This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Batcher with Thaddeus Maccaughter American Greatness,

my colleague in co-host and we're joined by Andrew McCarthy of Natural Review Online, discussing

the most recent allegation against former President Donald Trump, this one from Fulton County.

There are other allegations and other indictments to attend in a very crowded calendar year

between now, the Republican debates are beginning within moments, and the election 2024. Thaddeus,

you have a question for Andy. Well, Andy, let's step down. Let's remember, this is a local

prosecutor in a heavily democratic county, just as we've seen earlier in Manhattan with Alvin Bragg.

So when we look at this in terms of the politics of it, could not have some other district

attorney in Georgia have brought these charges against President Trump, say it independent

or a Republican, did it have to be in Atlanta that this was brought? Well, unlike I can understand

in New York, it had to come out of Manhattan, but did this have to come out of Atlanta?

Well, I think the likelihood, it didn't have to come out of Atlanta, and I think the likelihood

was that it would come out of Atlanta, and this brings a study as to I think an important feature,

which we talk about from time to time, that differs between the federal system and the state system.

In the federal system, you have appointed prosecutors who go through a vetting process

in Congress, in the Senate in particular, and at least they don't always abide by this,

but at least they try to vet the person to make sure the person is not going to use his or her

law enforcement powers for partisan purposes. By contrast, in the state system, politics is part of

the, it's woven into the mix, so that, you know, Fannie Willis is probably better thought of as

an elected Democrat than a district attorney, and I think what we're seeing throughout the country

is that in a lot of these blue cities controlled by Democrats, it is simply a good politics

for an ambitious progressive prosecutor to take on Donald Trump. Whether she wins or loses the

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