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. - [margaret] constitutional scholar melissa murray is tracking each case and the complicated legal maneuverings from trump's defense. - there is broad incentive for the defendant to frame what is happening to him not as the ordinary workings of legal system, but rather, the machinations of a political persecution that has been lobbied against him. - [margaret] as this unprecedented trial begins, what does legal scholar melissa murray say now? - [narrator] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, peter and mary kalikow, the asness family foundation, the beth and ravenel curry foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, the eric and wendy schmidt fund for strategic innovation, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. and by pfizer inc. - professor melissa murray, welcome to "firing line." - thanks for having me. - former president donald trump faces 88 felony charges in four jurisdictions. jury selection began this week in
. - [margaret] constitutional scholar melissa murray is tracking each case and the complicated legal maneuverings from trump's defense. - there is broad incentive for the defendant to frame what is happening to him not as the ordinary workings of legal system, but rather, the machinations of a political persecution that has been lobbied against him. - [margaret] as this unprecedented trial begins, what does legal scholar melissa murray say now? - [narrator] "firing line with margaret...
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and melissa murray, they are both nyu law professors and msnbc legal analysts and co- authors of the new york times best-selling book "the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary." adam, you are our eyes and ears in there. you are getting the juror experience of taking the picture of it all. what do you think the jurors went on with today? >> they came home with a lot of information because this was an alert jury. they were wrapped in attention w both in the prosecution and th defense statements. and, they came home with this bombshell quote that ended your introduction, limit, the what have we done ? it was almost in oppenheimer -like moment where you have stormy daniels lawyer with a recognition that, and which is the central theory of the case for the prosecution, e that this is related to the election. with a very powerful moment and it came within a powerful monologue, which you read a lo part of, that it was election fraud, pure and simple. so, that was a very powerful moment. we had, they also came away with, from the defense opening statement a stop
and melissa murray, they are both nyu law professors and msnbc legal analysts and co- authors of the new york times best-selling book "the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary." adam, you are our eyes and ears in there. you are getting the juror experience of taking the picture of it all. what do you think the jurors went on with today? >> they came home with a lot of information because this was an alert jury. they were wrapped in attention w both...
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joining us now is melissa murray, law professor at new york university. melissa, thanks very much for being here. it's really nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> i -- despite appearances, do not love doing media criticism. it's not my forte. i'm also not a lawyer, but i did feel like the legal or the headline coverage today, the media coverage today of trump's statements sort of missed the nut of what it is that he actually said and the implications of his statement. as a lawyer, as a close observer of these things, do you agree? >> i think that's right. donald trump has sort of tacked back on issues of reproductive freedom. he had said that he was in favor of a ban on abortion at perhaps 15 weeks, 20 weeks that would still be quite a significant development. it really shows how much the overton window has shifted since dobbs, a 15-week ban, a 20-week ban would have been patently unconstitutional under roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey. so we've really moved far beyond that again, this has been an issue with him and with his party. they
joining us now is melissa murray, law professor at new york university. melissa, thanks very much for being here. it's really nice to see you. >> great to be here. >> i -- despite appearances, do not love doing media criticism. it's not my forte. i'm also not a lawyer, but i did feel like the legal or the headline coverage today, the media coverage today of trump's statements sort of missed the nut of what it is that he actually said and the implications of his statement. as a...
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>> i do. >> back with me are melissa murray and john heilemann. melissa, let's tackle the latest news of today, which is trump saying , seemingly definitively, that he's going to testify at the trial. can you paint a picture of the disaster that might be for him? >> it is very unorthodox for any criminal defendant to take the stand in her own defense. in a terminal trial, the burden is on the government to prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. it is a very high standard, any kind of doubt can be room for a jury to acquit. the defendant doesn't have to do anything. the burden is on the prosecution. stepping in and giving the prosecution an opportunity to cross-examine you, to poke holes in your story and to shore up their own story, disastrous. most lawyers would tell their clients know, do not do this. but, again, most lawyers don't have donald trump as a client. as michael cohen said, this has got to be really nerve-racking for the defense team. this is a man who consistently shows that he loves to talk, he loves to talk about hi
>> i do. >> back with me are melissa murray and john heilemann. melissa, let's tackle the latest news of today, which is trump saying , seemingly definitively, that he's going to testify at the trial. can you paint a picture of the disaster that might be for him? >> it is very unorthodox for any criminal defendant to take the stand in her own defense. in a terminal trial, the burden is on the government to prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. it is a very...
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state senator eva burch, melissa murray, thank you. >>> up next, trump has managed to avoid consequences for most of his actions. another guy sexually accused sex pest. but he can't seem to delay next week's criminal hush money trial. which is also an election interference trial. stay right there. voices of people with cidp: cidp disrupts. cidp derails. let's be honest... all: cidp sucks! voices of people with cidp: but living with cidp doesn't have to. when you sign up at...
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earlier i spoke to nyu law professor melissa murray and andrew weissmann, former federal prosecutor in the eastern district of new york and former lead prosecutor in robert mueller s special counsel s 0ffice from 2017 to 2019. they explained that of all the criminal and civil cases facing the former president, this latest development means it is now likely that donald trump will stand trial in at least one case before the presidential election. it now looks like starting a week from monday that jury selection is going to start. it's fairly typical for defendants at the last minute to make a flurry of motions including trying to delay the trial. as you can see, the judge here is very quickly dispatching with all of his efforts. it looks like unless something truly unforeseen happens that we're finally going to see the first case that was the indictment of the former president. it's actually going to be the first want to going to be the first want to go to trial. going to be the first want to go to trial-— going to be the first want to no to trial. ~ ,,. ., ., go to trial. melissa, how
earlier i spoke to nyu law professor melissa murray and andrew weissmann, former federal prosecutor in the eastern district of new york and former lead prosecutor in robert mueller s special counsel s 0ffice from 2017 to 2019. they explained that of all the criminal and civil cases facing the former president, this latest development means it is now likely that donald trump will stand trial in at least one case before the presidential election. it now looks like starting a week from monday that...
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>> listen, and melissa murray, you're one of the smart people that we turn to. i'll let you respond. but i want to associate myself with the conclusion and i guess my thesis is that it is a failure of imagination. a lot of people have pointed this out, presidential historians that our founders didn't imagine someone who would threaten the peaceful transfer of power within. that wasn't contemplated. liz cheney has talked directly to the supreme court and is sort of willed them not to intervene and indulge his immunity claim. because it has the effect of denying the public a right to see the facts in the insurrection case adjudicated. i want to show you what a former assistant new york attorney general adam pollack had to say again on this topic of trump receiving different treatment. >> ordinarily, a normal defendant b you would send them to rikers. very quickly, woe figure out in rikers what the right way to behave before a trial is but president trump is not every other defendant. it is practically difficult for the staff of rikers to have trump there. i think
>> listen, and melissa murray, you're one of the smart people that we turn to. i'll let you respond. but i want to associate myself with the conclusion and i guess my thesis is that it is a failure of imagination. a lot of people have pointed this out, presidential historians that our founders didn't imagine someone who would threaten the peaceful transfer of power within. that wasn't contemplated. liz cheney has talked directly to the supreme court and is sort of willed them not to...
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let's ask your friend back with us and joining the conversation, melissa murray, professor of law at new york university. good to have you with us. melissa, what do you make of the dual ruling from the florida supreme court? >> the court clearly was a bit futile. they concluded that the florida supreme court's ruling from many years ago guaranteed a right to personal privacy. they said that they receded from that ruling which is the new doublespeak for overruling an earlier precedent. because they were receding from the earlier precedent, they could no longer guarantee that the florida constitution guaranteed a right to bodily autonomy. then in the next rep, as you know, the that other ruling said that the state could go forward with the ballot initiative to enshrine greater protections for abortion-rights going forward, which would be put to the voters in november. so given with one hand, taking with the other. the broad question here is what will happen in november with the ballot initiative in florida. whether that will counteract the force of this very extreme ruling on the quest
let's ask your friend back with us and joining the conversation, melissa murray, professor of law at new york university. good to have you with us. melissa, what do you make of the dual ruling from the florida supreme court? >> the court clearly was a bit futile. they concluded that the florida supreme court's ruling from many years ago guaranteed a right to personal privacy. they said that they receded from that ruling which is the new doublespeak for overruling an earlier precedent....
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joining me now is melissa murray, legal analyst and law professor and john hyman, and host of theand high water podcast. thank you all for being here as we sift through the chaos, once again, what happened at mar-a- lago. >> that's one word for it. >> if you didn't like the big lie 1.0 there's a 2.0, is it an upgrade? what do you think of it? is it more effective? >> i mean, if the question is, does it animate from space, it does. if the question is, does it make voters who are in the middle of the electorate, who are a lot of those urban voters who won the election for joe biden along with the big turnout from the base in 2020, and who have been drifting, they are back towards trump, there in and out, they don't like biden's economy, but every time trump does this kind of thing, it just reminds people of something in our amnesiac country that can remember what happened last tuesday, donald trump wasn't so bad, we see this in the polling all the time, when trump does this, it's making it about him and when he makes it about him, he makes it chaos, and chaos in the suburbs of philadel
joining me now is melissa murray, legal analyst and law professor and john hyman, and host of theand high water podcast. thank you all for being here as we sift through the chaos, once again, what happened at mar-a- lago. >> that's one word for it. >> if you didn't like the big lie 1.0 there's a 2.0, is it an upgrade? what do you think of it? is it more effective? >> i mean, if the question is, does it animate from space, it does. if the question is, does it make voters who...
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murray and they are co-authored of "the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary," which is an indispensable guidebook as we go through this. to both of you, congratulations. andrew, this does bring this back to the process that you were both experienced with as lawyers. andrew, with your years as a prosecutor. those of us as citizens who have been through it. it never happened before with a former president and certainly not one as polarizing, let's face it, as donald trump. >> that gets to why melissa and i wrote this book, which is, what is happening is so unique in this country. it's not unique for the rest of the world, which has had trials like this and has managed to hold political leaders to account, which we address in the book. but it's unique for us. as law professors, this is what we do day in and day out, which is try to give tools to our students to understand what's going on. now it's so important for the public to understand what is happening in the criminal justice system. they can make up their own mind. but at least they will have the facts and
murray and they are co-authored of "the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary," which is an indispensable guidebook as we go through this. to both of you, congratulations. andrew, this does bring this back to the process that you were both experienced with as lawyers. andrew, with your years as a prosecutor. those of us as citizens who have been through it. it never happened before with a former president and certainly not one as polarizing, let's face it,...
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friends of the show, legal experts, melissa murray and andrew weissmann write in the new york times that the court has already botched the immunity case. noting the court's decision to review the immunity case actually undermines core democratic values. joining me now is the aforementioned andrew weissmann, msnbc legal analyst and co-host of the prosecuting donald trump podcast and timothy hayfy. i forgot my copy of my book. i bring the trump indictments book everywhere i go. i take it around like trump takes his fake bible. say more. your op-ed was important so say more. >> sure. you know, we really focussed on time. on the thing that you were talking about. because the main issue here is you could understand the supreme court if it wanted to say, you know what, we, as a supreme court, have never actually ruled on something as crazy as president saying they're absolutely criminally immaun from prosecution. >> yeah. >> we never addressed that. we only addressed that in a civil context. i could understand that they want may want to weigh in on that. there's no way there will be immunity i
friends of the show, legal experts, melissa murray and andrew weissmann write in the new york times that the court has already botched the immunity case. noting the court's decision to review the immunity case actually undermines core democratic values. joining me now is the aforementioned andrew weissmann, msnbc legal analyst and co-host of the prosecuting donald trump podcast and timothy hayfy. i forgot my copy of my book. i bring the trump indictments book everywhere i go. i take it around...
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murray so you hear trump's attorneys say there's nothing illegal about trying to influence an election. it's called democracy. if a person or a company spends money to benefit a campaign doesn't that money have to be disclosed and reported, isn't that the core of this? >> yeah. i mean, literally what todd blanche said is true that it influencing the election. if that is the only thing that was proved, that that's not a crime, but it sort of hides the ball, which is how're you doing it if you are a corporation and you're spending money when you're prohibited from doing that. that's a crime. >> if you are spending more than the maximum, what you can contribute, that's a crime so it was one of those things that reads like a good bumper sticker. >> but i think that's one of the reasons i think that the state tried to get a very smart jury because the smart jury and a long trip file, you basically can break that all down to explain why those slogans don't work here. >> so moves. what is the underlying crime say it's in new york election law that basically says it is a crime and misdemeanor
murray so you hear trump's attorneys say there's nothing illegal about trying to influence an election. it's called democracy. if a person or a company spends money to benefit a campaign doesn't that money have to be disclosed and reported, isn't that the core of this? >> yeah. i mean, literally what todd blanche said is true that it influencing the election. if that is the only thing that was proved, that that's not a crime, but it sort of hides the ball, which is how're you doing it if...
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my colleague melissa murray and i read a piece today that said the basis of the supreme court already botched this because they did not take it as you pointed out in december. there is no reason to have a stay in effect right now because there is no way that they're going rule that there is immunity in this case. the only argument, the only argument heard from anybody, even the most conservative legal jurists is maybe in some small area dealing with like foreign relations, there may be some area where a president is immune, but it's not this. so there no reason to have taken the case. there is no reason to have taken the case and stayed the district court case. so that's the real evil is i think what's going to happen is the supreme court is going to issue a flowery decision about how presidents are not above the law. it's going to sound great, and they could issue that in june, and it's too late. because what they will be saying is presidents are not above the law, but this former president is. and it's really -- it is so political, with a capital p in terms of what they're doing her
my colleague melissa murray and i read a piece today that said the basis of the supreme court already botched this because they did not take it as you pointed out in december. there is no reason to have a stay in effect right now because there is no way that they're going rule that there is immunity in this case. the only argument, the only argument heard from anybody, even the most conservative legal jurists is maybe in some small area dealing with like foreign relations, there may be some...