Carol Leonnig

Where is Merrick Garland?

She literally said, where is the DOJ?

And a day later, Thomas Windham, we now know from records and interviews, reached out to that investigator from December 2020 and said, hey, I think we're going to investigate this.

Would you like to be on board?

I'm paraphrasing, obviously.

I mean, first off, watching it from the outside and bionic man, no prosecutor has brought a case that fast and certainly not one involving a former president.

And he brought two of them.

And, you know, the guy was, uh,

To say rigorous is really understating how fast the guy moved and how fast he was whipping everybody on his team to move too.

Not because he was trying to indict Donald Trump, but he would say to his team, we can't leave these questions unanswered for Donald Trump or for the public.

If they're bogus, we need to answer them.

If they're real and there's evidence, we need to bring them before court.

there is a decision about whether or not to return him to the White House.

So he had a very different way of approaching this than Merrick Garland, which was, yeah, there's a political calendar, but yeah, we got to answer the question.

So bionic is a word I would use to describe Jack.

The other huge surprise to me was that he tried to get Judge Cannon removed from the case and

and the Solicitor General turned him down, and he did not appeal that to Merrick Garland, he accepted that rejection.

The truth is that if the Solicitor General turned down a motion to remove Eileen Cannon from the case, it was probably likely that Attorney General Merrick Garland would also reject that.

She, a former clerk, incredibly trusted by Merrick Garland.

So,