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>> good evening. tonight, what's next for ukraine? the ukrainian people in the war for their survival? it's turned into a confrontation between the world 's two largest nuclear powers. a year ago tonight, early morning local time, russian forces began rolling into ukraine for what the kremlin expected would be a quick and easy takeover of the country. what they unleashed instead was the largest land conflict in europe since the second world war, and some of the widespread killing of non combatants since world war ii, as well. >> [speaking non-english] >> she it, she it, shift [speaki...

Because, actually, it is indefensible. defense 101, you've got to acknowledge that which you cannot deny and that you know can be proven. so he had to come in and say that he was there because, the one thing that he has, any witness, any juror looks for in a defense attorney and certainly the client is you have that level of credibility. once you lose, it it is very difficult to come back from it. had he denied that that was him, when the rest of us know that it was, he would've lost all of that. he had to admit it, but it definitely pushes the case because it put some very close by, very clos...

Why wouldn't he go to trial with testimony like that? >> another reason you have to look at his credibility, he's cut a deal, the deal has not been disclosed. we know he is just trying to save his own hide, that witness has had his credibility destroyed. >> julie: he basically said he helped bury a body, how do you not get a trial? what kind of deal do you strike with somebody who admitted to burying a body after somebody killed an innocent young girl? how does a judge make a deal like that? >> he's cut a deal, , and overarching deal. >> unfortunately you have to make a deal because as i under...

Guilty but according to the defense evidence doesn't add up. listen. >> when you dig down deep into what the government says and what the facts really are you will see their story is absolutely full of holes. what they are wanting you to do is ignore all the many mysteries and holes they have left in their story. >> julie: joining us now, former federal prosecutor and legal analyst. thank you for coming on, the defense's strongest argument here, a lack of evidence. no dna, no blood, no hair, no fingerprints, nothing. that doesn't physically connect zachary adams to holly bobo's murder. what le...

And kidnapping and killing an innocent young woman you need to talk to a psychopathic person engaged in the crime. that's what you have. the prosecution doesn't pick these people, adams did when he committed the crime and confessed. >> this all comes down to credibility. when you have jailhouse snitch is trying to get better food, better accommodations, whatever it is, they want better of him in jail, it's a toddler trying to get candy. you can't believe a single thing they say. fred knows a lot about prosecution 101. defense 101, you have to instill reasonable doubt which they have done. we h...