trying to get details about what was coming from wikileaks. joining me now is joaquin castro of texas on the house intelligence committee leading the impeachment inquiry. thanks for joining us. have you seen any conclusive proof that trump lied to robert mueller about this? he said he didn t recall, which is kind of a lawyer trick for not answering a question. right. well as you remember, jake, the president refused to go in front of and give live testimony to special counsel bob mueller and submitted written answers to certain questions in the questions oftentimes he would say that he didn t recall. so my mind has been wrapped up in this latest impeachment inquiry but i have to go back and check his responses to see whether he was truthful or not about that. the white house has cited a department of justice policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted. so if democrats conclude that president trump did lie to mueller, i g i guess that woud
again, 95% of people who are prosecuted plead guilty. why isn t this guy? we should also say federal prosecutors the cases they do bring to trial they have tend to have a good record on those. the whole system is set up to get convictions and that tends to be the case. that s@prosecutor puts all the evidence together in the first place. they actually are able to put together an indictment that is as foolproof as you can possibly make it and this one is for thely foolproof. they even anticipated the defenses. the old i got it from the lawyer trick. well, he lied to the lawyers. and oh, i got it from the accountsants. but he lied to the accountants according to the indictment. so every potential defense he has is blocked out by this indictment. it s remarkable when you consider the fact this guy was the campaign manager of the sitting president of the united states. he s in court today in a prison issued jumpsuit-s going to be standing on trial for bank fraud and lord knows what el
they even anticipated the defenses. the old i got it from the lawyer trick. well, he lied to the lawyers. and oh, i got it from the accountsants. but he lied to the accountants according to the indictment. so every potential defense he has is blocked out by this indictment. it s remarkable when you consider the fact this guy was the campaign manager of the sitting president of the united states. he s in court today in a prison issued jumpsuit-s going to be standing on trial for bank fraud and lord knows what else might be coming down the pike in just a week. lord knows what else because one of the issues that the judge decided today was how much about the russian investigation can be mentioned. and the judge said don t say anything except with one exception, so what you mentioned in the lead to this. so apparently, paul manafort agreed to hook up somebody at a bank, as bank ceo for him to get a $16 million loan and the ceo would get some kind of plum position with the trump adminis
rules cripples life. it makes people afraid and makes everyone a potential lawsuit target. it doesn t stop the politicians, they keep passing more of these rules. this many every day. and lawyers take those rules and use them to enrich themselves. so you would think with all that money, you would want one in your family, and we ask, do you want your child become a lawyer. it s wrong. it s scary about all the things. not all of them are bad. it would be a better world without lawyers. it would be. we ll never have life without lawyers, fewer lawsuits would be very good but the english rule. i shouldn t call it that. the lawyer trick that has the calling the english rule. the rule that says if i sue you and lose i should have to pay legal fees. pay for some of the damage that
it makes people afraid and makes everyone a potential lawsuit target. it doesn t stop the politicians, they keep passing more of these rules. this many every day. and lawyers take those rules and use them to enrich themselves. so you would think with all that money, you would want one in your family, and we ask, do you want your child become a lawyer. it s wrong. it s scary about all the things. not all of them are bad. it would be a better world without lawyers. it would be. we ll never have life without lawyers, fewer lawsuits would be very good but the english rule. i shouldn t call it that. the lawyer trick that has the calling the english rule. the rule that says if i sue you and lose i should have to pay legal fees. pay for some of the damage that i caused you.