deal. it gives an object lesson to criminal defense lawyers. be careful when you make a deal. when you make a deal with the prosecutors, they can come back and hurt you. look what happened to cohen. he made a deal. the special counsel said he s cooperated. the u.s. attorney in new york says he ought to get substantial jail time. that s why in 53 years of practicing law, i have very, very rarely made deals or pleas with prosecutors because i basically don t trust them. i don t trust the system. the system today is so skewed in favor of prosecutors and against defendants. tucker: we may lose perspective here. i want to remind viewers, that you re not a trump voter or a figure on the right. you re defending what you think is our tradition of law. i ve been saying the same thing for 55 years. saying the same thing for 55 years. i expressed the same criticism of prosecutors, whether they go after democrats or republicans.
it also gives an object lesson to criminal defense lawyers, be careful when you make a deal. when you make a deal with the prosecutor s they can really come back and hurt you. look at what happened to cohen. he made a deal, special counsel says he s cooperated. but the us attorney in new york says he still out to get substantial jail time. that s why in 53 years of practicing law i have very, very rarely made deals or made pleas with prosecutor s because i basically don t trust them. i don t trust the system. the system today is so skewed in favor of prosecutor s, and against defendants. tucker: we may be losing perspective of this. i want to remind the viewers on our way out you are not a figure on the right, not a trump voter, you are merely defending when you think is a tradition of our law. i ve been saying the same thing for 55 years, i ve expressed the same criticism of prosecutor s, whether they go after democrats or republicans.
race. this is an aftereffect for what ended up happening in this election. also republicans are trying to put their needle on the scale for the next election in wisconsin and michigan. this is not the first time we ve seen this sort of power grab. we saw it we saw republicans do this in 2016. the new york times points out it is a model pioneered in north carolina where republican lawmakers in 2016 tried to restrict the power of the governor. that set off a bitter court battle that continues to this day. to me, this is why people hate the government and don t trust them. this is why people stop voting. well, i wanted to come here and defend the republicans today. so on the republicans, let s start on the republicans side what s in their favor. they elected the democratic governor of wisconsin and they elected the democrats governor
here is what we saw today, angela, the president said, the cia, i don t trust them. they say the prince ordered it. he said maybe he did, maybe he didn t. he knows better. he says they are wrong. then he says i am not turning down 400 billion, 400 trillion. whatever that number is. they need our stuff, they can t buy from russia or china. and then he says, i am about america first. how is america first if its value of supporting life isn t first? yeah. life and liberty. there is a document this country was founded on where these are supposed to be the premier interest in the country and the ways we should protect people representing our country s interest. that is an american value. this president whose conscience
he joins us tonight. we are all anti-saudi now. as someone who has been anti-saudi for a long time it s nice to have company. where were all the chest-beaters last spring when the united states bombed syria in part at the direction of saudi arabia? and everybody on the left, including your former boss chuck schumer said it s good idea to do the bidding of saudi arabia? but now anyone who says anything about saudi arabia is immoral. how did that change exactly? i have always been concerned with saudi arabia. i m a new yorker who worked in the united states senate after 9/11. i don t trust them. they gave aid and comfort to people who bombed us. i don t understand how we look at what they did to khashoggi any differently than what al-qaeda did to daniel pearl. it s an act of terror and it should be dealt with that way. as for trump s role, he has been tucker: hold on. wait, wait, wait. stop. before you get to trump and whatever.rut.