this withdrawal as strategic failure. what would have been considered success for the administration involved in this conflict for two decades and what it would have taken for us to get to success? i think and my opinion was and that success would have been a negotiated solution between the government of afghanistan and taliban for power-sharing arrange nment their government and end to the civil war in that manner. i also assess probability of that actually happening was low, but i did think there was a possibility and it wasn t zero. negotiated solution was probably the best way to describe a proper end to this war. i don t think there was a military solution by us to destroy, defeat the taliban. i think that was not in the cards. i didn t think at the time if we
investigation, more accountability, and for those of us who work in the profession, certainly we welcome that level of accountability. nobody wants to see a murderer walk free. eugene, we noted there were a fm of calls in the wake of the sentencing, and as chuck put it, some people were satisfied with it, some people are were not. a number of calls for congress to at long last pass a police reform act. where, to the best of your knowledge, does that stand as of tonight? yeah, it seems like we are a few weeks off still of getting an actual bill. there is three kind of big players here. senator tim scott, the republican, senator corey becomer and representative karen bass who have been negotiating in good faith. you know, that s rare form nowadays in washington, d.c.
weisselberg flipping isn t essential because he says that the documents that he is aware of that the d.a. s office has are damning enough. please take on that question for us. maybe, maybe not. as a prosecutor you always like to have documents, of course. that s compelling evidence. but you need someone to breathe life into the documents. to use another cliche, you need someone to put meat on the bone. that s why having individuals on the stand to explain the documents, maybe who wrotes documents, received the documents, are so important in a criminal case. allen weisselberg goes back a number of years with the trump organization, many years, and to another point you made also, very important, it s a small corporation, a small privately-held company. and so if anyone is going to know where the money and where
that number was about 12.5 to 15 years. and the judge departed upward. he found two aggravating circumstances, that chauvin s actions were particularly cruel, and that chauvin abused the position of trust as a police officer. so he went from that presumptive 12.5 to 15 years or so up to 22 years. it s exactly what he should have done. his opinion, which i read earlier today, is methodical and linear and cogent and thoughtful. if you haven t read it, i think you should. i think your viewers would find it interesting to see how the judge reasoned through it. that s how he came up with a number that apparently nobody particularly wanted. some people wanted more, some people wanted a lot less. i think the judge ended up in the right place, brian. chief best, it struck me that the sentencing came down this afternoon, at least here on the east coast, just as the four to 12 shift was getting underway
edition of the political play wok. carmen best, former u.s. attorney and former senior official at the fbi. these days host of the msnbc podcast the oath. well, good evening and welcome to you all. chuck, i want to begin with your bailiwick, your life s work, the law, and get your opinion on this sentence considering the range was parole, no time to 30 years. yeah, brian, you are exactly right. people look at the floor, no time in jail, and the statutory maximum, in this case 40 years in jail, and they assume it s going to be one or the other. actually, minnesota, like virtually every other state like in the federal system, has a set of sentencing guidelines. so the average case is treated in the same way for like defendants who have done like things with like criminal history records. and so for derek chauvin, that number wasn t zero, wasn t 40.