Hi folks, Anne Milgram here. We have a special episode for you today. I'll be speaking with

my friend Andrew Weissman. A veteran of the Justice Department, he most recently served

as a top prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. He writes about that

experience in a forthcoming book titled Where Law Ends Inside the Mueller Investigation.

I'm excited that he joins me today as we have much to discuss from all the recent news

to a look back at his extraordinary career. Welcome to the podcast, Andrew.

Great to be here, Anne. Let's start. So you and I have known each other for a long time

and I'll just, I always like to, to front that. I think we met when you were running the

Enron investigation when we were both at the Department of Justice.

I remember that as just as well and you were, I think, heading off to the Eastern District

of New York where I had been a prosecutor for many, many years and a mutual friend had

us over for dinner, which I think was the first home cook meal I'd had in about two years

of working on Enron. I think that's right. And I think I cooked dinner.

Is that right? Of course you did because of one thing that I'm not sure everyone I've

listened to you religiously, but I'm not sure it's come up that you are a fantastic cook.

I mean, it's scary. Thank you. That's very kind. I make a lot of chicken

fingers and french fries right now for my six year olds. So yeah, so we met years ago.

This is going back to 2000 and for 2005, I would guess. Yeah. And I want to start today

with the special council work that you that you completed, but then I want to sort of

work backwards in some of the other parts of your career. And there's so much for us

to talk about, but let's just jump in and and I'm really curious to know. I think a

lot of listeners won't understand that when you joined the special council Robert Mueller's

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