sandra: mercedes joins us in a moment, but first, matt is live on the ground in moscow, idaho. kohberger entered a rather unusual or uncommon plea today. we did not hear much from him, that s a big part of it. that s right, a couple minutes ago inside of the county courthouse, the attorneys for bryan kohberger told the judge they will stay silent on all five charges related to this murder case. therefore, the judge entered default not guilty plea for bryan kohberger and his attorney asked for a six-week trial beginning in october and no sides objected to that date. kohberger appeared in person in the past hour inside the courtroom wearing orange prison garb and this courtroom is basically a walking distance from the murder site where the four students were killed shortly before last thanksgiving. kohberger was wearing orange prison garb, looking extremely alert and observant. answered loud and clear, and today he was arraigned on four charges of murder in the first-degree
vehicle that kohberger and his father drove back across country from the state of washington to pennsylvania. that s going to be very instrumental in this case. for instance, a lot of times when you put a seatbelt on and from what we have been told, that was a very bloody scene there on kings place there in moscow, idaho dealing with these four students. and when you put a seatbelt back on, there are a lot of times that when you take the seatbelt off it will roll back up and i m sure the authorities are looking at that seatbelt as well as other physical evidence in that automobile to try to establish a rapport, not so much rapport but a connection, should i say, between kohberger and these murders. john: it was a gruesome scene to be sure, ted. at one point, photographs of
prominent presidential candidate and former president trump is not going after senator tim scott because he knows how professional scott is, he s a pro s pro, but can he have the energy, and he did today, but will voters get behind him? i thought the optics of that speech were great. john: especially when he called his mom out and said thank you for supporting, believing in me when no one else would and gave his mom a bouquet of flowers. she raised him, a great personal touch. john: harvard harris poll, good news and bad news. bad news, 47% of people polled say they have never heard of him. however, of those 47%, or of the rest who do know him, 30% say they have a very favorable or favorable view of him. not a lot of people know about him, those who do really like him. and that s rare. we work with harvard harris a lot, and listen, any time you are above water, any time you
preponderance of evidence, a lot of things point to kohberger but nothing that definitively links him, we do not know still what the source of the dna was from the knife sheath. you know, john, you touched on an excellent point here. what we do know, though, another network has recently announced that in their research that they found out that kohberger allegedly went on amazon and purchased the sheath and the knife, the knife in this case has never actually been found. but what the authorities have and what they are gathering is a lot of physical evidence as well as circumstantial evidence. when we look at the physical evidence, one of the things that i really want to find out about is what they found in that white
sandra: gop primary field is growing with south carolina senator tim scott officially throwing his hat in the ring for his white house run today, receiving a major endorsement right out of the gate from senator minority whip john thune. he now joins a growing field of candidates, including nikki haley. mark meredith is live in north charleston, south carolina, his hometown. what does this high profile endorsement mean for scott right out of the gate? sandra, good afternoon to you. i imagine the endorsement will offer the campaign more legitimacy as it gets ready to head out to the heartland. set to visit iowa and new hampshire in the next few days, may carry more of a punch as he introduces himself to the primary voters. the senator talked a lot about his own personal upbringing, his story, he talked about how he