in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, act
so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, actually, as a programme, because that is almost a week before we go to air we like to record the interview a little bit closer to air as we ve seen, elections move pretty quic
court buys this? no. absolutely not. as the argument in the federal appeals court made clear, taken to its logical extension his position acting in the country by assassinating a political rival, sending s.e.a.l. team 6 to kill someone, if it didn t, working, in his view for the people, it s okay? that can t be the law. ultimately for a jury of washington, d.c. citizens to decide if he intended to disrupt the joint session and if that meets the elements of a criminal statute. he can make that very same argument to a jury saying i was well-intentioned. thought in the best interests of the country and it s up to them to decide. court of appeals is not adjudicating to the fact. just adjudicating whether or not he has immunity for even standing trial for is alleged in the special counsel argument. he loses in tenure of questions coming from the appeals court and i m not sure the supreme court takes the case. may essentially agree with the court of appeals rejection of immunity argument b
jury that they don t have to choose between trump and thompson s guilty. we re back with betsy and neal. this feels significant in that part of the defense was that basically this is the defense attorney saying, actually i ll read it. he was fed a diet of bs. it s basically like saying a zombie army fed a diet of bs and can t be held accountable. a jury saying, i don t think so. yeah. it s quite significant. dustin thompson convicted on all six counts by a jury. it has a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. even more significant is reggie walton, the respected judge who was presiding over the case after sentencing said the following.
and what we saw in this trial is a lot of evidence that was brought forward before, during and after what guy reffitt did on january 6th. he documented this before, he talked with his son, the son went to the fbi. during, there is video of him running up the stairs of the capitol and there is that gun on his waistband. and then afterwards he talked about what he did with all this friends. so there is plethora of evidence and i think that is why we got to a verdict so quickly. what message does it send to other defendants when they are considering whether to go to trial on their cases? i think that it will ratchet up pressure to reach a plea deal because if they did a clean sweep so quickly in this case, what will that mean if you are a defendant looking at the pipeline. and looking at a d.c. jury saying will this work out for me in the end. so i think that is the situation that lot of the defendants are finding themselves in now. pete, what do we know about