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counsel in the trump's first impeachment trial. and former white house ethics azar under president obama. -- filed a brief on other former federal and state officials in opposition to trump's request for a special master. also with us, -- palmieri, she is a senior political correspondent for putt, and cnn contributor michael d'antonio the author of the truth about trump. so good to have you on. good evening let's get into. it what is your reaction norm, to team trump's response to the doj? how do they get to your by the judge tomorrow? >> my reaction, how would it be received by the judge are probably two different things. my reaction was that it was a ward solid. and they threw everything in there that they possibly could, a little bit of everything, but on, they don't really respond to the two key arguments that the department of justice and made. and that we made in our brief on behalf of former, that i be filed,-able senior republican

long basement officials. number one, executive privilege belongs to the executive. this is it like an attorney client privilege dispute where somebody comes and take your attorney, your client documents. these are the executive branch is documents. so, and number two, that is why there is no special master's case in history, and they don't cite any here, if their papers filed to mcknight, where especial nassar is appointed to mediate a dispute within the executive branch. so i just think that the motion is beside the point. but the judges has said that she is preliminary inclined to so we cannot protect what the outcome should be. we'll be. it should be, to reject trump's request for a special master's. with one narrow little exception. >> okay so listen, i know what i wanted to say because of a quote, but you said that there is something as you sat down, there is the most important part, and what you said it was the most important part of it? >> you know, there were two things and what doj filed last night that really jumped out at me. one was that photograph

attachment f, which we all looked at, pretty much nonstop for the past 24 hours. but i really noticed, and i marks, the bottom of page ten of the brief where it is clear to me that doj is very likely working with multiple informants, and they describe, not only these terrible documents, so dangerous, each one of which these top secret documents could harm lives, but they were concealed. they were removed. efforts were likely taking to obstruct. boxes formally in the room were not returned. that is active obstruction of justice, don. and i think that that is -- you know what we see in washington, the cover-up is worse than the crime. i think paige tent's nails that. >> what do you think michael, because this trump filing acknowledge that classified arguments were at mar-a-lago, they have been saying oh, they were all gone, they weren't there. that he did classified them. , yada yada yada,. >> well the person who signed off on saying that what

happened, is someone who someone who's to be a photojournalist, and now is almost attorney. and this is testimony to who donald trump is relying on now. and i think, one of the things that norman said that really deserves underlining, is that he doesn't care who's harm's. he doesn't care that people might be killed based on his abuse of these documents. and he is has never cared. this is not a person was ever cared about anybody else's life. and his shout out to qanon is profoundly dangerous. this is a group where they have been kidnappings, there have been murders, based on qanon beliefs. and it's worth then what lindsey graham said about how they will be riding in the streets. this is a guy who is completely unhinged. i think that the legal arguments are reflecting that. >> tara, listen, there are a lot of people that are not buying excuses from team trump including carl rove.

-- >> i saw that watch. >> let's quickly on this. none of these government documents are his to have taken. i agree with the deputy director who has said that a lot of the former presidents problems are busy on creation. you -- under the presidential records act of 1978, you cannot take original documents out of the white house with you when you leave the white house, where there you are the president of the united or any of his aides. -- >> so i feel like i'm in the twilight zone. when, when they executed that search warrant on mar-a-lago i was aware of vacation and i was sort of watching it and am i in the twilight zone? why is this even an issue the documents are not his. it's a government document, they belong to government people. why is this even an argument? >> i think you are right, if it belongs to the government, and you take it, doesn't matter what level, who you work for, you can be you know, the janitor, you can have top secret security clearance.

if it doesn't belong to you, and you take, it you have stolen. it's correct? especially since a top secret. i just think about the kind of rigor, and the kind of betting that it takes to even get the lowest level of security clearance in our government. like you cannot have -- given the smallest crime. i remember early on, in the trump administration, a bunch of his aides were walked off the white house lawn because they had admitted that they had taken drugs at some point in their lives. just like marijuana, or light substances et cetera. and they were hauled off as lower level aides. i mean to get a security clearance it requires extensive vetting, and these are obviously documents that not everyone can create. so why did you think that you can just take these almost secrets, if i see this are american treasure in some way? right? and to take them, it's not surprising that they would fight for them back. >> to your point, in this 19-page response from the trump quote. they don't mention, as you said, i don't think there is a mention of obstruction of

justice charge, and there's no mention of declassifying documents. what does that say to norm? >> well they actually concede contrary to trump's arguments that heat wave a magic wand and that they were declassified or automatically declassified when he went up to the resident states. can see that they want a special master, who has the high security clearance. so there is a concession there. look, don, this is not a real legal paper. in the law firm, where i work, if i turned this brief in, and said you are -- inside go back inside again. so they are not dealing with the issue that tara talked about. these documents belong to the government. they are not dealing with issue that michael talked about, the danger and the harm. i don't see documents when i look at that picture! on attachment. as somebody who himself, had the high security clearances. i see people, because behind each one of those pieces of paper, is that human being. you don't get any of that concern instead, you get a

misreading of the presidential records act. they should not be close, but we have a judge who said she is preliminary inclined. so we need now to see if she will listen to legal arguments. and that's why these seven senior former republicans asked me to help them put together that at this brave to explain to her. republicans, to appoint a judge. this is not okay. so >> when you look at this, as someone is an attorney what did you think? we like what the is? this >> i thought that it was -- i thought it was another example of the berry shoddy lawyering, that donald trump is increasingly hoisting upon the world. he can't get good lawyers anymore, don. because they get in trouble, and one of the interesting things about this government filing yesterday was, if i were

donald trump's lawyer -- lawyers. who made these false allege a false representation, i would feel like i had to make my own lawyer. >> so he gets his lawyers and trouble. that means that he doesn't get very good lawyers. >> oh my god! >> and he doesn't pay them. so that's a serious problem. >> trump posted about this photo, the one that you know, was in the doj brief last night, on the response. multiple times, did they. why did you think that he's latching onto this photograph? >> he is obsessed with time magazine covers. this is what is so strange. so he sees the time magazine covers, it's like, oh that's mine. but he also wants people to think that he is -- and that these people were throwing these things around. that's not how week he keeps office. but it's not clear that that is his office at all. and having been in his office at trump tower, i can tell you, it was a mess. so i am not sure that it is in his office. and this isn't how he would've kept things. >> it's been maybe two, maybe

three times, i don't remember, but i remember going there and there was a lot of memorabilia. all of tchotchkes everywhere. >> all on the floor. mike tyson's championship belt thrown on the floor. just awful. >> a lot of that stuff. >> tara, i also want to get your take on this. the doj exposing multiple trump lies. we now know that there was, he wasn't fully cooperating in a timeline showed. that he wasn't fully cooperating yet there was no claims of executive privilege initially. there was never any mention, not a mention, or there was never a mention of the classifying documents here. do you think that republicans are following along on this? >> i -- from the republicans that i've spoken to, they think that this is a huge distraction from all of the things that they want to be talking about in the mid term year, that was poised to be a period for them to take back the house. and to take back the senate. and instead, they are stuck defending donald trump and now they have to answer to joe biden, saying you are in fact

the party of -- >> salami ask you this tariff. >> yes? >> then why don't they -- >> they are terrified of trump! >> he's an adult. >> they are terrified of. trump ultimately, trump has so much power in a party, he can decide who will be the next speaker of the house, he can decide. >> the candy? >> yeah he can. because there are a lot of numbers there that he has. they have his loyalty. he's got the support of the base of the party. he has so much power in the republican party. and as long as he is there. >> i think that there is some doubt about this now because this platform -- to social, he has 4 million followers. he had 80 million followers when he was the big dog. >> and it's in trouble. >> and i'm not sure that he can mobilize his people. >> his favorables are really high. his unfavorable are really high. but there is an extreme polarizing feeling about him still brings up crowds, still brings a primary voters, everyone is terrified about him. the freedom caucus, i mean he's got all of these new.

-- well >> that says more about them than it says about trump. all these people are afraid of this one guy? >> you've got to. go >> i'm not getting in trouble again. >> good to see both of you, i love your response, give me the response a few hands of that break what would happen? >> don't make me do it on. you are fired! >> [laughs] >> wow! okay! >> so one of the doctors that we saw in the scope of the doj has a really rare label. i'll ask an expert what it needs. former director of national intelligence. james clapper. he is here next. thanks guys.

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document sees at mar-a-lago in the doj filing. and new energy questions about the national security secrets contained in the documents that sat in trump's florida home. 20th discussed, cnn national security and former director of national intelligence james clapper. director, thank you for joining us this evening. when you look at this photo, the doj release, and you see these documents, all laid out, it is astonishing. what story does a story photo tell you? >> well first of all it's bitterly makes me ill. mainly ill. to see those documents which are designed to protect very sensitive documents and i guess it's just more confirmation of the complete disregard for security. and protecting these very sensitive documents, what you know, those are top secret, if exposed can potentially result

in great damage to the national security of the united states. this is something that intelligence professionals, one who spent 50 years, and intelligence, protecting this kind of information, that it is really disturbing. to see those documents and the circumstances in which they are retained. >> trucked in the trump team in their filing says the national archives should expect to find classified materials in the 15 boxes that trump turned over in january. because they were presidential records. did you explain the difference between presidential records and classified material pleas? >> well, presidential records that are not classified you know, calendar beaches, press releases, all kinds of material that are presidential, are

classified -- that are characterized as presidential papers. but what are not classified. and cavalier manner and where trump's legal team attempted to blow this off, i wonder if that just reflects their own ignorance of the sensitivity of these documents. and the fact that there is no precedent for this like it happens all the time, it does not. and i know in the previous administration, a great care taken about appropriate procedures for this story, the retention and storage of presidential papers. which are under the jurisdiction, as we all know will, of the national archives. so there is a huge difference and one of the reasons for having those cover sheets, is so you can readily identify when you have a document that you are not supposed to see,

where you shouldn't have. so to me, the defense of this was pretty weak. and again, i wonder whether it just reflects ignorance or insensitivity to how important these documents are, and how protecting how important protecting them is. >> yeah, when you say that this doesn't happen all the time. you know just a couple seconds ago. but several intellects have flagged how where it is to see documents labeled, secret, and sci, the one with the orange border in the front. what kind of information can be in documents with that kind of classification, director? >> well, in the case of sci, that is normally the internal -- that is used to categorize compartments, signal intelligence. that is a collection of foreign intelligence, messages, and

communications. eight cs, and of course if that could be very damaging if exposed. and we only need to look at the case of edward snowden in 2013. and the damage that he caused, by the documents that he stole, and exposed. principally through journalist. and so it has all kinds of implications in terms of our international relations. it causes problems with our allies with whom we share intelligence. if they reach the point where they can trust us to keep secrets, and you know, if no one is held accountable for this, this will not bode well for our foreign intelligence relationships. so there's all kinds of complications and implications here. we talked about agency as, the human control system. which is of some compartment that governs human collections

both from a standpoint of people that recruit americans recruit foreign assets, and the assets themselves. here, potentially, lives are at stake. if they are exposed and a sophisticated in -- service confederate who they are talking about, that -- is you are putting lives at risk in a situation like that. so this kind of slide gives you the heebie jeebies, it really does. the tea cases them which is a decades old system, caveat, used to protect generically, or overhead collection system. that makes me wonder, what is in there about that? that is extremely sensitive and if it's compromised, it allows foreign adversaries to take countermeasures to prevent us from collecting and bleeding intelligence from overhead resources. so again, this is potentially

-- and as i said before, we don't know the sub content of these documents, but potentially, there could be some very damaging. >> that's why we have you here, we love having you. your expertise, your knowledge of all of this, your experience. thank you very much, director clapper. >> thanks don. >> victory for the g.o.a.t.! serena williams. advancing to the third round of the -- match of defeating world number two, a net kontaveit. we are gonna discuss next. plus, later, a black pastor was arrested while gardening. that story is ahead.

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williams, victorious and at the u.s. open, winning her second round singles match against number two seat and net consummate. here's the wingman moments. [noise] [applause] [noise] [applause] >> a memorable one. serena williams just -- >> wow! >> there is the twirl! did you hear that crowd? my goodness! so when it will play doubles with her sister venus tomorrow, and then play a third round singles match on friday. and chewing serena on tonight along with all of her fans,

golf legend tiger woods, watching the match, and the player box. and when we, now contributor and roxanne aaron. president of the tennis association. i am so happy to have both of you on. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for joining us roxanne, and carrie, carrying the energy tonight. three sets, and serena didn't tire through them despite being up again, up against i, say the number two seat. the announcers kept saying serena is back,! she really is? >> yeah. you know, serena said something that i thought was amazing. she took a year off, she put a handful of matches since then. she says her game just wasn't coming together in the lead up to the u.s. open. tonight, she started to feel really good about her serve, about who she was, and she is not picky serena, obviously, those who watched her understand. but what was bear to me tonight was the crowd. on monday, there was okay this might be it, so let's just wish for her no matter what.

tonight >> did a real this victory for her? did the crowd, i thought the crowd was waiting for her to win. >> i felt like don, they were like we are here with you, we love you, we support to, but you have to do it. serena showed up for everyone. and when her serve was on, and you know rucksack a talk to this, when her serve was on. there was no stopping her. there is no stopping her! >> go ahead roxanne, i made you think the crowd willed her? >> i think, so i think so. and she, serena doesn't have anything to prove now. >> right, right. >> so she's out there having fun. and she got her best game on. >> yeah, but nothing tonight there was a little bit of -- you know she wanted to win this. >> i think she did. i think she did wanted to win it. we can see it interface, you can see in her movements. and she wanted to. when she was a come out of this u.s. open with grace. >> yeah, yeah. and i was saying, you know during part of the match, i was like well, this is a valiant

try if she doesn't. but i'm like come on serena, come on you can do it writes! they're all kind of center is going through my head. this is what box, at this is what team usa tweeted. exactly 24 years on this day, august 30, one 1998, she made her debut at the u.s. open, now here she is closing out her career there. releasing, that's a something about what serena williams has given to the sport. don't you think? >> it says a lot about what she has given to the support. and i can say this about being the president of the american tennis association. with some people might not know, we were founded in 1916. >> wow. >> and we were founded because do net period, black and brown, folks were not allowed to play tennis. portenas. and a lot of tennis players, a lot of them had to come through outdoors. -- at the ash. james blake. okay? and catherine adams. the past president of the aca.

but what she has brought in this open era, she has brought some young black players. >> much as tiger, similar to what tiger woods did for the sport of golf. >> similar to what he did for the sport of golf. i mean, she brought in -- talks about how she grew up looking at her. and also coco gauff. >> yeah, yeah. >> she's saying tonight that she hasn't been able to play like this since 98. she hasn't been able to come out and enjoy it. that's kind of a bittersweet statement. and it kind of goes with what roxanne was saying. she just having fun, she doesn't have anything to prove anymore. she's won every title. >> yeah, and she said it apropos. everything was a bonus. everything from this moment on is a bonus. there was an ex and target on our back from the moment she won her very first grand slam which was at the u.s. open. so what we are watching, and i

hope that everyone can understand, contextually what this means. what we are watching, what this means, we are watching greatness. and we are watching it with grace, as sal mentioned. but we are watching the greats come and give her that g.o.a.t. talk. there is tiger woods there. there is lindsey bond in the obvious. bill clinton, monday night. it's going to talk. i respect you, i see you, i understand what you have done, where the great of all time, and you are in your sport, and we can leave that for everyone else to debate. whatever it means after that. but serena right now is really enjoying what she has been able to give. and she talked a little bit, just a little trust tonight, don. and she said i'm serena. i am serena! she was asked, are you surprised but your level of? >> now. >> now i'm a good player. i'm serena. and i love it. >> and the other thing that i like about where she is today, when she, when serena venus first came out. all the conversation was about

their curves. >> yeah. >> their hair. >> and how she dressed. but now, the conversation is about her technique. her class. her style. >> right, right. >> okay? and that's what we want to see. because i think sometimes there is a double standard in sports, and in life, period. so i think i'm glad to see that she is pushing that button to move us from that double standard. >> yeah. carrie, i want to say i don't care, can i tell carry all the time, girl you look at. [laughs] and i said it last night about serena. serena, to my in my fiancée were saying, she didn't have enough states to -- look how good she looks! just, all natural, serena williams doing her thing. >> brawlers, skin, she's coming, in she's giving who she is, as this she just started as a teenager. she's letting you know, i am who i am, i am authentic.

everything about the presentation is true to who she is. >> yeah. >> right. >> serena williams, thank you, i mean she gave us some great stuff on the court. thank you serena williams, and i get to my guest, thank you lisa, thank you. carrie >> thank you. >> thank you don! >> sarah palin losing the special election for her bacon house seat and alaska to a democrat! this is the first time the state has gone blue since 1972. we're gonna tell you why, this is a very big deal. that is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> election news out of alaska tonight, democrat mary -- flipping alaska's vacant house eight winning special election, against former republican alaska governor -- sarah palin. that is according to unofficial rank choice voting results from these released by the state division of elections, -- japan's 48.5%. this win will make total up first alaska native to serve in congress. so she is going to serve the remaining term of the late, gop congressman don young, who represented alaska in the house for 49 years before passing away in march. this bring in our cnn senior -- wrangling.

i was pausing there not because for any dramatic effect i thought i had met something wrong. so just one wanted to get that out there. thank you so much for joining. how big of a deal is it that peltola was able to foot the seat for the democrats? >> look, obviously there's a lot of unique factors that very personable candidate, like our friendship with sarah palin and the family's friendship with don young. she has deep roots in the community. the rank choice voting system adds another wrinkle, but even with all of that considered, she went -- unequivocally supports a nationwide to codify roe v. wade. she was the first politician i can ever remember who has been accurately described as pro-choice, and pro-fish. given her work on salmon preservation. if the state. and she continues the pattern that we have seen since the alito lead majority on the court, overturn roe v. wade, democrats have consistently outperformed the 2020 results

in a series of special elections in new york, nebraska, and minnesota, obviously in kansas, and this was a state that alaska donald trump won by ten points in 2020, 15 points in 2016, no guarantee, that she can hold the state in november. but certainly, continue evidence that abortion is energized, the democratic electorate, and reminded, some swing voters, would you need in alaska to prevail as a democrat. why they have been as it is a trump era republican party. >> so let's talk about what happens in november. because they are gonna do it again for that's your whole term, her totals gonna based off appeal. and two other republicans, nick benedict, and tara sweeney. do you think that she will be able to hold on to the seat? >> i think it's gonna be hard, i think there may be more republican voters who will pick another republican as their second choice than we saw in this first round, where there was many baggage voters who simply did not you know bill in a second choice. but she is the incumbent.

and she is ice as i said, a very personable candidate with deep roots in the community, and with a clear contrast on the abortion issue that she is not afraid to emphasize. she put out a video the day of the supreme court decision saying that she would unequivocally supports federal legislation. and again, that wasn't the only reason why she won, but that was a clear point of distinction. and she did win and it continues what we have been seeing a number of the special elections since the dobbs role. >> all of this is coming ahead of joe biden. primetime speech, where is expected to focus on the battle for the soul of the nation. and the threats facing the country's democracy biden is becoming more willing to call out democratic forces has he founded stripe and recent weeks in your estimation? and is that what democrats need right now, is that what they want? >> well look i think it's not what democrats want it's not what they want a capital, t but small d democrats want we have a lot of trouble in american politics, acknowledging and in eating what is happening.

because it's so far out of the tradition of the way that american politics has unfolded for throughout our history. but the evidence i think it's overwhelming that donald trump is the leader of an undemocratic small d movement. and a far authoritative movement. whether the president should be called a fascist or authoritarian. he is calling out a reality. when you look at the evidence, the two thirds of american republicans state of attorney general, and two thirds of republican house members trying to overturn the 2020 results. when you look at the polling that it shows on the majority of republican voters, multiple processes the traditional way of american like us disappearing so fast that we have to use force to save it. nearly half of republicans describing the attack on january six as patriotism. more than half describing it at the funding liberty. what happened today in michigan, when two republicans went without any real possible cause, on the state candidacy, board voted to deny a place on the ballot to the referendum guaranteeing -- >> a number of election deniers

that we are getting into nominated on the country? as liz cheney has pointed out, this is you know, the biggest threat to the functioning of american democracy that we have seen. certainly since a civil war. and i think there are a lot of people, not only democrats, but those who are concerned about the basic health of american democracy, who, as difficult as it is, say it is important for the president to begin naming this more aggressively, and that's only what i think we are gonna see tomorrow. >> ron brownstein, ron brownstein, thank you. we will be thank you. we'll be looking and we will be talking about the looking, and we'll talk speech tomorrow. about the speech tomorrow. thank you so much. a black pastor in alabama arrested while watering a neighbor's flowers at his neighbor's request. we're going to show you the body camera footage. that is next. it. go to safelite.com you can schedule service in just a few clicks. it's so easy. and more customers today are rerelying on their cars advanced safety features, like automatic emergency breakiking and lane departure warningng. that's why our recalibration service is state of the art. we recalibrate your vehicle's camera,

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flowers, while the neighbors were away on vacation. that's what happened to a black pastor in alabama. even after telling police officers's neighbor asked him to water the flowers, police say they were responding to a 9-1-1 call from another neighbor claiming there was a suspicious car parked at the house in a person that the color quote, did not recognize. now, there is police body cam video of the incident. and we have more tonight from cnn's martin savidge. >> so warm, late spring evening, and a small alabama town of chilis bird. police responding to a 9-1-1 call from a neighbor, reporting she sees a young black male in the car she does not recognize at our neighbor's home, who she knows are away. we're watching the police body camera footage. when officers find is a man holding a garden house,

watering flowers. >> what's you doing here, man? >> watering flowers. >> is that your vehicle? it's not? >> that's the neighbor's vehicle. >> the neighbors? >> approaching -- >> you live here? >> no, i don't live here. >> they're saying this vehicle is not supposed to be. here and you're not supposed to be here. >> they called about, i don't know who called it. >> i'm supposed to be here, i'm pastor jennings, i live across the street. i'm looking after their house well they're gone. >> the scene soon escalates when the police asked 56-year-old michael jennings, a pastor 35 years, provide some kind of identification. >> why are you doing this to me? >> there's a suspicious person in the yard, and if you don't want to identify yourself. >> i don't have to identify myself. >> jennings, who at one time trying to be a police officer and has already told police his name, his occupation, and where he lives, refuses. >> you're not listening.

>> i'm not saying nothing. >> you have no right to approach, me i haven't done anything suspicious or anything. wrong >> moments later, when jennings attempts to use his cell phone, he's placed in handcuffs. >> who called you? >> you will not listen. >> as jennings continues to protests, the lead officer appears to lose patience. and the helpful neighbor is arrested, not even allowed to tell his wife across the street. >> hey, you know what, you know what, 10:15, 10:15, 10:15. i am not going to sit there and have that, dude. they let nothing. now >> despite the officer calling him pastor jennings, he tells his colleagues jennings refused to identify himself. >> we want to investigate a call, he won't give us a claim. i told him we try to call the owner, but still ided his name. >> jennings is charged with obstructing government operations. >> pastor jennings was in your

yard when the police showed up at the scene is, that right? >> that is correct. >> roy milam says jennings has always been a great neighbor, so naturally they are half asked him to look after their home when they went on vacation. >> it was upsetting to know that we asked him to come out, and he got arrested for that. >> harry daniels's jennings attorney. >> he was under no obligation of the law in state of alabama to give his i.d.. nor did he have any obligation to identify himself. >> in a recent interview with good morning america, jennings said he feared for his life. >> i was thinking did i do something wrong, if i resisted, i could have been shot. so, i was trying to cooperate, even though i did not understand what was going on. i was agitated, i was angry. . >> in the police body cam footage, police spoke to the woman who made the original 9-1-1 call. now recognizing the pastor, she tells the officers it is all a

mistake. >> yeah, he loves right there. and he would be watering the flowers. this is probably my. fault >> okay. >> according to one of the officers, the woman also declined to identify yourself. but jennings is the only one who goes to jail. even after jenning's wife shows up with their husbands i.d., ten days later, after reviewing the 9-1-1 call, the body camera footage, and speaking of the officers, the chief of the childersburg police department issued a statement, saying as a result of my investigation, i have recommended to the municipal judge of the city of childersburg that the warrant be dismissed. >> you have no doubt in your mind this was racial profiling on the partly officers. >> while, i think you look at the video, the evidence is clear that they believe, what is the difference between a pastor jennings and the neighbor? a man, woman black and white. and they leave her. >> the attorney for michael jennings says his client does not hold any ill will against

the woman who called police. after all, he says, she was only doing what he was doing, looking out for a neighbor's home. but that same attorney says jennings will be filing a lawsuit against the childersburg police. don? martin, savage thank. you so much and thank you for watching everyone. our coverage continues. bubbles bubbles so many bubbles! as an expedia member you earn points on your travels,

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