obstruction of congress are the two major reasons why i believe we will vote to impeach him. but, you know, because he s been such a lawless president, i think he s lowered the standard for everybody. so just think about it. mitch mcconnell, who is going to be essentially the foreman of the jury, has come out publicly and said that he is biased. he is going to work with the defendant. so you go into a courtroom and you have the head of the jury talking to the person that is on trial and saying, hey, don t worry. i got your back. we re going to get through with this case really soon. so the level of corruption and lawlessness, i feel has seeped into the culture of the capitol, period. i don t believe that mitch mcconnell would have been so bold to make a statement like that a year ago. now, when we hear mitch mcconnell, as you say, is tantamount to being the foreman of a jury saying that he is
this as the opening gambit, then i don t know if that causes a recalibration of how they approach things going forward. who they decide to there s already several indictments. they decide to pursue maybe the other cases differently. rick gates who, obviously, has admitted crimes. testifying to a jury saying believe me, even though one of the crimes is he lied to the prosecutors. i want to lay out if people haven t been tracking. paul manafort faces two trials. this one in virginia, five counts of tax fraud, four counts of hiding foreign bank accounts and nine counts of bank fraud. if convicted of these 18 criminal charges, he faces, the charges carry up to 300 years in prison. paul manafort is facing the prospect of spending the rest of his adult life in jail. if you watch there the charges laid out. if you are the president watching this, or the president s legal team, you re trying to see to the points just
were able to do in this courtroom. they were able to establish that that big brother s fingerprints were the fingerprints all over the tools of destruction, that dzhokhar s cell phone had him in a totally different location than tamerlan s location when tamerlan was buying all the elements needed to make those killer bombs. that the jihadi propaganda had all been transferred from tamerlan s laptop, that it didn t come from dzhokhar s searching. and that tamerlan s computer searches showed he looked for the pistols and the fireworks, but not dzhokhar. and then there was dzhokhar s web activity. it showed him going to facebook and the russian equivalent of facebook and porn, all the things the average teen would do. my question to you, counselor, can t you see a jury, a reasonable jury saying, your actions still were so disgusting, so what about all that the rest of that stuff? of course. the prosecution ended their case
very threatening to the people who lived there. eminem was not prosecuted. the nazis were allowed to march after a long legal fight. the defendant here is saying, all i m doing is expressing myself, admittedly in a colorful, obnoxious and really ugly way but that s why we have a first amendment. not for conventional means but to protect the unpopular. there s the issue that if the fbi had not acted and not filed charges and something bad happened we d be asking the other question, why didn t they do anything? do you think this would be attractive to a jury saying, this doesn t just sit well that, in fact, they were trying to at least remove him for a little while which sometimes we know law enforcement will do and put him on ice for a little bit? you know, i think that s ultimately why the government is
that s what the jury is going to take into the deliberation room. ashleigh? i kept waiting for the allegation that he was not in defense of others and say, no, i did this to defend the taliban but nothing yet. thank you for that. what plays out next? what happens today? let s bring back in jeffrey toobin, our legal analyst. when a jury goes back into the deliberation room, they kind of can do whatever they want. absolutely. and that means, if there were ever a case for a death penalty, this would be one but they may feel otherwise. explain that. yes. this case has been a form of attempted slow motion suicide by nidal. he has been basically baiting the american legal system to execute me so that he can be a martyr. so you could see, in theory, a jury saying, oh, you want to be a martyr? we re just going to make you sit in prison for the rest of your