Nicolle Wallace interviews a federal judge, a Reagan appointee with decades of experience overseeing the criminal cases of mobsters and lawmakers alike, retiring from the bench so that he can sound the alarms and take a stand against Donald Trump's assault on the rule of law.

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"The battle to salvage what remains of the rule of law in America"