Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Preet Barara, and I'm the United States Attorney for the Southern District

of New York.

That was me a few months ago at a press conference when I still had the best job I'll ever have.

I oversaw prosecutions against every type of criminal you can imagine.

Mobsters, murderers, and corrupt politicians.

For decades, Bernie Madoff was able to launder billions of dollars in Ponzi Proceedings

of criminal charges against General Motors Company related to the company.

A accused arm dealer Victor Boot begins to face American justice.

On March 11th of this year, though, I lost that job.

Actually, that's a euphemism.

I was fired.

A President Donald Trump himself.

Since then, a lot has happened.

FBI Director James Comey was fired.

Robert Mueller was appointed to find out whether anyone in the White House colluded with

Russia.

The Attorney General gets maligned by the President on a regular basis, and I'm on the sidelines

now.

To go that's a perfect place to launch a podcast.

We're going to talk to prosecutors, to judges, to justice department officials, the investigative

reporters who break these stories, even some politicians.

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