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Brian. >> ainsley: four grown kids. have parties open you are their windows. >> brian: new york is complaining too many movies being shot on the streets here on the upper west side as well as in brooklyn. i think they are crazy to complain because that helps sell the city people go i want to go to that block. so why are they complaining? plus its taxpayer dollars. >> thats right. thats right. >> steve: most towns, going back to the christmas tree thing. most towns like their trees as close to th...

Inexplicable to me that former president trump could come down on that side in any way, shape, or form. >> bret: he has obviously put out statements saying the media has character rised it. we put up both statements. jessica, 10 seconds here, are democrats just loving all of this? >> we do love it when donald trump says something that insane and every republican is at least forced to respond. some continue to plead the proverbial fifth about it. it just lessens the chances that he will be able t...

Jones, activist for criminal justice reform, and hes working with c.j.s case. van, let me start with you. the cops went into it with this was a rival gang shooting thing, and they didnt really seem -- it really seemed like there was just a desire, we just need to make an arrest. we need to make an arrest, and not really we need to search for justice and figure out who did it. >> i want to thank you and i want to thank your dad. your dad is a bulldog. he will not let this thing go. and as a resul...

Not. a poor kid with no means and an incompetent, court appointed lawyer. the assembly of a criminal justice system not focused on justice. my father continues to support and exchange letters with j.c. rice in prison. c.j.s mom holds on to memories and holds on to hope that he will one day be free in someone in power seeks to right what she sees as an injustice. >> of course witness testimony can be notoriously unreliable. more than two-thirds of the people exonerated with the innocence projects...

About c.j.s wound and pain. >> every time that i talked extensively with the lawyers in person and in their office, this is the only time i had never had a conversation of any length at all before the trial. >> at the trial, so we were never suggested rices case b disservice of a two juvenile court. never mentioned that the only eyewitness to place ceegee at the team failed initially not only wants, but three times to identify him as the shooter. she never challenge the i was about the enacted a...

But three times to identify him as the shooter. she never challenged the eyewitness about the inaccurate assessment of distance from the shooter. >> before the trial in 2014, i had not seen any hospital records at all. >> reporter: my dad obtained them after the trial at c.j. rices request. >> many things surprised me. one was a bullet that fractured his pelvis. it just made an even firmer belief that theres no way he could have run. >> reporter: c.j. rice had an alibi, a witness who said he was...

Attorney sanjay weaver took his case on, and weaver did not provide c.j. with an adequate defense. she never obtained the location data for rices cell phone, which he told her to do, since he said it would show he was nowhere near the crime scene. >> after the trial, c.j. starts telling me, oh, she should have did this. i told her to do this. she didnt listen to me. >> reporter: she never prepared or even met with witnesses, such as my father, who met her for the very first time on the day he wa...

Let alone walking fast. >> my dad demonstrates here just how slowly he remembers c.j. rice leaving his office that day. >> with great difficulty and with a very great slowness. >> when c.j. rice was named as a suspect, mother krystal cooper met him at the police station so that he could times elephant. >> the detective took his arm to help him walk up the stairs. >> c.j.s family could not afford legal counsel, so the court appointed private attorney saw jay weaver. and weaver did not provide c.j...

To 30 to 60 years in prison. >> if there was a new trial and some of these things were addressed, the jury would have a hard time not having reasonable doubt. >> c. j.s new attorney, jason applied for conviction relief in county court, arguing that cj rice had ineffective counsel. the same judge who had presided over c. j. rices trial heard the appeal and he rejected it. see derisive story, which i tell in the new issue of the atlantic magazine, is important because of how unusual it is not. a p...

Dad had examined c.j. rice just five days earlier. and he insisted c.j. was in no condition to run. >> he had staples over his abdomen over approximately an eight or nine inch surgical envision from his breastbone far as you could go. >> thats because c.j. had been shot five days. >> theres no way this young man was running anywhere, let alone walking fast. >> my dad demonstrates how slowly he remembers c.j. rice leaving his office that day. >> with great difficulty and with very great slowness....