pouring my heart out in the victim impact statement that took so long to write and i reread it over and over again to not get a response out of the judge. when it came down to sentencing kim potter she broke out in tears. i m not sure you were able to hear. were you able to hear what she was saying? i was able to hear enough and i certainly have a response if that is what you are looking for because i would like to respond to that. i think what happened was judge chu was in tears putting kim potter in jail because i don t think judge chu wanted to put, wanted to put kim potter in jail at all. i was nearly falling out of my chair listening to judge chu and what she was saying about kim potter. i really thought she d sentence her to probation. that is where i thought this was
perhaps even sitting in this chair listening to all this, wondering how we should think about all these talks about pardons. all these mentions of pardons. it seems to be in the background of so many of the tableaus. talk about that and how it might blow back on rudy giuliani. yeah. so let s level set for a moment here and set aside criminal allegations of obstruction, witness tampering that are related to dangling pardons. let s talk about ethics and integrity just for a second. this whole notion of the president s criminal defense attorneys, not white house counsel, not ethics and policy lawyers, but his defense team even entertaining discussion of a pardon, entering into so-called back channel communications, wholly inappropriate and puts us much more squarely in the obstruction category than, say, white house counsel explaining the facts of
say if i m an investigator i m really going to do a lot of investigating to see what more is there. and i think that s what we re hearing from the news stories. hey, frank, i m sitting home listening to all this, or perhaps even sitting in this chair listening to all this, wondering how we should think about all these talks about pardons. all these mentions of pardons. it seems to be in the background of so many of the tableaus. talk about that and how it might blow back on rudy giuliani. yeah. so let s level set for a moment here and set aside criminal allegations of obstruction, witness tampering that are related to dangling pardons. let s talk about ethics and integrity just for a second. this whole notion of the president s criminal defense attorneys, not white house counsel, not ethics and policy lawyers, but his defense team even entertaining discussion of a pardon, entering into so-called back channel communications, wholly inappropriate and puts us much
backyard sitting in his chair listening to his beloved yankees play on the radio. and that s where this story might have ended, but mitchell, a friend of one of these soldiers and an army vet, himself, set out on a mission. he and his wife, marilyn, spent years writing letters and working with congress and our military to get this done. so we thank all those who worked so hard for so long to bring us to this moment, especially marilyn and mitchell, now 83 years old, who i d ask to stand so that we can all say thank you. [ applause ]
sitting in his chair listening to his beloved yankees play out on the radio. and that s where the story might have ended. but mitchell woodman, a friend of one of these soldiers and an army vet himself, set out on a mission. he and his wife marilyn spent years writing letters and working with congress and our military to get this done. and so we thank all those who worked so hard for so long to bring us to this moment, especially marilyn and mitchell, now 83 years old, who i d ask to stand so that we can all say thank you. [ applause ] finally, of these 24 soldiers,