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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and we're going to talk.

Trump search warrant. We're going to talk about the statute that warrant was released.

The exhibits to the warrant released. We have statutes that are applicable.

Laws that were applicable to the warrant.

And to help us sort of talk through all of this in as much specificity as we reasonably can.

Sarah, we've got a pretty incredible guest. I mean, it's such an incredible guest that it's just a reaffirmation that this is in all ways.

The flagship podcast of the dispatch podcast network.

There is literally no one on the planet better to talk about the espionage act than Edo Callahan.

Let me just give you the the briefest of bios of Ed.

So Ed is the senior partner of strategic response and investigations and criminal litigation at Wilmer Hale, which if for our legal,

legal listeners, they'll know that Wilmer Hale sort of that preeminent place for whenever you did commit crime or are accused of doing crime.

He though worked on McCain, Palin race was at the Southern District of New York, US Attorney's office, where he was the chief of the terrorism and national security folks.

And then came to main justice headed up the national security division while I was there and became the paydag.

I know, I know lots of acronyms, but paydag, we've talked about it before this podcast, sort of like the COO of the Department of Justice.

There are no trains that move let alone run without that person knowing what's going on.

It's the principal associate deputy attorney general.

And so that means that Ed oversaw a lot of the Mueller investigation.

I mean, Ed is the center of everything and there was not an hour that went by when I was a DOJ that I was not texting Ed calling Ed going to Ed's office asking Ed for things.

I'm going to write a bit, but instead I'm going to force him to be on this podcast. And thanks for being here.

Good morning. Thank you, Sarah. Always a pleasure to speak with you and good morning, David. Thanks for having me.

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