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Dying declaration for help. you just cant escape that really bad fact. its far from over. people have to understand is this is a real chess game. theres a reason officer william porter trial went first. theres a reason the trial will be the van driver whose has more serious charges. there is a strategy and plan. >> coming up, who is in a stronger position today than they were headed into last nights debate? the fight before christmas. who was the winner. our roundtable will tell us. thats coming...

In a similar neighborhood. he volunteered in the community and wanted to make the community better. i think the jury liked him. and i think that goes a long way in a case that is not very clear like this. and remember its a case of an officer not doing something. and what is really interesting in watching the trial was when they went through the evidence, you know, the medical people went back and forth but when officer porter testified he explained i had been on the job two years and told the v...

Seemed that part of the defense of officer porter was that it was the drivers fault. it wasnt my fault. i total them what to do. i told them. they didnt do it. so it seemed that part of his defense was to blame the driver. and the driver is up next. so its going to be interesting because i would guess that the prosecution is going to bring officer porter as a star witness against officer goodson. >> so one of the questions, do they continue on with officer porter and go to goodson, who is is the...

Went to the hospital any earlier. >> right. >> so, you know, as a police officer, youre not -- youre not a doctor. you need -- youve got a little leeway there to be able to make a decision on whether or not somebody wants to go to the hospital or not. >> was it a mistake, sunny, to try porter first? or did they think this was the easiest one? >> my understanding is that they tried porter first, because they needed him to get to goodson, who is, i think, in their view, the most culpable, the van ...

Over any other citizens and over any other group. its not a flawed concept to say that you can be punished for failing to do something especially if you, as a police officer, your entire job hinges on you being pre-active, not just reactive. william porter was the last person to hear freddie grays dying declaration for help. you just cant escape that really bad fact. its far from over. people have to understand is this is a real chess game. theres a reason officer william porter trial went first...

Actually. >> you said they had rushed the charges? >> ive been critical of the decision that the states attorney made, only because we know that freddie gray was arrested on april 12th. he died on april 19th in the hospital. she announced her charges on may 1st, anderson. i have never, in my career, seen murder charges brought against six different defendants in under two weeks. you just simply cannot investigate and put a theory together for a trial that quickly. and so, im not surprised that t...

He is 27 years old, two years on the job. he testified well. i mean, he was very humanized to this jury. he talked about him growing up in a similar neighborhood. he volunteered in the community and wanted to make the community better. i think the jury liked him. and i think that goes a long way in a case that is not very clear like this. and remember its a case of an officer not doing something. and what is really interesting in watching the trial was when they went through the evidence, you kn...

Hung jury. so this is a really big problem for the prosecution, especially because they say they needed porters testimony for the next two trials. one is january 4th, which is the van driver, officer goodson. the next one is january 25th, which is sergeant white. so if you dont have that information, if you dont have that testimony, what do you do? and the publics confidence, i think, in the system, has been shaken, because of really prosecutorial immaturity. >> jeffrey, you have been saying all...

Shes the one that prosecuted this case were watching now. theres been a mistrial. the jury hung on all counts. we wont be hearing from her, right? because ari melber was reporting earlier that theres a so-called gag order in place, saying that no one can talk until the completion of all six trials of the various officers who are charged. >> exactly. the prosecutor could have, i guess tried them together or tried more than one officer at a time. they made the decision to charge them one at a time...

Geneva area. and a wanted man who travelled to syria may be back in europe they are concerned about him. there are three factors all of which contributed to this alert. >> and do swiss authorities have any idea where the guys who were planning these attacks on the u.s. are right now? >> they do not have a handle on that at the moment. there were four individuals picked up in these communication streams discussing these plots to hit these various cities, including chicago in the united states. eu...