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Terrorism cases prosecuted in that district. when we called his office, they pointed us to this one case involving the holy land foundation. that was in a different district. when we checked into it it turned out he to be appointed as a special prosecutor to example potential juror misconduct. there was an allegation about a juror in a relationship with a defenda defendant. no charges were filed. he wasn't a member of the prosecution team. we could find no evidence he played any role in prosecuting that case. this claim doesn't seem to be accurate. he may have investigated cases that didn't be...

No evidence he has ever prosecuted a terrorism case. there were no terrorism cases in his district when he was u.s. attorney. his office points to a case against the holy land foundation in dallas but his role there was to investigate juror misconduct not terrorism or prosecute terrorism. the idea he put terrorists in prison just appears to be false. >> ken, would you have us believe donald trump has picked someone that's lied about their qualifications? >> don't be sassy. congressman, philippe, ken, thank you all very much. stick around. we have a lot more to cover. coming up a new report a...

Teeth to the defense motion, which i suspect is related to a mistrial motion for juror misconduct. what does that mean? >> it means that you could possibly have a mistrial. what i'm suspecting -- i've had several in my many trials, i had a couple instances where a juror or jurors were tainted, and it could be they saw a headline of a newspaper in a coffee shop, they overheard two witnesses talking about the case and they made an unfavorable comment about the defendant, it could be it happened to me once where a juror said hello to me in an elevator. >> how likely is it? this judge -- last week...

What do you make, a five-hour delay, i think it was friday. now a 2 1/2-hour delay today. should we not make too much of it? >> in any high-profile case, you have to safeguard the sanctionty of the jury. in a run of the mill case, even in the federal government, that the media doesn't care about, you just don't have that concern at the forefront as you do in a case like this. one juror, one tainted juror can ruin the entire jury and the entire trial. so it's worth being careful. about the rocket docket, federal court in general is one big rocket docket compared to state courts. but even for fe...

Because he's been pushing this trial to go forward and the government would rest today. so it doesn't make sense to me that he wouldn't have scheduled that before the regular court date for this trial. there is also a report that he asked for the roll of the jurors. that makes it sound like there is a question about one of the jurors and maybe that juror or jurors is being questioned about what other contacts they may have had or what information they may have gotten that is prescribed against being received by any juror during the trial. there is also a strong instruction to the jurors when h...