Now democrats are demanding answers. Plus, it kills in minutes. Authorities say a highly toxic chemical weapon was used to murder kim jonguns half brother. How did the alleged assassins get it and what might that mean . Good afternoon and welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The white house appearing today to take punitive action against News Organizations. Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the peoples house just briefed reporters on the days news. He was at the white house, of course. He did not allow news outlets including cnn and the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and politico and others to attend that offcamera briefing which is known as a gaggle. This is a wild deviation from basic white house protocol which normally allows any credentialed News Organization to participate. For more lets go right to cnns sara murray live in the briefing room. I have to say even the darkest days of the obama white houses war against fox news, the white house never banned fox from attending any sort of press gaggle or broiefing. This is clearly President Trump punishing News Organizations for providing basic accountability. Reporter well, jake, it was a little perplexing to see how this played out. It is not unusual for the white house to do Something Like that with a pool, which is of course a small group of reporters who represents the entire press core, or even if they wanted to do a private meeting, for instance, with a group of columnists. But what is bizarre to see the white house handselecting ava right of different news outlets across the board and blocking others. For instance, they allowed every other Major Television network except for cnn into this briefing, which is outside the realm of what we normally see from the white house. Its very bizarre to allow newspapers into a briefing like this, but to exclude the New York Times. So, they did seem to opt for some outlets they believe are more favorable toward the president , places like breitbart, places like the washington times, and opted to exclude places like anyone, the New York Times, and politico that the president has been directly critical of. And, sara, did the white house give any explanation as to why these News Organizations, including cnn, were excluded . Reporter i have asked a number of white house aides today in the communication shop specifically about why they hand selected some reporters to be included and decided to exclude others. They had not answered that question. They have only said that it was originally going to be a pooled gaggle off camera, then they decided to expand the pool. Sean spicer said that was his decision to expand the pool, but they have not said why they decided to sort of cherry pick these outlets. Jake, its worth noting in this gaggle that was off camera cnn was excluded from, the main focus was cnns own excellent reporting today on contacts between the white house chief of staff and the fbi. Sara murray, thank you so much. I dont want to spend too much time discussing this issue because we have a lot of news to cover today, but lets not make any mistake about what is happening here. A white house that has had some difficulty telling the truth and that has seemed to have trouble getting up to speed on the basic competent functioning of government, and a president who seems particularly averse to any criticism and has called the press the enemies of the american people, they are taking the next step in attempting to avoid checks and balances and accountability. Its not acceptable. In fact, its petulant, and indicative of how an adult white house functions. In fact, sean spicer in december seemed to completely under this. He said the white house would not ban any Media Organization as the Trump Campaign had. He said, quote, we have a respect for the press when it come to the government. That is something you cant bannon entity from, conservative, liberal or otherwise. I think thats what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship. The Trump White House now led by sean spicers white house operation and the Communication Division is now targeting multiple Media Organizations and it seems to think it can punish reporters for sharing with you facts that they dont like. They offer rhetoric designed to mislead and confuse you about this issue, such as this from the president today. We are fighting the fake news. Its fake, phony, fake. [cheering and applauding] a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. [cheering and applauding] because they have no sources. They just make them up when there are none. Just simply not true. So, dont misunderstand whats going on with that rhetoric and with todays action banning various Media Outlets including cnn, the New York Times. This white house does not seem to respect the idea of accountability. This white house does not seem to value an independent press. There is a word for that line of thinking. The word is unamerican. Now, the Republican Party is now the party of donald trump and it sounds a little bit different than it has in the past. Of the president took the stage today at the conservatives influential conservative cpac he skipped last year when he was candidate. He laid out his governing principles in todays speech. Wasnt quite conservative, more nationalist nationalistic if anything else. Jeff zeleny joins me now. He is going to address Congress Next week. Will that speech sound similar to todays . Reporter the president will sound similar. When i was in that room i was thinking i was back at a Campaign Rally six months ago, or a year ago. His proposals, pitches will sound the same. One key difference. The crowd next week in the House Chamber will be cheering. Now you finally have a president , finally, took you a long time. Took you a long time. [cheering and applauding] reporter President Trump taking a victory lap today before a roaring crowd of conservative activists. The forgotten men and women of america will be forgotten no longer. That is the heart of this new movement. And the future of the Republican Party. Reporter its mr. Trumps Republican Party now. His realignment of the gop already underway. Hailed as a hero today at the annual conservative Political Action conference, mr. Trump outlining his America First agenda that goes against the grain of recent republican orthodoxy. But there is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency, or a global flag. This is the United States of america that i am representing. Im not representing the globe. Im representing your country. [cheering and applauding] welcome to cpac 2016. Reporter at the same gathering last year, just outside washington, many conservatives recoiled at the idea of a trump presidency. He canceled his appearance and, of course, went on to win. He really doesnt belong at a conservative gathering. Donald trump is not a conservative. Reporter but it was here at cpac six years ago where trumps idea of running for the white house first springed to life. While im not at this time a candidate for the presidency, i will decide by june whether or not i will become one. Reporter estopped short of running back then, but his words sound prescient. I will tell you the reason that im thinking about it is that the United States has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. Reporter but now after five weeks in office, the president is faced with making choices over which campaign pledges take priority and how he will pay for them. Were also putting in a massive budget request for our beloved military. [cheering and applauding] and we will be substantially upgrading all of our military, all of our military, offensive, defensive, everything, bigger and better and stronger than ever before. Reporter carol marino is an early trump supporter from carolina who for now is giving the president the benefit of the doubt that his agenda wont break the bank. Im not overly concerned that hes going to blow the deficit, im really not. I think hell find a way to kind of shrink the waste and then use that someplace else. Reporter yet several other fiscal conservatives say they are carefully watching the price tag of trumps agenda. Even as he redefines the meeping of conservatism. You know, again, what is a conservative . I think that thats one of the questions that were all debating at this conference. Reporter it was clear today mr. Trump isnt quite ready to let go of his campaign. Even as those promises give way to the realities of governing. Our victory was a win like nobody has ever seen before. Reporter and, jake, just a short time ago, another very interesting meeting here at the white house, that was with the Ohio Governor john case i can and the president. John kasick has been a critic going back a year in their own campaign. They were meeting one on one in the oval office. The governor walked out of the white house and sounded more positive than hes ever sounded yet about the president. Jake, he said this. He said, look, the man is the president of the United States. Its sort of like youre on a plane and youre rooting for the pilot. All of the governors from across the country also in town this weekend. The president will be meeting with them later. Jake . Jeff zeleny at the white house for us, thank you so much. The white house is pushing back strongly today gengs the cnn exclusive cnn reporters found that the fbi rejected a request made by the white house to try to publicly knock down reporting by both cnn and the New York Times about contacts between President Trumps Campaign Staff and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. Cnns jim sciutto joins me now. Jim, the white houses push back is interesting because it actually ends up confirming the reporting. Between all the push back and the normal insults and the object fa skags, this essential fact. The white house confirms it did speak to the fbi about these communications and did ask for help knocking down stories describing those communications. And more broadly, the white house is not denied the existence of these communications between trump advisors and russians known to u. S. Intelligence during the campaign as cnn reported last week. Tonight the white house vehemently defending, asking the fbi to deny reports of communications between Trump Campaign associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. The administrations intense push back follows cnns exclusive reporting of the white house request. Senior Administration Official insisting it only asks for the denial after a top fbi official himself volunteered that the New York Times story on those communications was inaccurate. White house official who asked not to be named, today outlined their time line of events. Saying, the conversation happened on february 15th, after a 7 30 a. M. Meeting led by white house chief of staff Reince Priebus. Fbi Deputy Director andrew mcakie abe asked priebus for five minutes alone after the meeting ends. This according to senior Administration Officials and called the reports linking Trump Campaign advisors to russia, quote, total b. S. Priebus, the white house said, asked mcakie abe, quote, can we do anything about it and whether there is something the fbi can do to, quote, set the record straight . Later in separate conversations, mccabe and fbi director james comey tells him they cannot comment omt reports. Priebus then asks comey if he can cite mcakie abe and comey as top intelligence officials in pushing back on the story himself in tv interviews last sunday . Which he did. Ive talked to the top levels of the Intelligence Community and they have assured me that that New York Times story was grossly overstated and inaccurate and totally wrong. Reporter the direct communications between the white house and the fbi were unusual because of decadeold restrictions on such contacts concerning pending investigations. You dont want the appearance of political influence with respect to an investigation or prosecution. Thats why the protocols are in place. Reporter President Trump on friday vented against the leaks that have plagued his administration, saying they should use named sources even as white house officials asked repo reporters not to be named. Im against the people that makeup stories and makeup sources. They shouldnt be allowed to use sources unless they use somebodys name. Let their name be put out there. Let their name be put out. [ applause ] a source says that donald trump is a horrible, horrible human being. Let them say it to my face. Reporter mr. Trump also criticized the fbi directly, tweeting, quote, the fbi is totally unable to stop the National Security leakers that have permeated our government for a long time. They cant even find the leakers within the fbi itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on u. S. Find now. We learned today at fridays briefing the members of the intelligence committees both the senate and house congressional sources say fbi director james comey did not dismiss the existence of any communications between russians and trump advisors. Fact is, the fbi is still investigating the significance of these contacts as are the house and intelligence committees. When Reince Priebus makes the broader denial there is nothing to these reports whatsoever of communications, that contradicts the fact that there are, in fact, ongoing investigations, fbi and two on the hill as well. All right, jim sciutto, thank you so much. Joining me now is former Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano. She is going to come with us in the next block. But we are right now just days away from President Trump unveiling his revised is executive order on the travel ban. 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Have you spoken with any of your former colleagues at the department of Homeland Security about whats going on . No, i havent. But i have seen the reports about whats going on and its troublesome. The idea right now is that the office of intelligence and a analysis which of course is the intelligence arm of the department of Homeland Security, they offered a report that basically says that they dont think the travel ban makes sense. Now, the head of ina, intelligence and analysis, has criticized that report, in fact, the department of Homeland Security has on the record criticized that report. Is that unusual . It is unusual and its also unusual to have ina requested to come up with intel that supports a previously arrived at conclusion. Normally your policy and your conclusions arise from the intel as its developed and vetted amongst different agencies. So that theres a cohesive view of what the policy that arises from that intelligence should be. Here it sounds backwards, that they were given direction on what conclusion to reach and despite what some in ina thought were directed to develop intel that supported that conclusion. Now, the Trump White House argues that the Obama Administration under played terrorism, not counting as terrorist activities attacks that were thwarted or failed in any way, not counting as serious enough when individuals attempted to join or support terrorist groups. They want to expand the definition of terrorist activities to include all of those factors. Does that seem unreasonable to you . Well, it depends on what all of those factors are. If you expand the definition too broadly, it loses all meaning. But there may be room for some compromise there. I think their basic idea is that the 9th Circuit Court of appeals and also some democrats have said none of the people from these seven countries have committed any acts of terror, and its true only if youre counting as acts of terror in this country successful murders of innocent people by these terrorists as opposed to wounding people, for instance, as happened at ohio state by a recent somali immigrant. To a lot of people it might be it might sound completely reasonable that person poses a threat. Ive glad they were not successful in killing anybody. That should count as somebody who committed a terrorist act even if they didnt successfully kill someone. Yeah, perhaps. Thats why im saying i think there may be room for some middle ground here. But, again, what were seeing is an effort to support a previously arrived at conclusion in a sense by directing ina, intel and analysis, what to come up with. And thats whats troublesome about what ive read about whats happening at dhs. I want to ask you about immigration, both in your capacity as secretary of department of Homeland Security, but also as former governor of arizona. You dealt with the issue of undocumented immigrants illegally crossing the border all the time. President trump has vowed to more strictly enforce laws on the books and he says hes just following the lead of the Obama Administration, as you know. Im sure you heard a lot of complaints about it. President obama authorized the removal of, in total, more than 3 million undocumented immigrants. Is the Trump Administration wrong to say that they are just following the lead of the previous president . Yes, they are. And theyre wrong in several respects. The most important is the notion of who should be removed and the priorities for removal. Under president obama, we focused on those who had committed serious felonies, had known gang associations, and that there was a great deal of derogatory information about. Under the Trump Administration, those priorities are essentially wiped away so that, for an example, a mere arrest, even for a minor offense, would subject someone to deportation. And as somebody who has worked in this area for a long time, i know that widening those priorities, in essence, means no priorities. And thats not good Law Enforcement. Former homeland secretary Janet Napolitano, thank you, have a good weekend. You bet. Police say the suspected assassins who killed kim zho jonguns brother might be stock piling a weapon of mass destruction. Two teenage girls murdered in a hike in indiana, one of them might have caught her killers voice on her cell phone. Stay with us. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced. Our senses awake. Our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say. If you love something set it free. See you around, giulia ki welcome back to the lead. Now jake tapper. Lets stay with politics. We have lots to talk about with the panel, day 36 of the Trump Administration. Jen sake, former obama white house. Real clear politics and reporter for the washington examiner. Thanks one and all for being here. Lets start with the fact that we have a former White House Communications director here that the white house today would not let cnn, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and politico, and i think maybe some other outlets, into the briefing known as the gaggle. Whats interesting is sean spicer, the press secretary, was asked last december if the Trump White House would have the same policy that it had during the campaign when it also banned several outlets. Heres what sean had to say back in december. We have a respect for the press when it come to the government, that that is something that you cant bannon entity from. Conservative, liberal or otherwise, i think thats what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship. So, that was then, this is now. Today they are banning cnn, New York Times, l. A. Times, politico from this white house briefing. Youre a communications director. You have had anger towards various Media Organizations. Have you ever felt tempted to bannon organization the way that spicer and co did today . No, we had rows with faction news at times. President didnt ultimately interview with Chris Wallace his last year in office. The reality is banning is a slippery slope to what you see in a lot of countries where freedom of the press is restricted and thats a troubling trend from this administration. Its interesting if you combine what the president said today at cpac with this thing they did this afternoon which i think was actually designed to distract away from the story about chief of staff Reince Priebus talking to an fbi Deputy Director about news stories a story cnn broke, maybe part of the reason. What it says when you listen to what President Trump said today and then you think about the conservative organizations that were that are being favored in terms of who gets into the gaggle and who is getting kicked out, its really an intent to speak only to a small portion, under 40 of the country. It is really a statement about a lack of interest on the part of the white house in talking to the other side, the people they havent won over. Is there anyone left thats persuadable that either voted for hillary or voted for someone else or stayed home and didnt vote. There doesnt seem to be an effort underway to talk to those people and when you do Something Like this, when you when youre inviting these organizations in that few americans have ever heard from, youre thinning your coverage, youre speaking to a smaller universe of people, people who only agree with you and youre not reaching out to the the goal. Except youre an expert on the opposite of this which is democrats not speaking to certain groups or Media Organizations not trying to appeal to certain groups. Right. Whats your take on this . I dont think its a good idea. I dont think its ever a good idea to pigeon hole and place and separate Media Organizations. Were all there to do a single job. Some of organizations have a bent more one way or the other, but the most important job for the white house is to get their story out, to get their information out. And, you know, and some time its really different filters. But banning the press, it becomes this is one time. It becomes a pattern of behavior. Then its something we should really be concerned about. Lets move on to other news because i want to talk about cpac. You were there today and there seemed to be a lot of red meat that the president offered for his audience. No vegetables. Still talking about he doesnt seem to be a veggie guy in general. Still talking about hillary clinton, talking about the media. Conservative journalist charles cook tweeted there is nothing in the speech, its pure outsider anger, but trump is the president and the gop controls almost everything. Bizarre. Do you think charles cook has a point . Hes a conservative writer for the national review. You know, trumps speech was perfect for that room. Theres a couple of things going on there. First of all, he didnt really make a big hit in 2011 when he was there. And, you know, also all these attendees have sort of been in the wilderness for the past eight years. They havent had, you know, a conservative hero. And while trump has won and hes not really the conservative hero, they had something to celebrate. They were very happy. Usually cpac events are like theyre agitated, theyre annoyed, theyre anxious because whats going to happen to the party. And today they had what they wanted and, you know, trump gave it to them. Like you said, red meat, no vegetables. One thing thats interesting, in Ronald Reagans first appearance you were there. I wasnt there, but paul said he went back and looked at it, and it was a big appeal to get out for the mid 1982 elections. It might have been a squandered opportunity for the president to expand his majority. Actually matt who has run the entire event in the conservative union was tell people that conservatives want to know, attendees at cpac want to know what they can do to help the administration and that was a missed opportunity. 2018 is a big moment and while you heard them talking before he was inaugurated, Kellyanne Conway described it as a surround sound outside group that would bring together so much grassroots support they would end up electing 16 senators to enact their agenda. They are going to get to work. The august recess is coming and they need grassroots on the ground to mobilize. I want to talk about the next generation of democrats, the dnc election is tomorrow. The front runners are congressman Keith Ellison democrat of minnesota and tom perez, former secretary of for obama. You wrote a favorable oped for the mayor of south bend, indiana. Hes a military veteran, hes openly gay, he talks a lot about needing to appeal to White Working Class voters. Are you worried that the perez or ellison pick might be squandering an opportunity in the way that maybe the democrats have done before . Democrats have definitely done that before. And i think weve learned a lot of the wrong lessons from the 2016 race. Tom perez would be a good chair. He may be a great chair. This is a time we shouldnt be making a safe choice. And mayor pete, im still practicing how to say his last name. Phonetically spelled. He has an amazing biohe outlined. Also hes somebody who recognizes it is not just opposing trump and opposing the republican agenda. Its about presenting our own positive optimistic agenda, that people want something to vote for. And i think were not doing enough of that and i was really encouraged to see him talk about that in the cnn debate the other night and recently as hes been running. Do you think hes the man . I think they need a clean break and they need to just break all the plates and start over and he is really, according to many, kind of this ideal makeup of everything that you need in term of a fresh face, but someone who understands the middle of the country. I think that jen is right, perez might be a good establishment pick, sort of keeps everything sane for a while. But howard dean is supporting the mayor. Mayor pete. Mayor pete. If the party doesnt come around and support him they will regret it five years from now. What do you think . I interviewed him a couple weeks ago. He had the right tone, the right appeal. He has the support of ed randall, former dnc chair who griped a lot during the Clinton Campaign about, we need to be more appealing to a bunch of different kinds of democrats. And he also has the support of john feder man, the progressive from pennsylvania that ran for u. S. Senate. You know, he wants to embrace the 50state program and thats what the democrats need. They were so successful with that in 2005 and 2006. They expanded the party, they expanded their universe and thats what the democrats need right now. Theyve lost the thousand 60 seats. Its an important moment for them. All the state legislatures and house and senate and president and everything. [ laughter ] i want people at home to know what the thousand were. Thank you one and all, appreciate it. It can kill in just minutes through the skin, the eyes, the lungs. A frightening look at the nerve agent police say was used to kill kim jonguns half brother. Does this mean north korea could have a weapon of mass destruction . 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If it is true vx was use and had north korea was behind it that would logically mean one of the most dangerous unstable regimes now has its hand on a weapon of mass destruction agent. Lets bring in cnn correspondent barbara starr. What could north korea theoretically do with vx nerve agent if they have . Vx is a kill agent pure and simple. The real question may be how did the attackers get it all the way into the airport in malaysia and what threat might it have posed along the way, just one of many unanswered questions. Its one of the deadly est chemical agents in the world, vx. The malaysian government says it was used to assassinate kim jongnam, estranged half brother of kim jongun and local authorities believe north korea may have been behind the murder. A u. S. Official tells cnn, it certainly appears north korea attacked using a weapon of mass destruction agent when two women approached kim jongnam in the airport in kuala lumpur and attacked with a substance they put on his face. Given the fact that vx is not only one of the most lethal agents out there, nerve agents out there, its also something you just cant make in your basement. Its something that you almost certainly need the Resources Available to a nation state to be able to actually come up with this. It is a step across a line. Reporter in i Intelligence Services worldwide are watching closely. Exact methodology as to how it got into a controlled area of an international airport, i think would be the subject of continued intelligence collection. They had a active storage site with vx that they could have confidence in, they would not have to transport very much of it and no one would know what it was without opening it unfortunately and dying from it. Reporter malaysia has already asked interpol to put out an alert for four missing suspects. But the fear is they are already back in pyonyang. The Malaysian Police report details that after he died, kim jongnams eyes and face were swa swabbed by investigators. They found vx nerve agent. The organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which represents 192 nations issued a statement saying, any use of chemical weapons is deeply disturbing and offering Technical Assistance to the malaysians. Reporter vx is an internationally banned chemical weapon that can kill in minutes. It causes convulsions, paralysis, loss of consciousness and death due to preps trespira failure. While north korea has not acknowledged it has chemical weapons, south korea estimates the regime has a stockpile of up to 5,000 metric tons. The u. S. Says its always prepared for north korea attack, and the 28,000 u. S. Troops in south korea regularly practice operating in a chemical assault. Now, north korea continues to push back saying it is not responsible for this death and it is making the point that if the two women did have such a deadly substance on their hands when this attack was launched, how could they have possibly survived . Just another unanswered question, jake. Troubling. Barbara starr, thank you so much. Speaking of intrigue, a funeral for a Russian Ambassador today marks the latest death in an unlucky period for senior Russian Diplomats. Five have died since december. You may remember the shocking photographs of the assassination of russias ambassador to turkey on december 1th. A turkish man shot him in front of an art exhibition. Then another death, a senior russian diplomat found dead in his apartment in athens on january 9th. A Police Source said he died apparently from natural causes. A few weeks later the Russian Ambassador to india was said to have died of a heart attack in new deli on january 26. On that same day, in kaz acston one died. And the longtime Russian Ambassador to the United Nations who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in new york on february 20th. He was laid to rest today. So, thats a lot of Russian Diplomats dying in a short period of time. For those keeping track. A new lead in the murder of two teenagers. Police say one. Girls might have captured the voice and possibly an image of her killer on a cell phone. Stay with us. Your Insurance Company wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. The guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. No, i picked the wrong Insurance Company. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, you wont have to worry about replacing your car because youll get the full value back including depreciation. And if you have more than one Liberty Mutual policy, you qualify for a multipolicy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. Call for a free quote today. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Withevery late night. G. And moment away. With every click. Call. Punch. And paycheck. Youve earned your medicare. It was a deal that was made long ago, and aarp believes it should be honored. Thankfully, President Trump does too. I am going to protect and save your Social Security and your medicare. You made a deal a long time ago. Now, its congress turn. Tell them to protect medicare. Were back with the National Lead and a heart breaking story out of indiana thats now on the radar of fbi director jim comey. Police in the city of delfi are hunting for someone who killed two girls, 13yearold Abigail Williams and her friend liberty german. One day later their bodies were found in the woods. Now evidence on germans phone could break this case wide open. What did the victim capture on her phone . A lot more than they are releasing, jake, at this point. But Law Enforcement is saying that one of the girls actually took video on her iphone, they say it was right before she was murdered. The girls were never heard from again. The fbi is only releasing a still photo and some audio they say not necessarily of the same person, but theyre telling the public help them catch a killer or killers on the loose. It is this picture and this audio. That Indiana Police and the fbi say provide the biggest leads yet in who murdered 13yearold Abigail Williams and her 14yearold friend liberty german. Listen to the voice again. Down the hill, the voice says. Abigail and liberty went hiking monday, february 13th along the delfi historic trail 70 miles northwest of indianapolis. They were dropped off by a Family Member about 1 00 and liberty posted this photo of abigail at approximately 2 07. The last time she was se seen alive. Their bodies were found the next day on private property close to the trail and, yes, down some hills from where the trail was located. With no leads to go from, police soon realized libertys iphone could provide the biggest help. She may have captured her own killer on video before she died. That video is of a man who authorities now say is the prime suspect. At this point only a still photo has been released. This young lady is a hero. There is no doubt. To have enough presence of mind to activate the video system on her cell phone, to record. Reporter Law Enforcement say they cannot confirm the voice on the tape and image in the picture are the same person. We dont know if were looking for one suspect or multiple suspects. Reporter the fbi is asking people across the country as they look at the image and listen to the audio, ask yourself the following questions. Did this individual travel unexpectedly . Did they change their appearance . Did they shave their beard, cut their hair, change the color of their hair . Reporter the stunned community of 3,000 has never before had a double murder, but authorities are desperate to find their prime suspect before it happens again. Whos next . I hate to ask you that question. Id give my life to not have to. Reporter and the Illinois State police tells me it has now transferred the public tip line to the fbis Major Case Contact Center in washington, d. C. Its currently received almost 6,000 tips from people who believe they can help authorities catch whoever did this. Jake, you can remain anonymous and there is a 50,000 reward. All right, jean, thank you so much. We will provide a number later on for anybody who has information for this case. The plans to send astronauts to mars just got a little bit more real. That story next. Itors rates alongside their direct rate to save you money. But whats really going on . When played backwards at 1 8th speed you can clearly hear. What could that mean . Woman tom . Tom theyre just commercials. Or are they . Youre waking the neighbors. Well, mom, maybe the neighbors need to be woke. I think its actually awoken. No, that doesnt even seem right. No, its awoken. Revealing the truth to help you save. Welcome back to the lead. If you have any information on the case we just reported, the murder of those indiana teenagers, please call the delphi homicide tip line. The number is 8444595786. To repeat, 8444595786 and i will be tweeting the number in a few minutes if you missed it. Now to todays if we can call it out of the world trump lead. Trump is giving nasa the go ahead that could make matt damons mission to mars a reamount. They are moving forward with tests ordered by the Trump Administration to possibly send astronauts on the next orion flight in 2019. Of course first nasa needs to finish building the rocket that can push orion to mars or theoretically beyond. Be sure to tune into cnn this sunday, state of the union, bernie sanders, chris christie, thats it for the lead. Turn ing it over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. Thanks for watching. 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