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Hey everyone, Ellie here.

So we're going to do something a little different this week.

I'm really excited because today I'm going to share with you the first chapter of my first book, my brand new book, Hatchetman, how Bill Barr broke the prosecutor's code and corrupted the justice department. I'm really grateful to all of you for reading and listening over the years, your ideas and your

feedback and your support. This book is very much a product of that. So check out Chapter 1 here

and order on Amazon or wherever you get your books or your e-books or your audiobooks. Thank you

again, everybody. Here we go.

Any prosecutor's first trial is a blur of terror, self-doubt, confusion, fleeting moments of competence, worry, a bit more terror, and then ultimately catharsis. The second trial gets a bit

easier and things gradually smooth out from there.

It's the same basic pattern, the same grind and pressure, but eventually you build up some

calluses and you learn to calm your nerves and even relish the fight. But the first trial,

that's pure, uncut, panic. When I walked into our courthouse war room on the first morning of my

first trial as a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, my supervisor, Rich Sullivan,

took one look at me and said, what the hell are you wearing? I was confused. I had deliberately

dressed in the standard SDNY male prosecutor's uniform,

conservative navy blue suit, white dress shirt, red tie, black loafers.

The problem, it seems, was with the fitted slip-on look of my dress shoes.

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