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welcome back to the weekend. new this morning, donald trump telling lies. that is not that new. he is lashing out at the federal government in his first interview after being convicted of falsifying business records. take a listen. it is a scam. the republican party, they stick together in this. it is weaponization of the justice department and of the fbi. that is all coming out of washington. take a look at who opened the case. i m not allowed to talk about it because i have a gag order. joining us is former fbi council andrew wiseman and a law professor at new york university and our msnbc legal analyst, legal assistant attorney general mary mccord. andrew and mary are the cohosts of the award-winning podcast prosecuting donald trump. we talked about a tax on the justice system. i want to get to that. i think it is important to underscore that, in addition to attacking the judge in the doj, he is also attacking the jury itself. these are just average citizens ....
That is what just happened in new york. a jury of 12 people come with his input, found unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt, and for those of us in the courtroom, it is easy to put a label on this and say that it is unfair and rigged. but let me give you one example. david pekker, his friend was largely not examined. at no point did he say did he lie. or did we have this conspiracy to fix the election. that is crazy. mary, let s talk about the new felon in are midst. i think it is important to point out that donald trump is a felon. ....
Should be passionate trying to be fair and balanced. And i think you will see the exact opposite when David Pekker testifies about what the scheme was. Im struck by the fact that we were being prepared for the fact that Jury Selection will take two weeks. You had Michael Cohen saying it would take three weeks. Here has only taken a week. The pace of the trial. I think we are all worried about the sanctity of this jury, given what we are talking about with donald trump. Especially with what we have seen from right wing media figures. You have this from politico thursday. Prosecutors saying trump has violated his Gag Order seven more times. The previously asked the judge to hold the former president and contempt. It seems the stakes have gotten higher. They are told people wi ....