eric smith was the county's chief prosecutor. >> what was going on?we've all tried hundreds of cases, and these motions for directed verdicts are dismissed almost immediately. >> did you expect it was possible he was gonna come out and say this cases dismissed? he is released? we don't have a case here? >> well, initially, never crossed my mind, after a couple of hours still to cross my mind, after five hours you start to worry. >> for the defense, carl was feeling better by the hour. >> i remember walking outside with my client and saying this is obviously good news, i cannot lie to you judges don't take this long to decide these motions. >> after hours of watching the clock go round, the defendant, out on 1 million dollar bond praying with his circle of friends and families in the hallway the judge at last return to the bench. >> the court has been reviewing this matter for approximately five hours, and i think an extraordinary length of time to review any motion for directed verdict. >> he started, there was a case to be made for the defense's posi

thirty-six manhattan orlando, florida now over police chief eric smith promised early this morning heould find the man accused of shooting two of his officers. we learned a few hours ago swat team did with those two officers expected to recover. jeff paul has the lays on the , jeff. >> bryan, police were able to track down the suspected shooter at a holiday inn in orlando earlier this morning for that is where they say he barricaded himself, refused to come out was then shot and killed by swat officers after according to them he once again fired at law enforcement. the orlando police chief eric smith was asked about the situation, how he felt about it and he did not hold back. >> they put their lies on the line every day to keep us safe in for some piece of crab to do this to them, because they do not want to go back to prison is ridiculous. we are not going to put up with that were going to stay out there fighting crime and keeper committee s safe and regrets us all started last night around 11:00 p.m. local time officers in orlando were investigating a car possibly connected to a ho

griff: you've been watching the police press conference in orlando, the police chief there eric smithying that the suspect is deceased. they've gotten the suspect that had shot two police officers, critically injuring them, but the doctor there from orlando health there saying that the officers are expected to fully recover. let's go back to jeff paul for just a moment. a lot that we heard there, jeff. >> yeah, i mean, and you've got to think about in these types of situations when you've got someone, a suspect according to police already shot at two police officers, then you find out that they have barricaded themselves inside a hotel. you've got to get all of these people staying in that hotel out. it sounds like they did that. they tried to get the suspect to give himself up. then that suspect according to police, as you just heard there, then shot at s.w.a.t. officers, pretty much giving s.w.a.t. officers no choice, but to engage and kill the 28-year-old suspect. what's incredible all of these people, members of the public near the situation, not impacted by both of these shooting

here with an update can on their conditions is orlando police chief eric smith.us this morning. let's start with the update, please, on your officers. how are they doing this morning? >> i got the opportunity to spend last night with both officers. they're doing better, they're in good spirits, it's going to be a long road for their recovery. will: take us behind the scenes. what happened here that led to the shooting of your officers in orlando in. >> so we have a downtown like a nightclub area, we have a lot of officers assigned to that area. two officers came across a vehicle and a suspect, and the suspect was wanted in a homicide in miami, a shootout ensued. he shot both officers, and we ended up getting in a vehicle pursuit because he carjacked another person. we lost him in the vehicle pursuit, but we were able to track him to a hotel the next day where the swat9 team engaged him. he was given the chance to surrender. he refused, shot at our officers, and they shot back and ended his life. will: really quickly, i understand he barricaded himself, essentiall

former diversity trainere an eric smith joins me now. >> all right.o, eric, you know, i have noicj probleoinow.m with diversity. w diversity is great. but why are these silly training sessionits? >> such a problem? well, it's not really diversity how we know it, right? it's diversity of bodies. yes. of colors, of ethnicities. but one thought and that thought abides by a particularss narrative that basically says any problem, basical a black pet is because of racism. any proble m? so when you were doing these training sessions, what were you discovering and why did it make you come forward you t? ect i >> well, this was a while ago when i was a diversity officer, and i realized how useless it was because, well, a, you can't really compel people to do certain things or think certain things. you can't be a thought. policeyo a when it comes to the. things. and secondly, i was always preachin g to the choir.. it wasn't working. there's nothing pragmatic about a lot of these roles. it's just it's idealistic. idel we need to have a diversity person so that p

until county attorney eric smith cold case unit finally made him pay. do you still talk to barbara? >> yes. >> do talk to her in the courtroom that day? >> yes. >> what did you say? >> that i love her. that we miss her. and we finally got him. hopefully she can rest in peace, and we can move on. ove on >> he was well liked, well loved. he was smart, he was fun. i had the most senseless empty feeling. this is how it ends? why would somebody do it. now what? >> white hat. wide opened smile. a handsome young veterinarian and big sky country. >> he loved helping animals. >> he asked me out that night. i was excited. >> and then they found him. dead on the floor. >> two shots went off. and then the third shot into his chest. >> three gunshots that had a long running mystery. who killed the veterinarian? >> i think the perpetrator stood there and watch him die. >> there were so many different leads and rumours. >> i felt like it wasn't for me. >> jealousy? rage? revenge? >> it was a classic who done it. >> could anyone solve it? >> look at what it's done to our family. >> it was hard. >>

eric. but those two boys loudly came to their father's defense this week, after his indictment by jack smith trump saying this on, where else, fox. >> we are no better than some of these third world countries around the world. we are literally trying to imprison political opponents. we are better than this. >> amen, these people have no shame. these receipts, no memory, no shame, no facts. time for some receipts. here is eric trump leading a rally in october of 2019. >> -- lock her up goes to lock him up. i don't know, lock him up. i don't know, i like lock her up a little bit more, but thank you, that's a good idea. i like that idea. >> we are better than this, says the guy who led a literal rally chanting, lock her up and lock him up. i mean, or it's like hypocritical and shameless, a man, don't do justice to what we just saw. and they're either damoff or dishonest enough to just keep doing it, to just keep pretending that it's the democrats who are targeting their political opponents with prison and not them. and the funny thing is, i don't think donald trump is going to give eric any mor

why didn't this out of control rogue eric holder, obama biden, prosecutor, garland's man, smith bringse charges? because he had no evidence. rebellion or insurrection? all of the testimony that january 6 committee, all this testimony all of the witnessing all of the documents, not a scintilla of evidence that donald trump lead any kind of rebellion or insurrection. what about seditious conspiracy there was none. donald trump said if they want 10,000 armed army soldiers to protect them on january 6, please let me know, nobody is leading an insurrection if they are offering armed federal troops to protect the capitol building. we heard what donald trump said about peacefully lobbying congress, what happened in jack and the boys say, you know, we can't let it go. they go back to the civil war period. law that was passed in 1871, the clku klux klan act at the time to defeat the klan. a disgusting overreach. then we have two counts under, these laws were passed in 2002 to address gaps they felt existed in the enron scandal investigation, the enron statutes, they have nothing to do with jan

charging democratic national convention, fani willis, a radical, elected democrat, jack smith, a for former top official in ericnt of justice, and worked closely with him, and james comey, and andrew weisman who all over msnbc spewing his stupidity and smith a wife a democrat activist and obama sycophant. pressures and threatening witnesses, bankrupting criminal targets leaking campaigns with friendly reporters. like habberman at "new york times", and "washington post" and cnn and so forth. let's step back. this d.a., in atlanta, as well as jack smith, what are they doing or done, alan dershowitz wrote an important re piece for daily mail. >> he says: >> this is normal. in 2000, florida state officials were lo lobby to recount and select the counties. it goes on: >> trump was entitled as a candidate to ask a georgia state official, trump was told, that in and of these republican counties, that the votes were not in yet, they can't find the ballots and votes he said can't you find whatever it is 11 or 12 thousand votes? that is it! and continues: >> you understand the extent to which criminal activity is crimina

smith? >> when i talked to eric on friday, he told me when the city had higher the police chief, the newspaperceived a couple of emails people who alleged seven's conduct at his previous job, a captain with the kansas city, missouri, police department. at the publisher told me friday that the individuals who email them not putting their name to it and could provide no evidence to support it. they asked the police chief about these allegations so he was aware this information. at the publisher on friday said he did not leave it was a credible story because there was no evidence to support these allegations. it is hard to say -- i know he has told others he believed this was possibly a motivation for the raid, but i want to emphasize there was a clear motivation for the search warrant for why they were raiding the newspaper office. it is not clear to me the emails received about the police chief's past, had anything to do with the rate. amy: what is known about the magistrate judge who signed the warrant? >> in kansas, magistrates, they're really not any qualifications. you don't even have to be

smith. >> it happened so quickly and was so devastating that people are in shock. they don't know how to react. and mourning. >> reporter: eric is a board member with the hawaii chamber of commerce of northern california. he started getting texts and calls about the wildfires in west maui almost as soon as they started. >> there are natural disasters in hawaii with hurricanes, different types of tropical storms. you know what is coming and you can prepare. no one was prepared for this. >> reporter: many of the texts and calls have been people asking what they can do to help. now his group is working to provide some answers in a fast moving situation. >> we've been calling hawaii, calling our connections, calling our contacts. and just recently we found that one of the relief organizations that we're supporting is the hawaii community fund. it is under maui strong. 100% of proceeds goes toward the relief effort. >> reporter: it is one of the organizations the county of maui has encouraged people to look to if you're considering making a donation. along with the united way's maui fire and disaster relief fund. >> so much destru

eric holliday should also be better, still hanging on to some of that hazel in the atmosphere and for the north bay with some of the smoke drifting down from the smith river complex in northern california, but then good air quality across the board friday, saturday and sunday. looking outside and seeing a little haze on the horizon but it is not bad. temperatures anywhere from upper 70s in san francisco still too close to 10 degrees above our normal high temperature, and that is down from the mid-80s this afternoon. still holding on to the 80s in oakland. temperatures in the 90s further inland. the fog will be sparse as we sparred the day tomorrow. just a little bit of it inside the bay. we will see full sunshine for the rest of the day allowing temperatures to warm up as i showed you earlier. still about three to six degrees above normal with the a stronger onshore breeze kicking in and keeping us below today's high temperatures. mostly 60s to start the day tomorrow. the atmosphere only has so much time to cool down at night and it is still part of the influence of the level of mugginess in the atmosphere. upper 60s along the coast tomorrow with 80

their friends, brigitte and king eric, will help them drive it back to the bahamas. >> so anna nicole smithves the bahamas, anna get a shot of hgh and b-12 on her left side. she's been doing this for a while to maintain her weight. >> on the plane her left side starts to hurt. by the time she gets to the hotel she's starting to feel really sick. she has a fever of 105. >> 105 fever for an adult is deadly. everyone in the entourage, they're all telling her she should go to the hospital. and anna says no, she's not going to the hospital. and here's the thing -- they actually listen to her. >> the fact that someone didn't take her to the hospital was really no surprise to me because she was scared the press would find out she was there and then it would turn into some big headline, and she didn't want any of that. >> reporter: over the next few days, anna is pretty sick. she's not eating. she's sleeping a lot, and the people with her start to notice some strange smell coming from her. >> she did show me that the side of her body was infected. it looked infected. it was different colors and it

smith's probe spent $9 million in federal tax dollars. he is on track to spend $25 million a year. here is the former president's son eric trump, watch. >> they want to take him out of the race and we've seen this before. we've seen the fbi be weaponized, we've seen the doj be weapon onized, the dirty games and the dirty tricks, my father's legacy is exposing these frauds for what they are. >> the former president is expected to appear in front of a federal judge at 4:00 p.m. today here in washington d.c., todd, carly. >> carley: let's bring in doug collins, and host of the doug collins podcast. doug, good morning to you, it's great to see you. this trump on the trial venue, just piqued trump, he wants the trial to be moved to an impartial venue such as near by west virginia, impossible to get a fair trial in washington d.c. 5% of washington d.c.'s population voted for trump, ron desantis says he thinks the trial should be moved, too. is that a realistic possibility, if not, what does it mean for the former president in terms of a jury pool? >> well, i mean, it is -- good morning, good to see you all. it is impossible, i

eric: he is going to do what he has always had to do. he is going to fight like hell. what should be told to everybody is how fast you see jack smithon tv. we're going to move this incredibly fast. we are going do it before the election. is that just tell you that they are doing this for one motivation and that is to take the guy out? does the weaponization of the system. but even if you believed it this time, how about the last 10 times when it has failed? how about what they did to her cabin? what about what they did to him over ukraine? what about what they did to him over russia? how about obama literally recognizing the irs against all conservatives? this is what they do and this is what my father more so than any person in american history has shown the american people. he is literally exposed to these frauds for exactly who they are. and it is sad. we know better than some of these third world countries around the world. we are literally trying to imprison political opponents. we are better than this. and so my father is going to fight. he is a great fighter, jesse. >> jesse: when you see all this come out about joe biden, t

smith in new york. >> john: at that rate, it will be friday before we know it. the chaotic scene outside of gracie mansion, that is the home of new york city mayor eric adams. [bleep] [bleep] >> sandra: at least 100,000 migrants have arrived here in new york state this year alone. the bulk of them in the big apple. >> john: another protest set for tonight in staten island, the city is planning to house migrants in a former catholic school. protestors were already out there over the weekend, and police say they are bracing for some 2,000 folks to show up tonight. >> sandra: the city has struggled to house migrants in some 200 temporary shelters, hotels, college dorms, and angering parents, set up on kids' soccer fields. the governor finally demanded help last week from the federal government. she said the crisis stems from the administration and they need the help to fix it. >> john: alexis mcadams is live outside the roosevelt hotel in new york city, we have seen countless camped out on the streets as the hotel hits capacity and beyond. what's the scene like right now, alexis? >> you can check it out over my shoulder, things are not what they used to be whe

eric tucker with the associated press outside the courthouse. three police officers who defendant the capitol january seen entering the d.c. courthouse with the trump arraignment. caitlin collins of cnn, as expected, jack smith is present in the courtroom for the arraignment. this is the second time they have been face to face as trump has been attacking him as a deranged crackhead and implying he had something to do with the cocaine find at the white house. finally, robert cox at cvs, jack smith is in the courtroom on the left side of the courtroom next to other prosecutors right behind the prosecutor table. prosecutors have taken their seats and he is doing a blow-by-blow of what's going on. the arraignment was due to begin at 4 p.m. and of course, no cameras in this federal courthouse. jackie, oklahoma city. independent mine. go ahead. >> i could go -- i could be on the phone for an hour going over what you want to talk about in that's not possible. all i want to say is this. you know, whether trump is reelected as president again or he goes to jail, it really doesn't make a difference. i will tell you why. what this man did is open up america's eyes. that can't be taken back. i know jack smith. i know jo