's like there's so much animosity. You know, they're looking for so much collision and fighting in this district. It's like you're on a side or you're on the other side. They want conflict all the time.
Starting point is 00:43:40 Yeah. Because that gives them a reason not to move ahead. on what their original job is. Or it gives them a reason to, you know, to vent against someone. I don't know, maybe they're frustrated. They just need to fight with people. Well, with Trumpets, everything's personal. Everything.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.