Mark Eiglarsh

Mark and I never get accused of being such a statuesque model.

All right, so look, this is really much ado about nothing.

If you can't win on the facts, you attack the law.

If you can't win on the law, you attack the prosecutor.

And in this case, Halligan and her team are having to deal with not only the defense raising these issues, which is understandable, but she's also having to deal

with a judge who, in my opinion, has abandoned his role as a neutral arbiter, okay, and has basically thrown in with the defense team in attacking the prosecutor.

This is a non-issue for all the reasons that Ashley set out, but I would also add that Rule 6F of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure

say that as long as a quorum of the total grand jury has approved the charges, it can be returned in open court by the foreperson, okay?

So this was just an administrative thing.

The entirety of the grand jury voted yes, there is probable cause as to two of those charges, and those are the ones that were filed.

It's absolutely not an issue whatsoever.

The court reporter even had an email that confirmed that

that all this is the case and that the grand jury four persons open court statements support that this is exactly how it went down.

This document that was filed in the court, these two charges were reviewed by the grand jury.

They gave it a thumbs up, a true bill,

That's it.

If this judge decides he's going to throw it out or do something else with it, then obviously the government will have the right to appeal because that would be absolutely grounds for reversal.

This is absolutely astonishing that federal judges are abandoning their judicial role in this way.

No, it's certainly not helpful.

And many of us who have been an observer of Donald Trump for all these years have