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Crowded field. fund-raising will be key. theres only so much money to go around at this early stage. speak i think shes already started out in the top tier but i think its going to be difficult for her to stay therea long period of time. not entirely sure she makes it out of the primary. shes done a lot of self-inflicted damage, particularly with the dna testing. >> with warren announcing today, officially making it on the 2018 calendar, and might push other democratic candidates to make a decis...

Handle it on your own narrative and address it and put it to bed and move on to other things. i would be surprised if it defines her candidacy. this is the type of thing to talk about early on in the race before it is started. the race will be determined by more than dna testing. ha will be interesting is how the democrats decide to go after donald trump. that is, are they going to take michelle obama route, which is when he goes low, they go high or when he goes low will they go low? will they ...

Thats why so many have been concerned from a instituticonst perspective and the justice departments credibility. its a revered part of the federal government. it has reputations in court, around the world, amongst attorneys. to see that level of trust and stature diminished by someone like matthew whittaker is heartbreaking. >> what a great panel. im appreciative in this holiday week you came onto talk with me. many thanks appreciated. how new dna testing could lead to freedom for man on calif...

If you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. eliquis, the number one cardiologist-prescribed blood thinner. ask your doctor if eliquis is whats next for you. this is a fascinating case. about an inmate in california who has spent decades battling his death sentence but now he might just become a free man. governor jerry brown just gave the go ahead for new dna testing. 35 years after kevin cooper was put behind bars for murder. investigators s...

Couldnt think about any victim that more deserved a second chance at identification. you know, these people were robbed of their lives at a young age by an evil man. and even in death, they dont have the dignity of having a name. >> and moran has spent hours with families whose loved ones have been missing for decades. >> theyre some of the saddest people that you want to talk to. and the reason is because they live in a cruel limbo. they dont want to think that their missing loved one is dead b...

>> you going to come in here and tell me my dna come back negative. why you aint just let me go home? >> ken rose knew the only answer would be to find a positive dna match to another suspect. >> i wrote a letter to the new district attorney johnson britt and said, lets submit this result to codis, which is the database of every person convicted of a felony, and lets see if theres some match. >> our lab in raleigh told us that sample was too small for them to conduct any type of testing. unfortu...

Trial, his dna is present on at least two items. one of those is the knife. it is really troubling that after a decade or more of struggling to get this dna testing the state couldnt complete the testing without contaminating some of the evidence. >> the 31st district judge ruled that the new evidence was inconclusive and would not have affected the jurys decision. after more than two decades and millions of dollars in legal fees, hank skinner sits on death row, still proclaiming his innocence. ...

Going to have to let you go. >> one month after the nancy grace show john mann changed his mind about the dna. >> he decided on his own to do some dna testing but he did it without the involvement of the defense. he boxed up some items and sent them off for testing and told the lab what to test. >> the first items mann sent for testing included a set of human hairs found in twilas hands. >> and the mitochondrial dna on those hairs comes back to twila busbys mitochondrial line. >> this meant the ...

♪ mom. ♪ in 2012, state prosecutors finally agreed to run dna testing on all the crime scene evidence from the murder of twila busby and her sons. hank skinner believed that a bloody windbreaker found at the scene was the key to proving his innocence. but the state said they had lost it. >> we were battling the state of texas for 13 years to get this evidence tested. the one thing by itself that would have exonerated me, the state has mysteriously lost it. >> its unfortunate that

Kenneth clair. >> we never even knew. didnt find out until maybe like 2008, that they had been running dna testing. and from what i know, ive been totally excluded. >> the orange county d.a.s office admitted that the dna did not match kenneth clair. but they refused to say who the dna belonged to. >> now they find out that it was someone elses dna left there, and theyre hiding who it is. thats just crazy. >> excuse me? uh, that is material. youve already ruled out your prime suspect, whos been c...