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I signed an order appointing Jack Smith.

And those who say Jack is a fanatic.

Mr Smith is a veteran career prosecutor.

Wait, what law have I worked?

The events leading up to and on January 6, classified documents and other presidential records.

You understand what prison is?

Send me to jail! Welcome to episode 59 of Jack, the podcast about all things special counsel.

It is Sunday, January 14th, 2024 and I'm Andy McCabe.

And I'm Allison Gill.

We had a big week in the DC case against Donald Trump

this week with oral arguments in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for Trump's absolute immunity bid, his monarchy bid, and his quote-unquote double jeopardy claims, which is interesting now because that's even been thrown into question.

Plus, we have a Jack Smith filing in response to Trump's motion to have the court order the

government to show cause why Jack Smith shouldn't be held in contempt for continuing to file on the docket and

produce discovery while the DC trial is in abeyance. It is stayed right now

because of this immunity appeal.

That's right.

Okay, Allison, I'm going to take a side turn here and I want to point to something that

a request we got from Tony from Albuquerque who asked us he's a

big fan of the show but he's not a lawyer and so sometimes he gets a little lost in

legalese and he said sometimes he has a hard time explaining to his friends what he learned on the show each week.

So he asked us to give him basically a top line kind of summary and how I'm thinking about it is like good week bad week

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