Law and we are delighted today, to have jim zarin here at the law school to celebrate his book. Plaintiff and chiefs. And we will have the format of our team anthony carl who will ask questions of jim. I would like to just introduce jim. He is fundamentally a trial lawyer. His book flames and chiefs, is he trial lawyer news book. Theres an Opening Statement that theres evidence by category and relevance a sneak closing argument. Jim has always been a superb trial lawyer. We met first in 1968, would we both will criminal prosecutors at the Southern District. Jim about my age arrived about 18 months earlier and he by the time, was already a start litigator and prosecutor. In those days, the prosecutor news office in the Southern District was small about 50 lawyers in the Criminal Division. We wash each other and we learn from each other. And jim was my mentor. He took me out of my first trial. Prosecution of young men letters from a mailbox five of them. I think he was a guilty verdict.
If its tuesday, we are talking about rudys duties. Blamh good evening im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to a whirlwind day and welcome to mtp daily. We begin with a flood of new legal headaches for the president and his new lead attorney Rudy Giuliani. Most of these new headaches are selfinflicted thanks to comments made by giuliani in the past 24 hours there is seemingly more evidence that the president and his campaign tried to interview in the russia investigation. Hears giuliani talking about the president s mindset when he fired then fbi director james comey. He fired comey because comey would not among other things say he wasnt a target of the investigation. He is entitled to that. Hillary clinton got that. And he couldnt get that. So he fired him. And he said im free of this guy. According to the president s lawyer, he fired the fbi director because the agency wouldnt publicly clear him in an investigation we now know he is not a target but the subject of. Because of giu
they should be on the same page. nothing that he says could help him hi ion. he has to be quiet and let this proceed. but being quiet is not his forte. all you have to do is read any roy coyne book and realize he is taking he has listened to one lawyer his whole life, roy cohen, roy cohen, fight, fight, fight. i don t know law that uhl well, i know in the court of public opinion those women sitting in middle america this is at least guilty of being shady and untrustworthy, right, when you have the president funneling money through his lawyer to pay off porn stars before an election. in middle america i m sorry, that s guilty. i don t know i don t know about the court law but i know it hurts them in middle america. it seems that the pivotal change here also was the michael cohen raid. because trump knows possibly what is in those documents, what s in those phone calls. and if there is evidence there