Welcome back to the Dershow, since the time we last met on Wednesday, the pressures have

mounted enormously to prosecute former president Donald Trump and try him and put him in jail,

put him in prison and disqualify him from voting, although technically I guess a president

can run for office from prison, a mayor curly, I think, in Boston, Massachusetts,

ran in one, I think, for mayor, while he was serving a prison term,

and a mayor of Providence, Rhode Island probably could have won Eddie run from prison,

but the pressures amounting, the pressures from the committee obviously, the January 6th committee

is designed to prevent Trump from running and designed to try to gather the evidence to put

pressure on Attorney General Mark Garland to prosecute. There's also pressure

by and from the prosecutor in Georgia, a state prosecutor in Georgia to go after Donald Trump.

My own view, and people will disagree with this, is that voters should have the right to

defeat him for office, and instead of prosecutors, that it'll be far more legitimate if he is allowed

to run, I don't know whether he will run or not, he says he will run, but we don't know whether

he'll run or not, and if he's run, if he runs, I will plan to do what I did the last two times,

he ran, wrote against him, but I will defend his right, his right not to be subject to selective

political prosecution, and that's exactly what what would happen if he will prosecute it.

The New York Times in the last day had two op-eds demanding his prosecution, one by

an author named Blow, who you can always predict how he was going to come out,

and the other by one of my former students, who's a decent and able guy former ambassador to

the Czech Republic, who thinks that he should be prosecuted by the state of Georgia.

I think one thing is clear, if you're ever going to prosecute a form of president,

the evidence has to be overwhelming, it has to be a slam dunk, and a conviction has to be

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