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Of course it is, and the unfairness of this Harris is not just in the four corners of the case. You know, it's peculiar, as you point out, that former President Trump can't speak about the witnesses, can't speak about various things connected to the case, but other witnesses in the case are not gagged. But the other thing, and this is what I think is the arrogance of the way the courts have approached their task with these four indictments against the former president who is running for election in November. There are things in life and things in America that are more important than the administration of justice in a single case. And one of them is the right of the American people to have robust debate in connection with an election for the most important office, not just in the country, but in the world. And we have a situation where President Trump is the only person who's gagged. So Joe Biden can say whatever he wants about the president's travails. Other opponents of former President Trump can say whatever they want. And he's the guy who's in the middle of the vortex, and he can't say anything. That has consequences, not just for the administration of justice in this trial, but for how we run our campaigns. It's not just that he can't talk. And he said, you know, I took a big lead in the polls. Amazingly, he's done quite well not talking about this case, he doesn't have to, everybody else is, to the chagrin of one man, President Biden. So he sent his campaign surrogates out yesterday, Robert De Niro, another octogenarian who, you know, was struggling, but whatever. He goes outside the courthouse and then begins to battle for President Biden and trying to soak up some of that limelight. You know, Andy, it is amazing when you look at how politically tinged this entire process is. And we are still sitting here now waiting for a jury to deliberate. >> Yeah, and here's the amazing thing, Harris, this is the trial because it's a state trial that I think Biden would have been able to say that all this stuff Trump is saying about how I'm in control of everything. You know, that's a state thing, I don't have anything to do with it. He sends his surrogates here, which basically puts his mark on it. But the other thing I want people to understand is that in any other context in the United States, if a local state prosecutor were trying to enforce federal law, the Justice Department would be papering the state courts and the local federal court with all kinds of motions to try to prevent that from happening. The Biden Justice Department is perfectly content to have Alvin Bragg enforcing federal law as long as it's against President Trump. But he's not enforcing it in a way that is consistent with what the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department would normally do. And I don't think the Justice Department would countenance this in any situation other than a prosecution of Trump. >> Andy McCarthy, always great to get you in focus your expertise.

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