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We didnt mean to lie. we recognize it kind of looks like a lie, but look at us, we never lie. thats one thing to know about it. the other thing to know about it, the other thing to at least ask about all of this is however this resolves with the justice department and what gets released to the public and what doesnt, and this question of why the new attorney general is trying to paper over what barr did to protect trump and to try to occlude from view, even from the courts, the question of trump...

Criminal obstruction of justice by president trump back in the public eye and sort of back in play. and none of those things are things that happened outside the statute of limitations. why was trump never criminally charged in conjunction with those serious allegations already? turns out thats a funny story about that, as well. it was the mueller report that laid out hundreds of pages of detailed evidence of trump allegedly committing felony obstruction of justice. right when the mueller report...

Thats one thing to know about it. the other thing to know about it or at least ask about is however this resolves with the justice department and what gets released to the public and what doesnt and this question of why the new attorney general is trying to paper over what barr did to protect trump and to try to a clue -- the question of trumps potential criminal liability. regardless of how that resolves, the question thats not live and kind of red-hot is whether not are not trump now is liable...

Detention center. what is the status of the lawsuit and what are you asking for? >> we just filed the lawsuit on last week. antonio retained me a few weeks ago. we were able to file the lawsuit prior to the statute of limitations expiring, so what we expect is we expect to get civil recovery for antonio harris. what is so despicable about this particular case, anderson, as you know, this isnt a case where you got a question whether an officer made a split second decision and were wondering wheth...

His first amendment to speech and also because when he made the comments that day he was the president of the united states and he should have absolute immunity from this lawsuit. pam? >> the absolute immunity has been the case that the president trump administration and lawyers have been making for quite some time on other issues as well. thanks so much. lets bring in preet barrera. great to see you, preet. lets start with what the former president is saying. trumps attorney says that trumps ...

Case. the idea of having the statue of limitations clock potentially run out, the idea that you had to delay this whole experience because of the supreme court cases back and forth, that it prolonged it perhaps, not unnecessarily. its important to get that resolve, but youre up against cy vances time in office. i may have had a deposition here, you may have had an interview in this area, you may have documents that i need. why reinvent the wheel? combining forces in this way shows you there are ...

Salman had murdered according to u.s. intelligence in a foreign capital, not even in his own country. >> a nato capital. >> a nato capital. we have seen essentially a crackdown on hong kong protesters have been right in the open. this sort of testing of the limitations of sanction condemnation, all these things, seems to be a broader global phenomenon than necessarily just lukashenko and putin and to your point really says what exactly its going to stop people? >> yes, and if you look at belarus...

>> you -- youre -- mr. sterling, you -- youre representing antonio harris in a suit against three of the four officers involved, along with louisiana state police superintendent, the louisiana state police, and the richland parish sheriff and detention center. what are you asking for? and whats the status of the lawsuit? >> yeah. well, anderson, we just filed a lawsuit last week. antonio retained me. just a few weeks ago. we were able to make -- to -- to file the lawsuit prior to the statute of ...

Yeah, this was obstruction, right? >> exactly. what the prior justice department under attorney general barr was arguing was that they had given advice to the attorney general not to pursue prosecution for the former president for obstruction. and so now what they are arguing is that some parts of that memo can be released, but some parts of it have to be advice the lawyers can give to the attorney general that deponeont get out the public view. >> in addition to this, don mcgahn will now testif...

Also, they may be tolling the statute of limitations. they are trying to get all of this evidence in before the grand jury before that happens. so lots of different reasons. but, again, this is a very significant development. >> let me play a little bit more of michael cohen brand-new from the reporting we were just doing because we have been circling the developments in this case where we had three of these key witnesses together. we heard from michael cohen specifically about why weisselberg i...