Hello and welcome to a new episode of Prosecuting Donald Trump, while the former president and his

allies are going on offense and escalating their attacks on Alvin Bragg, Fanny Willis, and of

course Jack Smith. We'll get into whether any other defendant would get away with this and how the

prosecutors and New York City judge should respond. I'm Andrew Weissman and I'm here live with Mary McCord.

And we're actually here in the same room together for the first time in our podcast series,

glad to be here, Andrew in New York City. Well, that is actually a really good segue to the first

of our topics because you are here in New York City coming from your hometown of Washington,

DC, my former hometown. And you're here because you're going to teach with me and Ryan Goodman at NYU.

And I have a quick story to tell folks about Mary and teaching at NYU because last year when she came

and guest taught our law and security class. The following week one of the students said,

Mary McCord was so fantastic. I now know what I want to do with the rest of my life. And I was like,

well, what is that? And she said, I want to be Mary McCord. Well, that is the greatest compliment.

She only saw me for like two hours. So I think if she saw me more, she would have a different view.

I don't think so. I mean, it is, it is really just a sight to behold. And so it's great that you're

here, but Mary, you're not the only person who has come up from Washington, DC to New York today.

I need to say that there are other people and they can't hold a candle to you. Nor would they be

guests at our national security class. But Jim Jordan is holding a hearing today in my native

New York. I have a lot to say that's not political about that since he's going to be talking about

the crime rate in New York, which if there's wasn't politicized, I would tell you, I'm sorry,

we're the safest large city in America. How are you planning on making a political story of that

unless you're going to be in conducting sort of more fake news? But that is what we're dealing with

today at the same time that it's my pleasure to have you in our city. So I wanted to just turn

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