of conventional or nuclear weapons. he down played a bungled message from the trump administration on the warships that were supposed to be en route to the region a long time ago but weren t. last week the u.s. military and the administration announced that another ship, the u.s.s. karl ben son was headed toward north korea. now we learn that it wasn t. in fact, it was going the other direction. so were these misleading comments deliberate? oh, i think not. look, we ve got an extraordinary commitment of u.s. forces in this region. and the karl vincent and that battle group are being deployed to the sea of japan and will likely arrive here in the coming wee weeks. but the presence of u.s. forces,
mother a school secretary. he went to the university of florida, became a star football player. won a national award at the university of florida for a tight end. first time the university had ever won that award. dropped out of college. drafted by the patriots in 2010. went on then in 2012 to get another contract for $40 million in total and a year after that murdered odin lloyd. always connected to trouble back in connecticut. never fully escaped a crowd he ran with there and ultimately again convicted of killing odin lloyd. thanks so much. joining us now is ben, nfl reporter and former ward of the jail. warden, let me start with you. i have to believe that aaron hernandez was the highest profile inmate in this facility. i have to believe they had their eye on him. so how does this happen?
left singapore. the truth is they accelerated the start date of this exercise and curtailed the length of it so she could get it done and start heading north. the second thing that happened was from an operational perspective, there wasn t a lot of clarity in terms of moving that information up the chain of command. i think the white house should get a pass on this. i think the information didn t filter up to them the way it should have from the military and the pentagon and it is unfortunate but i don t think there is any malfeasance here. they could have told the truth and the white house could have told the truth and when they knew it was being reported differently, they could have corrected it and they didn t. and, i mean, i ll ask the ambassador here. you know, as a reporter, how can you trust what s being said when something like this happens, what are you supposed to take for this? we don t have satellites and look and see. what are you supposed to do with
something good has happened, but the reality of going back to prison and being there for life or for a very long period of time takes an emotional toll and they feel kind of hopeless and helpless and they end their lives. and this was for life without the possibility of parole. ben, how have the patriots handled this really over the years and right up until this morning? bill belichick was asked about the acquittal last year and he called the whole hernandez episode a tragedy. yeah. certainly. the patriots have really washed their hands clean of aaron hernandez ever since we saw him getting hauled away in handcuffs in june 2013. at that point when the patriots released him minutes after that image, they didn t know he would be charged with murder. they thought it would be accessory or he was a part of it. they didn t realize he was the ring leader of that whole episode. they had a program where you could trade in your hernandez
involved, the two victims in the double murder who haven t gotten closure. there won t be a conviction in the murder of their two sons. they were dragged through this lengthy court process and now they wake up to find out he kills himself right afterwards. so just sadness on so many levels and it affected so in different people. thank you very much, ben and patrick for joining us. again, hernandez s victim in that 2013 murder is odin lloyd. he would have been 31 years old. this morning president trump is taking credit for a republican victory even though the gop didn t win and the democrat got more than double the votes of his nearest challenger. but what matters? is it jon ossoff 48.1% falls short of a simple majority. so he is headed to a run off against karen handel and suddenly ossoff faces a longer