she didn t answer the phone. she was scared. then terrible news. a student had been murdered. a young woman, but apparently it wasn t alum. the girl on the floor had very black colored hair. she had lighter hair. who was it and where was alex. at that point, it was perhaps one dead and another missing. the killer could be roaming the campus. we are really scared. a mysterious tweet. what do you think it meant? i don t know. a terrifying phone call. my son just called. and a terrible truth. i didn t know how? i didn t know who? i didn t know anything. i just know she was gone. hello and welcome to dateline. a college freshman found brutally beaten, so gruesome, they couldn t identify the victim, but identifying the killer wasn t nearly as hard. he admitted what he did, turning himself into police within hours. it was why he said he did it, it would become the foundation for his defense. here is andrea canning with after midnight. every yea
a college freshman found brutally beaten, so gruesome, they couldn t identify the victim, but identifying the killer wasn t nearly as hard. he admitted what he did, turning himself into police within hours. it was why he said he did it, it would become the foundation for his defense. here is andrea canning with after midnight. every year as summer fades into fall and lazy days at the beach come to an end, students flood back to college. the same scene year after year at campus after campus. every year, there s that new bunch, the freshmen. i was nervous that first day. all those worries. all those questions. do i really have to go to these classes and what is this class like. they are not quick
conservative you might be happy because this is the last thing congress will do this calendar year before the election so they might as well head home. i want to make a point about what joe just said. when joe was elected i was just rereading a book he s featured prominently in called the freshmen which was a book about his class elected to congress on an anti-incumbent very similar to 2010 throw the bums out mentality, entrenched democrats, we need to get rid of these people. a lot of those people joe not included are still on capitol hill so they bucked what they came to washington to do. so in 2010, we saw this massive class of republicans who got elected to not increase the debt and deficit and here we are in 2018, those same republicans have lost their religion and debts and deficits. so a lot of parallels between these two massive classes that changed washington in a big way are now completely abandoning what they came to washington to do. there s a nice way to
economy. spending cuts, help us with jobs today. chris: all right, congressman, this gets confusing. the president will offer a budget for the next budget year that starts in october, 2012, this week, you guys, the house republicans are going to offer cuts in the punter budget, t budget and you, originally of the house budget chairman, propose roughly $30 billion in cuts from 2010 spending. and, under pressure from house tea party members, the freshmen, young guns, that was doubled to $60 billion. do any of these cuts double what you originally proposed, do any of them go too far? no. no. look, how great is this debate we re having in congress? a year ago, congress was debating about how much more spending to increase and now we are debating how much to cut. and what i put that when i put out the number, it was the pledge, we ll bring spending down to 08 levels the rest of
groping. reporter: massa denied any sexual contact. did you ever touch anybody sexually or grope anybody sexually? no. no, no, no. have you ever had an inappropriate sexual contact with anybody on your staff male or female? no. reporter: a married father of two, massa bristled it at this question. are you gay? here s that answer, i m not going to answer that. reporter: in a separate tv project called the freshmen the first term congressman described his unusual living arrangements. i have two kids in college. i can t afford to spend a lot of money on an apartment in washington, d.c. crash on the couch, go to the gym and catch a shower in the morning. trust me, i ve slept in worse. reporter: massa add hitted he had been too familiar with staffers but claimed that had been acceptable conduct during his 24 years as a navy officer. he hinted more personal details may still come out. i m sure there s text messages, we banter back and