announced the immediate resignation of david samson. he ran the agency that had oversight over the george washington bridge. joining me now, wanda summers and ed o keefe. good morning you two. good to see you. good to see you. morning. the tone of the press conference is different than the one held in january. let s take a look. it s nice you eventually got to the question. it s so infirmed, i m not answering it. it s amusing when you write stories about things you are entitled to. you are entitled to the answers when i get them. what did you make of this press conference? do you think the governor is going to be able to put bridgegate behind him or not so much? no. he s trying. he has this press conference that harkins back to the style we have been familiar with and really helped put him on the map in the first place. i think there s concern a report
this is an egregious abuse of power by a government entity, the republican majority of our committee. what s next for the oversight committee when it comes to this investigation? the republicans have clearly tried to cook the books here. and they want to bring a contempt citation against lois lerner, and the sole reason is this plays well with their base. they did polling and the irs issue plays well with their base. the rights of the citizens are trampled on is just a casualty of war from their point of view. it s a shameful episode that harkins back to the civil rights era. it s a story that has been getting a lot of buzz today, and we re going to cover it later in the hour. it involves a nasty family feud playing out in a new jersey courtroom. an 18-year-old girl is suing her parents, demanding they pay her high school, college, and living costs. she claims she was abandoned.
and him committing the homicide or them together. heather never did report this incident to police. when questioned, captain dolan and his wife cooperated fully with the investigation and provided their finger prints for analysis. i compared the known ink prints to the lay tent prints taken from the crime scene, and none of the ink standards were identified latent prints of the crime scene. we couldn t say he didn t do it, but there was nothing indicating that he did do it. then investigators identified a fourth suspect, chris harkins was heather s friend who stayed in her apartment when he was in myrtle beach on business. after interviewing chris, it was found that they were just friends, that there was no sexual contact or anything like that between them. and harkins had an alibi. he was in lexington, south carolina, 160 miles away, the
and him committing the homicide or them together. heather never did report this incident to police. when questioned, captain dolan and his wife cooperated fully with the investigation and provided their finger prints for analysis. i compared the known ink prints to the lay tent prints taken from the crime scene, and none of the ink standards were identified latent prints of the crime scene. we couldn t say he didn t do it, but there was nothing indicating that he did do it. then investigators identified a fourth suspect, chris harkins was heather s friend who stayed in her apartment when he was in myrtle beach on business. after interviewing chris, it was found that they were just friends, that there was no sexual contact or anything like that between them. and harkins had an alibi. he was in lexington, south carolina, 160 miles away, the
self s defense, which means i have a reasonable belief my safety is at risk here, they re going to try to paint the actions of her as being aggressive, unreasonable. how was she acting when she was under the influence? from the defense perspective, they want to make it a huge part of the case in trying to paint the picture of what was happening on the porch that night. now, one of the reasons i think this case has received so much national attention is because the victim here was black and the shooter was white. yet the police when they issued these charges today, they say race does not factor into their charges. they don t see it as a role, sunny. you know, they certainly did say that. but i think this harkins back to the trayvon martin case, this harkins back to the jonathan davis case. people don t want to talk about it, but this homeowner has to show he was an honest and reasonable fear of great bodily injury and imminent death. i ve got to tell you, the fact that this victim,