that family would have a vigil every year. i m absolutely ecstatic these girls are alive. i ve been reading a lot of the details about the disappearance of amanda berry, last seen after finishing her shift at a burger king. about a week after she disappeared, her mother received a call from a man saying he had married amanda when the mother asked she would be able to see amanda in a few days. when the mother asked to speak to ramanda, the caller hung up. that call was traced to amanda s cell phone. then there were no more leads in the case. we don t know if that man was the suspect holding her and in the house with her all this time. how is it, john obviously there s a lot of questions and answers we ll be getting in the days and weeks ahead. how often is it that abducted kids are found so close to where
that the claim that he paid for sex with prostitutes was flat-out false. the police in the dominican republic saying, as you reported, that they ve now found out that all three women who claim they were with menendez were actually paid by a lawyer to make false claims. the women were paid several hundred dollars a police. the police said the women were led to believe they were doing this in connection with a divorce case. menendez always said the prosecution s story wasn t true. it was first reported by the conservative website, the daily caller. the caller reported today that it will continue to investigate the story. menendez has other issues, including an fbi investigation into the business dealings of an eye doctor, dr. solomon mel who s a big donor. so it s not over yet. joe johns reporting live from washington.
thanks very much. it s abe lincoln s birthday. today is abe lincoln s birthday as well? my goodness. which one of these things is not like the other. abraham lincoln, r.g. 3 and and jim. jim vandehei is malice for all. which one is not like the other? we will be talking to senator mike lee what he expects from tonight s address and senior contributor from the caller, matt lewis. [ male announcer ] this is bob, a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today.
to deal with this and most of the reaction that we ve gotten at the caller is we ve seen that the school board is simply looking for a way to say hey, look, going forward, this cannot happen again. so we ll see. i mean, if that s the outcome here, then it s probably a good one. just leave the politics out of the curriculum. all right. vince from the daily caller thank you very much. have a great weekend. thanks, steve. he is working 9 to 5. why do i mention that? dolly parton is coming up next and she is hi, dolly. good morning. she s creating jobs and expanding dolly sf wood. she s here live next with the exciting new addition to her theme park dollywood. hooray for dollywood in 1990, alana miles had the number one song black velvet. [ male announcer ] have you heard?
says he is mike jones, good enough, we have now got him on the phone. mike, are you with me? caller: hello. hello, mike, this is brooke in atlanta, can you hear? he caller: yes, ma am, go ahead. mike, i saw you today and i know i have heard from the school board superintendent. we talked to ginger, one of the other members of the school board, all calling you a hero. i know you are being modest but you were pretty teary identify talking about this whole ordeal today why are you so teary eyed? because you got a sudden lesson in the fact that life is very, very precious? caller: absolutely. tell you the news media yesterday, i wanted that private time with my pastor, my retired pastor and my family and that they would wait until today and they did. i needed that time with my family and today, you know, i m lucky to be here. a lot of emotions, i have been up and down all day doing these interviews and kind of hard to get it out of my mind that i almost lost my superintendent and