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Manhattan da, thats a political office, this case could be a big case if youre taking the president of the united states down into a criminal matter. the question i have i guess as a nonlawyer is whats the penalty for this kind of case? >> so that really depends on how its ultimately structured. if they were able to make some sort of a tax charge here, which we dont know. we dont know if they have tax records, we could be looking at a lengthy violation for a felony. its certainly not a misdemean...

The american bar association talking about once youve been incarcerated for a low level drug crime, theres 40,000 collateral consequences that impacted your life. jobs, pell grants, loans from banks. do you think -- yes or no -- this system of mass incarceration has disproportionately benefitted african american communities? yes or no. >> i think the reduction in crime has since 1992, but i think that the heavy drug penalti penalties especially on crack and other things have harmed the black com...

There are 40,000 collateral consequences that impact your life. jobs, pell grants, loans from banks. do you think, just yes or no that, this system of mass incarceration has disproportionately benefitted african-american communities? >> i think the reduction in crime has since 1992, but i think that the heavy drug penalties, especially on crack and other things, have harmed the black community, the incarceration rates. >> and i would just conclude to my chairman and partner, thank you, sir. im g...

Thats why the expungement work is so important, second chances is so important, and hiring people with criminal records is so important as well because what happens is people get out of prison. they think its over, and they can go about with their life, but there are so many collateral consequences, 50,000 or more to a criminal conviction that it keeps them from succeeding, and oftentimes leads them back into prison, which is not an outcome anyone wants. >> heres another aspect of it. there is a...

Of zero to six months. the judge was free to go above that if the judge found good cause to do so. most often, alex, with a person with this sort of a crime with no criminal history whatsoever, they actually dont receive a sentence. here muellers prosecutors went to court and asked for a custodial sentence which might not sound like a lot to us, but were not the ones who have to go into federal custody for 14 days. and of course, there are all sorts of collateral consequences for conviction. inc...

And james comey said these were all very hard decisions. and i grant him that. but youre right. in the vacuum that was created by the absence of leadership, james comey stepped in, you can criticize that jump. he probably felt that he did the best he could under the circumstances, but the -- basically all of the sort of collateral consequences that flow from the lack of leadership from the top on down, thats the mess that was created that occasions this 500-page report. >> neil: robert, i rememb...

A deposition, even though the ruflz discovery are somewhere broad, expect trumps attorney to stop the questioning if it gets even close to anything to do with russia. they will stick their arm out to the client and say, jonathan, dont answer that question. and even if its arguably a question that should be answered, his attorneys have to be mindful. they have o air on the side of you saying because a wrong answer may not be admissible in trial but it may destroy his mexico. >> is this an importa...

National security team going through and making judgment calls about people on our hit list people targeted and lookinglook g looking at potential collateral consequences. each of the calls by the president he tilted towards trying to have as little collateral impact as possible. you could hear to some degree the anguish in president obamas comments as he kind of revealed the human face and revealed the mistakes made in this particular case. while this was a very important al qaeda target there ...

In a settlement anyway. whats the harm in that? but the problem is that all the arguments collapse when you compare it to the fact that other people are going to jail. so if you have people committing serious crime. especially -- fraud, for which poor people go to jail all the time for welfare fraud. none of those arguments make sense. theyre morally unacceptable. >> it is also what eric holder suggested when asked by why, they havent more aggressively pursued, crime at the executive and corpora...