towy me, i grew up reading to kl a mockingbird, watching the movie. perrye maceon. i ll date myself, but that was a series i liked. i like the idea of a defense lawyer doing a noble task which was defending the underdog and defining what the constitution was, so i wrapped myself up in that. that s how i do it. mike: mark, one thing about it,es yo if you were ever to sel oranges, you d sell a million of them. you re a heck of a lawyer. the book is called mistrial. our guest, mark geragos. thank for being here. it s really a pleasure. thank you so much. coming up, this country singer will be joining the little rockers. we ll be paying tribute to some hometown heroes. that s next. town heroes, [ engine sputters ]
speed, to deal with just the phenomenal amount of discovery that they re going to have to deal with. i mean, if you had just one public defender on this case, he would be screaming to this judge, to the federal district court judge i can t get my arms around it, i don t have u enough time, i don t have enough resources. then you re going to build in an appeal at some point if that s the case. mike: you do understand that a lot of people in the public are saying look, if this were just some poor minority kid in the projects who got busted for drugs or for that matter, busted for murder, he d be lucky to get a barely sober public defender who happened to get the computer draw. you have the with things we talk about one of the things we talkng about in the book is this idea that somehow there s all these dream teams of lawyers out there, that the defense bar has unlimited resources. i always like to joke. edward bennett williams who is one of the great trial lawyers of all time, whe
transparency in our government is essential for the constitutional order. mike: you know, christian, you mentioned how they will be sort of fed to the left wing lions, and a great example is what s been happening to you. i want to quote some things. the washington post calls you a republican activist. media matters says that you are, quote, the right wing story teller. the huffington post in an open letter to you by an old law school classmate, donnie fowler, said you are a committed partisan conservative who does not come to this whistleblower attack on president obama with clean hands. is that the type of things that they re going to expect that has been thrown at you? how do you answer the people who say you re just a partisan hack? well, look. when you testify under oath, you re putting your reputation on the line. you re giving the truth as best you know it. as i like to tell those folks, if there was something wrong in my testimony or something wrong in the testimony of oth
on mike: on friday president obama traveled to mexico, a country mired in drug cartel violence. while there he shouldered some of the blame. most of the guns used to commit violence here in mexico come from the united states. i think many of you know that in america our constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. as president, i swore an oath to uphold that right and i always will. but at the same time, as i said in the united states, i will continue to do everything in my power to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous peoplels that can save lives here in mexico and back home in the united states. it s the right thing to do. mike: well, i m delighted to hear the president say that. one of the things he p could dos to stop ridiculous programs like fast and furius that put a thousand guns in the hands of
mike: my next guest is a talented country singer who served as the opening act for clint black and has performed with the likes w of tim mcgraw and taylor swift. she s also a national spokesperson for the air national guard and the co host of the nationally syndicated radio show serving your country. wouldo you please welcome laura bryna. thanks for having me. i so appreciate your work on behalf of the air guard. i think all of the forces of the national guard are the most underappreciated part of our military force. how did you get involved? well, you know, i live my dream because these brave men and women allow me to live my dream. they protect my freedom every day. i thought it was the best way to give back was through a song and to go out and tell people what these amazing heroes do. they re overseas, they re here, they re doing whatever they can to protect our freedoms. they re giving their time away from their families so we can be