Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Attorney for the Southern District of new york elly honing. Julia, start with you. Did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation . Where is it coming from . Seems to just be coming out of his adlib interview as he frequently does. Sort of spins from the cuff here. Seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from President Trump. He wants to show that he has control over the situation. In fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. Perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witchhunt he describes treating him and others like Paul Manafort unfairly. It could be that hes watching what the coverage of the Manafort Trial, thats getting to him. Could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house Special Counsel speaking to Robert Mueller and heard a lot about the fact Robert Mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to give himse
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but this is going to be the ultimate test of a guy who just started on the job. okay, joyce, i m thinking about this date that fani willis wants in march for a trial. the fact that it is trump and 18 other defendants. what is this thing supposed to look like? donald trump standing shoulder to shoulder with these people in one courtroom? so, i suspect by the time this case goes to trial, she will have lost some of those defendants. they will have either pled guilty street up, or they will have pled guilty and engaged in cooperation deals with her. but you know, prosecutors do these large cases, sometimes you have to reorganize the courtroom in little bit. you have to accommodate a defendant, their lawyer, perhaps a couple of lawyers and paralegal. so you will see long lines of
cohorts. do you think this kind of sentence, because it is stiff, 18 years is a long time, do you think this might help unlock some of the answers to the questions we haven t got answered, who put those pipe bombs down? do people start talking, does it loosen up people s remembrance and memories of the truth when they see people going away for this amount of time, to maybe turn state s evidence? oh, yeah. this could be come to jesus time for a lot of folks thinking i m not doing a plea deal, not cooperating. now they look at 18 years for rhodes and go maybe i will cooperate and start talking. so i think you re going to see some cooperation deals. you ll start seeing some plea deals for some of these folks. that s the hope here, anyway. we ll find out who has the highest iq among these people on the loser end of the spectrum when one of them starts talking. that s the smart one. frank figliuzzi, thank you very much. still ahead, marking three years since the murder of george flo