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david: let's now talk to former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree, former deputy assistant is attorney general. he joins me now. tom, four counts of first-degree murder. you have to develop a pretty strong the case to bring that charge. does that -- can i mean, again, he wasn't very forthcoming about what he had for obvious reasons, but at the same time, those four counts, the fact that they filed them, that seems to indicate they've the got a pretty solid case, no? if. >> yes, i think it does mean they have a pretty solid case. you don't arrest someone on charges of this severity unless you have evidence to back it up. i think we'll learn a lot more about the precise evidence that led them to identify this guy and make this annext week or the following week. once this guy gets transferred back to idaho, which i think will happen pretty quickly, at that point the prosecution and the government will put its evidence into play. the probable cause after 2k5eu69 that justified the awill have a lot of the evidence listed in it, describe what led investigators to this guy, and we

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i want to bring in former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. as a prosecutor here, you know, with all of this national attention, did that dew believe affect the charges here? we know it's felony burglarly. did the level of attention affect the charges? >> i'm not sure the level of attention affected it as much as the fact that here you obviously have a situation where people were murdered. you obviously have a situation where the murderer broke into the house intending to commit the crime. i see this as an unsurprising charge and also as the police and investigators learn more about what happened, that they'll add additional charges. needless to say, a charge of murder is about as serious as you can get. >> edward: you touched on this. he entered through the second floor leaving survivors on the first floor and murdered two on the second floor and then went to the third floor. does that affect what the prosecutors do in terms of how they charge and if there's a death penalty on the table? >> it sure does. what it tells me is that this clearly