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necessary. >> great, great. >> i know where you are, so i know where to find you. i'll see you soon. thank you as always. our top story the damning testimony at today's second january 6th hearing. much of it led with highlights by trump attorney general bill barr. >> i was somewhat demoralized, because i thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with -- with -- he's become detached from reality. and when i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were -- there was never -- there was never an indication of interest in w...

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That supports adding a new person to that list. you can bet bob mueller is taking notice. and that's not all. the other part of trump's mitigation defense he is that whatever his rookie staff did, he didn't know about it. trump has some experienced defense lawyers and they are ready to flip. senator howard baker's famous question on its head. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> if donald trump didn't know, or didn't know until later, they can argue he didn't know about any solicitation of this foreign help pirgts looks like some of which occurred. and his own solicitatio...

Crime he doesn't want his standing or his goals in any way diluted by the fact that he may have a mental disability or defection. in other words, a defect he thinks basically t way to show that this was a completely knowledgeable act was that it was made of sound mind which of course cuts against any mitigation defense. >> in the meantime you have a situation where he during this first phase of the trial said at one point i don't want a lawyer. he changed his mind and came back. could he do that? why do that? now this is really a matter of life and death. >> this is what the whole case is abou...

Excuses. sometimes they make a good mitigation defense. but something like this, this affluenza idiocy is presented and somehow convinces a judge that four people's deaths and two people's severe injuries is not enough to have any type of punishment, then judges in the future will look back and say, i'm not going anywhere near this. mr. o'mara, i'm not going to believe your otherwise potential legitimate mitigation defense because i remember that affluenza idiot -- i'm sorry, that affluenza defendant who then violated his probation and i'm not going to be that judge again. so, my frustration a...