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I couldnt live here no more. and i started staying at the salvation army in pritchard. i honestly believed that they would have killed my mom and daddy. >> 29-year-old henry hays looked chipper as his capital murder trial got under way. security is very tight at the trial where in his opening argument, acting district attorney tom harrison charged that hays and 20-year-old james "tiger" knowles went out looking for a black man and found michael donald. >> i put tiger knowles on the stand, and we...

Proceeding. so certainly two very different ways to view the evidence. notably, the prosecutors and the defense both used the same piece of video in their opening argument, something we certainly saw during the oath keepers trial as well, basically the evidence there for both parties to try to use but putting dramatically different spins on it. >> im joined now by a former spokesperson for the paramilitary group the oath keepers, their member and one other member convicted last year. also testif...

>> it made a list of arguments, as well. some of those arguments include the fact that they believe that there is no specific evidence to support the evidence a specific plot that was laid out ahead of january six but instead, defense attorneys are making the argument that they were just caught up in the mob mentality. another argument they made, anderson, was that the protests happened in the capital all the time, that protest disrupt congressional proceedings all the time, and that this was no...

Defenses here, defense attorneys say, look, our clients were there fwaskly as hired security. i wonder how strong you think that defense may or may not be and ohio effective do you think the prosecution was at poking holes in it? >> so its a fairly common tactic when prosecutors make their opening argument. you dont want to make the defense argument for the defendant but you want to poke holes in. i think the defenses dont carry water. the first argument we were just there for security or waitin...

The molalla commission for i think thirty hours in the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee. i had bill burke. i had alex spyro here. i had david shaw and i had top lawyers. they wouldnt even let meve they wouldnt even let that can rely on the on the opinion ofr. my lawyer here. they took t weigh every possible defense so somebody can have a defense of law. thats why we didnt even put under the defense. we just had a close they had opening argument, a closingou argumen...

Can you tell us what you found? >> not only was there not evidence of 8,000 dead voters voting in pennsylvania, there wasnt evidence of eight. >> the fbi interviewed the individuals that are depicted in the videos that purportedly were double, triple counting of the ballots, and determined that nothing irregular happened in the counting, and the allegations made by mr. giuliani were false. >> its where we start the hour with congressman pete aguilar of california, a member of the house select co...

With cassys murder. but with no physical evidence tying him to the crime scene, could prosecutors prove it? here is keith morrison with the conclusion of "suspicion in silver city. " >> it was the day the brooks family feared theyd never see, brad farrington on trial for murdering cassy. >> i never thought we would get this far. >> too far? the prosecutors opening argument was a warning to the jury -- we dont have a lot. >> no one saw the defendant enter cassy farringtons home. no one saw the de...

>> okay, you raised good questions. let me bring it to you about what you are saying to the general six committee on thursday. but your measure, you know d. c. better than i do, it was not the traditional, boring hearing. >> the quality of congressional hearings has really gone down for the most part over the last few decades. they are grandstanding, they dont get to the point by not having all the members giving grant speeches, by putting forth the bullet points in terms of what witnesses tell ...

Fed is the firefighter. there are some who are wondering whether the fire is raging too strongly for the fed to be able to get it under control with only a 50 basis point interest rate hike. we will see when the fed meets next week. christi and boris? >> thank you so much. well donald trump and election lies. that is the focus of the next january 6 committee hearing. it is scheduled for monday and the panel said the hearing will examine former trumps massive effort for fraudulent information a...

Hearing. >> the quality of congressional hearings has really gone down for the most part over the last few decades. they are grandstanding, they dont get to the point by not having all the members giving grant speeches, by putting forth the bullet points in terms of what witnesses tell them turned depositions, all that, it was really like an opening argument in a prosecutors case. these guys over here will know how you have to be concise, tight and really tell a story in a way that is easy for t...