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Today is Thursday February 13th 2020. I am John Pajor. It's the editor of

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a year we are today closing our March issue and later today or just around the

time you hear this we will have available for you the lead article in our March

issue the Progressive Prosecutor Project by Andrew Seym McCarthy we are going to

discuss that article in depth later on in this episode with our guest our

our second guest in as many months following Eli Lake who of course wrote the

lead article in our last issue we are joined by Andy McCarthy hello Andy

Jen Samoria great to be here John also here as usual a Greenwald senior

editor hi a hi John no arosman associate or high Noah hi John and in

Washington senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine hi John so before we

get to the Progressive Prosecutor Project we have results in New Hampshire and we

are gonna have a little bit of a dust up over them I think because I argued in the

New York Post on on primary night and we'll continue to argue that while Bernie

Sanders won by a point and a half it was a weak victory and that he is a weak

front runner you prefer to be a weak front runner than not the front runner

Mitt Romney was a weak front runner in 2012 and ended up winning and you know

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