Drew Nieporent
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, lots to get to. We'll get to the Manafort trial. We'll get to Trump and Mueller. |
| 0:05.0 | Do you know that the police were after a less moon vests for a few months? |
| 0:08.7 | We'll get to that and Apple coming up. How did it get to be August already? It's August 2nd. |
| 0:14.0 | And can you believe the summer is slipping away from us now? |
| 0:17.7 | Well, we have a month at least. |
| 0:19.3 | Yeah, but we got cheated. You you know if it seems like a short |
| 0:21.6 | summer you lost several weeks of the summer dude one week was all rain one week was too hot to go |
| 0:27.5 | out uh and now it just we've had two weeks of rain here this is not good even this week has been |
| 0:33.7 | kind of wet yeah and too humid too hot, too hot. Anyway, speaking to a hot |
| 0:38.4 | Manafort on trial, although I think he's got a chance of beating this, a good chance |
| 0:42.5 | of beating this. Now, it was a huge strategic error by Mueller to bring this case because |
| 0:49.1 | it's absolute proof that he's got absolutely nothing on Donald Trump. |
| 0:55.0 | And everybody's starting out. |
| 0:56.1 | They're not really focused yet on this because it's not a televised case. |
| 0:59.5 | But they're going to start to wonder, why is he prosecuting a bank fraud case from 2005 that has nothing to do with anything? |
| 1:06.9 | It was an old FBI case that they had investigated Manafort way back then for this, and they didn't go ahead with the case. |
| 1:13.8 | They weren't sure they could win it. |
| 1:15.2 | Believe it or not, in law enforcement, prosecutors, a lot of times they don't say, we've got to do the right thing and prosecute. |
| 1:22.3 | They actually calculate very carefully the odds of winning, and if it's 89%, they go with the case. If it's 52%, they don't go with the case. If it's a high-profile case, they don't want to, if you watch the show billions, you know that they're very big on their records. They can quote it. I'm 96 and 0. I'm 89 and 1. They're like baseball players. So they threw this case out. |
| 1:45.8 | They just didn't think they could do it. |
| 1:47.8 | So Mueller, when he came in and couldn't find anything on anybody, he dug out this old FBI case and he's brought it. |
| 1:54.7 | And they got, unfortunately, for Mueller, a very honest, honorable judge who's doing a great job. |
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