WEBVTT - Trial Continues for `Pharma Bro' Shkreli (Audio)

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<v Speaker 1>Pat Screlley has been live streaming and tweeting about the trial.

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<v Speaker 1>But on Friday, he walked into a courtroom set up

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<v Speaker 1>for reporters and began to vent were you there? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I was there, And it was quite by surprise that

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<v Speaker 1>happened during the court break. And the only thing we

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<v Speaker 1>can surmises that maybe he got lonely because he realized

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<v Speaker 1>that no one was in the courtroom. We must be somewhere.

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<v Speaker 1>So he walked into this open courtroom where the reporters

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<v Speaker 1>are writing their stories during the lunch break, and he

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<v Speaker 1>started saying, why are you writing this? Why are you

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<v Speaker 1>writing that you know and criticizing the government's witnesses, and

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<v Speaker 1>how how did he leave the room? How and how

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<v Speaker 1>long did this conversation go on? The It was about

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<v Speaker 1>five minutes long, and most of us were so shocked

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<v Speaker 1>when it happened that we sort of everyone would kind

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<v Speaker 1>of take turns asking a question because it was so

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<v Speaker 1>shocking that or surprising that the defendant would come in

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<v Speaker 1>and start personally talking about each witness and assessing their

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<v Speaker 1>credibility and making comments about the government, just accrediting the

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<v Speaker 1>government and the prosecutor's style, and so it finally ended.

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<v Speaker 1>It was about five minutes long, and it finally ended

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<v Speaker 1>when we suddenly heard the door courtroom door open it

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<v Speaker 1>and was Benjamin Braffman, his defense lawyer, saying Martin, could

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<v Speaker 1>I see you for a minute, and then Screlli was

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<v Speaker 1>basically asked to take a taken away by his lawyer. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>Braffman did seem to be keeping him under control. As

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<v Speaker 1>for our social media for a little while, but so

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<v Speaker 1>that seemed to be the last straw for the prosecutors.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell us what they asked for and what happened. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>he's been um tweeting and retweeting comments criticizing the government's case,

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<v Speaker 1>the veracity of the witnesses under a new Twitter handle.

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<v Speaker 1>You guys might remember in January he was banned from

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<v Speaker 1>Twitter for harassing a female reporter and he reincarnated himself

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<v Speaker 1>under a new handle, and that's what he was using

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<v Speaker 1>to retweet comments about, Oh, this witness is a victim,

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<v Speaker 1>how could she be a victim? For example? So, um,

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<v Speaker 1>he's been doing that during the trial and making comments

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<v Speaker 1>about things that in court on his on his Twitter,

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<v Speaker 1>on his Twitter page, and in Facebook. So what did

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<v Speaker 1>the prosecutors asked to have done, they asked to gag him,

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<v Speaker 1>and they wanted him either to be gagged completely during

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<v Speaker 1>the trial to prevent it from me talking around the courthouse,

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<v Speaker 1>or to partially sequestered the jury, which is they only

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<v Speaker 1>do in mafia or in terrorism cases when the safety

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<v Speaker 1>of the juries under in questions. So what they do

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<v Speaker 1>is they'll have a marshal escort them to in front

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<v Speaker 1>of courthouse and keep them away from other people. The

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<v Speaker 1>judge said she would refuse to do that because that

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<v Speaker 1>would be punishing the jury and they're already in the

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<v Speaker 1>courtroom for ten hours a day listening to testimonies. So

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<v Speaker 1>she decided they needed to have their time outside in

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<v Speaker 1>the in the free outdoors, in the fresh air. Pat.

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<v Speaker 1>In your story today, you mentioned that prosecutors revealed that

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<v Speaker 1>Screlly's lawyers offered to have him plead guilty talk. Can

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<v Speaker 1>you tell us a little more about that. Yeah. One

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<v Speaker 1>of my colleagues asked, when Screlly came into the press

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<v Speaker 1>room on Friday, So, Martin, why did you go to trial? Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Did the government after ever offer you a plea deal?

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<v Speaker 1>And he didn't quite answer it. He kept insisting I

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<v Speaker 1>wanted my day in court. I wanted my day in court,

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<v Speaker 1>and the prosecutor UM today raised that as another example

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<v Speaker 1>of inaccuracies the Screlly statements. She said that Um there

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<v Speaker 1>had been repeated multiple requests by initiated by the defense,

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<v Speaker 1>by Screlli's legal team to a plea deal as recently

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<v Speaker 1>as UM June nineteenth, which was a week before the

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<v Speaker 1>trial started, So she wanted to put the you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the truth to the matter that the defense had repeatedly

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<v Speaker 1>asked the government for a plea deal. Pat Screlly's own lawyer,

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<v Speaker 1>Benjamin Breathman, in his opening statement, said that his client

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<v Speaker 1>might be just nuts and called has called him strange

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<v Speaker 1>but brilliant. Today he said, well, he's relatively young though

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<v Speaker 1>he's thirty four. Is Breathman building a defense around Screlly's

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<v Speaker 1>odd and erratic behavior. In some way, it does seem

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<v Speaker 1>to be the case because his lawyer is explained, as

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<v Speaker 1>he was trying to explain to the judge, the judge said,

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<v Speaker 1>you have four lawyers with this, why wasn't someone watching Martin?

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<v Speaker 1>So now a defense lawyer is going to be assigned

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<v Speaker 1>to watch him at all times, and UM, it does

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<v Speaker 1>seem that that's the defenses argument that he may be strange,

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<v Speaker 1>he may be odd, but he's not guilty. And how

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<v Speaker 1>much longer do you and the jurors have to sit

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<v Speaker 1>through this trial? Well, this is supposed to be up

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<v Speaker 1>to a five week trial, so we were only in

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<v Speaker 1>day um, technically day four of today's the fourth day

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<v Speaker 1>and we're only on the fourth witness. So more to

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<v Speaker 1>more to, you know, stay tuned. And oh and also

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<v Speaker 1>scrawley um newest Twitter handle, just got the suspended