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Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profi...

Donald trump. and these prosecutors dont care as much as prosecutors generally do about having the convictions reversed on appeal. that will happen after the election, which only goes to prove what ive been arguing now for months. if youre going after the man who is running against your incumbent president you darn well better have the strongest case possible and these are among the four at least three of them, three weakest cases ive ever seen against any candidate we dont know about the fourth...

Same topic because i think this is very crucial here. in other words, the fact that we are talking about things that i dont think most americans a whole lot of. thats why is this a rico case, why is this a racketeering case, why did they post this earlier on the web site. in your mind having been an a.g. what is the thinking behind this? >> yes. two primary thoughts. first of all what greg just said is important but this is also being done to catapult the prosecutors political career dont forget...

Include possible coconspirators. what youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. that would be great. here with more, we go back to law professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. jonathan, im looking at that. if youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. how do you read it as your background as the great law professor that you are? >> youre talking about ten indictments, it has not pro...

Proof of an organized criminal enterprise, coupled with a repeated pattern of systematic illegal behavior. normally involves things like extortion for monetary profit, control of property on a recurring basis. that doesnt occur here. this was a single episode of a brief duration where trump and his counsel were asking for a reconsideration of votes cast. at worst this kind of a rico case is simply guilty by association but i agree with professor dershowitz, the prosecutor in this case doesnt car...

Courthouse web site had put up a list of charges among them, rico racketeering, conspiracy, et cetera, professor dershowitz lets start with you let you respond. why did they go with that? >> first of all, we should not take there was a grand jury indictment. the best served who is on the grand jury even voted. the whole strategy of all these four cases is to get a conviction before the election even if theyre going to lose on appeal. i used to teach my students many of them future prosecutors if...

Isolation for a year in jail for two years, with a sentence that was going to go on much longer than that, and you know, you told me that while you were in jail, you were told repeatedly it was insinuated on a regular basis, just tell us what you want to know and you can pretty much walk out of here today. did that happen? >> they created theories they wanted me to agree to. they were tricky the way they tried to do it, but the whole goal was to get me to create a case that showed that donald tr...

How did you interpret it? >> i did interpret the call as suggesting that i dont need many votes in a recounsel to change the outcome. it was a natural argument to make. this is essentially like a settlement call and state officials were pushing back i think in good faith saying we looked at it, we dont see those votes and trump says if you do a state recounty dont need many votes. i just need to find 11,000 and then tire election turns over. we can all debate what was in donald trumps mind but i...

Accuse them of committing a crime bit. so the question here is, what do you have to diminnish this case that wont create that chilling effect? theres a problem here, by the way thairk want to flag, sean. the greatest danger better a rico case is it tends to be harder to go up on appeal before trial. the vees that the rico statute is written in a way that its easy to establish these predicates and its hard enough to get a cost appeals to rule before trial on these threshold issues. its particular...

The iceberg in terms of in the case of trump-russia collusion as an example and now youre with the government accountability institute. in terms of that case as durham pointed out and even michael horowitz had a lot of criticism and referrals that werent followed up but the idea that operation crossfire hurricane should never have been brought against donald trump and it was three years of never ending media lies and conspiracy theories they pedalled:this wasnt thing in the dossier without the d...