proceeded. circumstantial cases allow you to be creative. you can take a set of facts and weave a story together for the thi theory of prosecution. shawn smoot insisted he was innocent, cycled through five different defense attorneys and the trial was delayed again and again. it was surreal. really, you know, it had been reset 22 times. 22 times. that s torture. it is. it is torture. the trial finally started in july, 2016, nearly five years after brooke died. robert jolly, smoot s fifth attorney, believed the state s case was weak for one simple reason. i don t think that they did a very thorough investigation of anyone other than mr. smoot, even his investigation wasn t thorough. jolly told the jury how
i think what s interesting about what tom cotton was saying is he was talking about don t rush. don t go so fast. time actually is an important part of this, though. we are in march, which sounds like it s early, but very quickly these lawmakers on the hill start running up against their midterm elections where the political pressure gets even greater and that s in the mind of ryan s office as well. they don t want to make it look like this is a process that wasn t thorough or didn t get through the details. they know the longer this goes, the greater the concerns that already exist are going to be. and julie, i think julie? you re not julie. laura. what i also find interesting is that the president is as unconventional as he is, is doing the most conventional of lobbying. things that president obama, frankly, never did. having people over and over, wining and dining them. next week, he s inviting conservatives in the house freedom caucus to go bowling. this is actually he gets t