security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
the case is over 30 years old, it s not an easy case. there is significant evidence here, documentary evidence, forensic evidence, the blast pattern, debris that was picked up, all the little bread crumbs that point to him constructing the bomb. separate and apart, divorced from his admission, circumstantial evidence showing his path from libya to malta, putting the bomb on a feeder flight that leads to the samsonite suitcase on pan am 103. and also witness testimony of individuals in malta that saw the bomb maker at the scene where the samsonite luggage was placed on to the aircraft. but like you state, the confession is also important and there are some issues, some confrontational issues, some hearsay issues, fifth amendment issues, it s not a slam dunk of a case.
probably in the situation watching things melt down and he will be honest, he is there under subpoena, because if he tells a lie that s a violation of 18 u.s.c. 1001 so he has an obligation of honesty and he doesn t want to trip that up. yes, you are correct, he will be doing everything to state privilege, privilege, privilege, and there will be challenges to that to try to draw that out, then you have a question of the crime frauds exception. was anything done that was a breach of the law that was in anticipation or forward-happening that he would have to that the privilege would not cover, or was everything in past tense. so that s going to be a whole other layer and issue here. what could he say about mark meadows that wouldn t get tripped up in some objection because of hearsay or dismissed, discounted because of hearsay. i don t know at this point that we re concerned about hearsay, in a court of law we are more concerned about that. at this point the committee wants to know
let s talk about this young lady on the telephone. i understand that the prosecutor has finally interviewed her, and i was glad to know her mother was there. this will be very trying on this child. she would become the voice of trayvon martin in that courtroom. she is the person who had him on the telephone. and if she can bring the emotion of his fear at that time, i think she will speak for the dead. and it s very rare that you have the opportunity to do that. there will be some hearsay issues. whether or not she should be able to get it in. the prosecution will have lots of theories on the hearsay exceptions. one could be a dieing declaration if there indication that he knew he was dieing or was close to great physical bodily injury, that could lead to death, i think there are some arguments to be made for that.
the stand for a couple of witnesses. i don t think the testimony should come in due to hearsay issues. she didn t talk directly to casey anthony. i think this is a red herring the prosecution is throwing out. the defense is saying, hey look if we know of anything coming up we are following the discovery rules, unlike you defense. i think they are doing a couple of things here. the witness will not come on because of credibility issues too. where did we meet you? owe, in the jail. i could destroy you as a defense attorney very easily on the stand. she is not going to come on the stand, i can guarantee it. jon: the suggestion, joey from the prosecution is that essentially casey anthony tried to borrow applausable explanation as to what happened to her daughter here from another jail inmate. you know what is interesting, jon you started off the segment and you said it was strangely coincidental. the fact that there would be an inmate housed in a dorm with her in 2009 when she was there