Alan Dershowitz: Rep. Maxine Waters ‘doesn’t know what she’s talking about’

Published August 6, 2017 7:03pm ET



Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz hit back at allegations he is a racist Sunday after saying special counsel Robert Mueller chose to impanel a grand jury for the Russia probe in Washington, D.C., because any resulting trial jury would have an “ethnic and racial composition” that would be “less favorable” to the Trump administration.

“Being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you a license to call people anti-Semitic,” Dershowitz told Abby Huntsman on “Fox and Friends Weekend.”

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