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Welcome back. well continue to follow the big story this hour. a federal grand jury approves the first charges in robert muellers investigation of russian meddling in the 2016 election. we could see any person charged taken into custody as early as monday. lets discuss this with avery freeman, a civil rights attorney and law professor. and richard herman, a new york criminal defense attorney and law professor joining us from las vegas. good to see you both. >> good to see you, fredricka. >> so t...

I read, general flynn, hes doing the right thing and you cannot infer because he pled the fifth guilt. you cannot do that, fred, he should be doing that right now. hes the question -- the question is to what extent will it apply to documents. thats the next decision here. flynn was in that room with kushner and in that meeting. maybe now we are seeing more information why the president is so in n-- flynn has some informn pretty devastating to not only the president but kushner. well see what hap...

Three are carter page, paul manafo manafort, and roger stone. page who has appeared on cnn many times has already said that he will not cooperate and ensuggested the committee get the information from former president barack obama. avery freeman is a civil rights attorney with me. the grand jury subpoenas indicate that the investigation continues. so what in your view, richard, does this signal? >> it signals that they are closing in on these, especially flynn. when his lawyer reached out in mar...

Someone or you let them go. thats not -- it may not be a direct violation of the law and certainly, attorney general sessions, and the trump administration, they dont have the inherent authority to make that ultimate adjudication whether or not the law has been violated. all of these cities, fred, will comply with a letter, a written letter, saying by june 30th, yes, were in compliance, and we believe compliance is as follows. so theyll send that in. and that should be enough to set the stage fo...

Professor, so whats the answer? whats the bottom line? and the professor usually laughs at you. there is no bottom line. theres a discussion. thats rationale. there are different sides. here, theres no clean cut, 100% answer one way or the other. avery gave you a good rationale and the discussion behind it. but the overriding principle is simply this. did this somehow protect the national interests of the united states? if the answer to that is no, then this was domestically illegal. if the answ...

Agreement that the united states and russia were party to, for removal of chemical weapons, furtherance of a treaty that they signed, in international law that says you cannot use chemical weapons. >> there is no legal justification of this. from a moral standpoint, absolutely, i agree with senator rubio, it was the right thing to do. president trumps doing this, finally waking up to the atrocities in syria is a good thing but he should not have done this without coming to congress. >> lets talk...

You cant do it. its unconstitutional. we should not bomb seara. those same republicans are cheering on president trump right now. thats how insane our congress is. >> no, thats a political argument. >> thats how insane it is. >> thats a political argument. >> its so ridiculous. you cant even get a clear-cut answer. in any event, the answer here, fred, its done. now what do we do? whats our goal? whats our stated goal? whats the next step? if he will continue military action with the russian batt...

Made that decision with whatever input or power there is may be. thats something he would have to answer and i dont know if the people can particularly point to that input as where this went wrong. >> so are you inferring that that prosecutor would know about the real viability of that kind of charge on the one out of 13 officers prior to making that decision? >> we would hope our elected officials would have the experience the temperment and the wisdom and leadership to have known that. and kno...

That it is the end of it in terms of the criminality issue. but i dont think its the end of it in terms of civil potential civil claims. >> all right. weve got more straight ahead. i want to continue our conversation with avery freeman, joey jackson and walter madison and ryan young who is in cleveland will be joining us right after this. if you struggle with type 2 diabetes youre certainly not alone. fortunately, many have found a different kind of medicine that lowers blood sugar. imagine what...

Beginning that this charge didnt seem appropriate for this crime? or that there should have been more? or that it was appropriate? >> actually i think it was appropriate. i watched this trial periodically from the 6th of anticipate all the way up to closing arguments in early may. >> i saw nothing in terms of the presentation by tim mcginty who was the elected prosecutor and his professional staff, that suggested it was anything other than vigorous and professional and strong. there is nothing t...