Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, January 21st, the first full day of the Trump 2.0 administration. I am here with Mary McCord, and this is Andrew

Weissman. Mary, I am not going to say, how are you? I was just going to say, if you asked me how

I am, I'm going to tell you the truth. Okay, so we're going to skip that.

Yes, yes.

I think we probably both are a little sleep deprived, staying up half the night reading executive orders and trying to put them all together, and there's more work to be done on that.

My day yesterday was, I was at 30 Rock for MSNBC at 9 a.m. I was sort of on air and watching everything was going on and

reading and was on through Lawrence O'Donnell. But as you noted, the day started with more

information about the former President Biden's pardons.

Then we had a lot of ceremonial stuff.

And we had a very, very dark speech, by the way.

Yeah, well, we had two speeches.

Yes, we did.

It was sort of the rotundice speech, and then what I will call the real speech.

Yeah.

And the extemporaneous speech. Yes, where it what I will call the real speech. Yeah. The extemporaneous speech.

Yes, where it was sort of like the real Donald Trump, where he told you about the stuff he was told

not to say at the rotundas speech. But then the real action in terms of what we're going to talk about

was what happened at the end of the day,

which is a string of executive orders.

So a long, long day, and that is why I think Mary you and Abbe Sittar said,

the two of us are a little sleep deprived.

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