it also says the defendant shall not communicate in any way directly or indirectly about the facts of the case with any codefendant. and today s a the day that dona trump announced that he s going to have a fund-raising party for rudolf giuliani s defense in september. and so barbara mcquade, i don t know how to square these conditions with those two codefendants getting together where they re pretending that they won t be talking about the facts in the case. yeah, it s this stuff you just can t make it up, can you? i suppose that within the parameters of this rule, of this order they could have a fund-raising dinner, but, you know, imagine i didn t talk to them directly. i justta announced it at a banqt
i found mine at findahandspecialist.com. we re back with our legal experts, andrew weissmann, barbara mcquade, and amy lee copeland. today rudolf giuliani s criminal defense lawyer in georgia signed a court document saying the defendant shall not communicate in any way directly or
codefendants, but there s nothing in there about what he can say about the prosecutor. however, there is that condition that donald trump and rudolf giuliani have in their release that says they can t do anything to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice. and so at what point does lying about the district attorney become an effort to obstruct the administration of justice? yeah, i think one of the things that both fani willis and the judge here are trying to navigate is a person s genuine free speech rights to criticize elected officials and those presiding over a trial and acting on behalf of the government with actually disrupting the trial and making things difficult, poisoning the jury pool, for example. i think on some of those vaguer kinds of things, they re going to give them a fair amount of
indirectly about the facts of this case to any person known to him to be a codefendant in this case. and after signing that rudolf giuliani said this. i talked to the president today. i wish him well. i have every confidence in him. amy lee copeland, is rudolf giuliani just taunting the judge in this case with comments like that? he s playing with fire. it s a bit of a surprise. i think most attorneys that i know of, and i m one of them just are nothing but scared attorneys. we have a healthy fear and respect of judges, so that may not have been the wisest thing for him to say. barbara mcquade, i haven t done full research on this on must be the 150 or more u.s. attorneys in american history, but i m not aware of a former i
commission of the mafia, but it was on the drawing boards at the time, and there were an awful lot of people including people in law enforcement who thought it was totally unrealistic, ridiculous, could not be done. rudy giuliani did it. the top bosses in new york s mafia bosses were given 100-year prison sentences. the case made giuliani famous. now a version of that same law, georgia s rico statute, a version of that law could be rudy giuliani s downfall. of all the indictments former president trump faces one of the things that makes yesterday s unique is how many other defendants there are. because it was a rico case trump was indicted along with 18 other codefendants. 19 people, 19 all charged with being part of a criminal enterprise just like how giuliani charged the commission in the 1980s. and last night fulton county