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 d
a felon for those of you know the need that help. the new york city probation department will conduct an interview and generate a sentencing recommendation for justice juan merchan. this will be a moment where donald trump essentially confronts not just what got him into the situation but his whole life story. the aspect of this process is very probing. during the interview, a convict can try to make a good impression and explain why he or she deserves a lighter punishment. i was a good member of the community before this happened and all that stuff. but it is a chance for them to create an impression as judge juan merchan decides to meat out the punishment. how do you think that will go? i can hardly imagine mr. trump sitting for that and it
jury s rendering of the verdict is core to our system. and the judge will be looking at things like the reason for the scheme. the judge will look to see what other cases have been weeded out for falsification of business records and what were they falsifying books often times the motive is financial gain. here it is completely different. it is undermining the results of a presidential election. very significant. there are many things the judge will be looking at. i have a hard time thinking that the interview with the pretrial service folks will be that meaningful. feel free to weigh and on this question. the grounds for appeal, it is hard to see that they are terribly meritorious. what they are going to say is the judge had a conflict of interest. that has already been ruled
going well. one thing that is so different about the case, then the cases of so many individuals who do have this interview before they go to sentencing and for who it is so important is that we know so much about mr. trump s history. the whole country does in the whole world does. and normally is more common for a defendant that has gone through trial and found guilty by a jury that the probation officer and the judge don t really know that much about the defendant as a person other than their crimes, the things that the evidence will put on about at the trial. it is important to convey with their upbringing was like or what their education was like or what challenges they faced in life and what challenges they overcame and life. whether they are thought by others in the community to be good people or whether they expressed remorse, et cetera. we don t need that for donald trump. it is already known. it seems almost a little silly to go through the process with respect to him. but whe
should be put into mr. trump s conditions of release and if so, how they would be enforced. jack smith already put a footnote in his motion saying, we reached out to the probation office. the probation office said that because mr. trump is out on bond, we don t have any supervised authority over him and we have nothing to say about this unless the judge ordered it. i think the next step to get to your question is will judge cannon do what the defense is asking for, what mr. trump is asking for, and order the probation office to make its own recommendation which again, you can see the delay and mr. trump s attorneys have said, we should not even have to brief the issue until two weeks after the probation office doesn t interview. to your question, talking about more time going by well dangerous and false statements are being made not only by mr. trump book by other people like steve bannon and marjorie taylor greene who have gone so far as to suggest that this was