the all in crime blotter for this friday night takes us to virginia beach bank robbery. the guy walks in hands the teller a note the teller hands over cash, lots of cash. how do we have this video of the robbery in progress? because the accused bank robber posted it on instagram. he also posted this very polite note he apparently handed the teller that reads in part i need 150,000 bands, please. the note ends with a smiley face. there s that. 23-year-old dominick alfonzo was arrested 20 minutes after he left the bank. he isn t guilty of the crime because he asked for the cash in the best possible way. i went and i gave a note and i asked actually politely. a robbery is demanding, going and demanding something and taking the money or whatever like that. i didn t do that. now, now that we ve cleared that up a florida couple is
bodies, now busted and behind bars. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. republican texas governor greg abbott is still defending his controversial decision to call in the texas guard to monitor u.s. military exercises happening in his state this summer. a move that s been slammed by members of his own party for stoking paranoid furyies about a planned invasion of the lone star state. in an interview today, abbott tried to dispel those theories while laying the blame for the hysteria squarely at the feet of president obama. i think the cause of the underlying concern that is we see instances like a shooting in ft. hood by a terrorist, that the president labels workplace violence. we see the president come to the border in texas and say, it s safer than it s ever been only to have a record number of people crossing the border coming into the state of texas. the training exercise has the admittedly cryptic name jade helm 15 and is taki