are now the subject of a criminal case against michelle. prosecutors claim she not only pressured roy into killing himself but helped him plan suicide. according to court documents, the two spoke about roy killing himself for weeks with carter texting him quote, you re finally going to be happy in heaven. no more pain, no more bad thoughts and worries. you ll be free. when the 18-year-old voiced concerns about how his parents would feel, carter wrote quote, i think your parents know you re in a really bad place. i think they will understand and accept it. as roy considered his options, carter suggested using carbon monoxide, sending quote, if you emit 3200 ppm of it for five or ten minutes, you will die within a half hour. prosecutors also allege that carter told a friend that she was on the phone with roy the night he committed suicide, telling the friend that roy got out of the car at one point because the carbon monoxide
with his then 17-year-old girlfriend, michelle carter. she stays on the phone with him to ensure that he s dead. reporter: those text messages are the subject of a criminal case against michelle. prosecutors claim she not only pressured roy into killing himself, but helped him plan suicide. according to court documents, the two spoke about roy killing himself for weeks, with carter texting him, quote, you re finally going to be happy in heaven, no more pain, no more bad thoughts and worries, you ll be free. when the 18-year-old voiced concerns about house hi parents would feel, carter wrote, quote i think your parents no you re in a really bad place. i think they will understand and accept it, as roy considered his options, carter suggested use carbon monoxide sending, quote if you admit 3200 ppm for five or ten minutes, you will die within a half hour. prosecutors also allege that
carter told a friend that she was on the phone with roy the night he committed suicide telling the friend that roy got out of the car at one point, because the carbon monoxide was working and he got scared and carter told him to get back in. carter asked roy to delete the messages she sent him, and she tells the friend that if police read my messages with him, i m done. if she really loved him as she said she did, why didn t she decide to persuade him not to? every day you wake up and think, you know, why? why? why? michelle carter s attorneys says the messages are protectd about free speech and claims testify conrad roy who had attempted suicide before that got carter to endorse his plan. the government is hoping, if you will, on her saying when are you going to do it?
on bill clinton here. he was attacking someone that i know you have had positive things to say about, mitch mcconnell at the event yesterday. take a listen. politics is not rocket science. it s either creative cooperation or constant conflict. it s either a focus on people or a focus on keeping yourself in power by keeping people torn up and upset so they can t think anymore. your opponent is a genius at that ladder course. he skated a couple of elections here doing that. joe, do you think that s what mitch mcconnell does? no, i don t think so. i think mitch mcconnell has proven himself over the years to be a real leader in the senate and somebody if re-elected will continue to be a real leader in the senate, not just for republicans, but americans everywhere. president clinton, of course, is a very effective campaigner and still very, very popular, easily the most popular, i guess, past democrat president in recent history. you think he s got carter beat there?
whether asked if there s any hard evidence of clugs between the president s associates and russians. i wouldn t be surprised after all this is said and done that some people end up in jail. castro s threat comes tonight. we have learned the that former campaign advisor carter page met with the russian spy in 2013. especially troubling. especially since reports are that s russians were recruiting him as a source. page admits to the meeting but inns cysts he didn t know the russian was a spy. plus, erik prince, the brother of the education second betsy devos had a secret meeting days before trump s inauguration. that effort, trying to establish