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In order to obstruct the efforts to return those documents even after receiving a federal subpoena. take a listen to bill barr again describing the process. >> they talked to him for almost a year to try to get those documents and he jerked them around. they finally went to a subpoena and what did he do? according to the government, he lied and obstructed that subpoena. so they acted in a very patient way and what they were met with was according to the government and the indictment, very egregi...

>> reporter: it took only five hours for the jury to come to this assistance verdict, convicting robert bowers of all 63 federal charges that he faced, including the capital charges that he faced as well. we had a team inside the courtroom and they described it as really silent as the judge was reading out these convictions. bowers himself was described as being emotionless, and once those verdicts were read, then you could hear some of the air in the room let out and some of the family members ...

Would manage to prevail among the trump advisers, and steer him towards getting indicted. not just willful retention, but obstruction. they are on thompson sterling legal advice, he has been subpoenaed as well. just looking at the scope here, and it was sort of interesting. to nevada vice chair is there, but there have been other state folks. there is an arizona standout perez, and the dean county clerk. on every different angle, it doesnt mean that there will be an indictment, but it does strik...

Here, the obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, the accusations that he killed these 11 worshipers back in october of 2018 while they were practicing their jewish faith. and the use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder during and in relation to a crime of violence and possession of a firearm. no now, alex, we had a producer in the courtroom when these guilty verdicts were being read aloud. she said it was so silent you could hear a pin drop. and he remained...

Penalties. bowers went on a shooting rampage inside the tree of life synagogue in 2018. his attack left six people wounded, including four police officers who responded to the scene. this is a trial thats pretty rare. its just the second federal death penalty case under the biden administration. cnns danny freeman has been covering this trial in pittsburgh, which started more than two weeks ago. danny, the jurors in this case came to this conclusion pretty quickly. >> reporter: thats right. it r...

And tries to take it from them, they respond. >> after five hours of deliberations, a jury found the man accused of killing 11 congregates at the tree of life synagogue in 2018 guilty. it is the biggest attack on jewish people in the united states. blatant act of anti-semitism. >> robert bowers found guilty on all 63 criminal counts, according to local media. we are working to confirm it independently. the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. he was charged with hate crime resulting in...

Including the 22 capital offenses that we have been talking so much about. the primary one here is the obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. basically, the jury found him guilty of killing 11 wore sship while they were exercising their religious belief. we actually heard from some community members today and got their reaction to the verdict. listen to one of the presidents of one of the congregations impacted all those years ago. >> i am feeling a sense of relief...

The jury reached a verdict after just five hours of deliberations. robert bowers lawyers admitted from the outset that hed attacked and killed worshippers at the tree of life synagogue, and they didnt present any evidence or call any witnesses. but they argued against the death penalty, saying his motive was not not religious hatred, but rather an irrational belief that he had to attackjewish people because of their support for immigrants and refugees. thejury, though, rejected that argument wit...

To do with partisanship. >> melissa, can we go back to what you are saying about judge aileen cannon before and the criticism out there, not just from close ties to donald trump but her inexperience on the bench, especially around criminal cases like this? one could say that she is not ready and qualified, but to lay, shes got the job and unless something significant happens, she is not going anywhere. >> we can definitely say that is definitely eyebrow raising, but i think it also masked a bigg...

Perhaps they do as more conduct comes to light. and what works against the former president here is the ongoing obstruction. and that along with the nature and quantity of classified material he held on to claiming that they were his boxes and nobody could even look through them in the face of all of the admissions, there is a continuous ongoing confession process happening in front of the public by donald trump. and in lights of all that conduct, there may be a point as which the deal doesnt lo...