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We have chilling new details this morning about threats being made against the grand jurors who just issued an indictment against donald trump in georgia, and the woman arrested after police say she threatened to kill the judge in the d. C. Case. New scrutiny on the hours before the deadly maui wildfires. Why didnt the sirens sound in time . Questions about the state and federal response, and were going to speak with the White House Press secretary shortly. Abortion rights are one step closer to...

So we will be able to bring it back seems to bear more quickly, i am highly confident of that —— bring a vaccine to be. in the meantime, the tools we have at our disposal are the tools that are available. and we would need to enact them... so we watch this very carefully. 0ne would need to enact them... so we watch this very carefully. one of the reasons i moved so fast in portugal, despite the fact that lots of people were having a well earned break, is that we have a precautionary principl...

Stories. what happens to people who have been accused of some horrifying sex crime falsely, the smoke clears and nobody asked them any other questions, what happens to their lives? >> its a big problem. when your name is dragged through the mud, the national press, like my clients was, clients are faced withen a choi. they put out a lot of money and spend on lawyers to litigate to clear their names.ng finding lawyers who are willing to take on their case on a contingency basis and try to clear t...

Gang rape that never took place. so what happens to people who have been accused of some horrifying sex crime falsely, the smoke clears and nobody asked them any other questions, so what happens to their lives? >> its a big problem. when their name isnt dragged through the mud, by the national press like my clients was, clients are faced with the choice of whether they put out a lot of money and to spend on lawyers to litigate to clear their names, or, finding lawyers who are willing to take on ...

This fund and his relationship with michael cohen. is that part of your overall investigative work? >> most certainly. thats one of the things were looking at. what i find to be highly unusual about that, attorney on the plaintiff and defense side when it comes to settlements, its unusual to me why you would have a potential defendant, if it was it was mr. broidy, and i raised that with mika, in my mind theres a big question about this, but i dont want to digress quite yet. its very unusual to h...

Able to walk into our government office. its unbelievable that its 14 months its come to this. you either are preventing people and making sure their backgrounds are clean and doing it in a right and lawful way or youre not. this is just ridiculous. >> dana: one of the things i thought of, this puts the president in a terrible position. according to reports, he didnt know about these allegations until earlier this week. why would you put him in a position like this where he is vulnerable to atta...

Virtually doing nothing. and not all african-american. and part of the problem is that politically, the whole politicalization, nobody wants to touch this problem. theres only a handful of lawyers who want to take on police departments in municipalities. the idea you resist and sue, there arent enough to do that for you on a contingency basis. >> the counterargument is, well, resisting, youre going -- theres a higher likelihood you end up getting injured. >> we empower law enforcement officers t...

Theirs and ours ours. >> they gave it to the government to prosecute the war on drugs. including forfeiting rights to property and liberty on the police are richer. >> oh, absolutely. john: a prosecutor in indiana, a couple of years ago he was hired as an outside prosecutor to do civil forfeiture and he would keep 25% of the total on a contingency basis. >> he was finally caught and punished for doing that. >> it wasnt a very strict punishment. i think they made him repay

But hes not running against those republicans. in fact, hes running to help them by putting them into the majority. and when you compare him to elizabeth warren or senator kennedy who he really inappropriately tried to claim was on his side on the question of birth control, contraception, no, hes not there. he used the arguments when he said, oh, i want it enforced but i dont want to help the plaintiffs lawyers. thats the key. if you start attacking the lawyers who are going to bring these lawsu...

Majority. and when you compare him to elizabeth warren or senator kennedy who he really inappropriately tried to claim was on his side on the question of birth control, contraception, no, hes not there. he used the arguments when he said, oh, i want it enforced but i dont want to help the plaintiffs lawyers. thats the key. if you start attacking the lawyers who are going to bring these lawsuits, then youre saying the law shouldnt be enforced. there is no federal agency able to do that kind of en...