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Hi from CNN. This is Madeline Thompson with five things you need to know for Monday, November 25th.

A significant chapter of President-elect Donald Trump's legal woes has closed,

now that special counsel Jack Smith announced he's dropping all federal charges against him.

The cases were related to alleged election subversion and the alleged mishandling of classified documents.

But Smith left the door open just a crack for charges to be brought against Trump in the future.

CNN's Paula Reid explains how Trump might quash even that effort.

I'm pretty sure that Trump's attorneys are going to advise him to a pardon himself.

There is a belief that that pardon power is absolute

and that a president could preemptively pardon themselves.

So yes, there's always a possibility.

Of course, there's no pardon he can give himself

that will protect him from any state cases

that are still lingering once he's out of office.

Just hours after Smith's announcement,

the federal judge overseeing Trump's January

6th criminal prosecution in Washington, D.C., formally dismissed that case on Smith's recommendation.

Meanwhile, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York will resign on December 13th.

Damien Williams has overseen charges against Senator Bob Menendez, New York City

Mayor Eric Adams, music mogul Sean Diddy Combs, and the fraud conviction of cryptocurrency entrepreneur

Sam Bankman-Freed. The announcement came soon after President-elect Donald Trump said he would

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