Ten years ago, September 28, 2016, … Council Bluffs, Iowa.. Here's presidential candidate Donald Trump:
“Her staffers taking the fifth amendment. How about that. And her ring leader's getting immunity. Now, people taking the fifth amendment. Four people plus the guy who illegally did the server. You know, He put in the illegal server. So, there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment, like you see on the mob, right? You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
Donald Trump was talking about Hillary Clinton … it was soon after her aides invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying in a Congressional hearing into her e-mails.
Which other highly anticipated, high-profile hearings ended up with a star witness invoking the Fifth Amendment?
What language do they use?
And what do members of Congress say about witnesses claiming Fifth Amendment privileges?
Find out in the second part of a two-part special episode of C-SPAN's podcast "Extreme Mortman" – as we remember 19 notorious scandals and blockbuster hearings during which the Fifth Amendment was cited –hearings investigating government, business, politics, and sports – from the Joe McCarthy era—to Anthony Fauci.
Hear from many over two dozen star witnesses – or, more accurately, not hear from them – in "Extreme Mortman."
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