the three judges on the d.c. circuit court. trump s lawyer, john sauer, said a president could take a page from vladimir putin s playbook by using the u.s. military like a squad of hitmen, and face no repercussions. sauer claims anything short of upholding such an absolute immunity for a president would open a pandora s box of consequences from which this nation might never recover. understandably, attorney james pierce, the lawyer representing jack smith s office in the case, was taken aback by the exchange. what kind of world are we living in if, as i understood my friend on the other side to say here, a president orders his seal team to assassinate a political rival and resigns, for example, before an impeachment, not a criminal act. president sells a pardon, resigns or is not impeached, not a crime.
university. ecuador had long been spared the epidemic of violence carried out by drug cartels. but as the country has become a key shipment point for illegal drugs heading to europe and the u.s., local gangs partnered with cartels have battled each other and the government for control. in 2023, presidential candidate was assassinated after naming individuals he said were involved in the drug trade. ask then the hitmen arrested for his killing were murdered in prison as well. his running mate on tuesday called on the country to unite to defeat the gangs. translator: thts moment that ecuador stands and leaves behind political terrorism. reporter: the country s president declared several of the gangs terrorist organizations in order the armed forces to neutralize the
hitmen, they were looking for a money trail to lead them to his killer. chasing the money trail, did it cost you a lot of investigative hours and time? it cost us thousands of investigative hours and time. as it turned out, the crime would not be solved by following the money. it would be solved by following the shooter s mini van, a vehicle that had been caught on the parking lot s security cameras. weeks after rusty had been shot, investigators tracked the van to this rental agency and then contacted the man who had rented it the day before the shooting. his identity would blow the investigation wide open. the man told them not only that yes, he was the person who rented the mini van. what s more, he said that he was andrea sneiderman s boss, rusty s widow work for this guy. we ll see the person in the police artist sketch? did andrea sneiderman s supervisor from work kill her husband? the boss was a man named