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Aubreys family laid some pretty strong objections. >> jury selection for the federal trial will begin on month. thats expected to last two weeks and then the trial will start. the arbery family has been strongly opposed to any sort of plea deal. they raised the concern on monday and the judge agreed and say she did not agree to the plea deal. heres why the mother of ahmaud arbery was so strongly against this. she said she did not want to see the convicted killers essentially be able to choose wh...

Disrespect of law enforcement. they are encouraging the illegal use of drugs and promote $0 bail and most egregiously, they are continuing to release, gavin newsom releasing prisoners from the state prison left and right. his management of the state prisons in california is something nobody ever talks about. but they were such an abuse of older parole and defender parole, hes letting people out left and right and casting blame on everybody else. he actually -- newsom actually closed the californ...

Tomorrow, former-chicago police officer jason van dyke is set to be released from state prison in illinois after serving just over three years, only half his original sentence for murder until the shooting death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. now, many people expressing outrage at van tykes early release, and demanding that he face federal civil rights charges. more on this story from cnns omar jimenez. >> reporter: now, its 16 shots and an early release. former-chicago police officer jason van...

They have discretion over the way they want to have prosecutorial law in their offices. manhattan d.a. has gotten a lot of public pushback. more than he expected for earlier this month saying he is not going to prosecute ever trespassing, resisting arrest, you can go into a store with a gun and rob it and you will be charged with a misdemeanor. these used to be a thing that would be felony and time done in state prison. even though he has also sort of softened in his public statements, we dont s...

Is it true? >> it is a misrepresentation, we were consulted. the condition was important to the family and that was not something, the terms is fine with the family, it is not something they opposed to. transferring these men from state to federal custody is something they were always against. doj is well aware of that. >> what you are saying that you want the plea deal but you were opposed to these two men serving lets say the next 30 years in a federal prison as opposed to a state prison, was ...

Hate crimes charges, and in exchange, allow them to spend their next 30 years in a federal prison. >> im not surprised that the mcmichaels are concerned about their safety in a georgia state prison. i think they wanted to go to a federal prison because they felt it would be safer and those prisons tend to be a little bit nicer." nicer. >> reporter: late today, the judge rejected the deal for travis mcmichael and essentially his father, too, saying she didnt like being held to a 30-year sentence....

Tomorrow former chicago police officer jason van dyke is set to be released from state prison in illinois after serving just over three years. only half of his original sentence for murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. many people expressing outrage at van dykes early release and demanding that he face federal civil rights charges. more on this story from cnns omar jimenez. >> reporter: now its 16 shots and an early release. former chicago police officer jason van dyke wa...

Murder ahmaud arbery. the deal would have alcloud 30 yearser in federal prison than state prison where conditions are suffer. security assistance is asked for after former donald trump lashed out at prosecutors investigating his business dealings and conduct after the 2020 election. but it was another trump comment getting all the attention here in washington. major garrett reports. >> reporter: republicans and d.m.s hammered former president trump today for suggesting he would pardons to convic...

Home. and why is it? short supply in other regions of the country? the breaking headline involving russia and the rising tensions with ukraine. tonight, russia has just responded to the u.s. and the major phone call now planned for tomorrow. ian pannell with late reporting from ukraine. the battle brewing tonight over the next supreme court justice. after president biden promised to nominate the first black woman to the court, some republicans calling it offensive. but we go back in history ...

There were threats on my life. everybody hated me. everybody hated me. >> at that point, we reached an agreement with jeff sessions. and the agreement was, since tiger had incriminated henry hays, tiger would be allowed to plead guilty to a civil rights violation in the federal system, and was to have been sentenced to a life term. and then we would try henry in state court for capital murder. promises were made to tiger knowles for his cooperation, and he knew that he was a dead man in state pr...