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Suppose but that's outside the normal bound reis of politics and lastly when donald trump is up there calling her a criminal, there's a very specific meaning. you become a criminal after you're found guilty in america by a jury of your peers through a trial process that follows an indictment. you don't become criminal because your political opponent denounces you on it. we have a presumption of innocence in this country and it's another attack foundationally on pillars of american democracy that are cheered loudly and unfortunately by so many thousands of people in these crowds. >> it's back t...

What happens next? >> you know, fred that's a question not so easily answered. that's because some of the key players involved, william porter's new mistrail are still under a gag order since that decision was made last week. it's very difficult to hear from some of these individuals who are key players in the case. that being said, we have heard from legal analysts offering their input and their take seems to be that the ball is in the court of prosecutors. they are the ones who need to make a very key, critical decision here in this case -- do they move forward, retrying porter? do they sele...

That is the choice of the prosecutor, but they can certainly make some objections to change of venue. having it be right here with a jury in baltimore. or even a continuance so that it's not trialed so close to when many people wanted to convict this man. >> the hundreds of trials you've covered and the hundreds of courtrooms you've been in, there's never a perfect science to whether jurors who are deadlocked ultimately end up talking to counsel after the process is over. sometimes they'll talk to prosecutors and defense attorneys about what happened and the dynamic of the jury room, who was l...

Study done several years ago that compared the victims' family members in minnesota to victims' family members in texas. people whose loved ones had been murdered and it followed them through the trial process and through the appellate process. and it found that under all measures, physical psychological, and emotional the family members in minnesota were doing better. they were not traumatized by the death penalty process. and didn't have the scab ripped off over and over during the process of the appeals. >> i'm going to go back to boston. thanks for joining us today. i want to go back to ro...

I'm passionate about it and that's wrong? every prosecutor in america needs to be fired if that's wrong. >> there's a code of professional responsibility that applies to prosecutors and it requires them not to make inflammatory statements that would tend to affect the trial process. now i find that anybodin'ty wouldn't view that as an inflammatory statement. >> where were you in ferguson. >> you have to go back to hear what i said in ferguson. what i said was the justice department made a big mistake contradicting the local prosecutor by doing a parallel investigation at the same time. they bl...