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Grand jury to get subpoenas for last two years, now the d.a.s office is empaneling a special grand jury that will focus on this case. thats about it. thats about all we know. we dont know exactly what they are investigating or who. we have a broad sense of whats under investigation. in terms of whether anybody faces indictment, we dont know. we know people they have been looking at. what this means, whether there will be potential charges or not, we dont know. its a logical next step for the dis...

Day in those exact moments. it did. it changed me. it changed how i viewed life. it made me realize how dangerous it is to be black in america. we shouldnt have to walk on eggshells around police officers, the same people who are supposed to protect and serve. we are looked at as thugs and criminals all because of the color of our skin. why are black people the only ones viewed this way when every race has some type of wrongdoing? none of us are to judge, we are all human. i am 18 now.

Of wrongdoing? >> look, i dont think its that difficult. again, another quirk about the grand jury system is that in an indictment, it only requires probable cause. a relatively low standard. by design. to convict at trial, you need proof beyond a reasonable doubt. it would be foolish and reckless to answer your question more directly for any prosecutor to bring a case based merely on probable cause. if the facts compel it, if the facts are there, if the witness testimony compels it, if the witn...

When looking at, lets say, hypothetically a series of potential crimes and then the decision of whether or not to actually indict the company? >> so they will look at whether or not the wrongdoing is conducted by some rogue employees or whether or not the company is kind of rotten to the core. in other words, does the company have in place a compliance program to prevent this kind of wrong from happening. obviously people can circumvent compliance programs and get around it and prosecutors look ...

Person who killed floyd. many citizens previously tried to blow the whistle on the danger he posed, over 17 known misconduct allegations. but most were scrubbed from his file. he faced scant discipline, let alone any public lawsuit. minneapolis finds even credible concerns that dont end in punishment are scrubbed from an officers record because the police unions demand it. these protected chauvin at great risk to the community. another thing that hasnt changed, most prosecutors still operate wit...

That, should prosecutors bring charges, will in turn decide whether to indict trump executives, including, of course, donald trump himself. thats according to two familiar with the department and one of the washington reporters who broke that story will join me in a minute. some context here is important. the manhattan das office has been investigatingimpropriety, and that could include falsifying business records as well as tax insurance fraud. a grand jury doesnt necessarily mean that indictme...

The greater public interest. after all, this involved an investigation into wrongdoing by the president of the united states and an attorney general, bill barr, who was willing to essentially lie to the country to conceal. and i think that public interest and full disclosure ought to outweigh whatever concern the biden justice department may have about the precedent, particularly when, as the court has found and the court has read this document, it isnt an internal deliberation over a legal issu...

Are desense tiesed. that last question in that spirit is there are, as you all know, agreements that can be made, cooperation agreements, for example, where people admit some kind of wrongdoing but they completely evade prisons. sometimes those kind of provisions are controversial because theyre considered so lenient. im curious because of how close you all are, do you ever think a world where mr. trump is facing allegations or any kind of charges for the trump orgs activities we discussed, he w...

With cooperators in particular theres no better person who can tell you about a crime than a criminal. so you take the good with the bad in these kinds of things. and prosecutors are always prepared with this kind of thing. they always know when they have a cooperator who can talk about what happened, it also means almost by definition with a lot of these kinds of cases that that cooperator frequently was a person who engaged in wrongdoing himself or herself. so corroboration is going to be very...

Political path for colleagues to sign on for it. we dont know. and then obvious curiously we saw jim clyburn say that qualified immunity didnt have to be part of this bill and certainly defang or kind of make it a far less significant as a piece of legislation if you didnt talk about qualified immunity. the element of the law that immunizes police from the actions that result in deaths like this. >> its an interesting case because jim clyburn is somebody who has worked for a long time to get dea...