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To come off confident but his emotions gaut be s got the best >> he is calling me a third-rate lawyer. i thought it was pretty good because it meant that after almost two hours i had gotten to him. >> reporter: how would you describe his technique? >> we call it a nonresponsive answer. he will add things on. he will make self-serving statements. he will shuck and jive. if i ask donald a question, what time is it he would probably tell me how to build a clock. he was grossly unprepared or he was ...

That he was saying that because it meant that finally after almost two hours, i had gotten to him. >> reporter: how would you describe his technique? >> we call it a nonresponsive answer. he will add things on, hell make self-serving statements, hell shuck and jive. if i asked donald a question, i said donald, what time is it? hed probably tell me how to build a clock. he was grossly unprepared or he was just deliberately being evasive. what he was doing, at least in the deposition was saying th...

Was president in a case involving eminent domain back in the 1990s. trump was claiming eminent domain to take possession of a an elderly widows home in atlantic city so he could use it as a parking lot for his casinos limousines. overall, how would you describe him during the deposition? >> self-deprecating is not donald. donald was the donald that you see now, you know. he walks in. he wants to take over. he wants to make the deposition his deposition, even though its mine. he tries to control ...

Hillary clinton. she went into this meeting as an informant for the kremlin. >> which she recently admitted that she was an informant for the government. >> absolutely. thats out there. she was there to collect information and was there to set the conditions for a follow-on meeting and what im interested in is whether or not she was able to accomplish any of that. >> what happened after this? thats the key question. so to continue on the vein of the russia investigation is centered on is the rus...

You cc a lawyer on an e-mail, you bring a lawyer in, have them sit in, that by itself does not shield things. >> so, what can house investigators or robert mueller, what can you do to compel -- somebodys claiming attorney-client privilege and it doesnt hold up, how do you force them to talk? >> the mueller team will talk to donald trump jr., presumably, ask questions, hell invoke some privilege, the team will think thats ludicrous or frivolous and then theyll go the court. they have a court proc...

Was it commuby publishing them independently, thats how they were making good on the offer of help. we are still looking at that particular issue. theres a lot in the public domain. you have to be looking away to say theres no evidence of collusion here, and you have to, i think, accept the face value the self-serving statements of the administration, and thats just not what we do. >> i smell what you are cooking, but you will need more ingredients to make soup. the fires burning in your state a...

That this shooting was reasonable before he was even retained. what was clear of being attempted by the prosecutor over this very long period of time, they were searching for people who were willing to say that the shooting was justified. its very, very unusual. and then to add insult to injury, this prosecutor allowed these two police officers to testify in front of the grand jury, not to testify but to read sworn self-serving statements without ever being cross-examined. you cant do that. its ...

Truth. what do we owe trayvon martin? 16 years and 21 days forever. he was a son. he was a brother. he was a friend, and the last thing he did on this earth was try to get home. this is the dead. the self-serving statements, the lies from his own mouth and the hate in his heart. words that they cant now take back. the physical evidence which

But to the dead we owe the tr h truth. what do we owe trayvon martin? 16 years and 21 days, forever. he was a son. he was a brother. he was a friend. and the last thing he did on this earth was try to get home. this is the dead. the self-serving statements, the lies, from his own mouth and the hate in his heart. words that he cant now take back.

No matter how stupid we might think somebodys acting because its raining and hes walking or doing whatever, that thats not against the law. he did have his hoodie on. it was raining off and on. whats ironic in this case and what i want to spend some time talking with you about is the defendants statements, because you might think, well, hold on. youre the state. what are you putting on his self-serving statements when hes denying putting on a crime, hes saying its self-defense. we wanted to tell...