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Smarter legal minds, i think, are going to be battling it out. >> youre plenty smart, but carrie is a legal mind. i want to bring in carrie on this. i heard lot yesterday that the legal landscape for jeff sessions became more bleak after comeys testimony yesterday because comey seemed very aware of whatever it was that precipitated the recusal from the russia investigation. whats your take? >> well, it was clear that former director comey when he testified yesterday, he indicated that theres mor...

In 1959, caught after a grocery holdup in st. louis, ray was declared a habitual criminal and sent to the missouri state prison for 20 years. you have a guy who wasnt very bright, wasnt a good criminal, wasnt the sharpest tack. >> hes smart, hes plenty smart, intelligent. >> smart enough, jerry said, not to get caught most of the time. >> they dont catch him on the other crimes, you know. so he had done a lot of things he got away with. >> almost eight years later in 1967, james earl ray escaped...

Holdup in st. louis, ray was declared a habitual criminal and sent to the missouri state prison for 20 years. you have a guy who wasnt very bright, wasnt a good criminal, wasnt the sharpest tack. >> hes smart, hes plenty smart, intelligent. >> smart enough, jerry said, not to get caught most of the time. >> they dont catch him on the other crimes, you know. so he had done a lot of things he got away with. >> almost eight years later in 1967, james earl ray escaped from prison by smuggling himsel...

Ray turned down a transfer to an honor farm. prison records say he did so because he didnt want to live in an integrated honor dorm. in 1959, caught after a grocery holdup in st. louis, ray was declared a habitual criminal and sent to the missouri state prison for 20 years. you have a guy who wasnt very bright, wasnt a good criminal, wasnt the sharpest tack. >> hes smart, hes plenty smart, intelligent. >> smart enough, jerry said, not to get caught most of the time. >> they dont catch him on the...

Wasnt the sharpest tack. >> hes smart, hes plenty smart, intelligent. >> smart enough, jerry said, not to get caught most of the time. >> they dont catch him on the other crimes, you know. so he had done a lot of things he got away with. >> almost eight years later in 1967, james earl ray escaped from prison by smuggling himself out in a bread truck. he headed for chicago taking a job as a dishwasher at the indian trail restaurant. then on a summer afternoon, downstate in alton, illinois, a bank...

Botched robbery of a taxi driver in 1952. ray went to prison for two years. then three more years in federal prison at leavenworth for stealing post office money orders. ray turned down a transfer to an honor farm. prison records say he did so because he didnt want to live in an integrated honor dorm. in 1959, caught after a grocery holdup in st. louis, ray was declared a habitual criminal and sent to the missouri state prison for 20 years. you have a guy who wasnt very bright, wasnt a good crim...