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I really thought that I was done.

I was in another life.

I was a grandfather and an author wearing, you know, sweaters and jeans.

And then they went for a walk on the beach and posted a silly picture of shells that I thought was a clever way to express a political viewpoint.

And actually, I still think it is.

I don't see it the way some people are still saying it is.

Our investigators work methodically. They are career agents, career prosecutors who work these

matters. They call the balls and strikes in the field as they see fit pursuant to the facts

of the case in the law. They took that information and made a

presentment to a grand jury, a jury of a peers in the district in which the alleged crime took

place, and that grand jury spoke, and that grand jury returned a two-count indictment again.

You were back in the middle of a political firestorm. Yeah, for walking on the beach with my wife, so I don't know how we ended up here. It never occurred to me that it was any kind of controversial thing, but that's the time we live in. So take me back to the walk on the beach. We were walking on the beach. We went to the beach to prepare for this week, which was the launch of my book, and to think about the book and to prepare to answer questions about it.

And we were walking back towards the road and we saw in the sand, someone had arranged shells with numbers. And Patrice, my wife said, why would someone put an address in the sand? And I said, I don't know. And we stood over it. And I said, you know, I think it's some kind of political message. And she said, you know,

86 when I was a server, she did a lot of working restaurants meant to remove an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients. And I said, well, to me, as a kid, it always meant to leave a place, to ditch a place. I said, that's really clever. So then she said, you should take a picture of that. And I did.

And I posted it on my Instagram account.

Okay.

Notice the chuckle there?

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