folks weren t aware of five years ago and it involved a five-year statutory maximum but the statutory maximum is a horrible predictor of the actual sentence somebody gets. you remember general michael flynn, convicted of the exact same crime and his sentencing guidelines, zero to six months and a shot at a probation only sentence, an interesting crime with a five year statutory maximum, not very likely to spend any time in prison for a lot of folks who are charged and convicted. especially those who have served in high offices of government. exactly. because they have had, they have led exemplary lives, they have no criminal history, these are the folks that are candidates for probation only sentence. but any time a grand jury, a federal grand jury is convening, there is always a very high likelihood depending on how motivated the prosecutors are, that an indictment is coming. so here is a guy who spends a lifetime of service, 48 hours until he is set to retire, he gets nothing,
victims including three under the age of 17. if convicted, he could face up to 70 years in prison. i want to get straight to cnn sara sidner also at the courthouse where r. kelly is set to appear. sara, what can you tell us about today s hearing? reporter: we just saw steve greenberg, the attorney for r. kelly walk into the courtroom. we also saw attorney michael avenatti who says he represents six people involved in this case. he is in there now. we also saw something that a lot of folks weren t expecting to seal, and that was we saw at least one of the families of one of the girls, the family that was in the surviving r. kelly series that told the story of women who had come forward saying they were sexually abused when they were minors or physically abused as adults. the clearry family is here in court. they said they have not been able to get in touch with their daughter for many years. extremely worried about her. they were in court and they
analyst. errol, you have been living and breathing this amazon deal for a long time. what happened here? what caused amazon to get scared off by some, by no means all democrats complaining about this? some, by no means all. what happened was the political class was doing what they usually do. there is always somebody who will complain about a disposition of land or dollars of significant size in new york city. at a minimum, probably some of the amazon folks weren t accustomed to the level of vitriol they were going to hear. people did what they usually do. they start complaining, saying things like you showed the congresswoman saying that are simply not true. flat out it s not money that was going to be used for the deal could have been used to pay teacher salaries or fix the subways. but people said it over and over again. in new york, you are used to hearing that. okay, they always say that. it s always not enough union
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what they re going to go and stem the house well and the senate floor and stay this is exactly why we need a border wall. no matter how many checkpoints you, have folks are going to come rushing the wall and trying to get through. it s the best example of the worst case. that s what it s going to be used for. despite the thousands of peaceful folks pointed out, the 500 or so, whatever the bad numbers are, if you have folks going around the federal police in mexico, throwing rocks at border patrol agents and really acting like thugs and criminals, really paints it as a bad picture. and also just something that we re seeing here, too, is that they are trying to get to the ports of entry. even if you do build a border wall which is what trump is advocating for, they re trying to get through the legal avenue to be frank, which is what the government shut down yesterday government shut down a port of entry. to be frank, i the folks weren t going to the port of entry yesterday