>> you would catch them. see their demeanor. hear their testimony. look at the surveillance evidence. and make your own determination. and so the fact we could watch this hearing and we have having this discussion talking about how the attorneys are argue, how the judge responded back. that was a win for the justice system and we need more integrity so people can have trust in this trial as it plays out. >> that's a great point. you think about honing in on the why. why would these two people not want to be tried together? the comment from his lawyer was he was kind of the more intellectual of the two. pining about the electoral count act. he said sydney powell was more hands on. much more thought of as the master mind. she denies all of that. they don't want each other's stink on them. but if you are sydney powell, people know her from the defamation case. maybe if you are chestboro, you want a big ten foot pole. what about the other 17 including donald trump who has no intention of being tried this year on this case. how does he fare in this? >> i think donald trump is probably looking at his calendar right now because they are not going to set trial for him in fulton county probably until march, april, or may. that's a big negative for him. at the time he will win the nomination, he is going to face a trial of his peers and there could be a verdict of guilty in september or october. so he is the big loser in this case. >> i think all 19 defendants are losers, you are seeing people minimize their own involvement. pointing the finger at others. i would be worried that somebody would cooperate and flip earlier than my client. so i would be a little nervous about someone cooperating in this trial after watching how it played out today. >> the early bird gets the worm. in this case, you think about thatment thank you both for all ofdown insight tonight. i want to bring in former trump white house associate counsel may melman into this. we are thinking about how all of this is unfolding. this is but one of the four indictments the former president is facing but there are a number of codefendants here. there are codefendants in the mar-a-lago case as well. when you are looking at all of this, staking a step back, what is your take in terms of what this is going to mean knowing there is obviously an election 400 or so days away? >> yeah, so trump has said that the march 4th date that is the date settled for the dc jack smith case, so, he has called that election interference. and i think he is right in the sense that it is election interference in his favor in the primary. we have seen trump more than double his support. during this primary season because of these indictments. i think at the very beginning it was maybe understandable. you had alvin bragg's case first. i think people on the other side of the aisle were skeptical of that. all of this playing out during the primary process seems to be helping president trump. does it move an independent voter toward trump? probably not. but trump is i think the near term winner actually with you know, with all of these cases piling on top of him. >> that is interesting to think about the thumb on the scale. we certainly see the money being raised. the government, the consistent talking point. they are really after you. i'm in the way taking the heat for you here. let's go down to mar-a-lago for a second. jack smith has a cooperating witness against a former president in that classified documents ca. it's an it worker and he could testify the efforts by trump and the other codefendants in their attempt to delete security camera footage. that could be particularly damning for trump. are you surprised now that there is that cooperating witness? what would be your suggestion here? >> i am not surprised there was a lot of pressure on this person. because he had a potential perjury charge. he said one thing to the grand jury at first. then he flipped his story. you should really cooperate with us. and i guess if i'm advising trump, i would want to know what was said to this person. at least within the superseding indictment doesn't make me all that concerned because it seems like he didn't have a direct link to trump as far as an obstruction of justice. so i think as clear as you can see it, trump's attorney said there is a subpoena. trump talked. then another person named defendant. that person talked to now this cooperating witness. so there's a lot of telephone. you don't know if he will know who is in trump's mind. so, we will see what it comes out of it. but this person is low level enough that it doesn't. it wouldn't give me immense heartburn i guess. >> there certainly has to follow the leader and follow that game. but then again, there are three codefendants. perhaps testifying against one might induce other pressure in other ways. that is up to jack to prove his burden in this case. there is this point where donald trump was saying he was willing to go on the stand to defend himself at trial. we have heard trump say he would testify. that he would say i would do it but my lawyers say i can't. so in this instance, the idea of him testifying, would you suggest he do so in any of these cases? >> so lawyers are risk adverse. i would say no. trump, you never know what he is going to say. that amount of risk is something you don't need. especially in the mar-a-lago case. the facts are pretty bad. and you want to focus more on the law. what is the interaction and the required state of mind? these questions where you don't want to push the facts and of course, trump will be out there with a whole bunch of facts. so, do i think trump is ultimately going to testify? no. i think these are just words. i guess my one caveat to that is usually defendants don't want to testify because they are presumed innocent until proven guilty. with trump, you are a little bit different. everyone already has their opinion of him. so maybe there is something to be gained about sort of proving your innocence in trump's case that wouldn't be there for a standard defendant. >> certainly it is always the prosecution's burden. but interesting to think about he has conceded the possession of the documents. the rest of course, he is contesting how will that play in the end of all of this. of course i tell you, if he does take the stand, the prosecution will have to have a bib around their neck to stop him salivating at every word he is saying in the other three cases as way. may, nice to talk to you. >> thanks laura. look, the man hunt is heating up tonight in pennsylvania for that escaped murder. he has been on the run now for seven days. tonight. there are new clues. we'll tell you what the police have found next. unlike some others, it supports 7 brain health indicators, including mental alertness from one serving. to help keep me sharp. try new neuriva ultra. think bigger. attention... are you suffering from hearing loss? 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what's going on? >> reporter: right laura. we learned about that today. a new piece of information that discovery of footprints so critical that they have found those because this guy has left very few traces of himself. this is what the lieutenant colonel of the police had to say about the elements of the search. >> reporter: there have been footprints. and there have been other indicaters to us he has passed through a certain area. we had a number of dog scent trails we have followed for quite some time. >> reporter: a couple of other new pieces of information. there was a sighting of cavalcante last night. some homeowners sighted him on the creek bed of their property. they called 911. by the time law enforcement got there, he had vanished. today, we learned, laura, at least for the moment, lieutenant colonel george bivens they don't have any indication he has a weapon on him but they are concerned he might procure one somehow because he has been seen near several homes and it is believed he has broken into at least one of them. >> it has been almost a week since his escape. why are they having such a hard time finding him? >> well, the search area has been shifting constantly. it shifted a little bit to the east today. it shifted back and forth and expanded today. you can also tell when you are out there. this is extremely rural areas of eastern pennsylvania. a lot of farmhouses. a lot of rolling hills. hillsides, forests. i will show you another example of why this search is so complicated. we will pan to your left. my right. our photojournalist jake shire will take you down the railroad tracks. what we are told by law enforcement, you can see down there, the engines. those engines are attached to freight trains usually. these are areas that they are searching. they did tell us that they are searching these areas because they are very concerned about the possibility that cavalcante might jump on a freight train. if he does that, and is successful in doing that, he could obviously get a long way away from here fairly quickly and it wouldn't matter where he is going. at least it wouldn't matter to him. they are securing as many of these areas as they can. but that is part of the challenge. they can secure areas like where i am right now. but all up and down the railroad tracks, that's just one aspect of the search. they also have to comb through forests. and fields. and things like that. it is very, very rural out here which is surprising to a lot of people because we are only about 10 miles west of wilmington, delaware. we are only about 30 miles west of philadelphia. you wouldn't think that it is so rural but it is vast, rural, and at night, it is pitch black and he can move around. that is when he has been moving around. >> you are looking at the same things we are talking about here. do they have enough people assigned to this? how has this man hunt evolved? >> typically it involves a lot of agencies and a lot of people. with drone technology, there is a lot to work with. they do have him contained but he seems to be able to go freely. he is a two time killer and he is desperate. although it is rural, we hear there are houses in the area. we had the sightings and the home invasion. that family was very lucky. but job one is to keep his head down. >> think was convicted of killing his former girlfriend. he is a brazilian national. i can't get out of my head this video of him crab walking up the prison wall before escaping. i mean, it's a remarkable lapse and security and doesn't seem like the first time he has tried to go up that wall or this happened in this prison. >> yeah. looked like spider man. the big lapse there is not so much he spiderred up the wall, it was that there was a blind spot up there. they had a prison escape earlier. and that same person, that person got on the roof. and was able to maneuver around as well. so this was a known sun nor ability. there should have been periodic checks. but within short intervals. once you do it once, you have to red team yourselves and fix it. >> thank you so much tonight. >> thank you. >> next, i will speak with two people who live less than two miles from the prison where cavalcante broke out. and they believe he has actually been on their property. they're next. and find a zone all your own. ♪ ♪ scope squeez. c'mon, we're right there. c'mon baby. it's the only we need. go, go, go, go! ah! touchdown baby! -touchdown! are your neighbors watching the same game? 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>> so we have had reason to believe that perhaps he has. we have a 65-acre farm. with 50 acres on the backside. so my husband and i live in the center of the woods that is about a mile-and-a-half from the prison. we saw some things and alerted police we have been working with. and this morning. there is a tree house clubhouse that has been shut for some time. we had a gate shut for the safety of our five-year-old. we found it shoved open. that would take some brute force. we called one of the troopers and they did come up again and searched the property. but we have several nooks and crannies. we have three barns, hay loft. there are three houses on the property. so, we are a little, we are taking precautions. >> what did you see, charlie, that made you alert the police? besides the tree house? >> on the trail, the one kithara at the barn, we saw, what we think was a flashlight coming through. the officers took our video back. they claim it was some bugs. >> your son's school has been closed multiple days now. it must be very unsettling to say the least to think if you believe on his property, that you have homes on your property, a tree house as well, maybe being tampered with. what are your concerns now? what are you being told by the school as to why it is being closed? >> i guess they are worry about the safety of the kids. kids at the bus stop, he comes through. i don't know. i guess it is best the schools do stay closed. they encourage everyone to lock their doors, windows, so forth. we have been trying to help the officers when they come up here. we grew up here our whole lives. we hunted, our kids played in the woods. i gave a lot of the officers suggestions like if i was on the loose, this is the way i would go. we have been trying to help them out. i ran across a bunch of u.s. marshalls and i said where are you guys at? philadelphia. i said well i grew up here my whole life. i talk to them a while. this is where i would go if i were on the loose. they said you are very helpful. if you want to stay hidden, you will not go in that direction. >> and there are drainage pipes that are pretty, you could get in there pretty easily. there were a lot of drainage ponds. so the biggest reason for the school closures are because of the road closures. so, this whole area within, you know, half a mile to a mile radius has been blocked off. and there are staff, there are children. that can't get to school. they said if there were school buses in the area that had to go through these roads and closures, they would have an escort which is very comforting. >> a police escort. >> yeah. i believe a police escort. they did release that at some point. and that was with what we were told. honestly, i would patrol still drive my child. i want to make sure i can see him going through the locked doors and right into my locked truck. we carry so we are protecting ourselves adequately on the farm here. and we are taking shifts every hour-and-a-half. we have several security cameras around the facility itself. we can get some angles and see what's going on and get the security cameras on our phone. we had monitors in our house. that sort of thing. >> are the police asking you for that footage? are your neighbors doing the same? is it a mutual understanding to hand it over every time it comes in? >> yeah. so our neighbors are being very cooperative. everybody seems to be super cooperative. police and agents are being very friendly. being cooperative with us as well. there is a big group effort. one neighborhood broken into is walking distance. they ac