Hello, Namaste, everyone. And yes, you can believe your ears, it's John Heilman here. Back in action after the podcast equivalent of

being frozen in carbonite like Han Solo.

At the end of the Empire Strikes Back,

reviving the podcast I launched during the depths of the pandemic,

Hell in high water, and relaunching it under the auspices of Puck, where I'm now the

chief political columnist, expanding the podcast from once to twice a week, and recristening

the show as impolitic with John Heilman.

If you're a long time Helen Highwater subscriber wondering where the hell I've been,

well, it's a long story and rather than bore you with it, I'll just say,

sorry, and thanks for sticking around. If you're new to these parts welcome

and pleased to have you here for the inaugural episode of Inpolitik where

every Tuesday and Friday we'll be bringing you deep rich candid and yes in

politics conversations with the people who shape our culture in politics

entertainment business tech sports media and beyond along with the

A-list journalists and authors who chronicle their lives and exploits.

So buckle up as we kick things off with my friend Andrew Weisman,

MS-MBC Legal analyst, former lead prosecutor and Robert Mueller's special counsel's office,

former general counsel for the FBI, former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of

New York, where he took on and took down an array of mafia kingpins in the Colombo Gambino and Genovese families.

He's also the co-host of the popular podcast Prosecuting Donald Trump, author of the New York Times

bestseller Where Law Ends inside the Mueller investigation and

maybe most important to me a fantastic dad to Innes the cutest sweetest

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