the republican frontrunner for poesident arrested by a democratic prosecutor on political grounds. nothing like that has evercal happened. and we wanted to hear fromanence the man who experienced it. the conversationd and a lot of different directions, heavily on foreign policy. an amazing, really an amazing conversation. here s how it began. you mr. president , thank you for having us . thank you. having n thanklast week you re n new york for this arraignment. the world watched it.raig you ve notnment, given an intert since you were there, i think. fifty seven minutes. tell from your perspective what that was like. well, it was a horrible thing i? because i did nothing wrong.e tn absolutely nothing like you look at evene the pundits, the legal analysis, greg jarrett, all os f theslegae reay talented people, they re saying he didn t do anything wrong. soo anythiwrong. that s number i number two , they werenc incredible when i went to theon courthouse, which is also a prison i
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