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Whats his exposure legally? >> you focused in on one of the main challenges for prosecutors like joyce vance when they are considering cases like conspiracy cases or even federal bribery of officials cases. you often have acts that may themselves appear innocuous or intent that from the outside appears innocuous such as what if donald trump wanted to benefit his business. but then once you have illegal acts you have to draw lines, connect the dots between people involved and the relative intent....

>> until trial sarah sat wide-eyed and innocent. her videotaped confession didnt get played for the jury. with no dna, no prints, no trace evidence, no living eyewitnesses the case against sarah was entirely circumstantial. first degree murder. >> first degree, yeah. >> but would the jury see it the way he did? after four days of deliberations the jury found sarah dutra guilty of voluntary manslaughter and accessory to murder, not first degree murder. >> had not she been a young attractive tall ...

Whole plot, and her story? well, it was a little different. >> coming up, is sarah dutra a cold-blooded killer or an innocent who was just trying to survive? >> god. i didnt want to end up like him. >> when "poison" continues. with cologuard. we all make excuses for the things we dont want to do. but when it comes to colon cancer screening... im not doin that. i eat plenty of kale. ahem, as i was saying... ...with cologuard, you dont need an excuse... all that prep? no thanks. that drink tastes ...

We should point out that jussie smollett says hes innocent, denies the charges. saying still that it happened to him.what do you make of the larger story here? >> appoints a problem with one writer this week called victimhood and chic. when agreements has gone to such a point identity politics elixir has gone to such a point that people feel like being attacked for their race or their gender is no longer something that is negative on you. it gives you power as a victim. think about, im assuming ...

A very good friday morning to you. im jim sciutto in washington. could be a newsy friday. >> it might be. dont go anywhere. good morning. im poppy harlow. washington is bracing for special counsel muellers final report on the russia investigation. this report could come at any moment. first this. "empire" actor jussie smollett is digging in just hours after bonding out of jail. he was back on his set, the set of "empire," gathered his fellow castmates and crew members and apologized. >> but inst...

We finally have federal drug courts. the first step act that we just passed, i was one of the sponsors for that, and there was such good work on that bill by so many people on both sides of the aisle. finally we said, you know what? maybe we can look at some of these long drug sentences, non-violent drug sentences, and give people a break and save money in the process, right? and we need to look at all of our sentencing like that. my job as prosecutor was, yes, to convict the guilty. but also to...

>> lawrence: we have to be conscious of the ideology she subscribe to. in her eyes, we are infidels. she could be a sleeper cell coming to this country to commit more attacks. >> juan: the interesting thing about us is we as americans to believe in redemption. >> dana: i would rather take care of the refugees in that horrible situation in the refugee camp in syria. i would rather take care of the people trapped an innocent and that were trapped in the middle and someone who made a conscious choi...

Suspects, hes thankful for the efforts of police who are trying to get to the bottom of the case. >> they are tired, they are glad that this prevailed for them. im glad to say that they are on their way home. a lot of police work, a lot of good police work. a lot of hard work on their end but at the end of the day, as i said before, innocent prevails. >> smolett attorney says le continue to cooperate with police and released statement, he said in part jussie smollett is devastated that the perpe...

We begin with the developments out of chicago in the alleged attack on actor jussie smollett. >> it made national news but now smolletts claims are being tested. >> reporter: two law enforcement forces with knowledge of the investigation tell cnn that chicago police believe actor jussie smollett paid two men to orchestrate an assault on him that he reported late last month and allegations smollett denies. the men who are brothers were arrested wednesday but released without charges on wednesday ...

Group of criminals who know about dna and are so careful, what did they do? they planted somebody elses semen and pubic hair and cleaned up all their own dna? >> as you might well imagine, that conclusion that chris tapp had to be innocent, the killer had never been caught, came down like a hammer to the head on angies mother. >> i was extremely angry. when they have dna, not once but twice, that belongs to the same person and its not chris tapp, something is wrong. >> so what did you do? >> i m...