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Actually. >> you said they had rushed the charges? >> i've been critical of the decision that the state's attorney made, only because we know that freddie gray was arrested on april 12th. he died on april 19th in the hospital. she announced her charges on may 1st, anderson. i have never, in my career, seen murder charges brought against six different defendants in under two weeks. you just simply cannot investigate and put a theory together for a trial that quickly. and so, i'm not surprised that this jury struggled with this case. and i think that we need to call it what it is. this really is...

He is 27 years old, two years on the job. he testified well. i mean, he was very humanized to this jury. he talked about him growing up in a similar neighborhood. he volunteered in the community and wanted to make the community better. i think the jury liked him. and i think that goes a long way in a case that is not very clear like this. and remember it's a case of an officer not doing something. and what is really interesting in watching the trial was when they went through the evidence, you know, the medical people went back and forth but when officer porter testified he explained i had bee...

Hung jury. so this is a really big problem for the prosecution, especially because they say they needed porter's testimony for the next two trials. one is january 4th, which is the van driver, officer goodson. the next one is january 25th, which is sergeant white. so if you don't have that information, if you don't have that testimony, what do you do? and the public's confidence, i think, in the system, has been shaken, because of really prosecutorial immaturity. >> jeffrey, you have been saying all along, the case against porter wasn't very strong. >> yes. and you know, think about it. there ...

She's the one that prosecuted this case we're watching now. there's been a mistrial. the jury hung on all counts. we won't be hearing from her, right? because ari melber was reporting earlier that there's a so-called gag order in place, saying that no one can talk until the completion of all six trials of the various officers who are charged. >> exactly. the prosecutor could have, i guess tried them together or tried more than one officer at a time. they made the decision to charge them one at a time, so the gag order extends through all six potential trials. we have to wait and see if a new t...

Geneva area. and a wanted man who travelled to syria may be back in europe they are concerned about him. there are three factors all of which contributed to this alert. >> and do swiss authorities have any idea where the guys who were planning these attacks on the u.s. are right now? >> they do not have a handle on that at the moment. there were four individuals picked up in these communication streams discussing these plots to hit these various cities, including chicago in the united states. european intelligence services don't have a handle where they are or where that van driver was either ...