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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and we're going to talk about some of the wild events of this week and both from a political aspect.

Aspect from a military aspect and illegal aspect. So we're going and also we're going to for our cultural conversation at long last at long last because Sarah is so slow and watching.

Oh my god blaming me.

Yes, blaming you so slow and watching the most important documentary of sports documentary of my adult lifetime.

The last dance we're going to talk about that.

But what we're going to clear I wasn't slow and watching it I was just finishing up something else I was watching I watched it in like three or four days.

Well, you didn't watch it when it happened.

Yeah, because I don't believe anymore and having to wait a week for more content. I do full binge. I'm a full banger now.

All right, well, let's let's not leave it here on the in the intro. We'll get into this later.

But we're going to we're going to begin by talking about General Mattis.

We're going to put in his statement in the Atlantic into context for all of the really fascinating and disturbing developments on the military front that have occurred this week.

So we're going to put that into context we're then going to go in and break down in detail.

The changes in the charges brought against the officer whose knee was on on George Floyd's neck and his charges were upgraded from third degree murder to second degree murder.

But with the twist. And so we're going to talk about what are the chances of conviction? What are the defenses that the officer may have?

And we're going to we're going to just sort of have some real talk about this about how it may not be as easy to secure conviction as a lot of people are expecting.

And what the consequences of that could be, then we're going to dive into Michael Jordan and the last dance. And before we before we get to all that, I want to remind you that advisory opinions is a podcast from dispatch media that is patch calm.

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So Sarah, just a super fast recap last night.

The news exploded that General Mattis had finally broken his silence regarding the president. Now we already knew as a general matter and there had been a lot of rumors circulating around Washington that general Mattis has stuff to say about the Trump administration and the president and was biting his time.

And so he writes and it appears in the Atlantic a statement just a very, very strong statement denouncing this president.

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