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And, you know, something that's really telling about both the o'terrell opinion and the berman opinion, as joyce said, the berman opinion was very strai t straightforward. no way manafort could win that. and as renato said, this was the right call also in the cohen case. yet, both of these judges were extremely comprehensive and thorough. this 24-page opinion, as you say, and o'terra saying there's an indictment likely. it's the president's attorney. there's real consciousness on the part of both of these judges that could what otherwise look like pretty pedestrian matters are, in fact, really...

An ankle bracelet on each leg will have to face a bevy of existing charges in his first of two public trials beginning in july, unless he flips. to help figure out what this means for manafort, i'm joined by joyce nance, harry litman, and former federal prosecutor, renato mariotti. joyce, let me start with you. the judge's ruling today, what's your takeaway from that? >> it's the correct ruling. in a criminal case, there are a variety of mechanisms for a defendant to judge the validity of the lawsuit. he can file a motion to dismiss. he can challenge jurisdiction. what manafort did was to go o...

You. >> i want to go to joyce. >> we did a separate database about the nominations for specific executive agencies to see if they were conflicted. by conflicted we said did they lobby, take political donations regulated by that agency? of those 380 or so federal nominees, we found that 50%, 50% had some form of conflict. many of them, entire departments were handed over to private industry. >> private industry that was regulated by government. >> correct. in the department of agriculture you had representatives from poultry companies. in hhs it was pharmaceutical companies and so on. the quest...

Why is my justice department not doing this? they should be doing what's right and proper. presidents rarely say so out loud because it crosses every line we think had been established after watergate about separating law and politics in this way. there are people out there that say there's nothing wrong with that and as head of the judicial branch presidents can direct the justice department. it is very unseemly. >> joyce vance and reverend al sharpton on roy moore in alabama. joyce, go. >> it certainly has been an interesting week in alabama politics. this is a former chief justice of the su...

>> joyce, good luck in alabama. roll tide. >> thanks. >> alabama or auburn in the iron bowl? >> alabama. >> roll tide. >> roll tide. >> the tide rolls. before we go to break we want to circle back to jeff sessions' brushback of house republicans calling for a special counsel probe into the clinton state department. president trump and his allies have been hammering the clinton state department for months, calling the uranium one deal, quote, watergate, modern age. and it's been covered virtually wall to wall on fox news. >> new calls from congress this morning for special counsel to look int...