that. the real question is the server actually wiped clean. without getting into the forensic evidence. when servers are wiped clean and people delete e-mails. they re not actually deleted unless you go to such great lengths, that even when you put the server in and you put a forensic inspector on the server you can usually find out what s on the server. at some point she s going to have to come clean. there saminimal threshold of transparency that government employees are subjected to. when someone issued an open records request to a department when there s a lawsuit pending, usually there is an attorney that sends an e-mail to the employee saying do not destroy your e-mails. it is customary. i m sure lots of people watching this know what i m talking about. she didn t do it. even nixon didn t destroy the tapes. there are thousands and
a word about the merits of the case. in terms of the pr, two points here. i interviewed him about four years ago and he was uncontrollable during the interview. it lasted two and a half hours, it was supposed to last 30 minutes. and i think that his lawyers know that he s a loose cannon if they were to put him in front of a microphone and let him say anything. that s number one. number two, he gains nothing by saying anything at this point and knew there s been a lawsuit filed, they can do what we all know is likely to happen, there s a lawsuit pending, i can t comment. michaela? so he s just got to sit and listen to this right now. and youfully a legal perspective his silence is really the only defense he has? absolutely. all right, mel robbins, very interesting. we ll be talking about it more because this is not going away, it would seem. thanks so much, mel. ahead for us at this hour, we are going to show you a look you have not seen before. on the ground inside the city t
clearly, the judge agreed with the argument and said we ll give you minor probation and no jail time. is this where people lose faith in the legal system because they see as eric points out, the affluezna defense, and he s a little boy actually, he s not little, and he wouldn t do well. it could be a lack of faith in the legal system, and also a lack of faith in the media. this came down in 2004. it was not held in secret. supposedly, there are reporters who go to the courthouse in delaware, and we re only hearing about it now because there s a lawsuit pending, and it s come up again. also, on the judge, this particular judge, when i read this entire thing about the sentencing process, i don t think it s fair to her, necessarily, to say she decided this. the attorney general, the prosecution, i think, actually deserves a lot more of the condemnation for this. jesse, who is toblame? as dana points out, the d.a. offered him a plea which was
clearly, the judge agreed with the argument and said we ll give you minor probation and no jail time. is this where people lose faith in the legal system because they see as eric points out, the affluezna defense, and he s a little boy actually, he s not little, and he wouldn t do well. it could be a lack of faith in the legal system, and also a lack of faith in the media. this came down in 2004. it was not held in secret. supposedly, there are reporters who go to the courthouse in delaware, and we re only hearing about it now because there s a lawsuit pending, and it s come up again. also, on the judge, this particular judge, when i read this entire thing about the sentencing process, i don t think it s fair to her, necessarily, to say she decided this. the attorney general, the prosecution, i think, actually deserves a lot more of the condemnation for this. jesse, who is toblame? as dana points out, the d.a. offered him a plea which was
he should have actually exerted the power and leadership to get it passed through the state legislature? absolutely, chris, and leadership of the gop refused to bring it to a floor vote, so we will never know. certainly the word on the ground was that there were some republicans who would have voted for this. that would have been a cleaner way, that would have been the better way. also we had gop members voting again, expanding medicaid to the working poor, voting against expanding medicaid to veterans. we are 47th in job creation in this state, chris, we could use some of those jobs but they refused to do it and now there is a lawsuit pending. let us not forget that this is the same governor that refused to set off state exchange. let us not forget that. i feel a grandma moment coming, you can put truth in the river five days in july, but truth is