Jack Smith sat for a rare interview last week, in which he addressed anything from international courts, to Stalinist show trials, to prosecutorial transparency and cameras in U.S. federal courts, to the basic purpose of the special counsel. But he also called it "absolutely ludicrous" for President Donald Trump and his allies to say his Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago probes were a political hatchet job.

The "State of the United States" conversation with former Robert Mueller top lieutenant Andrew Weissmann at the UCL Centre for Global Constitutional Democracy unfolded on Oct. 8 and was posted to YouTube on Tuesday.

After the 33-minute mark, Weissmann shifted the discussion to Smith's special counsel probe of Trump.

"My position was very similar in a lot of ways to the special prosecutor in the

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