I am welcome back to prosecuting Donald Trump. It is Friday, May 24th, and I am not going to give the actual time because thank goodness it is a day off from trial in preparation for the long weekend and then you know there'll be a very busy

week next week. I am Andrew Weissman here taking a deep breath with Mary McCord

who is actually on vacation sort of.

Sort of, yes, that's right.

I'm Mary.

And for listeners who are like, when is she going to get back?

It really is only a 10-day trip.

Today is the very last day, but when you're doing twice weekly

podcasts, that is three, that is three podcasts. So here we got. We should probably

tell people right now, although we could say it again at the end, that next week, because closing arguments

will be on Tuesday, we will be broadcasting

on Wednesday so that we can talk about those summations.

So yeah, for the court a very long break for us,

not so much of a break.

For certain of us.

Yeah, that's right.

So next Tuesday actually, assuming I wake up at the crack of dawn I'm hoping to actually

be in court.

Obviously it'll be useful to be there.

This is one where as we've talked about sometimes it's really really helpful to be in

court so that you can get a sense of the demeanor and tone and cadence all of the

credibility determinations that you just can't get from a cold

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