Hi, welcome back to prosecuting Donald Trump.

It is Tuesday morning, December 17th.

I am Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord.

Hi, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew. So you and I have been reading a lot.

Yes. Stop already. So all of you do not have to read, but basically there was a lot of reading yesterday,

and we're going to cover that. And then after we did even more reading, there was a decision by Judge Mershahn.

And that's where we'll start, yes. Exactly. And that has thrown a bit of a wrench into what we had

planned. So for listeners who are sitting there going, wait a second, aren't you going to have

your special guest to talk about pardons? We're going to do that, but not in this episode because of the new

Judge Mershon decision that we want to really talk about and get into the weeds. So let's get

right to it. Mary, what's on our agenda today? Yes, we will start with last night's breaking news

that Judge Mershahn ruled on the pending motion to vacate the jury's

verdict on the grounds of presidential immunity. And by this presidential immunity, I mean the

presidential immunity based on the Supreme Court's July 1st decision about what types of acts a president

can be prosecuted for and what types of acts he

cannot. That is different, a separate motion from the still pending motion to completely dismiss

the case on the grounds that because Donald Trump has won the presidency and a sitting president

cannot be prosecuted, he argues, for official or

unofficial acts, that motion is to dismiss entirely the case. That motion is still pending. It has been

fully briefed. It has not yet been ruled on. So we will kind of pull these apart, but we will

start with Judge Mershahn's ruling on the motions

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