Done, for what youve just been caught for, right, you really only have one good option. And its not surefire, but its your best option. I mean, again, in this thought experiment, you definitely did it, you got caught. Youre now indicted on federal charges. If your goal is to keep yourself as much as humanly possible out of the crowbar hotel, out of federal prison, probably most lawyers would advise you that the best option you have for doing that is to plead guilty and then you may or may not have the choice of additionally cooperating with prosecutors. Youll have the choice depending on whether they want you to cooperate, whether you want to cooperate with them, and, frankly, its very important, it will depend on whether you actually got something valuable to offer them that they want to hear from you. If you do have something valuable to offer them, and they do want to hear it, thats actually the bestcase scenario for you to try to avoid prison or limit your prison time as much as po
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. This new week got underway with day 1,040 of the trump administration. A federal judge issued a ruling that made it tougher for the trump side to keep their people out of courtrooms and hearing rooms. This is the case of former white House Counsel don mcgahn. He indeed is one of the narrators of the Mueller Report. Well, tonight judge jackson of the Federal District court in d. C. Ruled that he must comply with a subpoena from house judiciary and testify about trumps efforts to obstruct the mueller investigation. He writes the Justice Department claim to unreviewable absolute testimonial impunity is baseless and cant be sustained. And president s are not kings. You may recall the House Judiciary Committee went to court in august to enforce its subpoena which the president promptly blocked. He has returned to his old law firm of jones day in d. C. Hes been out of the white house since early 2017. His Attorney