For the principle purpose of influencing the election. President trump today is claiming that those Campaign Violations are, quote, not a crime. Thats not what the Justice Department said and same president named as individual one in the plea deal. You can believe individual one who is implicated in the crimes. The president. Who does have a long and storied history of saying thing that is arent true. Or you can believe Career Prosecutors at the Justice Department, two federal judges and a jury of Paul Manaforts peers but you have to pick one or the other. Another falsehood of the president saying that he did not learn of the Hush Money Payments until after theyd been made. Despite the fact, of course, that Michael Cohen recently released an Audio Recording of September 2016 in which donald trump can be clearly heard discussing a potential payment to playboy model Karen Mcdougall and President Trump verified that Tape Tweeting at the time, what kind of a lawyer would tape
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Medical examiner testifies, prosecution rests in Tibbetts murder trial
Dennis Klein. (Court TV screen capture)
The state medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on the body of Mollie Tibbetts testified this afternoon in the trial of Cristhian Rivera, who is accused of killing her.
Medical Examiner Dennis Klein says Tibbetts’ body had deteriorated in the July heat but he was able to find nine stab wounds and there were possibly 12 overall wounds to her body. Defense attorney, Chad Frese, asked if Klein determined one knife was used.
“They would all be consistent with one weapon but I am not able to exclude more than one weapon,” Klein responded. Frese asked about how the wounds occurred. “Could you tell the vantage point of the assailant from where the wounds were located,” Frese asked. Klein said “no.” “So you couldn’t tell if the assailant was in standing front of or behind miss Tibbetts?,” Frese asked. “That’s cor
thought it was. it is not the name on the paper work and they didn t use the dhs e-verify system but an older social security verification system. now, still a lot of unanswered questions here. that isn t stopping the plittization of the death and something people in iowa wish they didn t focus on. the disappearance of mollie tibetts now a case of murder. 24-year-old cristhian rivera charged in the 20-year-old university of iowa student s death this afternoon. you have been charged with murder in the first-degree. reporter: investigators say rivera led them to a corn field tuesday where they found a body believed to be mollie tibetts. he tells us that some point in time he blacks out and then he comes to, near an intersection which we believe he
that incredible, beautiful, young woman. the immigration laws are such a disgrace. we re getting them changed. but we have to get more republicans. reporter: in a statement, the tibetts family thanked the nation for the love and support while asking for privacy as they grieve. friends say they hope the politics now surrounding her death won t overshadow her life. do you fear that the whole illegal immigrant part of this conversation now will take over? we all came from immigrants. this isn t about being political? no, no, this is about mollie being a smart, beautiful very intelligent. intelligent young woman. reporter: people here in iowa are going to be remembering her tonight. she should have been starting the sophomore year of college at the university of iowa. they re going to hold a vigil, jake, in about two hours there on campus so fellow students and
then placed mollie. reporter: investigators say cristhian rivera worked farm. this afternoon, the farm said believed it was doing due diligence and using the wrong system. what we learned in the last 24 hours is that our employee was not who he said he was. and just within the last four hours we have come to learn that the social security administration employment verification service is not the same as e-verify. reporter: within hours of the arrest, politicians began using tibetts death as a rallying point for the right, iowa s republican senators released a joint statement blaming criminals that broke the immigration laws adding, quote, we cannot allow these tragedies to continue. the president wading further in at a rally in west virginia. blaming democrats for weak border security. and you saw what happened to