It's worth knowing what's really going on.

This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Previously, on breakdown.

Can you imagine the notion of the Republican nominee of the president not being

able to campaign for the presidency because he is in some form of

fashion in a courtroom defending himself.

There's a woman sitting somewhere who knows that I'm going to

her whole life up when this is done.

Covering a beat can be an interesting thing.

Journalists like us spend days and weeks at a time

thinking about and writing about a subject or a person.

But sometimes we can go long, long stretches without getting to speak to that newsmaker

directly, especially if that person is in the middle of a sensitive court case or investigation.

That's certainly been the case with Fulton County DA Fawny Willis.

She's at the heart of this election interference case, at the tip of the tongue of defendants and pundits and critics.

Heck, she's even at the center of this podcast.

But her team has cut back on interviews over the last year and a half, especially after the special grand jury

ramped up its work.

So we were intrigued when Willis agreed to sit down for an end of year interview.

The last time breakdown had an extended sit-down with Madam DA was back in the spring of

2022.

That was before the special grand jury was seated, and that's also when she told us this.

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