Saturday, the president issued a memorandum called Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.

And this was President Trump saying that his administration, the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,

could decide on their own if legal cases filed by certain lawyers or law firms were frivolous.

And then what's extraordinary here was that they could then enact sanctions against the law firm.

And one of the key things that came out over the weekend was there was this criticism of a law firm that sort of settled with Trump, Paul Weiss.

They were one of these law firms that were targeted.

And it wasn't just that, you know, the Trump administration is talking about taking away Paul Weiss's federal contracts. They said that any company that continued to work with Paul Weiss would have its federal contracts taken away. And the head of that law firm said that

he settled with the White House because they were going to be forced out of business. Steve Bannon

said last week, the goal is to bankrupt law firms that challenge this administration. No president

has done this. Ronald Reagan didn't do this. George H.W. Bush, George Bush didn't do this.

And so it's just unprecedented and alarming to a lot of lawyers and legal experts

so uh the head of paul weiss and this is the firm that trump had leveled an executive order

against that essentially had crippled the firm's ability to do business sent a long message to

his staff to his fellow attorneys at his firm on Sunday. And it was the second

time since Thursday that he had sent out one of these. And in that message, he tried to explain

why was it that he had gone into the Oval Office and made this deal with Donald Trump to end this executive order.

He had taken a lot of heat about it in the press and in the legal world for doing this.

And that was especially acute because he himself had been such a prominent Democrat.

He was someone who raised money for Joe Biden.

He was, his firm had helped prepare Kamala Harris for the vice presidential debate.

And he himself had tried to harness the powers of the legal community against Donald Trump

when he was president during his first term.

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