lawyer fleisher found a mistake in a chart the state's expert had used. fact, sloppy? if you're su a hot shot expert -- >> right. and -- >> how does this error creep in? >> and he said, "well, it was a mistake." >> the same went for the dna evidence, attack the credibility of the analysis. the defense said the dna results, returned within a few days, were rushed through the police lab because of rothstein's connections. attorney fleisher also suggested there could have been cross contamination to tilt the scale so the results pointed at tony. >> our goal was to educate the jury on the rothstein connections, and the rothstein influence. >> had meddled with the physical evidence? contaminated it maybe? >> we can only speculate. but when a man is as powerful a guy as rothstein was, people would think that they could do things. they could conjure up dna. >> and use it to frame tony villegas. before the defense rested, the judge asked tony villegas if he wanted to testify. >> is it your wish to testify or remain silent? >> silent, sir. >> in closing arguments,

or so reasoned fleisher.iscoll, why did she tell police christopher talked about killing his parents? >> they eventually tell her if you don't tell us, what we want to know, you're going to be arrested in this murder conspiracy. and what does she do? she tells them what they want to know. >> please have a seat over here. >> reporter: in fact, the defense attorney got juliet to admit the state wouldn't even have had that if detectives hadn't intimidated and threatened her. >> they told me if they didn't hear what they wanted to hear that they were going to arrest me instead. they threw my purse across the room. they slammed their hands on the desks . >> did they tell you for first degree murder. >> they told me they would arrest me for murder. >> and you eventually told them what they wanted to hear? >> after 13 hours, yes. >> reporter: before christopher was arrested the two planned a wedding and honeymoon in samoa, of all places. which begged the question -- >> he was going to take the lives of his parents,

reality tv or real collusion equipment we will ask press secretary ari fleisher. one year in his presidency, president trump gets a very early start by announcing he's running for election. 980 days from now. chris stirewalt. plus the mother and daughter pair who fended off a armed robber joins us live. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. lawmakers from both parties including some of the democrats' strongest gun-control advocates planning to meet with president donald trump tomorrow about the policy response to the florida school massacre. it will be the fourth such meeting on topic from daca to guns or the president gathers opposing sides and essentially moderates the discussion. the president is considering his options. the g.o.p. led senate and house are taking somewhat different tax. mitch mcconnell trying to increase his razor-thin majority by flipping democratic seats in the midterms saying the senate should focus on passing some kind of legislation on guns. but house speaker paul ryan is sounding less sure about the ne

joining us is ari fleisher former white house press secretary for president george w. bush and a fox news contributor, a good friend as well. ari, take a look at this ad that gabbi gifford is running against the governor. >> we need to stop dangerous people for getting guns. even a mental health professional. this law was so dangerous that a court had to strike it down. >> dana: in addition, the wall street journal, abc news out with a poll today that has some interesting pieces in it. questions of doing enough to prevent mass shootings, asking about the president and the congress. 77% think congress is not doing enough and 62% say the president is not. there's also mental health screening and treatments and whether that could have prevented the florida shooting. 77% of people think that it has. and then a stricter gun laws, could that have prevented the florida shooting. 58% saying that it could certainly not as many when it comes to thinking about mental health. i wanted to ask you, you've been around the block a few times on gun control debate. do you think anything

according to germany's definition the fleisher family is poor the parents are unemployed and live off of welfare which sometimes just isn't. enough that's why they visit the aid organization arca almost daily here they can get a free hot meal as well as the feeling that things aren't that bad because the other people who come here are also poor alexandra fleischer is sometimes embarrassed that her lifestyle has fallen to this level. one person to say i try not to let the kids know how poor we are we try to act normal but it's sad that we have no money to go on vacation. no vacation no family outings no movies meals that arca leanne and casey fleisher have gotten used to the fact that there's not enough money to afford extras. not that. i don't like the fact that my family is this poor i don't like to think about it because it's all a little sad members of our. management. and. so much. the aid organization arca is in the east berlin district of health. here every other child lives on the edge of poverty in other words these families live off of a little more than half of the average g

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ari fleisher was on immediately following the president's response to this and he quickly pointed out comment about the women and hope that they will be okay. he wished him the best as he moved on in an attempts to have a career after this. >> look, i think domestic assault has no place in our country, and particularly not in the white house. the white house has admitted, they've acknowledged that they could have done better. they ought to do better. not only on principle is it that we shouldn't have individuals who are accused of this kind of conduct working in our highest of institutions. it's also a national security risk to have someone who has this in their background, has access to classified information and has so much access to the president himself. i mean, the photos are terrible. this is a terrible situation. i believe the women. i don't want to see this kind of conduct in the white house. >> sandra: he is now gone and the president and the white house, the white house specifically said that we could have handled this better. rob shah, he said so. and the president just a f

i'm reading ari fleisher's tweet that says if you let the nunes memo out, you've got to let the democrat's. i watched don jr. say, i've never seen journalists so up in arms over transparency. don't they want transparency? great, then bring it, let's see all of it. >> i think that's right. once you put the whole story out there, there's not going to be anything that anybody did wrong. this is just a cheap political stunt. it's done purposely to undermine the mueller investigation. it's done purposely to attack the fbi and the department of justice. and unfortunately, the chief co-conspirator here is donald trump. and he's doing it to evade the investigation that is focusing on him. >> the premise of all of this is that the intelligence community lied to a judge about surveilling former trump aide carter page. i want to share how reuters specifically described it. quote, the memo contends that the fbi and justice failed to tell the judge that the request was based on a dossier compiled by a former british spy hired by a research firm partially financed by the democratic national committee an