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I would assume d.a.s, lets assume they always want to do the right thing, but theres pressures. after everything the d.a. has done here, is there an off ramp if he wants one? hes going to go ahead and hand this to the grand jury. is there an off ramp if he wants one? >> he is in an incredibly difficult position. you know, hes a guy who -- and i know him, i voted for him. if you look at his background he has represented white collar -- hes been involved in white collar crimes or fraud investigati...

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Think most voters would get that. is there ever going to come a point in time where donald trump is going to be held accountable for the things hes done? >> i would think the people in georgia and the special counsel in the d.a. have more legitimate things to care about. >> it will be interesting to know what they think about this and whether -- you know, if they also were taken aback as everyone was by the fact that this appears to be coming first. next, ron desantis breaking his silence abou...

Corroborate what he has to say. prosecutors often have to include accomplices to the crime or some bad actors, especially when theyre prosecuting, for example, organized crime, so youre going to have some prosecutors witnesses like that who have flipped and are cooperating that arent the most appealing characters and have done things like lie in the past and committed past crimes. you need to go through and corroborate everything. there is corroboration in the form of checks that are written by ...

Is that this was not on force. we saw all weekend long trump allies and advisers essentially goading desantis into s responding. trumps super pac was sending out a tracker showing all the republicans rallies behind trump and signaling out desantis for not commenting at this time. when desantis got up there, he said that the d.a. was politicized and he vowed not to get involved if this somehow trickled down into florida where they both live. however, he didnt fully support trump and he seemed to ...

Things that got trump into this trouble in the first place. >> so i want to ask you, karen, when we talk about the timing here because thi think is important. this whole thing we keep talking about about, well, okay, the law is the law. if this is the right thing to do, if, then do you go ahead and teat, indict. this shouldnt be the first one, there should be others first. theres a reason for that you say. >> yeah, so when alvin bragg was elected d.a. about a year and a half ago, if you recall t...

Trump investigation this year while continuing to weather major criticism about being soft on crime in new york city. last year an internal memo surfaced urging his team to not prosecute certain low level offenses. it came the same week the city buried two police officers killed on duty. >> i know you were tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new d.a. >> reporter: the former federal prosecutor is harlem raised, harvard educated, and while his current role thrusts him into the politi...