the power to charge. there are six officers who are currently suspended. can you walk me through the process? she has all this information from the police department. obviously this is the police department s findings of its own officers. how does she keep that objectivity in looking into all of this? you know there are always questions about whether state prosecutors can be objective in these cases because frankly, they work with police officers every day. so it s not so much that they re biased but they might give people the benefit of the doubt. this is a prosecutor who s the youngest head prosecutor in the country. both of her parents are police officers. she was endorsed by the police union. i think there are absolutely going to be questions about whether she s objective. also, and evan, i m coming to you in a second with what you have on the van stop. finally for you, justin just
long line of police officers xi married to a councilman. is she ready for the spotlight, paul? you know she s the youngest head prosecutor in the country, so this is a big deal for her. she s in the public spotlight, probably, in a way that she never imagined. she s only been in office since november. you know, it s ironic but it s one thing that baltimore prosecutors are good at it s homicide prosecutions. because, unfortunately, they do more than most prosecutors. so they know how to do an investigation. these experienced prosecutors in her office they can do the hard work you know, the question that the citizens of baltimore will have is does she have is the political will to go wherever the charges lead? and for that we just have to wait and see. thank you, paul butler. let s go back to joy reid our national correspondent, msnbc, we are waiting a police press conference. joy, what s going on?
yesterday. he probably got the firing letter today. smacks of political manipulation does it not? certainly seems that way. however, you would like to think that somebody in a position of seeking justice. a head prosecutor, a state attorney would not intentionally withhold information. geraldo: i know we would like to think that. come on, judge. i m coming over. however, i can t tell you how many times i have been involved this a case where something shows up on the last day as we are preparing to pick a jury and all of a sudden there it is. it absolutely warrants an investigation. but you would like to have a little bit of faith in the system. so i don t want to make that leap that it is that that is exactly what happened that it was withheld intentionally but we have to find out. i will make the leap. geraldo: me, too. we are leaping. new york here. we are making the leap for sure. the additional problem is the fact that we didn t see the
somebody leaked this information to the, to the reporter. gregg: right. the judge may want to impose sane shuns who leaked it. say it was the head prosecutor. she testified. she says i m not going to jail, i will tell you. lead prosecutor told me. the judge could come down with all the weight of his gavel and sanction that prosecutor and preclude certain evidence from coming before the jury. gregg: arthur, the person s identity, the defense says, is jeopardizing my client s right to a fair trial. holmes can t get a fair trial because of this leak. isn t that also equally absurd? what you want to do is find jurors, you will easily find jurors, say you have a pool of 200 jurors, i bet 100 of them never heard about the notebook. how does this jeopardize the fair trial? maybe not the notebook but definitely heard about the case. gregg: yes, but the notebook is issue to the relevant to the fox reporter. correct. you re right.
judge said that s against the very basis of our fabric. as far as i know, this has never been done before. i do not want it to happen again. i do not want it to happen again. anything you people can do to accelerate our getting our hands on this scum will be appreciated. that s mike mclellan. head prosecutor, district attorney in kaufman county, speaking on the day his deputy mark hasse was murdered in broad daylight on the street in kaufman county. as the d.a., he s looking at it in two ways, a crime, the murder of a public official that happened in his county. he s the chief prosecutor, he has to prosecute it, and if the deputy d.a. was killed because of his job, because he was the deputy d.a., then the d.a. himself also has reason to worry he might also be a target, right? mike mclellan addressed that concern with reporters after the hasse killing, telling the