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She says she would clear him from any wrongdoing related to Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking network.

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Dot substack.com. Now, on to the show. Joyce, where do you want to begin?

So listen, there's been some reporting DOJ, obviously no longer the DOJ that we worked in, is having some manpower and some

staffing problems. And that seems to be coming to a head in Minneapolis, in Minnesota. There's

reporting that every office in the country has been asked to designate a jump team that could

be available to support. I think they use some fancy language, but it's the deportation efforts.

And that offices that were large were being asked to designate two people who could rotate

in and out of those districts, smaller offices one.

Would you be just jumping at the opportunity to create a jump team if you were still the U.S.

attorney in Manhattan?

Let me take a step back.

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