overturn the 2020 election. one of these has just broken, and it s about this guy. he s not exactly a household name, this is mike roman. he was a director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign, you might know him as the guy who, on january 6th tried to physically deliver certificates of the fake electors from trump s fake electors scheme to vice president mike. pence electors schem about act, bek man trying to lure the fake electors on january 6th to stop the certification of the 2020 election, that there is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see, after the election, there was not much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike roman shifted to a new gate. he acted as a go-between, the vote whimper of sorts, doing allegra to get state level officials on board with trump s fake electors plan. he was an illegal mastermind planning, he was in the brains of the operation, he was the legs of the operati
it was a small new year s eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, as
. it s 4:00 in the east. happy friday. it is just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that completely up ended women s health and american politics. of course we re talking about the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade and eliminating abortion access and abortion rights for millions of american women. looking back it is hard to understate the legacy of that dobbs decision. first there is, of course, the rulings near immediate impact on women and reproductive health care in america. the new york times reports this. in the year since roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country s patchwork of abortion access. at least 61 clinics, planned parenthood facilities, and doctors offices stopped offering abortions in the last year. most were in the 14 states that banned abortion outright, but the uncertainty surrounding laws in several other states also caused providesers there to shutdown. all of it h
it s 4:00 in the east. a stunning comprehensive brand new piece of reporting that really amounts to a first drafrt of history for merrick garland s justice department a piece of reporting that answers questions we ve been asking for years now questions that have dogged doj for many many months why did it take so long for d.o.j. to investigate? the first formal step into probing the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the criminal inquiry now into the fate of electors did not take place until april 2022 more than a area after the insurrection and well after the january 6th select committee had begun to uncover a complex multipronged plot and democracy with donald trump in the driver s seat. the washington post is reporting in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th insurrection, acting u.s. attorney michael sherwin, senior justice department officials and paul abbate quashed a plan in the u.s. attorney s office to directly investigate trump associates for any links to
I just ran out of the room. I didnt want to go back in. Welcome to how it really happened. It was a Hot August Night in 1989 when media titan Jose Menendez and his wife kitty were gunned down in cold blood in their Beverly Hills mansion. The gruesome murder would trans fix a nation drawn to the lurid testimony from the courtroom. For the first several months, the world would be riveted by one of the most publicized who done its in history. How did it really happen . Beverly hills represents wealth. It represents exclusivity. The prettiest people, the fanciest cars. All over Beverly Hills but rarely here. In august, 20th, 1989, the quota was filled. Whats the problem . Whats the problem . Pardon me . The phone rang and it was the watch commander indicating that he needed to respond to the station. They had a double homicide. 722 north elm. The first patrol car pulls up. Erik is weeping hysterically on the front lawn. At this time we had two deceased persons inside. A male and a female.