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Lets do a thought experiment. stay with me. lets say you had a job at the white house where you were in national security. you naturally had access to classified information in the course of doing your job at the white house. and then you either accidentally or intentionally took some classified documents home or maybe to another office. in one scenario, hundreds of classified documents were found. in the other about a dozen classified documents were found. putting the numbers aside, it turns ou...

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Possible involvement or incitement of the capitol riot, attempts to overturn the election. meanwhile in georgia, a grand jury in fulton county is looking into attempted interference in that states 2020 election. still at the table, maya wylie, andrew weissmann -- im gonna play this game all three of you. here is a thought experiment. there is a client who is anonymous. we are in a counterfactual world. you get hired, andrew weissmann, as the new legal team. they fire their old lawyers and they w...

Goodness of american hearts. that you can have concerns about the trade, you can tal about those concerns of th trade, at the same tim celebrate an american home >> this year has been an absolute avalanche of lega issues for donald trump. the ex presidents namesake business was found guilty of illegal tax fraud, he faces an inquiry by the attorney genera for his business practice an renewed scrutiny from th manhattan dna of a hush mone payment made to a film actress on the federal level, there i...

About. surprising because why take this case? it was obscure a few years ago, now it has the platform of the supreme court. >> this theory goes back a ways. legitimate thought experiment it started out as. . the way it played out, you have the three liberal justices. they want the whole just the legislature. the swing here, the three swing, kavanaugh, roberts and coney barrett. >> lets listen to justice coney barrett. >> i was going to ask, is your test just a way of trying to deal with our prec...

Of other constitutional law, and we want, and of course, the courts interestingly enough, it seems as though they were not buying into the theory that youre talking about, the surprising ali, why take this case, it was obscure a few years ago, now, this now is the platform of the supreme court. >> this theory goes back a ways. this has been a pet project of legal conservatives. legitimate thought experiment, it started out as, but now its coming into fruition. theres a numbers game here. you nee...

Making excuses for herschel walker. >> yeah, i mean, the way that i have run the thought experiment i had is to just take 30 seconds to consider. who will be the electoral results in the divided state of georgia if the black democratic nominee for statewide office had herschel walkers package? i mean, it is just like, obviously it is not gonna happen. you now have the full team trying to pull the finish line, including governor brian kemp who i think helped him probably the first time around bec...

Name. how barnes may need to dig up his own birth certificate before adding this. >> remember, the good old days, when that was the craziest thing that people said. [laughs] think about that. that wasnt that long ago everybody was like, that some crazy stuff. now it doesnt even make the top ten list of crazy. >> and in georgia, he owned in on the joke, the joke candidate the republicans were running for office. >> lets do a thought experiment. lets say are at the airport, you see mr. walker you ...

That wasnt that long ago everybody was like, that some crazy stuff. now it doesnt even make the top ten list of crazy. >> and in georgia, he owned in on the joke, the joke candidate the republicans were running for office. >> lets do a thought experiment. lets say are at the airport, you see mr. walker you say, hey, there is herschel walker. heisman winner, lets have him fly the plane. [laughs] you probably wouldnt say that. youd want to now, and does he know how to fly a plane. >> when hes righ...