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house now. mj, lets start with this meeting happening right now. its notable that only allies are joining this call. >> yeah. thats right. we are about to see president biden turn his attention to this news that absolutely rocked the country last week. of course, the supreme courts decision to overrule roe v. wade. this is a decision that the president himself had referred to as outrageous. what we are about to see moments from now is the president holding a virtual meeting with nine g...

Investigations, just in this one, he was important in the classified documents investigation and was called before the grand jury. to be talking publicly and criticizing your fellow team members, that is rare, is it not? >> yeah, its an extraordinary interview, i would say. and theres some concerns ethically. there are rules that say you cannot reveal client confidences and certainly infighting within the legal team about whats happening is part of the client confidences and it could be detrimen...

Same people. are they allowed to communicate among themselves about testimony related to their shared clients? >> theyre not allowed to share client confidences. but they are allowed to do what is often called a joint defense agreement if thats the case. but were not at that place yet. were not at a prosecution. were in a congressional inquiry. interestingly enough, the issue of witness tampering may be one of the biggest threats to jump yet. thats because its an offense that happened after he w...

Commit a crime or fraud and hired john eastman to help furtherance of that crime, to help him try to commit that crime or that fraud. now, eastman has responded in a statement or his attorneys i should say have responded in a statement early this morning. lets put it up on the screen. they hold to his position that communication between the two of them are protected by client confidences and that eastman has a responsibility to protect that. they look forward to responding in due course. now, nb...

Testimony at all. what does that testimony mean? what does it mean going forward? >> joining us now, former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzalez. thanks so much for being with us. just to clear up a couple of points here. >> sure. >> it is not at all unusual for cabinet officials and sub-cabinet officials and ex-cabinet officials to testify? >> no, not at all, particularly to events that happened while in office. its not unusual whatsoever. >> the lawyers for sally yates say they were initiall...

Client confidences. when his attorneys speak we are speaking for him. when we speak and say that he denies all of the allegations and accusations then that is the statement of bill cosby. when you look at the recent filings just as recently as two days ago in another case in pennsylvania those are the statements of mr. cosby. its not necessary for him to do anything more than what he is doing which is relying on able counsel to speak for him in a situation where he has neither been charged with ...

essentially gone rogue, had contacted the special prosecutors office on his own and is in a fragile condition. >> george zimmerman in our opinion and from information made available to us is not doing well emotionally, probably suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. we understand from others he may have lost a lot of weight. our concern is for him to do this when hes got a couple of professionals working as hard as we were for his benefit to handle it this way suggests that he ...

prosecutors office on his own and is in a fragile condition. >> george zimmerman in our opinion and from information made available to us is not doing well emotionally, probably suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. we understand from others he may have lost a lot of weight. our concern is for him to do this when hes got a couple of professionals working as hard as we were for his benefit to handle it this way suggests that he may not be in complete control of whats going on. ...