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Feds Closing In On Citizen Trump? Top Racketeering Attorney Tapped For Election Probe - YouTube
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legacy of the march in selma is that
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while
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nothing can stop free people from
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exercising their most sacred power as as
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a citizen
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there are those who will do anything
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they can to take that power away
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president biden speaking on the bloody
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sunday anniversary addressing some of
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this
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new sprawling nationwide attack on
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voting rights
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one place we're seeing it is in georgia
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the republican-controlled state senate
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has passed a bill that would roll back
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voting rights provisions include limits
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on absentee voting
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eliminating what's called no excuse
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absentee voting the bill
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has been so dogged by controversy that
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now the number two republican official
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in the state lieutenant governor is
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actually boycotting the session refusing
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to oversee the debate saying he opposes
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all of this
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it's happening in large part for rank
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partisan reasons this is important
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georgia famously went blue in both the
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presidential election and the senate
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runoffs
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and it was georgia that gave democrats
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the majority needed to pass
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the other big thing in america right now
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the covet checks that are on their way
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to your household in the stimulus bill
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georgia is
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also of course ground zero for another
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reason
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it's a place where former president
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trump was caught
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abusing his power trying to get a top
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elections official
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to quote find him votes he didn't get
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i just want to find uh
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eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty
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votes which is one more that we have why
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wouldn't you wanna find the right answer
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brad
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instead of keep saying that the numbers
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are right
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because those numbers are so wrong
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that was not okay that was not normal
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then
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and just sweeping it under the rug risks
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normalizing it
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now it's very important that the country
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keep that in mind donald trump is facing
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a criminal investigation in georgia for
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that call and other things for a reason
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because election interference is still
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illegal now there are new reports that
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one of the country's top
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racketeering prosecutors has been
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enlisted to support that very trump
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probe we're joined by former acting u.s
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solicitor
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general neil kotchal with new heat on
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donald trump in georgia
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and my first question is simple deal
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trump
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georgia racketeering go
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well i mean look i'm glad mr trump has
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finally found his footing
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a defendant in a racketeering case is
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just about the only job
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that's appropriate for him these days
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and what's happened in georgia over the
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last couple days are is that they've
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hired an outside prosecutor
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an expert in racketeering john floyd who
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literally wrote the book
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on prosecuting state racketeering and
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the
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district attorney there ms willis
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already has a
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good deal of experience in prosecuting
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racketeering cases
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it's not surprising that this news is
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coming
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she had said on february 10th in a
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letter that everyone needs to preserve
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their documents
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because of a racketeering investigation
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and so
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that's what's going on right now
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racketeering means that
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there could be some pretty serious
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criminal charges
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if charges are brought let me read from
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some of the reporting neil
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reuter's saying if trump engaged in two
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or more acts that involved these false
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statements
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you could piece together a violation of
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the racketeering act and
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i'm curious what you think given the
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equities here
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uh he is not above the law he's a
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citizen right now but prosecutors talk a
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lot about
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having the goods to get 12 people
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to a guilty verdict do you think that
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that normal standard
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is best to apply here or do you think
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under the rule of law
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if the evidence is strong enough but
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there is real world hesitance in a
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political polarized environment about
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what a jury would do
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should a prosecutor lean towards
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following the evidence or following
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the jury issues which i think even you
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would acknowledge may be real in any
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state particularly
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uh some states are you gotta follow the
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evidence
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every time nobody can be above the law
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you can't have a separate standard of
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justice for some people
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were just too difficult to prosecute or
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something like that
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and racketeering is often really about
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violent crimes like murder or kidnapping
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but georgia defines it more broadly to
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include
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false statements made to state officials
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and here
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trump does have a defense what he's
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going to say is hey i wasn't falsifying
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information
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i genuinely believed that i had won the
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election
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now ordinarily that kind of defense
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wouldn't pass the smell test
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but when you're dealing with delusion of
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grandeur donald
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uh you know maybe he's got a defense
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there and that's what floyd and
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willis are going to find out and notably
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the investigation here is not just about
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trump it's also about lindsey graham
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rudy giuliani the former u.s attorney
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uh mr pyongpak and some others any of
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those folks can flip on trump and i
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heard you
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in the last segment talking about
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lindsey graham you know why is he so
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palling around
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with donald trump well one shouldn't
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rule out the fact that he might be
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the possibility that he might be palling
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around with donald trump because he's
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hoping trump will let something slip
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that lindsey graham can use in exchange
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for a deal
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all very interesting uh and it's so
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important uh to stay on these cases
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given
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what already went down in in the public
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realm i want to thank neal kotchal
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you can always go to msnbc.com opening
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arguments for neil's breakdowns
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thank you thank you thank you thank you
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very much thank all of you out there
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thank you as always
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thanks to at home thanks for watching
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thank you so much for letting us into
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your homes during these extraordinary
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times
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