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Of congress usually used for tampering with witnesses and evidence in congressional investigations, a ku klux klan act from the reconstruction era thats never been used in situations like this. his case based on unprecedent, first of their kind stretches of the law. neil: yeah. >> the other thing thats interesting are the facts. we dont have the facts linking trump to the rioters, so we dont see charges for sedition, we dont see charges for insurrection. i would want all of this to be a lot stro...

Remains were hers. now, no one has been charged in her death, and suffolk county district attorney ray tierney refused to say whether accused long island serial killer rex heuermann is linked to the case. >> we are going to continue to work this particular case as we did the gilgo four investigation. were going to have the no comment on what, if any, suspects we develop do. >> reporter: prosecutors request a cheek swab from heuermann. according to court dock youths, they think -- documents, they...

Going back more than a century involving the ku klux klan that he was reaching. that got a counternarrative going, john, that, well, he must be having something else that hes ready to debut in a trial or what have you. what do you make of that? >> as you and i discussed when we watched the arraignment a few days ago, this is such a momentous part of history. this is, i think, the most serious criminal trial ever brought in the history of our country, accusing a former president of trying to stop...

Former justice thomas law clerk. he has the gravitas, so im glad hes joined us on a saturday. you know, john, jack smith is essentially saying, all right, you went a step too far, mr. president. , talking about this and all but threatening people on your truth social site. so is he now cracking down or could he crack down on the presidents social media posts? >> hi, neil, good to be with you. by the way, as a philly boy, ive seen fights break out over boxes of cannoli, you dont need social media...

Most important prosecution in our history. this is the prosecution of a president for trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power. the reason why it causes the conflict is that president trump normally with his free speech rights would be able to say anything he wants to about something in the political world, mig about somebody attacking him. -- anything about somebody attacking him. he could punch back as we have seen him do so many times on social media and at speeches like the clip you sho...

The charges in both cases underlying in the federal case, the miami documents case, the florida documents case, rather, and this case, could put him in some serious legal jeopardy trace. >> trace: well revisit that. david spunt live in dc. thank you >> the washington post is reporting former president obama warned president biden that donald trump is a more formidable candidate than democrats realize. marianne rafferty is live with the latest on this surprising news. maryanne, good evening. >> r...

At the nations capitol. david long day great work good evening. >> reporter: good evening. former president back at his home in new jersey tonight after making that appearance earlier in dc federal court this afternoon. now this is trumps third indictment in four months. i watched the proceedings, the former president stood up, stood up, pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges stemming from his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. he was fingerprinted today but...

For defendants facing this many charges, say if he were not the former president and the republican foreigner for 2024? the defendant who is not trump would probably seek some kind of deal to plead guilty, as about 90% due in federal criminal cases did just last year. chief legal correspondent and the host of -- christian, greenberg the former federal prosecutor who served as the deputy chief of the criminal division of the -- new york. lashes start with this thought experiment. i think you coul...

The judge refused to open the jury selection process up to the public and forgot to swear in the jurors, according to a court transcript reported by Reuters.

Motions like that. >> ive heard others say it may happen before the documents case. tom, quickly to you, there is the issue of jury selection and trumps team is saying he cant get a fair trial in d.c. and arguing it should be moved to west virginia. im not going to ask you about the likelihood of that happening. but what is the likelihood that you have a jury in washington, d.c. that is somehow unaware of everything that transpired at that -- on that day and would that make them bias in some poi...