Welcome back to Maine Justice.

We are recording this on Monday afternoon, October 27th, instead of a Tuesday.

I am Andrew Weissman, and I'm saying good morning to all of you,

but also to my wonderful co-host, Mary McCord. Happy Monday. Saying that is dripping with like

sarcasm, I think. I think it's because we all know what we're going to talk about.

Are we done with the pleasantries there? We're done with pleasantries, yes.

Well, I'm going to ask you what's in our dance card, but I have a pretty good idea

that we're going to talk about the destruction of the East Wing because this is so

unbelievable that someone acts out the metaphor.

Yes. I mean, literally bulldozing. Yes, big diggers. I mean,

seeing the photos of the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, the morning it started, and it was clear that this wasn't just like a minimal amount of demolition that wouldn't come close to touching the White House.

This was the entire East Wing.

And, you know, originally Donald Trump had said this ballroom was going to be completely separate from the existing building.

And that was not the case at all.

But seeing those photographs, it's kind of like, you know, unfortunately in my neighborhood,

there are a lot of really old homes. And some of them are being torn down in order to build these

McMansions, which I'm not a fan of. No offense to anybody in a McMansion. But I hate watching

the destruction because you think of multiple families who've had memories in that house and you see

this big machinery come in and

start just grabbing pieces off and chunks off and to see that happening to the east wing of the

White House. It took like three days and the whole darn thing is gone. But as it was coming down,

you're seeing these jagged edges of rooftops and walls and then the

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