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Him check that box." it was a series of arguments that the prosecution did an excellent job knocking down. >> john: so you can prove your case, but then you still have to convince the jury. he suggested in a column earlier this week that jury nullification is something abbe lowell and hunter biden might be counting on. he said, "in addition to a favorable jury pool, his travails with drugs will prompt one or more jurors to avoid the law and vote to acquit. even if he cannot secure acquittal, the...

Hard not to. i mean, you heard from your own reporter who had some sympathy for the fact that she was the daughter of an attic. now, obviously, theres sympathy for that witness does not necessarily translate it to vote for acquittal for the defendant here. okay obviously, the prosecution is going to make the point that of course, shes saying what she needs to say to help her father. >> shes a daughter, shes a good daughter. theyre not going to attacker. theyre just going to say, of course shes s...

Perhaps resist conviction. i dont know an acquittal may be out of his reach. really, they are teeing up there appeal here. they have lost the second amendment claim in the district court with the judge. i think they are expecting that we are going to get another supreme court case this term. perhaps with more clarity about the viability of long-standing federal restrictions on people who are allowed to have firearms based on certain disabilities like narcotics addiction. i think they hope that t...

>> yeah. no its terrible. look, again theres legitimate place for good faith debate and criticism of judicial rulings and arguments made by the defense or the prosecution. look, people on the left i think legitimately im one of them. in my podcast and elsewhere, criticized legitimacy of the supreme court. and talk about whether or not sam alito or justice clarence thomas should recuse themselves from certain matters. thats good and respectful debate. you can have that argument, the board of appe...

Supreme court and talk about whether or not sam alito clarence thomas should recuse themselves from -- thats open debate. people who have a problem with judge merchan not recusing himself, you can have the argument the court of appeals will have the final word. attacking jurors is a bridge too far. a prosecutor wouldve said, and i said, we did not win every case we brought, alvin bragg wouldve taken in stride an acquittal in this case. the rational thing to have done , you can fight in the court...

Say shows hunter biden using drugs and around drugs at roughly the same time time that he bought that gun in october 2018? thats of course the heart of this case. its against federal law for a drug user or a drug addict to buy or possess a firearm. >> but of course, john, is this true in any trial, there are two sides to this story and the defense will also get a bite at the apple. >> theyll get their opportunity to to make opening arguments to the jury. the judge, i will be honest in the last f...

Defendants, so this will be palpable and this will come through to that jury and the more humanity that the defense can spread into that jury box and better chance. there will be a hung jury or an acquittal with that in mind its rare a defense attorney would recommend a defendant take the stand, but to talk about the humanity of it. do you think it could be a good strategy to bring hunter biden? so its its always kate a game time decision. >> you see how the case is playing out. you get the nati...

Them were accused of allegedly leaking diplomatic cable. the sentence was handed out injanuary this year during which both were handed out ten year prison sentences. the bigger question, will imran khan be released? the answer is it is not possible at this point because what we see is another conviction in an all lawful marriage case in which imran khan has been sentenced seven years. that case recently has been transferred to anotherjudge so we dont see in the nearfuture anotherjudge so we dont...

Headed south for the defense in the last couple days of the trial. they made some critical mistakes that made it pretty hard for them to get a hung jury, much less an acquittal. so, we were not surprised by the verdict, those of us in the courtroom. we were very surprised by the timing of it, because we had just been told we were all going to go home and come back on friday for more deliberations, and then late thursday, we got word that there was a verdict. and i have to tell you, richard, it w...

To rake in those grassroots donations where they have succeeded quite a bit. and so the campaign it looking forward, it doesnt really see this verdict changing the calculus of the election entirely. it may have been different if it was an acquittal but of course this is a race thats going to be decided on the margins. and so the question is how the campaign wants to use this moving forward and how they describe and characterize the former president moving forward, those are still answers that we...