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identify him. but frank sinatra, wesley snipes, tom delay, lots of famous people got mug shots. why is donald trump the one who is getting this special accommodation? >> that's going to be a question in fulton county because at the federal level they didn't opt to do the mug shot. but to elliott's point, can you really have a former president who doesn't get special treatment? i mean, what do you think? >> i mean, this is going to be a former president who has, unlike most defendants their attorneys, some of whom are going to be appointed by, you know, the state, if they are indigent for some reason. you're going to have secret service coordinating on his behalf. you also have, to be fair, some of the significant national security or security risks of having him walk through the front door as any other person, being exposed, so to speak. fingerprints, for example, never having been a president of the united states -- yet -- >> yet. >> i was going to say! man i was going to say -- thank you all for that moment. but never having been the president of the united states,
snipes, tom delay, a lot of famous people got mugshots. why is donald trump the one who is sort of getting this special accommodation? >> that's going to be the question in fulton county. at the federal level, they didn't opt to do the mugshot. elliot's point, i mean, can you really have a former president who doesn't get special treatment? what do you think? >> this is going to be a former president who will have, unlike most defendants, their attorneys, some of whom are going to be appointed by the state if they are indigent for some reason. you're going to have secret service coordinating on his behalf, trying to figure out where to bring him in. you have, to be fair, some of the significant national security or security risks that having him walk through the front door as any other person, being exposed to every other person, fingerprints, for example. never having been a president of the united states -- >> yet. >> i was going to say. man, i was going to -- thank you all for that moment. but never having been the president of the united states, i don't know if having fingerprints of a former president is some sort of breach
doesn't get special treatment. so that's the principle. but, at the same time, we do need to be concerned that the legal system is not used as a weapon. and if somebody is the former president, that raises the concern that we don't want to see prosecutors going after what might look like the leader of the political opposition. so i do think that the prosecutors might have to satisfy themselves. we have overwhelming evidence. and all the cases that i gave as examples that this is more egregious than even the average case. and i do think that this is more egregious. we're not just talking about a few thousand dollars. we're talking about hush money payments in an election and that also leads to state tax crimes potentially with michael cohen. that's bigger than a lot of the other cases that have been prosecuted. >> in this moment, what's this grand jury going to do? what alvin bragg is going to do and then the grand jury, which i guess there is a snowball's chance in hell that it doesn't