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Is hoping to have a jury seated as soon any minute. he said as soon s1 o'clock, just a few minutes ago, most of the morning so far has taken up just interviewing a potential pool o, and part of that process is reading through a list of 35 government witnesses that would testify against manafort, and asking the jurors if they know any of the witnesses, the former bernie sanders strategist paul divine, but nobody says that they had a conflict, so we could get an opening argument in a trial that does not have anything to do a secret back channels to moscow and more with the secret bank accounts c...

Bias? >> absolutely not. i think they failed in their effort to do just that because they were trying to grandstand more than they were trying to do what the american people wanted, which is to hear the explanations of peter strzok. and when they tried to use the questioning process to simply further a particular narrative, whether it was favorable or not favorable to him -- had i been in a trial and i had done this very same thing, there would have been so many objections. let the witness actually answer the question. it wasn't an opportunity for me to simply give my closing or my opening arg...

I think they failed in their effort to do just that because they were trying to grandstand more than they were trying to do what the american people wanted, which is to hear the explanations of peter strzok. and when they tried to use the questioning process to simply further a particular narrative, whether it was favorable or not favorable to him -- had i been it's a to get the information. in a trial and i had done this very same thing, there would have been so many objections. let the witness actually answer the question. it wasn't an opportunity for me to simply give my closing or my openi...

Something has been discovered, some dna match." and of course, there was nothing. >> reporter: a point he emphasized in his opening argument at russell adkins' trial. >> law enforcement lost or destroyed several pieces of evidence. >> reporter: neil mcelroy and his partner, ronnie wingate, drilled into the prosecution witnesses, challenging their 30-year-old memories. >> but you didn't remember where it was found? >> no, i couldn't tell you the exact spot. >> i don't remember. i mean it was 30-some years ago. >> reporter: as for the original detective, bob bratton? the defense got him to conce...

There were probably five different people that got up and sang and played music, and just so many people that really have nothing. but they all pulled together, and whatever they had to offer, they did. >> reporter: vera wondered if her former lover was being targeted because he was a biker. but she says even that doesn't matter. >> whether he's a nice man or whether he's a jerk, the bottom line is there was not enough evidence to accuse this man of this. >> reporter: adkin's defense attorney neil mcelroy couldn't agree more. >> my first instinct when i got the case was, "it's a 1982 case, the...