protests in the summer of 2020 although a guilty verdict and accountability has been had, justice has not been served. a well functioning justice system shouldn t ensure someone is held accountable for another person s unlawful death. no verdict can change the fact there was an empty seat at the thanksgiving table this week. i m joined by k.c hoffler. chair of the rainbow/push coalition. thank you for being with us. i wanted to start with what we heard now. the case has been called by many people a modern day lynching. the idea that someone was killed extra judicially. it is interesting to me how race, itself, didn t come up during the trial until the very end when the prosecutor alluded to the racial aspects of the case. it was there throughout. anybody who knows what it is
at least five standing committees in the house of representatives. with all that as backdrop let s bring in our lead-off panel for this busy wednesday night. we are so pleased to welcome to the broadcast preet bharara, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york until he was freed up by donald trump to spend more time with his family and perhaps write a book. it happens to be called doing justice: a prosecutor s thoughts on crime, punishment and the rule of law. discussion to follow. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. by coming on tonight phil has agreed to spend part of the last hour of his birthday with his friends here at the 11th hour. and we welcome back to our broadcast jill colvin, white house reporter for the associate press. mr. rucker, i d like to begin with you. first can you clear up the president just dropped nasty business transaction. he s talked about this before. part of why he feels mueller is c
prosecution. you would still have a mob ten times the strength that it is now if there was no cooperation. that is not to say, though, that thoughtful people in the justice system shouldn t be appreciating and understanding and be sensitive to the idea that it s a little bit unseemly, it s this thing that we recognize in law enforcement as very utilitarian, the greatest good for the greatest number. which is not how all moral systems operate. but it is with cooperation. and so you have to tread very, very carefully. even with someone like michael cohen, no different than cases of robbery or homicide or bank fraud. and you have to make sure the person is corroborated before you ask a jury to believe what he s saying. the book, obviously non-fiction, has fiction-like portrayals of characters that you came to know along the way. some are people you met in the criminal justice system. some are judges, federal and otherwise. we try to ask a lot of our guests that when this story, this tru
to do the right thing in the right way for the right reasons every day and that s it, no matter what, whether it s a big case or a small case. we didn t always get it perfect. we re human beings too. and the theme of the book is that everyone s a human being and is fallible and they have issues they have to deal with and they have pride and they have error. but the ideal was you do the right thing for the right reasons in the right way every day. and i want people to understand what the culture of that place was. and if you read the book and you hear about the stories and all sorts of people know my name because my name was on every indictment, as it s supposed to be. but the people who did the work, the real heroes that people don t know about in the country, are the men and women of the southern district of new york and other places in the justice department who quietly do the work in a non-partisan way following the law wherever it leads and the facts wherever they lead independen
spun off the mueller investigation and the new inquiries on capitol hill from at least five standing committees in the house of representatives. with all that as backdrop let s bring in our lead-off panel for this busy wednesday night. we are so pleased to welcome to the broadcast preet bharara, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york until he was freed up by donald trump to spend more time with his family and perhaps write a book. it happens to be called doing justice: a prosecutor s thoughts on crime, punishment and the rule of law. discussion to follow. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. by coming on tonight phil has agreed to spend part of the last hour of his birthday with his friends here at the 11th hour. and we welcome back to our broadcast jill colvin, white house reporter for the associate press. mr. rucker, i d like to begin with you. first can you clear up the president just dropped nasty business