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necessary. >> great, great. >> i know where you are, so i know where to find you. ill see you soon. thank you as always. our top story the damning testimony at todays second january 6th hearing. much of it led with highlights by trump attorney general bill barr. >> i was somewhat demoralized, because i thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with -- with -- hes become detached from reality. and when i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy so...

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That supports adding a new person to that list. you can bet bob mueller is taking notice. and thats not all. the other part of trumps mitigation defense he is that whatever his rookie staff did, he didnt know about it. trump has some experienced defense lawyers and they are ready to flip. senator howard bakers famous question on its head. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> if donald trump didnt know, or didnt know until later, they can argue he didnt know about any solici...

Crime he doesnt want his standing or his goals in any way diluted by the fact that he may have a mental disability or defection. in other words, a defect he thinks basically t way to show that this was a completely knowledgeable act was that it was made of sound mind which of course cuts against any mitigation defense. >> in the meantime you have a situation where he during this first phase of the trial said at one point i dont want a lawyer. he changed his mind and came back. could he do that? ...

Excuses. sometimes they make a good mitigation defense. but something like this, this affluenza idiocy is presented and somehow convinces a judge that four peoples deaths and two peoples severe injuries is not enough to have any type of punishment, then judges in the future will look back and say, im not going anywhere near this. mr. omara, im not going to believe your otherwise potential legitimate mitigation defense because i remember that affluenza idiot -- im sorry, that affluenza defendant ...

Passion. he is loucky she didnt take th vase and smash it on his head. >> really? here we go. >> $3 million. >> when he declared that he would take 60 days to decide on which of his paramours he was interested in i thought that might be an instigation. >> did he lose you there on that? >> a little bit. i didnt 60 days was fair. >> what do you think of crime of passion? do you guys believe in it? >> no. >> do you guys think its a legitimate defense? >> no. >> really? >> i know where youre going. ...

Mitigating factors. there are a lot of folks who went to iraq and afghanistan who received a series of injuries including traumatic brain injury. this could be part and parcel of not only mitigation defense but also affirmative defense at time of trial. ultimately this will be resolved short of tile trial. there will be some sort of a deal. you will have all the conflicting information not only were talking about but other information we dont know yet that the government has in their proposal. a...