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Jul 2023
31m 56s

Potential Cooperators

MSNBC
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Could Donald Trump's inner circle be turning on him? MSNBC legal analysts Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord get into how prosecutors convince a witness to cooperate and what that could mean for the former president. 
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