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Amy Robach
This is an iHeart podcast. The girlfriends is back with a new season and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law. He goes oh God. Harnett Jailhouse Lawyer and became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have your faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. I think I was to save souls by getting people out of prison. The Girlfriends Jailhouse Lawyer listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay and this is bookmarked by by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcast where we dive into the stories that shape us on the page and off. Each week I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry and add way too many books to your TBR pile. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Join iHeartRadio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one year anniversary of iHeart Women's Sports. With powerful interviews and insider analysis, our shows have connected fans with the heart of women's Sports. In just one year, the network has launched 15 shows and built a community united by passion podcasts that amplify the voices of women in sports. Thank you for supporting iHeart women's sports and our founding sponsors E L F Beauty, Capital One and Novartis. Just open the free iHeart app and search iHeart Women's Sports to listen now. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
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TJ Holmes
There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond and.
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Amy Robach
Left a woman behind to drown.
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TJ Holmes
Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
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Amy Robach
Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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TJ Holmes
I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of Podcast, you, the listener, ask the questions.
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Amy Robach
Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree? Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
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TJ Holmes
And I find the answers. I'm so glad you asked me this question.
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Amy Robach
This is such a ridiculous story.
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TJ Holmes
You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, July 17, and the lead prosecutor who brought the case against Sean Diddy Combs has been fired. But get this, nobody thinks it has anything to do with the fact that she essentially lost that case. Welcome, everybody, to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. We have been, we followed that case so closely, the Diddy trial. We, we wake up, see the headlines. Maureen Comey has been fired. So we automatically, obviously, she's been top of mind for three months now with this case, but it has nothing to do with Diddy.
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Amy Robach
They're arguing, right? Well, it's funny because obviously that's where we've heard her name most recently, most often. And yes, Diddy was acquitted of the most serious charges. So my mind, fresh on top of my mind was that she must have been fired because of that. But when you look at the headlines, every single news outlet, they don't even mention Diddy in the headlines. They mention her father, who I actually am going to admit I did not know. But now it makes a lot of sense that the former FBI director James Comey is her father. Yes, that same former FBI director who Trump cannot stand and who cannot stand.
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TJ Holmes
What makes you think that?
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Amy Robach
Well, maybe just, you know, a few writings in the sand might have just illustrated. Perhaps we can get into that, their beef that has continued and now he's actually being investigated. So we digress. But yes, the Epstein, the Epstein case, she was a lead prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case and the Ghislaine Maxwell.
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TJ Holmes
Case, and she won that Ghislaine Maxwell case. We don't know what would have happened with Epstein. Of course, he died in prison by suicide. But the Diddy trial, did he, though?
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Amy Robach
Did he? I'm kidding.
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TJ Holmes
Stop. Don't you start that stuff now.
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Amy Robach
Sorry, I was just stirring the pot. Stirring the pot.
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TJ Holmes
They said he died by suicide. Okay. But the Diddy trot, this was a stinging defeat for that office. An office that doesn't lose a lot. This was a very high profile loss for them. Loss meaning he got off on the most serious charges. But you look at that and they, I mean, they had egg on their face. They looked bad. So when you think like, wow, it almost Made sense. Take away the Ghislaine Maxwell. Excuse me, take away the Epstein and the Comey stuff, but her dad. Is that it's not supposed to be a fireable offense to lose a case.
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Amy Robach
Well, yes. I mean, if you're a prosecutor and you have to fear losing your job each and every time you lose a case, that would be an untenable position to hold because you'd be in constant worry and under constant threat that you were going to be fired. So that can't be the case. Also of note, which was confusing when we first heard this this morning, that she had been fired, there's still a lot of work to be done in the prosecutor's office. This case is not over. Sentencing still has to take place. And then, of course, course there is going to be an appeal. So why not have your prosecutor, you're one of your lead prosecutors who knows the case backwards and forwards, continue to see it through, at least through sentencing, but also with the appeals that are absolutely sure to come.
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TJ Holmes
Okay. We know as recently as a couple. I mean, who knows how many days it's been, but as of a couple of weeks, she was talking to the judge and submitting paperwork having to do with Diddy. She was very much active and seeing this thing through. She's out of there now. What that does to that case, I don't know what impact that could have. But for us to have watched her and to have kept up with her and kept up with that trial, our Miles kind of dropped that. The person who has been leading this charge, and still a lot of fighting, fighting and back and forth between Diddy's lawyers and the prosecutors, still to be done. And the person leading the charge is out of there. But all of that said, sweetheart, I don't see anywhere where anybody is suggesting that her firing has anything to do with Sean Diddy Combs.
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Amy Robach
No, in fact, I haven't seen one or heard one mention of it. They've just thrown out there. Oh, yes, and by the way, it was almost. Oh, we forgot to mention, she was also the lead prosecutor in the recent Diddy trial. It was not at the top of anyone's minds in terms of why she possibly could have been fired. And it hasn't been stated directly. No one has said why she's been fired, although it has been interesting reading so many of these articles about why she was fired. And they did talk about a memo that was accompanying her firing, and it was referring to a power of the president. So it did certainly imply. So there was a memo According to sources, that she was being dismissed pursuant to Article 2 of the US Constitution. Article 2 of the US Constitution is the portion of the Constitution that lays out the president's powers. So one could infer, people have been inferring that perhaps this goes all the way up to President Trump.
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TJ Holmes
And look, the president has been on a firing spree at the Justice Department since he came back into office because so many folks there was named Jack Smith had investigations, a couple of investigations into President Trump before he became president again. And I mean, dozens of folks at the Justice Department have been let go, including prosecutors, people who worked on those investigations. So it's not odd to see that the president has fired somebody from the Justice Department. However, who this woman is Maureen Comey. Yes. You maybe only got to know her because of the Diddy trial, but, folks, we assure you, this woman is a stud in that office. She is a top prosecutor. You don't get plucked and selected to try Diddy, to try Epstein and to try Ghislaine Maxwell if you don't know what you're doing. She got those roles. She got those. She knows what she's doing. And they have a stellar record, they say, winning record at the Southern District where she works.
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Amy Robach
Yeah. For 10 years she's been working there. Harvard Law graduate, obviously knows what she's doing. Comes from a family who is very well entrenched in politics and big stories and certainly big cases. This is nothing that she would have ever shied away from and was seemingly not just fit for the job, but very qualified for the job.
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TJ Holmes
This is a capable lady.
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Amy Robach
Yes.
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TJ Holmes
This is a very capable woman. And reminder, at the trial, at least the highlights. Forbes, you just reminded me a moment ago, before we started recording, she handled a lot of the questioning of Jane.
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Amy Robach
Yes.
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TJ Holmes
Didn't Jane spend the most time on the stand than any?
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Amy Robach
She was up there longer than Cassie Ventura. Fine. Was. She was up there longer than Mia was. So, yes, Jane, I believe, was the witness who testified the longest in the Diddy trial.
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TJ Holmes
So she handled some of that questioning. And Rose is not. I mean, I don't want to say they put all. They weigh too much with this, but the last voice that the jury heard before they went for deliberate deliberations, Maureen Comey, because she handled the closing rebuttal. She was the last person to make an argument to the jury.
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Amy Robach
And she actually took on a little bit of the snark that we saw from the defense team because, yes. Mark Agnifilo. Yes. Nailed his name. Finally, after weeks and weeks of Saying it.
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TJ Holmes
And who's the guy that plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder?
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Amy Robach
Shay. Shay. Something with gorgeous Shay. Sorry, I can't.
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TJ Holmes
Sorry for the aside there, folks, but if you've kept up with us, Robes has been working all season on Shea Gilgeous Alexander.
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Amy Robach
Gilgeous Alexander.
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TJ Holmes
It just won't rolled off the tongue yet.
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Amy Robach
No, I got Shay. Right.
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TJ Holmes
Okay.
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Amy Robach
Because I was calling him shy first. So Shay. Gilgis Alexander. But yes, we digress. Mark Agniflo. So anyway, Mark Agnifillo in his closing arguments, if you remember, was very theatrical, very animated, very sarcastic, cracking jokes and poking fun at the prosecution's case against Diddy. And it was resonated with jurors and I'm sure the prosecutor, prosecutor's office, who had a fairly dry closing argument. She came up. Maureen Comey comes up then for the rebuttal, and she starts getting animated and she starts kind of mirroring a little bit of what we saw from Mark Agnethillo. So she knew what to do and she brought it home. They always say you save your best for last. Right. So she. Yes, she was the final voice of the prosecution for the Diddy trial.
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TJ Holmes
And here we are. I know. I don't think anyone was calling for her to be fired. There wasn't some huge somebody going off out there, some huge public outcry about she should lose her job because she didn't get the convictions for dating. Nobody was saying that. However, people have Rose been calling for her to be fired for a different reason, and that is because she handled the Jeffrey Epstein case. She just happens to be tied up now in what Trump's tied up in, which is a MAGO revolt that I'm sure you all have been seeing. The President has gone off on some of his supporters, even calling them past supporters who are falling for this MAGA hoax. Excuse me, this. This Epstein hoax from the Democrats. So she now Robes. I think a lot of people are speculating that she was just so closely tied to that. And because she was and because the President is dealing with. He's dealing with. With his supporters that he's trying to, I don't know, not necessarily scapegoat her, but kind of wiping the slate clean to a certain degree of just getting people out. So they're saying her connection to Epstein is one of the main reasons she's out of there.
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Amy Robach
So earlier this week, Politico actually referenced her in their article about all of this, about the MAGA uproar, folks. Just not believing that there isn't an Epstein Client list. They believe there's a cover, believe that he was murdered in prison. They believe he did not die by suicide. But Maureen Comey had argued and has argued against the disclosure of these investigative records that are in the court but are sealed documents. Of course the MAGA folks want all of that unsealed. But it makes sense why Maureen Comey would want these records sealed because they believe there's a lot of information in there. And of course there is a lot of information in there that should be private. We're talking about sexual assault victims. We're talking about minor. These are sensitive cases, victims of sexual violence. So that is standard operating procedure. It's not about some cover up to make sure the public never finds out what's inside these cases. They're actually trying to protect victims. And so they also said. Also of note and why she. Another reason why she might not want any of these records being released is because Ghislaine Maxwell is likely and is going. It actually isn't likely, has already appealed her conviction. So this stuff is going to come back up during the appeals process that she doesn't want made public.
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TJ Holmes
Everything you said makes sense from a prosecutor standpoint. That's going to impact my case if I release all these documents, you unseal them. That actually makes sense. Nobody's going to buy that. No, no. Okay. I say conspiracy theorists. They call themselves truth seekers. Fine. And nobody is ever going to believe. I really do think you could open the Epstein room with all the files and let the whole public go in and nobody is still going to believe anything other than what they believe, which is that he was murdered. And there is a long list of influential people out there that just exist.
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Amy Robach
Look, and the truth is, I think most people know or a lot of people have heard about my hot mic moment. And I had been frustrated at my former network for not being able to put out these stories about Jeffrey Epstein before this all came to light with one of the victims, Virginia. And you know, every one of these victims have very different experiences and they told their truth to police, they told their truth to the courts. And a lot of these documents were sealed. So there has been a lot. There has been a major problem with transparency in the years leading up to Epstein even being arrested and then put behind bars. But there, there's a fair amount of skepticism and I would say that it's a fair thing for a lot of folks be to skeptical about what information has gotten out because there were a lot of powerful people implicated or names were brought up and so then to just say, oh, nope, there's no list. There's no indication of any powerful person being on Epstein's computer or on the payroll or being a part of any. On his planes. Like, there's just. It's hard to imagine that there isn't some sort of. Maybe there isn't a formal list, but it's hard to imagine there isn't some sort of information that does have names on it.
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TJ Holmes
Again, I. I don't know. I mean, at this point, nobody knows. Trust. And who do you believe? Who has seen it? Who knows? Does it. Is it really just. I mean, the president called it a hoax that. By Comey, her dad, rather James Comey, and President Obama. A hoax to. And Biden too, to create some just mindset put out there that it's some list and people. You dangle it in front of them like rabbit in front of greyhounds going around and they're just going to chase and they're not going to stop. And it's working, actually, if that's the case. But you talk about skepticism. At what point does skepticism become. Go from healthy skepticism to unhealthy?
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Amy Robach
That's. That's a fair point.
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TJ Holmes
At what point do you have to believe something or stop something or. I don't know that answer.
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Amy Robach
Nothing pisses people off more, though. I think in this country and probably around the world to think that powerful people with a lot of money can protect themselves no matter what. And you're never gonna find out because they have enough money and, and have enough power to protect not just themselves, but their other rich, powerful friends. And it's an us versus them situation. And this is how conspiracy theories begin. And they might begin with truth, but then they do sometimes balloon and become something larger than they ever were meant to be. It's just. It's tough to find out where the truth is. You know, I have skepticism about all of this. I don't know where you stand, but certainly I do. With the, the interviews that I had done and the research I had done for several years, I have skepticism. I don't know that they're. So. They might be truthful when they say there isn't a client list. But it's hard for me to imagine that there aren't documents, there isn't something. There wasn't something they found. They raided his homes that didn't have some sort of connection to people who don't want their names getting out.
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TJ Holmes
So the idea there is that somebody is being protected and in some way some powerful person is being protected. And in some way, Maureen Comey might have had a hand in some of that. Even if she isn't conspiring with people to do it, she's at least saying, we don't want these documents to get out. And she has her reasons for it. And so maybe she got caught up in all that. Now that was one reason they're talking about. The other reason, her daddy.
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond and.
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Amy Robach
Left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News. It's Teddy Escapes Blonde Drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you the story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president?
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TJ Holmes
Kappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.
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Amy Robach
And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.
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TJ Holmes
The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse? Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
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Amy Robach
Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
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TJ Holmes
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
Some bones in it. They had no idea who it was.
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
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Amy Robach
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TJ Holmes
Yeah. And we have to say that as of this recording at least, there has been no official word from anybody explaining why. But it sucks when your last name is Comey.
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Amy Robach
Yeah.
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TJ Holmes
And you work in the Justice Department, which is under the Trump administration of a president who absolutely hates your dad.
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Amy Robach
Correct.
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TJ Holmes
What is she supposed to do? James Comey has been one of the top five public nemesis for for sure Trump.
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Amy Robach
And it only got worse back in May when her father, James Comey, decided to post something on social media. On vacation, he was at the beach. He should just be enjoying his time off.
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TJ Holmes
That tells you a lot about this relationship. He's on the beach on vacation, still.
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Amy Robach
Thinking about Trump, and he's arranging seashells. And he didn't find them that way, as he tried to say, he just happened upon seashells.
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TJ Holmes
Did he say that he found him that way?
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Amy Robach
He said he just, he was just saying, I walk. Look what I found on the beach. I mean, he was probably saying it with his tongue in his tongue in his cheek. But still, I mean, we all know he put those shells in the formation of 8, 6, 4, 7, 86, 47, you can figure out it's not too hard. The 86 something is to kill something. And 47, the number of Donald Trump. He's the 47th president of the United States. He's saying, well, oh, I didn't mean that. I wasn't trying to incite violence. And look, they went, I believe that. I do believe that he probably was saying get rid of 47, which also seems a little childish for the former FBI director to be saying get rid of Donald Trump with seashells. That, you know, so you can say it a silly, stupid mistake. But he actually is being investigated for a call to violence against, like an assassination attempt against President Trump. That's how seriously the Justice Department and the FBI said They were taking it. So, yes. He is currently under investigation by the Trump administration for inciting violence against the President of the United States.
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TJ Holmes
Hmm.
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Amy Robach
Now his daughter just got fired.
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TJ Holmes
Was that. You said it was May.
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Amy Robach
That was May.
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TJ Holmes
So that was a couple of months ago. This goes back to frickin 2017. Trump, first term came into office. Comey was the FBI director who had been appointed by President Obama. Before that he was in the Justice Department serving under George W. Bush. So the guy has been around and has some experience. Trump asked him for his loyalty. The way Comey tells this story, they were at some event and Trump, he was Trump and his people asked him, they wanted him to be loyal. He was so disturbed by that interaction that he went and made like a record of it. And then over the years he has been slowly putting out stuff and exposing some of the things from behind the scenes. He's been highly critical of the President and the president eventually fired him. But that history goes back and forth. We're talking almost. That's eight plus years that these two have been going at it publicly in some way. Comey wrote a book in which he called the president ego driven at some point. So these two just don't like each other. And now the Justice Department, the FBI question him about the Shales thing, but there's another investigation they've confirmed is going on having to possibly do with Russia.
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Amy Robach
So this is. That goes back to 2016. What are we.
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TJ Holmes
These two don't like each other is what I'm saying. So if Maureen Comey is working for a guy who hates her dad, and now the Epstein thing comes up and Trump is taking all kinds of heat for that. I got this woman here in the Justice Department who was tied to Epstein. I already don't like her daddy. And here we are.
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Amy Robach
Yeah, it's a win win for him. He solved two problems by firing Maureen Comey and, and that's just the truth of it. And we all know he's not funny.
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TJ Holmes
I'm sorry, I laugh at the way you put that.
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Amy Robach
Correct. This is not, obviously this is awful.
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TJ Holmes
A woman lost her job. I'm pretty sure she was passionate about the work she did and she worked really, really hard at it. And so to have it in this way based on what? Not your performance, not something you did, not your record, not. You didn't even make a misstep and say something stupid. This woman ain't out there on TV every day.
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Amy Robach
She's not saying she kept her head down for the whole thing. She was not seeking Publicity. You have to say that about her. You think about the Diddy trial and all the publicity seekers there were who had different roles in there, even if they were like just satellite roles. She. You never heard her ever do anything, so. And look, the two of us know more than anyone what it's like to lose a job from a PR perspective. And that's exactly what's happening here. And it's certainly. Oh, it made me very sad to see that someone who was qualified and a hard worker and had a stellar record losing her job because of politics and PR and perception and maybe even.
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TJ Holmes
Just because of one man and nothing she actually did. It's. That's. I don't know this woman at all.
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Amy Robach
No.
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TJ Holmes
Don't know anything about her background, history, nothing else. All I know is that she did her job and today she's out of that job. Look, she's going to be fine. I'm sure she's going to. Who knows what this is going to mean for her down the road? It's just. It sucks that this is where we are and this is what we do. And a woman who, I don't know, robes prosecutors. I mean, we have to, what, support them, applaud them? What are we. I mean, I still, as much as we talk about the justice system, there are plenty of people out there in prosecutors offices doing good work.
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Amy Robach
Yes.
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TJ Holmes
And we need them to actually get bad people off the street.
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Amy Robach
Yes. It's just a shame to think that this actually sends a message to prosecutors everywhere. We've talked a lot about Trump's influence on the media and what maybe now mainstream media networks are afraid to cover or are tailoring what they cover out of fear of lawsuits or retribution or access or denied access. Same thing with the prosecutor's office. That's also deeply concerning. If you're afraid you're going to lose your job if you do something the executive branch doesn't like. That's a scary, scary thing. And this is actually a little frightening when you take it in a macro view. It's a little concerning about what this means about the different arms of government and its influence on media and on the justice system.
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TJ Holmes
Look, and all that. We still have to wonder what it means for the Diddy case.
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Amy Robach
Yes.
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TJ Holmes
Look, there is a battle going on in argument over how much time this man should spend in prison. Does it make an impact and not have her a part of that?
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Amy Robach
It has to have an impact. It has to have an impact. She had to know that case backwards and forwards as one of the lead prosecutors, one of the lead solicitors in this. So you know, we shall see. It'll I'll be curious to see if the defense, if anyone, else, has a comment about this firing and what it may mean for the Diddy trial going forward. But we will of course continue to cover all the ins and outs leading up to sentencing and beyond. So thank you for listening to us as always. I'm Amy Robach on behalf of my partner, TJ Holmes. Have a great day everybody. The Girlfriends is back with a new season and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly Harnett. Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit. As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law. He goes, oh God. Harnett Jailhouse Lawyer and became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her. You're supposed to have your faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her. I think I was put here to save souls by getting people out of prison. The Girlfriends Jailhouse Lawyer listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it give me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robaix and this is Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and iheart Podcast where we dive into the stories that shape us on the page and off. Each week I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry and add way too many books to your TBR pile. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book club on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts are wherever you get your podcasts. Join iHeartRadio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one year anniversary of iHeart Women's Sports with powerful interviews and insider analysis. Our shows have connected fans with the heart of women's Sports. In just one year, the network has launched 15 shows and built a community united by passion podcasts that amplify the voices of women in sports. Thank you for supporting iHeart women's sports and our founding sponsors E L F Beauty, Capital One and Novartis. Just open the free iHeart app and search iHeart Women's Sports to listen now. So what happened to Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to.
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TJ Holmes
There are many versions of what happened in 1969, when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond and.
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Amy Robach
Left a woman behind to drown.
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TJ Holmes
Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week, we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family.
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Amy Robach
Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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TJ Holmes
I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast. You, the listener, ask the questions.
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Amy Robach
Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree? Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
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TJ Holmes
And I find the answers. I am so glad you asked me this question.
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Amy Robach
This is such a ridiculous story.
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TJ Holmes
You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Amy Robach
This is an iHeart podcast.