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Exoneration. its been mentioned a couple of times, but i would just add this exclamation point. it is not the job of the prosecutor to exonerate. and holding up the books, here are the law books. and asking, where in the department of justice is the office of exoneration? i know it was a very powerful point that essentially, and unfortunately, bob mueller abused his authority as special counsel going outside what a prosecutor is supposed to say and do. >> it raises that question about who wrote ...

Unfortunately they have to leave the facility one day but that shifted so seeing you would change and they often return to where they came from. and you have to their old surroundings sitting in the city do is cut on your sleeve and only the ones who have learned to stand their ground will be able to stop falling back into the old ways schooling on you. i mean would be typical quick than that or you. are. was. here. its goodbye to us and good night for the young offenders tomorrow the facility w...

Here is your star witness. hes in an interesting location within the trial. its mostly a paper case. i guess this means youve got to end strong. youve got to have a great closer and wrap it all up for the members of that jury. >> the most important thing you can do as a prosecutor when youre putting on a cooperating witness, you know theyre going to take some damage. you know the defense is going to score some points on them. you have to be able to rally back with corroboration, independence evi...

Department, those who have worked in government say thats actually not so unusual. you cant have 200 or so ambassadors all reaching out to the secretary of state. where do you come down on this? >> well, i think an important issue here is the fact that the united states going into libya was at the initiation of both the president and secretary clinton. and you would have thought especially with how dangerous it was on the ground, how personal this initiation was to the secretary that she would h...

Dowd loved to write about it. its so pervasive. when john kerry was running for president, wind surfing or skiing, whatever, each side does it. theres nothing racist about it, theyre just doing what they always do. it doesnt-- and for joan to pretend like she doesnt know that. that she did it herself. you know? this is just -- i dont do it personally, i think they should be allowed to take vacations, but, im sorry, secret service has to go along and paid for. it doesnt mean they should be overdo...

Go back to the founders, think of dr. mar tin tin luther king there was an uplifting, beyond rhetoric, there was a theme of, our job is not finished until our gay brothers and sisters have equal rights under the law. this was a bigger moment, i think, than a lot of people initially gave it credit for. i just felt this was a president who has found his voice, who feels empowered and knows, as robert said, that hes not going to get everything. i think you were saying in the earlier hour, he didnt ...

Months he will not talk about obamacare or defend the stimulus program. now he has an economy he cannot talk about and a few months ago it looked line we were on the way to a strong economy but that is dimmed so he finds it difficult to touch on a theme that will win swing voters and knock off romney in the fall. the divisive theme of, we cant go back to the hideous republican economic policies he is embracing and he will stick by that saying he is the champion of the middle-class and they will ...

The american people would say, you know what? ill trust you. but instead of taking responsibility, he tries to shift it to congress. it hurts congress, but it is dragging the presidents numbers down as well. megyn: thats interesting, because we heard him today reiterate his oft-spoken theme of, you know, weve done a lot, but we had the japanese tsunami, and we had the arab spring, and the situation in europe, and while all of those may, indeed, have been factors, you seem to be saying the voters...

That may take a few days so well still keep going with courtroom football. see if they resume business for real with a real league years in the next couple of days. and turning to politics now. one republican player is in and one heads for the bench. mississippi governor haley barbour says he was not seek the 2012 presidential nomination. he says he lacks, quote, the fire in the belly to run. but texas congressman ron paul plans to announce today in iowa that hes forming an exploratory committ...

The little technical this -- little technical problems of the law or the interpretation of particular statues. its much broader questions about the constitution. and you know, ed, you and i are in many ways just as qualified to make those kind of decisions as somebody who spent his life in a law firm or even as an appellate judge. so i think it would be great to nominate somebody whos not a lawyer. that was a theme of -- remember the movie "nashville?" >> yep. >> that was part of the theme of th...