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But what do you make of -- this is her version of her relative's account. >> this underscores for me as a prosecutor how difficult this case is. when you see the initial video t was clear to many people he was injured, he seemed to be screaming in pain and seemingly dragged to the van almost like a rag doll. many people said he was standing on the bumper of that van, i didn't see that. i saws someone in pain being assisted into the van. but now you have these different versions of events coming from several different people and that is it case that the prosecutor is going to get. so for all th...

Plot. they called a couple witnesses yesterday. we don't have specific guidance about their plans, the defense that is. we have heard local reports they call may just one witness today and rest their case. then if they do that today, the judge will go through procedural issues including the 30 counts 17 of those could include the death penalty if convicted. it will take some time for the court to tell the jury the instructions on each of those counts and perhaps the jury may get the case later today or some time tomorrow. but we're thinking this week for sure that the jury will probably get. c...

Cross examining witnesses. she is setting up this it case to keep the guy alive and that's what it is all about. to answer your original question. certainly the defense is using guilt or innocence phase to the the death penalty phase and putting in the argument that it was the older brother that forced him to do all of this. and that argument will resonant throughout. it is a horrific case and has to be dealt with. >> if the prosecutors want him to stay in jail and he doesn't deserve to die? >> the prosecutors will go after the death penalty. >> me injecting my own. i am not a victim you can t...

Into it case by case in my view without a lot more detail. >> it is at the same time difficult, i think it's difficult to explain in what sense torture is illegal once it's documented to this extent but nobody has ever been fired for it let alone prosecuted for it. there's a case that the only person who has ever faced any legal ramifications for torture in this country is john kuriko, he's the only person prosecuted. >> if you look to history we prosecuted u.s. military soldiers for waterboarding people during the philippines insurgency. we prosecuted japanese soldiers and i believe executed ...

Coincidentally it happened to produce information we were not aware of, that it was the executive branch as well as congress that was lied to or deceived about the program. but i think to focus on individuals takes you into a place where you've really got to bring in so much other circumstance about what they knew, what they believed, what their role was. if somebody was told that the attorney general of the united states had said that this was legal and that their boss had said this was essential to the national security of the united states and they did not know better, that's a very differe...