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But federal crimes are different. to have federal jurisdiction, it cant just be sexual abuse. has to be this trafficking, enticing to cross state lines, traveling across state lines, these are the crimes that have the interstate nexus that allow prosecutors to charge them in federal court. so think about whether there are other men who not just abused these girls but actually were involved in the transportation, in the enticement, in the trafficking. thats what it would have to be in order for t...

Dallas area. frank? >> yeah. theyre going to have to develop the residents, whether his parents, family, other relatives exist in dallas. just last weekend you will recall that the gilroy garlic festival shooter, there were at least two locations, nevada was a different state. this guy was residing in nevada, had home connections to gilroy, california. so you can see the interstate nexus here. did this guy purchase his weapons in the dallas area, train there? what brought him to el paso? what is...

All over the place and he was arrested in florida. why the southern district of new york as a jurisdiction. >> a lot of times for federal crimes, you need an interstate commerce or interstate nexus because the mails are used. any federal district could charge it. southern district of new york is uniquely situated to deal with these types of cases and terrorism and bombings and things like that. the task force with the fbi is really second to none in pursuing these cases. we have to remember that...

And he was arrested in florida, why the southern district of new york as a jurisdiction? >> a lot of times for federal crimes, you need an interstate commerce or interstate nexus because the mails were used. really that means that most any federal district could charge it. southern district of new york is uniquely situated to deal with these types of cases of terrorism and bombings and things like that. the joint terrorism task force with the fbi is really second to none in pursuing these cases....

To this alt-right white supremacist side group? >> what you have to understand from the fbis perspective, this is going to be worked as a civil rights violation. civil rights violations are salient to the particular area. in the new york office of the fbi, theres a focus on a lot of international terrorism. not so much on the domestic end. in the areas of the country, the more rural areas out in the midwest, out in the west and say down in the deep south, thats more where you have domestic terro...

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