Plot hole: Will is telling Mac that the DOJ is being out-lawyered by a group of financial institutions, including Lehman and Countrywide, both of whom went out of business in 2008, well before the date of this episode on New Year's Eve 2011.
The Newsroom (2012)
1 mistake in I'll Try to Fix You - chronological order
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr.
Genres: Drama
First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers - S2-E1
Rebecca Halliday: Fourteen months ago, you went on the air and called the Tea Party "the American Taliban."
Will McAvoy: I did.
Rebecca Halliday: And?
Will McAvoy: The Taliban resented it.
Trivia: When Neil is being interviewed by Rebecca Halliday he mentions a fictional country named Equatorial Kundu. This is the same fictional country mentioned in several different episodes of The West Wing, also by Aaron Sorkin.