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
the fbi versus america.s of tont that s the focus of tonight s angle. day you ever stop during the course of your day and wonder how did thingsk get so off track in america?er now, i m just not talking about the lousy economy or high prices either. a lot of the bedrock values seem to be in short supply.t suy respect for elders, respect for our history. respect for our constitution. how about justho basicw ab dece? you just put a magazine, you still try to mar-a-lago stupid . you see those like of that she s going to die. ie the rank depravity, today the viciousness, the casual nature of the violence today seems different. s differenat least from what i r seeing growing up. g is one thing is obvious. en wa when wnne can t expect our next generation to respect the rule of law, we can t., we c er we certainly can t. if our own f.b.i. is perceived to be flouting the basic idea of equal justice under the law. but operating within an obvious political bias, as it did re
supporters, enough that they change their views of him? will this be the thing that convinces certain people that he is lawless and dangerous? and that he has an entire political party and its infrastructure behind him? of course, the answer was generally no, there will never be a bridge too far for donald trump, an epiphany moment for the vast majority of his supporters. but for some, at least on an individual level, perhaps there is and perhaps this is it. for cassidy hutchinson, the young, unflappable white house staffer, who testified before the january 6th investigation yesterday, the events she witnessed on and around january the 6th last year with a tipping point for her. she described feeling frustrated and disappointed and disgusted with the presidents apparent approval of the violence, as the capitol was being overrun. but for the most part, we should probably stop looking for big shifts in public opinion about donald trump in reaction to new information. politicall
jeff,je wit yeah, tammy, a very frustrated community and this v all goes back to a video that s been making its rounds for about the last 12 hours or so showing parents, you know, understandably frustrated standing outside the school at some point during the mass shootingng sutsi being held bacy police officers and then any parents wanting to go inside and do something and check on their kids and now texas dps is responding. they tell us really d righton nw they don t have too many i details, but they started filling in some of the blanks, m especially when it comes tot this timeline. now the one thing that stuck out is that it only took the shooter 12 minutes and the time he crashed his truck to get inside his school. and investigators sayey they believe the door on the west sidee where he entered was unlocked. investigators also say that it was att this point during the first few minutes that he was inside the school where most of the shots were fired. now texas dps also cl
tammi and i talk about what happened that night, and i tell her everything, and she s it s her love has allowed me to really begin the long road to healing. at the end of it all, the menendez brothers were sentenced both to life in prison, but still today, questions remain about what their motive was and whether or not killing their parents was actually justified. yes, i do. please take the stand i heard iteration after iteration after iteration of their stories, and i went through believing them and not believing them. i ve never been able to come to my own conclusion about exactly why it happened. i always thought that lyle was the pathological problem. he was the older brother. he exerted incredible, if not undue, influence on his younger brother. erik was probably smarter than lyle, even though he didn t