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running on? the economy is danger of recession, foreign policy blunders have created in america with less power and influence and unholy alliances led by china keep growing and oh yeah, the massive corruption engulfing his presidency shows no sign of abating. watch this remarkable moment from the white house briefing yesterday. >> one committee trying to get an fbi file alleging biden took bribes and an allegation of covering up an investigation and 53 percent of the public including important democrats believe joe biden was involved in his son with an illegal influence peddling sche...

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Defense as brainwashing. the legal version of that defense is called coercive persuasion. in other words, i as a defendant was forced to commit these crimes, and therefore, am not guilty. that was the defense that bailey and company put forward at patty's trial. >> we knew with high degree of certainty that brainwashing or coercive persuasion was going to be the main defense. because it was the only other possible, possible explanation. >> the problem for bailey and the defense was that they had very few options for what to argue. they couldn't argue she wasn't in the bank. she couldn't argue ...

Justice system, there is no such defense as brainwashing. the legal version of that defense is called coercive persuasion. in other words, i as a defendant was forced to commit these crimes and therefore am not guilty. that was the defense that bailey and company put forward at patty's trial. >> we knew with high degree of certainty that brainwashing, or coercive persuasion, was going to be the main defense because it was the only other possible, possible explanation. >> the problem for bailey and the defense was that they had very few options for what to argue. they couldn't argue she wasn't ...

Very few options for what to argue. they couldn't argue she wasn't in the bank. they couldn't argue this was mistaken identity. >> you're at a real disadvantage. there's been all this publicity about everything that patty had done. you have a steep ramp to climb as a defense attorney to try to unring that bell. >> there was no legal defense available to her that i never would have robbed the bank if if i hadn't been kidnapped in the first place. everybody knew that was true. she was not going to be a bank robber, but so what. she did rob the bank and was on trial for it. and what led her to th...