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>> all eyes are on iowa. and you get it. you know the responsibility that comes with being first. you know youre setting the tone to where the countrys going to be. >> we are waiting for the big "des moines register" poll to come out. that comes out later tonight but haley is already surging in iowa according to a recent suffolk university poll she is in second now she is cool 22% that is nine points ahead of governor desantis. back out here it live i met smittys. its a really popular diner here...

Willing to do that. >> we have heard a lot of talking on their side about what they are not willing to do, you know, their priority is going to be fighting wokeism, we have not seen any sort of this is what we would do policy wise, this is what we want to do with the nations finances or anything close to that. lets talk about this committee appointments, kevin mccarthy placing some of the holdouts that originally opposed him on those key smittys. both paul gosar and lauren goldberg iran oversigh...

Thats the way i felt. >> narrator: smitty had now been found not guilty of a total of five murders. clive and tom warned smitty that the government wouldnt be happy about twice losing to a president of the outlaws. smitty was now squarely in their sights. >> sooner or later there was going to be another round. what form or format it was going to take he didnt know. >> i was saying, smitty, you know, you have a big old knock on your back, there are going to be a lot of people who are very angry a...

>> out of the two people, which would had the best training and the ability of doing explosive work? holley said that smitty had that experience from his time in the military. >> narrator: karl holley described how he carried out the hit with smitty. >> holley and smith went to jacksonville and met with another biker who provided the c-4. he brought out a three-foot stick of the explosive, they cut off a foot of it and they started a continuous drive to new orleans to conduct the hit. they went ...

>> announcer: after smitty was exonerated, prosecutors dropped all charges against his alleged accomplice, a still-missing yankee. but smitty was now a marked man. >> after being acquitted for the murders in ft. lauderdale, i had people with badges saying that they were going to get me off the street one way or the other. >> announcer: a few months later, police told smitty he could come to the station house to pick up his personal items from the investigation. >> well, im in the office signing ...

And that woke me up out of a sleep. so i immediately grabbed a pistol. >> it was the side that i go in because i was a little smaller and a little bit more agile. just as i was kind of holding on, swinging my leg through, thats when this big man comes out with a .45 pointed at me. >> i was naked, just me and the gun. she looked at me and i looked at her. >> and i had two officers on either side of me, and they both had shotguns, and they were yelling at him, "police officers," and they racked th...

Tampa, the federal jury, that hes been in prison for 12 years, thereby telling them, oh, this is a bad dude, hes done bad stuff. we asked the judge, we need to tell the jury that hes been acquitted and the judge said, no, because thats hearsay. how is it that the government can say hes been in prison for 12 years and were not allowed to say, yeah, yeah, he was in prison for 12 years for a crime that we acquitted him of. i mean it just made no sense to me. >> narrator: the government also had a s...

You join any organization that would call themselves outlaws?" i mean, "does that mean youre a criminal?" and he said -- >> outlaws is not a criminal organization. ever since i returned from vietnam, i have been an outlaw to society. i just felt i didnt fit into society anymore. >> this is something that he was testifying from the heart. and when he said that, you could really hear a pin drop in the courtroom. >> announcer: procedures couldnt shake smitty on the stand and failed to present a mot...

Die or go to prison for the rest of my life, on the other handy make up a story against smitty, who i didnt like, which one am i going to do? >> narrator: in 1990, smitty caught a break when the u.s. supreme court ruled that improper jury instructions had been given in many new orleans trials. smitty was granted a new trial. clive and tom now had a chance to challenge the states case. >> what i think became very clear when you saw the whole picture of all of these statements, the major informant...

Grandparents, all of that stuff was military at one time or another. i dropped out of high school. my dad says, youre either going to go in the service or youre going to go to school, but youre not going to live in this household unless you go to school, and so i said, "sign the papers for me." i was a cocky youngster, and i went in the army when i was 17. and from there i went to vietnam, end of 1966. i was patriotic. i believed in the red, white and blue. i was fighting for america. i came bac...