touchable. how powerful people get away with it, ellie would donald trump have been indicted if he d gone quietly into the night after the 2020 election? so michael, i can absolutely see the mirror in both sides of this argument. we can t get inside alvin bragg s head, but the fact that i can see both sides of it, i think is a problem in itself. so on the one hand, i know alvin bragg personally. i worked with him at the southern district of new york for several years. i know him to be nothing but a straightforward, honest ethical prosecutor. on the other hand, if you look at the circumstances here, we have to acknowledge the u. s justice department the same office. alvin and i worked at the southern district of new york passed on charging donald trump in january. 2021 they could have they looked at the case decided not to alvin brags predecessor as d. a cy vance had this case in front of him for over a year and did not charge it. and i think the big question that brag, ultimately has t
general merritt garland. anthony coley. who also served as chief spokesman for the department of justice and cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. elie honig is the author of the recent book on touchable. how powerful people get away with it, ellie would donald trump have been indicted if he d gone quietly into the night after the 2020 election? so, michael, i can absolutely see the mirror in both sides of this argument. we can t get inside alvin bragg s head, but the fact that i can see both sides of it, i think is a problem in itself. so on the one hand, i know alvin bragg. personally. i worked with him at the southern district of new york for several years. i know him to be nothing but a straightforward, honest ethical prosecutor. on the other hand, if you look at the circumstances here, we have to acknowledge the u. s justice department the same office. alvin and i worked at the southern district of new york passed on charging donald trump in january. 2021 they co
analyst david gergen joins us now. david also served under four different us presidents david pretty big day coming up. on tuesday. former president donald trump expected to i guess surrender himself to authorities be arraigned and all that. under this indictment. how big of a challenge is this to the justice system and shouldn t our justice system being should be able to withstand this? i mean, this is this is the u. s justice system after all. well i do think, jim that it is a test of the resilience of our of our legal system. i must say that you know, we went into the midterm elections thinking a lot of things might happen coming out of institutions over weekend and that did not happen. the voters stuck to some old norms. they pushed back on some of this, so it did. i don t think we ought to for abandon our belief in that and the traditional justice system. sometimes it comes out. then we learned more through it. sometimes it s weaker. but right
the one you see here, ivan corcoran must testify tomorrow and turn over his handwritten notes. i want to bring in cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider, just get i was struck by the statement from ty cobb, who, of course, was a white house attorney when trump was president that, he said last night, he said trump has turned more attorneys into witnesses than any criminal defendant in the history of the u. s justice system. obviously you know, speaking with some hyperbole there, but but making the point that it s just remarkable that we re seeing another trump attorney going for the grand jury, this time with no attorney client privilege to say to why he can t answer certain questions. yeah so this is a big blow to trump and his legal team, but a big boost for the special counsel. this is a top trump attorney being compelled to give this testimony about his interactions with trump and in this case in the courts have really moved swiftly on this. this has been a rapid fire legal b