know, churchill and roosevelt. >> i think we'll all be watching it closely. the special report "the most powerful man in the world qum" later tonight only here on cnn. that's it for me. "outfront with erin burnett" starts right now. "outfront" next. breaking news on several fronts. the trump administration asking for more time to provide evidence of trump's wiretap accusations as it misses a deadline tonight. the white house now walking back trump's allegations. breaking at this hour, the report that says up to 14 million more people will be uninsured next year under the gop health care bill. tonight, the white house fighting back. nor breaking news this hour. one congressman handcuffed after a meeting with i.c.e. what happened? let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. the trump administration moments ago asking for more time to provide any evidence that

president obama wiretapped trump power phones during the 2016 campaign. the justice department has a last-minute request tonight. the house intelligence committee said today was the deadline, you have to proof by today or else of trump's explosive charms. this comes as the white house is walking back the president's accusations, sparking questions about the president's credibility. >> when should americans trust the president? should they trust the president, is it phony or real when he says that president obama was wiretapping him? >> again, there's two things that are important about what he said. i think recognizing that it's the -- he doesn't really think that president obama went up and tapped his phone personally. but i think there's no question that the obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election. that is a widely reported activity that occurred back then. the president used the word "wiretap" to mean broadly surveillance and other activities.

>> let's look, though, at the exact words president trump used when he first lobbed the charges in a series of tweets. "terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found." "this is nixon, watergate. bad or sick guy." trump has shied away from the issue ever since. m manu, the department of justice is asking for an expense to the deadline, the intel community saying what? >> they'll give them more time but not indefinite time. they want those answers before the march 20th hearing in which the house intelligence committee is going to have a public session from leading intelligence officials to talk about the issue of russia. they want the information by march 20th, or they're

suggesting if they don't get responses either before or during the hearing, perhaps they can resort to subpoenaing the trump administration for this information, saying they may resort to "compulsory process if our questions are not answered." this comes as a senate intelligence committee also is asking for information. i just talked to top members of the senate intelligence committee who tell me they have made the appropriate requests to the appropriate people. those are the exact words from the chairman of that committee. but he would not say if he's seen any evidence yet. this comes as the larger investigation into russia is ongoing. one of the members who plays a special role in the intelligence committee is senator john mccain, who serves on the committee. he said that there are a lot of questions, unresolved about trump campaign contacts with russian officials.

>> there will be more coming. i just -- i've seen these kinds of things in the past, and i just think that there are more aspects of this that we don't know about. >> one of the aspects are those contacts that allegedly occurred during the election. when i spoke to richard burr, the chairman of the committee, i said will you try to talk to trump campaign advisers, including roger stone, have him come before the committee and discuss what occurred allegedly during the campaign season in those conversations with russians. he said that's part of an ongoing investigation, suggested that they could come before the committee to answer those questions that john mccain says are not answered yet. >> thank you very much, manu. at the white house tonight, still no evidence. that's the reality. they were given today as a deadline. but they have provided no evidence of wiretapping. jim acosta is "outfront" at the white house at this hour.

>> reporter: ask president trump if he has any proof that former president obama wiretapped the offices at trump tower, an allegation he made more than a week ago , and the room goes quiet. white house officials sounded as if they're starting to walk back the president's accusation. >> i think there's two things that are important about what he said. i think recognizing that it's -- he doesn't think that president obama went up and tapped his phone personally. >> reporter: the answers don't get much better from top white house advisers. >> do you know whether trump tower was wiretapped? >> what i can say is there are many ways to surveil each other. there was an ashl thn article t talked about how to surveil through phones, through television sets, and mike wavem that turn into cameras, et cetera. >> reporter: she said she wasn't insisting that there was evidence that the president was being spied on. >> i was asking a question about

spying in general. chris, i'm not inspector gadget. i don't believe people are using the microwave to spy on the trump campaign. however, i have -- i'm not in the job of having evidence. that's what investigations are for. >> reporter: the president took to his favorite gadget, tweeting "it is amazing how rude the media is to my hardworking representatives." but even fellow republicans are demanding answers. senator john mccain explained the president has two options. >> either retract or to provide the information that the american people deserve because if his predecessor violated the law, president obama violated the law, we've got a serious issue here. >> reporter: after meeting with james comey, house speaker paul ryan is still waiting to see the proof. >> have you seen anything to suggest there were wiretaps? >> no.

>> reporter: but democrats contend the president's wiretapping claims are more about what's bugging him. >> i say that this is all an intentional strategy. when the news starts to get bad for the trump administration, they very intentionally and consistently try to say something outrageous. >> reporter: administration officials continue to say there were multiple reports about surveillance conducted on then candidate report and his team during the 2016 campaign. but erin, that's just not the case. we have asked the white house if they could provide a list of press clippings on the surveillance activity. as of this hour, we have not yet received that list. erin, there were plenty of reports, plenty of conversations about whether the president's team had contact with the russians and so on. but i remember covering that campaign, erin. we followed it very closely. i don't recall any reporting on whether the then candidate trump was under surveillance or being bugged during that election cycle. >> thank you very much, jim. and now let's go straight to the

democratic congressman. i appreciate your time tonight. so the breaking news this hour. the department of justice has missed the deadline of your committee. your chairman has said okay, you can have until next monday. do you support that decision to go ahead and give them another week? >> i guess we don't have any choice. the information is not forthcoming. be t but at some point in time, they have to stop this charade. and after today's unique white house response, i guess we're going to have to expand our request to include vacuum cleaners, microwaves and what not. i guess finally, it's so absurd, i suggest that the white house put their best person on this investigation themselves. at this point, it sounds like inspector cluso. >> let me ask you, your chairman indicated if they don't respond that you could have the subpoenas. would you do that?

do you think that's the right thing to do in this? >> i think there's no choice. the concern would be the minority members of the committee alone don't have the votes to approve a subpoena. it's my understanding that the full committee has to approve this. and aside from the fact that this is a complete distraction from what should be our focus, which is the investigation of russian involvement on the democratic process, we're going to seed subpoena power there, as well. so this distraction has taken away from what we really need to do. but it does stress and point out if we're going to investigate what has happened to our democratic process, we're going to need bipartisan cooperation from the republicans as well. >> do you feel that way, that you're getting that from your cha chairman, on the senate side, do you feel that they are doing this fair and square, they're not too close to trump? >> well, i'll say this, i can't speak on the senate side. in the two years i've served on the committy, chairman nunes has

been very fair. now the test really comes. so far we've started the process as fair as they can be so far. i am very concerned about some of the comments the chairman has made. i'm very concerned at this point we don't have the resources we need to complete this investigation. we need assurance that we're going to have access to everything we need. we're going to have subpoena power and additional staff to go through all the work that needs to be done. >> so you referenced what kellyanne conway said and jim acosta played some of that. but sean spicer also was asked about trump's wiretapping accusations against president obama today. and here is part of how sean answered the question. >> he doesn't really think that president obama went up and tapped his phone personally. but i think there's no question that the obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election. that is a widely reported

activity that occurred back then. the president used the word "wiretap" in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities. >> of course, congressman, the president did specifically talk about his phone being tapped. does this explanation from sean spicer, though, to you, explain what the president did? >> it can't possibly. i don't mean to be flippant, but apparently we're in the business for creating scripts for "saturday night live." i don't know where the satire begins. these are extraordinarily serious allegations about the former president. and to think that you even begin to make that kind of allegation, without the proof in front of you, is an extraordinary affront to the entire democratic system. >> congressman, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you so much. and our news coverage continues. a major government report out

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regulation will bring down the cost of care. unfortunately, it takes a while to get there, because you have to let that marketplace to kick in. once it does, it will be a thing of beauty. >> reporter: tonight, the white house and republican leaders are assessing the impact of the explosive report from the congressional budget office. >> the cbo looked at a portion of our plan but not the entire plan. >> reporter: the new analysis from the cbo estimates in 2018, 14 million more people would be uninsured under the legislation than under current law. the increase in the number of uninsured people would rise to 21 people in 2020, and then to a staggering 24 million in 2026. >> we disagree strenuously with the report put out. we believe our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and their family, not that the

government forces them to buy. >> reporter: the cbo predicts the legislation would reduce federal deficits by $330 billion over a decade. paul ryan is trying to highlight that tonight. >> i'm excited about this analysis. yeah, they overestimate the uninsured number, but i believe if we're not going to force people to buy something they don't want to buy, they won't and that's obvious. >> reporter: but democrats are already pouncing. >> they're torn. some of them are trying to pin a rose on this report and make it sound like it's a good thing. and the others are trying to discredit the cbo. >> reporter: this morning, the white house was scrambling to get ahead of the report. >> so the press is making it look so wonderful, so that if we end it, everyone will say remember how great obamacare is? >> the system is failing on its own. it makes it seem like it's all rainbows and puppies. at the end of the day, if you

have a card but you're not getting care, you have nothing. >> reporter: republican leadership already being hit by a rebellion within their own party. >> i'm not prepared to vote for it right now. >> reporter: acknowledging the cbo would likely report back that millions under their plan would lose their coverage. >> the one thing i'm certain will happen is cbo will say not as many people get coverage. you know why? this isn't a government mandate. >> reporter: as backers of the plan fire preemptive shots at the cbo for doing its job. >> i love the folks there, but sometimes we ask them to do stuff they're not capable of doing. and estimating a bill of this size isn't the best use of their time. >> reporter: as house republicans try to down play the projected drop in the number of uninsured, senate republicans are using these new numbers as

new ammunition against their own colleagues. senate republicans here tonight reacting to these numbers, saying they're very concerned and refreshing their calls for the house bill to be changed and altered, potentially rewritten drastically. paul ryan not moving from his decision, saying this plan will not be altered, erin. that sun till it gets over to the senate. >> thank you. now let's go to tgene spurling senator rick santorum. senator, let me start with you. the 14 million more uninsured americans by 2018. 24 million more by 2026. premiums slated to rise 20% before falling. you look at those headlines and you've got to say ouch, don't you? >> yeah, those aren't good headlines. but they're really not

unexpected headlines, as speaker ryan said. if you don't mandate something and you're going to cut some of the subsidies in place, fewer people will get insurance. i think the number is a little high. i think the idea -- they don't change medicaid in the first year. so i don't understand how you get such a big number coming off in the first year when there aren't that many changes. but the overall direction is correct. there will be fewer people that will be insured. we'll spend a lot less money. the deficit is going to come down, and this is what's not talked about. over time as the market adjusts, you'll see lower costs, more plans to offer lower cost plans for younger people who even today are not in the market get in that market. >> i will give you some of the private analysis out there. s&p had a dramatically lower number opting out of insurance by 2018. but gene, you hear his analysis. but secretary price said the cbo analysis is totally bogus.

here's how he put it. >> it's just not believable is what we would suggest. we'll look at the numbers and see. >> gene, the cbo has been wrong before. it estimated the number of uninsured would drop to 30 million, it was 22 million. could this am sis nalysis be to wrong? >> no. they're pointing to things that make common sense. of course none of us agree with cbo on everything and they can't be perfect. but this report is like a report about my basketball shooting. it would say i can't shoot but i'm slow and can't jump. this says 24 million people are not going to be covered in ten years compared to now. it says that co-pays and deductibles will rise. it says if you are an older american, you are a double loser because they can now charge 66% more, but you'll have less subsidy.

and if you are someone who might have someone in your family with a disability or going in a nursing home and need medicaid, there's an $880 billion cut. so you can quibble around the edges. but the point is, where are they doing this? this is like they are fulfilling a political slogan to end obamacare at the expense of tens of millions of our fellow citizens, neighbors, friends. they should start all over, and there are things that democrats and republicans could do to fix things. they do have a $100 billion proposal in there to make sure the market's more stable. but why are they talking about deductibles being too high and then they end cost-sharing subsidies? and they talk about more competition, you know what they're saying? they're saying they're going to allow people to offer you worse plans with higher co-pays and deductibles. so the one good news in the report, the cost might be a little lower after 2020 is only meaning that it will be lower because you'll be getting a

worse plan with higher deductibles and more co-pays. >> does it necessarily mean that, senator? lower costs because you're getting a worse plan? >> well, we do believe in choice. and what obamacare never did is give people choices and ratcheted up the benefits for everyone -- >> it did have requirements for certain things that are important for people to have, right? it included -- maybe you disagree -- but some things people would like to have like maternity care as an example. >> for little sisters of the care, they don't need that. so people should buy the policy they want. that's a basic understanding that republicans have said from the beginning that you shouldn't be forced to have coverages that you don't want to have covered. and whether it's abortion coverage or a whole host of other things, those things -- >> how does an insurance market work? you need to have kids to have a society function. if only people having babies pay for maternity care, it's going

to become very expensive. >> i understand that. but obamacare put a lot of requirements and a lot of things in these -- loaded up these plans that are very expensive and aren't necessary for people particularl lly a lot of younge workers. the reason obamacare is failing is it's done a bad job of getting younger, healthier people into the mix. now, do i believe that the ryan plan does that? i don't think it does -- it does an okay job, it can do better. the answer is for republicans to take a step back and do what gene and i did back'90s when we worked on welfare reform. we said all of the decisions shouldn't be made in washington. that's why you're getting this comment that it's obamacare light. because the republicans are trying to fix obamacare at the federal level instead of doing what gene and bill clinton and a

lot of others did in the ''90s, which is let the states innovate. give the money for medicaid and for the private sector and let the states do the innovation. that to me is the way you can get a bipartisan support for this bill. >> gene, is this bill workable from where it is now in the sense of will they get enough people on board to get it through? >> i cannot understand why a republican governor or a republican senator would be for this when it's going to hurt their own citizens. i appreciate senator santorum mentioning bipartisan, but i don't agree with him in this case. in terms of medicaid, you want a guarantee for people with disabilities in nursing homes. i don't want to make state governors have to ration health care so that -- and mean 14 million less people are on, and

that's not about health care reform. that is to pay for the tax relief in this -- that goes mostly to the top 1%. here's one thing everyone should think of. of all the savings, are any on special interest on health care, are any on high income americans? no, all of it is on people with disabilities and nursing home and near poor who rely on subsidies and medicaid. how is that a just way to deal with health care? there's fixes we need. we should do it in a bipartisan way. this bill gets a failing grade, and i don't think senators on the republican side want to see it come over to their chamber. >> thank you both very much. next, 50-mile-an-hour winds, 100 million americans in the path of this snowstorm. and a u.s. congressman handcuffed after a meeting with i.c.e. we'll talk to him, next.

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breaking news. n nearly 100 million people bracing for a winter storm. the blinding snow and heavy winds expected to pick up in the northeast in just hours. the storm slamming states to the west and it's intensifying at this time. expected to drop about two feet of snow in many areas, crippling travel across the east coast. and airports right now, more than 6500 flights canceled. you can see the mayhem caused already. president trump tweeting, everyone on the east coast everyone be safe and listen to officials. meteorologist jennifer gray is "outfront." a lot of people say they can't believe this is happening in mid march. what is the track of the storm? >> this happens in march sometime, but this could be the biggest storm of the season. we have two areas of low pressure that are going to merge

and create this nor'easter and blizzard-like conditions across the northeast corridor. anywhere from say just north of philly to the boston area, under that blizzard warning, rest of the area under those winter storm warnings. this is a huge chunk of the northeast, a big population included in this blizzard warning. so we are going to see wind gusts anywhere from 55 to 65 miles per hour. and at times, visibility will be less than a quarter of a mile. so let's take this hour by hour. and you can see as we go through tomorrow morning that's 4:30 a.m., you can see new york city already in the snow, getting close to boston, philly in it, as well. it will pick up in boston by the time we get to the 8:00, 9:00 hour and we'll be in it for probably 12 hours. of course, the big question now is, how much of this warmer air where you see the warmer rain, how much of that will move to the west? so the more warm air to the west

will lower the snowfall amounts. but looking at one to two feet of snow in new york. we could see anywhere from 12 to 14 inches of snow in boston along with those very gusty winds. we could see downed trees, powerlines, things like that. here's your snow forecast. this is the american model. you see the bull's-eye through connect connecticut. boston, 8 to 12 inches in this model. the european model, we could see 18 to 24 inches in new york city. you see that bull's-eye. it gets much, much bigger. the forecast is a little fluid. we'll be watching it hour by hour. just keep in mind, travel is going to be a huge problem tomorrow. 6,000 or more flights canceled. so it doesn't look like the northeast will be going anywhere fast tomorrow. >> thank you very much. no votes in congress, delayed visit by the german chancellor

to president trump. impacts across washington, as well. and breaking at this moment, a u.s. congressman handcuffed. democrat luis gutierrez restrained today when he would not leave an immigration office in chicago. he had a list of demands. but according to gutierrez, those demands were not met, so he staged a sit-in. according to the department of homeland security, he was warned three times to leave. he did not comply. and, well, he is now with me "outfront." congressman, thank you very much, sir. let me start by asking you what happened today? you went in for your meeting. you had your list of demands. they asked you to leave. you didn't. you got handcuffed. what happened? >> here's what happened. look, there's a lie, and the lie keeps repeating -- keeps getting repeated, that is they're going after criminals. they're going after the bad people in the immigrant community. the fact is, they're going after

dreamers. there were tweets that they can now be deported. criminalizing them, 750,000 strong. these are americans with everything but a piece of paper. >> do you know specifically, congressman -- i just want to interrupt you there, because the president has said he's not going to go after dreamers. do you know specifically of dreamers that they did deport in contradiction to what the president said? >> yes. we have information about dreamers in california, in mississippi, which you have reported on. in washington state, and we know what we read in the tweets. and so what we did is we said, tell us it isn't so. so they tell us there isn't a change in policy. then we tell them, retract the tweets. so look, somebody has to stand up for them. the fact is, they are under threat. you can talk to them. i talked to them all the time. and they feel under threat. and they are under threat. number one.

number two, mrs. leno, she's been in the united states reporting for 12 consecutive years. >> so let me interrupt you again, because i want people to know her story. francisca leno, four u.s. kids, she went in last week and told to come back in a year. they called her back an hour later and said get back here in july to go to mexico. tell me what happened. >> we brought her up to i.c.e. today and they said there's nothing we can do about it. when you see unfairness and injustice, you must -- it's part of what being an american is. it's to stand up to injustice and to call it out. and to call out the lies. mrs. leno is not a criminal. she's the wife of an american citizen. she has beautiful children. but she's not alone. there was also a case about a --

look, we know this is going on. we are tired of hearing them all the time refer to our community, so here's what we said. we said we're not going to leave until we get an answer. it's almost like calling the bully out. >> an answer out, are you deporting dreamers against the president's wish? >> here's what i -- i want them to rescind those tweets, and to say that the president's executive order, signed by president obama, is still in operation, and that they are free from any deportations, that their work permits are good. i asked them to come forward, and they did by the hundreds and thousands. today is the time for us to stand up as american citizens and to confront our government. whether it's transgender kids, whether it's a woman's right to choose, whether it's $15 an hour, whether it's our environment, whether it's a muslim ban. we must as americans confront

our government when our government is wrong. and that's what we did today. so when they threatened us with arrest, we said arrest us. if that's what you must do. we came here to get answers. you saw what they do. they put handcuffs on and said you're not released. it's very different when it's not in the dark of the night and there's a vulnerable, fearful immigrant community that cannot defend themselves and when they have to confront american citizens in plain daylight. very, very differently. >> our cameras were there. we were shedding light on it. but i want to ask you this. this francisca story is very emotional. when you take that in aggregate, though, you say she used a fake visa, that is a crime. she is in the united states illegally. yes, her children are u.s. citizens but she never got that citizenship. you know, there are some who would say then you should be deported, play by the rules and then come back in.

is that wrong? >> it is wrong for this reason -- there are 5 million american citizen children whose parents are just like mrs. lena. 5 million. should we have a policy across america with those 5 million children growing into adults and what they remember about their government during their childhood is that they were after their parents. look, when they say they're going after the criminals, that bad hombre, the murderers, the rapists, the drug dealers. she's not a murderer. for 12 years she reported to the government. the government has an obligation and responsibility to use discretion as it applies the law. there are millions of american citizen children. we would be better off taking the senate action that was passed in 2013 in which most members of the house, passing immigration reform, and giving her an opportunity to get right with the law. but moreover, 750,000 dreamers got right with the law, but now

you can check their twitter account from last friday. they're not giving them the same safety. it's wrong and we're going to call them out on it. >> congressman, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. "outfront" next, new details, a timeline of what happened in the mass firings in dozens of u.s. attorneys, with new information this hour. and prosecutors in the michael brown case releasing tonight unedited video of brown in the hours before he was killed. you will see what it shows. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me,

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resign. moments ago, i was fired. people affected describe the firings as an unexpected and poorly executed dismissal of 42 u.s. attorneys around the country. cnn learned not even the executive office for u.s. attorneys knew it was coming. the forced resignations initiated just two days after attorney general jeff sessions spearheaded a conference call with all 93 attorneys, announcing the office's new violent crimes task force. sessions saying he looked forward to working with everyone. but press secretary sean spicer says trump is not the first to remove u.s. attorneys. president clinton fired all 93. president bush accepted resignations and removed the rest within six months. sthz >> this is a standard operating procedure for a new administration. >> reporter: president trump met with him during the transition and specifically asked him to remain. >> i said i would agree to stay

on. i had already spoken to senator sessions. >> reporter: president trump sources say attempted to talk to him. and the president's assistant phoned him, but he refused to talk, citing doj guidance. >> the president was calling him to thank him for his service. >> reporter: sean hannity called on the president to fire them all. >> it's time for the trump administration to purge. >> reporter: but the white house says hannity's monologue had no bearing on the decision of the firings. two days before his firing, he was implored by ethics watch dogs to investigate if any trump related businesses in new york are receiving payments and

financial benefits from foreign governments. >> he seemed like the kind of person who would follow leads wherever they went, even if it meant that he might damage a member of his own party. the concern now is whether the person who is going to replace him, who president trump is going to nominate, whether that person maintains an independent, neutral office. >> reporter: any wiretap on trump tower would have likely gone through this attorney's office, though at this point, there is no evidence that any wiretap existed. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. and next, the michael brown video seen in the new documentary, slammed by the prosecutor in that deadly police shooting. he calls it pathetic. so does the video change anything in the michael brown verdict?

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version of the footage. sara sidner is out front. >> reporter: tension rising again in ferguson, missouri. a reaction to a new documentary showing surveillance video of michael brown that has never been seen publicly before, taken just hours before he was killed by police. in the film "stranger fruit" brown is seen inside the ferguson market around 1:13 in the morning. according to the filmmaker, brown hands a bag of marijuana to the store clerks to exchange for cigarillos. >> the weed hits the counter. it's taken. it never comes back on the counter again. what comes back on the counter is you see the guy take two boxes of cigarillos. the clerk puts them into a bag himself. hands the bag with product to michael brown over the counter. so don't tell me that he stole from the store if they handed him a bag. >> reporter: ferguson police say brown did rob the store. ten hours later, he returned.

and police say this video that was released shows him shoving the store clerk out of the way and taking the cigarillos. the filmmaker shows this new video shows brown was simply returning to pick up the cigarillos he paid for with pot. >> the st. louis county police wanted us to see that made it look like there was some altercation that looked like michael robbed. when in fact michael had a close relationship with the store. and regardless of what the store says, that video shows that. >> what are your thoughts on the filmmaker? >> i think the filmmaker, i've never met the man. but if the filmmaker is saying that an exchange took place here, marijuana for merchandise, the film maker is a liar, okay. because it didn't happen. you can see it here. >> reporter: the attorney for the store released the entire video going frame by frame for us, showing brown coming in, take sodas off the shelf, throwing the baggie of what is thought to be marijuana on to the table. then one clerk.

a second clerk does the same and then puts it back on the counter. there appears to be a discussion. and then one clerk appears to wave brown out of the store. the clerk who last touched the pot removes his hands and folds his hands behind his back. it's unclear who took the small bag, but the store's attorney says michael brown clearly had it. >> he has picked up the pot off the counter, and now, right there in his left hand is the pot. in his right hand is the piece of paper. >> reporter: the prosecuting attorney who sent the case to the grand jury says this is not new video, nore relevant. >> the suggestion he is coming back to pick up what he bartered for is just stupid. >> reporter: the filmmaker passionately denies that, sticking with his story. the store clerks have told cnn that they are afraid for their lives as more protests are expected again tonight.

erin? >> sara, thank you very much. i want to go straight to our legal analyst paul callan. paul, there is a particular part to this video that stood out to you about the bag they presumed to have pot inside. you tell me what we're looking at. >> michael brown has come up to the counter. and you notice now someone on the left there has reached for something. and he smells it. so it may very well be that michael brown has presented pot or marijuana to him, and they're taking a look at it. because he wants to barter for the cigarillos, for bag of cigarillos. however, as the film proceeds, it looks like the deal was rejected because he starts to walk out with the bag of cigarillo, and then somebody waves to him and the cigarillos are brought back and put on the counter. now that's the bag that this filmmaker is saying that michael brown came back for the next morning, and that it wasn't a strong arm robbery the next morning, it was in fact him retrieving his own property.

but there is a problem with this. i call it the o.j. simpson problem because you remember o.j. was trying to get his property back in nevada, and he is serving about ten years in prison for that because you cannot use force to retrieve even your own property. assuming -- >> right, even if that version is true. >> it doesn't help. >> yeah. >> and secondly, at the end, we're left now with michael brown being a drug dealer on one day and a strong arm robber on the next. this is all before he confronts darian wilson in the street. >> this is early in the morning, sort of overnight in the hours before. does that affect the case? >> no. >> because you have protests last night. they're anticipating more protests tonight. this is upsetting people. >> i'm telling you, the only thing this helps is the film maker who used to work for michael moore who is obviously getting a lot of press for his film. but in terms of the encounter in the street between the officer and michael brown, that rose and fell on what happened in the street. and the grand jury, there are 13 volumes of evidence that was presented to the grand jury. and they ultimately said that

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