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federal government has broad powers to protect the united states and to protect us and avery talked about the exemption. you can have all the shield laws you want. when the government and the white house has that ability to couch their investigation in terms of protecting the united states, they can do it and there s no protection to the citizens. they are going to do it. again, just like in the prior discussion, there will be no criminality here. even though the request was overly broad and maybe never done in history before this broad, nobody is going to have to face any criminality here. it was by the rules. they didn t do it. this is the kind of discussion and debate that s taking place right inside bellway. we re going to have you back in 20 minutes for other topics to
o.j. simpson back in court. our legal guys are back with me now. avery freedman and richard herman. yale galanter, he s the lawyer who represented o.j. simpson after simpson s run-in with dealers back in 2007. all week long simpson s new lawyers have been trying to get his robbery and kidnapping convictions thrown out on the grounds that galanter bungled the case back in the day. they say he didn t let o.j. testify, didn t pursue a plea bargain, didn t challenge key state evidence and pocketed a half million dollars without hiring a single expert in the case. guys, let s look at this case one more time. richard, are these grounds for a new trial? if the grounds are legitimate, maybe a judge would look at it, but everyone who gets convicted uses the
activity, you re disqualified. so that was the rational behind the irs and in the end, when the smoke clears here, this is administrative and regulatory. it s not going to rise to criminality despite the tea party waving flags and the republican party getting up in arms over this. avery, do you agree these were legitimate questions that were to be asked and perhaps it s not an issue of certain groups being targeted? perhaps it s just an issue of there were more tea party-related groups that flooded the application process? convenient. they did flood it, but the inspector generals and the investigation showed there was political intervention, significant to use their word. but of the 300 organizations, 70 were tea pearty. i think congress asked the right connection. was there a connection with the