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Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the Department of Justice has been equal parts reviled and remade by the White House. Much, if not most, of that damage has been done to the FBI and the department's civil rights initiatives that for the last half century have made sure schools are safe for kids, our workplaces were free from discrimination, that our votes mattered and we could vote, and that corporations follow the law.

But those things have been gutted and in some cases, shut down in all but name.

In this week's interview, Grant talks to Stacey Young. Young is a former DOJ lawyer of 18 years who left the department in January. Since then, she started the group The Justice Connection, which aims to help former DOJ employees fight back against an administration that's been weaponized against them.

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Donald Trump takes his first state visit in his second term. Just like his first, the trip is to the Middle East.

During the trip, the president is supposed to be making deals (a weird thing for a president to be doing in the first place), and as the White House has been announcing them, the numbers don't make sense.

The Administration keeps inflating deals and investments while asking the American people not to trust their own eyes.

Grant breaks it all down.

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The White House makes an agreement with China on trade and tariffs that is essentially having its bluff called on the cornerstone of Trump's economic agenda. In return, the US doesn't get all that much except higher prices and a promise to keep negotiating. Not exactly expert deal-making.

Then, Trump tries to ram through negotiating prescription drug prices with pharma companies from the Oval Office, despite the idea being shot down during his first term. Will anything be different this time?

Grant makes sense of both things in today's episode

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