morning, prosecutors argued. no murderer who wants to kill lisa techel comes to the murder scene without the murder weapon. we argued the impossibility of his story. some unknown assailant breaks into his house and kills the wife that he says he s gonna leave. tyler batterson is our next witness. prosecutors called one of seth s young friends to show the jury, they said, just how deceptive and manipulative seth was. this witness was one of the boys, it turned out, behind all the vandalism across the fence. he testified he was just following seth s orders. he told us to go mess with his neighbor tate. how were you gonna mess with him? fill five gallon buckets full of dog manure and go dump em on his property. remember, seth had assured his father-in-law and the state agent who interviewed him the exact opposite. and i said, i m not messing with him. i ll make sure nobody else is. looking back, that incident was what turned todd against
seth was. it was one of the boys turned out behind all the vandalism across the fence. he testified he was just following seth s orders. told us to go mess with his neighbor tate. reporter: how were you going to mess with him? fill five buckets full of dog manure and dump them on his property. reporter: remember seth had assured his father-in-law and the state agent who interviewed him the exact opposite. and i said, i m not messing with him. i ll make sure nobody else is. reporter: looking back, that incident was what turned todd against brian tate in the first place. fixing the idea in his mind that his kids neighbor was a der ranged, maybe dangerous prank. i m going by what seth had told me about him. reporter: as for tate s complaint calls with deputies as captured on dash cam video, it became evidence for the prosecution. we feed the squirrels, birds, and deer. we were hopeful that the jury would see brian tate as we saw
story for a jury? probably the most important single piece of evidence was the shotgun. ballistics showed this mossberg 12-gauge was the murder weapon, a firearm that seth kept inside his house, and only he had access to it that morning, prosecutors argued. no murderer who wants to kill lisa techel comes to the murder scene without the murder weapon. we argued the impossibility of his story. some unknown assailant breaks into his house and kills the wife that he says he s gonna leave. tyler batterson is our next witness. prosecutors called one of seth s young friends to show the jury, they said, just how deceptive and manipulative seth was. this witness was one of the boys, it turned out, behind all the vandalism across the fence. he testified he was just following seth s orders. he told us to go mess with his neighbor tate. how were you gonna mess with him? fill five gallon buckets full of dog manure and go dump em on his property. remember, seth had assured his f
first of all your reaction to sergey lavrov laughing at election interference and mocking trump s policy in northern syria. boy i would laugh if i were him. he s almost 70 years old, lavrov, one of the best diplomats around the planet and he saw the decline of the soviet union decades ago and humiliated when we said forget about russia in the invasion to iraq. we re going in anyway. and now russian foreign policy once smelled like dog manure and it smells like roses now. syria fine and ukraine fine. the president said i don t care. nato which is the bull wart after world war ii the president is not interested so if i were sergey lavrov i would say things are smelling like roses for me. and testimony from the impeachment inquiry came out showing that president trump apparently saw a report on cnn about the u.s. navy taking on aggression from russia.