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Gregg Jarrett | Fox News Legal Commentator Unpacks Legal Implications of Fauci's Testimony · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett. Greg, there's a lot to get to, but
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  Speaker 1: I guess we'll start with as his friends call him,
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  Speaker 1: which Chris Como did. But then Chris went the other way.
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  Speaker 1: But I saw his initial Instagram talking about how his
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  Speaker 1: buddy Tony Fauci was treated unfairly. He has since changed out.
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  Speaker 1: I know that, but I know what he said it initially. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: getting back to Anthony Fauci, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the frustration, Greg, is that the people who knew this
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  Speaker 1: guy was lying for years, starting with my guest on
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  Speaker 1: this show yesterday, HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy wrote a book
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  Speaker 1: about it, and so of other good friends.
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  Speaker 2: They knew this guy lied for years and people died.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like he lied about what he had for
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  Speaker 2: lunch today. People died. But the frustration is, really he
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  Speaker 2: was pardoned by Joe Biden. There's no real repercussion coming
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  Speaker 2: his way, or is there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, so good to be with you.
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  Speaker 3: It's inappropriate. You played brain sellad surgery when you talk
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  Speaker 3: about Fauci.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's a good job by lever Apart, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you know. Senator rand Paul has said that his
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  Speaker 3: committee is going to vote on contempt charges against Fauci
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  Speaker 3: in the next several days. Although I do have to
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  Speaker 3: say that, you know, as a lawyer, the Fifth Amendment
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  Speaker 3: invoked by Fauci last week does have very broad protections.
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  Speaker 3: And remember, Fauci's preemptive pardon would not have protected him
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  Speaker 3: if he was accused of wine during the hearing last week,
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  Speaker 3: which is why his lawyers told him to clam up.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, we'll see if contempt charges can actually
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  Speaker 3: be brought by the DOJ might have to be litigated.
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  Speaker 3: I know that a bunch of Senators Josh Holly included, say, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know that you have to read Brown versus Walker,
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  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court decision. Well, first of all, that was
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  Speaker 3: in eighteen ninety six, and second of all, if you
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  Speaker 3: read the opinion, the person testifying in that case.
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  Speaker 4: In addition to a pardon, received immunity from Congress, so
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  Speaker 4: that case is not exactly on point.
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  Speaker 3: I will say that, you know, Senator Paul has long
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  Speaker 3: argued that Fauci lied and covered up COVID's origins, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's true. And Fauci's diary is self incriminating
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  Speaker 3: because publicly Fauci was insisting that COVID came from a natural,
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  Speaker 3: natural source, you know, in the Chinese marketplace. Privately, in
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  Speaker 3: his diary, he's conceding that it likely came from the
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  Speaker 3: very Wuhan lab that he Fauci had funded, making Fauci
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  Speaker 3: arguably complicit in millions of deaths, and that would explain
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  Speaker 3: Fauci's alleged deceit. He didn't want anybody to know he
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  Speaker 3: played a role in creating the deadly virus. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: see where this goes. But Rand Paul seems determined to
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  Speaker 3: hold Fauci accountable.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, so we'll wait and see good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting, Greg, because people get mad at
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  Speaker 1: me because I turn everything into politics, even the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: I can't went for the Mets anymore because of Mam
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  Speaker 1: Donti and you know, and the Mets traded away one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite players, Peter Linzo, because he liked Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and Lindor's wife works for Mam Donti. Everything for me
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  Speaker 1: is about pickle shid, not everything about politics.
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  Speaker 5: Even this is Democrats are still still supporting this guy.
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  Speaker 5: They still love him despite all the evidence that people
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  Speaker 5: died because of him. Republicans seem to be a lot smarter.
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  Speaker 1: Even in this case, Greg Jarrett, politics plays a role.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, look, so many of the government
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  Speaker 3: dictates during the pandemic obsessive. They were harmful. They weren't
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  Speaker 3: based on science. Lockdown, school closures, social distancing, the masking,
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  Speaker 3: mandatory vaccinations. And Fauci was a big part of it.
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  Speaker 3: He was issuing behind the scenes orders, he was the
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  Speaker 3: face of it in front of television cameras. He was
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  Speaker 3: shutting down anybody who dared to disagree with a great
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Fauci. And of course you recall he famously said
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  Speaker 3: attacks on me, right, attack on science, as if he
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  Speaker 3: was the personification of science. Right. But you know, so
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  Speaker 3: much of it, as I say, was not based on
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  Speaker 3: science at all. In Fauci's diary reveals his deceptions. And
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  Speaker 3: yet the media became witting accessories. They promoted these draconian
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  Speaker 3: measures without questioning them and suppressing any legitimate disagreements. Dissent
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  Speaker 3: was denounced as dangerous disinformation. So you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: media malpractice in the extreme.
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  Speaker 1: It really was. And we were conspiracy theorists. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you already did your homework on Fauci, you know
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  Speaker 1: you do Greg bud and so did Bobby. He did
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  Speaker 1: this with AIDS. You know, he screwed up with AIDS.
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  Speaker 1: Still he told people that you get it transmitst with
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  Speaker 1: the air. He actually he came up with that medication
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  Speaker 1: that was not helpful. So it didn't start with COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Bauci, as his friends call him, did the same
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  Speaker 1: thing with AIDS.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Anthony Fauci left in his wake a stream, a
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  Speaker 3: long line of you know, mistakes that have caused enormous damage.
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  Speaker 3: And it's about time that a reckoning and an accountability
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  Speaker 3: is overdue. So I hope it happens to all Right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to Todd Blanche. We all love Todd. He's terrific,
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  Speaker 1: he really is, and hopefully I think he will be
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  Speaker 1: confirmed today by the Senate, the whole Senate. I guess, folks,
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  Speaker 1: the end of the week today is a committee. I
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  Speaker 1: know that that one point eight billion dollar weaponization fund
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  Speaker 1: set up by my friend President Trump was an issue
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  Speaker 1: with Tillis and Cornick. Now they've come along, Tim, So
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  Speaker 1: do you see anything today derailing Blanche from moving forward
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  Speaker 1: as our next attorney general?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I really don't, you know, Senators Cornin and Tillis,
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  Speaker 3: who got well. Tillis decided to retire because he was
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  Speaker 3: exhausted from going against Trump. Cornan of course lost Trump support.
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  Speaker 3: So these two knuckleheads have been going on a revenge
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  Speaker 3: Trump revenge tour, right, so they've been trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: use their vote to extort whatever they want, usually in
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  Speaker 3: opposition to Trump. All of this around the one point,
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  Speaker 3: you know, eight billion dollar fund could have been avoided.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, Blanche knew in advance of his confirmation
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  Speaker 3: hearing that Corner Untillus wanted in writing that the fund
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  Speaker 3: was dead or in a door nail, and frankly he
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  Speaker 3: should have put it in writing before the hearing even began.
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  Speaker 3: It would avoided all of this. But you know that
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  Speaker 3: now seems to be the end result. And it does
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  Speaker 3: look as though with Cornan until us voting for Blanche
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  Speaker 3: that he'll eventually be confirmed. We'll have to wait to
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  Speaker 3: see how that shakes out. I mean, there are other
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  Speaker 3: people who are Republicans in the Senate who you know,
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  Speaker 3: you always have question marks about, so who knows how
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  Speaker 3: they'll vote.
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  Speaker 1: You're right about those two. The Thomas Massey's same thing.
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  Speaker 1: This one is a little sensitive, but I love you, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you love me, so answer it the
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  Speaker 1: what you want. Jeanine Piro is a dear friend of ours.
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  Speaker 1: She worked here, We love her, and she's done a
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  Speaker 1: great job as a US attorney in DC. But he
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  Speaker 1: loved President Trump too, love him like a father. I
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  Speaker 1: love him so much. And he hammata and he called
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  Speaker 1: her a choker twice, and then he said that she
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  Speaker 1: folded like an umbrella. So you know, look, I know
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  Speaker 1: Trump's upset, and I think he's right about the pool
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  Speaker 1: being vandalized. But at the same time, I understand why
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  Speaker 1: Piero did what she did. I'm having a hard time
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  Speaker 1: picking a side in this one, but I did think
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  Speaker 1: that he came down on her pretty hard. What are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on what Trump said about Janine?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I've known Janine for twenty thirty years,
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  Speaker 3: worked with her at Fox News, and you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, She's a very confident, smart individual. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think she made mistake in filing such a long
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  Speaker 3: and lengthy dismissal of the case against the former olympian
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  Speaker 3: it was accused of vandalizing. I think, frankly, it was
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  Speaker 3: a combination of mistakes made by the contractor and maybe
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  Speaker 3: some vandalism thrown in. Look, normally, when you file a
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  Speaker 3: dismissal whe or without prejudice with a coord you just say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, very short, based on new evidence, we hereby
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  Speaker 3: dismissed the case. Instead, it was this, this lengthy, lengthy
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  Speaker 3: you know, pleading to the chord in which you know,
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  Speaker 3: she's describing an intimate detail, you know, the mistakes made
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  Speaker 3: by the contractor. And that was really the problem is
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  Speaker 3: she didn't need to do all of that, and that
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  Speaker 3: only fueled a lot of question marks in this case
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  Speaker 3: and probably you know, in the end angered tim off. Yeah, yeah, So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean he was unnecessary to do that. I hate
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  Speaker 3: to sound critical, but it's not how I would have
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  Speaker 3: handled a dismissal.
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  Speaker 1: Are you being honest? He said, you love you work
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  Speaker 1: with the word box News, But you're being honest, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. I agree with you. Well that's
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  Speaker 1: worth you got sid Rosenberg agreeing with you. So one more.
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  Speaker 1: This Luigi Mangioni, this guy he's something else. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people call me an arcissist. This guy, this guy's like,
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  Speaker 1: listen to me, I want TV cameras in the courtroom.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this guy murdered somebody in the most cowardly
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  Speaker 1: of passions. He shot him in the back, killed the
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  Speaker 1: father of two in cold blood, and yet Greg Jarrett,
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  Speaker 1: he's still calling the shots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the evidence against Mangioni is compelling. But the
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  Speaker 3: gun found in his backpack is forensically matched to the
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  Speaker 3: shell casings that the murder scene. The defender's notebook is
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  Speaker 3: a confessional, you know, describing his plans for a targeted
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  Speaker 3: killing and escape roots, so you motive planning, premeditation. You
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  Speaker 3: have digital video fingerprints, incriminating statements made by mangione I
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  Speaker 3: mean he's cooked in a court of law, which is
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  Speaker 3: why at one point the defense signaled that, oh, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna shift to a psychiatric defense. Our clients suffered extreme
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  Speaker 3: emotional disturbance, which would mean obviously in admission that he
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  Speaker 3: killed Brian Thompson. They sense the bandon that, but you
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  Speaker 3: can't get the genie back in the bottle, so the
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  Speaker 3: public knows he's deadbang guilty. It's a difficult case for
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  Speaker 3: the defense. They're not going to prevail the kerfun.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess won the defense in that while like
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  Speaker 1: you said, the evidence is overwhelming and they really can't prevail,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not going to get the death penalty, so
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's a win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because the defense achieved the win you described by
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  Speaker 3: knocking out the terror terrorism charges, which would have elevated
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  Speaker 3: second agree to fir dis agree murder and eligible for
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  Speaker 3: the death penalty under New York state law. And of
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  Speaker 3: course they were able to knock out violence associated with
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  Speaker 3: stalking in the federal case, which will be tried in January,
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  Speaker 3: and that too removed the death penalty. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: the defense already achieved the win of saving the guy's life,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm fine with that. Let him rot behind bars
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of his life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm right. And Tyler Robinson's in the same position out
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  Speaker 1: there in Utah, right with the Charlie kirkkilling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know, both cases, you know, are
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  Speaker 3: an uphill climb for the defense because the evidence is
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  Speaker 3: so compelling and overwhelming of guilt, but of course they
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  Speaker 3: enjoy the presumption of innocence and the case will eventually
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  Speaker 3: go to court and a jury.
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  Speaker 1: Greig Jarrett, You're amazing you Willie are You're great. I
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  Speaker 1: love you on TV. I love you the more here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Mike Man it's so great you to come
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  Speaker 1: on and catch up. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Continue playing ELP for me.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks you got it. Lou got that he loves Emerson,
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  Speaker 1: Lake and Palmer. The great Greg Jarrett with another terrific appearance.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Greg Jarre.
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