Okay. So today, special counsel, Jack Smith asked Judge Tanya Chuckin to dismiss the federal

election interference case against Donald Trump. And here's what Jack Smith wrote in his

filing. He wrote, quote,

the government's position on the merits of the defendant's prosecution has not changed,

but the circumstances have.

The Justice Department's deposition is that the Constitution requires that this case be

dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.

Now, shortly after that, Smith moved to dismiss the classified documents case against Trump

on the same ground.

Now, we kind of knew this would be the inevitable outcome of a Trump victory if there was a

Trump victory because he effectively ran out the clock before winning the election.

But for all the few out there who have been

following these cases very closely over the course of the last few years as we all have

been, it still might feel kind of jolting in this moment, especially to those of you

who thought there would be accountability here, real accountability. Because we know

there are aspects of this that could have played out differently.

So I was thinking about this today, and I really wanted to just take a step back and walk through how we got here.

And I was reminded a lot of this myself, especially when it comes to the sobering dismissal of the case centered around January 6th.

So you may not remember this detail from the day, and I was starting to transition, and I don't even remember this detail of the day until today.

But early in the afternoon of January 6, 2021, news broke that then-President-elect Joe Biden would nominate Mayor Garland to serve as his attorney general.

And a Biden official told NBC News at the time that his Justice Department nominees affirm Biden's commitment to restoring independence and integrity to the Justice Department. A very important message,

of course, at the time and any time. Now, I happen to know that Biden picked Garland, in part,

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