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>> that was a former watergate assistant prosecutor weighing in on just how tough it might be to represent this president in this investigation. we have two very capable lawyers with us here tonight in the studio to weigh in. richard painter, who was the chief ethics lawyer for the bush 43 white house. and mika owe yang is back with us as well an attorney and former staffer on the house intel and house armed services committee. counsellors, welcome to you. richard, to jill's point, is this the nightmare client? and in light the vp lawyering up, is this going to end up costing so many people so...

As a defense lawyer, he is your nightmare client, because he is saying all the wrong things. he is contradicting every defense that he had. all of his tweets are terrible. his attack on mueller saying these are bad people. these are not helpful to the defense at all. >> that was a former watergate assistant prosecutor weighing in on just how tough it might be to represent this president in this investigation. we have two very capable lawyers with us here tonight in the studio to weigh in. richard painter, who was the chief ethics lawyer for the bush 43 white house. and mika owe yang is back wi...

Last night, ten days after getting sworn in as supreme court justice, neil gorsuch cast his first vote. as a result, 51-year-old la del lee became the first person in over a decade to be executed by the state of arkansas. after a flurry of last minute petitions, the supreme court handed down a 5-4 decision allowing arkansas to execute lee despite the fact that lee's case was buried, absolutely buried in troubling questions. sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of deborah reese, who was found beaten to death by a club-like tire thumper, lee maintained his innocence since the day of his arrest...

Despite the fact that lee's case was buried, absolutely buried in troubling questions. sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of deborah reese, who was found beaten to death by a club-like tire thumper, lee maintained his innocence since the day of his arrest. his attorney asked for additional dna testing to be done in the days leading up to his execution. the court rejected that request. there's also the question of competency and fairness in lee's original trial, which was presided over by a judge who did not disclose that he was having an affair with the assistant prosecutor whom the judge ...

28 years of doing homicide work in particular as an assistant prosecutor and defense lawyer, we all comment in our world that the kind of murders and then the desire to put it forward on social media, which is good for us to get the attention, is becoming very sick and twisted cultural thing that's happening. and these people on the borderline, marginal, the ones not in power feel this is their moment of glory. we are seeing that more ask more. the murders we're seeing are more senseless, callous and twisted. as far as hunting down a person, you can run, but you cannot hide. it's really very d...