It makes no since he s using the excuse he s been threatened. cohen s legal adviser weighed in on some of president trump s comments about cohen. when the top law enforcement person in the country, the president of the united states, amazing i m about to stha, calls somebody who tells the truth a rat and then praises people who are refusing to tell the truth, then you re sending a signal of lawlessness by the highest office in our country. so, mr. cohen is concerned that when you re labelled a rat, and you re in a federal prison, there could be some danger from other people. all right. joining us here on set msnbc legal analyst danny sevalis. what do you make of the subpoena? it creates an interesting legal situation.
Only be held for 20 days. so when they are release hadded to a family member or if they have no family, what happens then? there s a series of options under the flores settlement agreement that allow the government to place them ideally with a family member or some other guardian, but possibly with the government if there are no other options. over the many years that i ve defended dependency in you veny dli juvenile adolescent juvenile delenquincy, the government has never particularly been good at it. danny, thank you so much. michael cohen tweeting about tom arnold, why he s trying to set the record straight. that s up next. and before we take a break, melania s jacket uproar, it may
No parents that had been separated from their children by the u.s. government. there were many parents looking to get back to their children in whatever country they came from. but we don t know if that was an intentional choice by the government and by the government i mean prosecutors to only bring parents who had not been separated from their children. so we re not entirely sure if that s a policy change or if that was a cosmetic decision to prevent a large list of parents possibly asking about the whereabouts of their children. but i should add, the judge was very clear that had that question been raised by one of the defendants, that is not the province of criminal court and it is beyond the power of the judge or the prosecutors in that room to answer questions or resolve issues about where those particular defendants children may be in the government system. so, danny, there s a legal settlement known as the flores agreement where the minors can
Rows with the defendants so they could be heard. and this is organized more like just taking a rough poll of a number of people rather than a guilty plea and sentencing hearing. what the effect is that because the government is ramping up prosecution of the misdemeanors as well as the felonies, it s the misdemeanors that caused the clogging of the court docket. it makes for dockets of 60 to 70 defendants in one day being sentenced and prosecuted en masse. and that is always a concern for the criminal justice system that the federal defender or defense attorneys with adequate time to provide effective assistance of counsel to their clients. danny, there were no parents that we saw in court, but what legal steps can parents take that they haven t been able to make any progress reuniting themselves with their children? as far as we know, there are
Questions. at the time i made the decision not to prosecute him, i knew this opportunity would present itself in the case. i knew he would have to answer questions under oath that he didn t have to answer me. that s interesting. i had not realized that. bruce castor appreciate you being here tonight. a lot more to talk with o mara danny sevalis, and sunny hostin former federal prosecutor joining us on the phone. what is your take of what mr. castor had to say and the revelations bill cosby gave in this deposition? well it certainly is one of the frustrations, anderson, that we have as prosecuors. it is often times not what happened but what you can prove. i think what we heard from mr. castor was, he suspected that she was telling the truth. often times you know that someone is telling the truth. but you have got to prove it up. prove it up with blood evidence. you have to prove it up with