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changed his mind and said no, now he thinks the new york city terrorism attack suspect should not go to guantanamo, he should caps lock, get the death penalty! okay, i don t know if nobody has explained this to the president or if the president knows this and he doesn t care, but whether or not you think the new york city terrorist attack suspect should get the death penalty if he s convicted, whether or not you think he should get the death penalty, the only way you could assure that that suspect cannot get the death penalty is for the president to make a public case that he should. there s a reason presidents don t comment on criminal matters. their remarks as president and commander of chief about somebody being tried, those remarks from the president are viewed as prejudicing the likely outcome of the trial, either in in terms of that suspect s guilt or the appropriate sentence. so there are only two ways that a president can directly and
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year, nbc s mike vaccera is live at the white house for us. put this latest revelation in context. reporter: this is another episode in the curious case of carter paige, now revealing before the house intelligence committee on thursday, on cable news on friday, and to nbc news this very day, that he did, in fact, make a trip to moscow in july of last year, at the height of the controversy, the height of the campaign, over president trump s and his campaign s relations with certain operatives within russia and the russian campaign to allegedly meddle in the u.s. election. not allegedly. according to the u.s. intelligence services. paige saying he was at a conference in july of 2016. he spoke with no less than the deputy prime minister of russia. he later reported those contacts in an e-mail to an individual or individuals within the trump campaign. and he mentioned it, according to carter paige, to no less than
a judge found unlawful command influence based on president obama s statements involving a prosecution in a military court in hawaii. so unlawful command influence, uci, and a real thing. what may have happened in this case is that in the face of all these controversial comments by the president, the judge may have said, i will not let these affect me, but maybe there was that subtle gravitational pull which resulted in a no-confinement sentence for bergdahl. is this, shawn, uci, as danny is saying, in the instance of bowe bergdahl, and what about the in the terror case in new york, is it helping or hurting, the president s tweeting? any time you have undue influence, it can be problematic. we ll see going forward if there s an impact or not. but certainly as danny describes some of those influences on potential jurors, on the judicial process, certainly not helpful. we ll leave it there. shawn and danny, great to have you both with me.