that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe pesci. >> we actually interviewed joe pesci and wee her a large sum of money at that time. he denied that he gave her any money and there was no evidence to indicate he had any involvement. >> claudia haro said she wanted to do an interview with us but we were not able to speak with her in jail. we spoke with her defense attorney, tom residence mesereau, best known for defending michael jackson. >> the picture drawn of her is sort of this vengeful woman who would stop at nothing to keep her daughter away from her ex-husband. >> whoever gave that information doesn't know claudia haro. >> mesereau says if claudia's guilty of anything, it is of having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being abused and molested as a child, he was desperate to maintain his street credibility as a drug dealer, and then when he got caught, he tried to blame it on his sister to try to gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, he said, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia? >> i'm convinced these are forgerie

to follow up on your last segment with the line about joe pesci, you know, one of them, mr. schoen, was a mob lawyer in the colombo family in new york. and listening to that today i was brought back to my days as a young prosecutor listening to defense summations where they talk about anything and everything other than the facts because the proof is so damning. and that is really what you saw here. and it was -- it was very underwhelming as a performance. >> they also apparently misstated, as rachel pointed out in the last hour, professor's work. let's listen to what neguse says about that. >> his position, which they have to have known because it's in the article they cite in the brief is that removal is, quote, not the sole end of impeachment. actually in that same article he describes the view as having deep flaws. they didn't have to be disingenuous and misleading like this. this key constitutional scholar relied on by president trump said it just right. >> so, andrew, it seems we're watching one team of lawyers that is treating this as if they're making a presentation t

but in that movie, joe pesci improves greatly as it goes along. see any improvement on the part of the trump defense team. they are treating this simply like a joke. they are unprepared, incoherent, rambling. their only real interest appears to be to type trump 2024, mainly to please their client at mar-a-lago, who we all know is watching. >> you're one of the first people i've heard in the coverage to make the link from what seems like their incompetence to a type of arrogance that you liken to mob lawyers, a thuggish attitude where if you have the jury in your pocket, you have nothing to worry about. you know that's a little reminiscent of rick ross. i'm sure you're familiar with some of his work. >> i am vaguely familiar. i know him mainly from your discussions here on "the beat". >> but rick, who also has mob lawyer attitude, because he has kind of a thuggish persona, even he would say, he famously talked about walking in the courtroom, calmly sipping on a beverage. i know the judge, so i got a lot of leverage. and while that's all fun and fin

. >> jonathan turley, you wowed us with your last conversation, and the joe pesci conversation, am i funny, ow erudite. and into history in this. let' get the read from the white house what the president might be saying. at least he is at camp david right now. mark meredith knows all. mark, i was immediately thinking and going to you, what happens with the stimulus plan here? i think in his heart of hearts while he's curious how this whole thing works out, he's probably much more tour yus getting that 1.9 trillion stimulus plan through. i think this just got pushed back. >> the president is at camp david. and we asked the white house if they have reaction to the news out of the senate. they're looking at their message calendar trying to figure out what it means for the covid relief bill something the white house has been pushing publicly and privately. this past week we saw the president meet with governors and lawmakers and focusing on the vaccine and taking questions from voters. there's been a lot of information from the biden information, we're trying to get things done, let the