First. As it looks like potentially maybe one of those bomb disposal robots from Capitol Police or some other Law Enforcement jurisdiction sort of checking this thing out first and foremost. Tell me what you know. Hi brooke. I can tell you we were standing outside of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting. This is where the iraqi Prime Minister is meeting with senators. This is over half an hour ago. We saw commotion begin. Several Police Officers running through the hallways speaking into their radios. We asked what was going on. They said we were told a helicopter of indeterminate size had landed on the west part of the capitol. Of course, this is highly unusual. This is restricted air space. You need special permission to fly in this area. They did not know why this person had landed an aircraft on the west front. So that was the commotion. After a few minutes, the situation was under control. Police ran over to the man, brought him into custody. Hes now undergoing questioni
Mechanic for several years and left in the 90s, moved to texas. According to the criminal complaint were looking through, he became increasingly radicalized in the late 90s. He then became an engineer for American Airlines a mechanic, i should say, for American Airlines. In 2001 a former employee he worked with at American Airlines tipped off the fbi that he was sympathizing with Osama Bin Laden at time that he made some alarming remarks. So he was put on the fbis radar back in 2001. Clearly they felt like they didnt have enough to build a case on him. So he went on to travel overseas and be an aviation mechanic overseas. In fact he was an Army Contractor in iraq for a period of time, according to the criminal complaint. He worked for several private Companies Working on airplane engines. According to the complaint s in january, early january, he tried to cross over into syria from turkey to join isis and fight violent jihad. Apparently turkish authorities asked him if they could look
and that s unfortunate because i think, as linda says in a case like this if you re going to admit that he was there, you want to start that out in the beginning. it s very difficult to overcome that. i ve been there with jurors before. you can t change positions in the middle of the trial because what happens is you find that you get jurors just like that saying oh that corroborated it. basically what you ve done is you ve kind of embraced the basic prosecution theory. if you re going to do that then explain it up front in the opening. explain it through your cross examination in the prosecution s case. don t wait and then kind of jump on your own client at the end in the closing. you know it s interesting because a lot of the cross examination during the trial of the people s witnesses was, well that tire track could have been made by anybody. it s similar, but there s no evidence it was his car. the footprint could have been made by a similar shoe but no
you could that she cared about odin. did any of you hold back tears at any time in the past couple months? oh yeah. absolutely. it was very hard to read your emotions emotions. very straight faced. was that hard to do? it s something that had to be done. let s bring in our panel here. i ve got criminal defense attorney linda kenny bodden. she was also the attorney for casey anthony. i have attorney jonathan moore and cnn legal analyst mark garragos. mark let me hop to you first. i don t know if you were watching that live. watching all those jurors you commend these people for taking a chunk out of their lives to help decide this but i found it entirely bizarre that they find this man guilty of murder but they re i don t know if it s nervous laughter. how did you read that? well i ve stopped trying to figure out in these high-profile cases how jurors react. it s usually kind of a theater
of the bizarre or the absurd afterwards to have these press conferences, to be giggling or to be laughing and you could be right. i give them the benefit of the doubt it was nervousness. i don t quite understand it. i get that the media likes it but i think it would have been better if they had just waited a little bit before they did it. seems a little ghoulish. linda, to you. you thought, watching this whole trial play out, either not guilty or hung. i was surprised until i heard the defense attorney s closing. what changed me there is he said aaron hernandez could have been holding a gun in his house. if he could have been holding a gun, that gives the jury room to say it. he said to the jury he was there, but he watched it. if that s going to be your defense, you got to start with that from the beginning. you know what the defense for the other two guys is going to be? we didn t know aaron hernandez was going to shoot odin lloyd. if that was going to be aaron hernandez s defens