Dan Abrams On 'Lincoln's Last Trial' And Crime In Media

By Randy Maniloff ( June 5, 2018, 12:03 PM EDT) -- Dan Abrams was on his last spoonful of soup as I situated myself in his Midtown Manhattan office. I was not surprised that his lunch was in a cup — the ABC News chief legal affairs anchor has no room left on his plate. Earlier in the day he appeared on "Good Morning America." We're now at Abrams Media, his nearly 10-year-old company that owns several news, culture and fashion websites, including Mediaite and another that he calls the next Court TV. Abrams also has a twice-weekly, three-hour ride-along cop show on A&E — "Live PD" — which was the highest rated original cable telecast last Friday. And he just finished up a season of A&E's "Grace vs. Abrams," where he debates legal analyst Nancy Grace on infamous cases. All this in addition to life as a father of a six-year old. In response to my look of wonderment about his schedule, Abrams said: "I have to sneak in naps."...

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