a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentine s day! yuck my wife my wife i think my wife is just, debt. she had enemies. there were calls that were made to scare her. so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. he just couldn t have done it. sure they ve had their problems. there was a huge number. and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic, i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was did he love her to death. the motive was love lost. hello and welcome to dateline. if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well, that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in a cas
uncovered classified material. they have witnesses talking about how it was handled after a subpoena was issued. also tonight the new york times reporting former trump chief of staff mark meadows has testified to one of the grand juries in that special counsel investigation. we will discuss all of this with the panel a little later. also breaking tonight, shocking news in the sports world. more specifically the golf world. the announcement hit this morning the pga tour is now merging with the saudi backed liv golf organization and the dp world tour to create a new power house in the game. the move is already raising questions about how some golfers and fans will react. what it means for the future of professional golf and why the sudden shift in messaging and plans from the pga. we ll talk with sportscaster jim gray up in a few moments but first up national correspondent william la jeunesse in los angeles with the latest. good evening, william. good evening, bret. you kno
hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you don t go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i haven t totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis it s dicey. to your family and everyone, we say, that s a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see you, nicolle. have a good show. thank you. our thanks to our colleague nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. while we try to do it all with good spirit, ace mentioned, there is a lot going on. facts and precise aspects of what we know, because we don t know everything and don t know the future. here s something i know, it will be a pretty packed broadcast. donald trump s number one aide during the insurrection in the classified documents handover, chief of staff mark meadows just w
it s the most frightening thing in the world. a young wife. she always saw the good and people. she had a way to make you smile. missing for nine days. it is so happening. she is somewhere she shouldn t be. it s hard enough when they didn t know. much worse when they did. i came over the tv that the body had been found. as long as i live i won t forget that. it did. had her troubled past caught up to her? it s going to freak out. or, was it something darker? he said that he would put it in her rebel. how did she change? she became more sexual with people. we wanted her dad? you found him somewhat of a player, but does that make him a killer? one night, she was supposed to meet her husband at their friends place for dinner, but she never showed up. and, never came back home. who was responsible for her disappearance? here is dennis murphy, with secrets and seattle. seattle a small tattoo at the back, a nexus with signs of strangulation. dete
sexual battery and defamation. e. jean carroll claims the former president attacked her in a department store in the 1990s. trump ordered to pay her $5 million. bryan llenas is following the breaking news. judge, good evening. and less than three hours of deliberations, a jury of mine unanimously found former president trump liable of sexual battery, specifically finding he sexually abused and forcibly touched e. jean carroll in a department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation, finding he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation and must pay carroll $5 million in damages. the jury did not find trump liable for rape, which was the central claim from carroll. trump told fox news digital he will appeal this decision. to post on truth social, trump wrote is a very unfair trial and said i have absolutely no idea who this woman is. this verdict is a disgrace, a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. this was a civil case, which means the bu