could john brooks have any motive to kill jack reid? d that he owned a gold sienna minivan exactly like the one in the surveillance video recorded after jack's murder. and the horse barn, the spot where jack reid had his last appointment? john brooks had a longtime connection with the barn's owner, mike connors. houle: michael connors was john brooks' former chief financial officer of his company that he owned for many years in londonderry, new hampshire. narrator: enough clues were pointing to this barn for police to search it. but by this time, more than a year had passed since the murder. the first thing detectives noticed inside the barn was that it was very clean and some of the flooring was new. if the barn was the primary crime scene, the spot where jack reid was killed, there would have been a lot of blood to clean up. the interior was sprayed with luminol. houle: luminol is an agent that illuminates blood. blood can be sitting for months, years, several years, and still be detected by luminol. narrator: the cracks between the ba

reid. paula essentially, jack smith is arguing that judge cannon is totally disconnected from the facts of the case. help us understand what he's responding to. yeah. he's clearly had it. look, he's very frustrated with judge aileen cannon. she is a trump appointee. she's only been on the bench for a few years. certainly never handled et case like this, but her approach has come under a lot of scrutiny not only for decisions that she has actually made, but also for this backlog of things she hasn't yet decided this over a dozen motions still pending that she has not weighed in on. here. she asked both sides to submit jury instructions related to the presidential records act when that's a law, it's post-watergate law that governs which documents after an administration leaves belong to the government she said, i'd like one version that lays out all these documents that trump brought to mar-a-lago so which ones are personal? which ones are presidential records? >> and >> then there's another version where you have to assume that he had the right to take all of this down to mar-a-lago. the sp

far this back-and-forth might go and whether special counsel jack smith might try to get judge cannon removed from the case. cnn's paula reid joins us now and follow how is special counsel jack smith going to handle judge cannon's decision yesterday? >> well, jake, i don't want to think of this so much as a personality clash as it is just a basic fact prosecutors can't go into a trial if they don't know how a judge is thinking about the law and right now, they are asking the judge to decide whether she is going to let the presidential records act factor into this case. that's at post-watergate law that governs which records created during an administration belong to a president versus the government. now, trump is using this as one of his many defenses, arguing that these were quote, personal records. the special counsel is asked cannon to reject that in that fiery late tuesday night filing, they wrote, quote, the court should be aware at the outset the trump's entire effort to rely on the pra is not based in any facts to post-talk justification that was concocted more than a year after he left the white house problem is ja

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reid is on this for us. paula, pretty interesting to read with jack smith put in here, walk us through canvas it's requests for jury instructions and how the special counsel's responding >> it >> clearly, the special counsel >> not happy with judge cannon, right now. now, she is, of course, a trump appointee. she's only been on the bench for a few years now. she is an inexperienced judge in her approach has come under scrutiny not only for decisions that she has made, but also so for the decisions that she hasn't yet made, she has a backlog of over a dozen motions that she hasn't yet weighed in on. but here, she asked to both sides in this case to draw up jury instructions for potential jury in an eventual trial related to the presidential records act. now the presidential records act was passed after nixon resigned hind, and it lays out how government records should be handled at the end of an administration and trump has tried to argue, among his many explanations for why he had these documents down in mar-a-lago that these things were his to keep. now, in one of these versions, they were supposed to just la

the judge has cited with special counsel jack smith and his rule that the witness list we'll stay secret. we have seen in chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid here with more on this. all right. paul, what does this mean for this case? so here, judge aileen cannon, she is the >> trump appointees overseeing this case. she's actually decided something that has been a bit of a log in this case, and that is whether to reveal the names of witnesses in this this case. she previously said that she was going to be more transparent in this case, but the special counsel push back on that, reminding her that if these witnesses some of their names are released, they could be at risk, they could face harassment as cnn has reported, some of these witnesses because or even low level staffers at trump's mar-a-lago club last night, she said that for now, the witnesses names will remain secret >> she sides with him in this. however, there is some tension between the judge and jack special counsel? jack? yeah. there's a lot of tension and you can sense it in these filings that he or she admonished the special counsel for not being more clear in the past about

i'm paula reid in washington and this is cnn >> hell hath no fury like a special counsel scorned late last night, jackmith hit send on a page turner, as far as legal documents go, smith, what all of his frustrations the judge, aileen cannon down in a court filing his annoyance that there is still no firm trial date for the classified documents case that her jury instructions seem dramatically tilted toward the former president that she's seemingly accepts lies from trump's defense as fact smith and his team event openly that the judge quote, legal legal premise is wrong so much so that premise would distort the trial. yet she has not scheduled this trial yet. cnn's paula reid, and elie honig join our conversation. paul, i'm just going to read one more bit. of this filing. he said it would be pure fiction to suggest that highly classified documents created by members of the intelligence community and military and presented to the president of the united states during his term in office were purely private. now, that is about the substance but it seems to me that his biggest frustration is with the proc