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Blame from yourself. so it is sort of defense argument 101. and in this particular case, the uphill battle, i don't know how uphill it is, for the government is that one of the particular crimes to which gates has pled guilty is lying to the fbi. and not just lying to the fbi, but lying to the fbi in the course of an interview -- in the course of a promeeting in which was trying to convince the fbi specifically that he was being truthful to try to get a deal. so the argument that you see time and time again in court, sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't, if you have good corroborati...

Let me start with you, the mclaughlin case, stand your ground is the defense argument, white male shoots and kills mclaughlin in front of his girlfriend and three of their children. next sunday, a week from today at 4:00 at the st. john baptist church on palmetto street in clear water, florida, i and national action network will join you and the family raising this issue of stand your ground, this rule in florida and 13 other states, i believe, that we will pose since trayvon martin. tell us about the mcglockton case and why the stand your ground law is so egregious to so many of us. >> well, ...

That the only remedy would be impeachment. i do think that if there were actually impeachment proceedings that the tweets would come in as evidence. as to the second question as to how a defense might use those tweets, i think there's plenty of room for argument about how you actually interpret mr. trump's tweets, i mean, the president often does brag, he may not be using words in careful, legal construct so it may not always be that superficially, they might be maybe more damming than they actually are in context. i think a confident defense argument, competent defense attorney could make tho...

I believe part of her defense argument was that she had diminished capacity and understanding some these things. but it didn't come together, at least not for the fbi and prosecutors. >> we are learning as a series of mistakes both from the investigators in the fbi and the prosecutorial team that took this case on led to this acquittal. what we've learned from legal experts is that an acquittal in a terrorist case is exceedingly rare, especially if the person convicted happens to be muslim. there's a variety of factors working in favor of the government with these cases are brought against peo...

I believe part of her defense argument was that she had diminished capacity and understanding some these things. but it didn't come together, at least not for the fbi and prosecutors. >> we are learning as a series of mistakes both from the investigators in the fbi and the prosecutorial team that took this case on led to this acquittal. what we've learned from legal experts is that an acquittal in a terrorist case is exceedingly rare, especially if the person convicted happens to be muslim. there's a variety of factors working in favor of the government with these cases are brought against peo...