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Exoneration statement. and if folks are engaged in the improper behavior we will calf them again. >> harris: matt gaetz, great state of florida. thank you very much. thank you for your kind words about my book. i appreciate it. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: so for more on the many legal angles here bring in fred, a former federal prosecutor and former aanalysis stant u.s. attorney general in -- assistant u.s. attorney general. is "insub board nant" a legal term -- "insubordinate" a legal term...

Require secrecy. put aside whether or not we talk about indictments. rule 68 of the rule of criminal procedure make it clear. you are not to leak anything. i will tell you -- and every person in law enforcement will tell you that leaks dont help the investigation. in any way, shape or form. they tip off people to the way the prosecutors and the investigators may be going. they do a lot of really bad things. that is why by the way, its against the law to leak this stuff. so it troubles me when i ...

Head of the fbi, the statute obstruction, whereas a federal prosecutor i prosecuted federal officials for obstruction of justice and this is very difficult to prove.you have to prove there was an investigation, there are a thousand things had to happen. he can lawfully remove james comey, they to be able to establish an instruction trenton that is weak at best. i do not see that going anywhere in my humble opinion. >> if they do sit down with robert mueller, is the focus of the discussion, what ...

Get discussed. >> interesting. well have to see how that all plays out. fred tecce, former federal prosecutor, thank you for your time.>> thank you. >> thank you. honoring the men and women that serve their country. and to remember those that never returned home and how todays ride for freedom made history. and border patrol union clarifying the controversial comments calling one of the presidents actions to protect the border a quotes colossal waste of time. >> nobody praised the president more...

Government doing that. everything wrong with the government spying on a candidate. on the opposition party. it is watergate. spy gate. and without any warning to him. >> on the other side democratic senator chris coons sees a very differently.>> a critical role in the fbi providing is counterintelligence? when they began getting evidence that the russians were engaged in a broad campaign to try and influence the 2016 election, i think it was appropriate for the nt is a confidential informant to ...

Timing? el chapo arriving in the u.s. on the eve of the inauguration of donald trump. is it just a coincidence here? do you think theres this -- what donald trump is saying today, that theres a warming of relations with the mexican president and himself? which is it? >> i love the way people spin stuff. look, you know, the cynic in me says its not. when i was a federal prosecutor and handled extraditions we had to deal with the united states state department. theres a very, very big political as...

>> thanks for having me. heather: fred, im going to start with you. theyre looking at this as a possible robbery gone bad, but the victim here was 12 weeks pregnant. is how will that change, possibly, the charges or the sentence? >> well, a couple of ways. first of all, you should the circumstances here -- under the circumstances here, theres not enough to enact the indiana death sentence, but there is a statute on the book that was passed after a bank teller was shot when she was carrying twins...

But this is a sentence enhancement because the victim was pregnant. interestingly, had this woman been sufficiently pregnant that this was a viable fetus, this defendant when charged would be eligible for the death penalty. in this instance i think because she was pregnant, im not sure you have to show intelligent. id argue that you dont. its a sentence enhancement. if i shoot somebody driving in a car and they run into five other people and kill em, you dont have to show that i intended to kill...

Could potentially lead it to an appeal and it gets reversed because you went into overreach. so the prosecutors got to be tailored. really need this evidence, its not to be very valuable and withstand appellate scrutiny. in the case that i had, the judge can did not allow that evidence to come out before the jury. >> and, bob, youre 100% right. i would not be, if i was a prosecutor, raise it at trial as long as it was under the statutory minimum. i think this is a sentencing thing. im with you. ...

>> she was driving, and then she hear a pop. she thought it was a tire or something, and my son started crying that his back was hurt. and then, you know, she turned on the heights on the car and everything, thats when she saw a lot of blood. jon: thankfully, that little boy is now home from the hospital and is expected to be okay. heather: we have some new information on a manhunt in indiana for whoever shot and killed a pastors pregnant wife. amanda blackburns wife officially ruled a homicide,...