lie or to mislead federal investigators, he could face up to 20 years in federal prison although because he has no prior record, it would be more like two years according to the federal sentencing guidelines. but you re right, don. i think the importance of this shows you this investigation is much broader than we had thought. a lot of the attention has been paid to child sex trafficking. that s the big whammy punishable by up to life in prison, and it contains a lot of salacious allegations. but it s more than that. it s potential witness tampering, potential identity theft. after all, joel greenberg has pled guilty to that already. then you have campaign finance violations possibly. then you have that controversial trip to the bahamas back in 2018 which could lead to charges of violations of the mann act and pay to play bribery. so there are a lot of headaches ahead for matt gaetz. hmm. this is politico s reporting, that investigators are looking at a phone call gaetz had with a wi
internal injuries. her aorta was severed. she also had lacerations to her lungs and liver. the jury found fields guilty on a number of counts, one of them being first-degree murder, which is punishable by up to life in prison. ultimately the judge in the case will decide fields sentence but will consider the jury s recommendation. fields also faces 30 federal hate crimes charges in a separate case. following the dooed deadly violence in charlottesville president trump infamously said this about what happened there. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. you had people in that group excuse me. excuse me. i saw the same pictures as you did. very fine people now. first-degree murder. joining me now is wes lowry, national reporter for the washington post. wes, good evening to you. thanks for having me, don. so obviously, nothing can be done to repair the damage done at charlottesville. but do you think justice was
his car. fields was attending last year s unite the right rally in charlottesville when things got ugly between white nationalists and counterprotesters. during the protests fields got in his car and plowed through the counterprotesters at about 28 miles per hour, striking and killing heather heyer. [ bleep ]. that nazi just drove into people. heyer died from blunt force injuries to the torso. she suffered a number of major internal injuries. her aorta was severed. she also had lacerations to her lungs and liver. the jury found fields guilty on a number of counts, one of them being first-degree murder, which is punishable by up to life in prison. ultimately the judge in the case will decide fields sentence but will consider the jury s recommendation. fields also faces 30 federal hate crimes charges in a separate case.
interview? frankly, he s exhausted. he s never done anything like this before. never had all that limelight on him. and he is a nervous wreck. i told him to stay home. he s done five interviews today only and really was becoming exhausted as you might understand, so he wasn t trying to avoid being asked any questions of any sort. he s just exhausted. okay. well, let s get into the issue then. police say jacob used hash oil to make about 1 1/2 pounds of pot brownies. in texas, that is a felony. up to life in prison for that amount. did you have any idea that he could get in this much trouble? dad? i had no idea i had no idea at all, first of all. i had no idea that there was such a thing in the first place. i mean, i was just made aware of the activity when he was
inauguration about a potential quid pro quo in which flynn would be paid to carry out directives from ankara, secretly, while in the white house. i guess it seems like a simple question, really. if true, what could this mean for michael flynn, barbara, and for the trump white house? these would be very, very serious crimes. i think there has been speculation that he could be charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, but this is a completely different kind of crime. this is either conspiracy to commit kidnapping, which is punishable by up to life in prison, or it s accepting a $15 million bribe from a foreign adversary to engage in an official act. either way, this is a very serious crime if the facts merit it, and certainly it s worthy of additional investigation. but if so, very, very serious crime. and it also, i think, impacts the potential obstruction of justice charge. if president trump knew that this was part of the fbi s investigation, and when he asked jim comey t