Jeanine Pirro: “That intent was to bring down as many of the high ranking…”

“But make no mistake, this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States with the defendant making clear what his intent was. And That intent was to bring down as many of the high ranking cabinet officials as he could. This is the kind of situation that we cannot tolerate. And, and as the Attorney General has just indicated, it could have been so much worse but for the reality …” (06:12–06:20)

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