Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Integrity is contagious. Those words were uttered by former U.S.

attorney for the Southern District of New York, David Kelly, at this table just a couple days ago on this program.

And now, the men and women of the office he once led, the legendary Southern District of

New York, are proving him correct, one after the other, after the other, after the other.

The federal prosecutors on the front lines of an unprecedented attack on the rule of law in America refused to buckle.

24 hours ago, when we came on the air, it was a prosecutor named Danielle Sassoon.

She was the interim U.S. attorney handpicked by the incoming Trump administration with unimpeachable

conservative credentials, who, according to the New York Times reporting, quote,

resigned rather than obey an order from a top Justice Department official to drop the

corruption case against New York City's mayor Eric Adams. Then the Times continues when Justice

Department officials transferred the case to the public integrity section in Washington,

the two men who led that unit

also resigned. Several hours later, three other lawyers in that unit also resigned. One, two,

three, four, five, six resignations. And now we can add to that list another rather remarkable

resignation from the Times, quote, Hagen Scotton, the lead

prosecutor on the federal corruption case against Mayor Adams, a man who, quote, served three combat

tours in Iraq as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer and earned two bronze stars, who, quote, graduated

from Harvard Law School and clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts and later for Justice Brett Kavanaugh,

a man who has led the investigation into Mr. Adams since it began in the summer of 2021.

Today, in a spectacular and scathing letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bobe.

He set a new standard for integrity and moral courage.

He wrote this, quote,

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