twitter. and his congressional allies have done the same thing. they ve been asking department of justice officials to turn over paperwork having to do with the start of the russia investigation. of course we know that strzok was fired for sending anti-trump texts during the course of the work that he did with the mueller investigation. peter strzok s lawyer aitan goelman told us that his client being fired, that made an end run around the department of justice s own recommendation that he be suspended but not fired. the question is has the president ever leaned on department of justice officials privately to reach that same result, andrea. and what we now know also from the court, chuck rosenberg, is the charging conference will be this afternoon. this has really been kept to such a timetable, to the
throughout the people under investigation by mueller. and it really counteracts what trump said, that he was coming in to drain the swamp. what we re going to have now is no defense witnesses, that s the breaking news today. then we re going to have this charging conference which is, as chuck has explained, rather boring but important because it s how the judge, who is the arbiter of all things, and in the jury s mind, the one believable person in this courtroom most likely, that s how he s going to charge the jury. and a judge s charge can be so critical. all of that, depending on what we hear, dan, about a possible mistrial, that is going to be the next thing before we have closing arguments. and enwe understand those are going to be tomorrow morning. the judge has already said, dan, as you know better than i, the closing arguments have to be two hours apiece. he s been quite the timekeeper, he wants them both the same day,
that makes no sense. sheriff, do you think she should be the prosecutor on this case? that s for her to decide. i m not going to get involved in the conflict of interest. of course, there s a conflict of interest here but i don t think that s at the heart of a matter. what s the conflict? the problem i have is the speed at which she brought these charges forth. she received the baltimore police investigation on a friday and within 24 hours she comes out with these charges. that is an incredible amount of speed having done this myself in terms of investigating and taking part of a charging conference i have never gotten a homicide charge issued in under two or three days because you have to be deliberate. there s volumes of reports that have to be read word for word. you want to find out the weaknesses of the case and go through all the evidence. you take your time. mistakes can be made when you rush and we re seeing already by some legal scholars who
this case. that autopsy report. and i don t think that she would have had the time to have independent experts review the coroner s report. but to jeff s point, we re talking about a young man who was otherwise healthy, who ended up dead within a severed spine after being in police custody. so the fact that something criminal happened is probable. but i just do have some concerns about the speed within which she decided these charges. sheriff, the fact that the state s attorney only gave the police commissioner a ten minutes heads up what do you make of that? how would you feel if that was the case? extremely problematic. like i said with my experience a charging conference, usually the prosecutors will work with you. and usually you re alongside the prosecutor. i don t mean the police commissioner but the investigators. and i ve been a part of that and then it was my job as the lieutenant of the detectives or the detective to keep my superiors informed. but ten minutes seems a li
with me sir, i appreciate it. thank you, pop pick, good to be on with you. you have called the six arrested baltimore police officers political prisoners . why is that? well, let s impact this for a little bit. alan dershowitz famed legal scholar, smarter guy in the law than i am he said that there was no substantiation for a murder charge here. he said this determination was made for mob control and when i listen to the news conference of ms. mostby i don t know what she has in the case here maybe she can prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, i highly doubt it she took this thing down a political rabbit hole she started using phrases like no justice, no peace, young people i hear your voices your time is now. inappropriate for a charging conference. she is supposed to tune that stuff out, not listen to any of that, read through the reports,