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It's Complicated

Episode 48 - Let’s Make a Deal; Absolute Immunity; Aging Reality

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Fani Willis has taken a 4th guilty plea in the Fulton County Rico case; does she have more deals to give? In DC, Judge Chutkan will review Trump’s motion to dismiss based on his argument that he’s absolutely immune from criminal prosecution. It’s nonsense, but it’s novel nonsense and will have to be adjudicated; plus The Golden Bachelor.

Transcript

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0:00.0

M-S-W media.

0:06.7

So Renato, now that three lawyers have pleaded guilty

0:11.3

in the Georgia case, are these the nails in the coffin for Trump?

0:16.0

Eh, it's complicated.

0:18.0

I'm Renata Marriott.

0:22.0

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.

0:28.0

And I'm Asha Rangappa. I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI Special Agent and I'm a legal

0:36.2

contributor for ABC News. And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down

0:41.8

into a sound bite or a tweet.

0:45.0

So, Asha, you don't, very interesting to have these guilty pleas of Kenneth Chesbro and

0:57.2

Sydney Powell. There's at least I mean obviously we have Jenna Ellis now as well.

1:00.4

We're recording this on Tuesday. We have by the way he received your

1:04.0

comments or considering how we can try to change your recording schedule to

1:07.8

capture instant news events. But nonetheless got a lots of talk about today.

1:13.5

I will say the one thing that I would kind of,

1:16.7

the way I would look at this,

1:18.2

and maybe it's different than the way other people are,

1:21.3

is to me, this is the end point of the gambit that Kenneth

1:25.4

Chesbro launched that ultimately Sydney polygraphed and onto of having a

1:31.0

speedy trial, which I said at the time as a tactician I admired trying to rush the DA to the trial.

1:38.0

I think it's fair to say it didn't really work. I mean, I think these are reasonably good deals for the attorneys because they don't go to prison

1:45.2

but and that's why they took them but in the end of the day

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