Welcome, everybody to the Jim Acosta show. It is Friday. Thank goodness. It's Friday. And as you can see,

joining me is somebody I used to speak with all the time. And we're sort of getting reunited here on

Substack. Sarah Matthews, great to see you. Great to see you as well. Happy to be reunited.

Yeah, absolutely. And for the folks tuning in now who I apologize, I usually come on at

four o'clock. I'm doing it early today because I'm getting the hell out of Dodge. I will not be here

for the White House correspondence dinner. And I wanted to have Sarah on because Sarah worked in the

White House press office during the first Trump administration. She resigned on January 6th after what happened that day.

And Sarah has been courageous enough, brave enough to speak out about what's been going on inside

the Trump administration, not only the last time around, but this time around. And I guess,

Sarah, I wanted to talk to you about things that are happening in the press room and the

correspondence dinner and so on. But there is this very urgent breaking news that we should talk about.

The Washington Post, others reporting that the FBI director Cash Patel said today that the Bureau had arrested a Milwaukee judge and charged her with obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week, the first known

instance, the Washington Post says, of the Justice Department prosecuting a local official

for allegedly interfering with immigration enforcement since Trump returned to office.

Sarah, this is disturbing stuff. This is the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan. And Patel announced

this on social media, and apparently he deleted it moments after posting. What are your thoughts?

I guess this is what people were afraid of. Yeah, I think, obviously, we don't know all the details

yet, and so I'm curious to see exactly what evidence the FBI has that would warrant this arrest.

But it makes me think, though, given how they haven't really been giving due process to these individuals that they're disappearing to foreign gulags, that there might not be a ton of evidence to back up this arrest. And it goes into

this larger narrative that the administration has been pushing about how there are these radical

leftist judges who are interfering with the Trump agenda. But what the Trump administration is

failing to acknowledge is that's how our government operates. We have a system of checks and balances.

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