Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, September 23rd.

I am Andrew Weissman and I am here with my wonderful co-host, Mary McCord.

Hello, good morning. I think we are officially in fall now that you've said the date.

Fall, that is almost a perfect description of what we're going to talk about today.

Although, just before we got on, I told Mary, and now I'm going to tell all of you, that I have a sliver of hope.

That is going to be the teaser, because I do have...

Okay, so people have to stick around.

Yeah, because I do have a slight wisp of a positive take.

With that, in addition to the obvious, which is we're going to talk

about Jimmy Kimmel and what happened there, but we're going to put it into a legal frame.

What are our sort of, what I'd like to call our three beats?

So to my mind, we hit a new low this weekend with the president directly ordering his attorney general to take action

against political enemies. And it appears that he did so in a truth social post that maybe was

supposed to be a direct message to attorney general Bondi, but instead was... You mean Pam?

Yeah, Pam. Dear Pam. Yeah.

Now, I don't know her by, you know, that relationship, but obviously the president does.

We'll talk about that directive that came along with the pretty much forced resignation, which the president is now calling a firing of the nominated and experienced U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, who got on

the wrong side of Donald Trump because he apparently thought there was insufficient evidence

to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James or the former director of the FBI, James Comey.

So we'll talk about that, along with other real targeting of political enemies,

a pretty extraordinary move last night that really has no legal significance, but feels like a

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