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Man," which i have. thank you for the copy. tell us what it means there. this prosecutors code that was broken potentially. >> the prosecutors code is based on you have to have real life experience. and i talk a lot in the book about the real trials i did, mob cases, things i did in the sdny. i did that in part i think people are interested. i think people should know how do prosecutors make decisions, what happens behind closed doors. also, each of those stories theres a principle behind it. ne...

Crimes are unsolved. when youre thinking about it fundamentally if you take all the reports crimes and then all the unreported crimes, including things that only the potential criminal might know about like something simple, refusing to report all your cash income, then the number of solved and convicted crimes is much lower than the total. when it comes to complex crimes that are maybe never busted like not caught on tape or seen by a random witness or otherwise outed by surveillance footage, w...

Whole time. he knows. >> elliot, what -- what kind of levers do prosecutors have to get something, like, you know, the accountant to -- to cooperate with them? and weve seen this in, you know, mob cases and in, you know, mob movies. where its the accountant, in the end, who brings the people down. >> right. look. if you are -- if prosecutors are investigating an organization for financial or tax irregularities, the last person on earth an organization wants is their four-decade-tenured chief-fin...

Intent. unfortunately, new york tools are not as good as federal tools. but, you know, what emily said is exactly right. you know, if trumps -- trump is -- goes out of his way to insert plausible deniability, a cover story into everything he says. like on the day of the riot. like with the michael cohen testimony before congress. but that doesnt get you off the hook, if -- if the prosecutors can, otherwise, prove that the person had the intent. so, there is lots of ways to do that. i mean, a gre...

Having insurance and said the following. >> joining me now to discuss is michael moore, a former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia. welcome back. >> thanks. >> look. if i disappear, insurance being thrown under the bus, youve talked about what we are hearing from giuliani and not just giuliani but also the president similar to what you hear in mob cases. >> right. they are talking like this is an old mob movie. we talk about passing messages through intermediaries and saying thing...

Out, then it should. right now, for right now, strictly on the legal merits, i think the democrats have the better side of the argument for you now which is there no need to really disseminate that. the cause primarily, everybody was he screaming how it was secondhand information. now others have coul forward, the call has -- have come forward, the call has been disclosed so the argument you dont need him or her anymore. there are some reports, im not going to get into, you may have seen about e...

Help rudy judeigiuliani, it waso back and look at 2016. to barr has a parallel investigation on involving italy, australia, the u.k., and it is not getting as much attention, but it is important because it is the arm of the federal government. >> and john durham and his day today responsibility for it opinion someone that you have covered in the context of the cia investigations. >> he was brought in in the bush administration to examine the interrogation program. he has a history of going after...

The dynamics are intriguing. they hope peoples short attention spans will potentially benefit them going into the fall and going into 2020. i think they may be pashlly correct, depending on how democrats hand this will thing once they take a vote. >> lastly to you, mimi. this is a moral moment. we talked in the past about the need to speak up, why people arent speaking up. the political calculus versus the moral calculus. here we are at a very pivotal moment. again, tell us about the crimes that...

How russian -- i could have said following on what jeff greenfield said, this is what we see in mob cases. this is what we saw -- the godfather obviously based on a lot of mob cases as well. it makes no sense. theres no way that the justice department should have left this man sitting in that jail cell by himself and there is no explanation that the attorney general, theres no explanation the bureau of prisons with give. theres no explanation that anyone can give to explain why he was and whethe...

Listen to that and interpret that. and lastly, the special counsel in the special counsel report makes reference to this voice mail and interprets it to be an effort to interfere and perhaps obstruct, perhaps, with what mike flynn is trying to do to cooperate with the government. they interpret it to be something that is one of the obstructive things that were being done behind the scenes. the only question was, was dowd acting at the behest of the president? we dont know. >> lets ask our legal ...