forth and i misread your tex [laughter] i thought i was gonna have you on the top of the show and the you are you crossed on the top of my show and i was lik sending everyone on a while it was chase. but it s wonderful to see you. no or you thought i was gonna be on with you an hour ago, just pop up roundly o your show uninvited? no, i was having you on but then i realized afterwards tha i d screw that up and heads an a bunch of embarrassing emails telling people to stand down having revere the text you sen me so it s wonderful to see you here on this very importan day. thank you, chris. hey, and thank you for askin me to be here, i m here unde weird circumstances. i did my own makeup which is hilarious. so i look like we ve all bee talking about nicks nixon an actually here to remind us o the ghost of nixon nixon it s 1960. you do everything including your makeup. before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you ve been asking a lot of questions this hour and,
in you to shoot your mom and dad. young rich handsome in a case made for hollywood they were ready for the camera it was the first televised courtroom drama that captivated the united states it was a huge deal erik and lyle menendez convicted of murdering their own parents. i ran around and shot my mom! it wasn t real. it just wasn t real. they re sociopaths and pretty big ones. now almost 30 years late chilling new details. evidence never broadcast before! a letter, hinting at secrets too dark to imagine. this is so outside of the norm something is going on i that house did they kill in cold blood or in crippling fear oh man it was gut-wrenching i wanted to bust the door down they spoke the truth abou what had happened. tonight, hear from the brother themselves people were afraid of him let s go through this bit b bit. there was no way he was gonna let this secret get out. silence destroyed our whole family here it was the shinin s
can i just get your kind o chris opener in terms of how much you think this changes th country, if at all i think it changes th country, and i think there s kind of a no going back in thi to it that i think is correct. i have to say, in this is weird to say, back to you, the monologue you did about that this is happened before, thoug not surfaced specifically th president citing the menende trial, the john edwards trial, has been the north star for me and the thing that i m kind of holding to, almost aspirationally which is othe countries have done this, we have done it in other contexts and if the law is to mea anything, this is part of what that law means, even if, i people think it s a bad case and they don t have the good then he s acquitted. he gets his rightful due process and all of that is important, and i m trying no to get out over the outcomes i do think ultimately,
ends justified the means let s make up this story about abuse. but one thing jurors figure was not made up was that confession tape. this time, the prosecution got to use that wildcard the way they wanted to, as their smoking gun. and they highlighted a section where the brothers seemed to have no remorse about what the had done you miss just having thes people around? i miss not having my do around that really just was like a punch in the gut and then, just before the jury went out, judge weissburg s last ruling. and quite possibly, the most important one of all the jurors would not be allowed to consider an imperfect self-defense judge weisberg basing his decision on a california supreme court ruling that came down after the first menende trial said imperfect self-defense didn t appl because the brothers initiated the confrontation with their parents.