the suspect accused of shooting him, a lifelong rap sheet, 21 arrests, including some for violent crimes. the officer was 26 years old, a married father of two young children. we mourn his passing. sandra: the pentagon just giving an update as more questions swirl over that chinese spy flight. a live report on how that spycraft is just one part of china s surveillance program. john: top former twitter executives are in the hot seat as house republicans work to get to the bottom of why they suppressed the hunter biden laptop story. byron donalds is on hot stand by, he ll join us next. the tweet, yes the person in the pink hat is a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than nazis in the white house. do you think all conservatives are nazis? certainly not, sir.
right now is regressive. affluent parents get a choice, poor people don t, that s just wrong. john: marc thiessen, never at a loss for words. thanks for joining us. sandra: the man accused of attacking paul pelosi is in court today. he attacked pelosi with a hammer last october. pelosi is still recovering from his injuries, and was in attendance at the state of the union address last night where he received a standing ovation. john. john: sandra, tragic update to a story we have been following all week. the new york police department officer detectives say was lured into an ambush robbery and shot has died of his wounds. he had been on life support since a gunman shot him in the head last weekend. police said he was trying to buy a car that was listed for sale on facebook marketplace but it was a scam to lure him there with a pocket full of money.
that big crater that you saw in the middle of the moon, that that s crater right there. reporter: martinez also goes by jupiter joe. he gave sidewalk astronomy classes. videos of him encouraging kids and adults to see the stars through his telescope are online. astronomy, the stars and everything she was interested in is something that our suspect is interested in. he s going around, talking about it. there s a connection there. reporter: and detectives discovered another connection, old case notes from 1999 showed martinez told police he had seen her around their apartment complex getting mail and selling candy. when martinez was questioned in late november and denied any physical contact with her, detectives say, that s when they knew he was lying. ultimately sealing the case against him. he was fifth on the list of individuals that i wanted to
information, that he should not know. it is obvious. you are buying it? yes, we are buying he knows and he is involved with this. i don t think this woman deserved what happened. and she des get it. i want my back scratched too. billy told the cops, he never intended to follow through the hit. i am not going to kill nobody. nrvegsd he was going to play john, take him for as much money as possible. forio for two years that is what happened. how many conversations go you have with john. numerous. more than 10? yes. more than 20? 50, 60. detectives say, it wasn t just billy plays the john game, members of his crew were added, and the cops knew one of them. his name is john. we called him john, that was it.
anti-immigrant groups in particular have been sort of softly, softly suggesting that maybe race and immigration wasn t the motivation for the shooter at all. maybe he was just some crazy kid. i mean, beyond what appears to be the online statement from the shooter explaining his motives and now what the el paso detectives say, he said to them, as soon as he was arrested, having volunteered that he was the shooter, it does seem like his motive, the racially specific nature of his motive should now be considered a settled issue. this weekend will mark the two-year anniversary of what is now just shorthanded in this country as charlottesville. the neo-nazi/white supremacist gathering in charlottesville, virginia, in august 2017, during which neo-nazi and white supremacist protesters marched around holding torches, saying things like you will not