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Things got heated on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday when Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz went head-to-head with CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin, who was also a former student of his. Toobin accused his former teacher of “carrying water for Donald Trump,” while Dershowitz scolded his student for applying two different standards for justice depending on who it was targeting. Dershowitz also appeared to accuse his former student of criminalizing political differences.
Host Anderson Cooper brought Dershowitz on the program because President Trump had tweeted out something he had said against the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Well, he paraphrased. What I said, I wrote it in an article on The Hill, and as long as ten months ago, I wrote an op-ed entitled, ‘the special counsel is the wrong way to uncover the truth.” I've always believed that,” he stated.
Dershowitz argued that “we should have appointed a bipartisan, nonpartisan commission like they do in England and in Israel, to do an open investigation which the public could see about Russia's involvement in elections and how to stop it.”
“Not only wasn't it a mistake [to appoint Mueller], it was required. It was mandatory. If we want to have a legal system that deserves any respect,” declared Toobin before he disrespectfully attacked his teacher. “Alan, I don't know what is going on with you, but this is so obviously a conflict of interest and this was the only way to resolve it.”
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