iphone on her. investigators were out in the area for quite some time and questioning a farmer that lived nearby multiple times. that farmer confessed or insisted that he had nothing to do with this. we re trying to now confirm if the investigators are out here because maybe her fitbit or cell phone did paying out here. thank you for all of your reporting on the story. it is a terrible and. we certainly send our sympathies to the family. her father had been on television, very stoic, very calm, very trusting in the police the entire time. certainly not the result that they wanted. it is certainly every human being s worst nightmare. a young woman who will never take another breath of oxygen again because of what this man has alleged to have done. early in the case, there was a clue that said that this guy may have been a suspect early on. they owe us nothing, they know
and he eventually started to chase her and mollie tibbetts said, get away from me. she got off her cell phone and asked her to get away from her. at that point, he blacked out. nearly a month later, this man took authorities to the body of mollie tibbetts which is not far from here. it was found in a cornfield. apparently, trying to be hidden by extra cornstalks. investigators say that the man has been charged with first-degree murder. we are expecting to learn much more as this story envelops. dana: matt, could i ask you something? you have been covering this case from the beginning. early on, when the police had a press conference, they said at one point that they believed that the suspect was hiding in plain sight. do you think that christian rivera was the person in question work ? we are told that he lived in the area for 4-7 years.
well, including the fbi and the irs. this case has more in common with all of those cases, because they all share the same message. that message is that the rule of law applies. for law enforcement, all of whom are gathered here, it is our commitment that we will pursue and vindicate those who choose to break the law and vindicate the majority people who live law-abiding lives in an honest and fair dealings and live lives of lawful behavior. the message is that we are here. prosecutors are here, law enforcement is here, the department of justice is here, law enforcement agencies are here. we are a nation of laws, and the essence of this case is about justice. that is an equal playing field for all persons in the eyes of the law law and that is a lessn
this was baked into the cake with trump supporters. on the jesse: manafort casee ulterior motives for the prosecution going after that. is there a real political lasting damage for this? i don t think we note the answer to that. i think it is the beginning of an effort to really put the squeeze on some of these people and potentially, where does that lead? we don t know. we do know that the mueller team seems to be moving a little quicker on a number of fronts. the goal, as we are hearing here in washington, is to get some kind of interim report out before the midterms, possibly by early september. if that is the case, all of these little pieces to the puzzle lead you to that, and we could be in for many other days like this where it is all breaking like this. the jesse: manafort stuff, e right. it is not tied to collusion. it is not tied there. but, it is a win for the special
hopefully a renaissance, you have towns that have been hollowed out. what are we talking about? taxi cab confections in case of cohen and paul manafort s work and the tax evasion charge for lobbing stuff he did. this is incredible. dana: i am told that we have a mug shot of the alleged murder suspect. this is christian rivera. you heard matt reporting earlier that they believe this is the man who murdered mollie tibbetts. he was here in the united states illegally. we don t have much more information about him or his background on whether he had been back and forth in the united states. it is believed that he was in the area in ohio for the last 4-7 years. iowa, excuse me. as the first time we are seeing his mug shot. then, as you were saying earlier, you think the police were probably aware of him from early on and it might have taken a while for him i left federal