Hands of travis alexander the boyfriend she is accused brutally murdering with premeditation. arias said she didn t want to write about the abuse because she didn t want to think about her boyfriend way, that was the reason and he previously made her rip up other negative entries. prosecutors say she didn t write about the abuse because there wasn t any abuse. they called her a jilted lover who killed the man because she couldn t completely have him. lis wiehl, former federal prosecutor and doug burns, former federal prosecutor criminal defense attorney. just does the journal help her or hurt her? it hurts her. this brutal assault, bent finger not have that in there, have in the journal i was stickened when i looked at him kissing another woman. for me, jenna, that means motive. she was sickened by that. made her sick to see that. she wanted that man and what she would do for him. jenna: doug, do you think that is the tippingpoint,
Controllers when you ve got heavy traffic from even cargo carriers. jon: yeah. peter goelz so i d look twice at it. of. jon: peter goelz, thank you. thank you, jon. jenna: well, some breaking news on the benghazi terror attacks. james rosen s interview with secretary of state john kerry who on the record for the first time says he visited a survivor at walter reed hospital. we re going to be speaking to a congressman who s now demanding more information about just how many people survived the benghazi attacks and why we haven t heard from them or about them. million now. until now. plus, she s accused of killing her boyfriend in a fit of jealous rage. what we re now finding out about jodi arias journal,. and we re tracking that massive winter storm. millions of americans impacted by this. janice dean with your forecast next. [ male announcer ] this is betsy.
Finger and put nothing in the journal. jenna: she is sitting there talking directly to the jury, judge. this is my explanation, may not be right but this is where i did it. this could become a serious problem for prosecutors. analogy to casey anthony. more months and months, she killed her child. case closed. it was a freight train hit them in the face. jenna: true. here what happened his, the worst way to defend a case i had nothing to do with it. when the proof shows you did it, you re a liar, you did it you re done. the best way to defend it i did the acts but i have legal defense. it can get a bit slippery the problem, lis, jury theoretically could say you charged her with the wrong crime that could be a problem. that could be a lesser included offense. exactly. that is the next step here. but lesser included means if you don t find her guilty of premeditated murder are there lesser included offenses on there? can the jury find something else. that will be a big key for the p
The sees the premeditation? pretty hard sell i didn t want to put it in there because i didn t want to see him in a negative light. however saying that lis would agree, general proposition slowing down the pace of the trial helps the defense, meaning in simple english. she stabbed him 27 times, shot him. if the were a week, hypothetically, oh, my god, wouldn t be much to talk about. here they slowed it down. they had to. prosecutor had to come back and defense proud up diary. there were be unanswered questions about the jurors. why didn t they bring this up? why didn t they go back to that. they have to go. now they need to end it and end it quickly. jenna: she did give an explanation why she didn t talk about travis in her journal. we have that sound. let s go ahead and play that. my question to you, and we talked about this as it relates to a few incidents but as it relates to all these incidents, why wouldn t you put something of that nature in your journals? what are the reas
were you aware of mr. mr. alexander engaging in other sexual behavior at the same time with other individuals, at the same time that he was engaging in sexual behavior with you? at what time period? any time period? yes. jenna: she wrote in her dry rethat she saw him kissing somebody. something to that affect. alicia acuna is live from denver with more on all of this. reporter: jodi arias also testified that she left specific things out of that journal, like alleged violent incidents she says happened between her and travis alexander. she also says that he forced her to tear certain pages out that made him look bad. all this is part of a pattern of abuse her defense team is attempting to show that ultimately led to arias killing him if which she calls an act of self-defense, and what the prosecution says was