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Chris is live in the courthouse in lubbock, texas tonight. he wasnt in court for very long. >> reporter: he was probably only there for five minutes but he did acknowledge to the judge he understood the charges against him and understood his rights. he pled not guilty but he will remain in custody and back back in court. his attorney, this is the first time were hearing from him. up to this point, the press coverage has been very one-sided and biased. it may make it difficult for him to receive ...

Evidence we have. they will fill out an affidavit and say we want you to issue a search warrant. and if the judge agrees, they get the arrest warrant and they make the are. thats not the charging document. theyll have to draw up criminal charges. that may take a while. it may be they want to question the suspect first, sfepend some time with him, see what he says. he might admit to some things, he might not, you never know. so the charging document may come later. so he may not go in to charges....

Focus and within hours we secured an arrest warrant charging him with first degree murder. i obviously dont want to go into the facts or circumstances that led to his arrest, other than to suggest there was certainly probable cause to do so. we consulted with our commonwealth attorney in shore lotsville, the prosecuting attorney, as well as the magistrate that actually produced the charging document, so there was layers of oversight to those facts and circumstances to ensure that when those char...

Weve already been working with the justice department for several years, its tough. jane: major ellis, thank you for your time today, terrell roberts is with us, the attorney for john mchena, the student injured in this case. was there confusion here, plment roberts? what does your client say happened? >> theres no confusion. and i think if theyre thinking theres another person out there that could have done this, i believe theyre mistaken. theres no evidence that any horse or horses suffered an...

The actual beating is only half the story. this is the sworn statement of charges against mckenna by the police. it alleges assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct. it claims that mckenna, quote, struck those officers and their horses, causing minor injuries and that mckenna was, quote, kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries. >> clearly the charging document is a lie. as you can see from the tape, theres not a single fact in that statement of charges thats true. >> reporter...

He was injured by the horses. not by the officers who were shown beating him. the chief of police is about to hold a news conference at police headquarters. the grand jury has been opened to look into this and one officer has been suspended and theyre trying to identify the officers in the riot gear. internal affairs is questioning all the officers that were in riot gear that night to see if they can identify who those officers are. >> shepard: its safe to say im guessing here that when the char...

I will. law enforcement officers suched rogers home and business and seized between -- get this -- 45 and 50 firearms including at least three fully automatic weapons, which are illegal, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs. law enforcement officers said those pipe bombs that you see right there were fully operational and could, quote, cause great bodily harm or injury. in case you are wondering what kind of guns they had, this is the itemized list of all of the firearms listed ...

Banking expenses he has. it is coming at 11:00. it is a plea hearing, the official language from the court and special counsel. dan, what is the significance of this? >> its quite significant. whats interesting about this in reading the document that was filed by the special counsels office this morning, a criminal information, the same as an indictment, but paul manafort is waiving his right to have a grand jury vote on the indictment. therefore, he is allowing this information to be filed. wha...

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