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Transcripts for CNN CNN News Central 20240604 13:35:00

Ties between the united states and ireland and both political and personal. let s be quite honest. cnn s phil mattingly has following the president s travels. he s live in dublin. he s joining us now. of course, phil. what are you hearing about this? if we get, you know it s personal, and it s an official visit. we saw a lot of the personal side of the president s trip yesterday. this is what we re about. to hear from the president in this speech is some of the real official business that he wants to get to. what are we expecting to hear from him? first i want to take a moment i was about to blow up berman for refusing to, say the official name of the prime minister of the t shirt, um, thought it was a lazy way to approach some uncertainty about pronunciation, so his willingness to really outline in detail lot of pride right now as a colleague for john berman taking that head on this and then come to you know, we should never have done this and you know, he set himself up. he set himself up for this, but it s only with love that. i express that sentiment towards berman.

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Celebration as NMU's George campus holds first graduation ceremony

Tears of joy, ululation and dancing marked the occasion at the inaugural graduation for Nelson Mandela University’s George campus students on Tuesday.

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Transcripts for CNN CNN News Central 20240604 15:11:00

Trump has now been arrested and indicted here. we don t know what s going to happen. we don t know if he will be convicted. we don t know what he would be sentenced to if convicted, but in u. s history, there s a little bit of a of a call for record of humans running for office, and some of them being elected from prison is one way to say it. okay so this is rare, but it s a reminder to those folks who are under some misapprehension. attention that president trump could be blocked from running for office if he s in prison or indicted. not so. let s start with eugene debs, that s a socialist candidate for president. five timer in 1920. he gets arrested a few years before for protesting the draft during the first world war under really lousy luck, all the sedition act. he is in prison during the 2019 20 election. he gets almost a million votes from prison. um so you can run for president from prison. eugene debs did it in 1920. we re talking about my hometown, boston. there s also you think we re going to let you off the hook about boston? berman now we all know you loved boston. you

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240604 00:40:00

. s. attorney, mr berman in new york, who brought the case against michael cohen for a related crime. and if that was criminal, then you know individual a mentioned in that indictment of michael cohen should also at some point face consequences. well so there s two points of that. first of all, that is a decision for the u. s attorney s office to make you know the u. s attorney s office they had michael cohen signed a cooperation agreement. they went through all of this stuff with him. they had him in for several proper sessions, and they ultimately decided he was not credible enough for them to bring a case against anybody else, and he was sentenced without a five k letter cooperation letter. but the other point is this just because somebody has pleaded guilty to something as part of a cooperation agreement does not mean that other people committed that crime. i ve had many clients acquitted based on the say so of a cooperating witness who pleaded guilty to something

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 05:48:00

I did not kill susan berman. [inaudible] in september 2021, a jury found robert durst guilty of first degree murder. he was sentenced to life without parole. two months later, a grand jury in new york indicted him for the death of his first wife, kathleen durst. but a jury would never hear that case. in january 2022, robert durst died and a california hospital. while serving his life sentence. he was 78. and in a final twist, john lewin, the prosecutor of the berman case, said that because durst was appealing that verdict at the time of his stuff under a california law, his conviction would be vacated.

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Transcripts for CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash 20240604 13:17:00

Prosecuting local criminals. that s what the d a supposed to do you arguing that people who commit business crimes are not committing crimes? look well. is this a business crime? we re talking about a federal election crime here, jake, this is a federal election crap. manhattan d, a does not right. federal electoral understanding is my understanding is that he? he s being investigated for falsifying business records. it s you know, there was a related prosecution, michael cohen went to prison. that was a federal investigation from the u. s attorney during the trump years, but that u. s attorney mr berman prosecuted, uh and mr khuzami prosecuted michael cohen . he went to prison for the that as well as related crimes. i don t remember hearing anything from you. during that period. i guess he wasn t a candidate, but he had been working for donald trump. that was a u. s attorney that prosecuted. we re talking about a local attorney and the

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Transcripts for CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash 20240604 16:17:00

Better spent prosecuting local criminals. that s what the d a supposed to do. are you arguing that people who commit business crimes are not committing crimes? look well. is this a business crime? we re talking about a federal election crime here, jake. this is a federal election crime that manhattan d , a does not right. federal electoral understanding is my understanding is that he is being investigated for falsifying business records. it s you know, there was a related prosecution, michael cohen went to prison. that was a federal investigation from the u. s attorney during the trump years, but that u. s attorney mr berman prosecuted and mr khuzami prosecuted michael cohen. he went to prison for the that as well as related crimes. i don t remember hearing anything from you. during that period. i guess he wasn t a candidate, but he had been working for donald trump. that was a u. s attorney that prosecuted. we re talking about a local attorney and the

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Transcripts for MSNBC Jose Diaz-Balart Reports 20240604 15:09:00

Small one yesterday outside the courthouse, but we have yet to see any protests materialize, but officials in new york and washington, d.c. are on high alert if we do see a indictment in the next few days. federal prosecutors looked at the hush money case and neither took action against trump then, manhattan d.a. think there may be a case here? let s backtrack, josé, because that s an important question. remember that the u.s. attorney at the time, mr. berman, actually made public statements about the fact that the department of justice from washington, d.c. and bill barr was interfering with the prosecutorial independence. if you will recall, he was terminated from the position. he said he would resign very, very unusual behavior from a

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