and hunter, david wildstein publicly kind of begging through his lawyer for immunity and suggesting in that begging publicly on television last week that there could be much more from david wildstein if they would just make him immune from state or federal prosecution. just to go back to your first point about cooperation. you know, this attorney that christie brought in to lead the team for the administration, on his company website, he boasts that he s a quote, unquote, alligator and has a reputation for being merciless. we have a profile on him coming out tomorrow. i don t think you hire someone like that if you re preparing to be forthcoming. part of the purpose might be that this person can help offer immunity, whereas before, it wow been a question of, you know, the prosecuting agency needs to offer immunity. and they re just an investigatory committee. he could kind of broker that deal. we really could see people starting to make deals in the coming weeks. nick, where woul
person if you come to me with an offer. and hunter, david wildstein publicly kind of begging through his lawyer for immunity and suggesting in that begging publicly on television last week that there could be much more from david wildstein if they would just make him immune from state or federal prosecution. just to go back to your first point about cooperation. you know, this attorney that christie brought in to lead the team for the administration, on his company website, he boasts that he s a quote, unquote, alligator and has a reputation for being merciless. we have a profile on him coming out tomorrow. i don t think you hire someone like that if you re preparing to be forthcoming. part of the purpose might be that this person can help offer immunity, whereas before, it wow been a question of, you know, the prosecuting agency needs to offer immunity. and they re just an investigatory committee.
defense case. all the prosecution has to show is that both defendants made a statement and their statement was a lie before the grand jury or before a prosecuting agency. thank you for joining us yet again. another developing story right now. the house of representatives voted to approve a bipartisan deal that averts a government shut down that would have happened after midnight. the measure now goes to the senate where it could be voted on later today. meantime harry reid and minority leader mitch connell said they are making progress on a deal to extend the tax cut. also extend long-term unemployment benefits. a deal is very, very close. nbc news correspondent kelly o donnell said we still have republicans talking about the keystone pipeline.
charges of domestic violence and battery and dissuading a witness. now, the dissuading a witness charge ends up being very important here because under the california penal code you get charged with that if you prevent or dissuade another person who s been the victim of a crime or a witness to the crime from reporting that to a law enforcement officer or to a prosecuting agency or to a judge. dissuading a witness. they arraigned him for that, they charged whim that. and part of that could be him grabbing the phone out of his wife s hand and throwing it across the room and smashing it to the point where it wouldn t work while she was in the process of calling 911 on him. that s what led to the 911 hangup call and the police officer verifying the smashed phone when they responded to the silent 911 call. it could have been that. but it could also have been the way steve bannon got off in this case. in court documents filed as part of their divorce proceedings, steve bannon s wife explain