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Indictments of individuals and three companies, along with reported referral to federal prosecutor it is in new york on michael cohen. that will be the biggest case. by comparison, in whitewaters more than four years with four convictions, two acquittals and six dismissals. you had a much longer and a much less effective investigation. and jeremy, of course some of the same people, including rudy giuliani, that have one opinion on bob muellers investigation, had quite a different opinion when it...

What has bill cosby been up to this whole time? >> reporter: hes been laying low. during the summer he did a bit of a comedy routine in the philadelphia area. even to the point of seeing a report he around there saying dont put me as part of me too movement. also on a very sad note, his daughter passed away. so he had to go through that. that was just weeks ago. burying her. she was ill but it was still obviously very, very difficult. but hes 80 years old. and he is facing life in prison, virtua...

>> laura: lets go to you, speaking of san francisco, your son went to law school in san francisco back in 2010. hes no longer here to enjoy a holiday season. your reaction and then what about weve heard nothing from nancy pelosi. weve heard nothing from hillary clinton. nothing from prominent democrats on this case. zero. >> well, i will tell you i wasnt actually shocked in the least bit. i expected this to happen. i live out here. i see what happens every day. so i wasnt shocked at the two acqu...

And it was tragic, indeed. >> laura: lets go to you, speaking of san francisco, your son went to law school in san francisco back in 2010. hes no longer here to enjoy a holiday season. your reaction and then what about weve heard nothing from nancy pelosi. weve heard nothing from hillary clinton. nothing from prominent democrats on this case. zero. >> well, i will tell you i wasnt actually shocked in the least bit. i expected this to happen. i live out here. i see what happens every day. so i wa...

Me they were back in shock and stunned about this verdict. i dont think he gets due process seven times. these are rights of an american citizen. i dont think he should have those rights to begin with let alone as many times as he did, who knows where we would be today, absolutely stunning verdict and i pray for this family. i understand what they must feel like. rob: we are trying to make sense of what happened in a courtroom that led to so many acquittals, how do they not pull off the manslaug...

12:08 local time on a sunday morning to make sure that nobody was in place the see this happen. which means, you know, from there he was incognito. so we -- again, we have been talking to sources and people on the ground, the prevailing theory is that he is somewhere in the area here in nevada. but we dont know. and i think its going to be a while before he resurfaces but that will happen. i think its going to be important for him to realize that to react it to when it does and to do it in a way...

Which means he will find out, do any of the links, any of the relationships related to finance were they originated as part of a russian intelligence operation or are they marionette puppets of the criticikremlin. >> there were always these big high profile mafia trials. >> absolutely. >> a lot of them resulted in acquittals. >> not all of them. >> but very few. >> they are hard cases to make. >> they are. >> reasons precisely because the mechanisms by which the operations are run are run to avo...

Or are they marionette puppets of the kremlin. >> there were always these big high profile mafia trials. >> absolutely. >> a lot of them resulted in acquittals. >> not all of them. >> but very few. >> they are hard cases to make. >> they are. >> reasons precisely because the mechanisms by which the operations are run are run to avoid detection and sort of conviction. >> you have to be very creative to convict these people. >> putting a lot of witnesses together, when i was an assistant i was abl...

Release him as early as october 1st. books, television experience, and mini series have depicted his 1995 double murder trial and acquittals for the deaths of his ex-wife and ron goldman. joining me is legal analyst and former prosecutor, paul butler. paul, what put simpson at risk for violating parole when he is released in october? >> well have to look at what conditions are set by the florida parole office. typically its items like, you cant hang out or have friends who have committed felonie...

Twice, two acquittals, before this case. all of that was kind of relitigated during the habeas petition and the habeas hearing, but the fact remains that theyre given a task. the -- and theyre given that -- and they kind of started off with that saying, look, we validated, were validating right now, the low risk assessment. we validated this as a predictor for whether or not hes going to be violent when he gets out, and he comes off at one of the lowest risk factors, not the least of which is be...