how do you view that defense tactic? his tactics today were a little bit of this and a little bit of that. go back to the issue of why she didn t call the police, you know, talk to her about why she has sometimes described herself as, i m doing fine, if this is really what happened. i think he is hoping something will stick. he asked her a lot of questions about how she behaved afterwards. why did you go to a watch party with friends? why did you watch the apprentice? he is hoping the jury will hear these questions and thinks that s not how a real rape victim would behave. if they have bought into that idea of e. jean carroll as someone who goes on with her life, i don t think any of those questions will be there was one moment in the cross-examination where joe tacopina raised a question about a law and order episode that aired in 2012, where
the state has submitted a witness list of more than 250 potential witnesses. we re told that this trial could last as long as four weeks or so, so certainly a lot of attention when it comes to the proceedings down there in south carolina. glenn, just talk to me about what we heard. the defense, all they have to do is poke the reasonable doubt. what do you make of those details? it s relevant evidence, and a tried and true defense tactic to try to poke holes, to highlight how an investigation was not conducted perfectly or pristinely. no investigation in my 30 plus years as a prosecutor has ever been conducted perfectly that i ever encountered, but you know, the prosecution is trying this as a cover-up case. i ve handled plenty of cover-up cases, and usually the downfall if this does result in a conviction, we have no idea how this one will play out, but usually the downfall of the perpetrator is no matter how smart, how detail oriented they are, they can t account for all
an amazing thing. the condition of these folks voting against mccarthy are a defense tactic. when did you hear the republicans leading to a in defense planning? the world is upside down. but think about the united states. think about the republic republicans and the pro business party. if we get cute about the debt ceiling hair. especially at the time that we are living at a complicated time. remember how it used to be when we talked about defaulting on the debt. it was that rates would go up. and interest rates would go up. we are now in a world with really high interest rates. if you now default on debt for an entirely different reason. your interest rates go higher. so this recession that folks are worrying that we might be going into? it suddenly gets worse. and american people of something the point to. you can t point, as much as republicans have wanted to do about inflation. it definitely explains why there are inflation in other countries that is higher than
the conspiracy get? so now bill barr is part of the conspiracy. an ivanka trump clone that s part of the conspiracy. how big does it have to get for your world view to continue to hold? that to me is part of the exercise here. instead of watching the hearings, people brought up this film called 2,000 mules. explain what that s about. i know this is one of those conspiracy theory movies out there and they don t hold any water. tell us about that. it was a talking point for a lot of the folks bewe were talkg to. bill barr laughed at the film during the hearings. we were curious if this would be sort of a defense tactic people would go to. it definitely was. more so than we thought. almost everybody we talked to when they felt pressured or in a corner they would say 2,000
video in the jail as he was walking out the door with her. it is almost impossible to imagine any scenario in which he can try to shift blame for this entire escapade to the former corrections officer. maybe a defense tactic. but more likely he ll plead guilty to the increase defense. candace, let s bring you in now. glad to you have here. this vicki white story is a tragedy. people who knew her say that they re shocked she would ever be a part of anything like this. sheriff in alabama saying she had been an exemplary employee before pulling this escape. how can a normal person get pulled into committing a crime like the one we saw? well, don, these what i would call dangerous liaisons are unusual but they re not so rare. there haven t been thesis based on them. female staff falling in love with male inmates. you may recall a few summers ago