find in wyoming september 19th after disappearing weeks before. brian laundrie's parents say they last saw him september 13th but didn't report him missing until four days later. now, after officials have been searching the reserve for over a month, the laundrie's lawyer suggests a new study was made yesterday by laundrie's father himself. why only yesterday? why the father? had the fbi been to the spot before? why didn't dogs or the fbi make the discoveries? a notebook was found. what was inside? is it even in condition to provide clues? >> the remains appear to have been there for a while. nick valencia joining us from near the reserve in north port, florida. maybe more questions than answers today, nick. >> reporter: good morning, brianna. for weeks, brian laundrie was the most wanted man in america. the 23-year-old who was wanted for questioning in the death of his 22-year-old fiancee vanished without a trace after telling his parents he was going for a hike in this nature reserve. but that manhunt may have come to an abrupt end with the discovery of partial human remains in a part of the park that was previously under water. a dark turn in the search for brian laundrie. >> investigators found what appears to be human remains, along with personal items such as a backpack and notebook belonging to brian laundrie. >> reporter: investigators making the grim discovery at a florida nature reserve, saying it could take some time to confirm the identity of the remains. >> these items were found in an area that, up until recently, had been under water. it's likely the team will be on scene for several days. >> reporter: it's not certain the remains are those of laundrie, but the family's attorney told cnn wednesday it's likely they are. >> the probability is strong that it is brian's remains. but we're going to wait for forensic results to come in and verify that. >> reporter: brian laundrie disappearing nearly five weeks ago, shortly after returning home alone from a trip out west with his fiancee gabby petito. her body was found in a remote rough camping area in wyoming on september 19th. >> they want to complete this homicide investigation. they want to identify the body, obviously, and confirm that it is in fact, brian laundrie. but they also want to see if there is some helpful forensic evidence. >> reporter: laundrie's parents notifying their attorney they planned to go to the nature reserve on wednesday that brian said he was headed to september 13th. the attorney saying he thought it was best to notify law enforcement and said the north port police met the laundries at the north entrance of the park and accompanied them into the reserve. laundrie's father discovered his son's bag. . >> chris didn't want the bag up because he wanted law enforcement to see it. they were then out of sight because chris had been in the woods. so he didn't want to leave it with the news reporter standing nearby. so he picked it up. he did meet up shortly with law enforcement. they looked at the contents of the bag. >> reporter: earlier this week, petito's family said they want to hear from the laundries to provide answers for what happened to their daughter. >> i think silence speaks volumes. i believe they know probably, if not everything, they know most of the information. i would love to just face-to-face ask why are you doing this? just tell me the truth. >> reporter: so why haven't brian laundrie's parents spoken out? yesterday, steve bertolino said he specifically instructed them not to, saying more information will be revealed when the time is right. as for partial human remains, we are still officially awaiting words. an autopsy could take days. one of the big unanswered questions now, what did brian laundrie's know about their son's whereabouts and when did they know it. brianna. . >> nick valencia, thank you for that report. so this new odd timeline of the discovery of belongings raises questions and leads to speculation. here more of chris cuomo's interview with the laundrie family attorney. >> what do you make of the suggestion that mr. laundrie planted the bag&belongings. >> it's nice terms, it's hogwash. . >> would authorities know what they walked onto the trail with. >> they met them at the gate, walked in with them. fortunately for the laundries, the press was following them the whole time. >> joining us now forensic psychologist chris mohandy. i want to ask you about the major discoveries yesterday. obviously, what could be human remains, belongings there. when do you think this will mean there will be answers finally? >> answers will finally come as long as it takes for them to first determine if those are his remains, which is a medical examiner question. that could take varying lengths of time depending how long the remains have been under water. second, if those are his remains, what is the cause of death. is it accident, is it homicide, is it natural causes or suicide. and i think suicide is going to be one hypothesis if it is his body or remains that will be at the top of the list of possible causes. and then the issue becomes what's in those items that were found nearby. is there the potential for there to be a diary, confession, apology or suicide note. we only see suicide notes in about 14% of completed suicides. so these are all things that will be vetted, will be, you know, investigated. and, again, as was noted earlier in the program, you know, is that material -- has it been under water itself and is it potentially problematic to develop that information. so as long as that process takes to forensically investigate, that's how long it is going to take to get some of these major answers developed. >> what questions do you have especially about what transpired yesterday? >> oh, you know -- the family is in there, the father is in there looking. we talk about chain of custody. okay. so there might be media following them. it's going to raise all kinds of questions about how the bag got there if it is indeed his. but they make the point that, you know, the media is following them. and how were these things not seen earlier? is it because of the water? levels changing? that's possible. that can have a huge impact on an investigation. but these are questions that will need to have answers in order to determine how that evidence, if it is indeed him, was able to be there, remain unseen for this length of time. and now -- and only now discovered. but the water level is a huge factor and variable in some environments and certainly florida. >> i want to play more with chris cuomo's interview with the family attorney. it gets to this chain of custody, which you were talking about. . >> it is my understanding they were followed closely by two law enforcement personnel. when i say closely, certainly within eye shot. as they went further in, chris locates a dry bag. they locate the contents of the bag. at that time, law enforcement officers showed a picture on the phone of a backpack that law enforcement had located also nearby and also some distance off the trail. at that point, the laundries were notified that there was also remains near the backpack, and they were asked to leave the preserve. >> and really it is just interesting to hear that. how unusual would it be for the parents of a person of interest to be searching on their own in the reserve? >> well, i don't think it's going to be that unusual. i think parents are going to want to find their kid. and i think that, you know, many parents in a variety of circumstances would take it upon themselves to go searching. with this kind of cloud, it raises other kinds of questions. but i don't think it would be unusual for a parent, you know, of any aged kid who is missing to be involving themselves somehow. >> as i said, it is just an unusual perhaps conclusion to this story. very interesting developments. thank you, kris >> thank you, john. tonight joe biden will be speaking at a townhall as they try to reach a final deal on the legislative agenda. here is what the president said what is at stake in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. >> somewhere along the way we stopped investing in ourselves. we still have the most productive workers, most innovative minds. but we risk losing our edge as a nation. >> chief media adviser to the george w. bush and john mccain campaigns, mark mackinnon and adviser to senator manchin jonathan cott. what does biden need to do tonight? >> he needs to go on a national stage like he is with you all tonight and talk about not the price of the bill but what's in the bill. when you talk about what's in the bill it has enormous support. the last three to six months it's been has it been 3.5 trillion, 2.5 and not what's in the bill. we know people are supportive of the different elements of the bill. now democrats have to decide what's in and what's out. what is going to be in the bill when it comes to climate change. what will senator joe manchin allow that would be something that joe biden can go out and say, look, this is a huge victory for avoiding environmental calamity. >> i think senator manchin is open to a lot of things that joe biden could get on board with. what he is not on board with is eliminating energy sources we need the next 20 to 30 years. rick perry to ernie momise told him we will need. so i think he is just going to find the sweet spot that he always looks for. he'll find something that lets americans invest in clean energy but also protects the workers that are in west virginia, pennsylvania, ohio, and all over the country. he's working well with the president and he's going to find a way to cut a deal because that's what he wants to do. . >> the other moderate is kyrsten sinema of arizona. her issue right now seems to be how you pay for the bill. she is opposed to an increase in corporate taxes. that is a big part of this, mark. how do democrats pay for this bill if they don't pay for this bill? . >> well, i think it's important the pay fors are on the table and it's clear how they are being paid for. we have had too much debt driven up for too long by republicans ironically. we have been talking about this months and months and months. is it now that we understand what the bright lines are? we will have transformation for society. and it was going to pass a long time ago. we have these artificial deadlines put in place. sit a complicated bill. it's going to take a while. at some point, something is going to pass. they shouldn't have set these huge expectations for everybody. because they were unrealistic to begin with. >> yeah. it's almost like deadlines don't matter. mother jones, jonathan, has reported and this gained a lot of traction, that joe manchin was thinking about switching parties, becoming a republican. he was pretty clear about pwhae th -- what he thinks about this. >> there i would quote him if i'm allowed to say bull shot. he is a proud west virginia democrat. i 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insurrection. republicans telling their members vote no. that includes congressman jim jordan who defended trump in a contentious hearing even though he himself may be called as a witness. he spoke to president trump on january 6th, only jim jordan can't quite seem to get his story straight. >> did you talk to the former president before, during or after the attack. >> of course i've talked to the president. i've been clear about that. i talk to him all the time. >> i talked to him that day. i've been clear about that. i don't recall the number of times. >> was it before -- >> i talked to the president after the attack. >> so not before or during? >> right. i've been clear about that. >> but he hasn't been clear about that at all. jordan seems just as flustered to answer that question now as he was in july when he said he would look into it. >> did you talk to the former president that day? >> i've talked to the former president umpteen times, thousands -- not thousands. countless 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were forced into all kinds of situations. one of the things i took away from what they say, and we will play a montage of a bunch of them here, is almost disbelief of the fact that this happened before. listen. >> it was at that point that mike was to my right, and there was a guy in front of me and he was holding like this six-in-long black knife. and i remember, like, slapping it out of his hand, picking it up off the ground and passing it behind me. i looked back to my right, and mike was gone. he just wasn't there. >> i went through the tunnels, got to our secure location. we received word after we all got there that the rioters, you know, were essentially in control of the capitol. . >> there were so many of us in that room not knowing how long we will be there. >> for hours we were sitting there. the president didn't say a word. the president of the united states, who runs the military, the commander in chief, if he says a word, things happen. to me that was beyond the pale. >> again, as i said, there seems to be almost disbelief among some of these lawmakers. what did you hear on that front? . >> yeah. i think a lot of the lawmakers were very shocked how easy people got into the building and how late they got word of what was happening. as rioters smashed windows, lawmakers were still in the senate and in congress in the house. so they escaped. they evacuated very, very late. at one point there was just one door between lawmakers and the rioters themselves. indeed, that is when ashli babbitt was shot dead. how close that day came to bloodshed and lawmakers losing their lives, it was very close. and i think you can see the video and the testimony how close that was. >> we're 10 months after the fact now. how would you describe where the united states is in understanding this moment? >> i mean, from a slightly wider view, the united states -- i mean, it really looks like it is far from reconciling what happened. at the moment you have seen t the -- there isn't 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