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MATT. THANK YOU. 643 NOW TO THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE. OUR LEGAL ANALYST, ATTORNEY DAN ADAMS, JOINS US EVERY MONDAY BREAKING DOWN THE BIGGEST CASES HAPPENING ACROSS WISCONSIN AND THE COUNTRY. GOOD MORNING DAN. LET’S START WITH THE NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVERSATION, WHICH CONTINUES TO REVOLVE AROUND THE SO-CALLED EPSTEIN FILES. THIS WEEK, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL WENT TO INTERVIEW EPSTEIN’S CO-ACTOR GHISLAINE MAXWELL. IT’S BEEN REPORTED THAT SHE HAS BEEN GRANTED LIMITED IMMUNITY. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT LIMITED IMMUNITY MEANS? SURE. YEAH. AND GOOD MORNING. IT’S REALLY UNUSUAL TO HAVE THE NUMBER TWO PERSON AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW MANY RESPONSIBILITIES THIS PERSON HAS TO ADMINISTER THE OFFICE. HIS NAME IS TODD BLANCHE. A FUN FACT, HE WENT TO BELOIT COLLEGE FOR SOME TIME, SO HE HAS A LOCAL TIE TO WISCONSIN. BUT HE WENT TO SEE GHISLAINE MAXWELL. THIS WAS EPSTEIN’S NUMBER TWO PERSON COHORT OF THE PERSON WHO ORGANIZED BASICALLY THIS TRAFFICKING RING FOR DECADES. WENT TO SEE HER IN FEDERAL PRISON TO DO WHAT’S CALLED A DEBRIEF. FANCY WORD OF JUST LEARNING WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY, WHETHER SHE HAS INFORMATION THAT THE GOVERNMENT FINDS USEFUL AND IS WILLING TO GIVE SOME VALUE FOR. THIS ISN’T UNUSUAL. TO HAVE A CONVICTED PERSON SAY, HEY, I, I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING GOING ON ON THE OUTSIDE. PEOPLE WHO CAN BE IMPLICATED FOR WRONGDOING AND TO SET UP A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT. OF COURSE, AGAIN, IT’S VERY UNUSUAL TO HAVE THE NUMBER TWO PERSON AT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COME AND DO THAT DEBRIEFING PERSONALLY. USUALLY IT’S AN FBI AGENT, MAYBE A US ATTORNEY, AN ASSISTANT. SO THAT’S A LITTLE BIZARRE. IT’S ALSO BIZARRE THAT SHE’S DOING THIS AFTER TRIAL. REMEMBER SHE WAS CONVICTED. SHE WAS GIVEN A 20 YEAR SENTENCE. OBVIOUSLY BEFORE THAT, SHE WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN AND DEBRIEF BEFORE. BUT SHE WAS GIVEN THIS LIMITED IMMUNITY, WHICH IS NOT ANYTHING CRAZY. SHE’S NOT GETTING OUT FROM UNDER HER 20 YEAR SENTENCE. SHE WAS GIVEN THE IMMUNITY FOR THAT MEETING ONLY. AND THIS IS HAPPENS A LOT IN MEETINGS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL GIVE A LETTER, BASICALLY CALLED A PROFFER LETTER, WHICH SAYS ANYTHING YOU TELL US IN THIS MEETING CAN’T BE USED AGAINST YOU UNLESS YOU PERJURE YOURSELF, ESSENTIALLY. BUT IT’S A A FREE GO TO SAY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU KNOW THAT COULD BE HELPFUL TO THE GOVERNMENT. AND THEY’LL LATER IF THEY THINK THAT INFORMATION IS USEFUL, FILE A MOTION WITH THE COURT AND AGREE THAT HER SENTENCE COULD BE MODIFIED DOWNWARD. YEAH, AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT THERE. ALSO RELATING TO THE EPSTEIN FILE CONTROVERSY. LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SUED THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FOR DEFAMATION, CLAIMING THEIR ARTICLE ABOUT A PURPORTED 50TH BIRTHDAY MESSAGE WRITTEN WAS A FABRICATION. WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS SUIT? WELL, IT’S A VERY AGGRESSIVE LAWSUIT, AND THERE’S KIND OF THIS LEGAL ODDITY. YOU KNOW, WE SEE THIS IN THE TRUMP ERA A LOT. WE KNOW. AND WE’VE TALKED ON THIS SEGMENT BEFORE, THAT PRESIDENTS CAN’T BE SUED CIVILLY. ANY PRESIDENT IN OFFICE, THE SUPREME COURT HAS SAID, LISTEN, THEY CAN’T BE DISTRACTED. THEY CAN’T BE TIED UP IN LITIGATION. SO WE’RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO GO AFTER THEM CIVILLY. WELL, HERE TRUMP IS THE PLAINTIFF. SO HE BROUGHT THE LAWSUIT, WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION, WELL, NOW CAN HE BE COUNTERSUED IN IN DEFAMATION LAW, THERE’S SOMETHING CALLED AN ANTI-SLAPP STATUTE. AND IN FLORIDA LAW, WHICH HE’S BROUGHT THIS LAWSUIT UNDER, IT SAYS BASICALLY THAT INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES CAN’T BE HAVE THEIR FREE SPEECH STIFLED BY SOME TYPE OF VERY AGGRESSIVE DEFAMATION LAWSUIT. AND WHETHER OR NOT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CAN BRING THAT TYPE OF COUNTER SUIT IS GOING TO BE THIS REALLY INTERESTING LEGAL QUESTION. BUT AS FOR TRUMP, HE’S SAYING, LISTEN, THERE WAS NO LETTER I DIDN’T FILE. I DIDN’T WRITE ANY LETTER TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN. AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DIDN’T PROVIDE THAT IN THE PAPER. AND SO I THINK THERE WAS A THERE WAS A PUBLICATION. IT WAS FALSE, AND IT WAS DONE WITH MALICE TOWARD ME. IT WAS VERY AGGRESSIVE LAWSUIT FILED. WE’VE NEVER SEEN A PRESIDENT DO THIS PREVIOUSLY. SO IT OPENS SOME DOORS TO SOME SOME, SOME, YOU KNOW, TO NEW LEGAL ASPECTS DOWN THE ROAD. YEAH, DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE WILL KEEP OUR EYE ON. DAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR Y