The following is a distilled and edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley and Dan Abrams, ABC News’s chief legal analyst and host of “On Patrol: Live.” Catch the full interview on a new weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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1. You have built a career at the intersection of law, media, and entertainment. What led you to create “On Patrol: Live” and why do you think it has resonated so strongly with audiences?
Dan Abrams: I’m a lawyer by training and I used that to quickly pivot into media, where I ended up covering some of the highest-profile criminal cases from the last three decades. That background is, I think, why the producers came to me to host what is now “On Patrol: Live,” a live police show where we follow police departments in real time. This is a show that is different from any other police show out there because, unlike…