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Defense attorney, bruce fleisher, thought about two words, reasonable doubt. >> a lot of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme, that he had something to do with the murder of melissa lewis. >> reporter: and debra villegas was back in the hot seat herself, being grilled by homicide detectives who bluntly asked her about scott, the ponzi scheme and melissas murder. she had her lawyer with her this time. >> was melissa aware of anything that scott was involved with? and im -- im...

It is rife with problems in terms of identification, reasonable doubt, looks like this person. are you sure? the passage of time, inability to make up positive i.d.? what are you going to do? >> dana: is impossible the material they seized and michael cohens raid and his emails would lead them back to this mysterious actor person? >> kimberly: you know what, dana? anything is possible. if there was the identity of a person and in fact he was acting in concert as specified for someone to go, mayb...

Request. but of course it was all interesting because rod rosenstein is certainly somebody who has been in the presidents line of fire in recent weeks, more so than he has in the past and the president has considered firing him as recently as two days ago in an effort to check the special counsel robert mueller, someone who rod rosenstein said he should continue his investigation into russian collusion and whether the president had anything to do with that. his anger has resurfaced after that ph...

Times. brian? >> reporter: let me ask my other question. has the president had any conversations about firing robert mueller, jeff sessions or rod rosenstein? >> i havent had any conversations about that. >> go ahead. >> reporter: go ahead, kristen. >> can you just answer the question. the president appointed reasonable doubt. how can he call the raid yesterday a witch hunt when it was approved by the deputy attorney general he appointed? >> once again, im not aware of what the process is and wh...

>> with all these messy complications, tonys defense attorney, bruce fleischer, thought about two words, reasonable doubt. >> a lot of of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme that he had something to do with the murder of melissa lewis. >> and deborah villegas was back in the hot seat herself, being grilled by homicide detectives who bluntly asked her about scott, the ponzi scheme, and melissas murder. she had her lawyer with her this time. >> was melissa aware of anything t...

I cant defend the argument, of course, the russians are trying to influence the election. i cant even defend necessarily the argument that there may not have been some collusion. >> so thats an important point. you concede what russia was up to and that there may have been collusion but you say you can still win. >> thats right. i think the most important aspect of advocacy is to concede what you cant defend. you must maintain your credibility in front of a jury. and then draw a line to say, loo...

Defense attorney, bruce fleisher, thought about two words, reasonable doubt. >> a lot of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme, that he had something to do with the murder of melissa lewis. >> reporter: and debra villegas was back in the hot seat herself, being grilled by homicide detectives who bluntly asked her about scott, the ponzi scheme and melissas murder. she had her lawyer with her this time. >> was melissa aware of anything that scott was involved with? and im -- im...

Ponzi scheme comes into play?" >> reporter: the f.b.i. combed through the detectives files looking into a melissa-rothstein-ponzi link. >> they spent a week going through every inch of that case to find out if there was a connection to scott rothstein. >> reporter: with all these messy complications, tonys defense attorney, bruce fleisher, thought about two words, reasonable doubt. >> a lot of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme, that he had something to do with the murder ...

Thank you. >> these jurors are been deliberating over 51 hours now, theyve asked a dozen questions and wanted to rehear several parts of the testimony and what dow think of that? >> and the defense is objecting and objecting again and suggesting there should be a mistrial and the defense has done it numerous times and the court has indicated, look, theyre in active deliberations. proof of that is theyre asking numerous questions. so he said provide me with a case where i should essentially inter...

Wanted to see. they wanted to see, you know, the dozen or so, you know -- they have questions and they apparently wanted to see the phone logs again to reassess, among other things, they wanted to know about, you know, reasonable doubt. now you mentioned earlier, it will be judge oneill who would be involved in a retry if, indeed, that happens. would this judge see that the other 12 potential witnesses would be invited to testify, since in this case that ended in a mistrial, he only allowed one ...