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President trump and i'd tell him you know what? you've got [ bleep ] things to do. clear this [ bleep ] mess up and take care of a lot of the [ bleep ] that you [ bleep ] up on january 6th. >> with me now is chansley's attorney al watkins. counselor, welcome back to "prime time." >> how do you do? a pleasure. >> the sentence was for the offense of disrupting an official proceeding. do you agree with that? >> obstruction. yes. felony. >> and in terms of the sentence the only real issue is whether or not you believe that your client is competent, meaning that it's not mental illness that made hi...

High point for him and well done in the way they rolled out the vaccines. yes, they couldn't have anticipated delta and how bad it has been, but just how polarized the country is to reject vaccines. there are people in the south taking horse deworming medication, not the vaccines, but horse deworming medication for covid because they heard about it on another network from two prominent anchors, like hydroxychloroquine. how crazy do you have to be -- they're calling poison control because they're taking this crazy thing for covid and killing themselves or getting themselves sick, but they won't...

Control my destiny, my future and my life. and that's the point she's making. >> and beyond the celebrity aspect of this and the interest that we might have in her private life, there is this issue of conservatorships. 1.5 million americans not being able to control their own finances and their own health decisions is a lot of americans. how do these conservatorships work? >> so, what happens is, is that you have to, as an adult, be competent to deal with and manage your affairs. and, as a result of that, if there is some competency issue, whether it be because you're old or you have mental he...

Children as well is tammy who was killed. what do we look for, that was an arraignment that happened yesterday, the first proceeding after an indictment where typically defendants plead not guilty but she didn't. the defense attorney requested a continuance and did not plead not guilty and what that means to me as a practitioner, there may be a competency issue. if she can't understand the proceedings, the defense attorney may be saying to the court in chambers she can't proceed, that is issue number one. issue number 2 is newsworthy, the fact that the prosecutor could still for the death pena...

I want to bring up people who said this is his, quote, katrina. i want to put up a quote and george w. bush wrote about katrina. just as katrina was more than a hurricane, this is what president bush wrote, its impact was more than physical destruction, and it cast a cloud over my second term. it is possible, heather and steve that how they reunify or don't reunify becomes a competency issue and not a partisan issue. >> i would say maria has been president trump's katrina and i think this is another similar issue where there's just this callousness and particularly to the latino community in t...