you. i m jim sciutto. a busy day on this monday. the first day of the new year. new details about the 19-year-old suspect who is accused of attacking three nypd officers in times square on new year s eve. we re learning he was interviewed by the fbi and also on a terrorist watch list. officials say in his diary he detailed a desire to join the taliban and to die a martyr. and the man arrested in connection with those brutal stabbing deaths of four idaho college students set to make his first court appearance. now his family is speaking out for the first time. i ve been in touch with his family. as you can imagine, the holidays brutal for them. the january 6th committee releasing a trove of new documents overnight detailing calls by president trump ahead of the insurrection. what sort of payment rudy giuliani requested for his post-election legal services and what the committee wanted to ask former chief of staff mark meadows in a deposition. more on that in a moment.
you know, he plays the tv game and he went too far here. that really didn t help, talking about that primarying liz. he created a sense of revenge. graham saying trump went too far. really? and created a sense of revenge. he s saying trump has responsibility for those terrorists that attacked and tried to overthrow the country as the january 6th committee preps public hearings with videotape testimony. today new emails from trump lawyer john eastman, the mastermind of the coup. he circulated that memo, a sort of coup playbook. he urged gop lawmakers in pennsylvania to, quote, retabulate the state s popular vote and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots. eastman writing the strategy would, quote, help provide some cover for republicans who would place joe biden s electors with a slate of trump electors. senator mike lee texted trump s chief of staff mark meadows on november 23rd. quote, john eastman has some really interesting research on this. the good news is tha
independent lone wolf as they say. andy mccabe, thank you very much. i m sure we ll be talking about this some more. the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of four idaho college students expected to waive his extradition from pennsylvania to idaho tomorrow. this 28-year-old, bryan kohberger who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder murder. jean casarez is in stroudsburg, pennsylvania, outside the correctional facility where kohberger is being held. what more are we learning about him and for folks coming back from vacation, how investigators found their way to him. well, what we re learning about him personally is he just graduated this is his home, northeastern pennsylvania, he graduated in may from the area. he got his masters degree in criminal justice. we also know he just completed his first semester at washington state university, clear across
underscores the fact that this is still way up in the air on the republican side. people are when they answer pollst pollsters, they know they are not choosing their nominee that day. so what they answer is really all not that consequential at this moment in time. so it is going to move and i think it is going to continue to move. tara. well i found a couple of things interesting about this. the fact that hillary clinton gets trounced by ben carson by nine points in both ohio and pennsylvania. that is fascinating. i think that clinton campaign that is in a general election. and the clinton campaign cannot be happy about that. no presidential candidate has won the presidency without winning two out of the three swing states which are in there, florida, ohio and pennsylvania to. see clinton lose by almost double digits to ben carson is almost unbelievable. and he s not the front runner. you have to get through the primaries before you duet to the general.