Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,
Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg, La Hoost,
Speaker 1: Doing Grosso, and Greg Store discuss former FBI Director James
Speaker 1: Comby's congressional testimony yesterday. Jim Comey was very clear that
Speaker 1: the words he heard from Donald Trump were I hope
Speaker 1: you will let this go. But then he said he
Speaker 1: took that as a direction. Republicans kept trying to make
Speaker 1: the point that he didn't actually order you to do anything,
Speaker 1: did he? And so the question, both from a legal
Speaker 1: standpoint and a political standpoint, is is it effectively the
Speaker 1: same thing when when the President of the United States says,
Speaker 1: I hope you'll do this, should Jim call me have
Speaker 1: reasonably interpreted it to be uh an order. He is
Speaker 1: a former prosecutor, he is a former head of the FBI,
Speaker 1: and he was clear several times saying that he took
Speaker 1: those words to me not only from what Trump said,
Speaker 1: but from his body language, that he took those words
Speaker 1: to mean that it was an order. He said that
Speaker 1: he believed that Flynn was in legal jeopardy at the time,
Speaker 1: and he perceived that what Trump said to be an order.
Speaker 1: He said at one time a direction he said at
Speaker 1: another time, there are only those two people in the
Speaker 1: room unless there are tapes. But you have to take
Speaker 1: everything into account. And he took such notes that if
Speaker 1: you read and I'm sure a lot of people have
Speaker 1: already read his statement which came from his notes, there
Speaker 1: are such detail in that statement, in to the point
Speaker 1: where he said they closed the door. I saw the
Speaker 1: grandfather clock there. I mean. And that is what makes
Speaker 1: a testimony of a witness believable, is the detail that's there.
Speaker 1: It's not just oh he said this, I said that.
Speaker 1: It's all the little details that you remember. And that's
Speaker 1: what makes it convincing. I'm talking about to most people.
Speaker 1: And that's why I found his testimony and his statement
Speaker 1: to be very convincing, because he had the detail, and
Speaker 1: he was clear that it's fun. You want to you
Speaker 1: want to see the notes, that's fine. In fact, it
Speaker 1: might be opening a can of worms to see those
Speaker 1: notes because Robert Mueller has them now. And he kept
Speaker 1: on saying it's an open investigation, and open investigation. There
Speaker 1: may be a lot more in those notes than Donald
Speaker 1: Trump would like there to be. And one of the senators,
Speaker 1: I think it was Kamala. Harris made the point that
Speaker 1: these are the kind of notes that are admissible in
Speaker 1: court when you're dealing with with a witness who took
Speaker 1: contemporaneous notes. That's the sort of thing that a judge
Speaker 1: will let go to a jury. So it may have
Speaker 1: some some legal relevance, especially FBI notes of an FBI
Speaker 1: agent and mess of Bloomberg Lah host Greg's story and
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Speaker 1: Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law. In Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: Bill Cosby won't be taking the stand in his sexual
Speaker 1: assault trial, but jurors are expected to hear his previous
Speaker 1: testimony about him obtaining quailuds and giving them to women.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors are expected to have more excerpts from the decade
Speaker 1: old Cosby deposition read to the jury today. The comedian
Speaker 1: and actor has said that his sexual encounter with the
Speaker 1: woman in this case was consensual. In Connecticut, jury deliberations
Speaker 1: resumed next week in the trial of three former Nomura
Speaker 1: traders accused of alyning to their customers about bond prices.
Speaker 1: One juror was replaced yesterday. She asked to be excused
Speaker 1: due to concern she was biased after seeing a TV
Speaker 1: news report unrelated to the case. And that is this
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