justice for indicted individuals and some convicted criminals who launched that attack. what you saw there was one trump s super fan speaking to another former trump adviser steve bannon. the activist speaking is matt braner. they re not. some of them may be the case and they have every right to go to court. in the name with the evidence we all documented and lived through, you know this party. you don t need the news for this. we saw the criminals doing their crimes on live tv. we saw the framework of right-wing violence exposed as more and more elected republicans come out publicly all year minimizing and defending what we know they could not believe in. it has been an ugly and revealing scene. so, why is this top story in the nation tonight? number one it is critical to be vigilant about any future plots and threats. it is also important to track accountability for the insurrection. so-called qanon shaming pleading guilty tomorrow. that s a type of justice to the ongoing
dollars. they were spending money like they were drunken sailors. now lyle and erik menendez face the death penalty, first-degree murder. greedy rich kids kill ozzie and harriet on a sunday night in beverly hills, and there s much more to the story than that. the courtroom at the l.a. superior courthouse in van nuys was actually a very tiny courtroom, and so there were a dozen media people that got to see the trial in the courtroom every day. writer dominic dunn appeared to hear opening statements. i m just a writer here covering this. i had just gotten out of school and started as a cub reporter at this legal newspaper. i got one of the seats in the courtroom. there were the lawyers and the brothers. my editors and i knew from the get-go that it was going to be captivating as [bleep]. okay, now opening statements by the prosecution. thank you, your honor, and good morning. the only time i ve ever thrown up during a trial was right before opening statement
i just ran out of the room. i didn t 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 it s 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. what s the problem? what s 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 i
a reminder that election date is november 8th, everyone. chris, thank you as always. thank you. thank you for joining us at home tonight. we re just two weeks away from the midterm elections, in the battle for control of congress in the state houses could really could not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for your governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of electioneered s been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue california, was held up as a canary in
literally not be closer. polls have been tightening for weeks, as republicans have edged into democratic gains that were made over the summer. tonight, debates just wrapped in races for new york governor and the senate, we ll have much more on that. but before, that it s worth remembering exactly how we got, here considering how much of a rollercoaster of an election year it has been. remember a few months ago on june 7th, when the city of san francisco shocked the country, when it recalled its progressive district attorney. the campaign against him had framed his criminal justice reform platform is somehow soft on crime, provoking backlash among san franciscans. that local election in blue blue california, was held up as a canary in the coal mine for democrats. the party, according to them, had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, when that already favored republicans. and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california,