welcome to you both. professor, your thoughts? well, so much to say, ari. not surprised at all to see that that defendant was convicted this morning. there was discussion about whether or not blaming this on donald trump would work. we have seen this kind of plea before. as i said before, there have been those involved in the drug trade and gang violence who said learn lulled in by strong charismatic figures and made to do these things without their own knowledge or own doing and it s been unavail. i think here it was similarly unavailing. whether it means donald trump will face criminal liability in the future for inciting violence is another matter. that s the focus of the january 6th select committee and the fact that stephen miller is testifying and we don t know what the subject of his testimony will be but the fact that he has decided to stop stonewalling and at least provide some testimony to that committee suggests that they are moving closer to that inner
right. bill: the defense of entrapment is unavail, unquote. except when the government has planted the seed coerced him, encouraged him and led him by the nose. bill: you just admitted to me in front of millions of people that even if the government s tape shows he wasn t coerced, he wanted to do it, you still would vote to acquit. i say that s irresponsible. i would have to hear the evidence of the coercion. if there is evidence of coercion, which i have seen in that same affidavit, this is not the proper role of government. because if government can do it to him. bill: falls back on theory again because we said if it is apparent and i believe it will be because i don t think holder, a very liberal guy, the attorney general is going to put his neck on the line, all right, in saying we didn t, we gave him out. but you still and i believe you were telling the truth, you still, because you are a stubborn guy would vote to acquit the man each in the tape showed he wanted to
bill: the defense of entrapment is unavail, unquote. except when the government has planted the seed coerced him, encouraged him and led him by the nose. bill: you just admitted to me in front of millions of people that even if the government s tape shows he wasn t coerced, he wanted to do it, you still would vote to acquit. i say that s irresponsible. i would have to hear the evidence of the coercion. if there is evidence of coercion, which i have seen in that same affidavit, this is not the proper role of government. because if government can do it to him. bill: falls back on theory again because we said if it is apparent and i believe it will be because i don t think holder, a very liberal guy, the attorney general is going to put his neck on the line, all right, in saying we didn t, we gave him out. but you still and i believe you were telling the truth, you still, because you are a stubborn guy would vote to acquit the man each in the tape showed he wanted to kill thes
right. bill: the defense of entrapment is unavail, unquote. except when the government has planted the seed coerced him, encouraged him and led him by the nose. bill: you just admitted to me in front of millions of people that even if the government s tape shows he wasn t coerced, he wanted to do it, you still would vote to acquit. i say that s irresponsible. i would have to hear the evidence of the coercion. if there is evidence of coercion, which i have seen in that same affidavit, this is not the proper role of government. because if government can do it to him. bill: falls back on theory again because we said if it is apparent and i believe it will be because i don t think holder, a very liberal guy, the attorney general is going to put his neck on the line, all right, in saying we didn t, we gave him out. but you still and i believe you were telling the truth, you still, because you are a stubborn guy would vote to acquit the man each in the tape showed he wanted to