Hello and welcome to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, March 18th.

I'm Andrew Wiseman.

I'm exhausted.

I just can't believe how much has been going on.

Thank God. I am here with my wonderful co-host, Mary McCord. Hi, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew, and belated, happy birthday to you. Thank you so much. You're actually wearing green this morning, as I can see. Did you wear green yesterday on your birthday? I did. I wore a suggestion of green for St. Patrick's Day. And as I told you just before we started, I was on with Nicole

Wallace yesterday. And she surprised me at the end of the 4 o'clock hour by wishing me a happy birthday

and giving me Deadline White House swag,

which I'll have to show you. It's really great.

Cool.

By the way, I think that ends the fun and interesting part of the show.

So, I mean, how's that for an anti-teaser?

Yeah, exactly.

Our producer is going to be like, really?

So the reason I started by saying how exhausted I am is we are discussing what to cover

and all of the things that are happening this morning, you and I were trading documents

to read and news to read, but we have synthesized it. We think we have a

good show for you all. Mary, what is on our agenda? Well, because this is a podcast called

Main Justice, notwithstanding the importance of the news over the weekend, equally important in

many ways was what happened on Friday, which was the

President of the United States, came to the Great Hall in the Department of Justice and addressed a

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