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The reports are true that the special counsel is now at least asking about michael cohen? and we know michael cohens name was on that subpoena list given to sam nunberg that went so very public yesterday. but given the special counsel is now asking questions about him, are you encouraged that some of your concerns are being addressed? >> certainly bob mueller works on the criminal side. we work on the civil side. its our job to tell the american people what happened with respect to mr. torshin a...

Evaluate, what id be good at it, what id be happy doing it for the next 15 years. for every really in interesting constitutional question to get her criminal case, you may have 15 antitrust cases that just make your eyes glaze over. my wifes name is terry, and she says, you love interacting with people, you like teaching a college class, you like being an advocate, you dont get to do any of that if you are a judge. i told lindsay and tim, thank you, but go find someone else and they found someon...

For any individual who was not at his or her watch, was not doing what they were supposed to do, et cetera. >> admiral, same question about accountability to you. >> yeah. i cant speak for the civil side. in the navy there is a strong culture and tradition of holding leaders accountable and responsible for their actions at sea. particularly it the commanding officer. again we need to let the investigators do their job but it is not outside the realm of possibility there will be specific individu...

The fact that these police officers got on the scene and got out and shot the kid, it has nothing to do about the legality of what occurred. all right? youre talking about tactics here. of course, this is a defense attorney. hes not going to sit here and indemnify the officers if he thinks they were right. >> one of the issues that is causing so many people consternation is the age of this child, 12 years old. the fact is, the dispatcher didnt alert those responding officers to the fact that the...

That do to her civil snax theres civil action against her for this. >> thats right. and ive been involved in many of these cases on the civil side. often times what happens in the civil case is not necessarily indicative of what will happen in the criminal case. as you know, there are two very different sets of standards of burdens of proof. the civil case will focus more on who is liable. in other words, who was negligent out of that chain reaction whereas the criminal inquiry is based upon one...

Manner because there wasnt legal conditions for the arrest and then there is what she is calling violence perpetuated on him through the car, through what she called multiple violations of policy that weve been learning about and reporting on that he should be seat belted in he should not be thrown around in the car and such and the extra stops. >> this also speaks to what we also know has been happening within the baltimore police department, which is a number of cases settled with that police ...

Information but its a terrible way in order to get to the truth of the matter by cross-examining people, by pressing people, by determining exactly what happened and thats whats missing here but you better believe in the civil case a lot of that info will come out. >> mel, ill ask you the toughest question. when all is said and done, will anything change? will the brown win their civil suit? will the federal investigation uncover civil rights violations? >> well, this is my prediction having rea...

Voters, in addition to latinos and gays and lesbians. but the moment they said they should do those things, it did everything to turn their backs in those communities. >> david, for democrats watching this in mississippi, hoping for a restoration of the democratic control of the senate seats there, what would the strategic may be today? >> well, you know, you can game this out two different ways. its better for the democrats to go up against an extremist like chris mcdaniel who comes from the wo...

Did they do everything reasonable? clearly not in this case. >> i want to bring in arthur rosenberg. how important is it for families to stick together in this situation? >> yeah, what usually happens in these disaster cases is that a family group is formed and coordinated by the families of the victims. its typical, it happened in lockerbie. there was a very effective group that coordinated, they made some changes and helped towards the family assistance act. i want to move forward a little bit...

Really hard to believe. bill: jay, i think you argued these numbers before, correct me if im wrong, was it 292-8, conservative groups targeted versus liberal groups? was that the number. >> well i dont even -- i still cant find eight liberal groups, bill. were representing 42. there were hundreds. i think the number was 200 -- bill: you say 292-0? >> i think thats right. i have not found a liberal group that went through the same targeting process these conservative groups gone to. there was one...