Failures of Biased Judge in Sham Trump Trial, with Alan Dershowitz and Mark Geragos | Ep. 805

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by legal experts Alan Dershowitz and Mark Geragos to discuss the failures of Judge Merchan in the Trump business records trial, why his rulings have made clear how biased he is, the way he's a "prosecutor in a robe," what Dersh witnessed when Merchan thought the media had been removed from the courtroom, the pressures jurors could face to convict Trump for fear of backlash, the pressure lawyers face if this goes to appeal, the connection to politics and the 2024 election, MSNBC declaring the prosecutor "Shakespeare" despite the possible lied during closing argument, why this trial should have been televised, and more. Geragos- https://www.youtube.com/@reasonabledoubtpodcast Dershowitz- https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Jews-Hamas-Barbarism/dp/1510780548

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly.
0:13.6	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	We're staying on the Trump trial today
0:16.4	with two of our favorite legal experts,
0:18.6	Alan Dershooitz, author of Get Trump,
0:20.8	and of course, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law and Mark
0:23.7	Garagos host of the Reasonable Doubt podcast was a long and very
0:28.1	storied career as one of the most successful criminal defense attorneys in America.
0:31.8	Professor Durshooz, I shall start with you.
0:36.8	Give me your quick take.
0:38.0	The only thing worse than the jury instructions
0:40.1	is the failure of the defense attorneys
0:42.0	to object to them, which precludes raising many of them on appeal.
0:46.9	These were horrible, very, very pro-prosecution instructions.
0:51.7	Now, I haven't read every word of them.
0:54.4	I'm taking my cue from the media.
0:57.4	But if the judge hasn't given the missing witness instruction,
1:01.4	it's outrageous. Here you have...
1:03.4	Wait, let me interrupt you on that and say what Arthur Idala, your friend and mine said in our last segment.
1:08.5	He said the judge couldn't give the missing witness instruction because he had offered to let them bring in Weisselburg in a closed-door
1:16.8	hearing and both of them ask him questions to figure out whether they wanted him or not and the defense declined.
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