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Dinardo. avery, what are the consequences now that the suspects now face? that was taken off the table before they learned what we know now about the story. >> well, that was the inducement, fredricka. the idea of taking death penalty off was to find out where the other three young men were. you can't substitute your judgment for mr. weintraub, the prosecutor there. these families couldn't -- needed to know where their sons were. that was the deal. very good work by the defense lawyers. if i'm prosecuting this case, i would go very slowly before you yank capital charges or capital offenses off...

Defense and lead attorney brian mcmona gl really aggressively cross examined that witness. it was a priored about a bad ac and many believe he did it very effectively. the defense did have wins in court and obviously this nullification here today there was nothing positive for the defense or prosecution. bill cosby remained serious and focused. no emotion i saw on him at all when the judge read that a mistrial would be declared. >> jean casarez, thank you so much from norristown, pennsylvania. let's talk about this with our panel, avery friedman, law professor from cleveland and richard herman...

Criminal defense attorney and law professor from las vegas. good to see you, gentlemen. >> good to see you, fredricka. >> avery, let me begin with you, what is the likelihood that this, indeed, could be considered perjury if yet again, there is another meeting that sessions had, didn't disclose it, and it's being discovered now? >> well, it depends on the third meeting. number one, you need someone under oath, you have jeff sessions under oath in january in front of the senate for confirmation purposes and we saw the questions by senator franken, there were also questions by senator lee hey, s...

Whether sessions had an additional meeting with russia's ambassador to the u.s., sergey kislyak during the presidential campaign. you may remember this testimony from the attorney general back in january. >> if there is any evidence that any one affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. and i'm unable to comment on it. >> all right. s...

Channel which our source says was never actually set up, a lot to discuss here. let's talk with avery friedman, a civil rights attorney and richard herman a criminal defense