You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and we've got

a few things to cover here. There was an acquittal in the Durham probe yesterday. This is the

probe into the origins of the Trump era Russia investigation. There was a hearing in the

special master case involving Donald Trump and the collection of classified and other documents

from Mar-a-Lago that included a famous question from the 1980s. We've got a student loan update

and if we have time, we will talk about something I don't know anything about at all, but Sarah

does and it's called the Texas Pete lawsuit.

David, frankly, it's a travesty that we haven't covered it yet. I've gotten several complaints

as a Jackson. I was having a run. Yes, so hold on to your horses.

Hold on. Okay. So should we start with it?

Absolutely not, David. You've got to leave the people wanting more.

Okay. All right. Well, let's start with this. Okay.

Yesterday afternoon, got a news alert that Igor Denchenko, who was an analyst who provided a lot

of the, I'm going to use air quotes right now, research for the steel dossier about Donald Trump's

alleged ties with Russia, was acquitted on Tuesday of four counts of lying to the FBI,

one of the counts, he was charged with five counts, a jury acquitted him of four, judged

throughout the fifth. And here's how a piece by Charlie Savage and Linda Q in The New York Times

described it. They said the verdict was a final blow to the politically charged criminal

investigation by John Durham, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General William Bar,

three years ago to scour the FBI's inquiry into the Trump campaign's ties for any wrongdoing.

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