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They presented a version of the defense argument that steve castor presented to the judiciary committee on monday which amounted to 34 seconds of falsehoods. >> the transcript is complete and accurate. it shows no quid pro quo, no conditionality. that's number one. number two, there was no pressure. president zelensky said that at the united nations and in subsequent news articles on october 6th, october 10th, and december 1st. and number three, the ukrainians and zelensky did not know of the pause in aid at the very least at the time of the call. and number four, no investigations were announ...

Roger stone because his own words were used against him and his own texts were used against him, the very documents he told the congressional committee that he didn't have, he did. the very things he said he didn't do, witnesses came and including senior officials from the trump campaign and said he was "the point of access to wikileaks peered" so at the end of the day, he was his biggest . >> bret: what was a defense argument? >> first of all, it was very quick. that's exactly right, they just replayed about 50 minutes worth of the tape and that was an interesting way to get his voice into th...

At the end of the day, they're going to argue that this is very much about intent more than it is about substance. that it's important to recognize that if the president had wanted to approach his dealings with the ukraine in a manner that was inherently corrupt and that if the president was intent on trying to extract concessions and lean on the ukraine, that we wouldn't be hearing from bill taylor, from gordon sondland or from anybody else that this was a perceived quid pro quo, that it would have been a very explicit quid pro quo. house republicans will say, look, this is a president who al...

Happening in a trailer home. the deceased including three babies. the boy's family e and friends are calling for lean leniency. >> some children, even some adults today, have things happen when they were younger. they grew out of it. somebody nurtured them, and they have a very prosperous, productive adulthood now, so i believe they deserve a chance. arthel: our legal panel, trial attorney rachel phelps and former prosecutor david schwartz. rachel, i'm going to start with you. is this charge too steep for a 9-year-old, or it a justifiable charge in and what's the defense argument? how is it go...

To put ryan on trial. >> the killing of ariet girgis was because she interrupted a robbery or a drug transaction or a collection of a debt of some kind between ryan and these two suspects. >> the defense argument, ariet's murder was tied directly to ryan's criminal activity. >> i think that the evidence suggests that he was involved with people that were dealing hard core drugs. >> ryan admitted that he smoked and sold weed. but lohenstein told the jury ryan was doing much more than that, he pointed to the drug paraphernalia police found in ryan's room, tinfoil and what lohenstein said was a p...