grabbed a leftover pizza crust and had it swabbed and analyzed by a forensic lab and prosecutors say it matched a dna from a male hair off bur lap recovered off the body of meghan. how strong is that evidence in your assessment, cc? that dna is different than is typically used in law enforcement case so this is unique, they are going to be using numbers that are very different than what we would normally hear in court. when they re working with their traditional profile, you will a hear numbers like there s a 1 in 230 trillion chance that this could be anyone else but with mitochondria dn a it s different. 99.96 of the north american population could be excluded and he could not be excluded. so this is a pretty use sneak
terminating the capacity of americans who adopt russian children. so whether or not that was the impetus for this arrest or whether or not she has now tragically become a pawn in the tools available for putin to respond, i don t think this is a normal law enforcement case at this point. vladimir putin s reprisal against americans may be one of the ways in which he escalates this as the officials said. that s why i really worry about brittney griner s case here because the likelihood that vladimir putin is going to release an american who he believes might give him some leverage over american public opinion or retribution, that has
trial but how was it cracked? the first law enforcement case i used my genetic genealogy techniques on. it s uploaded to it a genetic data base. we re not using ancest redna or 23 and me, we re using that one public data base and it s compared to everyone who s already contributed voluntarily. we re looking at people who share significant amounts dna with that unknown suspect. am i right it was the second cousin who had dna in that data base and that s what should led to i guess i should say the alleged double murderer? there were two separate people that shared dna, one was a true second cousin and the other was a half cousin once removed.
we thought maybe this was an original spade of devices that were sent just to target these individuals but now as they continue to arrive, it brings into question when were they mailed, what period of time? how many devices are there? that s the bigger question. i know you don t have a crystal ball but given what investigators have, which is at least ten pieces of evidence that they can look at and sift through, how long do you think it may be before this nationwide manhunt comes to an end, can you even say? you know, the pressure that is under all the people involved in this are under right now is extraordinary, and right before election day. 12 days before election. everybody wants to find out who was this, what was their motivation? what were they trying to do? that s the bigger question. for the forensic investigators and the people putting together this law enforcement case for prosecution by the justice department, they have to do the
that a special counsel was appointed to investigate the leak of valerie plame s name. the premise there was we couldn t investigate ourselves that it happened on our watch. in this case, there s a special counsel looking into donald trump s ties to washington because he fired the head of the fbi who was running that investigation. when they throw this out there, it sounds like jim jordan doesn t even understand the law enforcement case or the legal case to even be asking for a special counsel to look into hillary clinton. sure. well, the most obvious situation is where there s a conflict at senior leadership of the justice department between what s being investigated and their role as somebody who would oversee the investigation. i don t necessarily see that in the uranium one case but let s also remember that that letter that was sent to the justice department saying we re going to look at the possibility of a special counsel was sent the day before jeff sessions was due to