How could it possibly how could anyone think this? their relationship grew from a friendship into something more. how did you decide you are going to get married? we started talking about it, and there was a lot of back and forth because with something like this hanging over your head, do you wait until everything is over and then get married, that sounds sensible. katie disagreed. i told him, i m ready. i will marry you. they began their married life together in a kind of limbo waiting for jarod to go to trial. he still hadn t been indicted. what was taking so long? jarod and katy kept their anguish quiet. a lot of people in the church didn t even know his story right? no. then january 2017, four and a half years after the murder, the indictment came down and trial date was set. no more secrets now. what did you think when you heard? in my mind initially it was just, it is impossible. debbie duke is katy s mom. they are church friends.
They are church friends. did you ever think, my goodness, this man s a killer? no. debbie? huh-uh. not for a second. the very notion somebody could think jared capable of this was beyond my belief. there s just simply no way i could apply my brain to that. the support wasn t just moral. the church friends offered to help anyway they could. we had two or three people come up and says, what can we do? like, well, pray. but one of them said, well, come on, there s something we could do. what about all that paperwork? couldn t you use help with that? i m like, that would be wonderful. that paperwork was the case against jared. mounds of documents, police reports, audio and video recordings. and to mount a defense, they would need to understand it. my lawyer was very good, but he has a small practice, just him and his wife. and so as far as leg work, there s not a hundred paralegals going around to do legal research for him.
Takes placeints and photograph the person s signature just so the application can be processed for proper hearing. and the appointment was set the very day after thanksgiving. and, so, mr. bruno along with his pastor and church friends and community went to the facility, along with his son, and as he filled out the paperwork, that s when plainclothes members of the ice team entered the room, tackled the man, took him to the ground, put him in a van and were ready to deport him to mexico. the van was surrounded by the church members who stand in solidarity with him as well as the two of us that represent that area in congress. and we are going to continue to insist that deferred action be granted to this man based on humanitarian reasons and the fact he has been law-abiding and in the country now for two and a half years. let me go to you because you again were pivotal in getting
While nation remains shocked for the separated parents, i and many other in the pastoral community are utterly disgusted by this administration highting behind a bible to justify its cruelty. i thought i would take a digression here to discussion some excerpts raced by our church friends. joining me is preeminent pastor james forbes emeritus of
Virginia who said you know what? i m not going to call ten of my church friends. because most of my friends that support donald trump who at the beginning said you re being too tough on donald trump are now saying yeah, i still support him. i m thinking back to 76. jimmy carter comes out and the country was in a bad spot after watergate and the democrats said i m going to connect with the evangelical community. where is that democrat today? there s an opportunity there. and there are a lot of trump supporters that are friends of mine. i m just so exhausted, why does he have to tweet? they weren t saying that six months ago. peter baker, bob costa, mike allen, thank you all. still ahead on morning joe, is donald trump ignoring the worst attack on america since september 11? our next guest asks imagine if, after 9/11, the president said the united states could have been attacked by china or lots of other people rather than al