in the normal prosecutorial world we would now be looking at the epstein prosecution being run out of the southern district of new york and think okay, they ve got the goods, they re going to detain him, they re going to go at him hard, maybe consider bringing him on as a cooperator so he can expose everybody else who is involved in his ugly unseemly sex ring. but bill barr is over the top of and has command and control over the southern district of new york. and that injects so much uncertainty and so much potentially nefarious conduct. mieke, can you believe we re living in an era where we have to discuss the a.g., as mr. kirschner did, as the president s potential personal lawyer stepping in to something like this? it s really unfortunate, but we ve seen over and over again that that is what this president is looking for in an attorney general. when you read through the mueller report and his complaints to don mcgahn that he
the question is will that include such things as who decided to make the payments for hush money? did foreign entities get involved in supplying the money? did they know where the money was going? did president trump direct it? or did he just acquiesce to cohen s suggestion? what is it we re going to learn that goes toward high crimes and misdemeanors potentially against the president of the united states? and mieke, we really wanted to hear you tonight on the following topic, and that is bail for mr. epstein, the sexual predator. he is facing that decision by a federal judge and then today at the same hour 4:00 eastern we heard glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, say this about the specter of the attorney general. a little reminder that these federal offices all report to him. we ll talk about it on the other side. in the normal prosecutorial world we would now be looking at the epstein prosecution being run out of the southern district of new york and think okay, they ve
predator. he is facing that decision by a federal judge and then today at the same hour 4:00 eastern we heard glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, say this about the specter of the attorney general. a little reminder that these federal offices all report to him. we ll talk about it on the other side. in the normal prosecutorial world we would now be looking at the epstein prosecution being run out of the southern district of new york and think okay, they ve got the goods, they re going to detain him, they re going to go at him hard, maybe consider bringing him on as a cooperator so he can expose everybody else who is involved in his ugly unseemly sex ring. but bill barr is over the top of and has command and control over the southern district of new york. and that injects so much uncertainty and so much
you the last word. so here s the great unknown when it comes to how the epstein matter will play out. it s bill barr. epstein has already been the downfall of secretary of labor acosta when it was exposed that when he was u.s. attorney, he cut this ugly, unprecedented non-prosecution agreement on behalf of epstein. it looked like it was drafted by an epstein public relations flak, to goodness sake. so in the normal prosecutorial world, we would now be looking at the epstein prosecution being run out of the southern district of new york and think okay, they ve got the goods. they re going to detain him. they re going to go at him hard. maybe consider bringing him on as a cooperator so he can expose everybody else who was involved in his ugly, unseemly sex ring. but bill barr is over the top of and has command and control over