death, ahmaud arbery s mom filed a civil lawsuit against those three men as well as the glynn county police department and the district attorney s office. so what is the next step in that suit? well, again, this case highlighted for us, when we started talking about the overarching themes, this highlighted to us prosecutorial misconduct where we had jackie johnson, the original prosecutor in this case who didn t indict for over two months, who put her thumb on the scale of justice. and that s what that civil suit is directed at. it s going back towards glynn county, the systemic failures within the southern georgia legal system in ways that the black community in that region still remains exposed. yeah, you ve just said this, as have many of those who praised the verdict, saying that there s still work to do. as a civil rights attorney, lee, what needs to get done? well, we need to begin to- of course we need to deal with the issue of gun violence because racial issues aside, thi
impeachment. so members of your party, they re debating the time lines here, and i know you have this new op-ed and i m looking at it. you wrote this about wait and indict trump when he s out of office? no, start impeachment inquiry now. you re reminding the readers that the statute of limitations for obstruction of justice is just five years. explain to the viewers why five years is so crucial. well, the old criminal defense attorney in me probably came out as i was questioning the special counsel. and i raised this issue. bottom line, the justice department policy says you can t indict a seated president. it is very clear that s the reason the special counsel didn t indict the president for obstruction. well, if you follow that logic, a president who serves a second term of eight years will be able to outserve the statute of
very clear his distaste for the comey announcement, where he lamb basted hillary clinton, secretary clinton and didn t indict her. so i would be surprised if the president were publicly taken to the wood shed in any part of what s to come, given that he s fought going to be indicted or there will be no recommendation he be indicted in the future. right. which is again why that phrase principle conclusions leapt out at me. because if you read what rod rosenstein, the speech he gave the other day, in which he replicated that principle we don t opine on uncharged conduct, you know, that was almost, it s been a mantra of rosenstein from the beginning. that was the grounds upon which he wrote his memo that led to the firing of comey. so who sort of conclusions are we talking about? you know, i would suggest that s
investigation. there are all kinds of things that the justice department is not prepared to share. listen to bill barr describe a little built of this to the senate a couple of weeks ago. if you re not going to indict someone you don t stand up there and unload negative information about the person. that s not the way the department of justice does business. and you can expect, wolf, that the members of congress are not going to really like the answer there if they don t get to see everything. you re going to see dedication and see bipartisan members of congress to see if they can fix this. they believe the public deserves to see everybody that mueller has james comey didn t indict or charge hillary clinton but he stood up there days before the election and he revealed all sorts of negative information about her and he was condemned. it a lot of democrats were totally inappropriate and went
done legally. they say they have that power or think that power should exist but didn t indict a president as you know. doj guidelines and a debate over what they mean. they re not law. the man who wrote the ones for the special counsel said this. regulations say mueller you re bound by doj policy but can seek exceptions. that s what i would expect he would do. that s why all of the backstory in the legal history matters tonight. we don t know what mueller is going to do. but if, according to the man who wrote his rules he uncovered the kind of crime that was so significant that he needed or thought there was a public interest to indict a sitting president, he would have to ask for an exception. he would have to do that. he would have to do that request by submitting it to the new current attorney general. they ultimately ordered nixon to turn over those very damning watergate tapes. they said the president didn t