killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members have been notified to be ready to go in the courtroom and sit where many of them have been sitting for the last four months. these are the pictures of the 17 victims. the students as well as the staff members who were massacred four years ago. it has been an extremely long journey for what they hope will be some sense of justice. the jury needs to be unanimous. if they are unanimous, it is a decision for death, then it will be up to the death to go forward with that as the actual sentence, but i
and for some reason they thought biden was the man for the job. president biden s made it clear he wants to heal our country, bring us together. he wants to, you know, heal and unite the country. this is what joe biden wanted to do. he wanted to bring the country together. happy day for our country, because joe biden is a unifier. sean: they took him at his word. despite his history of saying things like this. he said in the first hundred days he s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. they re going to put y all back in chains. sean: but that was years ago. he must be a changed man by now, right? lower the temperature. work with republicans. show conservative voters respect. or he could say something like this. i don t respect these maga republicans. the maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they re a threat to our very democracy. they refuse to accept the will of the people.
they ve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations. i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan law school, donelle works as a senior policy researcher at the rand corporation, katie benner is the justice department reporter for the new york times. donel, you ve been watching this unfold. could simple incompetence explain what happened here. at worst it s a conspiracy, at best incompetence. this is unconscionable to find that some of the evidence of a crime, and this wasn t a small crime, a large crime that happened at the capitol. any evidence should have been secured. the secret servi
giant. plus, weeks after the supreme court s ruling on abortion, is it still a top story in key states? we will speak with top editors in texas and georgia about that anymore and later, what is the fine line between informing and overwhelming you? we will talk about that with melissa, coming up, but first, how to decipher debates about disinformation. one of the dominant stories of our time, is a dramatic drift toward a choose your own reality , people are swimming or perhaps drowning in a sea of information, some of it straight up disinformation. meaning something that is made up, on purpose, designed to deceive you. disinformation is a real thing. a real problem. but it is almost impossible to have a conversation about it. this quote from the ap explains why, as trust breaks down polarization and anxiety increases, creating opportunities for people pushing their own alternative facts. in the case of disinformation, the term, the real throwing the real thing, that term has
murder? the indicators are, in cases like this, that it is the spouse, not a random act. but why would she kill a man that she obviously loved? they never fought, they were very happy. this was a family fair all right, but it was another family, keeping secrets. ever see anything like that before? no. one father who fought to save his son, another who used his son to save himself. he is a monster. hello, and welcome to dateline. joe morrissey was a respected scientist who loved his work. that is where he met k, we shared his pass in, and would eventually become his second wife. then, late one night, joe, and kay their youngest son were attacked inside their florida home. investigators did not know what to make of the strange circumstances surrounding this brutal crime, or the stunning betrayal that followed. here is josh mankiewicz with broken bonds . what would you do for your family? would you lie? would you walk through fire? could you ever a