Andrew Weissman

Nice to be here.

You know, I was thinking about it from an international perspective, given that the prime minister of Canada, you know, just the other day said, we can't fool ourselves anymore.

We can't pretend that this is normal.

There has been a rupture in the international order and that international law has been violated and the United States is the aggressor and we have to deal with that reality.

And now we have Jack Smith testifying publicly for the first time about sort of on and on about domestic law being violated, you know, in all sorts of ways.

And it's hard not to put the two together and see

this real rupture in the rule of law, both here and how we act abroad.

And we're seeing it play out whether we're talking about Venezuela or Greenland or domestically, where we think that the military might be called out to invade a blue state of the United States of America.

And so, yes, there's a part of nostalgia when you see what is happening.

But I also feel like Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, really was correct in saying we have to deal with this new reality, both here domestically and abroad.

Well, Rachel, you know, that concern is one that is well taken, given what has happened with respect to Jerome Powell, what happened with James Comey, the idea that they're going to try and come up with any discrepancy where you don't say exactly the right thing and say, oh, it's an intentional lie.

And so I can understand that concern.

I don't think they did lay a glove on him.

It doesn't mean that there won't be repercussions for the same reason that we have seen the same happen with respect to the Fed chair and the former FBI.

I think one thing to note that is important in terms of sort of behind the scenes here is that sitting behind Jack Smith were two senior lawyers from Covington and Burling.

They're to be commended because there are not a lot of law firms now that are willing to do that.

um and willing to take the heat and to stand up for the rule of law that is remarkable and it needs to be sort of called out and called out when people do stand up but sort of that that crumbling of the rule of law is not something that is um that is happening really behind the scenes here um and it's very hard as many people know to find counsel

who are willing to stand up as jack smith said in his opening as you quoted rachel the rule of law is not self-executing and it is law firms like covington that deserve credit for you know making sure that jack smith is extremely well prepared so that there aren't any slip-ups that people could take advantage of here here yeah andrew it's chris um i

I didn't.

I do not.