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well good evening everyone. i'm laura coates and this is "cnn tonight." we begin with our sad breaking news. lisa marie presley, elvis's daughter, dead at the age of 54. she was hospitalized after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest just today after appearing at the golden globes just tuesday night where the film about her own father won best actor for austin butler. lisa marie's mother priscilla putting out a statement tonight saying it is with a heavy heart that i must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter lisa marie has left us. she was the most passionate, strong, and loving woman i have ever known. we ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. thank you for the love and prayers. at this time there will be no further comment. lisa marie was a celebrity from the moment she was born in 1968.
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she was the adored daughter of elvis and priscilla presley, living her entire life in the spotlight. much more now with cnn's entertainment reporter. this is unbelievably sad news, especially because many people just saw her on tuesday night's golden globes, many tuning in because it was the first actual awards ceremony in a couple years and her own father being memorialized in this hit movie. what more can you tell us about that night and what's happened? >> reporter: laura, good evening. i was at the golden globes, at the beverly hilton hotel in the ball room seated just a few tables behind lisa marie and her mother priscilla. i immediately thought to myself when i saw her that she just didn't look like her usual glowing, bubbly, happy self. she looked a bit somber. and i also just want to tell you a few moments ago we received a
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statement from the family representative saying they are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved lisa marie. as you said for the statement priscilla released that they are profoundly grateful for the support. this comes as a shock to so many because just a few hours ago priscilla taking to instagram asking for prayers in support, telling everyone that her daughter was rushed to the hospital. we know at cnn that paramedics responded to a call at lisa marie's home in calabasas, california for possible cardiac arrest. no other details at this time as to what happened. like you said, it was a huge night for the presley family, because as you said, memorializing elvis, their father, you know, her husband, priscilla's husband on screen, austin butler, doing this incredible portrayal and taking to the stage when he won his
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golden globe with this emotional speech, looking right at the table he was sitting with them that evening. i can only imagine how devastated he is and we haven't heard back from him but reached out to austin butler for comment. and at one point it looked like lisa marie was wiping tears from her eyes. and we know how much this movie meant to the family. we know how much lisa marie championed austin butler and helped him get to know what elvis really was like. >> khchloe, we have footage and sound of her being interviewed on the red carpet before the golden globes began. to your point, many are looking at this moment and reflecting and wondering, was she okay at that point? >> well, tonight will be a wonderful night for elvis. >> yes, i hope so. >> and have you gotten to know austin butler a little bit? >> yeah. i'm going to grab your arm. a lot, actually.
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i adore him. >> when you first saw him, what did you think? >> you mean in the movie? >> yeah, just saw him, yeah, in the role >> i was mind blown, truly. i actually had to take like five days to process it because it was so spot on and authentic. >> what do you think the biggest challenge was? is it the singing, or is there a certain characteristic, look, twinkle. >> characteristics, mannerisms, the singing, the talking without doing it in a caricature way as in the past. it's kind of done in a sort of funny, joking way, the way he spoke. but austin actually got it and did it perfectly without making it sort of comical. >> chloe, really important point perhaps why they were so profoundly behind the actor and this movie and the importance of their father's life and loved husband and now what a very difficult time for the presley family. it was only a few years ago lisa
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marie lost her own son to a tragedy. >> yeah, and i just want to point out, in that interview with billy bush she doesn't seem like herself. you know? she seems subdued. something doesn't seem right. you heard stephanie elam earlier with anderson. you heard michelle turner from "entertainment tonight" earlier who interviewed her as well on the carpet saying that something seemed off. i think all of us sort of turned to the other and said, you know, this doesn't seem like her usual self. but look, like you said, it has been a rough couple years. losing her son benjamin to suicide in 2020. she opened up about it in an essay in july. i want to read you a little bit of what she said. she said, my heart and soul went with you. the depth of the pain is suffocating and bottomless. without you, every moment of every day. that is just -- she loved her son so much. and like she writes, my heart and soul went with you.
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we don't know what led to her death today. but we know it has been a profoundly difficult time. she is survived by three of her other children, riley kio one of them, who is an actress. we still haven't heard from them. this all just happened moments ago. we just saw her at the golden globes. it has been a big couple months for the family with austin butler and all the rave reviews for elvis. we are about to have oscar nominations. this movie is in my opinion going to be nominated, austin is going to be nominated. the oscars are in march and this would have been a huge moment for the family to be there together. and now this sadness. another tragedy that the presley family is so used to facing. tragedy and grief in such a public way. >> chloe, thank you. again, a mother with surviving children as well. what a devastating blow to this
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family. i want to bring in sharon waxman editor-in-chief of "the wrap." so many people remember and know and are familiar with lisa marie presley across multiple generations. you have those who remembered when she was the young apple of the eye of elvis presley and a young priscilla. people recall from generations of my own included when she was married to michael jackson. another actor, nicholas cage as well. the idea of many people in different generations knowing her and then learning about her even in her really open way of talking about the grief that she experienced in 2020 at the loss of her son's life. she has been in the public eye. here we are learning that she has died. what is the reaction you are hearing? >> well, i think people are really shocked in hollywood and we're just seeing an outpouring of exactly that. first of all, there were people who of course just saw her at
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this, one of the newly back in-person events at the golden globe awards seasons have been so muted in past years so this year elvis is one of the movies that is really celebratory and brings us back to the movies and it was interesting that the movie was backed by the presley family, that they were supporting the director. they watched the film all together with him for the first time ahead of the movie's release of course. so it's really shock i think that we're going to be hearing, we already have a story on the site that reflects that from all across entertainment. >> sharon, she was just 9 years old herself when her father, elvis, died. >> yes. >> in many respects it seems as though she considered herself a
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bit of a care taker of his legacy. is that right? >> yeah, i think so. and priscilla, her mother of course, as well. i remember talking to lisa marie's daughter, riley, and the cannes film festival this year. riley has followed in the family foot steps in going into entertainment. she is an actress and she directed a film for the first time. it was at the cannes film festival. it just is really striking when you meet the family. there is such a strong physical look that is passed down from elvis to lisa marie, riley has it, her brother had it as well. so it's almost like, you know, you feel like you're touching a little bit of history when you meet the family. and she described how they all watched the movie together and there was this real sense of excitement. >> sharon, thank you. i want to bring in cnn's contributor as well, nichelle turner. we know that you are are
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driving. thank you for being part of our breaking news coverage. we want to hear from you because not only are you a phenomenal entertainment reporter but also had a chance to speak with her at the golden globes and observe her. we have no idea if there is any connection whatsoever to either how she appeared, her behavior, how she felt in any way on the night of the golden globes but it is our last ability to see how she was in the public eye this past tuesday. what was your impression upon hearing the news today? >> i'm glad you make that clear because we don't know. we don't know the cause of death. we don't know any of that right now except for she did go to the hospital today under possible cardiac arrest. and now we have, you know, subsequently known she has passed away. when we did speak with her on sunday my cohost and i, she definitely did not seem at 100%.
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she seemed subdued. she did not seem at full strength. i had just spoken with her a couple months earlier at a hand-and-footprint ceremony in hollywood for her father for the movie for austin butler and i can tell you it was night and day difference how she was. she was very upbeat, very bubbly, very outgoing, joking. she is funny, glib, all of those things. she did not seem that way on sunday. but she was happy to be there to support the movie that the whole family was behind about her father's legacy, to support austin butler who she did care for a great deal and was so happy with his portrayal of her father, to support the director who was also nominated for a golden globe. it was going to be a celebratory night for them. they had also just celebrated her father's birthday a couple days before. she talked about that as well and about how special a night it would be because they were
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celebrating her father's birth darks celebrating the success of the film, and the actor's portrayal of her father. but she did not seem to be her normal self. >> really important to get that context. this is somebody who has been known as the daughter of elvis presley but had her own music career and own ride on three albums. we'll continue with more news right after this at the shocking death of lisa marie presley at age 54. the highest level ofof safety yu can earn? subaru. when it comes to longevity, who has the highest percentage of its vehicles still on the road after ten years? subaru. and when it comes to value, which popular brand has the lowest cost of ownership? lower than toyota, honda, or hyundai? subaru. it's easy to love a car you can trust. it's easy to love a subaru. i've been telling everyone...
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attorney general merrick garland today appointing a special counsel to take over the investigation into the classified documents from joe biden's time as vice president found where they weren't supposed to be. biden's one-time private office, not the national archives. at two locations in his home in wilmington, delaware. here with me now in the studio cnn's senior justin correspondent and my guests as well. there are new details. we've seen the timeline of when they may have known, when they didn't know, what is happening, the point for many people today is the public is just finding out and they seemed to have botched the pr component of this, evan. there was a moment they could have talked about other documents being found. they haven't. and the white house press
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secretary today was really pummeled on that very point. what do we know? >> we know they, when they told us on monday about the initial batch of documents what they described as fewer than a dozen and they only described it as having been found at biden's private office at the university of pennsylvania center here in washington that they also knew about a second set of documents found back in december but chose not to tell us about it or deal with it then. the president went out and spoke about it in mexico city. also, seeming to give the impression there was only one set of documents we were talking about. that is where this has become a big problem and loss of credibility for the white house and for the president and his legal team. you know, pr 101, right? if you have bad news get it out. get it out once and you don't have to fix it afterwards. the attorney general, certainly
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merrick garland was facing a decision that was almost certainly this is where he was going to go because he got a recommendation from the u.s. attorney in chicago who said, after doing this review the past few weeks it merited a special counsel. one of the things i think we have to sort of step back and think about is the documents. what are in these documents? what do we know? and we've had great reporting on this. certainly on the first set of documents, the ten, we now know there was at least one of these is a memo from joe biden then vice president to president obama. and at least two briefing memos, one having to do with a phone call the then vice president was going to do with the uk prime minister and another one to do with a call he was preparing to do with the e uu council president. these are things that put this a little bit in perspective.
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we don't know how sensitive this stuff is, whether it is still at the highest levels of classification but obviously these are documents that did not belong in these locations including of course the president's garage in wilmington, delaware. >> norm, what is your impression as to the decision to have the special counsel? i want to take a step back as well. because when you hear special counsel, we have heard it so many times now with presidential administrations not the least of which was president trump. there are now two active special counsels. >> three. >> you're right. john durham. for jon garland -- >> there is nothing special about john durham. that has been a total flop. let's talk about the real special counsels here. the one looking at the mar-a-lago case, jack smith, and the new special counsel, who has been appointed, rob hur. we don't have a time in history
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where you had the former president and the current president being looked at this way. but the smith investigation and the hur investigation are two very different investigations. in the one case you have a sweeping investigation of a former president who refused to turn documents back. documents that are reported to be containing very serious information. ultimately over 300 classified documents including more than a hundred that were held on to and had to be obtained through a search warrant. you have full cooperation. the kinds of documents if it is just what jamie is reporting about, i saw these documents every day when i was in the white house. >> did you put them in your garage? >> never. i had a rule. >> it was a corvette and the garage was locked >> i had a rule with these documents. we don't know biden put them in the garage.
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a vice president is staffed by a lot of people. i had a rule when i looked at a classified document i read it at my desk standing up and then i gave it back to somebody else. i suspect here we may find it is the somebody els who are involved. very different situations between smith and hur >> i understand in terms of legally and the nuance but is this appreciable for the general electorate? >> i think we are going to find out. the outcome of the special counsel investigation will matter a lot more than the fact of the special counsel investigation existing. if at the end of the day the line you're hearing from democrats including some democrats right here at this table right now that one of these, there is a difference between going ten miles over the speed limit and going 60 miles over the speed limit with a blind fold on and that is the distinction democrats are trying to draw between the biden and trump cases. we know the trump case is really serious. we don't know the biden case is extremely serious. we don't know that it isn't serious either. right? there is a lot we still don't
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know about the contents of the documents, the scope of what is being looked at and what else the white house might know they haven't been entirely forthcoming about. i am not a lawyer. i'm a political reporter. the approach i always take is you have to be really sensitive to what you don't know. if we were going to start predicting this would be a millstone around biden in 2024 or a big get out of jail card tore donald trump i don't know about either. i don't know also that biden can just shrug this off because it was just a couple briefing memos about phone calls. >> it is in many respects not shrugable because it is spiraling in a way that was perhaps anticipated or not. the idea, when we think about the trump administration, we think of a lot of self-inflicted wounds. a lot of pr moments that were things said or not said correctly or moments that invited greater speculation, opening pandora's box. when we look at this, they have not answered the question as to why not just say or hedge in a
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political way, evan, look. to the extent there is anything else out there we'll be diligent and sincere about our approach to alerting the authorities. that didn't happen. >> that's right. i think that is partly why a lot of us certainly some of us who lived these types of situations before, you get your spidey senses up and there are things that don't add up. the story they have settled on may well be the final story and charitably i can say i can see it is a very difficult situation to be doing these searches while you have an investigation ongoing. >> by story you mean you're skeptical? >> the story they finally have settled on which is that they've done these searches. there are no more documents to be found anywhere else. right? this is something robert hur and the investigators are going to want the biden team to attest to, probably. right? that you swear that there are no more documents anywhere else and then we'll see what the
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seriousness of the investigation really ends up being. >> what stage is robert hur in? >> he is in the beginning stages but is taking over an investigation that did gather information under the u.s. attorney in chicago, and he is a very diligent and experienced federal prosecutor. he was in the crucible in the trump administration serving by rod rosenstein's side during some of those toughest years. he is going to go straight ahead. i think it is very important, actually i agree with alex, i think it is important including for the special counsels smith and hur they have to put blinders on and forget what the other is doing and just decide these cases on the merits. we don't know wrt biden case is going to go but the initial indicators are no intentional wrongdoing, no obstruction, if you look at the history of the presidents, these are not the kinds of accidental document
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so let's go. the digital age is waiting. here we are and house republicans are still grappling with how to solve a problem like santos. the embattled new york republican insisting again he is not going to buckle under to growing calls for his resignation over the long list of lies he has told about much of his entire personal and professional history. here with me now in the studio cnn's political commentator and the rnc former communications director and cnn's political analyst. how do you solve this problem? you have the pressure campaign that is mounting saying you got to resign. you should resign. you ought to resign. yes you can expel a member of
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congress if it is the two-thirds concurrence but there has to be the appetite. maybe if you are someone like kevin mccarthy a bigger margin to lose. where do things stand right now? >> he think the last point is the critical one. the margin of control is so tight that district george santos represents is a democrat leaning district. if there were a special election republicans couldn't count on holding on to it. if you are kevin mccarthy or most of the republican conference are you willing to reduce your margin for error by 20% in order to get rid of this guy? the answer at some point might be yes but it is not there yet. if he ends up being a seriously prosecuted in brazil, if the financial improprieties we seem to see hints of in his campaign finance here become real criminal cases, then maybe we eventually get there. but right now where you sort of have this embarrassing, unsightly, dishonest character in your conference it is not the first time in history that
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happened in the house of representatives. >> george santos was actually on steve bannon's "war room" but matt gaetz interestingly enough was stepping in for steve bannon in that hosting role. here is what he had to say about how he'd really, well, he has never done much wrong. >> i wish well all of their opinions but i was elected by 142,000 people. until those same people tell me they don't want me we'll find out in two years. i worked my entire life. i lived an honest life. i've nfr been accused of any bad doing. >> until now. >> unfortunately i couldn't hear the sound. >> he didn't do anything wrong. he is a great guy. >> he wants to wait until 142,000 people tell him he has to pack his bags. >> right. because he knows that actually constitutionally even if 142,000 say pack your bags he doesn't have to go. that is part of what is so messed up about our system. that you have, i mean, think
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about this. you have kevin mccarthy who is so reliant and i think this is going to be an albatross around the gop's neck because santos will be the gift that keeps on giving because all of these cases are going to unfold a little bit at a time. but the margin is so thin they can't afford to get rid of him but they're changing the nature of the ethics committee so it is probably not going to go through its normal process. we're probably not going to get the two-thirds vote. >> talk more about that. people are missing that point as to all of the con vcessions mccarthy made and the rules package. they have as part of the discussions essentially taken away term limits, right? there is the idea of a certain amount of time to staff more people which will lead to uh-oh not enough people to really care things out. >> to do the work of really coming forward with a case that says this is why for a two-thirds vote and,
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unfortunately, constitutionally his own constituents, there is no process by which they can recall him the way we could a governor or impeach him. they are kind of stuck with him for the next two years. >> on that point, and alex raised the point about this is a democrat leaning district, but yes. it is going to be a bit of a crap shoot. but republicans in nassau county are already saying we don't want him there. you're not one of us. you cannot be there. is it a better strategy to try to pressure him and hope that you can get a republican to replace him if you're the republicans right now as opposed to waiting two years from now when you got the gift that kept on giving for two years? >> let me be a little counter intuitive here. george santos feels no pressure to resign whatsoever. we can talk about what did kevin mccarthy say or not, what committees is he going to be on or not or steve scalise or nancy pelosi or anyone else. he is getting paid right now.
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he is going to stay. there is no mechanism to remove him short of an expulsion vote and last time it happened was after a member of congress was found guilty of bribery and racketeering. not charged. found guilty. if we want to let the legal process play out that is fine. that is going to be a while. even if the rules were not changed in house ethics it takes a long time. i remember in 2013 or 2014 a member of congress coming in the office i was working on who had been arrested with drugs and he had already said he was going to resign and said i've changed my mind. i'm not going anywhere just yet because there is no mechanism to remove him unless two-thirds of the house want to. if i'm a democrat i might want him around a little bit. it's good politics. condemn him but let him stay. >> do you agree? >> i think for democrats it is much better to have him there and visible than to have certainly like an inoffensive generic republican in that seat. democrats would really like to have that seat. if it opened up and the party
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got to go really pursue a special election under different conditions than last november, let's face it. the fact george santos won that race to begin with is no reflection on his skill as a politician or the kind of campaign he ran. there was a red wave in the suburbs of new york city and he happened to be the guy on the ballot. would that happen again this spring or summer? definitely can't count on it. what i think would be real embarrassing for republicans, this is a very tight majority they have. there could be situations where the deciding vote on matters of incredibly important policy is this guy. that is just a bad look. >> let me ask you. aside from the lying, what about the following the money notion? there is a discussion now about what, $700,000 that he loaned to his own campaign. questions about it and he is refusing to answer. by the way, matt gaetz was talking about that in a very friendly interview on "war room" but asking about that and he did
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not answer about the origins of this money. he said something almost tongue in cheek about it didn't come from china. it didn't come from i think ukraine or barisma alluding to hunter biden of course. is this something that has legs? >> it certainly looks like it could. from what we know about the vario various machinations of his finances it may have the most teeth. i happen to know the person who ran against him and i happen to know that this information about him was out there. there were journalists who chose not to pursue the leads that were readily available so we ought to recognize that the system failed on all fronts in terms of holding this person accountable for the things he was saying and the way he presented himself to the voters. >> did the opponent say that publicly about information or
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was out there to find? >> in the course of campaigns sometimes information finds its way from one campaign to a journalist and perhaps then it gets printed in a paper and in this instance my understanding is that did not happen. >> there is also the capacity to raise money and use that to purchase advertising on television where they can air allegations like these so it is not just on the press to make sure negative information about candidates is widely circulated. >> the reporters defend the journalists every time. >> it is so funny how that works. let's just say, tell your kids, you are the one who is not supposed to lie. there is an idaho murder suspect, bryan kohberger. he appeared in court today, shackled, in an orange prison uniform. i'll tell you where the shocking case is going next in just a moment.
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the suspect in the stabbing deaths of four university of idaho students appearing briefly in a courtroom today for the second time since his arrest. 28-year-old bryan kohberger dressed in prison orange, his hands free but feet shackled. he faces four counts of first-degree murder. today he waived his right to a speedy, probable cause hearing. so the judge scheduled that hearing now for late june. cnn's gary tuchman is in moscow, idaho tonight and we're also joined by dr. steven seeger a psychiatrist with well coast medical corporation. gentlemen, thank you for joining me. i want to begin with you, gary, because what can you tell us about today's court appearance? >> reporter: well, laura, i can tell you right now kohberger remains in the county jail here in moscow and this building is also the courthouse.
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we saw him in courtroom number one today. as you said, he was wearing his jail suit and was shackled. it is notable, been here for two hearings now. both times totally unemotional. if you're going into court and you face the possibility of a death penalty and that is what ultimately what idaho could decide to do if found guilty is give him the death penalty. you might be freaked out, scared, crying, might look worried. he looked totally unemotional. you have the family members of the victims in the front row looking at him the whole time. he did not look at them. there could have been a hearing next week but his public defender waived the right to a speedy trial so what is going to happen is the hearing will take place on june 26th. that could last for up to a week. it is kind of like a mini trial. there is a low standard of proof needed to bind the defendant over to trial. the judge just needs to hear sufficient evidence so prosecutors will release more evidence. last week we saw an affidavit. one of the things in the
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affidavit said that his dna was found on a knife sheath on the bed of one of the victims. that is overwhelming evidence that is in -- if that is indeed true and the jury believes it because it places him in the house. we expect we'll learn more about this with more evidence in june. >> the probable cause hearing not a preliminary hearing, not going to be a full trial but a time to figure out whether to have him remain in jail pending the ultimate trial in this case. on that point about his emotion and where he was, and what he was doing, was his own family in the courtroom today? because i remember in his first appearance before he was extradited over to idaho there was a moment when i believe he whispered back or mouthed back in some way i think the words i love you to his own family. is anyone in the courtroom aside from his public defender who was present there for this defendant? >> reporter: the courtroom was full, laura. mostly journalists and as i said family members of victims.
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there was no evidence whatsoever of anybody in the courtroom who loves kohberger. >> dr. seeger i want to bring you in because as we were listening to gary's descriptions of what happened in the courtroom i wonder what goes through your mind. a little of what we know so far he has a bachelors, masters, ph.d student in criminology. no previous run-ins as far as we know with the law. you are a psychiatrist. i wonder what you make of the observations people have had up till now about just who is this suspect? >> yeah. i've also worked as a forensic psychiatrist for five years taking care of people who are mentally ill and criminals. the two questions are, is he, there are two -- one is are you mentally ill and the other is are you a sociopath criminal? the problem with him is the standard in california is did you understand the nature of your crimes and did you know it
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was wrong? and usually people who don't understand what they're doing are delusional. they think they're carving up a watermelon and they carve up a person. the other thing, it is either/or. did you know what you are doing is wrong. clearly he did because he fled the scene. he had evidence he went around. so the case for being mentally ill is really weak >> i just want to be clear though on this just so we are very prudent and cautious about this. it is the prosecutor in me who appreciates the burden of proof that would need to be met. >> right. >> this is somebody suspected of this crime, has a presumption of innocence still and is still a defendant in this action but you have said that this crime that you've seen so far and what we know does not fit a pattern. it's kind of a unique, one of a kind case. tell me why. >> because usually these kind of crimes you are either a career criminal but he has no arrest record or you are mentally ill
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but he has no mental health record. i was talking earlier to somebody. it is sort of one a kind. this guy had no record, no brush with the law. no brush with the mental health system and one day decided i'm going to go hack these four women up with a knife. it just doesn't happen very often. he doesn't fit in one of the two traditional silos. no one can make much sense of this. from the psychiatricic point of view he doesn't appear to be mentally ill. i couldn't say without talking to him but he doesn't fit the classic silo of being mentally ill or a sociopath criminal. he is pretty clean. i think he got a ticket for nat wearing his seat belt and that was all they could dig up on him. >> well, there are still a lot of questions to be answered about this defendant who again, is alleged to have committed these crimes of killing three women and a young man as well. and so we'll be eager as all of us to understand, no one more eager than the families of the
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