we ll hear live from robert in a moment. mark is the reason robert s cousin is in prison in the first place. sering expose, murder in green wich. he had committed hideous murder. mark, welcome. the case was ice cold until you published your book. how did you react when you heard the verdict was overturned? well, geraldo, it was odd that the reason it was overturned or reversed was inadequate council. it s odd when an attorney is hired because he has connections within the community, he knows police officers and worked in the area. he s at the discretion of the family and michael to direct or to change him and yet they let him try to entire case. now they complain that he was somehow inadequate. do you believe let me get to the big picture. do you believe the skakel and kennedy families used their power and money and connections to keep the police at bay before you got involved in the case? absolutely. absolutely. you know, when you look at the greenwich police departm
there s so much happening so fast, basically every day now. the news cycle didn t slow down at all over this weekend that we just went through. today has been just remarkable. we have a ton of really big developments either directly related to the impeachment of president trump or sort of adjunct to that story. one of the things we ll be talking about a little later on in the show is this sort of stunning ruling from a federal judge today in which the judge said the president does, in fact, have to hand over his tax returns in response to a subpoena. and i know this sounds like groundhog day a bit. there have been a bunch of legal fights on this issue of the president s tax returns and financial records. what s notable and important about this one is, well, first, that this one is being handled really fast. the other ones have been tied up in court and seems like it s going to be indefinitely. today this federal judge s ruling didn t result in trump s tax returns being handed
from a federal courtroom this week, truth still matters. that s what a prosecutor from trump s doj said in the closing arguments of roger stone s trial. he said, quote, i know we live in a world where twitter, tweet, social media, where you can find any political view you want. however in our institutions of self government, courts of law, committee hearings, where people under oath have to testify, truth still matters. truth still matters. and the jury agreed. and end ed up convicting trump political adviser. in the news, in the impeachment hearings, three of them, three government officials testified, many more coming up in the days ahead. right now there are competing narratives about impeachment. dueling echo chambers, axios says, divergent worlds the washington post says. narratives are not equally true, not equally valid. there are facts over here, like transcripts. and then there s some elaborate fictions. one narrative is grounded in witnesses, testimony under oath
in the show is this sort of stunning ruling from a federal judge today in which the judge said the president does, in fact, have to hand over his tax returns in response to a subpoena. and i know this sounds like groundhog day a bit. there have been a bunch of legal fights on this issue of the president s tax returns and financial records. what s notable and important about this one is, well, first, that this one is being handled really fast. the other ones have been tied up in court and seems like it s going to be indefinitely. today this federal judge s ruling didn t result in trump s tax returns being handed over today. the judge s ruling was immediately appealed to a federal appeals court. but even that federal appeals court appears to be ready to move fast. they already demanded a very demanding schedule on this. they want their first briefs on this by the end of this week. they expect to be holding their hearing on this within a couple of weeks. the judge s ruling again