Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171102:15:57:00
At it. in one way you can imagine the president is the head of the d.o.j and it's not that different than a u.s. attorney saying, we want the death penalty. but i hearken you back to the '70s, the charles manson case when president nixon said that charles manson was obviously guilty. it set off a fury of motion practice. and the lesson we learned from that is it's very dangerous when it comes to pretrial publicity any time the chief executive makes a comment. it might create such a prejudicial atmosphere that that person simply cannot get a fair trial that he is constitutionally entitled tochl...