the questions that ryan and carol s reporting provokes. is he using his office to settle scores or exploit financial gain? is he being played for a patsy? is he subject to blackmail? all of those mean it s not in the interest of the united states for jared kushner to have this kind of roving commission that he s had. but there are a series of criminal laws as well that this could implicate. one is just good old fashioned bribery and but it s going to be a little hard to prove that after the mcdonald case. but there s one more i wanted to mention. i don t want to hog the airwaves but your point that he hasn t been nt viewinterviewed is a hu because there s nowhere to do the obstruction case. he s everywhere in the obstruction case, chris. the fact that he hasn t been interviewed to me you have to interview him before you start to negotiate with trump.
if the government says, we re not going to drop this, we ll have a new trial next year, that would coincide with menendez reelection campaign. the democrats would have to decide if they re willing to stand beside a man on bribery charges, or if they would allow someone to run against him. it s so complicated personally and politically. we don t have steve. let me bring up the fact that this situation was compromised and they knew this going on in the mcdonald case, the governor mcdonald case. that was the decision by the supreme court that gifts from friends are okay as long as there is no state prohibition against such gifts. the mcdonald rule created if you want to prove bribery, you have to come with something very pointed, very specific, very clear. there was a moment in this trial, in fact, where menendez lawyers moved to have the thing
i m glad that you are clearing the air and i hear you, it sounds like part of the key part of your interview got left on the floor over at 60 minutes, i want you to finish your sentences. thank you for giving me that opportunity. well, here is what i was unsettled by, the mcdonald case, we can run the video again, everybody has seen it, but the perception it left me with was that the chicago pd ldidn t lik the fact that a police officer has been charged in connection with this 17-year-old, the shooting death of the 17-year-old, he was shot 16 times and the video seems to show him moving away. let me just finish my sentence and then you can have the final word. i apologize. i said to myself, i would hope that the police officers response would be, hey we want something like that to play itself out in court, if a guy got shot 16 times who wasn t posing a danger to cop, maybe that cop was out of line.
sentences. thanks for giving me that opportunity. well, here s what i was unsettled about. i was unsettled by the mcdonald case, we can run that video again, everybody has seen it, but the perception it left me with was chicago pd didn t like the fact a police officer was charged in connection with the 17-year-old, the shooting death of the 17-year-old. he was shot 16 times and video seems to show him moving away. let me finish my sentence, then you can have the final word. i apologize. and i said to myself geez, i would hope that the police officer s response would be hey, we want something like that to play itself out in court, if a guy got shot 16 times who wasn t posing a danger to cops, then maybe that cop was out of line. that s what left me unsettled. you get the final word. okay. the reason the police department, front line patrolman
prosecuting black folks, during voter registration. a case that was so notorious that that and his racist comments actually convinced republicans to vote against him becoming a federal judge. more recently, the southern poverty law center, who worked with him on the mcdonald case said he was so racist that they could not support him, even though he had given he had done good work on the mcdonald case. and so, you know, this is a man who has not changed his stripes. sure, he has not always done the wrong thing, but he s done the wrong thing so often there is reason for all of us to be concerned he would not respect most people s rights in this country. should he be named to this post. so do you think he s a racist? well, the southern poverty law center has said that as recently as the last two or three days. and, you know, this is a group