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Im going to jail. and i think jurors listening to her on that videotape making that statement, that self-serving statement about her own situation, not providing aid to daunte wright, and then watching that emotional testimony on the stand, i think jurors werent convinced that that emotion was about killing daunte as opposed to about her being afraid of going to jail. >> now, youve said this verdict is a game-changer in terms of police accountability. why is that? >> well, historically we have n...

Given yesterdays results, though, is there -- do you have any pause about what this could mean a year from now in the mid-terms if people dont want it and you pass it anyway? >> dana, i disagree with mitch mcconnell. thats a pretty self-serving statement by him. the polling ive seen suggests that americans even in this divided country with our toxic politics overwhelmingly support the build back better act. again, if there is a takeaway for democrats we need to get this work done. we need to sta...

If, in fact, sondland wasnt honest about that, could he be in trouble? >> he could. he could be charged with perjury if he knew he was making false statement. he hedged a lot about what he remembered and he blamed the fact the state department had not provided him with records so he could verify the dates and times of his calls. what he said he was really hedging when he talked about that second call which i suppose could support a theory. its because he knew it didnt happen. i think a couple po...

Said, where is the outrage? >> first of all, there isnt any outrage. if theres such a thing as a narcissistic official white house statement, this is it. this is about donald trump saying, see, we didnt do anything wrong, i didnt do anything wrong. where in the statement was a congratulations to the justice department for all of its hard work and its forensic work, which is quite stunning if you read the indictment, in bringing forth this indictment. >> thats right, its not as though they can wa...

Because its not surprising. this is -- so the united states department of justice puts forth a series of what it says are provable facts that they are going to be able to prove this case in court, about a direct attack on the core of our democrats, free and fair elections. and the commander in chief, the president of the united states, through his spokesperson, issues a statement that says absolutely nothing about the country being attacked, but instead is just a self-serving statement to say, s...

When rick gates comes out with this ridiculous self-serving statement, the reason he pleaded guilty is because hes a criminal. hes guilty. thats the only reason a judge will accept a guilty plea in our system. and i think we need to keep in mind that this is not just about oh, the prosecutors being so mean and use go their resources. this was a criminal enterprise gates was involved in. he clearly says that manafort was involved in it, too. the question we all want to know is who else? >> theres...

But hes going for criminal law violences, bringing people before the grand jury, subpoenaing evidence and conducting search warrants and trying to squeeze witnesses against higher targets. and more on the russian investigation today. president trumps attorney was set -- ken, thanks for being with us on such a busy day, what do you know? >> back in july when jared kushner had a similar closed door appearance before the senate intelligence committee, he went out and gave what some lawmakers say ...

Day, watch it from gavel to gavel. saw jason stockily testify. his testimony was so inconsistent with what was on the cell phone video. basically this trial turn out to be a situation where we were forced to believe what jason stockley had to stay and suspend our own hearing and site in what we saw in the cell phone video. in my opinion it was a embarrassment. and i think he should have been found guilty of first degree murder based on the evidence. >> what do you think of his reaction tonight. ...

Every day. watched it from gavel to gavel. saw jason stockley testify, was so inconsistent with the video. it was a situation where we were forced to believe what jason sto stockley had to say and suspend our own hearing what we saw on that cellphone video. in my opinion i think he should have been found guilty of first degree murder based on the evidence. >> what do you think -- >> i think it was a self-serving statement from someone who said he was going to kill someone and 45 seconds later he...

Investigation. so, that -- >> but should he be surprise bid that? >> well, i dont understand why he should be except he may not have looked detailed into the recusal guidelines, but jeff sessions said as soon as he started at the doj, the moment he was starting there, he had a team of lawyers looking at this issue. he was very involved in the campaign last year. and he came to this conclusion. nobody else seems to be surprised that jeff sessions recused himself except donald trump. >> well and e...