00:00 Thank you. Pam Bondi. Prior to being Attorney General of Florida, I was a career prosecutor for 18 years.
00:07 I've prosecuted hundreds of jury trials in a courtroom very similar to the one today.
00:12 Yet I've never seen anything like this. A judge is supposed to be a neutral arbiter of facts.
00:17 First of all, this case was declined by many years from the Southern District of New York,
00:22 by the Department of Justice, by multiple jurisdictions.
00:25 Yet they bring it on the heels of a presidential election with a convicted felon, a convicted liar,
00:32 Michael Cohen, who admitted in court yesterday to being a thief.
00:36 They need to prosecute Michael Cohen now for stealing from the Trump Organization.
00:40 I've truly never seen anything like this. That judge was sustaining the prosecution's objections,
00:46 meaning agreeing with them before they could barely get the objection out of their mouth.
00:50 Listen, all the rights here -- I'm a prosecutor, former prosecutor.
00:53 Yet all the rights here go to the defendant because it's his liberty at stake,
00:58 and that has not been happening in this courtroom.
01:02 So let's just pray that we have jurors that see through this.
01:05 When Bob Costello was trying to answer questions on cross-examination today,
01:09 the prosecutors were cutting him off. They didn't want him to tell the full truth.
01:14 They only wanted to cherry-pick portions of his statement.
01:18 They weren't letting him answer the question. Prosecutors want the truth out there.
01:22 You want everything to be heard so the jurors can make a fair and reasonable decision.
01:27 This case should have never, ever been brought.
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