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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and I know I always say this but we've got a lot to cover today.

We're going to talk about impeachment developments. We're going to talk about relatively obscure New York law that might allow Paul Manafort.

Well, is going to allow Paul Manafort to get away with his crimes.

Some developments at the Department of Justice and we promised Sarah we we promised listeners seven solid hours on the cat lawyer.

The now viral super viral zoom of the lawyer who logged on to a court hearing a virtual court hearing with a cat face a cat filter and there's so many layers to that but I'm afraid we're going to reneg on our promise.

It's not going to be seven hours.

I'm still giggling though.

I know I finally watched it. I just sort of scanned past it and I finally sat down and watched it late Tuesday night and I just couldn't stop laughing.

No, it's the eyes darting and it's the eye. I'm not a cat said by a cat.

And so well, I don't want to we can't leave it all out there right now, but there's layers to that that if you practice law, especially if you practice law and some of these sort of routine kind of local court hearings that are just sort of perfect about it, but we got to leave that to the side.

And then I'm going to go and a rant that people try to football splain to us, but that that's going to be at the end to all right, let's let's start with impeachment.

Yesterday, the House managers put into evidence quite a bit more information into the Senate impeachment trial.

And it was there was some new stuff that we had not seen before.

I mean, the basic contours of the story are still the same basic contours of the story.

But there was new information. I think one of the things that kept sort of being brought home in that in the House managers presentation was that the how we and we knew this, but we saw much more video evidence of how close the rioters, the insurrectionist came to getting a hold of the actual, you know, of senators of the vice president of the speaker of the house.

And there's this, there was a particularly memorable video of a person we already knew was one of the heroes of the day in this really outmatched and Capitol Hill police force officer Eugene Goodman, who was already famous for leading protesters away from members of the House and Senate.

And there was earlier video that showed him turning Mitt Romney, Senator Romney away, just moments before he would have run into a mob and this mob would not have been kind to Mitt Romney.

And I thought that that really stood out. And you know, I think again, I'm going to go back Sarah before you know, I want love to hear your thoughts on this.

I'm going to go back to something I said in our dispatch pod yesterday. A lot of this was full or more fully flashing out how dire the situation was on January 6th.

And from a standpoint of bringing home to the Senate, exactly the situation, which they should know already, but it was also bringing home to the public exactly how serious the situation was.

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