the courthouse this they cannot be tannished. these what you think of as a constitutional trial. only two people stood in the way of a murderous suicide pact. that s ridiculous. this is dick durbin, the top democrat on the judiciary committee, which on the senate side is doing this work. again, you can get numb hearing this. you keep hearing the trump told a big lie, and in a moment i ll tell you he s doing the big lie. think about this this is the president of the united states trying to cling to power. listen to dick durbin. when the president was teergt on the precipice of whether or not he was going to remove the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and replace him with jeffrey clarke, it was cipollone who spoke up that said what they were trying to achieve was a murder-suicide pact and that the president should not do that. think about the january 6th committee on the house side trying to go deeper into the facts here.
want this whole report out there. you re saying there are people who should probably be protected. your thoughts? well, look. the department of justice has a standard, as our friend andrew mcarthur says. if you don t indict, you don t speak. so the attorney general, bill barr, is going to have four choices about what to do with the confidential report he ll receive from mueller. he can put out everything. mueller is required to tell him about the background on all of his decisions to indict and not to indict. those are called declinations. if he does that, there will be people whose names will be tannished simply because they were look at, even if the decision was never to indict him. he could say nothing. here s the indictments, they speak for themselves. all the information is out there. but that may be problematic. he might be able to get away with saying here are the issues
but they have so much more in terms of defending this case that they can rely on. number one, certainly use america s dad but whatever goodwill he s built on the reputation as arguably been tannished upon repair. first focus on the defensible of the case. this is a defensible criminal case. number one, no scientific evidence, it s all testimonial evidence. so attack the credibility of those witnesses, impeach their testimony. and in doing so, the entire commonwealth s case is based on the recollections of a witness from over a decade ago. that s the kind of testimony that can be cross-examined and can be damaged. what about this i mean, obvious obviously, i interviewed bill cosby s lawyer this week, she s going to make the case that this is all political, this is what authorities there campaigned on they were going to take down bill cosby. the statute of limitations would
this until the the cotton s picked and the beans and the kernels are counted. smart phones make calls, send e-mails and now you can set them to stun. it is going too far? hello, everyone, i m poppy harlow in tonight for don lemon. let s get you up to speed on the day r day s biggest stories. in syria, a senior government official with 34 years of service now says he s on the side of the rebel uprising. he was syria s ambassador to iraq, and he s the highest ranking diplomat to defect. he says he can t be part of a dictatorship any longer. you ll hear him his in his own words in just a moment. plus, i just spoke with the long-time american ambassador to syria. his reaction, our conversation coming up. an egyptian official says two americans kidnapped on the sinai peninsula are unharmed and well fed. their families want to know when they will be freed. the son of the reverend michel louis spoke to randi kaye about how the ordeal is taking a toll on the pastor s wife. it