1/2: #GOP Three Trump defenses for the January 6 indictment. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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1/2: #GOP Three Trump defenses for the January 6 indictment. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I'm the World, I'm John Bachelorette. |
| 0:08.6 | The case against the former president Donald Trump brought by the special counsel, Mr. Smith. |
| 0:13.9 | The documents case in Florida and the January 6 case in D.C., I welcome Professor Richard |
| 0:20.6 | Epstein, the Hoover Institution, writing on the January 6 case in D.C., presenting a |
| 0:27.7 | challenge that is widespread understood that this intervenes in the election process |
| 0:34.7 | for 2024 because Mr. Trump is the leading polling candidate for the Republican nomination. |
| 0:42.2 | And it would appear from the outside, I mean the planet Mars all the way to the moon, |
| 0:47.9 | that the Biden administration brings this prosecution right in the middle of the process in order |
| 0:54.2 | to disturb the Republicans and perhaps get a advantage over them. |
| 0:58.9 | In other words, a political prosecution, Richard, a very good evening to your most discerning |
| 1:03.9 | essay in defining ideas, divides two thoughts, and I want to address the first one, political, |
| 1:11.2 | the secondest legal, which will spend all of our time on. |
| 1:14.6 | But the political thought is that this is an ambush that was pre-arranged by the White |
| 1:19.6 | House, hence delivered in the summer of 23, knowing that the Republicans are about to |
| 1:25.2 | start the debate cycle. |
| 1:27.1 | How do you account for the Department of Justice? |
| 1:29.5 | Do we just say it's always been a political animal? |
| 1:32.1 | We shouldn't be surprised. |
| 1:33.1 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:34.1 | Well, it's not always been a political animal. |
| 1:36.7 | I remember when they would leave, the time as the president of the University of Chicago |
| 1:41.7 | is brought to Washington by Gerald Ford in order to rescue the Justice Department from |
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