Welcome back to the Dirt Show. A lot has happened since the last time we spoke on Wednesday.

I want to make a personal comment just yesterday. A very close lawyer friend of mine died

after a long bout of Alzheimer's. His name was Gerald Schargel, a wonderful obituary

in today's New York Times. The interesting thing about Jerry Schargel, we did his first

case together, right at Alaska. We did together. In fact, the walk clerk on that case was none

other than Justice Alita, and he once told me that one of the reasons he became a criminal

lawyer, he was a prosecutor, was because he saw me in action and Jerry, Jerry Schargel

in action, snapping victory out of the droids of defeat. We helped our clients not spend

the day in jail even though they had been convicted and sentenced to many, many years. Jerry

Schargel is one of the last of the criminal law breed who will represent anybody. I mean,

in the obituary, I talked about how proud he was to represent John Gotti and members of

the mafia and corrupt politicians. I don't myself brag about representing a bad guy, but

I do it. In fact, Jerry's death led me to think that I would put up a contribution every

year to have an award, maybe in Jerry's name. I would call it the John Adams Award for

the lawyer who took on the most despised and hated client. I probably win it for my

Trump defense one year, but that was only several years ago. Every year there'd be a different

winner. Because we're losing the tradition of John Adams and Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln

and Thurgood Marshall and so many other people who over the years have put their reputations

and their fortunes at stake by representing the most despised people in the world as HL

Lincoln once said, you have to defend the SOBs because the SOBs are the ones that come

after first. They make bad laws on them and then they come after the rest of us. So we don't

represent bad guys because we like bad guys. I hate bad guys. I hate criminals. I hate

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