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Participants here, you said everyone can be found as aiding and abetting, or their own individual liability. how much more investigation would have to occur, the starr report, over 150 page report conducted by the attorney generals office? is that enough for the prosecution to take place, or do viewers have to look forward to another year of contemporaneous investigations for more accountability to have in customer >> mercedes: great question. this was such a thorough investigation, the 199 witn...

Investigations are handled by political parties and media, dc media never met a republican investigation that should start or democrat investigation that should end with "fast and furious," you would think two groups always talking about gun control would be interesting in u.s. aiding and abetting the flow of guns to mexican drug cartel, most democrats in the media did not care, benghazi? more democrats voted to investigate what happened in benghazi, libya than republicans voted to investigate t...

Randomly from a hat to hold a stop the steal rally down on the eclipse. how important is part of the investigation and do you not see it as an important part of the investigation? >> can i start with the first question first. anybody trivializing, trying to re-invent what happened january 6th, i dont care what party theyre in, i will be one of the people to call them out. i was on the floor that day. i am not sure we get off, i was on the balcony because of social distancing, not sure we get out...

Banks respond on fox tv after this, and he went on. he just came filled with the republican talking points of nancy pelosi doesnt want to get to the bottom of what happened, shes afraid because itll all lead back to her and theyre not going to figure out why the capitol wasnt protected. thats what theyre trying to do is to figure out how to stop this from happening. its just a complete fallacy. >> its a lie. these arent talking points. these are lies. and this is an attempt to whitewash what hap...

Anyway, i digress. with barracks access to money and private jets and powerful people in other countries, does it make sense to you on what the strategy the justice department is deploying here? i mean, i guess it would be $250 million at stake if he split town. i dont know what his form of wealth is. >> its not just the $250 million at stake, anderson. imagine he gets on his private jet and flies to the uae tomorrow. number one he loses $250 million. number two, he becomes a fugitive from justi...

Private jet and flies to the uae tomorrow. number one, okay, he loses the $250 million. number two, he becomes a fugitive from justice and is subject to additional charges for that. number three, any bank that transacts with him is considered aiding and abetting his flight. and any individual that helps him get to his assets in the united -- any individual in the u.s. who helps him is also subject to charges, themselves. so he would bring a whole bunch of other people into this and for a 7 -- wh...

In 2016, election influence was the number one threat. today thats been far surpassed by ransomware groups. whats interesting about these groups and what president biden is talking about here is the compliity of the russian government. this is not a group associated with an intelligence agency. this is a crime group. an organized crime group. similar to organized crime groups here in the united states. so a lot of these nation states are allowing these organized crime groups to operate with impu...

A message, there was a message that was sent. which is that if you commit a murder, whether you wear a badge or not, you can face a very serious consequences. and your role as a state actor is not going to shield you from responsibility and accountability. >> it was interesting today to see the judge talk about the aggravating factors that he used to justify northward departure, an upward departure, from what had been otherwise 12 and a half year sentence under minnesota sentencing guidelines. o...

At baseline. he said he issued the sentence because mr. chauvin abused his position of trust and authority. because they treated george floyd with particular cruelty. because children were present during the commission of the offense. and because mr. chauvin committed the crime as a group, with the active participation of three other individuals. all those four aggravating factors to the judge, justified a departure from the presumptive 12 and a half year sentence, up to the 22 and a half years ...

Consequences and your role as a state actor is not going to shield you from responsibility and accountability. >> it was interesting today to see the judge talk about the aggravating factors that he used to justify northward departure, an upward departure from what had been the 12 and a half-year sentence. one of those was he actsed in a group with other individuals involved. i know that the judge -- that the case to have other three officers, the state charges against the other three officers f...