Hi, this is David French with Sarah Izger and you are listening to the very first, very special

episode of our new advisory opinions podcast. We are both with dispatch media and what is this?

What is this podcast? This podcast is going to be a look at law and culture from two people who have

been neck deep and battles over law and culture for years now. Sarah, my co-host is a Harvard

Law grad, extremely experienced in the political wars, just removed from working in the Department

of Justice as the spokesperson for the Department of Justice. One of the sharpest political commentators

out there and I'm also learning a possessor terrible pop culture opinions. Uh-huh. Yes,

Sarah, you are, I heard the remit podcast when you were you and Jonah were dragging me.

So we're going to talk about, as I said, law and culture, a ton, politics will sneak in there as

well, but we're going to come at you at least weekly. But I said this is a very special episode,

it's a very special episode because this is the day that the officer, the inspector general of the

DOJ dropped his report on the election investigation of Donald Trump, the initiation of the investigation,

the Trump campaign allegations of FISA abuse and the FISA warrants obtained against Carter Page.

And it's such a treat to have Sarah here on day one with episode one talking about this topic

because although Sarah, you are not involved in this as part of the campaign, you working your

Jeff sessions in Rod Rosenstein during the bulk of the entire Mueller investigation and before the

Mueller investigation. Yeah, I joined actually my first full day on the job was the day that

attorney general sessions recused himself from the Russian investigation. So that was my first full day.

And then I stayed in my role as spokesperson until his, he left as attorney general,

we'll gloss over that day too. That was two days before my birthday. So that was

and then I left the department just shortly before the Mueller investigation was

report was put out publicly. Right, right. And you are, so you were working with Rod Rosenstein

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