there s another news event today or yesterday that president trump s lawyers had met with robert mueller and tried to make the argument that because a president has the power to fire an fbi director, this can t be obstruction of justice. that basic argument is so wrong that it shows why there s so little that the trump lawyers have to argue. a president has the power to order a military strike. but if the president is ordering that military strike with the intent of, let s say, killing someone who slept with his wife, that s still murder. a president can pardon someone, but if the president pardons someone because he received a million dollar bribe, that s still a felony of bribery. just because the president has the power to do something, it doesn t mean that it excuses any exercise of that power because intent matters. professor jed sugarman and neera tanden, thank you for joining us tonight. david, please stick around. coming up, as we reported last night, special prosecutor
dying. out of left field example. bill: what s the difference between that and manslaughter. typically manslaughter is basically any other killing. usually out of culpable negligence. for example, negligence itself just leads to a civil action. you know, you run a red light, you crash into somebody and they could die, you are not criminally charged you were just negligent. if you were cull culpablably negligent. you set up a target in backyard and bullet goes through a window and kills them. you didn t have any despite but so grossly negligent dui manslaughter, for example that s all culpable negligence which would lean to a manslaughter conviction. a big penalty for zimmerman, either one. it seems like it s going to be difficult for florida prosecutor because unless they have an eyewitness to get the intent of, you know, second degree murder. this guy intent to do harm to trayvon martin, zimmerman. that means you have got to put yourself inside the guy s mind. you have got to ki
dying. out of left field example. bill: what s the difference between that and manslaughter. typically manslaughter is basically any other killing. usually out of culpable negligence. for example, negligence itself just leads to a civil action. you know, you run a red light, you crash into somebody and they could die, you are not criminally charged you were just negligent. if you were cull culpablably negligent. you set up a target in backyard and bullet goes through a window and kills them. you didn t have any despite but so grossly negligent dui manslaughter, for example that s all culpable negligence which would lean to a manslaughter conviction. a big penalty for zimmerman, either one. it seems like it s going to be difficult for florida prosecutor because unless they have an eyewitness to get the intent of, you know, second degree murder. this guy intent to do harm to trayvon martin, zimmerman. that means you have got to put yourself inside the guy s mind. you have got to ki
out of left field example. bill: what s the difference between that and manslaughter. typically manslaughter is basically any other killing. usually out of culpable negligence. for example, negligence itself just leads to a civil action. you know, you run a red light, you crash into somebody and they could die, you are not criminally charged you were just negligent. if you were cull culpablably negligent. you set up a target in backyard and bullet goes through a window and kills them. you didn t have any despite but so grossly negligent dui manslaughter, for example that s all culpable negligence which would lean to a manslaughter conviction. a big penalty for zimmerman, either one. it seems like it s going to be difficult for florida prosecutor because unless they have an eyewitness to get the intent of, you know, second degree murder. this guy intent to do harm to trayvon martin, zimmerman. that means you have got to put yourself inside the guy s mind. you have got to kind of b
everyone was chanting and carrying signs and blowing whistles. the cops were there but not being too aggressive. at first it was definitely it seemed fun and it was a really large group of people and they seemed to be having a good time. and in your article you write that when the police started taking out the orange plastic nets that they were going to use for crowd control, you say the light-heart carnival air begins to get very heavy as it becomes clear that we are being corralled. yeah, that s definitely what happened. the cops came at us with the intent of it felt like we were cows. like he were being corralled, pushed by orange construction nets. wherever they wanted us to go. you make a distinction. i ve made this distinction on the program that not all of the officers behaved in a violent way or in an out of control way. in your piece you note that a new group of police officers arrives in white shirts. did you know that the white shirts indicated that they were comma