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Or sworn under oath. he had conversations with the president, as it was happening. thats important to know. what about all the people who are in the room, when he was being begged to do something. those people need to be in the grand jury. senator tuberville, who took the call from him. he needs to be in the grand jury, raffensperger, rosen, not clark, all these people need to go. but let me give you one cautionary worried about this. and im very concerned about this, and that is, youre too youn...

President as it was happening. thats important to know. what about all the people who were in the room when he was being begged to do something? those people need to be in the grand jury. senator tuberville, who took a call from him needs to be in the grand jury. rosen. not clark. all these people need to go. let me give you one cautionary word about this. im very concerned about this. youre too young to remember this, but when oliver north was convicted and charged because he was selling arms t...

And if michael cohen didnt cooperate, they would have to go to trial. so when youre preparing a case and youre getting ready to go to trial, you want to line up witnesses. we saw it in the manafort trial where there were a number of people that had use immunity testimony that may be different than here. its somebody who can say, i can give you 100% of the story of what happened but 1% might lead to me getting into trouble. i want immunity from that. when you look at this particular instance, if ...

Witnesses. we saw it in the manafort trial where there were a number of people that had use immunity testimony that may be different than here. its somebody who can say, i can give you 100% of the story of what happened but 1% might lead to me getting into trouble. i want immunity from that. when you look at this particular instance, if david pecker was able to provide them or fill in the gaps of things they didnt know or explain some of the evidence they seized from michael cohen, that would be...

Immunity, he used that immunity he was granted by congress to get the courts to throw out his prosecutions. they said they were tainted by the whole process in the congress. so that flynn may be looking for a way to get out from under it entirely. >> professor dershowitz, you said if they gather evidence on their own and put it in a lock box and then he still gets immunity on whatever he testifies, if they had discovered that evidence previously, he doesnt get immunity from that? >> that is righ...

John poindexter who had the same job mike flynn had got immunity testimony before congress, but later on was prosecuted. he was convicted of a number of things including lying to congress. that was thrown out by an appeals court that said that somehow the trial used material that was from his testimony and therefore that undermined his verdict. youre absolutely right, its really complicated. >> in terms of the history here, i mean, informed by that watergate history and other presidents and othe...

Getting immunity from congress and immunity from prosecutors, it can make all the difference whether or not you go to prison. they also have to weigh those competing imperatives when deciding whether or not to grant it. and then later on in the iran contrascandal, ronald reagan, john poindexter who had the same job mike flynn had got immunity testimony before congress, but later on was prosecuted. he was convicted of a number of things including lying to congress. that was thrown out by an appea...