Capturing the Friedmans
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and I
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Well let's start
from right now.

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OK, let's start
from right now.

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All right, let's start
from right now.

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We'll all start brand new.
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We have a decision making
process on the table.

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Great.
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All the past mistakes,
they were mistakes.

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We're not gonna hold them
against anyone.

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Great, great.
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Now we're starting afresh.
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Stop. Lower your voice,
and talk nicely to your sons.

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Alright, now we're gonna do it,
starting now.

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Seth, why don't you call me?
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Do I bawl you out?
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Seth is
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...against me
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and she can't hold it
against me.

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Well, now it's time
to call it

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'cause Mommy's sad
and stuff.

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I think there
was a recognition

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that Arnold's case was becoming
increasingly hopeless

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because of the child
pornography problem

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because of other people
coming out of the woodwork.

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So the strategy evolved to
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"What can we do to save Jesse?"
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Jesse's lawyer
very eloquently said to us

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"If there's a rowboat
and it's sinking

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and the rowboat
is tied to a rock

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you have to disconnect
the rowboat from the rock

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and save the rowboat
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even though the rock
is sinking"

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Meaning you had to separate
Arnold from Jesse.

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And Arnold was going to plead
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and Jesse would
in some way benefit.

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I was sitting there
potentially going to trial

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with no pornographic magazines
admitted into evidence

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without an adult pedophile
as a co-defendant

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and I understood
that sort of reasoning


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