after the war ended, overton retired and built his east austin home when the city had just 100,000 people. big buildings, these highways, these trees. i seen all of this austin go up. reporter: 70 years after fighting in world war ii, president barack obama invited overton to spend veteran s day 2013 in washington. today richard still lives in the house that he built all those years ago, rakes his own lawn, and every sunday he hops in his 1971 ford truck and drives one of the nice ladies in his neighborhood to church. reporter: and the attention didn t stop there. in the same year he was congratulated on his birthday by former governor rick perry. rotc members from the university of texas and austin community college painted his house and landscaped his yard. i appreciate it. reporter: at 109, he spent veteran s day in the hospital battling pneumonia. he wants everybody to know that he ll be just fine.
his wife is brutally beaten. did he hire someone? we just don t know. her husband had an alibi. and something else. a lover. you were intimate with her in your home? two times. it was shocking, would have never expected it. as police got closer to the truth he says, i think i know who did it. the truth got closer to home. he just told me, hold on. it s about to get a lot more crazy. secrets on hot springs drive. hello, welcome to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. they were best friends. and next door neighbors. the two shared nearly everything. then kay was viciously beaten in her own home. as her loved ones reeled with grief, investigators discovered that behind kay and becky s friendship lay a tale of infidelity and betrayal.
hemisphere, in our backyard and we just can t turn our eyes away to the human tragedy that is happening there. appreciate your passion and we ll follow it. let me totally switch gears and ask you about this headline, this district court judge last week in texas striking down the entire affordable care act, including the protection for pre-existing conditions. as the washington post put it today, the republicans are to blame if the law with no alternative is not revived by a higher court. we covered the midterms closely and that was a key issue it was a winning issue for democrats. if your party doesn t figure this one out, how worried are you that it might backfire on republicans come 2020? i think it s a huge problem. listen, be careful what you wish for, because you just may get it. and republicans have been wanting to repeal obamacare. it looks like this judge has just tried to do so in this
and enforce rules for entrance into our country. republican lawmakers who lost their re-election bids aren t necessarily feeling compelled to even return to washington let alone vote. phil mattingly, when you read this times piece it paints it as all these republican members of congress saying, eh, what s in it for me to return by the end of the year? not a lot of enthusiasm. whatever the end game is here, brook, as you rightly point out, lawmakers on capitol hill don t know what the end game is or, frankly, what the next steps are until president trump tells them what he wants or wants them to put on the table as they move forward. what that demonstrates, republicans retiring or lost re-election in november demonstrate by the fact that they ve not been showing up for a lot of votes since the election is just the general lack of willingness to have this fight right now. i ve covered a lot of these. you ve been in the chair for a
holding rallies, staging protests, even handing over their personal information. we have reported some of this before, that the russians were behind various black matters groups even on social media, pro and against nra groups. this reveals something that is even beyond politics. they made up a fictitious group called the army of jesus, targeting christians. brooke, they were offering free counseling to people with sexual addiction. according to new knowledge the company that did the research on this, this could have been a way to create an opportunity to blackmail or manipulate individuals, essentially a way to pressure americans into working for the russians. it is really astounding. it is stunning. and the report says certainly before the election, the efforts were aimed at getting trump elected in suppressing the potential supporters of hillary clinton, but it didn t stop there. no, it didn t stop at all. all the major social media platforms used as part of that campaign, the r