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an injustice senior justice correspondent ivan perez. he s covering the hearing for us in fort pierce, florida, just north of palm beach oven, you were inside the court today. how to judge cannon handle today s important hearing? well, if this was a very unusual hearing in the first place, and judge cannon had some very sharp questions for the government, for the prosecution she questioned the prosecutor s about what specific actions the attorney general, merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically and personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other of people who worked for him. here in fort pierce and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys, emil bove beauvais said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government. the argument that they were making here today, wolf, was that j