Hello America and welcome to the Christmas Eve edition of John Solomon reports

the podcast from Just the News where I hope you are preparing for a blessed and

special holiday weekend with your family. I know I am but we also wanted to give

you a little dose of news, a little something to scratch that newsage before

you head into the holidays with eggnog and family celebrations and maybe even

fruit cakes though that's not my favorite. Well today we're gonna do just

something short and sweet from someone who got an early Christmas present from

President Trump and that is George Papa Dopolis. We are bringing him on the

show to talk about the extraordinary experience he had going through the

rush of case and then finding out yesterday late in the evening that the

President had pardoned him along with two former Republican congressmen and

several other people including four Blackwater security guards from an

earlier Iraq incident. Some major partners heading into the Christmas holiday

but this one for those who followed the Russia investigation for those who

thought that George Papa Dopolis was charged with a process crime because they

couldn't find Russia collusion on him. This pardon was particularly poignant and

so we're gonna talk to George in just a second he's coming on to share what it

was like to find out what he learned what happened what he's gonna do going

forward and I just want to remind everyone that we're gonna go to commercial

break and then we'll bring George in here but before we do that let's remind

everybody the significance of the George Papa Dopolis saga as part of the

larger Russia collusion story. So it was George Papa Dopolis upon whom the FBI

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