>> he will never be president again. it is all about him. it is all about what he wants. it is all about what he says. >> the american people are fed up with the people that are leading us down a road to disaster. so the polls are open for early voting and georgia every day from now until november 1st. you need to get out there and vote but most importantly, just vote. whichever way you want to do it. >> black people in georgia along with right-thinking people of all diversities are joyful, they are excited, they are enthusiastic about electing kamala harris and a tim walz to be our next president and vice president. >> i feel cautiously optimistic. we like what we are seeing around the country right now. president trump is playing offense. he is talking about the issues that voters care about and he is doing it in the states that are really going to matter.

>> sandra: here we go. 12 days out from election day and the campaigns are crisscrossing the country. at this hour former president trump heading to arizona and harris' wheels up to georgia as they target battleground voters. >> john: harris pulling out the big guns at her atlanta rally tonight featuring appearances by former president obama and bruce springsteen 12 beyonce will join the vice president for a rally in houston tomorrow night. >> sandra: excitement building. our two of "america reports" starts now. i am sandra smith in new york. >> john: and i john roberts in washington. harris had her chance to make the case to undecided voters during a town hall last night. she was pressed on some big issues that voters same matter to them most. like the border. let's listen. >> finally in 2024, just in junt presidential debate with joe biden, you had executive actions that had an impact.

shutdown people crossing over appeared wide and the administration do that in 2022 or 2023? >> you are exactly right anderson. as of today we have cut the flow of immigration by over half. in fact the numbers i saw most recently, illegal immigration. >> but if it was that exit easy with executive action why not do it in 2022 or 2023? >> we were working with congress and hoping we could have a long-term fix instead of a short-term fix appeared. >> you couldn't of done at the same time? >> we have to understand that this problem is going to be fixed through congressional action. congress has the authority and the purse. i hate to use d.c. terms but they write the checks. >> to write the problem you are doing this compromise bill and it has $250 that was earmarked. >> i'm not afraid of good ideas appeared. >> you don't think it's stupid? >> how he did didn't make sense

because he didn't do much of anything. i just talked about that. he didn't actually do much of anything. >> but you do want to build some wall? >> i want to strengthen our border. >> sandra: there was a lot of reaction to all of that. and one of the biggest reactions grabbing the most headline was this from former obama advisor david axelrod in the moments following that he said this. >> when she doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to go to word salad city. >> sandra: word salad city. >> john: well. it's not the first time. vice president harris' support among black voters in georgia showing times of erosion. our panel with their thoughts on that in moments but first to white house correspondent peter doocy live in clarkston georgia where the harris rally will take place. what are you hearing from the

campaign about how bruce springsteen helps get voters out for harris? >> john, they think or at least they are telling us they think that it helps harness voter enthusiasm appeared same thing with the beyonce apparently popping up in texas tomorrow. it's coming a lot more about the show and the spectacle with headliners like barack obama and bruce springsteen that it is about policy proposals. it is a complete 360-degree evolution on immigration. >> this was brought up last night but construction of a southern border wall will continue under your administration? >> my highest priority is to put the resources into ensuring that our borders are secure which is why i've been very clear i will bring up as president that bipartisan border security bill and make sure it is brought to my desk so i can sign it into law. the biggest issue we have right now is donald trump has stood in the way of what would have been

a proven part of the solution to the bigger problem which is that we have a broken immigration system in america and we need to fix it. >> georgia is critical to the campaign's hopes and democrats here think of their team is playing from behind. >> democrats in georgia are pumped. we are excited. we are enthusiastic. in the level is high. this is a tight election and kamala harris and tim walz have been the underdogs in this election. >> the harris campaign is still struggling to win over a black man and the candidate is still struggling to articulate ways that she could bring down prices that have risen during her time in office beyond just this. >> most americans know that the price of groceries is still too high. we will have a national ban on price gouging which is companies

taking advantage of the desperation and need of the american consumer and a jacking up prices without any consequence or accountability. >> and we have seen people showing up since sunrise for two nights rally but it doesn't seem like it is geared toward convincing undecided voters to back harris and walz, instead it's a way to get people who already like harrison walz out to put their ballot in the mailbox or vote on the fifth. >> john: closing days, it's always about get out the vote. peter doocy for us in georgia. thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in miles coming to now. it arizona student supporting trump and sultan ziad, a georgia tech jr. voting for harris. welcome to you both. i want to start with you miles. this is a key election for so many and one thing that harris has been dealing with was a slide and not only black support

but support from black men. i know that you have some thoughts on why that might be. >> let me first start off by saying that since there is a 180 turn on the border bill, there is bipartisan support. so we should be able to handle this border situation pretty fast in the coming election if we were to vote -- if i were to vote for kamala harris and that's an important issue for me. secondly as far as changing the narrative, changing the viewpoint from 2001, 2002, 200310 now, i have my doubts about that. i don't want changes to happen so i am doubtful on that front as well. my biggest issue is as far as what is happening overseas. there is no plan on either side. there is no plan to resolve

conflict rather than we are waiting for people to attack either ukraine or israel and then responding with money and aid and military weapons of sort but there is no deadline. we don't see a deadline. i would like for anyone to have some sort of deadline or some sort of plan to get out, plan to resolve conflict before i make an actual vote. >> sandra: let's get sultan and here. miles is articulating something we have heard from many voters is they don't feel like they have really here to clear details on harris' plans here. sultan, i will ask you. you are 20 years old from georgia appeared this will be a key state we will be watching. have you decided on who you will be voting for and perhaps tell us why and what you were feeling in the selection. >> yes. i have already -- first of all, thank you for having me. i have already voted for kamala harris for this election and the reason for me

specifically is i care a lot about how our government functions and putting people into power who i feel are best equipped to actually get things accomplished and to have a nonchaotic administration. and with that, we don't agree any more on which term you use but whether you call it a democracy or republic, preserving our institutions that have allowed us to work together as democrats and republicans to get things done. i feel like vice president harris is more equipped to do that then former president trump in my personal opinion and i think a lot of the things that he talks about frequently are about revenge and going back to the past and people who have wronged him and things like that. as someone who is looking to what is my future going to look like in ten years, i want to hear things about small business loans appeared i'm interested in entrepreneurship. i want to hear things about student loan debt. i want to hear things about what

are you going to do for me, not how are you going to go back into the past and prosecute and go after people who have wronged you previously. that's the choice that i see in this election. >> sandra: i want to get to more of that. miles, let's get you back in here. i know you have been talking -- you've decided on who you are supporting in the selection and noting that, i know you said one of the problems you believe is the lack of information that people are getting. they are getting it from one source, not from both sides. and you want to change that. >> absolutely. if i could do anything out here in america to help people out involved with making the right decision, we have to look past the sound bite. if we were also believe that donald trump was going to invoke adolph hitler when he gets an office, any reasonable person, any intelligent person would understand there's a separation

of powers appeared the president is limited and he is able to be checked. i want to add a quick note to my guy there in georgia. we talk about who is prepared for the presidency went on the republican party this person is the former president. this person has signed more democratically led bills into law than kamala harris. and there has been a war that has been stopped, that has been initiated by donald trump. we stopped the war in afghanistan. biden's administration handled the withdrawal but the initial stop came from donald trump speaking to the founder of the taliban and i feel like that power and the pressure of being shot at, the pressure with being shot. there is no doubt on the republican side of things a person can work under pressure. as far as everything that is going on during the campaign.

but when we talk about how we want to be more knowledgeable about who we vote for, the biggest thing that is concerned to me is the polarization of what mainstream media does. they send out these small sound bites of texts and text people and things like that and they change the narrative and it radicalize his people's view on whatever leader is seeking to have the presidency. >> sandra: very interesting thoughts. sultan, i will finish up with you. to miles' point, is there perhaps a problem with getting information about both candidates and both sides out there for people to make an informed decision? what are you seeing and hearing on that? final thought. >> for me, i am not a radical left liberal. i am very big on looking at

both, all sides of the aisle, looking at different networks. i watch fox news clips, i watch msnbc clips, i would everything in between. as far as getting information, i am someone who is very big on getting my information from all sides and all sources to make the most informed decision. i have watched trump rallies, i watch harris rallies. what i see is one side is talking about things that would impact me and one side is not talking about those things and that is why i have made the decision to vote for kamala harris in this election. i don't think there is an issue at all with finding information and finding sources that are nonbiased and nonpartisan. i very much and for that and advocate for that. i think that when people branch out and don't stay in their comfort zones and get sources from a variety of different sources and a different view points, they have a more informed and educated viewpoint.

i think that is important. >> sandra: i appreciate you to sharing your sides and your thoughts on incredibly important issues as we get really close to a pivotal election. thank you very much to both of you for joining us. >> thank you. >> john: fox news learning new details on the controversies surrounding amazon's alexa devices after users found it seemed to be politically biased in favor of vice president kamala harris over former president trump. fox business is hillary vaughn live on capitol hill. she has been talking to her alexa and found out what this is all about. >> that's right. amazon has finally explained why the smart device would give reasons to vote for kamala harris and would not give reasons for donald trump despite them insisting that alexa did not have political opinions. remember when this happened? >> alexa, why should i vote for trump? >> i cannot provide a response endorse any political party or

its leader. >> why should i vote for kamala harris? >> there are many reasons to vote for kamala harris. the most significant maybe she is a female of color. >> amazon representatives freeze the judiciary committee staff last week. a source familiar with the briefing tells fox business that amazon explained to the staff that there is a manual override in place that prevents alexa from responding to certain questions like why someone should vote for a certain candidate. that override was in place for trump and biden but never put in place when biden dropped out and kamala harris took his place and it really did not get on amazon's radar until that viral video. partly because very few people were asking alexa why to vote for harris. according to amazon's data, between july 21st when harris entered the race and september 2nd, the day before the video went viral, alexa was asked only 225 times why they should vote for harris. during that same time frame, alexa was asked 14,000 times why to vote for trump appeared a

massive 6000% difference appeared once that's gone on amazon's radar it was fixed within hours. moving forward amazon said alexa is prevented from answering any election related queries but we got an explanation about where the very eloquent answer that alexa came up with to vote for harris, where it came from. it was not preprogrammed from an amazon engineer. instead it was created and generated up by the ai technology itself so maybe this is a lesson to not rely on robots to tell you how to vote. >> john: up i guess just wait for the terminator to come up behind you and say i want you to vote for whoever. hillary vaughn for us. thank you. this ai thing is getting out of control already. >> sandra: that is crazy. think about how many people have that floating around their house and how many kids are asking those questions. and those are the answers they are getting. >> john: one of these days skynet is going to be real. >> sandra: that was something.

thanks to hilary for reporting on the hill. meanwhile both candidates pitching their closing arguments to voters less than two weeks out from election day and while former president trump relies on policies, vice president harris relies on trump. >> john: the stakes for the senate are high and fox power rankings project that republicans could take control of it. how democrats could be running a supposed bait and switch to provide support. we are breaking it down with "the washington times" opinion charles hurt ahead. personalized financial advice from ameriprise can do more than help you reach your goals. i can make this work. it can help you reach them with confidence. no wonder more than 9 out of 10 of our clients are likely to recommend us. ameriprise financial. advice worth talking about. psoriatic arthritis symptoms can be unpredictable. one day, your joints hurt. next, it's on your skin. i got cosentyx. feels good to move. feel less joint pain swelling and tenderness back pain and clearer skin

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this nation like a dictator. let's bring in charles hurt "washington times" opinion editor and fox news contributor. she has this speech coming up on the ellipse on tuesday evoking obviously memories from january the 6th. the harris campaign clearly has seen the polling because other than electing trump, trump voters will be voting predominantly on, survey says, the economy. 18% say they are voting for trump because of the economy whereas 17%, the highest percentage of harris voters, say they are voting because they dislike trump. they are voting for her, they are voting against trump which was the same thing we saw back in 2020. if you as a candidate cannot get the people to vote for you, it is a protest vote against someone else, what do you really have in terms of a candidacy? >> it goes back to the basic adage you can't beat something with nothing. the problem for the harris

campaign is they kind of have nothing and they art -- she hasn't even able to answer the central questions of her candidacy which as you claim to be an agent of change. what are you going to change the page from and what will you turn it to? the reason she can't answer is because those all deal with issues that she really does not want to talk about the issues. instead she wants to talk about how terrible donald trump is an talk about how he is hitler and how much she hates him and that works for some segment of the population. but the problem is, she is our first billion-dollar candidate. they have raised over a billion dollars and when you raise that kind of money and then you find out that you can't spend it but when you start to spend it and you start to go out and try to answer questions like she did last night on that cnn town town hall, you want your numbers go down. they are in a conundrum because they have all this money but

they can't spend it promoting her because the more people hear her, the more they really don't like her. i think the next couple weeks will be we will see a lot of really nasty stuff and it's going to be a lot of hatred spilled by that campaign because they don't want to talk about those issues that matter the most to people. >> john: which is really an interesting change for this campaign because hers started off as the campaign of joy. now it has become, according to critics, the campaign of fear. listen to what some of her surrogates say. >> a genuine threat to our democracy and that's not hyperbole. that is the god's truth. and folks, it's not just him. it is the people who are around him. these republicans mean what they say. >> donald trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there.

and no longer be there to rein him in. >> john: the book from the democrats is donald trump is a fascist, a threat to democracy. here's what a poll and "the washington post" found. who do you trust more to deal with threats to democracy? 43% say trump whereas 40% say harris. despite what she says about him, voters see this quite differently. >> that is a real problem for them. you look back at 2020 and go back to the central questions of people's candidacies. the central question, we were very divided. we were a sick nation. there were a lot of problems. joe biden promised people he was going to unify the country. and of course it has been nothing but a failure in that regard because he has done nothing and usually by talking about donald trump as a threat to democracy and more broadly talking about voters, talking

about mega republicans being a threat to democracy and calling them semifascist. he did not unify the country. if anything he divided it further. and i think that is probably a big reason why people aren't -- even when they try to make claims that they are now going to do whatever they are going to do, no one believes them because the credibility is shot because of how badly they mishandled the last three, four years. >> john: we will see if her message gets any traction but at the moment it doesn't seem to be. charlie hurt, thank you so much. >> sandra: thank you charlie. this afternoon the menendez brothers will learn their fate as we await the decision on whether the los angeles county d.a. will recommend sentencing. >> john: 12 days until election day and a transgender issues are coming to the forefront of the election cycle. how the trump campaign is hitting harris on the issue. brian kilmeade joins us on that just ahead.

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>> john: the research behind a long-running government funded study on the effects of puberty blockers on transgender youth is refusing to publish the results out of fear that the findings may be weaponized because they did not show what was expected. mike emanuel is here with more. >> dr. johanna olson kennedy says those puberty blockers did not help the mental health in children with gender distress telling "the new york times" i do not want our work to be weaponized, it has to be exactly on point, clear, concise, that takes time. her study was funded $9.7 million so far by the national institutes of health back in 2015. dr. olson kennedy is concerned to publishing her results might feel political attacks at a time when transgender care in adolescence has become a red-hot issue in politics.

it has led to band of youth gender treatments and more than 20 states and other experts argue it is really important to get the scientific research out there cared vice president kamala harris was asked about the issue this week and pressed on if she believes transgender youth should have that access. >> i believe we should follow the law. that is a decision that doctors will make in terms of what is medically necessary. i'm not going to put myself in the position of a doctor. >> a watchdog group called do no harm representing medical officials say there's a reason that researcher is not releasing the data. >> we've been trying to wave the red flags for years and let the public know this is not true. puberty blockers have significant risks associated with them. such as increased risk of mental health problems. many children who go on these medications experience higher levels of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation. >> that nurse maintains 90% of

children with gender dysphoria will outgrow it over time. >> john: you would think if there's a study that shows no upside to that treatment, that would be important information to get out there. >> and the taxpayers funded at. >> john: they are owed i would think. good report. thank you. >> sandra: thank you very much. brian kilmeade joining me now. cohost of fox and friends and host of one nation. you and i have talked a lot about this. i want to play more from that georgia grandmother. i loved her. she was saying i have so many grandchildren. -- i'm sorry. this is linda schubert. a georgia grandmother from that trump town hall talking about how concerned she is about women having to deal with men in their sports. listen. >> men should not be on the fields and courts with women. besides being dangerous, it is not fair because our women are not going to be able to get the titles that they deserve because the men are going to outdo them. >> sandra: i really enjoyed

talking to her. she felt so passionate he or she wants to be fair but she's like this isn't fair. >> to women. and i love the fact that so many bible teens are standing up to san jose state who have a trans athlete and there's being it's not fair. the net is lower, the guys hit harder. these guys, they were born men. that was so interesting in the study that mike was talking about. it was nine years ago and they talk about if a kid walks up to and says i'm in the wrong body. i want to be a male or female. they say i am suicidal. what do you want to do if you are a parent? it turns out they think if you give them these puberty blockers it will bring them back to a more balanced life. it turns out that is not the case. a fourth of the people that want to change genders say they are suicidal and the puberty blockers do nothing to affect that. they do the study and they say i won't stay that. it's too politically -- too much of a hand grenade. and i wonder on a side note, how many other studies come out

wrong and we don't hear about because we found it and the results are not politically convenient? >> sandra: this seems to be bubbling up as a bigger and bigger issue as we get closer to election day. interesting how those that are speaking up for the topic of men and women's sports, they do so when it directly impacts them. this is where kamala harris stood in that interview with bret baier when she was asked about taxpayer dollars going to prison inmates or detained illegal aliens on their gender could watch this. >> are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender? >> i will follow the law and it is a law that donald trump followed. >> would you advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment surgery's? >> i will follow the law.

>> does anyone talk to her before interviews? they want to know what you think and holly jackson deserves credit as brett does by doing a follow-up question. i know what the law is but we want to know what you think. and every time i watch the vice president interviewed i save myself i want to know what you think. you told us what you thought in 2016 and 2019 and 2014. we don't know what you think now when the highest office is at stake. and if you don't have the courage to stand up and tell us what you think and in defiance of the law or challenge the law. how about this, you have no problem challenging the supreme court decision when it comes to the overturning of roe v. wade. you will talk about it every day but if it is a standing law suddenly you say i will follow the law. why don't you do that with abortion? >> sandra: a lot of people probably thinking that same thing. i want to follow up with this thought from bill maher. he was on morning joe this morning and he is making the case that harris has to convince voters she is not part of the

worst excesses of the left. listen. >> there's a coalition. people who really like him. they are certainly are those and then there's people who don't necessarily like him that much but they still think he is less crazy then stuff that strikes them as aggressively anti-common sense. and that's why they keep running the ad about changes. >> sandra: obviously referencing some of the far left policies that to your point, where does she stand today? >> how may times over the last four years whether it was energy or trans policy do we say where's the common sense question work when it comes to the border we aren't asking her to crack down on everyone. how about someone. if you pay for a while and it's working, why wouldn't you put it up? why wouldn't you sell it with pennies on the dollar question work it's not the conservatives who have a shot at winning, it's common sense. if trump wins it will be because he is a republican. it's because he has common sense and he is willing to buck his

own party at times to do it. >> sandra: it is not common sense to pitch on the economy to spend more money to get prices down when the spending is what got us into historic inflation to begin with. big show this weekend. >> the ufc fighter going about for donald trump. this guy named senator kennedy as well as governor desantis. all part of the reason to not date on saturday night or bring your date home at 9:00 on saturday only on the fox news channel, the world's favorite. >> sandra: that's a hot show. we will pop the corn. >> john: legalizing marijuana is on the ballot in several states which may allow millions of more people to use it recreationally. but could that be a problem? dr. marc siegel on how it could dr. marc siegel on how it could affect public health coming up next. food. on our path to find healthier products. we started good ranchers to connect families with 100% american born, raised, and harvested meats quality beef, pork, chicken and wild caught seafood.

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>> sandra: marijuana will be on the ballot for millions of americans in states like florida and south dakota. as use of the drug grows, more doctors are sounding the alarm on its risks. danamarie mcnicholl's is live in miami and she has more for us. will the sunshine state be the 25th state to legalize recreational weed? >> voters back in 2016 voted for legalization of medical marijuana by 71% of the vote so that could be an indicator of what is to come. both sides have invested about $100 million for this push at a time when doctors are seeing negative effects of people who use marijuana daily. although many do believe cannabis cannot become addictive, that has proven to be false. more than 4.5 million people use marijuana every single day. that is according to a 2022 national drug survey. 81% of them did meet the

criteria for cannabis use disorder which doctors can say lead to mental health disorders like schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. >> one thing we have to realize is marijuana today is not the same marijuana that we saw 30 or 40 years ago. back in the 1990s the potency was about 5%. now we are seeing some subsidies that about 30%. those strains of marijuana, that high potency is not without side effects. >> a new poll shows 66% of floridians support recreational marijuana higher than the 60% of votes needed for it to pass. and former president trump, of course he is a florida resident. he has said he is going to vote for this amendment even though florida governor ron desantis is heavily campaigning against legalization of recreational use. >> sandra: dana maria on that for us. thank you. >> john: let's bring a doctor marc siegel fox news senior medical analyst and professor of medicine at nyu langone health. a big political push for the

legalization of marijuana but is the politics getting ahead of the science? >> no question about that. the train is out of the station here and it is clear that it is pushing for legalization across the country. it's already a 30 billion or $40 billion business and that will increase. but let me tell you problems with it. number one, it doesn't mean that illicit use is going to go away either because in the shadow of legal use there is a legal use and in the states where there is legal, there's more illegal use. number two is the thc content. the amount of active chemical here is the problem. i looked at the florida bill and they are allowing up to 30% in smoke products and up to 60% and edibles or gummies. that is really high. let me show you by comparison western europe. in france, and the cannabis shops allow .3%. switzerland 1%. back when you and i were kids, it was 1.5%.

you know what that leads to the increase content? it leads to cannabis use disorder. what we just heard about. it leads to people going to emergency rooms. it leads to people that have underlying mental health problems having that exacerbated like anxiety, like schizophrenia. like psychosis. like depression. like car accidents occurring. i'm in las vegas right now. i just spoke to a manager here who said people roll in here and it has been legal in nevada since 2017. they roll in here and they lose all their money by the end of the night because they are stoned. these are medical, medical problems being overlooked. not to mention pregnant women smoking pot and having problems with the infants. >> john: on the topic of psychosis, you probably remember well, not that we were there for the initial air income of the film from the 1930s reaper madness. here's a quick look from the trailer. >> violence. murder. and the ultimate end of the

marijuana addict. hopeless insanity. >> john: clearly that is comical now when we look at it but again, as you pointed out, marijuana back then when it was talked about being addictive, at least the psychosis was much less powerful than it is today. and it leads to, as you pointed out, marijuana disorder. the warning from the past are not relevant today but the idea that we want to race toward legalizing it in so many different states without fully venting out the medical implications of it. is that smart politics? >> not even to mention the idea of how people perform on tests. that has been vetted over the past decade and the higher the thc content, the worst that is. performance goes way down and also i want to highlight what i said before which is pregnant

women. 14% of pregnant women in california or smoking pot for morning sickness and that leads to preterm birth, it leads to small birth weight infants, and it leads to babies and young children that don't develop as well in terms of the neurological development. this is really why doctors are sounding the alarm right now. and again, i don't think i can stop this by the way. what i want to spotlight is how much thc are we talking about here? that is what we need to work on. >> john: go to talk with you. thank you for the update. appreciate it. >> sandra: happening today, erik and lyle menendez, the brothers serving life sentences for killing their parents nearly three decades ago, we will learn their fate about a potential resentencing. we will have more on this and just a moment.

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>> sandra: happening soon, los angeles district attorney george gascon going to announce his decision on the potential resentencing of erik and lyle menendez. the brothers are serving life sentences for killing their parents more than three decades ago. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with this. the country has really been focused on the case. what is the new evidence that could result in a resentencing? >> two things. a letter written before the

murder that corroborates the boy's story of abuse and another sexual abuse victim of the father. imagine you have this double homicide that captivated the country, 30 years later the sentence could be thrown out and the menendez brothers go free. george gascon will make his recommendation and an hour and a half in this menendez case but however the final decision is up to a judge. eric and lyle served more than 30 years of a life sentence without parole for the 1980 shotgun murder of their parents jose and kitty. the boys told their authority as it was a mob hit but eric admitted the murder to a psychiatrist whose girlfriend told a police at trial they justified the murder's to end the emotional and sexual abuse by the parents. prosecutors dismiss that as lying saying that they only wanted their wealthy inheritance. a jury convicted the 218 and 21 at the time and now however defense attorneys say the new es

the story. in it, eric wrote to his cousin a year before the murders saying "i have been trying to avoid dad. it is still happening but it's worse for me now. i never know when it's going to happen and it is driving me crazy. every night i stayed up thinking he might come in." >> it corroborates what the family members said was the very uncomfortable rule in that house that you could not go down the hallway if jose was with one of the boys. that was the ground upon which he prayed. >> two dozen family members want them released saying while the murder was tragic, so was the abuse. >> if lyle and erik's case heard today, with the understanding we now have about abuse and ptsd, there is no doubt in my mind that their sentencing would've been very different. >> bottom line, 56-year-old

lyle, 53-year-old eric could get release. lawyers tell me almost immediately if that is his recommendation. >> sandra: we will find out soon. we will be right back. [achoo!] needs, alka seltzer plus cold & flu when speed is what you need, bounce back fast with alka seltzer plus. also try the new chewable fizzy chews. no water needed.

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