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Deadline: White House

Prosecuting Donald Trump: A Primer

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord discuss and dissect the cases against Former President Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Ari Melberg, Chief Legal Correspondent for MSNBC and Host of the Bean Thank You,

0:14.6

for joining us for our very first episode of prosecuting Donald Trump a primer.

0:19.5

In our country's 246 year history, we have never seen a president or former president

0:24.7

indicted.

0:26.0

So how does a prosecutor approach this case?

0:29.0

Well, we have some top lawyers at MSNBC Legal Contributors Andrew Weissman and Mary McCord

0:33.6

to walk us through all of it.

0:35.2

They are two of the most well-respected prosecutors in the nation having handled some of the

0:40.1

most historic cases in the modern era.

0:43.1

Andrew is at the DOJ for 20 years, handling 200 cases, and he was deputy to special counsel

0:48.8

Mueller in that probe where he prosecuted Paul Manafort.

0:52.4

Mary is a former acting assistant attorney general for National Security at the DOJ.

0:56.8

She also served as assistant US Attorney in Washington for almost two decades and prosecuted

1:01.2

the Benghazi attack.

1:03.2

Speaker Pelosi has appointed her as legal counsel where she did a security review after the

1:06.7

January 6th insurrection.

1:08.6

So we have two people here who we think are perfect to break down how you would deal with

1:13.6

what is still a possibility, the potential, prosecution and trial of former president Donald

1:19.5

Trump.

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Please join me in listening to prosecuting Donald Trump with Andrew Weissman and Mary McCord.

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ormal.

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