Hi, and welcome back to prosecuting Donald Trump.

It is Monday morning, December 23rd, and we're going to have this show for you tomorrow on Christmas Eve morning,

but we're taping it a day early.

Anyway, guess who I am?

I'm Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with my co-host,

the great Mary McCord.

Hi, Mary.

Good morning to the great Andrew Weissman,

and happy holidays.

And happy holidays to you.

We're getting ready to feel in the holiday spirit as soon as we update everybody on not only the most recent news, but we have an incredible guest today. Our listeners will know him, the former dean of NYU Law School, law professor there, Trevor Morrison, who will have a more fulsome introduction

later, and he is going to help us analyze and discuss the pardon power, as we promised on an

episode a couple weeks ago. But before that, very quickly, Andrew, let's update folks on what

happened in Georgia last week. Yeah, so people remember that in the Georgia criminal case in state court, so this is one

that's not pardonable, because we're about to talk about pardons, this is a state court criminal

case, where the issue was whether Fannie Willis should be disqualified because of the nature of her relationship

and the financial relationship with one of the prosecutors who was working on the case who she

had brought in. And people remember that the trial judge had said that there was nothing

in fact that resulted in any sort of impriety

in the sense that she wasn't pulling her punches or doing anything differently because of that.

And given that the prosecutor she brought in had resigned, which the judge said essentially

was an option to sort of cure any appearance, she could stay on the case.

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