The Megyn Kelly Show - April 09, 2021


Derek Chauvin Trial: Where Things Stand Now, with Alan Dershowitz, Arthur Aidala and Mark Eiglarsh | Ep. 87


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Alan Dershowitz, Mark Eiglash, and Arthur Idala join host Meghan Kelly to discuss the Derek Chauvin trial. They discuss the evidence, the defense case, and the potential for a mistrial.

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00:00:30.660 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:00:32.540 Your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
00:00:41.940 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.
00:00:43.620 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:00:45.400 Oh, we have a great show for you today.
00:00:46.880 We're talking about the Derek Chauvin trial,
00:00:48.960 and it is an in-depth look at where we are,
00:00:51.300 and it is an honest and fair look at where we are.
00:00:54.160 Gosh, I've been listening to tons of podcasts
00:00:57.000 and reading tons of reports about the trial
00:00:58.920 because I genuinely want to know what's going on
00:01:01.860 so I can handicap myself
00:01:03.140 because unlike most of these legal analysts,
00:01:05.180 I am fair, as you know.
00:01:06.740 I don't have any horse in this race at all.
00:01:09.320 And I listen to some and they're like,
00:01:10.860 there's no chance he's going to be convicted,
00:01:12.640 no chance whatsoever.
00:01:13.960 He died of a drug overdose, period.
00:01:15.700 The vast majority of the mainstream media
00:01:17.060 is telling you exactly the opposite,
00:01:18.420 that it would be a dereliction of duty,
00:01:19.780 that this is a racist jury
00:01:20.740 if they do anything other than convict of the top count,
00:01:23.000 blah, blah, blah.
00:01:23.300 So we're going to take a hard look at it today,
00:01:25.080 and you're going to get expert analysis,
00:01:26.580 truly expert analysis,
00:01:27.780 from Alan Dershowitz,
00:01:29.500 along with our legal dream team,
00:01:31.780 Arthur Idala and Mark Eiglash,
00:01:34.180 both are former prosecutors,
00:01:35.560 now defense attorneys.
00:01:37.000 And I think you'll hear very thoughtful,
00:01:40.060 insightful points of view.
00:01:41.200 We're going to play you a bunch of the testimony,
00:01:42.600 so if you haven't been keeping that close an eye on it,
00:01:44.580 you'll know everything you need to know
00:01:45.680 about this trial
00:01:46.260 after you listen to this show.
00:01:48.040 And so unlike the rest of your friends,
00:01:49.560 you can actually be informed
00:01:50.800 when talking about this case
00:01:52.780 and when the verdict comes out.
00:01:54.380 So in any event,
00:01:55.700 don't miss this.
00:01:56.700 It's a good show,
00:01:57.340 and I think it's easy to understand,
00:01:59.280 which is always my top goal.
00:02:01.420 On the Cali Five,
00:02:02.040 we used to call it
00:02:02.540 cool water over a hot brain.
00:02:04.280 That's how I want you to feel
00:02:05.120 when you listen to me discuss the news.
00:02:08.200 We'll put the effort in
00:02:09.240 so that we can make it effortless for you,
00:02:11.940 and I think that works.
00:02:13.900 That works for the viewer and the listener,
00:02:15.300 and it's why I have a good relationship
00:02:17.040 with the people who consume our news products.
00:02:20.280 So in any event,
00:02:21.420 enjoy it,
00:02:21.980 because I think it's educational
00:02:22.840 and entertaining at the same time
00:02:24.240 because legal cases can be.
00:02:25.820 They can be long and boring,
00:02:26.800 or they can be entertaining,
00:02:27.720 and this is in the latter category,
00:02:30.100 at least this discussion is.
00:02:31.440 So we're going to start with Alan Dershowitz
00:02:33.200 in one second,
00:02:33.960 but first this.
00:02:40.040 I've been enjoying listening to your podcast.
00:02:42.720 I've been hanging on every word you say
00:02:44.660 about the Chauvin trial,
00:02:45.740 and this is the perfect thing
00:02:47.700 to talk to you about
00:02:48.380 because as you pointed out in your podcast,
00:02:50.560 you have literally spent a career
00:02:52.880 boring over trial transcripts
00:02:55.120 to figure out whether anything is objectionable
00:02:57.120 and a basis for appeal.
00:02:59.000 And so far,
00:03:00.060 how do you think,
00:03:01.180 well,
00:03:01.500 how do you think the judge is doing
00:03:02.940 in his rulings
00:03:03.760 about what's allowed in
00:03:04.960 and what's not allowed in?
00:03:06.860 I think he's opened himself up
00:03:08.740 to appellate reversal
00:03:10.100 on a number of issues.
00:03:12.300 I think the most important one
00:03:13.660 is whether the trial
00:03:15.260 should have been conducted
00:03:16.220 in Minneapolis
00:03:18.300 at the time it was conducted
00:03:20.040 with Minneapolis jurors
00:03:21.500 rather than moving it
00:03:23.180 to a rural area
00:03:24.260 with jurors
00:03:24.940 who wouldn't be as concerned
00:03:25.960 about what the implications
00:03:27.260 of a not guilty verdict
00:03:28.760 might be
00:03:29.300 on their businesses,
00:03:30.340 on their family,
00:03:31.180 on their schools.
00:03:31.760 So here's one of the things
00:03:33.800 I've been noticing
00:03:34.440 and you tell me.
00:03:35.480 The prosecution's case so far
00:03:37.140 has been largely emotional.
00:03:39.100 Now they're getting into
00:03:39.740 the nitty gritty
00:03:40.400 with the legal,
00:03:41.680 with the force experts
00:03:43.260 saying this was excessive.
00:03:44.500 They had the police chief.
00:03:45.420 This was excessive.
00:03:46.980 But even there,
00:03:48.360 they're really trying to layer in
00:03:49.820 emotional witnesses.
00:03:51.740 And both when they put
00:03:53.400 each member of the crowd
00:03:54.740 on the stand
00:03:55.500 and elicited tears
00:03:57.700 and what has this done to you?
00:03:59.560 And when they put on
00:04:01.420 on Wednesday,
00:04:02.840 the store clerk
00:04:03.880 and then the woman 0.68
00:04:04.940 who took the video
00:04:06.000 that we've all been watching,
00:04:07.400 Darnella Frazier,
00:04:08.500 they've been asking
00:04:09.460 emotional questions of them.
00:04:11.440 And I, for the life of me,
00:04:13.480 don't understand
00:04:14.480 why the defense attorney
00:04:16.440 is not up and down
00:04:17.240 on his feet
00:04:17.740 screaming about this
00:04:18.840 because, I mean,
00:04:20.140 with all due respect,
00:04:21.880 why does it matter
00:04:23.140 how witnessing this event
00:04:24.940 has impacted
00:04:27.160 those witnesses
00:04:28.280 or changed their lives?
00:04:29.460 I don't mean to sound cold,
00:04:30.760 but as a legal matter,
00:04:32.040 why is that coming in?
00:04:34.340 You're absolutely right.
00:04:35.620 And I think the defense attorney
00:04:37.000 has to make
00:04:37.700 a calculated decision
00:04:39.060 in this case.
00:04:40.380 The prosecution
00:04:41.140 is overtrying the case.
00:04:42.720 They're putting on
00:04:43.420 too much evidence.
00:04:44.740 They're losing the impact
00:04:46.380 of the dramatic video.
00:04:49.360 When you show a video once,
00:04:50.840 it has an amazing impact
00:04:52.640 on a jury.
00:04:53.680 When you show it
00:04:54.360 the seventh and eighth time,
00:04:55.480 it becomes clinical
00:04:56.320 and the impact is lost.
00:04:58.120 And when you put
00:04:59.240 10 witnesses,
00:05:00.300 15, 20 witnesses
00:05:01.420 who repeat the same thing
00:05:02.960 and there were news reports
00:05:03.800 that at least one,
00:05:04.960 maybe two of the jurors
00:05:05.780 were dozing off,
00:05:07.080 it really shows you
00:05:08.160 you're losing
00:05:08.840 the impact of your case.
00:05:10.320 And so the defense
00:05:11.580 may be strategizing,
00:05:12.800 look, let them
00:05:13.420 over try their case.
00:05:14.600 I've had cases like that
00:05:15.820 over the years
00:05:16.920 where the prosecution
00:05:17.760 has gone on weeks
00:05:19.020 and months
00:05:19.520 and we've won
00:05:20.260 all the time
00:05:21.100 because you lose
00:05:22.640 your jury
00:05:23.260 after a relatively
00:05:24.460 short period of time.
00:05:26.300 But legally,
00:05:27.420 they should be
00:05:28.160 preserving the issue
00:05:29.360 of overly emotional testimony.
00:05:33.100 Look, there were only
00:05:33.880 three legal issues
00:05:35.300 in this case.
00:05:36.380 One of them is scientific.
00:05:38.460 Did the knee on the neck
00:05:40.180 cause the death
00:05:41.480 of George Floyd?
00:05:44.240 That's a scientific question.
00:05:46.580 What impacted
00:05:47.340 his drug use?
00:05:48.300 What impacted
00:05:48.880 his heart condition,
00:05:50.540 his high blood pressure,
00:05:51.740 have on the death?
00:05:53.320 And that's going
00:05:54.620 to be determined
00:05:55.700 by the instruction
00:05:57.200 that the judge gives
00:05:58.340 because the jury's
00:05:59.060 going to come
00:05:59.380 to two conclusions.
00:06:00.760 They're going to conclude
00:06:01.540 that but for the knee
00:06:02.400 on the neck
00:06:02.800 he'd still be alive today
00:06:03.940 but they will also
00:06:04.820 likely come to the conclusion
00:06:06.140 that but for his drug use,
00:06:08.520 but for his high blood pressure
00:06:09.880 and his heart condition,
00:06:11.280 he might still have survived
00:06:12.600 the knee on the neck.
00:06:13.500 So there were at least
00:06:14.380 two significant causes
00:06:16.160 of his death
00:06:17.720 and the judge
00:06:18.360 is going to have to tell them
00:06:19.360 how to resolve
00:06:20.280 that issue
00:06:21.160 beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:06:22.380 So that's issue number one.
00:06:24.040 Issue number two
00:06:24.680 is what was his level
00:06:25.580 of intentionality?
00:06:26.560 You only get to that issue
00:06:27.640 if you get by the causation
00:06:29.620 because causation
00:06:30.340 is a prerequisite
00:06:31.120 for any homicide prosecution.
00:06:33.380 Remember,
00:06:33.720 this is not a reckless
00:06:34.800 endangerment case.
00:06:35.940 There are states
00:06:36.560 that have statutes
00:06:37.740 saying if you put somebody
00:06:38.820 at great risk of death,
00:06:39.980 that's an independent crime.
00:06:41.300 You don't have to
00:06:41.560 support causation
00:06:42.260 but they haven't charged
00:06:43.600 them with that.
00:06:44.000 They've only charged
00:06:44.880 them with homicide
00:06:45.560 and so you've got
00:06:47.060 to get past causation
00:06:48.180 and then you get
00:06:48.700 the level of intent
00:06:49.540 and that gets
00:06:50.640 to the three charges
00:06:51.740 that have been made here.
00:06:53.100 Second degree murder,
00:06:54.040 third degree murder
00:06:54.760 and second degree manslaughter.
00:06:56.360 I don't think
00:06:57.040 they've made
00:06:57.540 the murder charges.
00:06:58.560 I think they have
00:06:59.340 made a strong case
00:07:00.580 on manslaughter
00:07:01.260 and that will depend
00:07:02.940 a little bit
00:07:03.420 on whether he takes
00:07:04.140 the witness stand
00:07:04.880 and if he testifies
00:07:06.020 that will go directly
00:07:07.060 to his intent.
00:07:08.840 And what's the third issue?
00:07:10.180 You said there are
00:07:10.540 three issues here,
00:07:11.200 scientific,
00:07:11.780 level of intentionality.
00:07:12.680 The third issue
00:07:13.120 is whether or not
00:07:14.300 felony murder
00:07:14.980 applies in a case like this.
00:07:16.440 So in most jurisdictions
00:07:18.360 for felony murder
00:07:19.560 to apply,
00:07:20.620 you need to have
00:07:21.260 an independent felony.
00:07:23.200 That is,
00:07:23.560 you go to rob a bank
00:07:24.520 and the process
00:07:25.660 there's a shootout,
00:07:26.460 somebody dies,
00:07:27.100 you didn't intend
00:07:27.720 to kill them, 0.83
00:07:28.300 you're guilty
00:07:28.840 because it was
00:07:29.380 an independent felony,
00:07:30.800 the bank robbery.
00:07:31.820 You rape somebody. 0.92
00:07:33.220 In the course of the rape, 0.95
00:07:34.160 you put your hand
00:07:34.800 over her mouth 0.99
00:07:35.440 in order to stop her
00:07:36.220 from screaming,
00:07:37.200 she dies.
00:07:38.420 The rape is an 0.96
00:07:39.180 independent felony,
00:07:40.160 that's felony murder.
00:07:41.200 But in most jurisdictions,
00:07:43.160 if the underlying felony
00:07:44.420 is assault,
00:07:45.300 it's so closely
00:07:46.620 connected to the death
00:07:48.020 that it doesn't provide
00:07:49.460 a basis for felony murder.
00:07:51.680 And when you add to that,
00:07:53.120 in this case,
00:07:53.820 all the prosecution witnesses
00:07:55.100 seem to concede
00:07:56.140 that initially putting
00:07:58.000 the knee on the neck
00:07:59.180 may not have been a crime.
00:08:01.420 It became a crime
00:08:02.940 over time
00:08:04.300 when it was clear
00:08:05.820 that he was disabled,
00:08:07.100 that he was not breathing,
00:08:08.260 that he was unconscious.
00:08:09.860 Every expert says
00:08:11.040 at that point
00:08:11.640 he should have lifted
00:08:12.280 the knee off the neck.
00:08:13.120 But when you have
00:08:14.180 a situation
00:08:14.900 that's a matter of degree
00:08:16.220 that it evolves
00:08:17.380 from proper police procedure
00:08:20.340 to unlawful police procedure,
00:08:22.740 that doesn't provide
00:08:24.120 a foundation
00:08:25.140 for a felony murder prosecution.
00:08:27.000 So I think
00:08:27.500 second-degree murder
00:08:28.760 is going to be thrown out
00:08:29.600 by the judge.
00:08:30.220 It certainly should be.
00:08:31.640 And then we get
00:08:32.260 the third-degree murder,
00:08:33.220 which is very difficult
00:08:34.180 because it says
00:08:35.040 you have to endanger
00:08:36.280 the life of others.
00:08:38.180 And others,
00:08:39.080 the plain meaning
00:08:39.840 is beyond
00:08:40.820 the victim himself,
00:08:42.020 like in the case
00:08:43.920 where they shot
00:08:44.640 into a darkened room
00:08:45.900 and killed the woman 0.81
00:08:47.340 but also endangered
00:08:48.420 the lives of the people
00:08:49.580 in the apartment next door.
00:08:51.720 That doesn't happen
00:08:52.880 with the knee on the neck.
00:08:53.940 Only the person
00:08:55.000 who's the victim
00:08:55.620 was endangered.
00:08:57.140 So the judge
00:08:57.800 may throw out
00:08:58.940 the murder prosecution.
00:08:59.880 I don't think he will.
00:09:01.220 I don't think he'll throw out
00:09:02.240 third-degree murder,
00:09:03.420 but he should.
00:09:04.540 And then we're at manslaughter,
00:09:05.760 and that's a very solid case.
00:09:07.920 Mm-hmm.
00:09:08.800 First of all,
00:09:09.180 this is exactly the conversation
00:09:10.240 I want to be having.
00:09:10.800 I love the way
00:09:12.140 your mind works.
00:09:12.780 I love the linear thinking.
00:09:13.780 So easy to follow.
00:09:15.080 I want to go through
00:09:15.800 these with you
00:09:16.240 because I totally,
00:09:17.500 you won't be surprised
00:09:18.120 to agree with everything
00:09:18.820 you said in terms
00:09:19.520 of what the legal issues are
00:09:21.100 and how we should be
00:09:21.660 thinking about these.
00:09:22.900 So let's start
00:09:23.560 with scientific.
00:09:24.440 Did the knee
00:09:25.420 cause the death?
00:09:27.520 And you rightly point out
00:09:29.060 that the jury's going to say
00:09:30.580 the knee was a factor.
00:09:33.300 They're likely to conclude
00:09:34.400 the knee was a factor.
00:09:36.740 And we'll see the defense.
00:09:37.740 It was a but-for factor.
00:09:40.680 But for the knee,
00:09:41.580 he'd still be alive today.
00:09:42.800 But but-for isn't enough.
00:09:45.060 Right.
00:09:45.220 It has to be proximate cause.
00:09:46.280 It has to be closer in time to that.
00:09:47.700 Like if you get diagnosed,
00:09:48.980 a man finds out his wife has cancer
00:09:51.580 and he drives through the streets
00:09:52.920 like a crazy man
00:09:53.740 to get to her at her workplace
00:09:55.600 to comfort her,
00:09:56.520 and he hits somebody,
00:09:57.960 you could say,
00:09:58.740 but for her cancer,
00:09:59.640 the person wouldn't have been hit.
00:10:01.060 But that's not enough
00:10:01.640 to impose legal.
00:10:02.340 You have to get it has to be closer
00:10:03.960 the cause and more intimately
00:10:05.960 tied to the event.
00:10:06.660 And that's what they have
00:10:07.560 to prove with him.
00:10:08.140 But I want to ask you
00:10:09.400 because I did look at this
00:10:11.260 and the Minneapolis star,
00:10:14.380 I think it is,
00:10:14.740 has been doing really good
00:10:15.420 reporting on this.
00:10:16.280 And they,
00:10:17.580 according to them,
00:10:20.780 the Minnesota law
00:10:22.340 does not require,
00:10:23.900 does not require the prosecution
00:10:25.340 to prove that Chauvin alone
00:10:27.780 caused George Floyd's death.
00:10:29.480 And that they said,
00:10:31.220 according to the states
00:10:32.460 and the defenses,
00:10:34.640 both sides proposed jury instructions.
00:10:38.160 They have,
00:10:38.880 they have conceded,
00:10:39.760 both sides concede
00:10:40.560 that to cause means
00:10:43.340 to be a substantial causal factor.
00:10:46.980 And the fact that other causes
00:10:49.420 contributed to the death
00:10:51.200 does not relieve the defendant
00:10:55.020 of criminal liability.
00:10:56.680 So if the defense
00:10:57.960 has actually already conceded
00:10:59.760 that in its proposed
00:11:01.020 jury instructions,
00:11:02.380 I mean,
00:11:02.580 that could be ballgame,
00:11:03.680 Alan, right?
00:11:04.260 If they're conceding.
00:11:05.280 It could be.
00:11:06.100 It could be.
00:11:06.660 If they're conceding all,
00:11:08.640 right,
00:11:08.920 that all that needs to be proven
00:11:10.120 is that the knee on the neck
00:11:11.440 was one cause
00:11:12.720 and you got him.
00:11:14.300 That's a terrible outcome
00:11:15.580 for the defense.
00:11:17.780 Absolutely.
00:11:18.360 It's a terrible concession.
00:11:19.420 It's wrong as a matter of law.
00:11:21.480 If you shoot somebody
00:11:22.640 in the leg
00:11:23.300 and it's a non-lethal wound
00:11:25.240 and they take him to a hospital
00:11:26.400 and the doctor engages
00:11:28.000 in malpractice
00:11:29.120 and kills him
00:11:30.220 on the operating table,
00:11:31.760 that would not be a homicide,
00:11:34.420 even though,
00:11:35.080 but for the shooting of the leg,
00:11:36.740 he would never have been
00:11:37.620 taken to the hospital.
00:11:39.460 It has to be more than
00:11:41.000 just one of many
00:11:43.020 contributing causes.
00:11:44.180 It has to be
00:11:44.800 a very dominant cause.
00:11:47.180 It has to be
00:11:47.760 the essential cause.
00:11:50.040 But courts use
00:11:51.180 all kinds of fuzzy language
00:11:52.860 around here
00:11:53.420 and they leave it to the jury.
00:11:54.860 They use substantial cause,
00:11:56.320 significant cause,
00:11:58.520 proximate cause.
00:11:59.400 Nobody knows
00:11:59.880 what proximate cause means.
00:12:01.200 Everybody who's taking torts
00:12:02.260 in law school
00:12:03.300 was, you know,
00:12:04.060 their mind was boggled
00:12:05.100 over proximate cause,
00:12:06.580 the cases that we studied.
00:12:08.920 And, you know,
00:12:09.660 I used to teach this
00:12:10.480 all the time
00:12:11.320 in my criminal law cases.
00:12:13.280 A man goes into
00:12:14.340 a woman's apartment
00:12:15.200 and threatens to rape her
00:12:17.460 and she jumps out the window 0.99
00:12:18.480 to commit suicide.
00:12:19.540 Did she rather die
00:12:20.300 than be raped?
00:12:20.820 Is that sufficiently
00:12:23.100 closely connected
00:12:24.260 or was her own decision
00:12:26.780 to jump out the window
00:12:28.100 the most significant
00:12:30.340 cause of her death?
00:12:31.680 These are questions
00:12:32.580 that juries have been deciding
00:12:34.520 for centuries
00:12:36.020 and usually they're told
00:12:37.860 to use their common sense.
00:12:39.220 And I think that's why
00:12:40.540 the state is trying
00:12:41.560 to make a strong moral case.
00:12:43.000 Look, morally,
00:12:44.100 morally,
00:12:44.840 there's no justification
00:12:45.820 for what Officer Chauvin did.
00:12:47.760 He was justly fired.
00:12:49.280 He is justly condemned.
00:12:51.040 What he did was wrong,
00:12:52.280 keeping the knee on the neck
00:12:53.240 for as long as he did.
00:12:54.660 He deserves a special place
00:12:55.960 in hell for that.
00:12:56.740 But does he deserve
00:12:57.500 to go to prison for homicide?
00:12:59.300 That's a very different question.
00:13:01.860 And my worry is that
00:13:03.140 the crowds outside
00:13:04.560 are merging those questions.
00:13:06.760 And remember,
00:13:07.260 this is not a sequestered jury.
00:13:08.820 They go home every night.
00:13:10.080 They're told not to watch television.
00:13:11.580 They're told not to talk
00:13:12.420 to their spouses about the case.
00:13:13.900 But we know that
00:13:15.120 these matters leak to the jury.
00:13:17.340 They know that there are people
00:13:19.120 out there saying,
00:13:20.340 if there's not a murder conviction
00:13:21.420 in this case,
00:13:22.140 there's going to be
00:13:22.680 a Rodney King response
00:13:23.860 or there's going to be
00:13:25.220 economic pressures and reactions.
00:13:27.000 So I worry that the jury
00:13:29.420 can really do justice
00:13:31.780 and distinguish the moral
00:13:34.920 from the legal case here.
00:13:36.520 The judge seems pretty good.
00:13:38.960 I think he's generally ruling
00:13:40.500 in favor of the prosecution.
00:13:41.800 That's often the case.
00:13:43.520 And as I tell my clients,
00:13:45.400 every time you get
00:13:46.160 a bad ruling at trial,
00:13:47.260 that's good for me
00:13:47.960 as an appellate lawyer.
00:13:49.200 And every time you get
00:13:49.960 a good ruling at trial,
00:13:50.920 that's bad for me
00:13:51.720 as an appellate lawyer.
00:13:52.660 So I think there are
00:13:54.060 appellate issues piling up.
00:13:55.700 And I do think
00:13:56.380 if I had to make a guess
00:13:57.880 that there will be
00:13:59.040 a conviction of some kind
00:14:00.660 in this case.
00:14:01.320 But, you know,
00:14:02.040 until the defendant
00:14:02.960 takes the witness stand
00:14:03.880 or decides whether
00:14:04.720 to take the witness stand,
00:14:06.060 none of us can make
00:14:06.900 a valid prediction.
00:14:07.880 You know, I have a friend
00:14:08.460 who used to charge
00:14:09.000 $100,000 to try a criminal case.
00:14:11.160 And he would tell the client,
00:14:12.220 look, $5,000
00:14:12.900 is for what I do
00:14:14.240 in the courtroom,
00:14:14.940 $95,000 is for my advice
00:14:17.900 on whether you should
00:14:18.840 take the witness stand
00:14:19.720 or not.
00:14:20.380 Because that is the most
00:14:21.680 crucial issue
00:14:22.640 in any criminal case.
00:14:24.460 I have to tell you,
00:14:25.340 when I go to prisons
00:14:26.060 and visit my clients,
00:14:27.680 they have their friends
00:14:29.340 all come over,
00:14:30.260 you know,
00:14:30.460 I'm a celebrity lawyer,
00:14:31.460 they talk to me.
00:14:32.400 They all have one thing
00:14:33.380 in common.
00:14:33.840 They blame bringing
00:14:34.700 in prison on their lawyers.
00:14:36.120 Half of them blame
00:14:36.940 their lawyers
00:14:37.420 for putting them
00:14:38.000 on the stand.
00:14:38.840 The other half blame 0.50
00:14:39.880 their lawyers
00:14:40.280 for not putting them
00:14:41.060 on the stand.
00:14:42.240 The decision
00:14:42.980 to put a client
00:14:43.780 on the stand
00:14:44.500 is the crucial issue.
00:14:46.340 I don't think
00:14:46.660 it's been made
00:14:47.140 in this case
00:14:47.680 and it shouldn't be made
00:14:49.200 until the close
00:14:49.940 of the prosecution's case.
00:14:51.420 I think in the end
00:14:52.880 they're going to have
00:14:53.440 to put them on the stand
00:14:54.340 because I think
00:14:55.200 the case for causation
00:14:56.340 has been strong enough
00:14:58.160 to overcome
00:14:59.880 a motion for dismissal.
00:15:01.620 Here's the way
00:15:01.960 it's going to work.
00:15:02.680 At the close
00:15:03.260 of the government's case,
00:15:04.540 the defense will make
00:15:05.360 a motion to dismiss,
00:15:06.340 to get rid of
00:15:07.000 murder two.
00:15:08.640 And maybe they'll succeed
00:15:09.860 but they won't succeed
00:15:10.820 on murder three
00:15:11.480 and they won't succeed
00:15:12.260 on manslaughter.
00:15:13.640 And it's at that point
00:15:14.940 that the decision
00:15:15.740 will be made
00:15:16.440 whether to put him
00:15:17.500 on the stand.
00:15:18.120 Now if you put him
00:15:18.580 on the stand,
00:15:19.220 it opens up
00:15:20.460 the prosecution
00:15:21.540 to ask him
00:15:22.520 all kinds of questions
00:15:23.540 about his background.
00:15:24.980 Questions which might
00:15:25.760 not otherwise come in
00:15:27.160 if he doesn't take the stand.
00:15:28.600 It was a very,
00:15:29.780 very hard decision.
00:15:31.680 Right.
00:15:32.180 Like the complaints
00:15:32.980 that have been leveled
00:15:33.920 against Derek Chauvin
00:15:35.020 in the past
00:15:35.600 over his 19 plus year career
00:15:37.400 and each one of those
00:15:38.600 will be blown up
00:15:39.360 into, you know,
00:15:40.140 a pattern.
00:15:40.500 They're trying to argue
00:15:41.060 it's a pattern.
00:15:41.660 They're going to try
00:15:42.340 to get it in either way
00:15:43.420 even if he doesn't testify
00:15:44.340 claiming it's a pattern
00:15:45.220 but it's a slam dunk
00:15:47.640 for the prosecution
00:15:48.260 if he takes a stand.
00:15:50.360 I think that's right
00:15:51.000 because it comes in then
00:15:51.940 on credibility,
00:15:53.260 on other issues
00:15:54.160 whereas if they're trying
00:15:55.080 to put it on as a pattern,
00:15:56.960 other crimes evidence
00:15:58.080 generally doesn't come in
00:15:59.360 and also complaints
00:16:00.660 don't generally come in.
00:16:01.920 They have to be validated
00:16:02.960 and there haven't been
00:16:03.820 And only two of them.
00:16:04.860 Only two of them
00:16:05.800 were reported.
00:16:06.300 Okay, so I want to get
00:16:07.200 to intentionality
00:16:08.300 and whether Chauvin
00:16:08.840 will take the stand
00:16:09.400 in one second
00:16:09.760 but let's just stay
00:16:10.440 on scientific.
00:16:11.940 Did the knee cause
00:16:12.560 the death?
00:16:13.020 Number one.
00:16:13.520 So since we do believe
00:16:14.720 according to the
00:16:15.760 Minneapolis Star Tribune
00:16:16.860 that the defense
00:16:17.700 has already conceded
00:16:18.940 and that the Minneapolis
00:16:20.300 or the Minnesota guidelines
00:16:21.580 for jury instructions
00:16:22.460 kind of forced them
00:16:23.560 to concede
00:16:24.140 that Chauvin's actions
00:16:25.760 only have to be
00:16:26.460 one of the causes
00:16:28.400 of Floyd's death.
00:16:29.160 So that puts the defense
00:16:30.080 behind the eight ball
00:16:30.780 starting off.
00:16:31.940 But that doesn't
00:16:32.520 but he's
00:16:33.140 Nelson, the defense lawyer
00:16:34.280 is not giving up on this.
00:16:35.400 He is definitely
00:16:36.360 going to argue
00:16:37.220 that Derek Chauvin's knee
00:16:38.660 did not cause the death.
00:16:40.480 He's not conceding that.
00:16:41.920 He's putting on evidence
00:16:43.120 through the police officers
00:16:45.440 who are taking the stand
00:16:46.260 right now to say
00:16:46.980 this was out of line,
00:16:47.860 this wasn't with policy,
00:16:49.220 it was excessive force,
00:16:50.640 showing them video
00:16:51.740 of how the knee
00:16:53.360 actually may not
00:16:54.800 have been on the neck.
00:16:55.820 It may have been
00:16:56.720 on the shoulders.
00:16:57.520 And they have coming up
00:16:59.520 they have coming up
00:17:01.060 the medical examiner,
00:17:03.080 the only one
00:17:03.920 to actually do an autopsy
00:17:05.440 on George Floyd,
00:17:06.980 this guy Baker.
00:17:08.180 He is going to testify
00:17:09.700 that he concluded
00:17:11.660 this was not a death
00:17:13.140 caused by asphyxia
00:17:14.440 or the lack of oxygen
00:17:15.620 caused by knee
00:17:17.040 on anything,
00:17:18.040 that this was a heart attack.
00:17:19.760 That's what he concluded,
00:17:20.740 a heart attack
00:17:21.440 caused by
00:17:23.140 arteries that were
00:17:25.100 75 to 80 percent
00:17:26.800 occluded
00:17:28.120 and other,
00:17:30.500 you know,
00:17:30.780 health issues
00:17:31.760 that George Floyd had
00:17:32.560 and the drugs in him,
00:17:33.920 fentanyl,
00:17:34.440 methamphetamine
00:17:35.180 and maybe others.
00:17:37.020 And he basically says
00:17:38.560 it was all complicated
00:17:39.560 by like the knee
00:17:41.480 on the neck
00:17:41.860 was a complicating factor,
00:17:43.380 I guess he suggests.
00:17:44.240 I could get the exact language.
00:17:46.260 But Nelson's doing
00:17:47.520 a pretty decent job
00:17:48.420 of saying
00:17:49.360 the knee wasn't
00:17:50.620 on the neck
00:17:51.120 and you're going to hear
00:17:52.080 from a medical examiner
00:17:53.100 who says
00:17:53.660 it wasn't the cause.
00:17:55.640 Look,
00:17:55.780 I think he's doing
00:17:56.600 a very good job
00:17:57.280 on the issue of causation.
00:17:58.520 But if I'm the prosecutor,
00:17:59.440 I ask each of the witnesses
00:18:00.560 one question.
00:18:02.280 If Chauvin
00:18:03.520 had not put his knee
00:18:04.940 on the neck,
00:18:06.080 would George Floyd
00:18:07.500 still be alive today
00:18:08.860 with a heart condition,
00:18:10.080 with high blood pressure,
00:18:11.040 with an addiction problem?
00:18:12.780 But would he be
00:18:13.420 walking around today
00:18:14.380 or would he have
00:18:15.140 just dropped dead
00:18:16.140 in the middle of the street
00:18:17.060 if he had never met Chauvin?
00:18:19.200 And if the answer
00:18:19.860 to that question is
00:18:20.940 he'd still be alive today,
00:18:22.300 then it's going
00:18:23.600 to be very hard
00:18:24.480 not to acknowledge
00:18:25.700 that the knee
00:18:26.780 on the neck
00:18:27.180 was a significant
00:18:28.340 contributing factor.
00:18:29.980 Well, I agree with that.
00:18:30.000 I agree.
00:18:30.400 But the defense
00:18:31.480 has gotten on
00:18:32.500 a bunch of stuff
00:18:33.940 about just how
00:18:34.880 intoxicated
00:18:36.420 or high
00:18:37.900 George Floyd was,
00:18:39.840 the amount of drugs
00:18:41.140 in his system.
00:18:41.920 And the defense
00:18:42.660 has gotten a ruling
00:18:43.520 that George Floyd's
00:18:44.920 May of 19,
00:18:46.380 a year earlier,
00:18:47.240 arrest can come in,
00:18:48.100 in part.
00:18:48.500 that he did
00:18:49.440 in that arrest
00:18:49.920 call out for his mama.
00:18:51.260 He did claim
00:18:51.680 he couldn't breathe.
00:18:52.660 They're not going
00:18:53.340 to be allowed
00:18:53.720 to introduce that.
00:18:54.480 But they are going
00:18:55.140 to be allowed
00:18:55.540 to introduce
00:18:56.180 the fact that
00:18:57.200 when he got arrested,
00:18:58.520 he started
00:18:59.640 shoving a bunch
00:19:00.620 of drugs in his mouth
00:19:01.620 and started behaving crazy
00:19:03.380 and that this is a pattern
00:19:05.720 because what we've learned
00:19:07.000 so far in this trial
00:19:07.800 is that not only
00:19:08.600 did he have all these drugs
00:19:09.300 in his system,
00:19:10.040 enough to kill
00:19:10.760 any normal man,
00:19:12.600 they found drugs
00:19:14.480 in the back
00:19:14.960 of the cop car
00:19:15.820 and in the back
00:19:16.480 of the car Floyd
00:19:17.140 had been in
00:19:17.860 that were,
00:19:19.180 I guess they're called
00:19:19.860 speed balls.
00:19:20.820 It's a mix
00:19:21.320 of two very potent drugs.
00:19:23.300 With his DNA,
00:19:24.360 he had been,
00:19:25.040 like,
00:19:25.500 they'd either been
00:19:26.080 in his mouth
00:19:26.580 or he'd licked them,
00:19:27.660 but it's his mouth DNA
00:19:28.940 all over these drugs.
00:19:29.680 So they're going to say
00:19:30.720 this is what George Floyd did.
00:19:32.300 He had done something,
00:19:33.900 he had rectally inserted drugs
00:19:35.700 before this whole thing.
00:19:37.220 He had taken fentanyl,
00:19:38.700 he had taken methamphetamine
00:19:39.800 and when,
00:19:40.640 either before
00:19:41.120 or after the cop stopped him,
00:19:42.340 he started shoving
00:19:43.220 in those pills like candy
00:19:44.400 because it had worked
00:19:45.560 for him before
00:19:46.520 in trying to get redirected
00:19:47.840 to a hospital
00:19:48.660 instead of a prison.
00:19:50.460 I agree with that
00:19:51.560 and the prosecution
00:19:52.960 is taking a very
00:19:54.600 chancy road
00:19:55.660 when they say
00:19:56.400 this guy was
00:19:57.540 so addicted to drugs,
00:19:59.160 he used so many drugs
00:20:00.780 for such a long period
00:20:02.140 of time
00:20:02.600 that he built up
00:20:03.720 a tolerance
00:20:04.240 and that although
00:20:05.220 this amount of drug
00:20:06.460 would kill a normal person
00:20:08.080 who tried it
00:20:08.740 for the first time
00:20:09.480 or the second
00:20:09.900 or the third time,
00:20:10.960 it wasn't enough
00:20:11.940 to kill this guy
00:20:13.080 who had such
00:20:13.920 a serious drug problem.
00:20:15.620 That's obviously
00:20:16.520 a knife that cuts both ways
00:20:17.960 with the jury
00:20:19.020 which is why
00:20:20.120 I think
00:20:20.740 the prosecution
00:20:21.920 is trying to paint Floyd
00:20:23.800 as somebody
00:20:24.820 who was trying
00:20:25.760 desperately
00:20:26.320 to end his addiction problem
00:20:28.240 with his girlfriend
00:20:29.640 and acknowledging
00:20:31.160 that they had
00:20:31.820 a medical problem.
00:20:33.760 So again,
00:20:35.180 the jurors
00:20:35.880 are going to be
00:20:36.440 very, very influenced
00:20:38.220 by the totality
00:20:40.280 of the circumstances.
00:20:41.320 Do they like George Floyd?
00:20:43.380 Do they think of him
00:20:44.160 as a positive person?
00:20:45.920 And then if the defendant
00:20:47.100 takes the witness stand
00:20:48.280 and appears
00:20:49.320 like a soldier
00:20:50.500 doing his duty,
00:20:52.080 yes ma'am,
00:20:52.860 yes sir,
00:20:53.900 Sergeant Friday,
00:20:55.240 maybe I went
00:20:56.400 a little too far here,
00:20:57.380 I'm so sorry
00:20:58.140 for the death,
00:20:59.300 you may get
00:21:00.180 a dynamic
00:21:01.000 in the jury deliberations
00:21:02.680 that favors
00:21:03.360 the defendant.
00:21:05.060 So I think
00:21:05.780 both sides
00:21:06.460 are trying to create
00:21:07.440 an emotional background
00:21:09.000 so that the jury
00:21:10.560 can view the evidence
00:21:12.240 through the prism
00:21:13.320 of either
00:21:14.120 a positive view
00:21:14.980 of Chauvin
00:21:15.420 or a positive view
00:21:16.340 of George Floyd.
00:21:17.380 And so far,
00:21:18.660 I think the prosecution
00:21:19.360 is winning that case,
00:21:20.740 but we have to reserve judgment
00:21:22.160 until we hear from Chauvin
00:21:23.340 if he testifies.
00:21:24.300 If he doesn't testify,
00:21:25.860 I think he will be convicted
00:21:27.520 at the very least
00:21:28.860 of manslaughter.
00:21:29.740 If he does testify,
00:21:30.880 all bets are off.
00:21:32.340 We don't know.
00:21:33.280 So you're leaning
00:21:33.840 toward putting him on
00:21:34.780 if he's your client?
00:21:35.960 I am leaning
00:21:36.780 to putting him on
00:21:37.480 if I lose my motion.
00:21:38.840 If I win my motion
00:21:40.100 to get rid of the murder charges,
00:21:41.720 I don't put him on.
00:21:42.740 If I lose my motion
00:21:43.980 and the murder charges
00:21:45.540 are in front of the jury,
00:21:46.920 I make strong objections
00:21:47.880 to that,
00:21:48.920 but I put him on.
00:21:49.640 Look, I fought like heck
00:21:50.820 to keep O.J. Simpson
00:21:51.820 off the witness stand
00:21:53.180 because we had
00:21:54.080 a strong scientific case
00:21:56.140 and he would have been
00:21:57.300 a terrible,
00:21:58.300 terrible witness.
00:21:59.260 F. Lee Bailey
00:21:59.840 fought hard to put him
00:22:00.780 on the witness stand.
00:22:02.180 And I actually threatened
00:22:03.500 to quit the case
00:22:04.200 if they put him
00:22:04.700 on the witness stand
00:22:05.460 because I just thought
00:22:07.280 we would be engaged
00:22:08.920 in malpractice.
00:22:10.820 And I think I was proved right.
00:22:12.480 The jury acquitted him
00:22:13.420 and the civil jury
00:22:14.180 when he took the witness stand
00:22:15.300 convicted him.
00:22:16.460 So the decision
00:22:17.260 to put a defendant
00:22:18.160 on the stand
00:22:19.000 is such a difficult one.
00:22:20.840 You have to know
00:22:21.480 the defendant.
00:22:22.500 You have to have prepared him
00:22:23.800 for everything.
00:22:25.260 I hope they've prepared him.
00:22:26.420 I'm sure they have prepared him
00:22:27.580 to take the stand
00:22:28.400 unless they've already
00:22:29.580 made the decision not to,
00:22:30.820 which I doubt they have.
00:22:31.700 So and that the next question is,
00:22:34.300 OK, so because we do have
00:22:35.200 to talk about his intentionality
00:22:36.940 and if that second degree
00:22:38.100 murder charge stays,
00:22:39.420 then then this is 100 percent
00:22:41.560 going to be something
00:22:42.140 they they talk about.
00:22:43.560 And now they're they
00:22:44.260 call it unintentional murder,
00:22:46.720 but it does require
00:22:48.040 a level of intentionality.
00:22:49.380 And we'll get to that
00:22:50.160 in one second.
00:22:50.760 Now, I want to ask you this,
00:22:52.320 though, before we get there,
00:22:53.060 because you mentioned
00:22:53.700 and we talked about
00:22:54.480 for a second
00:22:55.000 the emotionality of the trial.
00:22:56.940 And this is clearly
00:22:57.580 the prosecution's best dynamic,
00:23:00.540 right?
00:23:00.700 Just how awful the tape looks
00:23:02.200 and how it makes us all feel
00:23:03.420 and the voices of the bystanders.
00:23:05.460 And one of the I mentioned
00:23:07.320 what I thought
00:23:07.940 some of the testimony
00:23:08.620 was objectionable.
00:23:09.740 And here's just one example
00:23:11.040 from Wednesday.
00:23:11.720 OK, so this is Darnella Frazier.
00:23:13.380 Again, she's the one who filmed.
00:23:15.140 It's her tape that we're looking at
00:23:17.720 all the time when we see the video
00:23:19.160 of the George Floyd death.
00:23:21.320 You tell me whether
00:23:21.920 this is appropriate.
00:23:23.200 When I look at George Floyd,
00:23:25.500 I look at I look at my dad.
00:23:28.520 I look at my brothers.
00:23:30.980 I look at my cousins.
00:23:32.740 My uncles.
00:23:34.020 Because they are all black. 1.00
00:23:35.680 I have a black father.
00:23:37.380 I have a black brother.
00:23:38.540 I have black friends.
00:23:41.820 And I look at that
00:23:43.500 and I look at how that
00:23:45.120 could have been one of them.
00:23:47.380 It's the night
00:23:48.320 I stayed up
00:23:49.880 apologizing
00:23:52.320 and
00:23:52.900 and
00:23:54.760 apologizing
00:23:57.120 to George Floyd
00:23:58.580 for not doing more
00:23:59.860 and not
00:24:01.660 physically interacting
00:24:04.660 and
00:24:05.240 not saving his life.
00:24:08.660 Going on about how
00:24:10.200 like the color
00:24:11.560 of her brother and her father,
00:24:13.220 there's been no evidence
00:24:14.280 this is a case about
00:24:15.580 racism.
00:24:16.380 What's that doing in there?
00:24:18.360 Well, there are
00:24:19.080 a number of black jurors
00:24:20.300 and obviously
00:24:21.460 this is an attempt
00:24:22.600 to appeal
00:24:23.460 to issues
00:24:24.840 regarding
00:24:25.340 race
00:24:26.220 and I think
00:24:26.920 it has no place
00:24:27.660 in the trial.
00:24:28.480 If I were the defense attorney,
00:24:29.700 I would have objected
00:24:30.640 to it.
00:24:31.640 But it's very hard
00:24:32.580 to object
00:24:33.120 to emotional testimony
00:24:34.640 when somebody is
00:24:35.700 crying
00:24:36.320 or has tears
00:24:37.760 in their eyes.
00:24:38.560 Jurors want to hear it.
00:24:39.720 They don't want to
00:24:40.500 hear the defense
00:24:41.500 object to it.
00:24:42.600 That's why
00:24:42.980 these motions
00:24:43.640 should be made
00:24:44.360 as in limiting motions
00:24:45.560 outside the hearing
00:24:46.880 of the jury
00:24:47.480 and they should have
00:24:48.600 established ground rules
00:24:49.640 early on
00:24:50.480 as to what's permissible
00:24:51.760 and what's not permissible.
00:24:52.800 Also, I think the defense
00:24:53.880 should have asked
00:24:54.580 for the judge's instructions
00:24:56.480 before the trial began
00:24:58.900 so that they can
00:25:00.240 make sure
00:25:01.100 their testimony
00:25:01.840 fits into
00:25:02.680 what the judge
00:25:03.280 is going to instruct
00:25:04.020 on issues
00:25:04.980 of causation intent.
00:25:06.200 As you say,
00:25:06.720 we already know
00:25:07.420 what the judge
00:25:08.040 is going to instruct
00:25:08.760 on causation
00:25:10.340 because both sides
00:25:11.200 seem to concede.
00:25:12.340 And if I were
00:25:14.040 the defense,
00:25:14.820 I would have moved
00:25:15.460 to a more
00:25:16.520 pro-defense
00:25:18.040 instruction
00:25:19.160 on causation,
00:25:20.700 but I think
00:25:21.220 that's already
00:25:21.800 been decided.
00:25:23.080 So I agree with you.
00:25:24.740 I think there are
00:25:25.440 going to be issues
00:25:26.280 on appeal
00:25:26.840 if there is a conviction
00:25:27.980 and I think likely
00:25:28.840 there will be one
00:25:29.780 unless his dynamic
00:25:31.660 on the stand
00:25:32.240 changes that.
00:25:33.440 They ought to be
00:25:34.120 now listing
00:25:35.500 the issues
00:25:36.140 for appeal.
00:25:37.620 The first question
00:25:38.300 is going to be
00:25:38.740 if he's convicted,
00:25:39.500 does he get bail
00:25:40.140 pending appeal?
00:25:40.880 He's on bail now.
00:25:42.140 That's been much
00:25:42.980 criticized by some people,
00:25:44.340 but there is a
00:25:44.860 presumption of innocence.
00:25:46.200 But if he were
00:25:46.720 to be convicted,
00:25:47.680 that would end
00:25:48.300 the presumption
00:25:48.780 of innocence
00:25:49.200 and then the question
00:25:50.040 of bail pending
00:25:50.620 appeal would come up
00:25:51.420 and whether you get
00:25:52.800 an expedited appeal
00:25:53.880 and that's obviously
00:25:54.880 where my specialty
00:25:55.640 comes in.
00:25:56.660 And I think there are
00:25:57.360 good appellate issues
00:25:58.260 in this case.
00:25:59.320 But remember,
00:25:59.900 appellate courts
00:26:00.520 watch the news
00:26:05.520 and they live
00:26:06.060 in Minneapolis
00:26:06.680 and other parts
00:26:07.560 of Minnesota
00:26:07.980 and judges
00:26:09.380 are not eunuchs.
00:26:10.980 They are not
00:26:11.760 above the law
00:26:13.140 beyond feelings
00:26:14.120 and passions.
00:26:15.120 They reflect
00:26:16.940 the concerns
00:26:18.340 of the community
00:26:19.000 and I think
00:26:20.020 probably some
00:26:20.620 of the appellate
00:26:21.140 judges are watching
00:26:21.860 this case.
00:26:22.620 So you can't
00:26:23.720 count on an
00:26:24.380 appellate reversal.
00:26:25.280 I told O.J. Simpson
00:26:26.200 that I was his
00:26:27.440 appellate lawyer,
00:26:28.280 I was his
00:26:28.640 God forbid lawyer, 0.54
00:26:29.580 I was his belt
00:26:30.180 in suspenders,
00:26:30.780 but I could not
00:26:31.700 tell him that I
00:26:32.340 thought I would
00:26:32.720 win the appeal
00:26:33.260 if he was convicted.
00:26:34.540 That I thought
00:26:35.000 elected judges
00:26:35.820 in California
00:26:36.540 were very unlikely
00:26:37.960 to reverse
00:26:38.500 the conviction
00:26:39.000 in his case
00:26:40.100 that he had
00:26:40.480 to win it
00:26:40.860 at trial
00:26:41.340 and from his
00:26:43.000 point of view,
00:26:43.560 fortunately,
00:26:44.060 he won it
00:26:44.460 at trial.
00:26:44.900 I don't think
00:26:45.240 he would have
00:26:45.560 won the appeal.
00:26:46.840 All right,
00:26:47.040 so now let's
00:26:47.640 get to the
00:26:48.040 intentionality
00:26:48.680 because this
00:26:49.060 is where we
00:26:49.520 get into
00:26:49.800 the legal elements
00:26:50.560 that they're
00:26:50.940 just stuck with.
00:26:51.700 The law
00:26:52.740 is the law
00:26:53.320 and the reason
00:26:54.360 we're talking
00:26:54.860 about intentionality
00:26:56.700 is murder
00:26:57.800 in the second
00:26:58.420 degree is what
00:26:59.360 you're referring
00:26:59.940 to as felony
00:27:01.300 murder,
00:27:01.800 where if you're
00:27:02.560 in the course
00:27:02.880 of committing
00:27:03.340 a felony
00:27:03.800 and somebody
00:27:04.540 dies,
00:27:05.400 you're robbing
00:27:06.400 a 7-Eleven
00:27:07.560 and you get
00:27:09.080 startled and your
00:27:09.780 gun goes off
00:27:10.360 and you shoot
00:27:11.140 and kill somebody, 0.87
00:27:12.320 that's felony
00:27:12.860 murder,
00:27:13.320 even if you
00:27:13.740 didn't intend
00:27:14.180 to kill somebody
00:27:14.740 because you're
00:27:15.100 in the middle
00:27:15.420 of committing
00:27:15.820 a felony.
00:27:16.500 And that's
00:27:16.960 what they're
00:27:17.680 trying to get
00:27:18.100 at with
00:27:18.500 second degree
00:27:19.120 murder and
00:27:19.720 they're saying
00:27:20.220 that the felony,
00:27:21.380 as you pointed
00:27:21.740 out,
00:27:22.100 is assault.
00:27:23.540 Now the assault
00:27:24.940 is always more
00:27:26.000 complicated when
00:27:26.740 it's a police
00:27:27.300 officer exerting
00:27:28.300 force,
00:27:28.940 right?
00:27:29.140 Like that's
00:27:29.500 just its own
00:27:30.660 special tricky
00:27:32.880 wicket.
00:27:33.800 But the
00:27:35.020 definition of
00:27:36.060 assault under
00:27:36.720 Minnesota law,
00:27:37.700 I have it here
00:27:38.160 in front of me,
00:27:38.640 is an act
00:27:39.340 done with
00:27:40.580 intent to
00:27:42.040 cause fear
00:27:43.000 in another of
00:27:43.680 immediate bodily
00:27:44.280 harm or death
00:27:44.940 or the
00:27:46.440 intentional
00:27:47.040 infliction of
00:27:48.240 or attempt
00:27:49.500 to inflict
00:27:50.520 bodily harm
00:27:51.800 upon another.
00:27:53.460 So they're
00:27:53.820 basically going
00:27:54.360 to have to
00:27:54.700 argue that
00:27:55.160 Chauvin intended
00:27:56.260 to hurt
00:27:57.580 Floyd.
00:27:59.340 They're going
00:27:59.620 to have to
00:27:59.880 do more than
00:28:00.240 that because
00:28:00.860 those statutes
00:28:01.760 do not apply
00:28:02.760 to policemen.
00:28:03.800 Policemen
00:28:04.400 are entitled
00:28:05.440 to use
00:28:06.280 force.
00:28:07.160 They're entitled
00:28:07.920 to inflict
00:28:08.520 harm if
00:28:09.660 it's necessary
00:28:10.520 to effectuate
00:28:11.440 an arrest.
00:28:12.220 So the
00:28:12.900 assault statute
00:28:13.580 you've read,
00:28:14.180 which is common
00:28:14.800 all over the
00:28:15.340 country,
00:28:15.860 doesn't include
00:28:17.560 police officers.
00:28:19.060 Police officers
00:28:19.660 have different
00:28:20.480 rules applicable
00:28:21.640 to them.
00:28:22.720 And so the
00:28:23.140 question that's
00:28:23.840 going to be
00:28:24.160 asked,
00:28:24.700 and the judge
00:28:25.260 is going to
00:28:25.580 have to
00:28:25.840 answer this,
00:28:26.340 is when
00:28:27.420 did his
00:28:28.280 conduct become
00:28:29.680 criminal?
00:28:31.120 And there
00:28:31.700 seems to be
00:28:32.220 a concession
00:28:32.840 on the part
00:28:33.480 of the
00:28:34.380 prosecution's
00:28:35.140 experts that
00:28:36.080 it was not
00:28:36.880 criminal at
00:28:37.580 the very
00:28:38.020 beginning.
00:28:39.180 That he was
00:28:39.860 struggling and
00:28:40.880 the knee on
00:28:41.480 the neck or
00:28:41.940 the shoulder
00:28:42.380 was not
00:28:43.200 criminal.
00:28:43.820 It became
00:28:44.800 criminal
00:28:45.300 gradually over
00:28:46.400 time.
00:28:47.140 And you're
00:28:47.620 going to get
00:28:47.980 differences among
00:28:48.880 the experts.
00:28:49.660 Some will say
00:28:50.220 it began to
00:28:51.480 become criminal
00:28:52.120 when he
00:28:52.820 stopped resisting.
00:28:54.460 Others will
00:28:54.820 say, no,
00:28:55.360 he could have
00:28:55.720 started resisting
00:28:56.480 again.
00:28:57.120 It only became
00:28:58.000 criminal when he
00:28:58.620 was unconscious.
00:28:59.380 And yet others
00:29:00.660 have said
00:29:01.180 already, you
00:29:01.760 can pop out
00:29:02.400 of unconsciousness
00:29:03.260 and start
00:29:04.200 attacking the
00:29:05.200 police officer.
00:29:06.180 So you cannot
00:29:07.060 have a felony
00:29:07.920 murder conviction
00:29:08.760 when you have
00:29:09.960 a matter of
00:29:10.780 degree, an
00:29:11.880 assault that we
00:29:12.600 don't know when
00:29:13.180 it began, and
00:29:14.100 also assault is
00:29:15.000 too closely
00:29:15.600 connected to
00:29:16.860 the underlying
00:29:17.700 death to
00:29:18.640 warrant the
00:29:19.280 justification for
00:29:20.120 the felony
00:29:20.480 murder.
00:29:20.980 That's a
00:29:21.460 combined question
00:29:22.320 of law and
00:29:22.800 fact.
00:29:23.720 And almost
00:29:24.940 every jurisdiction
00:29:25.800 today requires
00:29:27.360 that the felony
00:29:28.200 be an
00:29:28.800 independent
00:29:29.760 felony, because
00:29:30.420 otherwise, if
00:29:31.680 that weren't
00:29:32.240 the case, every
00:29:32.960 second-degree
00:29:33.640 murder automatically
00:29:34.920 becomes first-degree
00:29:35.980 murder, because
00:29:37.000 every murder
00:29:39.000 involves an
00:29:39.900 assault.
00:29:40.780 Every killing
00:29:41.400 involves an
00:29:42.040 assault.
00:29:42.540 You point the
00:29:43.380 gun at somebody,
00:29:44.000 it's an assault.
00:29:44.720 You pull the
00:29:45.360 trigger, it's an
00:29:45.880 assault, then you
00:29:46.480 kill them. 0.54
00:29:47.080 So if you make
00:29:47.780 assault the
00:29:48.500 underlying felony,
00:29:49.740 you abolish the
00:29:50.860 distinction between
00:29:51.820 degrees of murder,
00:29:52.780 and the legislature
00:29:53.460 didn't intend
00:29:54.260 that.
00:29:54.640 So that's why you
00:29:55.220 need an independent
00:29:56.140 felony.
00:29:56.540 They don't have
00:29:57.520 it in this
00:29:57.860 case.
00:29:58.800 So it
00:29:59.360 actually could
00:30:00.440 be reasonably
00:30:01.240 dismissed by
00:30:02.060 the judge on
00:30:03.320 the defense's
00:30:04.100 motion at the
00:30:04.620 close of the
00:30:05.000 trial, or the
00:30:06.120 close of the
00:30:06.460 prosecution's case.
00:30:07.780 Yeah, it
00:30:08.540 should be, yeah.
00:30:09.400 But I don't
00:30:09.940 know whether it
00:30:10.400 will be.
00:30:11.180 Judges always
00:30:11.980 or often take
00:30:13.060 the easy way
00:30:13.620 out.
00:30:13.840 Let's leave it
00:30:14.280 to the jury,
00:30:14.880 let's see what
00:30:15.320 the jury does at
00:30:16.540 the close of the
00:30:17.080 government's case,
00:30:17.760 after there's been
00:30:18.420 a conviction, come
00:30:19.320 back, make the
00:30:20.240 argument, and then
00:30:21.300 we'll see.
00:30:21.860 But they don't
00:30:22.380 usually take issues
00:30:23.320 away from the jury.
00:30:24.100 They should in
00:30:24.580 this case.
00:30:25.580 Second-degree
00:30:26.160 murder should be 0.59
00:30:26.720 eliminated from the
00:30:28.380 jury deliberations.
00:30:30.100 So how do you
00:30:30.540 think it plays
00:30:31.320 that the fact
00:30:32.540 that Chauvin is,
00:30:34.080 well, he's now
00:30:34.500 fired, but he is a 0.74
00:30:36.160 police officer, and
00:30:37.280 juries in general, I
00:30:38.700 mean, it's been such a
00:30:39.680 crazy year when it
00:30:40.300 comes to the police,
00:30:41.000 who knows now, but
00:30:41.860 in general, I think
00:30:42.920 juries tend to feel
00:30:44.960 somewhat deferential
00:30:45.860 toward the police.
00:30:46.840 A couple of the
00:30:48.180 jurors in their
00:30:49.060 juror questionnaire
00:30:49.600 said they absolutely
00:30:51.400 don't want the
00:30:52.120 police defunded, and
00:30:53.200 they'd be terrified
00:30:54.200 if the police were
00:30:54.960 defunded, something
00:30:56.060 that actually did
00:30:56.660 happen in Minneapolis,
00:30:58.220 and then they had to
00:30:58.800 reverse it because it
00:30:59.620 was such a ridiculous
00:31:00.540 situation.
00:31:01.160 By the way, George
00:31:01.900 Floyd Square, which
00:31:02.680 is what they're now
00:31:03.180 calling the area
00:31:03.780 around the store
00:31:05.120 where he passed off
00:31:06.720 the $20 counterfeit
00:31:07.700 bill, and the crime
00:31:09.460 right there, because the
00:31:09.980 cops are not touching 0.69
00:31:10.640 it, has skyrocketed.
00:31:12.680 It's like five times
00:31:13.560 what it used to be.
00:31:14.240 Nobody wants to go
00:31:14.940 there, right?
00:31:15.560 It's like, this is
00:31:16.040 what happens when
00:31:16.440 you pull the police.
00:31:17.180 Anyway, it's a
00:31:17.720 dynamic that the
00:31:18.360 jurors may be aware
00:31:20.360 of, but how does it
00:31:22.180 affect them in this
00:31:22.840 case that it's a
00:31:24.080 police officer on
00:31:25.080 trial?
00:31:26.060 Very much so.
00:31:26.880 Very much so.
00:31:27.820 And it will depend
00:31:28.660 on how he does on
00:31:30.360 the witness stand.
00:31:31.360 Right now, he's
00:31:32.020 sitting there taking
00:31:32.700 notes.
00:31:33.200 He looks like
00:31:33.880 anybody's, you
00:31:35.340 know, brother,
00:31:36.080 cousin, uncle.
00:31:37.140 He doesn't seem like
00:31:38.360 a monster or villain.
00:31:39.700 Even in the videos,
00:31:41.260 you don't really see
00:31:42.780 him.
00:31:43.040 It's not like there's
00:31:43.780 another case.
00:31:44.400 You know, there's
00:31:44.820 another case much
00:31:45.960 like this that took
00:31:46.820 place a few years
00:31:47.460 ago where the cops
00:31:48.100 are laughing and
00:31:49.020 joking and all of
00:31:50.460 that.
00:31:51.140 He hasn't come
00:31:52.040 across, except
00:31:53.080 through the expert
00:31:53.840 testimony, in the
00:31:55.360 most negative
00:31:55.960 possible way.
00:31:57.000 And he can, even
00:31:58.000 if he has been, he
00:31:59.080 can offset that by
00:32:00.000 his testimony.
00:32:00.920 And he can show
00:32:01.940 regret.
00:32:02.560 He can show
00:32:03.380 remorse.
00:32:04.660 And he can say,
00:32:05.780 look, I may have
00:32:06.780 made a mistake in
00:32:08.140 retrospect.
00:32:08.860 I should have
00:32:09.220 taken the knee,
00:32:09.700 but I was scared.
00:32:10.960 The crowd was
00:32:11.820 frightening and
00:32:12.820 threatening.
00:32:13.200 It took my
00:32:14.020 attention away
00:32:14.760 from him.
00:32:15.640 He can make a
00:32:16.580 good presentation
00:32:17.400 on direct.
00:32:18.340 And the question
00:32:18.920 is, how will
00:32:19.780 he do on
00:32:20.200 cross-examination?
00:32:21.300 I don't know
00:32:22.080 how good the
00:32:23.280 prosecuting
00:32:23.760 attorneys are on
00:32:24.500 cross-examination.
00:32:25.800 Most prosecutors
00:32:26.540 don't have a lot of
00:32:27.320 experience with
00:32:27.940 cross-examination
00:32:28.680 because most
00:32:29.460 defendants don't
00:32:30.840 put on affirmative
00:32:31.600 cases.
00:32:32.780 And therefore,
00:32:33.580 prosecutors
00:32:34.200 generally aren't
00:32:35.540 as good at
00:32:36.000 cross-examination
00:32:36.740 as defense
00:32:37.280 attorneys are.
00:32:38.180 But we'll wait
00:32:38.720 and see how
00:32:39.300 good these
00:32:40.040 prosecutors are.
00:32:42.000 So one of the
00:32:42.980 things that
00:32:43.660 they've been
00:32:44.380 trying, I think
00:32:45.140 the prosecution
00:32:46.700 put on the
00:32:47.220 crowd, tug at
00:32:49.020 the heartstrings,
00:32:49.840 it was so
00:32:50.220 emotional, it
00:32:50.840 was awful to
00:32:51.380 watch, it was
00:32:52.320 clear to us
00:32:52.820 that he was
00:32:53.100 dying.
00:32:54.000 And bit by
00:32:54.520 bit, the
00:32:54.840 defense attorney
00:32:55.380 has been
00:32:55.940 etching away
00:32:57.100 the prosecution's
00:32:58.240 case there.
00:32:58.760 Like, for
00:32:58.980 example, the
00:33:00.040 witnesses were
00:33:00.500 like, he had
00:33:00.820 foam coming out
00:33:01.500 of his mouth,
00:33:02.300 and they're
00:33:02.640 going to be
00:33:02.840 able to get
00:33:03.160 in the fact
00:33:03.560 that he had
00:33:04.140 foam coming out
00:33:04.880 of his mouth.
00:33:05.260 Actually, they
00:33:05.620 did get in the
00:33:06.160 fact from his
00:33:06.900 girlfriend, that 0.97
00:33:07.840 when he went
00:33:08.160 to the hospital
00:33:08.660 a couple
00:33:08.920 months earlier
00:33:09.420 in March, he
00:33:10.580 had foam coming
00:33:11.180 out of his
00:33:11.520 mouth then.
00:33:12.200 Like, the guy
00:33:12.880 is a drug
00:33:13.640 addict, and
00:33:14.960 while that's
00:33:15.900 unfortunate, and
00:33:16.920 you're right, a
00:33:17.700 lot of people
00:33:18.020 suffer from this,
00:33:19.000 it's relevant
00:33:19.620 that he's taken
00:33:20.760 so many drugs
00:33:21.620 so many times
00:33:22.480 that he's been
00:33:23.040 hospitalized, he
00:33:24.020 had foam coming
00:33:24.600 out of his
00:33:24.940 mouth, so just 0.57
00:33:26.400 bit by bit he's
00:33:27.200 undermining their
00:33:27.900 testimony, and
00:33:28.800 the one who had
00:33:30.060 Twitter ablaze
00:33:31.160 over the past
00:33:32.100 week was the
00:33:32.720 firefighter, the
00:33:33.460 woman on the
00:33:34.500 stand, she's got 0.99
00:33:35.480 her firefighter
00:33:36.240 outfit on, her
00:33:36.860 little tie, her
00:33:37.780 hair is nicely
00:33:38.920 done, but on
00:33:41.460 the scene, she
00:33:45.080 behaved very
00:33:46.500 differently, and
00:33:47.480 she was swearing
00:33:48.720 at the cops, like
00:33:49.400 now she's like, I
00:33:50.420 don't understand, I
00:33:51.200 identified myself as
00:33:52.320 an EMS, and they
00:33:54.180 wouldn't let me come
00:33:55.240 up to them, it's
00:33:55.820 like, okay, the
00:33:56.320 cops have a
00:33:56.780 volatile situation,
00:33:58.100 there is a mob
00:33:58.780 starting to surround
00:33:59.500 them, screaming at
00:34:00.400 them, videotaping
00:34:01.420 them, Derek
00:34:02.240 Shoman doesn't 1.00
00:34:02.720 necessarily know what
00:34:03.400 he's dealing with,
00:34:04.020 and this woman's 0.73
00:34:04.580 kind of like, I'm a
00:34:05.360 firefighter, and
00:34:06.320 then she's like,
00:34:06.940 you bitch, I'm 1.00
00:34:07.920 like, pardon me, but
00:34:10.880 I'm thinking the
00:34:11.400 cops are not
00:34:12.000 necessarily going to
00:34:12.560 be like, come on
00:34:13.500 over, so she, the
00:34:15.960 defense attorney sort
00:34:16.720 of asked her, like,
00:34:17.660 you were angry, and
00:34:18.960 you were frustrated,
00:34:19.940 she's like, no, I
00:34:20.720 wouldn't sign on to
00:34:21.860 that, and he's like,
00:34:23.160 you called him a
00:34:24.620 bitch, and she 1.00
00:34:25.460 goes, I don't know
00:34:26.680 if you've seen
00:34:27.120 anybody be killed, but
00:34:28.140 it's upsetting, now
00:34:29.320 again, objection,
00:34:32.040 whether he was being
00:34:33.600 killed is a matter
00:34:35.140 for the jury, I just
00:34:35.900 feel like so much of
00:34:36.920 that stuff has been
00:34:37.520 let in that that
00:34:39.160 shouldn't have been.
00:34:40.820 I agree with you, but
00:34:42.000 remember the
00:34:42.520 prosecution is doing
00:34:43.320 one thing right, they
00:34:44.740 are fronting the
00:34:45.900 defense case, they're
00:34:47.060 putting the defense
00:34:47.900 case on through their
00:34:49.180 own direct testimony,
00:34:50.600 they're making sure
00:34:51.720 that all the evidence
00:34:52.820 that's going to hurt
00:34:53.580 their case comes in
00:34:55.160 through their
00:34:55.980 testimony, and
00:34:57.180 doesn't become
00:34:57.760 surprise testimony
00:34:59.260 from the defense, that
00:35:01.120 there are no
00:35:01.680 blockbusters, there are
00:35:02.960 no bombshells coming
00:35:04.700 in from the defense
00:35:05.880 side, because already
00:35:06.960 the prosecution has
00:35:07.820 put all of that on,
00:35:09.360 put on his drug
00:35:10.200 addiction, put on his
00:35:11.260 foaming mouth, put on
00:35:12.860 the crowds, so
00:35:13.940 everything the defense
00:35:15.140 is going to put on,
00:35:16.480 the prosecution has
00:35:17.460 already pretty much
00:35:18.580 put on, so it will
00:35:19.940 blunt the effect when
00:35:21.840 the defense puts it
00:35:22.700 on, oh yeah, we're
00:35:23.700 going to hear that
00:35:24.140 again, we've heard
00:35:24.900 that, we've heard
00:35:24.920 that before, that
00:35:26.060 was very, very good
00:35:27.540 lawyering on the part
00:35:28.500 of the prosecution.
00:35:30.560 Interesting.
00:35:31.960 Well, so if you had
00:35:33.020 to handicap it now,
00:35:34.820 you know, not, we're
00:35:36.200 not even through the
00:35:37.320 prosecution's case, but
00:35:38.340 what would you
00:35:39.380 predict?
00:35:39.800 If this were, if the
00:35:41.200 guy's name was John
00:35:42.000 Smith and the person
00:35:43.640 who's killed name was
00:35:44.440 John Jones and there
00:35:45.520 was no racial element
00:35:46.580 and there weren't
00:35:47.460 protests, I would say
00:35:49.360 a manslaughter
00:35:50.120 conviction at most.
00:35:52.600 This is not that, this
00:35:53.980 is one of the most
00:35:54.660 famous, notorious
00:35:56.340 cases of the 21st
00:35:57.660 century.
00:35:58.420 So I think if you
00:35:59.640 were betting widows
00:36:00.760 and orphans money,
00:36:01.660 money you couldn't
00:36:02.260 afford to lose, you'd
00:36:03.820 have to bet on a
00:36:04.460 conviction and you'd
00:36:05.760 handicap it by saying
00:36:07.400 probably, almost
00:36:09.760 certainly manslaughter
00:36:10.840 and very likely third
00:36:12.920 degree murder, but not
00:36:13.960 second degree murder.
00:36:15.040 So if I had to make a
00:36:16.300 bet now, that would be
00:36:17.240 my bet.
00:36:17.760 I will revise my bet
00:36:19.440 once the decision is
00:36:21.320 made, whether to put
00:36:22.340 Chauvin on the stand
00:36:23.280 and once he takes
00:36:24.020 the stand.
00:36:24.920 And we'll have you
00:36:25.400 back after the close
00:36:26.140 of the prosecution's
00:36:26.920 case at a minimum.
00:36:28.160 Alan, such a great
00:36:29.040 time talking to you.
00:36:29.840 Thank you.
00:36:30.580 Oh, I always enjoy
00:36:31.540 talking to you.
00:36:32.060 It's like being back
00:36:32.700 in law school, except
00:36:33.540 now you're the teacher
00:36:34.420 and I'm the student.
00:36:36.100 Stop it.
00:36:37.160 Never, never.
00:36:38.440 I love hearing you.
00:36:39.480 I love learning from
00:36:40.200 you.
00:36:40.420 More to come.
00:36:41.620 Thank you.
00:36:42.920 Our thanks to Alan
00:36:43.580 Dershowitz, professor
00:36:45.380 emeritus at Harvard
00:36:46.660 Law School.
00:36:47.500 And, you know, he's
00:36:48.220 he's tried every case
00:36:49.940 and he's been in
00:36:50.640 front of the court
00:36:51.060 of appeals of every
00:36:51.920 you know, the Supreme
00:36:52.560 Court, every you name
00:36:53.380 it.
00:36:53.500 He's done it.
00:36:54.620 He's brilliant, as you
00:36:55.600 know.
00:36:55.840 And now two other
00:36:56.740 brilliant guys who are
00:36:58.200 street fighters.
00:36:59.200 These are the guys who
00:36:59.800 have been in there
00:37:00.240 actually prosecuting
00:37:01.060 cases and being
00:37:02.300 defense attorneys on
00:37:03.160 cases.
00:37:04.160 And they've been
00:37:05.140 involved in some of
00:37:05.700 the most high profile
00:37:06.300 cases in the last 10
00:37:07.320 years.
00:37:07.580 So you're going to
00:37:08.520 hear from Arthur
00:37:09.560 Idala and Mark
00:37:10.920 Iglarsch, my dream
00:37:12.120 team panel from
00:37:13.420 well, from the Kelly
00:37:15.360 file and from all the
00:37:16.300 shows I did prior to
00:37:17.060 that.
00:37:17.260 We've all been together
00:37:18.420 and doing these shows
00:37:19.120 for a long time.
00:37:20.160 We'll get to them in
00:37:20.620 one second.
00:37:21.140 First this.
00:37:28.000 Hey guys, how's it
00:37:29.380 going?
00:37:30.020 Oh, everything's up to
00:37:31.000 date in River City.
00:37:32.600 So glad to hear it.
00:37:33.920 All right, let's get
00:37:34.400 into it then because I
00:37:36.120 want to go through some
00:37:36.960 of the sound that we've
00:37:37.660 heard this week at the
00:37:39.340 Chauvin trial and get
00:37:41.060 your reaction.
00:37:41.740 For the most part, we've
00:37:42.640 managed to pick both
00:37:43.520 prosecution questions and
00:37:44.760 defense cross
00:37:45.500 examinations so people
00:37:46.940 can get a feel of how
00:37:47.860 it's going.
00:37:48.220 And I want to start so
00:37:50.040 when when this all went
00:37:51.360 down, George Floyd had
00:37:52.940 gone into the store.
00:37:54.600 He had passed off a
00:37:55.780 twenty dollar counterfeit
00:37:56.780 bill.
00:37:57.780 There was testimony this
00:37:58.800 week that they didn't
00:38:00.480 those with him didn't
00:38:01.580 believe or the store
00:38:02.660 clerk didn't believe
00:38:03.360 George knew it was a
00:38:04.480 twenty dollar bill.
00:38:05.060 We don't know a
00:38:05.680 counterfeit.
00:38:06.260 We don't know that.
00:38:07.000 Anyway, it was
00:38:07.620 counterfeit apparently.
00:38:09.100 And he was there with
00:38:10.200 his girlfriend and with
00:38:11.400 another guy.
00:38:12.160 And this other guy has
00:38:14.320 refused to testify in
00:38:15.900 this Chauvin trial
00:38:16.840 pleading the Fifth
00:38:18.260 Amendment.
00:38:19.280 And it certainly appears
00:38:20.720 that this guy had some
00:38:22.700 sort of drug sales
00:38:24.580 relationship with George
00:38:26.360 Floyd and his girlfriend,
00:38:27.500 Courtney Ross, because she 0.96
00:38:28.620 testified.
00:38:29.780 Yeah, he's he's been
00:38:30.680 selling his drugs and he
00:38:31.860 was there with him.
00:38:32.520 And Floyd was on a lot of
00:38:33.600 drugs that day.
00:38:34.460 And now the guy won't
00:38:35.500 testify at all because he
00:38:36.940 says it would it would
00:38:38.300 incriminate him.
00:38:39.100 And his lawyer is like,
00:38:40.040 yeah, it would.
00:38:40.800 Trust me.
00:38:41.320 So that's the setup.
00:38:43.120 But the girlfriend,
00:38:44.100 Courtney Ross, does
00:38:45.740 testify and she's a 0.93
00:38:47.340 prosecution witness.
00:38:48.160 And it seems to me that
00:38:49.660 the prosecution's goal
00:38:50.860 was to soften Floyd.
00:38:53.180 You know, she talked
00:38:53.720 about how she met him.
00:38:56.140 He came up to her during
00:38:57.140 a rough time in her life
00:38:58.160 and said something like,
00:38:59.600 can we pray together?
00:39:01.360 And then you had the
00:39:02.560 store clerk say he was
00:39:03.880 sort of walking around
00:39:04.540 the store happy.
00:39:05.980 He did seem high to me,
00:39:07.160 but they're sort of
00:39:07.920 painting him as like this
00:39:08.660 happy-go-lucky,
00:39:10.140 God-fearing,
00:39:11.340 loving guy who just
00:39:12.940 fell victim to the
00:39:14.100 opiate crisis that so
00:39:15.100 many millions of
00:39:15.680 Americans have.
00:39:16.600 And here was the
00:39:17.480 prosecution's question
00:39:18.620 to Courtney Ross on the
00:39:20.240 drugs or her answer. 1.00
00:39:21.160 Listen.
00:39:21.700 Our story, it's
00:39:23.860 it's a classic story
00:39:26.760 of how many people get
00:39:29.640 addicted to opioids.
00:39:31.260 We both suffered from
00:39:33.400 chronic pain.
00:39:35.340 Mine was in my neck
00:39:36.900 and his was in his
00:39:37.880 back.
00:39:38.660 We both had prescriptions.
00:39:45.020 But after prescriptions
00:39:51.280 that were filled and
00:39:54.280 we got addicted and
00:40:02.200 tried really hard to
00:40:05.180 break that addiction.
00:40:07.440 Okay, so that's the
00:40:09.160 setup.
00:40:09.640 That's where the
00:40:10.040 prosecution went with
00:40:10.720 her.
00:40:10.840 And here are, we can
00:40:12.640 just play them back to
00:40:13.700 back, you guys, but
00:40:14.460 there's a soundbite of
00:40:15.900 her talking about a 0.85
00:40:17.620 one week before the
00:40:19.340 George Floyd, Derek
00:40:20.140 Chauvin incident.
00:40:21.600 She and George had had a
00:40:23.140 new set of pills that
00:40:24.600 were having a very
00:40:25.380 different effect on them
00:40:26.280 than the old set of
00:40:27.080 pills.
00:40:27.380 And she talks about how
00:40:28.900 she had to take Floyd to
00:40:30.600 the hospital and what he
00:40:31.920 looked like.
00:40:32.600 Listen.
00:40:32.860 Then in March of 2020,
00:40:36.620 you got some pills, right?
00:40:39.420 You remember describing
00:40:40.260 that?
00:40:40.620 Yes.
00:40:42.040 They look different to me
00:40:43.740 than a normal pill.
00:40:47.240 They seem like they were
00:40:49.460 thicker.
00:40:49.820 And you and Mr. Floyd both
00:40:53.760 had those pills?
00:40:54.960 Yes.
00:40:55.940 And did you consume some
00:40:57.520 of those pills?
00:40:58.300 I did.
00:40:59.720 Did they have the same
00:41:00.760 effect on you as they did
00:41:02.640 as your other types of
00:41:04.580 opioids you had taken in
00:41:05.700 the past?
00:41:06.040 No.
00:41:06.660 What was the effect this
00:41:08.200 time?
00:41:09.420 And what was different?
00:41:10.700 Usually, an opioid to me
00:41:16.160 is like a pain reliever.
00:41:18.600 It's something that is,
00:41:20.400 you know, kind of relaxing,
00:41:23.980 takes your pain away.
00:41:26.380 To pill that time, it
00:41:29.460 seemed like it was a
00:41:31.620 really strong stimulant.
00:41:32.980 I couldn't sleep all night.
00:41:36.280 I felt very jittery.
00:41:38.200 So you had a second
00:41:39.520 experience.
00:41:40.700 With those pills, right?
00:41:43.080 Or a similar feeling to
00:41:44.540 those pills?
00:41:45.300 I had a similar experience,
00:41:47.700 yes.
00:41:48.280 Right.
00:41:48.840 And that was approximately
00:41:50.420 a week before Mr. Floyd's
00:41:52.160 passing?
00:41:52.780 Yes.
00:41:55.860 And by similar experience,
00:41:59.920 you,
00:42:00.340 do you recall telling
00:42:04.620 the FBI that when you had
00:42:06.880 that, you felt like you
00:42:08.440 were going to die?
00:42:09.160 I don't remember saying
00:42:12.700 that, but I did see it in
00:42:14.420 the transcript.
00:42:15.900 There was an extended
00:42:16.860 hospital stay in March.
00:42:19.160 Can you describe for the jury
00:42:20.400 what led up to that
00:42:21.620 hospital stay?
00:42:23.000 Yes.
00:42:27.380 Floyd, I went to go pick
00:42:29.340 Floyd up from his house
00:42:30.920 that night.
00:42:33.280 I thought I was taking him
00:42:34.620 to work.
00:42:36.040 He wasn't feeling good.
00:42:37.340 His stomach really hurt.
00:42:40.160 He was doubled over in pain.
00:42:41.620 And when you took him
00:42:44.920 to the hospital,
00:42:45.720 did you notice foam
00:42:48.220 coming from his mouth?
00:42:51.500 I noticed like some kind
00:42:53.480 of like, you know,
00:42:55.420 foam building in the corners
00:42:56.540 of his mouth,
00:42:57.260 kind of dry.
00:42:58.480 A dry white substance?
00:43:00.160 Mm-hmm.
00:43:01.540 No.
00:43:02.880 Yes.
00:43:03.780 Sorry.
00:43:04.160 All right.
00:43:05.140 So Arthur Aydala,
00:43:06.360 where's the defense going
00:43:07.420 with that?
00:43:08.020 Well, I mean,
00:43:08.580 I don't even know why
00:43:09.800 the prosecution called her
00:43:11.980 except that they kind of
00:43:13.060 had to because she's 0.99
00:43:14.200 right at the scene,
00:43:15.040 right?
00:43:15.440 And they don't want
00:43:16.340 to not call her
00:43:17.180 and then have the defense
00:43:18.220 call her because I think
00:43:19.920 she's great for the defense, 1.00
00:43:21.260 quite frankly.
00:43:22.320 I mean,
00:43:22.580 that's his whole thing.
00:43:24.900 Mr. Nelson is to find
00:43:26.520 every other cause
00:43:27.500 on the planet Earth
00:43:28.480 for the cause of death
00:43:30.820 than the need of the neck.
00:43:34.080 So he's bringing out,
00:43:35.180 well, you know,
00:43:36.080 you used to take
00:43:36.600 a lot of pills
00:43:37.220 and now you're taking
00:43:37.780 these pills
00:43:38.340 and they're not even downers,
00:43:39.860 they're uppers,
00:43:40.760 which would now justify
00:43:42.340 Chauvin's arguments
00:43:43.980 that Floyd was,
00:43:45.300 you know,
00:43:45.500 this superhuman,
00:43:46.460 powerful being,
00:43:47.440 not someone who just
00:43:48.840 ate a whole bunch
00:43:49.520 of opioids
00:43:50.060 who becomes very mellow
00:43:51.240 and docile.
00:43:52.740 So I understand
00:43:53.660 that the prosecutor
00:43:54.360 probably had to call them,
00:43:56.300 but of all the witnesses,
00:43:57.640 in my opinion,
00:43:58.160 that have testified to date,
00:43:59.900 she's probably the one
00:44:00.980 that Mr. Nelson,
00:44:01.900 the defense attorney,
00:44:02.720 was the happiest about.
00:44:03.900 I disagree.
00:44:05.280 I disagree.
00:44:06.600 I disagree.
00:44:07.400 My first impression was,
00:44:08.780 oh my God,
00:44:09.320 they're humanizing him.
00:44:11.200 Like, here's,
00:44:12.380 like,
00:44:13.020 they're,
00:44:13.280 they're,
00:44:13.900 first of all,
00:44:14.200 they're focusing on how,
00:44:15.540 how this is not
00:44:16.700 such a shameful thing,
00:44:18.060 that they both had pain
00:44:19.940 and as a result,
00:44:20.920 they're prescribed opioids,
00:44:22.380 which is extremely common.
00:44:24.660 So now they're putting
00:44:25.460 a face to this crisis.
00:44:26.900 It,
00:44:28.040 it showed their relationship
00:44:29.620 and how they had a normal,
00:44:31.520 healthy,
00:44:32.520 arguably,
00:44:33.280 you know,
00:44:33.640 unhealthy,
00:44:34.220 because they were using drugs
00:44:35.280 relationship.
00:44:36.520 And I think it humanized Floyd.
00:44:39.020 Mark,
00:44:39.300 if he,
00:44:39.780 if,
00:44:40.180 Mark,
00:44:40.420 if the jury was living on Mars,
00:44:42.240 I would agree with you.
00:44:43.640 But George Floyd
00:44:44.800 has become
00:44:45.380 an international hero.
00:44:47.640 He does not need
00:44:48.420 to be humanized.
00:44:49.780 Every time those jurors
00:44:50.740 come to the courthouse,
00:44:51.780 they're going past
00:44:52.640 George Floyd circle,
00:44:54.300 George Floyd square.
00:44:55.440 They're seeing his pictures
00:44:56.880 everywhere.
00:44:58.400 Nobody who's testified so far
00:45:00.000 has painted him out.
00:45:01.420 They don't know,
00:45:02.500 at least by the evidence
00:45:03.620 of his criminal record,
00:45:04.940 of his jail record,
00:45:05.940 of putting a gun
00:45:06.740 to somebody's belly,
00:45:08.120 a pregnant woman's stomach. 0.84
00:45:09.760 He doesn't need to be humanized.
00:45:11.420 He's an international hero.
00:45:13.580 No,
00:45:14.160 you're missing it.
00:45:14.900 Most people
00:45:15.700 attach a stigma
00:45:16.920 to those
00:45:18.000 who are using drugs.
00:45:19.240 It's not,
00:45:20.160 look,
00:45:20.360 I'm very open-minded.
00:45:21.640 I understand
00:45:22.060 that it's a disease.
00:45:23.260 The American Medical Association
00:45:24.420 calls it that most jurors
00:45:26.020 look at that
00:45:26.720 as something very negative,
00:45:28.600 you know,
00:45:28.760 that that was the life
00:45:29.660 he chose.
00:45:30.780 And in the defense's
00:45:32.800 attempt to dehumanize him
00:45:34.820 to the extent
00:45:35.480 that they can
00:45:36.220 and reduce his value
00:45:37.580 to the jury,
00:45:38.340 they're going to point
00:45:39.180 to that drug use.
00:45:40.460 And I think that she helped
00:45:41.720 in that regard.
00:45:43.020 I at least found,
00:45:44.460 oh,
00:45:44.720 here's someone who loved him.
00:45:45.780 He had a normal relationship.
00:45:47.260 He chose this life
00:45:49.060 because of the pain
00:45:50.760 that he initially had
00:45:52.080 as a result of his back.
00:45:54.420 To me,
00:45:55.260 it just humanized him
00:45:56.240 a little bit more
00:45:56.760 and I do think
00:45:57.340 it's necessary.
00:45:58.200 How do you handle
00:45:58.820 the stimulant effect, Mark?
00:46:00.180 How do you handle
00:46:00.780 the fact that she's testifying
00:46:02.400 I couldn't sleep?
00:46:04.040 They were uppers.
00:46:04.900 They weren't downers
00:46:05.780 in summation
00:46:06.660 when Nelson
00:46:08.980 is going to now argue
00:46:10.160 that,
00:46:11.260 look,
00:46:11.800 Floyd,
00:46:12.260 not only is he
00:46:13.020 100 pounds heavier
00:46:14.480 than my client,
00:46:15.220 not only is he
00:46:15.760 six inches taller
00:46:16.560 than my client,
00:46:17.400 but he's just eating
00:46:18.200 a whole bunch of stuff
00:46:19.660 all day.
00:46:20.620 And Megan,
00:46:20.940 you talked about him
00:46:21.640 dancing in the store.
00:46:24.000 This guy was up.
00:46:25.200 He didn't have
00:46:26.220 the normal reaction
00:46:27.460 that you have
00:46:28.380 when you take
00:46:28.860 an excessive amount
00:46:29.920 of opioids
00:46:30.520 where you're all mellow
00:46:31.740 and you're all
00:46:32.380 sleeping on a couch.
00:46:34.260 He's all fired up.
00:46:35.460 I think it played
00:46:36.020 right into the defense's
00:46:37.200 hand more than
00:46:37.680 any other witness
00:46:38.580 by far
00:46:39.180 who has testified
00:46:39.860 in this case.
00:46:40.400 The defense is going
00:46:41.400 to say this time
00:46:42.100 he took too many.
00:46:42.960 Like the incident
00:46:44.520 one year prior
00:46:45.640 where he was arrested
00:46:46.560 and started shoving 0.70
00:46:47.920 drugs into his mouth,
00:46:49.240 they say,
00:46:49.920 to get redirected
00:46:50.840 to a hospital
00:46:51.360 instead of the county jail.
00:46:53.340 That's what he did
00:46:54.020 this time,
00:46:54.480 and he misjudged
00:46:55.280 how many he could take.
00:46:56.340 And his superhero strength
00:46:58.420 soon thereafter
00:46:59.200 turned into
00:47:00.020 a deadly combination
00:47:01.640 that caused 0.77
00:47:02.760 the same foam
00:47:03.660 around his mouth
00:47:04.980 that he had suffered
00:47:06.420 two months earlier,
00:47:07.500 in March
00:47:08.740 when his girlfriend
00:47:10.720 had the same issues
00:47:12.000 and had the same
00:47:12.720 bad reaction
00:47:13.400 to these drugs,
00:47:14.300 that these two
00:47:14.700 were upping
00:47:15.140 their drug taking
00:47:15.980 and taking big risks
00:47:17.480 with what they put
00:47:18.120 in their mouths. 0.51
00:47:19.340 And it's all part
00:47:20.040 of his attempt
00:47:20.820 to say drugs,
00:47:22.340 you may have
00:47:23.760 nothing but empathy
00:47:24.620 for people who develop
00:47:25.480 an opioid addiction,
00:47:27.160 but drugs are what
00:47:28.480 killed him.
00:47:29.760 People who take
00:47:30.640 a ton of opioids
00:47:31.320 also have to acknowledge
00:47:32.280 that drugs can kill you.
00:47:34.480 And he's going to say
00:47:35.160 that's what happened here.
00:47:36.700 Right.
00:47:36.780 I agree with the argument.
00:47:38.180 There's no question.
00:47:38.980 That's what you do.
00:47:39.760 In fact, I've said
00:47:40.400 if they're going to win
00:47:41.240 this at all,
00:47:42.200 you've got to pound
00:47:42.780 the science
00:47:43.520 and pound the
00:47:45.160 initial declaration
00:47:48.300 by the medical examiner.
00:47:50.260 The other thing is
00:47:51.100 his girlfriend testified
00:47:53.660 that she didn't know
00:47:54.240 about the heroin use.
00:47:55.640 You know?
00:47:56.060 Right.
00:47:56.160 And he had started doing that
00:47:57.020 and she,
00:47:57.340 well, I didn't know about that.
00:47:58.420 He was upping the ante.
00:47:59.780 And, you know,
00:48:00.160 between these speed balls
00:48:01.540 that were found,
00:48:02.880 which is a lethal combination
00:48:04.340 of two different drugs,
00:48:05.600 fentanyl in a system,
00:48:07.200 methamphetamines in a system,
00:48:09.100 his DNA all over these drugs
00:48:10.480 found in the back
00:48:11.020 of the police car
00:48:11.720 and found in the back
00:48:12.540 of the car that he had been in.
00:48:13.680 I mean, it was just
00:48:14.200 like a drug fest.
00:48:15.560 And that's not to say
00:48:16.700 George Floyd deserved
00:48:17.680 anything that happened
00:48:18.560 to him that day,
00:48:19.240 but those people
00:48:20.620 who were yelling
00:48:21.200 at Derek Chauvin
00:48:21.920 on the sidewalk
00:48:22.560 had no idea
00:48:23.480 the condition
00:48:24.400 in which George Floyd
00:48:25.540 came to the police.
00:48:27.280 They didn't know
00:48:27.600 about the scuffle
00:48:28.140 that had happened prior,
00:48:29.300 moments prior to Chauvin's arrival.
00:48:30.600 And so there's just
00:48:31.920 a bigger picture here.
00:48:32.920 And the defense,
00:48:33.460 I think,
00:48:33.720 is doing a good job
00:48:34.560 of painting it.
00:48:35.980 But let's talk about
00:48:37.400 the medical examiner
00:48:38.840 since you bring him up, Mark.
00:48:40.320 The guy's name is Baker.
00:48:42.060 And what the experts
00:48:43.240 are saying is
00:48:43.940 it is extraordinary.
00:48:46.380 You guys have both
00:48:47.000 been prosecutors
00:48:47.660 to have the prosecution
00:48:49.420 distanced itself
00:48:51.120 from the medical examiner
00:48:52.960 on the case.
00:48:53.840 The only guy
00:48:54.300 to ever autopsy
00:48:55.120 George Floyd.
00:48:55.900 Usually that's
00:48:56.500 the prosecution's witness.
00:48:57.900 And the guy
00:48:58.980 did conclude homicide.
00:49:01.040 So that's good
00:49:01.620 for the prosecution.
00:49:02.980 But everything else
00:49:04.580 that he said
00:49:05.620 in his report
00:49:06.160 is bad.
00:49:07.180 And here's what happened.
00:49:08.060 I actually just boned up
00:49:08.860 on this.
00:49:09.700 Not only did he conclude
00:49:11.160 like in the original report,
00:49:13.320 the original autopsy report,
00:49:14.580 I'm quoting now,
00:49:15.820 cause of death
00:49:16.320 was cardiopulmonary arrest,
00:49:17.900 heart attack,
00:49:18.980 complicating,
00:49:21.020 the heart attack
00:49:21.900 complicated
00:49:22.940 law enforcement
00:49:24.800 subdual restraint
00:49:25.960 and neck compression.
00:49:26.840 So in other words,
00:49:28.400 his heart attack
00:49:29.580 complicated
00:49:31.020 what Chauvin
00:49:32.000 was doing to him.
00:49:33.000 It's just a weird way
00:49:34.100 of phrasing it
00:49:34.780 that to me
00:49:35.200 seems like he was trying
00:49:36.000 to like maybe
00:49:37.060 take some of the blame
00:49:38.240 off of Chauvin.
00:49:39.080 I don't know.
00:49:40.100 But then
00:49:40.580 there was such an outrage
00:49:42.220 about what he concluded,
00:49:43.920 right?
00:49:44.080 Cause you're,
00:49:44.460 you know,
00:49:44.720 you're not allowed
00:49:45.180 to be scientific anymore.
00:49:46.140 You just have to be
00:49:46.660 politically correct
00:49:47.340 and say what the mob
00:49:47.960 wants you to.
00:49:48.880 That people were outraged
00:49:50.440 and they had a big
00:49:52.780 like hearing
00:49:53.580 privately in Minneapolis
00:49:54.820 and were,
00:49:56.500 they demanded
00:49:56.880 more information
00:49:57.760 from this doctor,
00:49:59.380 Baker.
00:49:59.880 And he said
00:50:01.440 during this thing
00:50:02.400 that it appeared
00:50:04.500 to him
00:50:05.120 that the pressure
00:50:06.180 to the neck
00:50:06.680 was coming
00:50:07.120 from the back
00:50:08.520 or posterior
00:50:09.480 lateral portions
00:50:11.280 of the back,
00:50:11.880 not the neck.
00:50:12.440 And that none
00:50:13.500 of these strictures
00:50:14.780 would impact breathing
00:50:16.160 or cause loss
00:50:17.420 of consciousness.
00:50:18.780 He said
00:50:19.900 it's important
00:50:20.720 that Floyd
00:50:21.380 had narrowing
00:50:22.440 of the coronary
00:50:23.140 arteries 75 to 80%
00:50:25.260 narrowed.
00:50:26.140 This would put him
00:50:26.620 at risk
00:50:27.000 for a sudden
00:50:27.540 cardiac event
00:50:29.260 and went on
00:50:30.380 to say that
00:50:31.680 he believed
00:50:32.840 Floyd's heart
00:50:33.400 was starting to fail
00:50:34.060 because of the stress,
00:50:34.960 the drugs,
00:50:35.520 his enlarged heart
00:50:36.260 and heart disease.
00:50:37.420 And that once
00:50:38.280 the heart starts to fail,
00:50:39.420 one of the symptoms
00:50:40.040 is the perception
00:50:40.780 that you cannot breathe.
00:50:41.980 All of that is terrible
00:50:43.120 for the prosecution, Mark.
00:50:45.240 It is.
00:50:46.500 There's one question
00:50:47.660 we don't know, Megan.
00:50:48.780 And I agree with you.
00:50:49.880 We could take a pause
00:50:50.800 and Arthur can move on
00:50:52.340 and talk.
00:50:53.440 But there's one.
00:50:54.460 So yes,
00:50:55.020 I agree with you, period.
00:50:57.020 Now, what I will add is
00:50:58.520 there's one question
00:50:59.980 and that's what I love
00:51:00.960 about trying cases
00:51:01.840 here in Florida.
00:51:02.620 It's liberal discovery.
00:51:03.720 You get to take
00:51:04.720 the deposition of witnesses.
00:51:06.060 So it's not trial by ambush.
00:51:07.320 There's no surprise.
00:51:08.440 And the one question
00:51:09.220 I would ask him,
00:51:10.340 are you saying
00:51:11.600 that in no way
00:51:13.660 the knee to the neck
00:51:15.480 contributed
00:51:16.800 or caused
00:51:18.100 in any way
00:51:19.340 to his death?
00:51:20.660 Is that what you're saying?
00:51:22.560 If he says,
00:51:23.620 yeah, that's what I'm saying.
00:51:24.940 I go, holy crap,
00:51:26.520 if I'm the prosecutor.
00:51:28.700 Right, because he could say that.
00:51:30.700 He might say that.
00:51:32.200 The word is substantial, though.
00:51:34.300 Mark, it's got to be
00:51:35.440 a substantial cause.
00:51:37.080 It just can't be,
00:51:38.460 you know,
00:51:38.800 it's a little bit,
00:51:40.020 but that's the law.
00:51:41.380 Now, causation means
00:51:43.020 substantial causal factor
00:51:45.260 in causing his death.
00:51:46.460 So it's got to be
00:51:47.660 a little more significant.
00:51:48.860 Megan,
00:51:49.440 in terms of being
00:51:50.140 politically correct,
00:51:51.640 what really upset me,
00:51:52.740 because I know
00:51:53.680 what you boned up on
00:51:54.700 and I boned up
00:51:55.360 on the similar thing,
00:51:56.740 what really,
00:51:57.400 really upset me
00:51:58.080 as a person
00:51:59.000 who's heavily involved
00:52:00.100 in the criminal justice system
00:52:01.480 is that after this doctor,
00:52:03.580 Dr. Andrew Baker,
00:52:04.920 gave his report,
00:52:06.300 which we have no reason
00:52:07.520 to believe.
00:52:08.020 He didn't write
00:52:08.600 what he found
00:52:09.880 and what science,
00:52:11.140 the science that he knows,
00:52:13.020 believed to be true.
00:52:14.880 The protests against him,
00:52:17.880 his family,
00:52:19.080 his office,
00:52:19.940 they had to construct,
00:52:21.520 I think it's a cinder block wall
00:52:23.420 with like barbed wire fence
00:52:24.960 around his office.
00:52:26.860 Horrible.
00:52:27.140 The guy who's doing his job
00:52:28.900 came with a conclusion
00:52:30.380 that he believes
00:52:31.260 meets scientific certainty
00:52:33.420 and because people
00:52:34.900 don't like his scientific results,
00:52:38.060 they're threatening his life.
00:52:39.740 That's just,
00:52:40.360 that's horrible.
00:52:41.220 It's not an American way 1.00
00:52:42.920 of doing things.
00:52:44.200 It's insane.
00:52:45.320 But have you ever seen this before
00:52:47.480 where the,
00:52:48.180 where the prosecution
00:52:49.280 is stiff arming
00:52:51.080 the medical examiner
00:52:52.220 and basically just trying
00:52:53.120 to bypass him
00:52:53.900 with a bunch of others?
00:52:54.980 No,
00:52:55.520 I have never seen it before.
00:52:56.740 I have no problem.
00:52:57.600 I've never seen it either.
00:53:01.120 But here's my question.
00:53:02.540 I don't know anything
00:53:03.140 about the guy
00:53:03.820 and it does seem unusual
00:53:05.500 based upon that video.
00:53:07.280 Um,
00:53:07.680 it's causing me to question
00:53:08.800 what I,
00:53:09.240 what I believed
00:53:10.280 based upon the video.
00:53:11.180 The question I have is,
00:53:12.980 is he legit?
00:53:14.600 Did he have an agenda?
00:53:16.060 Was he,
00:53:16.620 as you said,
00:53:17.300 Megan,
00:53:17.680 hold on,
00:53:18.140 Megan even suggested it.
00:53:19.520 Maybe he was trying
00:53:20.460 to benefit Chauvin.
00:53:23.000 Megan threw that out there. 1.00
00:53:24.020 He might have been.
00:53:24.740 Right.
00:53:25.140 He might have been.
00:53:26.500 The defense has 15,
00:53:28.160 the defense has 15 more doctors,
00:53:30.620 Mark,
00:53:31.200 15 doctors on their witness list
00:53:33.040 that they're going to call
00:53:34.040 in their case in chief,
00:53:35.060 the defense.
00:53:35.880 So there's at least 15 people.
00:53:38.240 Now they might not call them all,
00:53:39.760 but there's at least 15
00:53:40.860 other medical professionals
00:53:42.140 who are going to take the stand
00:53:43.600 and agree with the medical examiner
00:53:46.100 saying that.
00:53:47.500 And I think they're really
00:53:48.560 going to focus.
00:53:49.220 And Mark,
00:53:49.540 you just said this five minutes ago.
00:53:51.200 If you're the defense attorney,
00:53:52.520 you're going to hammer
00:53:53.180 on the medicine.
00:53:54.540 There's going to be 15 doctors
00:53:55.920 who are going to say,
00:53:56.820 well,
00:53:57.240 he was about to have
00:53:58.100 a heart attack.
00:53:58.800 He had 80 degree closure
00:54:00.180 of his arteries,
00:54:01.540 you know,
00:54:02.040 and then the prosecutor
00:54:02.900 is going to say,
00:54:03.680 but the knee to the back
00:54:05.720 and that whole situation
00:54:07.160 was a substantial cause
00:54:09.060 that caused the heart attack
00:54:10.420 that caused his death.
00:54:11.420 Let me ask you this
00:54:12.040 because I don't like
00:54:13.760 the way he worded it.
00:54:15.220 The reason I said
00:54:15.840 maybe he was trying
00:54:16.460 to do Chauvin a solid
00:54:17.580 was because he says
00:54:18.600 cardiopulmonary arrest,
00:54:19.760 heart attack,
00:54:20.700 complicating law enforcement,
00:54:22.620 subdual restraint
00:54:23.340 and neck compression.
00:54:24.440 I mean,
00:54:24.620 what the hell does that mean?
00:54:25.520 It's like his heart attack
00:54:27.740 screwed up the arrest.
00:54:29.300 I mean,
00:54:29.420 I think what he,
00:54:31.080 if you were honest,
00:54:31.700 he would have written
00:54:32.280 cardiopulmonary arrest,
00:54:33.680 that it was caught
00:54:35.260 in part caused by,
00:54:36.700 right?
00:54:36.880 I think what he's trying
00:54:37.600 to say is law enforcement
00:54:38.440 subdual restraint
00:54:39.220 and neck compression
00:54:39.880 helped cause
00:54:41.480 the cardiopulmonary arrest
00:54:43.320 because that let's face it,
00:54:44.900 Baker does wind up
00:54:46.120 concluding in the same
00:54:46.980 concluding the same report.
00:54:48.280 This was a homicide,
00:54:49.320 which means a death
00:54:50.440 that occurred
00:54:50.820 at the hands
00:54:51.220 of another person.
00:54:51.960 So he's kind of
00:54:52.820 all over the board.
00:54:54.520 Well,
00:54:55.220 okay.
00:54:55.900 So he's look,
00:54:57.120 any reasonable person
00:54:58.540 would say
00:54:59.200 that the arrest
00:55:01.400 occurring in the manner
00:55:02.600 in which it did
00:55:03.480 would create great stress
00:55:05.320 and,
00:55:06.260 and,
00:55:06.920 and,
00:55:07.740 and I guess
00:55:08.820 stress to his heart.
00:55:10.080 There's no way
00:55:10.760 that was a,
00:55:11.380 that's right.
00:55:12.660 So if he died of a heart
00:55:13.740 and if that action
00:55:15.000 was not lawful,
00:55:16.120 which most,
00:55:17.820 including the chief
00:55:18.660 is saying,
00:55:19.460 because it was
00:55:19.940 excessive force,
00:55:21.160 then that is
00:55:22.500 a substantial cause
00:55:23.680 that that physical action
00:55:25.560 placed great strain
00:55:27.460 upon,
00:55:28.480 yes,
00:55:28.700 an already damaged heart
00:55:30.740 from years of X,
00:55:32.300 Y,
00:55:32.500 and Z,
00:55:33.400 but that that action
00:55:34.700 right there
00:55:35.440 sped up the process,
00:55:37.000 did something
00:55:38.200 that caused 0.77
00:55:38.920 the heart to go.
00:55:40.960 I,
00:55:41.220 he has to say that
00:55:42.100 because what they're going
00:55:42.980 to say,
00:55:43.180 I just had Dershowitz on
00:55:44.280 and,
00:55:44.840 and we were talking
00:55:45.460 about how the jury
00:55:46.340 instructions and even
00:55:47.340 the defense,
00:55:48.680 the,
00:55:48.920 even the defense
00:55:49.680 has admitted
00:55:50.620 in its proposed
00:55:51.900 jury instructions
00:55:52.840 that,
00:55:53.900 um,
00:55:54.480 to cause somebody's
00:55:55.260 death,
00:55:55.440 is to be,
00:55:56.360 is you have to be
00:55:57.280 a substantial causal
00:55:58.640 factor,
00:55:59.120 your behavior,
00:55:59.580 and the fact
00:56:00.400 that other causes
00:56:01.620 also contributed
00:56:03.260 to the death
00:56:03.940 does not relieve
00:56:05.260 the defendant
00:56:06.000 of criminal liability,
00:56:08.140 right?
00:56:08.300 If you caused it
00:56:09.180 and somebody else
00:56:09.740 helped cause it,
00:56:10.860 you're not off the hook,
00:56:12.100 but I,
00:56:12.440 but apparently the defense
00:56:13.580 went on to propose
00:56:15.200 and its proposed
00:56:15.860 jury instructions,
00:56:17.180 um,
00:56:17.820 like a limiting
00:56:18.680 instruction after that
00:56:19.660 saying,
00:56:20.480 however,
00:56:21.260 Chauvin would not
00:56:22.040 be criminally liable
00:56:23.100 if a superseding
00:56:24.860 cause caused
00:56:26.220 the death.
00:56:27.060 And you guys
00:56:27.420 remember this
00:56:28.040 in law school,
00:56:29.460 right?
00:56:29.660 It's like,
00:56:30.200 I shoved somebody
00:56:32.020 out the window
00:56:33.280 and if he was
00:56:34.600 only going to fall
00:56:35.320 two floors
00:56:36.240 and probably
00:56:36.900 wouldn't have died,
00:56:37.580 but on the way
00:56:38.500 down,
00:56:38.840 somebody shoots
00:56:39.460 him as he's
00:56:39.920 falling,
00:56:40.700 I'm going to say
00:56:41.860 a superseding
00:56:42.960 cause caused
00:56:43.980 the death.
00:56:44.460 It wasn't me
00:56:45.060 shoving him 0.97
00:56:45.400 out the window.
00:56:45.960 So that's
00:56:47.280 what the defense
00:56:47.840 is going to
00:56:48.240 say,
00:56:48.580 like somehow
00:56:49.220 the drugs
00:56:50.280 he's going
00:56:52.080 to say
00:56:52.280 but the
00:56:54.060 prosecution
00:56:54.520 has responded
00:56:55.580 and it's
00:56:55.960 proposed
00:56:56.280 jury instruction
00:56:56.820 saying an
00:56:57.840 action that
00:56:58.500 occurs prior
00:56:59.680 to Derek
00:57:00.320 Chauvin's
00:57:00.840 conduct
00:57:01.360 cannot be
00:57:02.240 a superseding
00:57:03.740 event.
00:57:05.060 It's kind
00:57:05.660 of interesting.
00:57:06.740 It doesn't
00:57:07.140 make total
00:57:08.040 amount of
00:57:09.160 sense to me.
00:57:09.700 I mean,
00:57:09.900 from a
00:57:10.420 commonsensical
00:57:11.100 point of
00:57:11.540 view,
00:57:12.020 hypothetically,
00:57:12.600 if the
00:57:13.220 medical
00:57:13.900 examiner
00:57:14.440 said all
00:57:15.440 the drugs
00:57:15.960 are what
00:57:16.220 killed him,
00:57:17.040 well,
00:57:17.200 that's a
00:57:17.520 superseding
00:57:18.060 event or
00:57:19.020 preceding
00:57:19.640 event that
00:57:20.760 was the
00:57:21.620 cause of
00:57:21.980 his death.
00:57:23.140 So I,
00:57:23.660 but with
00:57:24.000 those,
00:57:24.460 I know
00:57:24.800 those were
00:57:25.120 the proposed
00:57:25.800 instructions,
00:57:26.660 Megan,
00:57:26.860 but is that
00:57:27.340 what the
00:57:27.640 jury is going
00:57:28.260 to hear,
00:57:28.720 number one?
00:57:29.340 And I can
00:57:29.960 see the
00:57:30.320 jury coming
00:57:30.900 back and
00:57:31.680 asking during
00:57:32.400 deliberations,
00:57:33.140 asking the
00:57:33.660 judge,
00:57:34.360 please define
00:57:35.300 what substantial
00:57:36.720 causal factor
00:57:38.360 is.
00:57:39.180 Yeah.
00:57:39.620 Well,
00:57:39.840 and the other
00:57:40.200 thing,
00:57:40.460 Arthur,
00:57:40.680 is if you're
00:57:41.280 the defense
00:57:41.700 lawyer,
00:57:41.980 you'll say,
00:57:43.000 right,
00:57:43.620 the taking
00:57:44.320 of the
00:57:44.560 drugs preceded
00:57:45.660 Chauvin's
00:57:46.040 arrival on
00:57:46.500 scene,
00:57:46.780 no doubt.
00:57:47.700 The effect
00:57:48.900 of the
00:57:49.600 drugs taking
00:57:50.400 hold on
00:57:51.520 George Floyd
00:57:52.100 was a
00:57:53.100 superseding
00:57:53.600 event.
00:57:54.220 So they're
00:57:54.660 going to go
00:57:54.900 to town
00:57:55.280 over that.
00:57:55.940 Like,
00:57:56.160 as you
00:57:56.660 point out,
00:57:57.100 what's
00:57:57.360 substantial,
00:57:58.400 what's
00:57:58.680 superseding,
00:57:59.900 and the
00:58:00.140 causation,
00:58:00.920 I mean,
00:58:01.200 the defense
00:58:01.720 is not in
00:58:02.620 any way
00:58:03.160 conceding
00:58:03.740 that Derek
00:58:04.720 Chauvin had
00:58:05.260 any role
00:58:05.980 in causing
00:58:06.820 George Floyd's
00:58:07.420 death.
00:58:08.200 Okay,
00:58:08.620 so here I
00:58:09.700 am listening
00:58:10.460 and hearing
00:58:10.980 everything you
00:58:11.800 guys are
00:58:12.140 saying,
00:58:12.460 and this
00:58:12.640 is wonderful,
00:58:13.280 I haven't
00:58:13.480 had these
00:58:13.780 types of
00:58:14.100 discussions
00:58:14.460 since law
00:58:15.020 school.
00:58:15.600 I mean,
00:58:15.820 really smart
00:58:17.100 people talk
00:58:18.140 about the
00:58:19.380 nuances,
00:58:20.180 correct.
00:58:20.760 Thank you.
00:58:21.140 But now let's
00:58:22.400 focus on what's
00:58:23.220 in that jury
00:58:23.740 box.
00:58:24.480 Are you
00:58:24.940 kidding me?
00:58:25.940 So who
00:58:26.320 does all
00:58:26.620 this benefit,
00:58:27.820 right?
00:58:28.040 what the
00:58:29.560 subtleties in
00:58:31.040 the law,
00:58:32.020 they don't,
00:58:32.520 this is
00:58:32.840 mumbo-jumbo
00:58:33.580 to them,
00:58:34.020 and all
00:58:34.680 the defense
00:58:35.460 lawyer has
00:58:35.900 to do is
00:58:36.300 say,
00:58:36.860 folks,
00:58:37.280 it's not
00:58:37.900 our burden.
00:58:39.060 If there's
00:58:39.520 a reason
00:58:40.280 to doubt
00:58:41.300 whether this
00:58:42.080 was a
00:58:42.400 substantial
00:58:42.860 cause or
00:58:43.440 not,
00:58:44.100 that's it.
00:58:44.820 coming up,
00:58:46.420 we're going
00:58:46.620 to get into
00:58:47.080 what the
00:58:47.540 police chief
00:58:48.340 said,
00:58:49.100 testifying
00:58:49.780 against
00:58:50.480 his own
00:58:51.600 cop,
00:58:52.260 Derek Chauvin,
00:58:52.900 who he
00:58:53.240 fired the
00:58:53.680 day after
00:58:53.980 this incident
00:58:54.500 along with
00:58:54.980 the other
00:58:55.260 three cops,
00:58:56.100 two of whom
00:58:56.920 had only
00:58:57.200 been on the
00:58:57.560 job for
00:58:58.000 a week.
00:58:58.800 They all
00:58:59.240 got fired
00:58:59.700 by this
00:59:00.400 police chief
00:59:00.920 and he's
00:59:01.480 doing something
00:59:01.920 we never
00:59:02.220 see.
00:59:02.520 He's breaking
00:59:02.900 the blue
00:59:03.240 wall,
00:59:03.620 a lot of
00:59:04.020 firsts in
00:59:04.380 this case,
00:59:05.400 and we'll
00:59:05.760 play you
00:59:06.180 the points
00:59:07.000 that the
00:59:07.400 prosecution
00:59:07.700 made with
00:59:08.100 him and
00:59:08.580 then the
00:59:09.060 points the
00:59:09.480 defense made
00:59:10.760 with him
00:59:11.220 and ask
00:59:11.820 Mark and
00:59:12.580 Arthur
00:59:12.940 to react.
00:59:14.820 Before we
00:59:14.980 get to
00:59:15.420 all of
00:59:15.840 that,
00:59:16.200 I want
00:59:16.320 to bring
00:59:16.500 you a 0.57
00:59:16.680 feature we
00:59:17.100 have here
00:59:17.440 on the
00:59:17.600 Megyn Kelly
00:59:18.000 show called
00:59:19.100 From the
00:59:19.860 Archives.
00:59:20.760 This is where
00:59:21.100 we direct
00:59:21.540 you to an
00:59:21.940 episode from
00:59:22.440 our library
00:59:22.980 that you
00:59:23.400 may have
00:59:23.740 missed but
00:59:24.080 we think
00:59:24.460 you'll
00:59:24.700 love.
00:59:25.440 For this
00:59:26.180 one today,
00:59:26.640 we're going
00:59:26.980 way back
00:59:27.600 to our
00:59:28.460 premiere
00:59:29.060 episode.
00:59:30.180 Have you
00:59:30.340 heard episode
00:59:30.820 number one?
00:59:31.720 It's actually
00:59:32.440 our top
00:59:33.200 rated
00:59:33.920 archived
00:59:35.180 episode.
00:59:35.680 In other
00:59:35.900 words,
00:59:36.080 that's the
00:59:36.360 one people
00:59:36.700 go back
00:59:37.020 to and
00:59:37.240 listen the
00:59:37.860 most.
00:59:38.600 And it
00:59:38.780 is a
00:59:39.000 great one.
00:59:39.460 It came
00:59:39.760 out a
00:59:40.140 little over
00:59:40.440 six months
00:59:40.800 ago now and
00:59:41.800 it was with
00:59:42.180 Glenn Greenwald.
00:59:43.720 Now this is
00:59:44.080 before Glenn
00:59:45.380 left the
00:59:45.840 Intercept and
00:59:46.520 went off on
00:59:46.920 his own
00:59:47.340 independent
00:59:47.780 path and
00:59:48.340 started his
00:59:48.900 Substack.
00:59:49.880 Here's a
00:59:50.200 clip.
00:59:50.540 I think
00:59:50.840 one of the
00:59:51.300 things that
00:59:51.660 a lot of
00:59:51.980 people on
00:59:52.260 the right
00:59:52.520 don't fully
00:59:53.000 understand is
00:59:54.300 that
00:59:54.600 establishment
00:59:55.380 liberals,
00:59:57.280 you know,
00:59:57.500 like kind of
00:59:57.840 the dominoing
00:59:58.740 of the
00:59:58.900 Democratic
00:59:59.160 Party,
00:59:59.580 they don't
01:00:00.100 actually care
01:00:00.820 about politics.
01:00:01.680 They're not
01:00:02.020 socialists.
01:00:03.140 They serve
01:00:03.660 the interests
01:00:04.120 of Silicon
01:00:04.600 Valley and
01:00:05.220 Wall Street
01:00:05.700 and K
01:00:06.500 Street and
01:00:08.120 they're rich
01:00:08.500 donors.
01:00:08.900 They're not
01:00:10.180 at all
01:00:10.640 socialists.
01:00:11.180 Most of
01:00:11.400 them themselves
01:00:11.940 are extremely
01:00:12.560 rich and
01:00:13.020 wealthy
01:00:13.240 families.
01:00:14.940 They use
01:00:16.060 some rhetoric
01:00:16.600 that's populist
01:00:17.380 in nature,
01:00:17.880 but populism
01:00:18.800 exists far
01:00:19.400 more on
01:00:19.680 the right
01:00:19.960 than it
01:00:20.200 does on
01:00:20.780 the
01:00:21.140 establishment
01:00:21.500 of the
01:00:21.800 Democratic
01:00:22.000 Party.
01:00:22.620 They don't
01:00:23.220 really care
01:00:23.580 about politics.
01:00:24.800 They're also
01:00:25.120 not against
01:00:25.920 war or
01:00:26.500 imperialism.
01:00:27.740 Obama
01:00:28.020 started lots
01:00:28.640 of different
01:00:28.980 wars.
01:00:29.700 Trump
01:00:29.920 hasn't.
01:00:31.280 What they
01:00:31.860 care about
01:00:32.280 is culture,
01:00:33.080 dominating
01:00:33.440 the culture.
01:00:34.740 And the
01:00:34.980 reason they
01:00:35.340 look at Joe
01:00:35.820 Rogan and
01:00:36.440 see an enemy,
01:00:37.580 even though
01:00:38.320 if you go
01:00:39.340 down the
01:00:39.660 list, he's
01:00:40.180 pro-choice,
01:00:40.780 he's pro-gay 1.00
01:00:41.260 rights, he
01:00:42.280 believes in
01:00:42.740 social spending,
01:00:43.980 he's anti-war,
01:00:45.200 he believes in
01:00:45.920 the legalization
01:00:46.480 of drugs,
01:00:47.080 he endorsed
01:00:47.520 Bernie Sanders,
01:00:48.480 he knows
01:00:49.080 exactly.
01:00:50.540 So why did
01:00:51.320 they see an
01:00:51.720 enemy?
01:00:52.480 Because they
01:00:52.920 don't care about
01:00:53.380 politics, they
01:00:53.860 care about
01:00:54.180 culture.
01:00:54.820 And Rogan
01:00:55.500 is not, he
01:00:56.540 doesn't sound
01:00:57.160 like them,
01:00:57.920 right?
01:00:58.100 He's like a
01:00:58.500 regular guy.
01:00:59.880 He talks in
01:01:01.120 regular jargon.
01:01:02.200 He likes
01:01:02.540 hunting and
01:01:03.280 MMA fighting.
01:01:04.760 He tells
01:01:05.280 some risqué
01:01:06.020 jokes.
01:01:07.420 So to
01:01:08.280 them, he's
01:01:09.000 like an
01:01:09.320 interloper
01:01:09.920 culturally, and
01:01:10.940 that's what
01:01:11.300 they care about
01:01:11.920 more than
01:01:12.280 politics.
01:01:12.920 And that's
01:01:13.140 why I
01:01:13.360 think the
01:01:13.900 contempt for
01:01:15.860 Rogan among
01:01:17.220 liberals and
01:01:17.720 the media, which
01:01:18.140 is sort of the
01:01:18.460 same thing at
01:01:18.860 this point, is
01:01:20.080 so revealing
01:01:20.640 about what
01:01:21.000 they prioritize.
01:01:22.240 So what I
01:01:22.960 did think it
01:01:23.340 was interesting,
01:01:23.840 just one more
01:01:24.360 minute on him,
01:01:25.220 that he signed
01:01:25.860 his deal with
01:01:26.280 Spotify and
01:01:27.120 made a bunch
01:01:28.520 of money off
01:01:29.040 of it, but
01:01:29.540 already there's
01:01:30.660 trouble, right?
01:01:31.440 Like he had on
01:01:32.400 Abigail Schreier,
01:01:33.200 who wrote
01:01:35.600 Irreversible
01:01:36.260 Damage, which
01:01:37.780 takes a hard
01:01:38.280 look at
01:01:38.740 transgender
01:01:40.100 teens and
01:01:41.660 why it seems
01:01:42.820 to be increasing
01:01:43.560 in frequency.
01:01:44.880 And they had a
01:01:45.300 very thoughtful
01:01:45.820 discussion.
01:01:46.420 I thought it was
01:01:46.760 fascinating, and
01:01:47.620 I read the
01:01:48.540 book.
01:01:49.180 And now there's
01:01:50.140 a protest over
01:01:50.820 there.
01:01:51.280 They want the
01:01:51.800 episode pulled.
01:01:52.580 They want him
01:01:53.320 pulled.
01:01:53.860 They want him
01:01:54.200 punished.
01:01:54.660 And Spotify
01:01:55.140 has reportedly
01:01:55.900 had 10
01:01:56.420 meetings, not
01:01:57.100 reportedly, the
01:01:57.780 CEO confessed.
01:01:59.160 They had 10
01:02:00.040 meetings about
01:02:00.600 this, and it
01:02:01.260 made me wonder,
01:02:01.960 can Joe Rogan
01:02:03.480 last at
01:02:04.560 Spotify?
01:02:05.160 Can this
01:02:05.420 relationship
01:02:05.900 last?
01:02:07.620 Yeah, it's
01:02:08.100 so fascinating.
01:02:10.180 You know, first
01:02:10.960 of all, I look
01:02:11.820 at it kind of
01:02:12.420 through the
01:02:12.680 prism a lot
01:02:13.360 of the
01:02:14.380 primary
01:02:15.340 success of
01:02:17.560 a social
01:02:18.020 movement in
01:02:18.500 my lifetime
01:02:18.960 that affected
01:02:19.400 my life most,
01:02:20.040 which is the
01:02:20.380 gay rights
01:02:20.740 movement, you
01:02:21.300 know, like
01:02:21.560 of age as a
01:02:23.420 gay teenager 0.93
01:02:23.900 in the 80s
01:02:24.660 with the moral
01:02:25.420 majority in
01:02:26.140 the Reagan
01:02:26.720 era.
01:02:27.600 No one
01:02:27.840 thought anything
01:02:28.280 like gay 1.00
01:02:28.820 marriage was
01:02:29.260 even remotely
01:02:29.740 possible that
01:02:30.340 have won the
01:02:30.620 full panoply
01:02:31.400 of legal
01:02:31.720 rights, and
01:02:32.080 with my
01:02:32.400 lifetime, that
01:02:33.680 has happened,
01:02:34.220 and one of
01:02:34.520 the reasons
01:02:34.780 it's happened
01:02:35.360 is because so
01:02:36.480 many people
01:02:36.960 who wanted
01:02:37.660 this profound
01:02:38.240 social change
01:02:39.160 engaged in
01:02:40.340 the debate,
01:02:40.960 right, like
01:02:41.360 said, hey,
01:02:42.440 like you have
01:02:42.840 these ideas
01:02:43.400 about who I
01:02:44.040 am, what
01:02:44.480 my life is
01:02:45.040 like, that
01:02:45.400 aren't actually
01:02:45.860 true, so get
01:02:47.060 to know me,
01:02:47.620 talk to me, I
01:02:48.260 understand that
01:02:48.800 you were raised
01:02:49.360 to think
01:02:49.700 differently, you
01:02:50.420 have religious
01:02:50.860 convictions that
01:02:51.540 lead you to a
01:02:52.020 different place,
01:02:53.300 let's have a
01:02:53.840 dialogue so that
01:02:54.540 you can actually
01:02:55.000 see the reality
01:02:56.100 of our humanity.
01:02:57.700 It wasn't this
01:02:58.620 coercive demand
01:03:00.100 that everybody
01:03:00.620 swallowed this
01:03:01.580 truth, I'm not
01:03:02.040 saying there
01:03:02.300 were no
01:03:02.560 elements of the
01:03:03.020 gay rights
01:03:03.320 movement that
01:03:03.700 did that, but
01:03:04.220 by and large,
01:03:05.460 it was successful
01:03:06.920 because it was
01:03:07.500 persuasive, and
01:03:09.220 now around this
01:03:10.420 trans issue,
01:03:11.860 there's almost
01:03:12.600 this kind of
01:03:13.320 demand that
01:03:14.120 nobody asks
01:03:15.080 any questions
01:03:15.700 about these
01:03:17.160 really profound
01:03:18.280 changes that are
01:03:19.100 being demanded
01:03:19.660 about how we
01:03:20.220 think about
01:03:20.640 gender, how we
01:03:21.380 think about
01:03:21.780 sex, how we
01:03:22.880 think about the
01:03:24.120 choices of
01:03:24.680 children to make
01:03:25.540 permanent, and
01:03:26.640 this is what I
01:03:27.160 find so interesting,
01:03:27.720 you know, I
01:03:28.320 have this media
01:03:29.400 outlet that's
01:03:30.180 based in New
01:03:30.620 York, so I
01:03:31.740 go a lot to
01:03:32.340 New York, and
01:03:32.780 a lot of my
01:03:33.360 colleagues are
01:03:34.300 journalists who
01:03:35.460 send their kids
01:03:36.020 to very liberal
01:03:37.240 private schools
01:03:38.120 in Brooklyn and
01:03:38.700 Manhattan, and
01:03:39.860 a lot of their
01:03:40.480 teenage children
01:03:42.460 have friends who
01:03:45.240 are trans, so 1.00
01:03:46.040 like 15-year-old
01:03:47.360 trans boys who
01:03:48.840 have already had
01:03:49.960 their breasts
01:03:50.540 removed at the
01:03:52.080 age of 15, or
01:03:53.780 you know, the
01:03:54.720 other way of
01:03:55.560 trans women who
01:03:56.560 have had genital
01:03:57.460 reassignment
01:03:58.320 surgery involved
01:03:59.900 in their genitals 0.99
01:04:00.440 that are permanent
01:04:01.100 changes that they're
01:04:01.840 making at the age
01:04:02.460 of 15 to 16, and
01:04:03.880 if you talk to
01:04:04.360 these journalists
01:04:04.880 they'll tell you at
01:04:05.620 dinner over a
01:04:06.500 glass of wine that
01:04:07.940 they're very disturbed
01:04:09.760 by the question that
01:04:11.320 we don't really have a
01:04:12.040 lot of science about
01:04:13.080 about whether kids
01:04:14.680 are too young to be
01:04:15.740 making these
01:04:16.200 decisions about
01:04:16.840 whether people are
01:04:18.060 being misdiagnosed
01:04:18.880 with gender
01:04:19.320 dysphoria who
01:04:19.980 actually have other
01:04:20.600 problems in the
01:04:21.140 culture that's
01:04:21.680 encouraging them to
01:04:22.440 think that they're
01:04:23.320 trans when they're 1.00
01:04:23.940 like, people have
01:04:24.960 those questions, people
01:04:25.940 in the privacy of
01:04:26.620 their own, ask the
01:04:27.680 questions that Joe
01:04:28.360 Rogan asked, but
01:04:29.400 those journalists
01:04:30.000 would never, ever
01:04:31.520 write about it or
01:04:33.200 publicly say it
01:04:34.280 because they're too
01:04:35.220 scared to, they're
01:04:36.080 too beholden to
01:04:37.280 liberal orthodoxy, and
01:04:39.100 Joe Rogan's not, and
01:04:40.520 that's why they hate
01:04:42.240 him because they can't
01:04:43.040 control him.
01:04:43.980 So go check out the
01:04:44.540 full interview if you
01:04:45.280 haven't yet heard
01:04:46.260 this, but this short
01:04:47.680 clip really signaled the
01:04:49.360 cultural fight to come
01:04:50.600 over the past few
01:04:51.540 months, particularly
01:04:52.520 after the election.
01:04:53.360 The left, the right,
01:04:54.860 the division we see
01:04:55.920 in media.
01:04:57.060 One of the great
01:04:57.780 things about this
01:04:58.320 podcast, we believe
01:04:59.480 this connection with
01:05:00.420 you, has been that we
01:05:02.280 can exist outside of
01:05:03.200 this divisive, false
01:05:04.840 structure of politics
01:05:06.200 and media and really
01:05:07.060 just dishonest, right?
01:05:08.540 It's just dishonest.
01:05:09.820 All they care about is
01:05:10.520 getting ratings, so
01:05:11.640 they will mislead and
01:05:12.980 tweak you and drive you 0.77
01:05:15.000 to anger because it
01:05:16.360 helps their bottom 0.99
01:05:17.000 line.
01:05:17.200 They don't care about
01:05:17.700 you, trust me, they
01:05:18.840 care about their
01:05:19.460 bottom line, but we
01:05:20.700 do.
01:05:21.300 I don't need a huge
01:05:22.040 bottom line.
01:05:22.600 I just need to
01:05:23.280 deliver the news in a
01:05:24.160 way that's honest and
01:05:25.920 hopefully educational
01:05:27.380 and entertaining for
01:05:28.180 you guys.
01:05:29.280 And we've been doing
01:05:29.880 that, you know, and
01:05:30.600 if you do it right,
01:05:31.400 success follows.
01:05:32.880 But I almost feel like
01:05:34.020 it's not totally
01:05:34.840 irrelevant, but it's a
01:05:35.740 little bit, it's less
01:05:36.820 relevant than it would
01:05:37.620 have been had I been on
01:05:38.680 a cable news show,
01:05:39.340 that's for sure.
01:05:40.260 Glenn, by the way, had a
01:05:41.740 harrowing story come out
01:05:42.640 this month about being
01:05:43.840 robbed down in Brazil
01:05:45.340 and being held at
01:05:46.520 gunpoint.
01:05:47.580 You should Google it and
01:05:48.320 check it out because
01:05:48.920 this guy's been through a
01:05:50.100 lot.
01:05:50.760 He's one of the good
01:05:51.340 ones.
01:05:52.040 And he's in the same
01:05:52.760 fight we're fighting,
01:05:53.600 fighting for the right of
01:05:54.280 all Americans to think
01:05:55.580 for themselves and to be
01:05:57.040 able to discuss
01:05:57.800 controversial issues
01:05:59.260 openly and freely.
01:06:01.880 This has been From the
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01:06:05.280 after this.
01:06:11.440 Now the video's in
01:06:12.540 question.
01:06:13.160 Are we seeing what we
01:06:14.040 think we're seeing?
01:06:14.800 I thought I was seeing
01:06:15.600 Derek Chauvin looking
01:06:16.440 really relaxed and sort of
01:06:17.660 like he was enjoying it
01:06:18.620 with his hand in his
01:06:19.320 pocket.
01:06:19.840 Turns out he didn't have
01:06:20.540 his hand in his pocket
01:06:21.220 and that was misleading.
01:06:22.040 I thought I was seeing
01:06:22.900 a knee on the neck.
01:06:23.940 The defense is now
01:06:24.680 making the case that the
01:06:25.540 knee was between the 0.92
01:06:26.200 shoulder blades and
01:06:27.200 putting on another camera
01:06:28.660 angle from an officer's
01:06:30.380 body cam showing that.
01:06:31.600 And this this was actually
01:06:32.800 a big moment this week
01:06:33.540 where they had the chief
01:06:34.200 of police.
01:06:34.600 This is bad, bad, bad for
01:06:35.760 Derek Chauvin.
01:06:36.480 Chief of police takes the
01:06:38.020 stand and testify, breaks
01:06:39.320 the blue wall and
01:06:40.560 testifies against Derek
01:06:41.480 Chauvin that this is he was
01:06:42.800 out of line.
01:06:43.720 This is not consistent with
01:06:44.620 policy.
01:06:45.100 And I and I don't support
01:06:47.340 what he did.
01:06:47.900 But then the cross was
01:06:49.420 interesting, too.
01:06:49.940 So we have both the
01:06:51.100 prosecution soundbite and a
01:06:52.300 good defense soundbite.
01:06:53.660 Take a listen to both.
01:06:54.300 As you reflect on exhibit
01:06:56.120 17, I must ask you, is
01:06:58.680 this a trained Minneapolis
01:07:00.280 Police Department
01:07:01.440 defensive tactics technique?
01:07:03.940 It is not.
01:07:06.160 Well, we read the
01:07:07.460 departmental policy on neck
01:07:10.080 restraints.
01:07:10.900 Is this a neck restraint?
01:07:13.900 The conscious neck
01:07:15.140 restraint by policy mentions
01:07:17.580 light to moderate pressure.
01:07:18.980 When I look at exhibit 17, and
01:07:23.920 when I look at the facial
01:07:28.140 expression of Mr. Floyd, that
01:07:31.800 does not appear in any way,
01:07:33.780 shape, or form that that is
01:07:34.920 light to moderate pressure.
01:07:37.480 So is it your belief, then,
01:07:39.360 that this particular form of
01:07:42.640 restraint, if that's what you
01:07:44.300 if that's what we'll call it,
01:07:46.420 in fact, violates
01:07:48.060 departmental policy?
01:07:49.080 I absolutely agree that
01:07:50.360 violates our policy.
01:07:52.700 You would agree, Chief, that
01:07:54.840 from the perspective of Miss
01:07:57.160 Frazier's camera, it appears
01:08:00.880 that Officer Chauvin's knee is on
01:08:03.120 the neck of Mr. Floyd?
01:08:06.740 Yes, sir.
01:08:09.360 Would you agree that from the
01:08:11.220 perspective of Officer King's
01:08:13.700 body camera, it appears that
01:08:15.760 Officer Chauvin's knee was more on
01:08:17.560 Mr. Floyd's shoulder blade?
01:08:21.800 Um, yes.
01:08:24.600 First of all, can I ask you, he
01:08:26.460 says, I don't think it was light
01:08:28.100 to moderate pressure because of
01:08:29.240 the facial expression of George
01:08:30.720 Floyd.
01:08:31.200 Like, how are we treating the
01:08:33.340 police chief as an expert on
01:08:34.700 that?
01:08:35.020 Like, I just to me, I was
01:08:36.580 thrown by it because it's like,
01:08:37.700 well, the facial expression of
01:08:39.380 like you're not here as some
01:08:40.620 facial analysis expert.
01:08:42.620 And number two, um, George Floyd,
01:08:46.200 I mean, the defense is easily
01:08:47.380 going to be able to argue George
01:08:48.840 Floyd's face looked like that
01:08:49.920 because he was high as a kite and
01:08:51.800 he was dying.
01:08:52.780 He was dying of a drug overdose.
01:08:54.760 Well, I mean, there's, there's an
01:08:56.160 element of common sense that comes
01:08:57.720 into this and the police chief is
01:08:59.520 allowed to testify that, you know,
01:09:01.540 someone's face, what did it appear to
01:09:02.780 be to you, appeared to be somebody
01:09:03.980 in pain, but you know, you, you
01:09:06.100 talked about the blue wall, you
01:09:08.000 know, coming down.
01:09:08.980 I mean, you asked earlier about
01:09:11.860 watching prosecutors and their
01:09:14.060 medical examiners go against each
01:09:15.880 other.
01:09:16.460 I mean, I've never been involved in
01:09:17.920 any kind of a case where, uh, you
01:09:20.920 know, a police lieutenant or higher
01:09:23.780 here, it's the chief, uh, you know,
01:09:26.260 is coming down after his own guy.
01:09:27.840 I know there is a CYA factor here.
01:09:29.880 Right.
01:09:30.160 So, I mean, he can't come out.
01:09:31.800 So chief of police can't go and say,
01:09:34.040 oh yeah, he did exactly what we
01:09:35.260 taught him to do.
01:09:35.880 And it happened to kill somebody.
01:09:37.280 So what, I mean, but he fires the
01:09:40.100 guy the next day and it's not just
01:09:42.000 the chief of police, Megan, it's,
01:09:43.520 you know, the, the person who's in
01:09:45.180 charge of training.
01:09:46.460 Um, and then there was someone who's
01:09:47.720 in charge of, of rendering,
01:09:49.060 teaching the officers how to render
01:09:51.360 aid.
01:09:51.720 And she testified, they go above and
01:09:53.440 beyond and teach them more than they
01:09:54.780 need to.
01:09:55.240 And they testified.
01:09:56.380 He did two things wrong.
01:09:57.640 He used excessive force first
01:09:59.960 violation of the police, but then
01:10:01.760 he didn't render aid that, which is
01:10:03.840 they, what they are taught to do.
01:10:05.540 So even though he's not charged with
01:10:07.400 not rendering aid, you know, there's
01:10:09.400 no way to spin this, that this was a
01:10:11.200 good day or good days for the
01:10:13.500 defendant.
01:10:14.580 Well, but not, but, but Mark, not,
01:10:16.200 not rendering aid.
01:10:17.560 He is charged with that in a way, because
01:10:19.460 if he's not rendering aid, doesn't it, I
01:10:22.560 mean, it could potentially convert those
01:10:24.220 last four minutes of what might've been
01:10:26.640 appropriate force into excessive force.
01:10:29.400 When the guy is now limp, he appears to
01:10:31.600 be dying.
01:10:32.380 And that's where the crowds shouts are
01:10:34.860 relevant, right?
01:10:35.640 You have all these witnesses.
01:10:36.680 I realized, you know, a police officer has
01:10:38.520 to discount what's being shouted at him by
01:10:40.200 the crowd, but they're all, they're
01:10:42.160 yelling.
01:10:42.660 He's dying.
01:10:43.460 He's dying.
01:10:44.120 Take his pulse, take his pulse. 0.64
01:10:45.080 And he doesn't.
01:10:45.740 And he won't like that.
01:10:47.960 That that's where you get, you do get
01:10:49.420 into a very strong manslaughter case.
01:10:52.000 Correct.
01:10:52.240 And it goes to his state of mind.
01:10:54.480 Listen, I think Arthur said it best last
01:10:57.660 time when, and I agreed with him, stay the
01:11:01.240 hell away from the officer's actions, which
01:11:04.240 I don't think any reasonable expert would
01:11:07.200 say would be consistent with policy.
01:11:09.680 I mean, you can use some force initially
01:11:12.180 when he's kicking, but then the
01:11:14.000 police force has to be adjusted to fit what
01:11:17.560 the suspect is doing.
01:11:19.160 And he went overboard, hammer the science,
01:11:22.600 stay away from the officer's actions and
01:11:24.760 just go with what was the cause?
01:11:27.340 What was the substantial cause?
01:11:29.120 But I don't think there's going to be
01:11:30.420 dispute amongst reasonable, uh, former
01:11:33.380 law enforcement or current law enforcement.
01:11:35.600 His conduct just went overboard.
01:11:37.220 And they use the word, Arthur, let me
01:11:40.240 ask you this, Arthur, because you can
01:11:41.100 say the jury is totally free to say this
01:11:43.480 cop was out of line.
01:11:44.260 This cop violated policy.
01:11:45.380 This cop deserved to be fired, but I'm not
01:11:47.200 ready to find him guilty of a crime.
01:11:48.640 Well, they, they can do that.
01:11:51.020 I mean, that would be almost leaning towards
01:11:53.260 a jury nullification type of thing.
01:11:55.420 But I think that, you know, I know there
01:11:58.260 was a lot written about there were too
01:12:00.160 many police officers who testified.
01:12:01.820 There were too many experts.
01:12:02.920 And they said, I read somewhere, oh, jurors
01:12:05.500 were falling asleep.
01:12:06.820 Well, let me tell you something as a
01:12:07.860 prosecutor, Megan, when I was an intern,
01:12:10.440 before I was even a lawyer, I interned in
01:12:12.280 the Manhattan DA's office and a storied
01:12:14.640 prosecutor there who's still there after 50
01:12:17.320 some odd years, Warren Murray.
01:12:19.100 He taught us a sleeping juror is a convicting
01:12:22.400 juror.
01:12:23.460 And I think they just hammered home, you
01:12:25.900 know, maybe a little over the top, but it's
01:12:27.440 a big, big point for the prosecutor that his
01:12:30.280 fellow officers all agree that what he, and
01:12:33.960 the judge, I don't know how he allowed
01:12:35.840 this, but he, the police chief said, I
01:12:38.700 thought I found it was murder.
01:12:40.560 And that's why I fired him.
01:12:42.620 I would say objection, your honor.
01:12:43.700 That's up to the jury, whether it was
01:12:45.100 murder or not.
01:12:45.560 He's not allowed to give his opinion on
01:12:47.280 whether it's murder or not, but that came
01:12:48.840 out.
01:12:49.120 So you have the chief law enforcement
01:12:50.640 officer saying my guy murdered someone.
01:12:53.400 Wait, Megan, are we really going to let
01:12:54.700 Arthur go with that theory that a sleeping
01:12:57.320 juror is a convicting juror?
01:12:59.000 Sleeping juror is a tired juror.
01:13:00.280 I don't know what the hell kind of
01:13:01.920 that's ridiculous.
01:13:04.180 I don't know.
01:13:04.620 I would, I would think if I were sitting
01:13:05.840 there and I have served as a juror
01:13:07.220 before, um, uh, you have a man's life
01:13:09.900 in your hands.
01:13:10.740 You would feel the obligation to stay
01:13:12.380 awake if you were leaning toward putting
01:13:13.980 him behind bars.
01:13:15.320 Megan, you're tired.
01:13:16.600 The testimony can be very boring.
01:13:18.480 You're sitting there all day, low blood
01:13:20.880 sugar, high blood.
01:13:22.280 People fall asleep.
01:13:23.600 I do it after lunch.
01:13:24.720 My law school, I fell asleep half the
01:13:26.420 time.
01:13:26.840 It doesn't mean they're, they're, they're
01:13:28.460 leaning towards.
01:13:29.060 All I can tell you, Mark, is the
01:13:30.040 Manhattan DA's office had a 90% conviction
01:13:32.060 rate.
01:13:32.460 So he must've been onto something.
01:13:35.020 Hmm.
01:13:35.680 Well, listen, I do.
01:13:37.080 I talked about this with Dershowitz a
01:13:38.640 little bit, but I'm, I'm interested in
01:13:39.740 your take because they've let in so much
01:13:41.180 emotional testimony that I don't think
01:13:42.500 belongs in a trial.
01:13:43.260 I really think like they had the one woman,
01:13:45.680 um, Daniela Frazier, who took the videotape
01:13:47.900 we've all seen, you know, talking about
01:13:49.600 how I, when I watch this, what goes on in
01:13:51.680 my mind?
01:13:52.140 Oh, how it could have been my brother
01:13:53.360 and my dad, because they're black.
01:13:55.160 What?
01:13:55.980 Like, you're so correct, Megan.
01:13:57.580 You're so my mom, you guys know my
01:13:59.960 family.
01:14:00.220 My dad's a criminal censor for everything
01:14:01.920 for 50 some odd years.
01:14:03.720 My mom said, my dad's been screaming at
01:14:06.460 the screen with all of this objection,
01:14:08.840 objection, objection.
01:14:10.640 Yes.
01:14:11.160 They're allowed to come in and it's eight
01:14:12.760 and it's for the benefit of the
01:14:14.400 prosecutor.
01:14:15.420 Well, listen to this one, Mark.
01:14:16.700 Listen to this one.
01:14:17.200 So they had the store clerk, Christopher
01:14:18.600 Martin, testify.
01:14:20.260 Um, this is the guy who took the $20
01:14:21.820 bill from Floyd.
01:14:23.200 And as we mentioned, he talked about how
01:14:25.300 he seemed happy in the, in the store
01:14:27.140 and fine, but, but high.
01:14:29.460 And the, they cue it up.
01:14:31.460 Like you were, we see you on the video
01:14:33.160 after the fact, like really pacing around
01:14:34.840 and pacing around.
01:14:35.500 And they try to have like a little
01:14:36.680 emotional therapy session.
01:14:37.900 And you tell me whether this is
01:14:38.900 appropriate.
01:14:39.460 Listen, we saw you standing there with
01:14:40.820 your hands on your head for a while.
01:14:42.160 Correct.
01:14:42.840 Correct.
01:14:43.580 What was going through your mind during
01:14:45.020 that time period?
01:14:46.060 Uh, disbelief and guilt.
01:14:49.840 Why guilt?
01:14:51.040 Um, if I would have just not taken the
01:14:54.100 bill, this could have been avoided.
01:14:56.640 All right.
01:14:57.180 If I would have not taken the bill,
01:14:58.280 this could have been avoided.
01:14:59.640 Objection.
01:15:00.120 Move to strike.
01:15:00.880 No foundation.
01:15:01.760 You don't know that.
01:15:02.480 That's up to the jury.
01:15:03.520 This could have happened immediately
01:15:04.900 because George Floyd had a lot of
01:15:06.320 drugs in him.
01:15:06.760 And by the way, what do I care?
01:15:08.900 What was going through the store
01:15:09.900 clerk's mind while he was pacing around
01:15:11.940 outside of the seat?
01:15:12.780 How is that relevant to anything?
01:15:14.800 Add that to the list of things that
01:15:16.380 happen in trial that just come out.
01:15:18.160 And then you might realize, oh, my God,
01:15:19.700 that shouldn't come out.
01:15:21.000 But it came out.
01:15:22.080 What am I going to highlight it?
01:15:23.360 You know, maybe the juror was sleeping.
01:15:24.940 I don't need to object and wake him up
01:15:26.300 and let him hear it.
01:15:27.020 So, you know, you just let those things
01:15:28.780 go.
01:15:29.160 And it has very little weight, really,
01:15:31.380 in the trial.
01:15:32.260 So you don't make a thing about it.
01:15:33.160 What did you what did you think about
01:15:34.400 all the crying jurors, not jurors,
01:15:36.620 all the crying witnesses that the crowd,
01:15:40.060 you know, they let him take a stand
01:15:40.900 one by one and talk about how
01:15:42.220 witnessing this has affected their lives.
01:15:45.100 How is that even remotely relevant?
01:15:48.660 It's just an emotional play that I think
01:15:50.700 is so obviously too prejudicial to come in.
01:15:53.480 But this judge, I think he's worried
01:15:55.700 about being reversed or pilloried by,
01:15:59.600 you know, cable news pundits.
01:16:01.240 I don't know.
01:16:01.500 He's letting in a lot.
01:16:02.780 And in his defense, the defense is not
01:16:05.180 objecting to all of it.
01:16:06.060 Some of it.
01:16:06.440 Yes, that I don't think you should let in.
01:16:09.160 But that's it.
01:16:09.700 Hold on one second.
01:16:10.440 I was about to ask you, well, wait,
01:16:12.000 did the defense object to that?
01:16:13.160 I would have.
01:16:13.760 But if the judge is letting it in,
01:16:15.980 he doesn't sue a sponte on his own,
01:16:17.680 say, wait, stop one second.
01:16:19.700 Do not.
01:16:20.640 I'll be the reason why both sides
01:16:22.160 are letting it in.
01:16:22.840 So it's not on him.
01:16:23.860 I put that on the defense attorney.
01:16:25.340 In fact, I would have moved in limonade
01:16:27.100 before the trial began.
01:16:28.920 Their personal feelings about how
01:16:30.760 this affected them belongs in some
01:16:32.620 personal injury trial, not in this trial.
01:16:35.220 And Megan, if you if you go ahead,
01:16:36.780 Arthur, Megan, you brought up the fact
01:16:38.260 that one of the witnesses said,
01:16:40.740 oh, when I was looking at George Floyd,
01:16:42.460 it could have been my what I forget,
01:16:44.440 my father, my brother, you know,
01:16:46.560 that to some degree, if you are
01:16:48.300 if you're a defense attorney
01:16:49.320 with a decent set of cojones could say,
01:16:52.720 really?
01:16:53.360 So that reminded of your father
01:16:54.880 and your and your brother.
01:16:56.320 Did your father serve 20,
01:16:57.860 20 months in jail?
01:16:59.440 Did your father ever take a gun
01:17:00.640 and put his stomach?
01:17:02.660 Listen, you have the defense attorney
01:17:05.220 under this desperate situation.
01:17:06.800 You do everything you can to make sure
01:17:10.000 you talked about in the beginning
01:17:11.100 of this podcast about humanizing him.
01:17:14.420 That's what you want to do as a prosecutor.
01:17:16.260 As a defense attorney,
01:17:17.500 you want to net the ladies and gentlemen
01:17:19.400 of Jerry, you know, who George Floyd,
01:17:21.520 his whole background, the whole story.
01:17:24.180 And sometimes you got to use
01:17:25.400 a little some some tactics.
01:17:27.180 I don't like that.
01:17:28.480 You lost me.
01:17:30.560 I don't like that one.
01:17:31.680 I disagree.
01:17:32.060 Listen, you guys practice differently
01:17:33.780 in Florida and New York.
01:17:34.880 We take the gloves off, my man.
01:17:37.540 Yeah, we're real gentle here.
01:17:39.280 We're so gentle in Miami.
01:17:40.820 We hold the witnesses faces.
01:17:42.420 Yeah.
01:17:43.280 Florida is known for its
01:17:44.240 totally normal behavior.
01:17:46.680 Megan, you're right.
01:17:47.660 None of that stuff should have come in.
01:17:49.300 And, you know, Mark,
01:17:50.280 I'm sure you have appeared
01:17:51.400 in front of judges who do
01:17:52.980 sue a sponte, just say sustained
01:17:55.500 without anyone saying an objection
01:17:57.520 when something's coming out
01:17:58.940 that is so obviously
01:18:00.080 against the rules of evidence
01:18:01.560 and one side of the other is sleeping.
01:18:03.820 I can tell you,
01:18:04.400 Judge Neil Fiertag
01:18:05.520 in Brooklyn, New York, Supreme Court
01:18:07.180 used to do it all the time.
01:18:08.600 Sustained.
01:18:09.320 I'm like, judge, no one objected.
01:18:10.460 I know, but I'm not letting
01:18:11.480 evidence that's not admissible
01:18:13.320 in my courtroom.
01:18:15.060 Yes, I'd love to hear more of that
01:18:17.140 because I realize
01:18:18.320 these are sympathetic people.
01:18:19.920 They watch something
01:18:20.580 that they didn't want to watch.
01:18:21.960 They have, you know, real guilt.
01:18:23.500 I believe that about not doing more.
01:18:25.380 But all of it is irrelevant.
01:18:27.160 They're not medical experts.
01:18:28.480 They didn't have the full picture.
01:18:30.320 They had one vantage point.
01:18:31.860 As it turns out,
01:18:32.420 there were many other vantage points
01:18:33.500 that are super relevant
01:18:34.300 and better positioned to see
01:18:35.640 and tell us what the truth was.
01:18:37.340 I think the defense
01:18:38.600 had a very good case.
01:18:39.980 None of these people
01:18:40.500 should come in.
01:18:41.380 None of them should.
01:18:42.360 I don't we don't need
01:18:43.220 to hear from anybody
01:18:44.020 except those who want
01:18:44.800 to lay the foundation
01:18:45.540 for the videotapes they took.
01:18:47.440 But I certainly don't need
01:18:48.320 to hear about how it's affected
01:18:49.240 the lives of the witnesses.
01:18:50.740 You could take anybody on TV,
01:18:52.100 anybody who's watched
01:18:52.680 the tape on TV
01:18:53.380 and have them talk about that.
01:18:54.820 It isn't relevant.
01:18:55.900 It's just prejudicial
01:18:56.820 to Derek Chauvin.
01:18:57.880 We don't disagree with you.
01:18:59.600 Their personal feelings
01:19:00.660 are irrelevant,
01:19:01.240 but they certainly have
01:19:02.100 every right to be heard.
01:19:04.900 They're not only
01:19:05.940 shooting the video,
01:19:07.740 but they're seeing it
01:19:08.400 with their own eyes
01:19:09.220 or looking around.
01:19:10.240 They're seeing other things
01:19:11.100 that are not captured
01:19:11.820 on the video.
01:19:12.860 So they have every right
01:19:13.660 to testify.
01:19:14.700 But as a defense attorney,
01:19:16.140 my job is to limit the scope
01:19:18.120 prior to them getting
01:19:19.200 on the witness stand
01:19:19.960 so I don't look like
01:19:20.840 I'm hiding anything
01:19:21.560 in front of the jury.
01:19:22.520 When in doubt,
01:19:23.300 I'd probably just let it come in
01:19:24.860 because, again,
01:19:26.480 I'm pounding the science.
01:19:28.340 And so, again,
01:19:30.140 I'm trying to keep it out.
01:19:31.620 But if I don't do it beforehand,
01:19:33.680 which I would or I try,
01:19:35.160 and it comes out,
01:19:36.520 I don't want to look like
01:19:37.400 I'm hiding anything
01:19:38.040 in front of the jury.
01:19:38.720 So I probably just let it go,
01:19:40.320 especially because
01:19:41.220 the key to this case
01:19:42.840 doesn't hinge upon
01:19:43.680 what flows from their lips.
01:19:44.760 It hinges upon the science.
01:19:46.460 And that's what I'm pounding.
01:19:47.420 But, Megan, to your point,
01:19:48.520 as soon as to your point,
01:19:49.960 I mean, Mark's correct.
01:19:50.820 A hundred percent.
01:19:51.420 They could testify.
01:19:52.240 They're eyewitnesses to the crime.
01:19:53.660 But as soon as the prosecutor says,
01:19:55.600 and how did that make you feel?
01:19:58.000 Objection, Your Honor.
01:19:59.040 Right.
01:19:59.620 This isn't an episode of Oprah.
01:20:01.460 Right.
01:20:01.820 Exactly.
01:20:03.440 Again, Mark's a hundred percent correct.
01:20:04.960 They're allowed to say,
01:20:05.720 I saw Chauvin do this.
01:20:06.900 I saw him do that.
01:20:07.640 I saw George Floyd do this.
01:20:08.980 But then you don't get into,
01:20:10.280 and how did that make you feel?
01:20:11.560 Well, hold on.
01:20:12.140 I think maybe they could
01:20:13.320 because then based upon
01:20:15.180 how they felt,
01:20:16.040 they then took,
01:20:17.220 you know,
01:20:17.880 the next action, right?
01:20:19.620 So I don't think it's as clear cut
01:20:21.260 as you guys are saying.
01:20:22.180 So how did it make you feel?
01:20:23.120 Well, I was angry.
01:20:24.280 Really?
01:20:24.440 And then what'd you do as a result?
01:20:25.680 I yelled at the officer. 0.52
01:20:27.080 Really?
01:20:27.380 So I think it might all go into that.
01:20:29.860 And so it might come into play.
01:20:32.320 Okay.
01:20:32.780 So where do you guys stand now
01:20:34.580 on whether if you were representing Derek Chauvin,
01:20:37.220 you would call him to testify?
01:20:38.900 Mark?
01:20:39.840 Not a chance in hell.
01:20:41.940 I mean,
01:20:42.140 I still don't know.
01:20:43.800 Again,
01:20:44.320 a slim chance
01:20:45.800 because,
01:20:46.840 you know,
01:20:47.100 you want to keep that open.
01:20:48.560 But he looks best
01:20:50.000 sitting there with his mouth shut
01:20:51.540 like most of the clients
01:20:52.640 that I represent,
01:20:53.480 even the ones who look great.
01:20:55.300 And,
01:20:55.680 you know,
01:20:56.120 they all look better
01:20:57.380 sitting there,
01:20:58.800 me humanizing them
01:20:59.860 by touching them
01:21:00.740 and bringing things
01:21:02.540 out throughout the trial
01:21:04.180 that bring in his personal life.
01:21:06.100 But the minute he opens his mouth,
01:21:08.760 there's way too many things
01:21:10.300 that he cannot explain
01:21:11.700 to satisfy Megan's curiosity.
01:21:14.640 It's not going to happen, Megan.
01:21:16.300 So you keep him quiet
01:21:17.560 and this is about science.
01:21:19.520 That's it.
01:21:19.900 It also, Megan,
01:21:20.880 it also has
01:21:21.860 the effect of shifting the burden.
01:21:26.140 All of a sudden now,
01:21:27.800 it goes from
01:21:28.500 the prosecutor's got to prove their case
01:21:30.020 beyond a reasonable doubt.
01:21:31.200 And even though that's the law,
01:21:33.640 once you put your guy up there,
01:21:35.160 it almost becomes a he said,
01:21:36.720 she said,
01:21:37.200 all right,
01:21:37.420 now who do I believe more?
01:21:39.100 Even though the judge
01:21:40.140 will tell them
01:21:40.640 in his final jury instructions
01:21:43.140 to them
01:21:43.520 that that's not the case,
01:21:44.580 that ultimately
01:21:45.740 winds up happening.
01:21:47.640 How flip side of the coin
01:21:49.060 is there's been cases
01:21:51.380 where I haven't put the guy on
01:21:53.000 and I didn't get the result
01:21:54.260 that I wanted.
01:21:54.900 And the jury said,
01:21:55.700 we needed to hear from your guy.
01:21:57.620 We needed to hear.
01:21:59.320 Now, what I knew
01:22:00.240 what they didn't know
01:22:00.880 is if he went up there
01:22:01.900 and said,
01:22:02.300 what do you really do?
01:22:03.740 He would definitely do 25 to life.
01:22:06.200 It would not have helped him.
01:22:08.080 Here's the question, Megan,
01:22:09.100 to help you with this decision.
01:22:11.320 If the defense theory,
01:22:12.960 which you've established,
01:22:14.260 is that the kneeling
01:22:15.720 was not the substantial cause,
01:22:17.540 so we're talking about science
01:22:18.840 and this is all about
01:22:19.560 your experts
01:22:20.400 versus their experts,
01:22:21.800 right?
01:22:22.760 What value then
01:22:25.220 on that issue
01:22:27.760 does your client
01:22:29.320 have to bring to these jurors?
01:22:31.440 I say that rhetorically.
01:22:32.700 The answer is nothing.
01:22:33.900 He doesn't know.
01:22:34.460 Well, wait,
01:22:34.740 but let me ask you,
01:22:35.920 let me ask you,
01:22:36.400 because to prove
01:22:38.420 the assault
01:22:39.240 that led to the death,
01:22:41.140 which is,
01:22:41.700 you know,
01:22:41.960 that's part of murder too,
01:22:43.740 right?
01:22:44.000 It's felony murder,
01:22:44.900 basically.
01:22:45.280 It's what he's charged with
01:22:45.900 and the felony is assault.
01:22:47.500 You've got to prove intent
01:22:48.460 that he intended to harm.
01:22:50.640 Now, again,
01:22:51.200 it's weird when you have it,
01:22:52.480 when it's a cop
01:22:53.220 effecting an arrest,
01:22:54.260 there are different considerations
01:22:56.060 and different language
01:22:57.400 will go into the jury instructions
01:22:58.580 because it's not like
01:22:59.400 he just saw George Floyd
01:23:00.800 and started hurting him.
01:23:02.280 He was there for a reason
01:23:03.180 and in effecting an arrest,
01:23:04.420 you're allowed to basically
01:23:05.540 assault somebody,
01:23:06.160 put your hands on them
01:23:06.900 in a way they don't like.
01:23:09.020 So anyway,
01:23:09.300 it gets complicated,
01:23:10.260 but intention appears,
01:23:12.260 at least on paper,
01:23:12.860 to be an element of the crime
01:23:13.880 and that's why he'd put him on.
01:23:16.160 Megan,
01:23:16.760 what can he tell you
01:23:18.740 to get you
01:23:20.600 to feel differently
01:23:21.760 than his own chief
01:23:22.760 and the other experts
01:23:23.740 who say that this was excessive force?
01:23:25.600 And I say that rhetorically.
01:23:27.100 I know that's a great question.
01:23:28.640 There's nothing he can say
01:23:30.420 that's going to get you
01:23:31.300 to change your opinion.
01:23:32.620 Nothing.
01:23:33.880 Megan,
01:23:34.220 if I can just interrupt
01:23:35.320 breaking news,
01:23:36.920 a medical expert testified
01:23:38.260 that George Floyd,
01:23:39.660 quote,
01:23:39.900 died from a low level of oxygen,
01:23:42.660 rebutting defense arguments
01:23:44.100 that drugs contributed to his death.
01:23:47.960 So that's what they're going to say.
01:23:49.700 They're going to say
01:23:50.280 the defense all along
01:23:51.380 and they,
01:23:51.680 I mean,
01:23:51.860 sorry,
01:23:52.120 the prosecution
01:23:52.600 and they've said in their opening
01:23:53.620 that he died of asphyxia,
01:23:55.880 which is basically lack of oxygen.
01:23:57.540 So this is the witness
01:23:58.580 that's basically
01:23:59.360 going against the medical examiner.
01:24:01.380 Yeah.
01:24:01.680 And there's going to be more.
01:24:02.700 They have a bunch of medical.
01:24:03.820 I mean,
01:24:03.980 Dr. Bodden was one of the people
01:24:05.120 that the defense
01:24:05.940 that George Floyd's family
01:24:06.840 had come out there
01:24:07.540 and, you know,
01:24:07.940 he did his thing
01:24:08.600 and he's ready to testify
01:24:09.600 for the prosecution too.
01:24:12.500 But yeah,
01:24:13.020 they're going to have
01:24:13.460 no shortage of medical testimony
01:24:14.760 disagreeing
01:24:15.820 with the medical examiner,
01:24:17.100 Dr. Baker.
01:24:17.660 But Dr. Baker's the only one
01:24:18.760 who actually laid hands
01:24:19.820 on George Floyd's body,
01:24:21.260 who actually physically examined him,
01:24:22.520 who said
01:24:22.880 there was no bruising on the neck,
01:24:24.400 not even in the under layers,
01:24:25.780 like when he dissected the neck.
01:24:27.660 Did he see any trauma to it?
01:24:29.620 And in fact,
01:24:31.040 what he saw
01:24:31.620 was a guy who died
01:24:32.440 of a heart attack.
01:24:33.160 So he's got,
01:24:34.400 he's definitely got
01:24:34.980 a greater level
01:24:35.680 of credibility coming in.
01:24:37.560 We'll see how he sounds
01:24:38.840 when he's on the stand,
01:24:39.720 right?
01:24:39.980 But I'm not surprised
01:24:41.540 because that's the prosecution
01:24:42.540 said an opening is
01:24:43.280 we're going to prove
01:24:43.800 he died of asphyxia.
01:24:44.740 That's what they need to prove.
01:24:45.760 And the defense said,
01:24:46.700 no, it's a heart attack.
01:24:47.680 And if the prosecution's smart,
01:24:49.220 they'll put on somebody
01:24:49.780 who says not only did,
01:24:50.740 yes, asphyxia,
01:24:51.840 but if it wasn't asphyxia
01:24:53.020 and it really was a heart attack,
01:24:54.580 it was a heart attack
01:24:55.500 caused by,
01:24:56.260 by George,
01:24:57.640 by Derek Chauvin.
01:24:58.900 You know,
01:24:59.040 like what he was doing to him,
01:25:01.220 at least forcing
01:25:02.260 like a difficulty breathing,
01:25:03.900 if not cutting it off,
01:25:05.420 could lead to a heart attack.
01:25:07.320 Right.
01:25:07.540 There's a lot of ways
01:25:08.180 to skin the cat,
01:25:09.080 so to speak.
01:25:10.380 There's a lot of arguments
01:25:11.440 they can make.
01:25:12.280 So what do you think now?
01:25:13.480 Like before,
01:25:14.220 prosecution hasn't rested.
01:25:16.040 How do you place the odds
01:25:17.360 of a conviction
01:25:18.840 on anything, Arthur?
01:25:20.160 Oh, I think,
01:25:20.800 I don't think,
01:25:22.340 I don't see any scenario
01:25:23.740 where Derek Chauvin,
01:25:24.940 you know,
01:25:25.180 walks out of that courtroom.
01:25:27.180 It's just the issue.
01:25:28.480 And these are weird laws,
01:25:29.660 as you were describing,
01:25:30.820 you know,
01:25:31.000 the felony murder,
01:25:32.700 which is the top count,
01:25:33.560 which you know
01:25:34.380 the prosecutor wants
01:25:35.360 that really badly.
01:25:36.660 I think their argument
01:25:37.900 is going to be
01:25:38.640 in closing arguments,
01:25:39.720 and look,
01:25:39.980 we still have a couple
01:25:40.680 of weeks to go,
01:25:41.360 but the prosecutor
01:25:41.960 is going to say,
01:25:43.540 according to the police chief
01:25:45.520 and all the other
01:25:46.160 police experts,
01:25:47.400 after he subdued
01:25:48.780 those other four minutes
01:25:50.120 where he's lying there
01:25:50.940 motionless
01:25:51.460 with his knee to his neck,
01:25:52.580 that is an assault.
01:25:54.100 At that point,
01:25:54.780 he doesn't need
01:25:55.380 to be doing that.
01:25:56.300 He's using excessive force,
01:25:57.960 and we're telling you
01:25:58.880 that that's an assault.
01:26:00.160 And if while he's
01:26:00.960 assaulting him,
01:26:01.820 it causes his death,
01:26:03.000 you have to find him
01:26:04.260 guilty of murder
01:26:05.320 in the second degree.
01:26:07.380 What do you think, Mark?
01:26:08.660 Wouldn't have been said
01:26:09.600 any better.
01:26:10.420 I'll take the other side
01:26:11.520 just because let's try
01:26:12.720 to take the other side.
01:26:14.320 The prosecution,
01:26:16.620 hold on,
01:26:17.300 I'm on the defense side,
01:26:18.380 I'm arguing,
01:26:18.940 okay.
01:26:19.800 Who do I represent?
01:26:21.540 No, but it's also weird
01:26:22.580 because I have to discredit
01:26:23.800 my own,
01:26:24.780 you know,
01:26:25.040 on the defense side,
01:26:26.080 I have to say,
01:26:27.060 you'll see why it's difficult.
01:26:28.700 Here I am,
01:26:29.100 the defense lawyer,
01:26:29.820 saying,
01:26:30.820 the prosecution
01:26:31.660 failed
01:26:33.060 in their attempt
01:26:34.720 to discredit
01:26:36.080 their own witness
01:26:38.340 concerning the cause
01:26:40.060 of death.
01:26:40.940 We have now,
01:26:42.220 we have
01:26:42.960 controverted testimony,
01:26:44.980 but credible testimony
01:26:46.200 from their medical examiner,
01:26:49.200 and they didn't like
01:26:50.260 what he had to say,
01:26:51.400 so they went
01:26:52.180 and found other people.
01:26:53.920 So now you've got
01:26:55.020 some opinions
01:26:56.340 in favor of the defense,
01:26:57.840 some in favor
01:26:58.340 of the prosecution
01:26:59.020 regarding the cause
01:26:59.900 of death.
01:27:00.820 That's reasonable doubt.
01:27:02.740 Yeah.
01:27:03.200 Believe Dr. Baker.
01:27:04.600 I have to tell you,
01:27:05.500 I'm laughing over here
01:27:07.100 picturing you, Mark,
01:27:08.000 touching your clients
01:27:08.720 like Joe Biden
01:27:09.480 with a teenage girl.
01:27:10.960 Like,
01:27:11.240 like the little,
01:27:13.600 you know,
01:27:13.840 the photo booth
01:27:14.600 where you get the four photos
01:27:15.720 of the two of you posing.
01:27:17.160 You'll do whatever it takes
01:27:18.420 to humanize your client.
01:27:20.040 Arthur,
01:27:20.480 you know,
01:27:20.760 Arthur touched Weinstein.
01:27:22.420 You know he did.
01:27:23.280 All the time.
01:27:23.940 Oh,
01:27:24.100 because Weinstein enjoyed it.
01:27:25.480 He's like,
01:27:25.740 this is not how it's done,
01:27:26.840 Arthur.
01:27:27.600 I'm taking the fifth.
01:27:28.400 I'm taking the fifth.
01:27:31.740 All right,
01:27:32.240 guys,
01:27:32.580 to be continued.
01:27:33.280 We'll talk again soon.
01:27:34.460 Thank you so much,
01:27:35.320 Megan.
01:27:39.220 Our thanks to
01:27:40.260 Professor Dershowitz
01:27:41.340 and Arthur Idala
01:27:43.120 and Mark Eiglash.
01:27:45.000 And don't forget
01:27:45.520 to tune into the show
01:27:46.440 on Monday
01:27:47.080 because we are going
01:27:48.320 to have Clay Travis,
01:27:50.380 the founder
01:27:51.080 of Outkick.com.
01:27:52.840 And if you're not
01:27:53.240 getting your sports news
01:27:54.200 and commentary
01:27:55.360 from Outkick.com,
01:27:57.060 the question is why.
01:27:58.380 That's where you need to go.
01:27:59.400 What are you watching
01:27:59.820 ESPN for?
01:28:00.820 That's far left.
01:28:02.020 It's woke.
01:28:03.100 It's been annoying
01:28:04.120 for even me,
01:28:05.160 a non-sports fan,
01:28:06.240 because their crazy
01:28:07.260 woke lectures
01:28:07.960 meander over
01:28:09.120 into the lane of news
01:28:10.080 and I get bombarded
01:28:11.020 by them all too often.
01:28:12.940 Well,
01:28:13.100 Clay felt the same
01:28:13.900 and left
01:28:14.940 and created his own venue.
01:28:16.680 And,
01:28:16.860 you know,
01:28:17.380 our pal Ben Shapiro
01:28:18.360 mentioned something to us
01:28:20.180 about a possible
01:28:21.680 partnership with them.
01:28:22.640 Is that going to happen?
01:28:23.700 Are they going to grow?
01:28:24.400 Are they going to dominate?
01:28:25.120 Are they part of the new lane
01:28:27.020 of communication
01:28:27.720 that we're all trying to create?
01:28:29.220 We'll talk to him about it
01:28:30.340 and I'll ask him about MLB
01:28:31.700 and why he hates Georgia
01:28:33.860 but loves China.
01:28:34.860 That'll be fun.
01:28:35.960 Tiger Woods,
01:28:36.620 did you hear the release
01:28:37.740 of the information
01:28:38.300 on what caused his crash?
01:28:39.780 Why was that kept
01:28:40.700 under the vest
01:28:41.880 for so long?
01:28:43.120 Anyway,
01:28:43.460 Clay's great on everything.
01:28:44.300 He's a lawyer.
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01:28:58.460 The other day,
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01:29:03.840 They tend to be nice
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01:29:06.080 She's seen enough
01:29:06.800 bad things about me.
01:29:07.600 It's nice for her
01:29:08.040 to see some good things.
01:29:09.160 And she gets to one
01:29:09.840 and it's like,
01:29:10.300 Megan,
01:29:10.860 I love your show
01:29:11.600 but sometimes you can be
01:29:12.580 an a-hole. 0.82
01:29:14.420 I don't know.
01:29:17.040 She kind of paused,
01:29:19.000 looked at me.
01:29:20.740 We both laughed.
01:29:21.920 It was a good chance
01:29:22.600 to laugh at myself
01:29:23.380 which is another
01:29:24.380 good thing to model. 0.95
01:29:25.560 Anyway,
01:29:26.420 those thoughts,
01:29:27.120 you can keep those
01:29:28.600 to yourself
01:29:29.000 if you really think about it
01:29:30.660 unless you feel
01:29:31.020 really strongly.
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