related but certainly not identical kind of claim of misconduct? i can certainly understand why the fbi, if they believe that this person was a victim of sexual abuse, didn t want to prosecute him. victims of sexual abuse are not very appealing defendants. but, certainly, if denny hastert takes this case to trial, extortion will be his defense. his lawyers will say, look, he is a law-abiding, honorable citizen who was confronted with this horrible accusation, and to spare his family embarrassment he paid this person off. but that is not he would certainly not admit that he engaged in the terrible underlying act. $10,000 withdrawals, that s what triggers the reportage to the feds. in this case, he allegedly made
rather go with the facts. not only will it not play to the jury it could hurt him with the jury. this case is so tragic where you got the death of a high school girl that was an honor student and, on the eve of her prom at school. the facts are will likely cause the jury to be passionate against him. if they launch an insanity defense and it works, it s not as if he ll be out in the public, right? it s not. the public really does not like the insanity defense because they feel like it let s the person off. it s really not the case. it s really more of a question of is this person going to serve his time in jail or in a mental institution. we know right now he spent the last to months since his arrest under suicidal watch in a mental institution. tough one. thanks so much. lawmakers from both parties are protesting the gitmo prisoner swap that freed sergeant bergdahl. president obama defended the
it was april 1912. when the ship started to sink off the coast of canada, captain smith ordered the crew to prepare lifeboats. they gave an order, all passengers put on your life preservers, get up on the deck. reporter: captain smith ordered women and children be evacuated first. and helped save more than 700 people. he was on the bridge as the ship disappeared, lost among the 1,500 people who perished. decades later, in 1956, an italian vessel, the andrea doria, collided with another ship off nantucket. captain pierre had made a series of errors in dense fog and heavy traffic. yet when it began to sink, the captain tried to make sure all the passengers and crew were evacuated. 46 people died. he wanted to go down with the ship, and pay for his mistakes. but his officers talked him out of it. the captain was the last person
justice correspondent pete w williams, and pete, why would the fbi be involved here? at the request of the local police, and they are called in to provide two types of assistance according to the officials. one is to go through the crime scene and reconstruct what is going on, and that is critical for the police in building a criminal case against this student, and secondly, the provide counselling for victims, a and that is another resource that the fbi has available, and so those are the two things that they are doing, and obviously a local crime and not a federal crime, and so that the fbi is there to simply provide assistan assistance. and in terms of the motive of what led to this, we have not heard anything about that, and there are no firm details that have reached the officials here about the motives, and they waiting to find out with the rest of us as is so often with the cases of violence in the school, whether it was a student who was bullied or whether something else set
you at a bar. drone goes out and runs the person off. once you make it small, it be like a little pet. bob: for a libertarian, i am amazed you find this okay. greg: i would control it. bob: there are government is looking in at you all the time. as much i m in favor of national security it s not at expense of total privacy. you are con incarcerating two issues, you forgo your privacy when you are driving down the road. you said i don t have a right to my own privacy. assuming that i trust you big brother, just film me when i am driving down the road. i don t think that is going to be the outcome and starts letting people get drones at will. that camera could be in someone s backyard.