plus the justice department marks a new phase of its investigation into donald trump. a federal grand jury subpoena now demands testimony from a key west wing insider. the trump white house counsel pat cipollone. and china s response to nancy pelosi s defiance by dispatching 27 war planes into taiwan s airspace. the house speaker says her taiwan visit a clear marker now in the battle between democracy and dictatorship. today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. america s determination to preserve democracy here in taiwan and around the world remains iron clad. china s sovereignty cannot be infringed, and the chinese people cannot be humiliated. our response will be very strong and forceful. back to that story in a bit, but we begin with hour with the biggest lesson of another bid-term primary night. republican election deniers scored some big wins out here in arizona, and here s more proof the trump brand still matters. let s shift and bring up
We were like sisters. We had shared so much. I told me they had found her body, and i just collapsed. She is dead, because she was my friend. First, melissa disappeared. Thats the milliondollar question. I knew then that she had never made it into her house. Signs of a struggle, and a strange orange missed. They didnt know what it was. Then, her boss went missing, to. Who was he afraid of . Mightve been afraid that he was next. He left behind a bigger mess. We three kings be stealing the gold. A missing fortune. Ballpark, 1 1 2 million dollars. We have no clues, no leads. Some wondered, was there a link . Two crimes, one for money, one, supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. It is just so ugly, and so wrong, and i cannot fix it. Welcome to dateline. Hotshot florida attorney, Melissa Lewis was living large in ft. Lauderdale. But then, her seemingly charmed life ended in tragedy when a body was discovered in a drainage canal. She had been murdered. But who would want
Story. The Democric Party is transforming before our eyes. The party of tom foley, tip oneill and even bill clinton is long gone. Pretty soon the party of nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer will be history, too. In its place is emerging something new, the party of andrew gillum. Hes the mayor of tallahassee, and heres some of what he believes. We want to replace i. C. E. With the department of justice, an entity that has not been tarnished in the same way as to be nine halves. So again, he says you want to abolish i. C. E. And you say you want to replace it, thats basically the same. Health care ought to be treated not like a person. So you think you should be impeached . I think so, is already implicated himself, by Basically Obstructing justice. Tucker The State Of Florida has long been considered moderate politically, its a
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had better evidence if you had a movie of him killing her. right. reporter: the defense had been dealt a poor hand to play, but attorney bruce fleisher chipped away at each state witness, starting with tony s housemate, the guy with the scrubbing away pepper spray story. the defense said he had 250,000 reasons to make his story up. there was a reward offered. yes. and who offered the reward? scott rothstein. and, how much was the reward in the case? $251,000. reporter: ironically, he never got the reward. the collapse of rothstein s ponzi scheme put an end to that. and as for the prosecution s theory of motive, fleisher argued it was as thin as it was nonsensical. you would think that if you were so enraged that your wife were doing this that you d wanna harm her, and not someone else. reporter: as for debra villegas, defense attorney fleisher surprised everyone when he didn t ask her a single question.
all right, we are getting new numbers about the increasing number of migrants acrossing through the border and 800% increase in chinese migrant encounters along the border. what s going on there, griff jenkins in mission, texas. hey, neil, let s start with the latest cvp numbers for the month of january. the cvp folks, obviously, happy that finally after 10 months, the number is well below what it was last month and under 200,000. look here, we can show you on the screen in the center, the official january numbers, 156,274. now, that s much lower than the december s 251,000, but you can see next to it compared to last january, it s still up about 2,000. now, you see that over 50% were single adults, but that hasn t stopped the migrants coming that don t want to be