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Still, when you look at these targets, you can understand why the suspicion were there earlier. the nations stokes a major media outlet and the forensics investigation into what led all of these to happened. that forensic investigation is still under way. today on the hill we heard about an existing threat encrypted communications used by terrorists. this is repeated to me by every official i speak with and how immediate that threat is and remember the concerned we are reporting about before the...

Cosby ten years ago but he said this morning he didnt have the evidence. >> the basic problem always remained that we didnt have any forensics or anything to tell us what had happened because of the delay of a year between when the event occurred and when andrea kostin came to the police. >> hln legal analyst joey jackson is here to discuss. he says the basic problem always remained, we didnt have anything to tell us what happened. what do you make of the d.a.s comments? >> a couple of things. w...

He was a district attorney, he declined to bring charges against bill cosby and he joins me now by phone. i want to ask queyou about this you didnt bring charges back in 2005 because you didnt have enough evidence. what do you think now? >> well, we still wouldnt have enough evidence. the revelations that came out of the depositions was part of a revelation because we were able to take away the fifth amendment privilege against self incrimination. so the choice i had when we realized and didnt h...

Delecti rule. if he made that statement to our detectives for example, i would have had to take everything exclusive of what he said and add it all up and if there was enough that it showed that a crime was probably committed, then i could use his statements against him, arrest and prosecute him. its a catch 22 situation. its designed to keep people from confessing to crimes they didnt do because they want to be out of the weather in prison. the basic problem always remained that -- that we didn...

Hayes, caring, determined, dedicated cop, never gives up. >> every year, he was bringing more information forward on my brothers case. it could be evidence like the shotgun shells and taking all of this evidence and re-evaluating it, reanalyzing it and bringing in new technologies, new forensics, in to see how that could be applied in this case, and he would go in every year with new evidence to the d.a.s. >> we wanted to bring the case to conclusion. no matter how long it took, we were going to...

Massacre at a black church in charleston brian todd joining us now from greeleyville in south carolina an hour from charleston. whats the latest over there, brian. >> reporter: wolf see whats left of the mount zion ame church. outside the brick structure still there. atf investigators told us not long ago they sent in canine team to look for accelerants to. night federal investigators believe this fire might have been started by of a lightning strike. that according to senior officials in the fb...

Forensics, data collection points to be able to track the bad guys down. >> yes, you do. and you have some of the people who are saying you can still do that you havent lost any ability to do that. you can still get the phone records of anyone. the government can still get the government records of anyone. even after the mandate expired. they dont have the right to get the phone records of everyone all at once. theyll need to go by the constitution thats been good for 247,000 years, right here i...

But after 17 years, there was plenty of dna evidence to charge him with julie estes rape and murder. >> it just was unbelievable that it would be the socks that would hold the true identity of her killer. >> faced with a possible death penalty, elmen decided to plead no contest to julie estes rape and murder. in return, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> how do you feel about everything? >> how do i feel? >> mm-hmm. >> the overall picture? i think this sucks. >>...

To some sort of normality while isis is advancing or is a very real threat, but it shows that even in the capital, there is there still can be these sources of attack. >> now turning to tikrit and these reports, ian, of mass graves that were found, can you tell us more about that? >> yeah. were hearing its just one person shy of 500 people, bodies that have been exhumed from that mass grave. were hearing that they are cadets that were killed by isis about a year ago, last june. these people, the...

>> translator: brokers told our relatives to send the money and beat us while we were on the phone. theyre very bad people. theres little to eat here. some people starve. many are sick. >> cherut managed to escape months ago, but many prisoners never leave. up in the mountain, forensics teams have begun examining 37 graves or burial pits. and on the earths surface, we saw bone fragments of someones jaw. >> one man didnt have any money to pay the ransom, so the brokers beat him. they handed him o...