rights standards but 10 to 20 percent does come from small often illicit mines mazes of poles and cardozo narrow usually small children can get for the cobalt is mainly shipped to china the batteries are produced there and they end up in the devices you use well. it is from the economic and ecumenical institute zoot bins what can we as uses and consumers actually do about this problem what we can do as consumers is to reduce our consume of electronic devices to use our smart phones longer and to us companies what they are doing about child labor about the human rights risks in their supply chains when it comes to the companies how can a german car maker if we take an electric car for example the remote relies on batteries which rely on this. work out if chinese battery suppliers are following the rule. first. issue of addressing the human rights. supply chain a very complex one at the moment and in general. real. automotive companies would have. the market power together to influence also the batteries suppliers and shiner to introduce system traceability and also. to look for 5 the respe

we pick up our coverage now with legal expert michael cardozo.es really do add a level of complexity to this case. >> they do, but more so, they  had more time. the hate crimes themselves have a two or three-year triad in jail. if convicted, the judge can pick to put him in prison for 16 or tomorrow or three more years. that is what it adds. a lot of people don't know that the d.a., the government, can either charge a hate crime or use it as an enhancement. for example in this case, charged with attempted murder. you add to that the hate enhancement and that adds more time. it could be one or two or three years in that case. >> how difficult is it for the prosecution to get a conviction on hate crime charges? >> circumstantial evidence. you have him getting out of the car, saying thank you lord, thank you jesus for doing this. then we have him making other statements. we don't know all the statements he made, but that is how they are going to have to prove it, unless they can find other witnesses to bring in to say, you know, he always hated th

cardozo lopes says they're able to extract about 70% of the raw material from old tires, and they're now looking to build new factories. >> in order to make the circular economy work, you not only have to do something good, but also eate real business. it has to have good economic returns. >> brown: still, it cabe hard work convincing would-be investors. >> typically, the answer you get is, "oh, martijn, we le your concept. once you have ten factories up and running, we'll buy number 11." er there's always this risk you're acting in a traditional industry. >> brown: he says 1,500 plants could process all of the world'u used tires, t it would require a capital investment of roughly $15 billion. and that's just r tires. further: it's not only about convincing investors, changing consumer habits as well. for example, not throwing away your old jeans, so thedon't end up in landfills. mud jeans, another dutch company, uses about 40% recycled cotton, and in addition to giving customers a discount for returning their old jeans-- in new twist-- it lets them lease new ones. bert van son is it

personal finances let's bring in kyron higgins he's a former prosecutor he's also a professor at the cardozo school of law and joins us live from new york let's talk 1st about the former white house counsel don mcgann and he's no show in front of congress i mean the white house says he has absolute immunity but the house committee doesn't see it that way so how robust is the white house's legal argument . the white house his argument is completely nonsense they. just as a general point the duty to respond to a subpoena as been described for over 400 years is just absolute and so the white house is on very thin ice here in all respects donegan was not only a witness to acts of obstruction in the white house he was actually ordered by donald trump to fire robert muller and then when that became public he was ordered to falsify white house records to show that that had never happened so don mcgann is critical to congress's investigations. and the white house is claiming absolute immunity but it's perfectly clear that there is no such thing as absolute immunity richard nixon tried to assert abso

. >> let's talk about the first week of testimony with legal analyst michael cardozo. kind of conflicting testimony today. how damaging is it when you have a woman on the stand, saying it was so unsafe i was sleeping in my car and also at one point i thought this place was in fact going to burn down? >> you know, that is interesting. you do have that one person. it absolutely helps the prosecutor, the government, it helps them and hurts the defense. but earlier in the trial you had another witness who said i felt safe there. i was a tenant. i didn't feel as if my life was not safe. how do you think the defense will play that? you have one saying unsafe and one saying safe. so what our our clients to do? they are not sure, it's up to the city, up to the fire department to have regulated them and that is what the defense will .2. so in a sense, it could help the defense. >> on cross-examination, the questioning focused on how much they knew about the back portion of the ghost ship warehouse, where the defense is essentially saying they believe arson may have sparked this

for more on the testimony i am joined by legal analyst michael cardozo. what do you make of what these two officers, when i mentioned has retired, what do you make of what they told the court today? >> this part of the trial is really the dog days, where the d.a. puts in barely perfunctory evidence. when the defense got up to cross-examine these officers, the questions were, had you known someone lived there, you wouldn't of done anything about it anyway, because you never made arrests or investigated squatters in buildings. they said, i'm not sure i would've done anything. i've never investigated that. the implication was, what is the difference whether he told the truth or not. now, as you sit there as jurors and you're listening to this case, i am telling you, they are starting to make up their mind if they haven't already about this case. they hear this evidence and they say, look, they wouldn't of done anything anyway. if you are pro-defense, when you get back in the jury room, that is when you can argue. on the other side of the case, the district a

roth, former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york and now a professor at the cardozo school of law. thanks to all of you for being with us. ashley, let me start with you. there are a number of balls in the air right now when it comes to investigations, oversight, potential hearings here. we have the issue tonight of the tax returns, the democrats in the house who control the house ways and means committee. they had demanded six years of trump's tax returns. now you have the treasury department saying that's not happening. potential court fight there. you have the issue of bill barr, the attorney general going to be held in contempt of congress and the question of whether trump, the administration will block any attempt by the judiciary committee to hear from the special counsel, robert mueller. my question to you is among democrats trying to sort through all of this, is there any sense right now, have they priorityized any of these fights politically and legally? >> they're still sort of trying to figure it out. and what you're seeing is them being forced to react to

>> cardozo here in new york. >> okay. >> then there were so many people going through. the audience. he stayed for the entire graduation ceremony. >> wow. >> how many people that are paul mccartney would sit there? how many would go, get me out of here. i don't want the mass of people afterwards. >> we don't have to say how many people are paul mccartney? we can say, how many are claire mccaskiccaskill, mika, and joe. >> he sat there applauding. it is a moment where you realize, this is a good guy. >> that's what you hear repeatedly. >> he didn't have impatience. >> if he was a woman, i'd say he is not a diva. maybe he is not a divo, if that is a word. he watched every graduate get their diploma. >> congratulations on your daughter, first of all. >> thanks. >> congratulations on your speech, second of all. thirdly, never tell me again that paul mccartney hugged you. >> i will. whenever i need to pull it out. >> senior adviser at move on.org and msnbc contributor, kareen is with us. >> who did you meet yesterday? >> certainly not paul mccartney. the person i want to meet