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System is broken. it took four prosecutor offices in order to get us to today, for this case to be prosecuted and heard by a jury. in fact, the first prosecutor, jackie johnson, which is the prosecutor for glenn county, she has now been indicted for misconduct based on abusing her power as a prosecutor, in the sense that she was in contact with greg mcmichael and also advised the police officers not to arrest them. >> and we were just looking at pictures there. most people were shocked by the racist and offensive closing argument from one of the defense lawyers, who was in that image just ther...

Were allowed to walk out of jail. >> yeah, look, it's a mess. part of what you have to look at is certainly whether there are bail reform laws in place mandating these types of releases and you have to look at the progressive prosecutor offices in st. louis and chicago are two of them to figure out what is the position they're taking about pre-trial release? are they being too light handed about it? basically what you are seeing in some of the progressive prosecutor officers is incompetence. the same kind of brain drain they've had like with the police departments. they lose the career people ...

And here's where the story gets interesting. ukraine's prosecutor general at the time was named victor shokin. it was his job to oversee the investigation into burisma. >> was he an effective prosecutor? >> totally uneffective. he was appointed with the idea to fight against corruption, to be independent. but he has no credibility and no ability to investigate. he is just crooked. >> shokin quickly earned a reputation for protecting powerful friends, including the exiled president, viktor yanukovych. protesters in kiev demanded that shokin be fired, and they weren't the only ones unhappy with ...

Prosecutor offices. which were fundamentally and systematically corrupt. >> among the loudest voices calling for shokin to be fired was vice president joe biden. to help push the case, biden threatened to hold up a billion-dollar loan guarantee program. an episode he boasted about months later at the council on foreign relations. >> i said, i'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. i said, you're not getting a billion. i'm going to be leaving here, i think it was six hours. i said, we're leaving in six hours. if the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money. well, son o...