consultants. would you have put him on? do you think he did himself any favors today? well, as joey said it s always a risky calculus in terms of putting a defendant on and for another important reason which is kind of going to joey s point, do you want the case to be about the prosecution s failure to really prove their case or do you want it to be about your client? the more time he is on the stand the more the jury can scrutinize and really look at with a fine tooth comb everything he said whether it s consistent and so it s very difficult to kind of take a look, look, these trials are all about especially in a circumstantial case character is king. this jury is trying to create a portrait who is this man? is he a sociopath who would lie to do anything and is a murderer or is it just truly an aggrieved husband who has committed sins in his past but then also is
very little. what did you find? that house was gone through with a fine tooth comb, they say. they also took a cadaver dog down there to see if there was any evidence of a body being there. we found nothing down there. no sign that shannon had ever been there? that we could find. but, in the trash pit behind hinten s house, they did find something interesting. a collection of women s clothing. anything from shannon, any garnet, any apparel? there was nothing of evidence to link him in those search warrants to shannon. what about shannon s car found abandoned at the gas station? the officer on the scene let shannon s friend driving back to campus, that meant any forensic evidence was contaminated. this was our first mistake. that we made in the case. not to beat that officer back in the day up, but what was the protocol there? what should ve happened when you had come upon the abandoned vehicle? somebody should ve from investigation should ve said release the car
matter. people do think the justice department is what s the point of the justice department searching the properties now? the lawyers have already gone through it with fine tooth comb and found classified document and we don t know what else they removed. anything they removed would be covered by attorney/client privilege. the public wants accountability. the white house needs to give us what are those document and why were they there? the american public won t rest until they get that? harris: if the president and his team can t clear it up in short order should he announce he is running again after the state of the union, mark? well look, i don t think it will stop him from running or not. i do think it is a drag or a drain. look, we also used to use the strategy i m not here to talk about documents, i m here to talk about helping the american people. i did that for two years in 1998. it just won t work here until
in november about documents. they were all taken care of and everybody went through it with a fine tooth comb. if it could happen to him it could happen to almost everybody. rachel: donald trump, he and pence don t always get along. donald trump tweeted mike pence is an innocent man. he never did anything knowingly it dishonesty dishonest in his life leave him alone. defense from his former boss. brian: he called back and said why don t you check through all the boxes they found last week they found some classified documents he put in the safe. he called the archives and the archives basically had the department of justice can we just come get it. since 2009 the vice president can declassify. vice president biden could declassify. vice president pence could declassify. you just can t take it. it. in terms of this and i don t think anyone would argue with this. it was chaotic at the end of that administration number one.
the fbi does not do searches voluntarily, consent searches, unless there are no rules, there are no ways they can say you can t go in this, room or you can t look at that or you can t open that drawer. when you have a consent search by the fbi, they went through that house with a fine tooth comb. no rules. and that does show how much cooperation by the days given the fbi, and trying to help the department of justice into exactly what they want. the obvious legal problem that comes from all of this is because we have to special counsel s, both of whom the trump won and the biden won, are going to recommend something to the department of justice. the attorney general is going to have to weigh them together. ordinarily if you have a case of california, that is deciding separately than a case out of new york. these are going to be cases are going to be looked at it together. that does weaken the ability, frankly, of the cautious attorney general to make a decision on the trump case. we a