and ryan devereaux is a staff reporter at the intercept where he covers immigration enforcement, theg war, and national security. his latest piece "arizona judge , in no more deaths case had secret talks with federal prosecutors." let's begin there. ryan, what did you uncover? >> thank you, amy. last month, motions were filed -- and a series of motions we discovered the judge in scott lawrence case you described in the run-up t to the segment, had conversations with prosecutors in this case in which the prosecutors were attempting to narrow the scope of materials they were required to disclose in his case, namely to medications sent to the border patrol agents involved in warns arrest. these conversations occurred without any consultation from warns defense team. his defense team has argued there were wholly improper and called for the removal of the judge in the case and the removal of the prosecutors in the case. there was a hearing yesterday on these matters. and going forward, the judge in the case is going to be judge collins who has presided over no more deaths cases in the pas