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Political Beatdown with Michael Cohen

Biden Continues to STICK IT to Trump In FINAL DAYS

Political Beatdown with Michael Cohen

Michael Cohen

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Michael Cohen reacts to Biden commuting 37 death sentences and how it relates to other cases, like Luigi Mangione. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Michael Cohen Show on our continued journey to 250,000 subscribers.

0:05.3

Hoping to have been there by now, not there yet, but soon. Thanks to you.

0:09.8

So please hit the subscribe button, watch, and share with your friends,

0:13.5

because there's a lot going on and a lot for us to talk about, including this morning.

0:18.9

So this morning, President Biden commuted 37 death sentences. And why is this

0:26.0

important? I hear from so many people that, you know, what do you think? What do you think about it?

0:30.8

I want to bring this into a much bigger picture of how our law enforcement, how Department of Justice is operating. And I want to begin by

0:40.4

showing you an article. It's an article from the New York Times, and it says Biden commutes 37

0:47.2

death sentences ahead of Trump's plan to resume federal executions. Those affected by the president's actions on Monday are still

0:57.3

subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal

1:04.0

death row. It goes on President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row,

1:12.5

sparing the lives of 37 men just a month before Donald J. Trump will return to the Oval Office

1:19.0

with a promise to restart federal executions. Those affected by Mr. Biden's action, all of whom

1:27.3

were convicted of murder, will serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole instead of facing execution.

1:34.3

Only three men who each carried out notorious mass killings will remain on federal death row.

1:42.3

I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal

1:48.1

level, Mr. Biden said in a statement on Monday, in good conscience, I cannot sit back and let a new

1:55.5

administration resume executions that I halted.

1:59.9

The next line, Mr. Biden said that the commutations were

2:04.2

consistent with the standard he has imposed for halting executions in cases other than terrorism

2:12.5

and hate-motivated mass murder. Here's what he also said. Make no mistake.

2:18.5

I condemn these murderers.

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