contributor and host of reality check with david webb on fox nation don t miss it. david webb, thanks for being here. give us a relates check on, this david. where are we? here s the first part, pete, when you can t defend the perpetrator what you do sin diet the system. that s what his defense strategy is going to be. by the way let me mention that we still don t know where the fbi is on process in the threatening letter that he sent with a powdery substance in it once they are finished they will make a decision on charging. right now the charging authority seems to be chicago. they didn t just indict him on the 16 counts. i m always careful of prosecutorial overkill. we saw this in baltimore go badly after freddie gray. but, in this case, you have got someone who has defrauded the city, who has caused not irreparable but immense harm to the community. it s cost the city a lot of money. not just the city, it s cost the taxpayers. pete: yeah. chicago has a lot of egg
lot of state crimes that involve the muddling up of life in fort lee as some form of maliciousness or public corruption that the state is going to criminalize. federally, it s not yet clear. and as a former prosecutor, how would you approach this case, if you were on it? well, similar to the way that the legislature is. we have to remember two things. one is, this is sort of watergate in a sense. not in its seriousness but in his structure. that is we have the legislature of new jersey looking in to this. they have no power to indict or charge anybody with a crime. then paul fishman, for the assistant attorney general of new jersey. we don t know whether he s convene add grand jury yet. we don t know his scope of interest, but he s the charging authority. he s the one to bring people to criminal justice. you have two things going on in parallel. the legislature, like the whitewater and the watergate
depend on the charging authority, and who they believe started this entire fight, but you can t meet fistfight with a gun that. sun equal force a that is unequal force and not the same thing. but what the two guys who beat him up? do they bear any responsibility, holly? well, they should be charged with their own charges. they are looking at battery and assault charges and depending upon how much damage is done, they could be facing aggravated assault which takes it out of the misdemeanor rank and up to the felony charge. everybody here needs to be charged with something here, don, because it is a broad range of possibilities. so they bear responsibility, because they tried to run him off of the road and then he instigated the fight. had he walked up on them, and say this, this is the question that i want to know, and had he walked up on these guys and instigated the fight and they had done nothing and beat him down then do they bear