Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, January 20th. I am Andrew Weissman,

and I'm here with my wonderful co-host, who I could not do this without. Welcome, Mary McCord.

Good morning. And as you said, January 20th, I think when we both got up this morning, we're like,

it's been a year. A year of this administration and I guess a year since we changed the name of

the podcast from prosecuting Donald Trump to Maine Justice and have really tracked quite a year.

Think about this January 20th, that noon, of course, Donald Trump became the president,

and the rest of the day we watched executive order after executive order, after executive

order, get signed by him, including an effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment birthright

citizenship clause. Freeing hundreds and hundreds of people. Nearly 1,600, yes.

Exactly, including multitudes who participated in violent crimes against law enforcement,

Capitol Police. And it seems like it's only been four years, not one year.

That's right.

And, you know, I think the reason that listeners to this may be hearing in our voices just not fatalism, but a sense of depression and unreality, is where we are in the last week. And the number of weeks where you thought it

could not get worse. I'm just going to do one example, because Barry, you know I like talking about

America on the international stage. Just today, we're hearing that a French judge who was overseeing the case of Le Pen,

who was a far-right person who had run for president in France, and she had to trial on criminal

matters and was convicted under the law on France. She was barred from running for a certain number of years.

Well, it turns out that this French judge reported that members of the Trump administration

came to essentially try and strong arm her to sort of throw the trial and paraphrasing her words.

And she's a very respected, somber judge.

We've seen Donald Trump Institute tariffs

targeted at the main judge in Brazil, who oversaw the trial of Bolsonaro, who also lied about

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