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>> but before the judge allowed justine to leave the witness stand, the prosecutor stepped to the podium and asked a question on behalf of the victims families. a question that froze the courtroom. >> what they wanted to hear from you for a long, long time also is "im sorry." can you tell them that? >> im sorry for your loss. but i cannot -- i dont know what youre meaning by, you want me to say that im sorry. >> and so the hammer came down. >> its the order of the court. the defendant is committ...

If heather was hoping for a shorter prison term because of that, she didnt get it. instead, solicitor scarlett wilson noted she continued to lie about important details after she made her deal to testify. because she broke the deal, the sentence, 39 years. 14 more than ethan. >> this was heather kamps kill. while certainly ethan mack was involved and certainly he laid his hands on kate, i do not believe that but for heather kamp we would be here. >> still, said andy savage after the fact, solici...

Plea agreement. the plea agreement will get him out of spending a lot of money on a trial, and it will help president trump by avoiding all these horrible facts coming out just before the mid-terms. so that would be a reason why he might plead even if it was without a cooperation agreement, which means that he would be sentenced for the crimes that he admits in court and wouldnt get any special recommendation from the prosecutors to remove any part of the sentencing that he might get. and hes al...

House, we could have more appropriate oversight. not witch hunts, but trying to find out whats actually happening. >> the democrats would have subpoena power. >> this is one of the reasons why brett kavanaghs possible confirmation is scary because hes written again and again that perhaps presidents dont have to respond to subpoenas. that they can do whatever they want. >> thanks for coming in. coming up, the first sentence is handed down for a former trump campaign aide. george papadopoulos gets...

Judicial appointment in 2003 where they were trying to fudge this issue again, a republican administration was trying not to commit to overturning roe v. wade when everyone knows -- donald trump gave away the game during the campaign and said, thats why were doing this. we are appointing justices so that they will overturn roe v. wade. it seems preposterous that we have to hunt for an e-mail in 2003 to find this. lets not kid ourselves. this is what this nomination is about. whether roe v. wade ...

Person to a long prison term flies in the face of a right to a jury trial. youve written that you believe, quote, it likely will take some combination of congress and the sentencing commission to systematically change federal sentencing to preclude use of an acquitted or uncharged conduct, unquote. why do you take issue with the use of acquitted conduct at sentencing and why do you believe this is an issue that will likely require intervention by congress to resolve? >> the opinions ive written ...

>> hed claimed to be their great friend, sociable, gregarious, larger than life. then said his neighbors, once chris was arrested, he seemed nervous. and now he was gone. and so they wondered, was david novak running from something? the loft friends began re-examining all those stories told them over the years, particularly those about his criminal past. >> started comparing notes and stories and it becomes clear, wow, david told me a different version of that. >> hed been lying, to put it rathe...

Changing once again. the president is admitting his son attended it to get information on an opponent. >> congressman chris collins, the first member of congress to back donald trump for president, has been arrested. >> the time has come to establish the united states space force. >> the president today retaliating against a critic, taking the extraordinary step of revoking the security clearance of john brennan. >> bottom line, paul manafort has been convicted of eight felonies, which carry a s...

He now faces the possibility of a criminal trial and a much longer prison term if hes convicted on all 22 counts of health care fraud. >> it feels so good to know that hes not going to get out anytime in the foreseeable future. i think everybody can rest easier knowing that. and i think my sister would be pleased with the decision. >> weinberger believes that hes the smartest man in the room, and today he discovered hes not. i think this will end for him in jail, and thats our hope. >> as a stud...

He aint from the neighborhood. >> i wonder if you could contrast that analysis with overlaps with yours about the kind of person mr. cohen is and the reports that mr. manafort also entered some discussions of a plea, whether or not it involved cooperating information. >> i think anybody facing a long prison term caves in. >> anybody? >> i can only think of two people, who stood up and said 80 years, ill do it. and other than that, people, mafioso or others, faced with a long prison term "coopera...