Hey, everybody, I'm Alison Gill. Welcome to The Breakdown and thanks to Midas Touch for having me on their intrepid network. I really appreciate it.

So every time this administration does something, or, you know, one of Trump or his cabinet, I always kind of in my mind place it on a spectrum from evil to incompetent. Like, is this more incompetent or is this more

evil? What is happening here? And usually it's a little bit of both, and that's why I don't say

it's one of the other. It's a non-binary spectrum of evil and incompetence. And this week, the Department

of Justice, the week that Pam Bondi was fired and soon

to be replaced and having a picture found in the garbage can at DOJ, they did two things that

really stood out to me this week. And one is on the evil side of the spectrum.

One's on the incompetent side of the spectrum. Now, the one on the evil side was that Donald

Trump had his 37-year-old sycophant, election denier, Office of Legal Counsel, whip up a memo

saying that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional.

And we've had some pretty evil Office of Legal Counsel memos in this country.

We had the torture memos, the ones that,

torture's cool, as long as you do it individually and you don't compound it,

and we're going to call it something else,

we're going to call it enhanced interrogation.

It's totally legal, totally cool.

That Office of

Legal Counsel memo has since been vacated and replaced with something better. And, you know, we've had

the Office of Legal Counsel memo that says you can't indict a sitting president. And I don't like

that one either. I think that that hasn't been legally challenged. And that's an important concept

because these legal counsel memos aren't law, right? They're just opinions of the president's

appointed legal counsel at the Department of Justice or whatever agency they're at, where the

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