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He owns the place after wall, right . I might be in some other book store. Its been a great ride. Mitch and i owe you and books and books so much and its wonderful to have cspan booktv here taping the show tonight. This is a bigtime, great. Before i get any further along, i want to see if i can work this. Lifetime new yorker declares himself a florida resident. Great, i thought. He must have read the book. Because quite a few of us have known but this startling development for quite a while. What is that, mitchell . Hes not here yet . Well, save a seat in the back. The fact is [laughter] the fact is, i had to make it very clear to george gibson, my editor and morgan and my publisher at Grove Atlantic that i was not intending to write a donald trump book when i went up to talk to them about what i had in mind. There was gossipping trump book in the pipeline i knew about and next year theres big telloff book the tv insider at the wh ....
Mitchell kaplan has been a staunch supporter from the beginning and i can honestly say literally if not for him i would not be here. He owns the place after all. [laughter] it has been a great ride iou books and books so much its wonderful to have cspan here taping the show tonight this is big time. Before i get any further along lifetime new yorker declares himself florida resident he must have read the book. [laughter] because weve known about this development for quite a while. [laughter] hes not here yet . Save him a seat in the back. [laughter] the fact is i had a make it very clear to my editor and publisher that i was not intending to write about donald trump and i went up there to talk to them next year there is a big tellall book with the white house is coming out with what georgeanne morgan wanted was a tell nothing book and i told them mine was a story of a place and he would have to be in there but dont worry we were all the same page and off we went and the result is palm ....
dollars. they were spending money like they were drunken sailors. now lyle and erik menendez face the death penalty, first-degree murder. greedy rich kids kill ozzie and harriet on a sunday night in beverly hills, and there s much more to the story than that. the courtroom at the l.a. superior courthouse in van nuys was actually a very tiny courtroom, and so there were a dozen media people that got to see the trial in the courtroom every day. writer dominic dunn appeared to hear opening statements. i m just a writer here covering this. i had just gotten out of school and started as a cub reporter at this legal newspaper. i got one of the seats in the courtroom. there were the lawyers and the brothers. my editors and i knew from the get-go that it was going to be captivating as [bleep]. okay, now opening statements by the prosecution. thank you, your honor, and good morning. the only time i ve ever thrown up during a trial was right before opening sta ....
Well hear live from robert in a moment. Mark is the reason roberts cousin is in prison in the first place. Sering expose, murder in green wich. He had committed hideous murder. Mark, welcome. The case was ice cold until you published your book. How did you react when you heard the verdict was overturned . Well, geraldo, it was odd that the reason it was overturned or reversed was inadequate council. Its odd when an attorney is hired because he has connections within the community, he knows Police Officers and worked in the area. Hes at the discretion of the family and michael to direct or to change him and yet they let him try to entire case. Now they complain that he was somehow inadequate. Do you believe let me get to the big picture. Do you believe the skakel and kennedy families used their power and money and connections to keep the police at bay before you got involved in the case . Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, when you ....
Well hear live from robert in a moment. Mark is the reason roberts cousin is in prison in the first place. Sering expose, murder in green wich. He had committed hideous murder. Mark, welcome. The case was ice cold until you published your book. How did you react when you heard the verdict was overturned . Well, geraldo, it was odd that the reason it was overturned or reversed was inadequate council. Its odd when an attorney is hired because he has connections within the community, he knows Police Officers and worked in the area. Hes at the discretion of the family and michael to direct or to change him and yet they let him try to entire case. Now they complain that he was somehow inadequate. Do you believe let me get to the big picture. Do you believe the skakel and kennedy families used their power and money and connections to keep the police at bay before you got involved in the case . Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, when you ....