Andrew Weissman

But it obviously is is made up theory.

I mean, just remember, we've had presidents of the United States have to take the oath of office twice because, you know, not all of the exact words were said.

I mean, one thing that has been publicly reported by Carol Lennig is it is the only speculation I have is it is worth remembering that when Jack Smith started the

When he was, you know, technically first the special counsel, he was overseas because he was working on the International Criminal Court.

And it may be that in connection with taking the oath sort of remotely that there was some snafu or they thought that he needed to repeat it, you know, what he eventually got here in the United States.

But that's just speculation on my part.

You know, that's not going to change the facts here.

I mean, to me, there was so much nibbling around the edges here where it's like, let's talk about the phone records.

Let's talk about when you took the oath of office.

Let's talk about how much money you spent.

All of that has nothing to do with false claims about fraud in the election.

It has nothing to do about the serious crimes and attack on the Capitol.

It has nothing to do with the president pardoning people who attacked the Capitol.

I mean, all of those really went completely unrebutted.

And you spend so much time with the Republican side on really trying to distract from core key factual information.

We have seen in the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration and given your history as a state prosecutor, federal prosecutor, working under Republican and Democratic administrations and your work at the ICC,

What's your diagnosis of what is happening to the department?

Similar to the question I had about what happens when the next president comes in and this sort of tit-for-tat concern, are we also at the Department of Justice leading to a spiral where let's assume we have a democratic administration at some point and what do they do then? Do they try and clean house and does it become a tit-for-tat where we essentially no longer have a civil service

yhdysvallan hallituksella, joka pitäisi järjestää asiaa, että me vain hyödymme demokraattisia, me vain hyödymme republikaaneja. Miten näet, missä olemme ja mitä tapahtuu?

So they brought somebody in who had never been a criminal prosecutor on day's notice to secure an indictment a day before the statute of limitations ended. That just reeks of lack of process. I'll add to that that Trump's elected US attorney resigned over this. So not just the career people, but also