the jury gets back to work and brian claypool, we appreciate your insights.syrian opposition storming towards the capital, as more on the powder keg in the middle east. more on that next. >> there is a new push for a cease-fire deal between israel and hamas before president-elect trump's inauguration and the teamworking with qatar on the truce. joining us now, stephanie. >> hey, molly. the qatar prime minister said there are two key issues here, whether there's a willingness to have the prisoner exchange and whether there's a desire to end this war in the first place and that prime minister held the doha forum today and he reconfirmed that the committee is renegotiationing, and mediating them and engaging with the incoming trump administration. >> we have seen a lot of encouragement from the incoming administration in order to achieve a deal even before the president come to the office. >> and earlier this week, donald trump issued a warning to hamas, threatening all hell to pay if the hostages held in gaza were not released by the time he returns to the whit

dennis murphy (voiceover): brian claypool was one of dalia's new lawyers.he entire jury pool, which contaminated the jury pool. dennis murphy (voiceover): and so, more than seven years after dalia dippolito was charged with hiring a hitman to kill her husband, she would go on trial again. when she heard the news that she had been granted a retrial, she was extremely overjoyed because she felt like she would have a second chance to have the truth be told. dennis murphy (voiceover): she would speak exclusively to dateline. and, oh, what a story she'd tell, this real housewife of boynton beach-- so much better than reality tv. andrea canning (voiceover): coming up. they just started manufacturing all of these things. did you want to have your husband, mike, dead? no. andrea canning (voiceover): murder for hire or audition for television? brian claypool: dalia dippolito was used as a pawn by the boynton beach police department to manufacture good tv. andrea canning (voiceover): a cliffhanger of an episode is coming up, when "dateline" continues. long after gues

the marine veteran on that charge she faces four years in prison but criminal defense attorney brian claypool say he will have a strong appeal. the trial has lasted a month stemming from the incident last year when eyewitnesses say neely was hurling threats before being placed in a threshold -- chokehold. prosecutors argue he should have known better with his military training. their client saved others and prosecutors have not proven patty's are restraint was the direct cause of nearly's death. family member's of neely say while their loved one was troubled they feel his death was unnecessary. >> on behalf of the nearly family i apologize to all the people who were truly afraid for their lives on that train. jordan neely didn't have to die that day. >> reporter: deliberations pick up monday morning. back to you. arthel: thanks. paul: donald trump is in paris for the reopening of the iconic notre dame cathedral and getting reacquainted with several other world leaders who french president emmanuel macron invited including as you see britain's prince william. cabinet nominees trying to sway se

. >> jason: joining me now is brian claypool, criminal trial and defense attorney. alsely reported a crime, she destroyed these men's lives. what's your reaction to what happened here in this admission that she lied the whole time? >> yeah, hey, jason great to be with you. wow, did you see how she presented that? it's almost like she's a kid at the playground that stayed too long and her parents got mad at her. wow, okay. i mean, this is devastating what happened. not only as to crystal mangum jason but one step further. what about the local prosecutor whose face you put on the screen what about the state attorney general in north carolina back in 2006, both of them are equally if not more responsible. why? because local and state prosecutors are the gate keepers for victim, alleged victims like this who come forward and want to ruin the lives of somebody else by say they were sexually assaulted. until we start vetting out these liberal prosecutors that are looking at a case like this saying oh, there are racial overturns let me go after these lacrosse players who ar

let's bring in criminal defense attorney brian claypool. this case is not looking good for baldoni. back in january where she actually had to confront baldoni and also jamie heath, director and actor what she wanted to stop. among her claims were that some of the demands addressed including no more showing nude photos of images of women to blake. no more mention of baldoni's or heath's previous pornography addiction or personal experiences with sex, no more descriptions of their adding genitalia or adding sex scenes. no more discussion about blake's weight or deceased father and more. she laid it all out. he launches a smear campaign and why she is suing to show others you can't get away with this kind of behavior. she gave them a pass at first. >> julie, merry christmas, by the way. this is a devastating lawsuit for baldoni, not only him but his way fare production company. just because you produce a movie it doesn't become your personal playground to carry out all these nefarious alleged sexual overtures to your lead actress. in california, julie, you have to really prove two thin

criminal defense attorney brian claypool agrees with penny's defense and described the judge's decision what that does is induce deuces jurors to throw up their arms and say, okay, let's just get him on the lesser charge. it's patently unfair, and it's a miscarriage of justice. >> reporter: the trial has lasted more than a month, and prosecutors argue neely, when was homeless, battling mental illness, had an outburst on the subway last year that only lasted about 30 seconds. they say penny's chokehold went, quote, way too far. penny's defense team argues their client protected ores -- others, pointing to subway riders who were grateful penny stepped in. after the high stakes deliberations on friday, activists maintain that this case is still about a racism. >> racism is still alive and kicking in america. there's no other way to view this. everyone has looked at the case, can and those among you with who say that daniel penny is innocent have racism and bias in your heart. >> reporter: so now penny face up to four years in prison, but per new york state law the judge could decide to sen

criminal defense attorney brian claypool says if there's a conviction penny defense team has a strongjudge should have asked that jury why they hung. because there's a legal justification defense for penny that's a self-defense. and if there's jury agreed that penny was entitled to self-defense, then he's off on both charges. reporter: the trial has lasted a little more than a month. stemming from the incident last year when eyewitnesses say neely was hurling threats on the subway before being placed in a choke hold by penny. neely later died and prosecutors argue penny should have known better with his military training. the defense argues their client saved others, and that prosecutions have not proven penny restraighten was the direct cause of neely's death. family members of jordan neely say while their loved one was troubled, they say his death was unnecessary. >> on behalf of the neely family, i want to apologize to all of the people that was truly afraid for their lives on that train. jordan neely didn't have to die that day. he didn't have to be murdered that day. reporter: so

joining me now, brian claypool and andrew stoltmann, both are criminal defense attorneys. brian, let's start with you. so the judge dismissed the manslaughter charge despite instructing the jury that it couldn't consider the other lesser negligent homicide charge without a conviction on that. more serious charge. so the criminally negligent homicide here or manslaughter, explain how this ended up happening, given what the judge had said earlier. >> yeah. hey, laura. >> great to be with you. >> i mean, look, this is this is really good news. >> bad news for daniel penny. >> what? this judge did, if you think about it, you've got some jurors we don't know how many. >> laura. it could just be one juror that was hung up. there might have been 11 jurors wanting to acquit daniel penny on on the manslaughter charge. and maybe just one juror that wanted to convict him. but the fact that there was a hung jury on the more serious charge is not great news for daniel penny, because now the judge is saying on monday they want the jury to hear the lesser charge, right? the negligent homi

claypool and saltman both criminal defense attorneys. briani will start with you, the judge dismissed the manslaughter charge despite telling they couldn't consider without a convince on that more serious charge. so, the criminally negligent homicide here or manslaughter. explain how this ended up happening given what the judge had said earlier? great to believe with you. good news, bad news for daniel penny what he did. think about it some jurors, we don't know how many, law, one juror that was hung up. might have been 11 jurors wanting to acquit daniel penny on the manslaughter charge and maybe just one juror that. ed to convict him. but the fact that there was a hung jury on the more serious charge is not great news for daniel penny now the judge is saying on monday they want the jury to hear the lesser charge, right? the negligent homicide is just being reckless and that caused the death. if you have already got one or more jurors hung wanting to convict penny on the more serious charge, then rest assured, when they dlicialt on monday they