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>> harris: a federal judge is ordering virginia to reinstate 1,600 individuals who have been deemed noncitizens by the state. the judge wants and put back on voter rolls. the judge claims there is a reason to believe that some of those who were removed were indeed u.s. citizens. virginia governor glenn youngkin is now bowing to appeal that. this is "outnumbered" on a fine fall friday. i'm harris faulkner here with my cohost, emily compagno and kayleigh mcenany. also with us today, fox news contributor leslie marshall, former georgia congressman and a host of the doug collins podcast, doug collins. griff jenkins is on the story from alexandria, virginia, with more. griff? >> hey, harris. this is a fluid situation. let's start with what governor glenn youngkin told you in the last hour, which is that
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virginia will immediately petition the fourth circuit court of appeals and, if necessary, the supreme court. he added in his statement this key graph. look here. he said, "let's be clear about what just happened. only 11 days before the election, a federal judge ordered virginia to reinstate over 1500 individuals who self identified themselves as noncitizens back onto the voter rolls. almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities." this comes after judge giles had ordered that 1600 voters be reinstated after being removed following youngkin's august 7th executive order. the crux of judge giles' ruling was this. she said there was reason to believe that eligible voters had their voting registration flagged, and she went on to say it is in the public interest for ineligible voters to be removed, but also for states to comply with federal law.
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in this case, she means the national voter registration act, which the doj sued over saying that youngkin violated this 90-day quiet period before election day. judge giles agreed, calling the order a clear violation of the 90-day quite period. but fox news legal scholar jonathan turley had a different reaction. >> this was approved by the department of justice years ago and her then-governor kane, who ironically is on the ballot this election. the deponent of justice can lights this law, no objection past years when used by democrats, even allegedly during this period, and suddenly when we use it to remove who we believe would be noncitizens, it becomes a problem. >> we expect that virginia could appeal and we could see some of that appeal as early as today, perhaps in the next few hours, and we will learn more about what their arguments are and whether they track a little bit with what professor turley was
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just talking about. harris? >> harris: griff jenkins, always great reporting. thank you, on the breaking news today. kayleigh, you and i were just talking about this. the date that the doj sued virginia over all of this was august 7th. august 7th was exactly 90 days before the election. my question is, those voters had to go through -- those noncitizens had to go through the vetting process at the doj to get there, and glenn youngkin said last hour to me, with his first reaction, that the doj had already cleared that. so either they are making mistakes -- i'm not sure how this came about, but now we are a few days away from an election, and it looks political. >> kayleigh: it does. 11 days before an election, no chance of an appealing decision in the next 11 days, and i head governor youngkin on your program. he's exactly right. these are people who self identified. they wrote "i am not a citizen." they checked the box it said no to citizenship.
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they are given a notice that they have 14 days to come and fix the problem if there is a problem. they then have a third fail-safe where they can cast a provisional ballot, and if they are indeed citizens, it is counted. what's crazy to me, and you've heard youngkin say this, in 2006 it was terry mcauliffe who passed this law. excuse me, tim kaine. the general registrar shall cancel the registration of all persons known by him not to be united states citizens. that is tim kaine in 2006. this was then used by terry mcauliffe and then by ralph northam, two democrat governors. not a problem when they do it but is a problem when governor youngkin does it, as polls come and show donald trump within striking distance in a blue state. >> harris: doug collins with us, congressman and a whole lot of things going on in your background that i imagine fit this question, and it is a legal one. how is it possible now -- because i am reading the doj can pause the entire program of venting noncitizens on the voter rolls in the state of virginia after this election.
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>> doug: the problem we've got here is, again -- i go back to at the attorney general of virginia just said. why should it be illegal to take illegal voters off the roll? that's what happened here. you can make the case and make arguments that they had 14 days, they have a provisional ballot, this has been done before. why now? it is purely political. lawfare among the democrats is very good. they know how to do this because they know they can get it right before this is happening. you've got 1600 now that are approved to be on the role. think about the ballots in virginia when races are decided by less than 1600 votes. think about that for just a second. the deprived of justice just sued about something that can influence elections not just in the presidential but down ballot. the issue we have here is you've got to have laws that are in place. there are issues of voter deadlines. virginia met those. they are self identified. they know this. i heard this excuse the other day, they were saying they self identified because they don't want to do jury duty. i don't care why you self
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identify. you have a chance if you want to vote to prove you're a citizen. this is just simple interference in an election. the only way he can look at it right now. >> harris: leslie, if this is politics or it has the blush of politics, it changes how people will see it, and what we don't want is for anybody in this country, let alone virginia -- and glenn youngkin, the governor, said this to me last hour, we want as many people to feel confident to go vote as possible. it's important. >> leslie: i will say it does look political, but i would say the other side looks political, as well. first of all, they should have done it on august 6th and we wouldn't be having this conversation. if you look at the specific terms of the national voter registration act of 1993, it is within 90 days. so when you file 90 days out, i'm not a lawyer and emily is, you could actually argue it is within the 90-day period. here's the problem that i have, because i have spoken to people on my radio show that will do
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that. why would you do that? like i said, not only are they avoiding jury duty, they are making a mistake, not paying attention to what they're doing. and then there are people who say, i am a citizen, but i didn't have transportation, i was in the hospital, i'm elderly. >> kayleigh: than what do they do and they get the notice? >> leslie: by the way, a lot of these people do seem to me, when they check that box, that they may register but i don't think they are necessarily going to show up to vote. >> harris: governor youngkin has said that there are six times to cure the situation. >> doug: there are. >> harris: and the doj chose to see you on august 7th. virginia didn't get the party started then. my question then becomes -- emily, maybe you can address this. why wait until the last minute when this had been going on for years, glenn youngkin said? they had been doing this for years, and these particular voters had already been looked at. much prior to august 7th. so i don't understand what the
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justice department is doing. >> emily: because it is political. my point was exactly that, that the opportunity to cure is baked into the law. since the law was passed, we've had over four presidential elections where there was no issue whatsoever. if you look at this from a sort of objective analysis point of view and you say, as judges take into account balancing factors, what would be worse? having a noncitizen on the roster? would it be worse to have a citizen removed? they err on the side of preserving our sacred right to vote in this country. it had been working just fine, and the whole point is, irrespective of the 14 days, on the date of voting you can cast your provisional ballot when you show your i.d. so you have until our sacred day of november 5th 2 indeed come in and say, "i'm sorry, sir. and actually a citizen. here's my present here's my vote." so this is an absolute travesty,
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unfortunately being wielded by the left, but they doj. it is underscoring for all us americans that we have been subjected to a very subjective department of justice that has, believe me, none of our interests at heart. >> harris: i want to ask our team, do we have governor youngkin? let's roll it. >> harris, this is a stunning ruling by a federal judge who is ordering virginia to reinstate individuals who have self identified as noncitizens back on the voter rolls. and what is even more astounding is the vast majority of these folks had presented immigration documents confirming that they were noncitizens, and we recently had that verified by federal authorities. so here we are with a judge saying put people back on the voter rolls who you know are noncitizens, and that's why we are immediately petitioning the fourth circuit for an emergency stay here on this injunction, and we will immediately go to
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the u.s. supreme court if necessary. but we are not going to sit by and let this happen. >> harris: kayleigh had mentioned, that's not going to happen before election day 11 days away or so. my question is, what fixes this for people who feel like they are in competition for votes of people who don't belong in the country? or just haven't become citizens yet. they may have come here legally but they are not citizens yet. >> doug: the concern here is what the governor just said. this has been vetted through the doj. they knew these people are. you basically have a judge that says, facts be damned, i'm going to do what i want to do. they are presented this timeline but this law fare is not just in virginia. in georgia. >> harris: talk to me about that. because you are an attorney in the state of georgia. >> doug: we had a 45-day window to challenge voters in the state of georgia. democrats in several counties challenge 150-200 voters. need to it about a day before
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the deadline. all these people get notifications that they are now being question. they are taken off the rolls in those counties until the election, and then they get the chance to cure it or go after the ballot. but they do it right at the deadline when they know they can't get any relief from this, and this is what we are seeing. our elections should be free and fair and everybody who is eligible to vote. we cannot have this lawfare. it's a democracy argument for the democrats fading quickly here when they see this kind of stuff. >> emily: by the way, the activist judges who rules and this should be an absolute alarm bell, canary in the coal mined everyone. that when you vote by november 5th, this is what you are voting for if you vote for a certain party. you are voting for these activist down ballot judges that then have to get slapped back to reality by the supreme court that your tax dollars pay for. believe me, if you want judges that uphold the law, it is not blue. >> harris: all right. whew, i love this show. more "outnumbered" next. because of your credit? here's great news.
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>> harris: "the washington post" has just said, in terms of endorsing a presidential candidate, that it will not endorse a candidate this election cycle, and they will not be endorsing candidates in any future elections. i mean, they are changing decades of tradition for them at this point, 11 days out from a presidential election. kayleigh? >> kayleigh: this is a big deal. "the washington post" is a left-wing publication. "the washington post," remember, had the austere scholar language before. they are, by all measures, i would argue, one of the most left-wing publications in the nation. "new york times" gives them a run for their money. and they are choosing not to endorse kamala harris. they have endorsed all the theories about what a threat to
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democracy donald trump is, go read their editorial page, go read their reporting, and they are not endorsing in this race? what a way to undercut, kneecap, totally undermine kamala harris' closing argument. "this guy is a fascist, this guy is unpalatable paid this guy iss a threat to democracy. but we're not going to endorse in the race." what an insult to kamala harris. an added at the "l.a. times," the unions? kamala, who do you have when you've lost a "washington post"? >> harris: i want to read this quote. "the washington post," this is a quote from them, their statement. "the washington post will not endorse either candidate in the presidential campaign. that is our tradition in accordance with our action in five of the last six elections. the unusual circumstances of the 1952 election lead us to make an exception when we endorsed general eisenhower, prior to the nominating convention." and he hadn't even become
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nominee yet. "and reiterated our endorsement during the campaign. in light of hindsight we retain the view that the arguments for his nomination and election were compelling." so they pick to they liked? >> kayleigh: they will put out and explainer later this afternoon but i'm not sure how you clean the swinging doors and then don't endorse. >> harris: "hindsight also has convinced us," emily, "that it might have been wiser for an independent newspaper in the nation's capital to have avoided formal endorsement." are they independent? [laughter] >> emily: what a joke this is. but i agree with you, kayleigh, it is demonstrative, frankly, of the insult they are levying to kamala harris. we all know they've been carrying water for that administration the entire time. they have been carrying water, they have been surrogates for the lies coming out of this administration, the narrative coming out of the campaigns for jail and then for kamala and everyone. so it's interesting.
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it's like you are wearing red at the chiefs game. you go to every single chiefs game and you wear red, but you refuse to wear the one with a logo on it? it's confusing to me. i think it's hilarious that they try to explain this as, "and we're never going to do it again!" go ahead, but if i were kamala's team, i would be absolutely furious. if either one of the, i don't know, handful of voters who aren't decided yet in this country, i would take this as a massive sign that if the one entity that has had no problem parroting absolute lies and narratives all of a sudden decides to take a step back, that they can't even put their name to that person, that's fascinating. >> harris: just for clarity, i would wear red and the number 15, so people would still know who i was going for, which is what "the washington post" is doing here. this is long. "the election of 1960 is certainly as important as any held in the century." and they are now telling us their entire history.
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"this newspaper is in no sense noncommittal. we have attempted to make clear in our editorials our conviction that most of the time 1 of 2 candidates has shown a deeper understanding of the issues." so they pick their favorites and they use their editorial pages to do it. that is clearly what they are saying here. so they are quoting themselves from the 1960s as having picked candidates, they just do it in an editorial and not on the front page. i mean, does this matter? a. >> leslie: no! this is not news. i'm sorry to everybody making news here but i'm also sorry to "the washington post" for making themselves the news, which is journalism 101, you don't make yourself the story. it shouldn't be about you. >> harris: listen to you preach! >> leslie: "the washington post" -- i'm sorry, even when i read that the texas newspapers one endorse ted cruz, sorry, eye-roll, being my 16-year-old teenage daughter here, because it doesn't matter. it really doesn't. i would go out on a limb and put my house on the table in vegas
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that not one person is going to go, they're not endorsing? >> harris: why are they doing it? haven't editorials been mostly pro-kamala? that's not really a "yes" or "no," that's obvious. >> leslie: this is my opinion, i don't feel any receiver, whether left-leaning or right-leaning, or a newspaper just reporting the news, should be endorsing a candidate. endorsements really don't matter. >> harris: they are trying to tell us that, but the vice president kamala harris apparently -- is it something they feel guilty about? i don't know. this is long. and you said they have another statement coming out in a few hours. >> doug: for me it goes by the old saying in the south, a bit dog barks. they are marking a little too much on this one. >> harris: did you just say a bit dog barks? i'm from georgia and i didn't know that! >> doug: you get bit, you gon' bark. when you get called out, you
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gon' yelled. they are yelling a little bit too much there. thou protest too much. >> emily: the lack of endorsements matters. the refusal, from the teamsters, from the newspapers, the endorsements don't matter because they're always expected. here it is the silence that is deafening. >> harris: that the nail on the head. these papers in particular, the "los angeles times" earlier this week, "the washington post" now, the teamsters a couple weeks a ago, those particular groups are usually endorsing the democratic candidate. >> emily: that's right. >> doug: take the "los angeles times." look at me about that one is when the editor resigned the next day. basically her whole letter said we are doing is because we set this up. for the last three weeks leave in setting this up, now you pulled the rug out from under us. i agree with both. as a candidate he's been on the ballot, endorsements matter more for the candidate a lot of times and they do in elections. sometimes that's different and we've seen this go on, but in
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reality, when you are loading up the stories, you know what you're going to get, and then you now have the silence that can be a little deafening here, what is most amazing -- i will go back to it here, they are spending too much timex plane why they didn't do it. >> harris: that's my favorite quote on the couch right now. what leslie said, she said, why is journalism trying to explain and make itself the big story? don't have anything other than themselves to put on the front page? everybody is going to read them today, so in answer to your question, maybe they get a little more attention. i don't know. >> leslie: i think it comes down to ego f for the candidate. >> harris: ego at "the washington post"! watch out. leslie said that. to democrats, anti-trump rhetoric is now growing more dangerous. just days before the election. keep watching.
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>> kayleigh: the left is doubling down on its extreme anti-trump rhetoric. over the last several days they have been vocally laboring
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former president trump as a "fascist." he is vice president harris condoning the comparison. >> it is clear from john kelly's words that donald trump is someone who, i quote, "certainly falls into the general definition of fascist." who in fact vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vend vendettas. >> kayleigh: the liberal media has been all in. you see it there. check out this wave of recent headlines describing trump as "fascist." "authoritarian, even hitler-loving." wow, and that's just a few of them. hillary clinton going as far as comparing trump's madison square garden rally to a nazi rally that took place in the same location. >> you know, one other thing that you will see next week, caitlin, is trump actually
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reenacting the madison square garden rally in 1939. i write about this in my book. president franklin roosevelt was appalled that neo-nazis, fascists in america, were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in germany. so i don't think we can ignore it. it may be a leap for some people, and a lot of others may think, i don't want to go there, i don't want to say that, but please, open your eyes. >> kayleigh: with the rhetoric getting increasingly more and more incendiary, concerns or president trump safety are growing. but this dangerous playbook is nothing new for democrats. in fact, they've been labeling republican candidates as fascist or hitler since the 1960s. that list, emily, take a look at
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that. goldwater, humphrey, nixon, ford, reagan, bush, romney. are you catching on to a trend here? >> emily: a trend that didn't work. that's a low point, it utterly fails. just to bleed over from the prior block, if "the washington post" felt that people are warning trump is going to deploy troops against americans, wouldn't you endorse the other side then? is it that existential? it clearly is. that's what they're putting on their headlines, that it is x essential for this country and for americans and yet they won't even endorse. and here we are now being subjected to that tired playbook. i just have to say -- i'm not saying this as a dig, i honestly believe it. i truly don't think him all his could could define fascism. i don't think she could define the difference between disinformation or misinformation, the two words she likes to use in conjunction, and that's the whole point. i see these empty vessels that are parroting the talking points. we got the scripts, page 2. it's not working. americans are exhausted, and more importantly than they are exhausted, they are stressed under this economy, and that's
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why this cheap narrative from behind their keyboards and behind the upper east side walk ups, it's not going to work. >> kayleigh: when i saw hillary clinton suggest that donald trump's rally at madison square garden was likea 1939 nazi rally, first off, the dnc was there in 1976, 1980, 1992. bill clinton was there. hillary clinton didn't speak today. they chose it for the same purposes, right? maybe he just sat back and said madison square garden is iconic and i want to give a rally there. see when he spent most of his life as a new yorker. >> emily: unlikely clinton, he actually is a new yorker. >> harris: and he is greeted here so warmly. he's been to harlem, a lot of places. he was in court for weeks here, and there was so much oxygen being soaked up around him every day that they sent robert de niro for the left to try to get in front of the cameras. it makes total sense. antifa.
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if we need to give kamala harris a little primer on what it looks like, cue up the george floyd riot. not the ones with the moms and women in all of that, their babies in strollers, really wanting black lives matter come in on the organization, but the movement to go forth. look at those antifa members who are in the crowd. and other rioting situations, as well. they are violent, they hate fascism, and probably could define it better than she can. >> kayleigh: this is just dangerous. when the u.s. secret service report came out by the independent review panel, they said -- i want to quote them exactly -- they believe "another butler can and will happen again." "can and will." is this responsible to call him hitler? >> leslie: i have always said, and i've sent on this network, and i think i'm the only one of jewish persuasion on the couch. i'm sure on the on the who has relatives who died in the holocaust. i have two sides here.
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one, nobody can be compared to hitler, but when i heard that kelly said our former president found anything hitler did as good, that he did some good things, or admiring the way his generals where, and they didn't come out en masse to to announce that, i don't think people who don't have that experience and that history understand how truly offensive it is. it's on the one hand it is offensive -- >> kayleigh: but several other first-hand individuals have come out and said they've never had language like that. i've had hundreds of encounters with him. never have i ever heard him say anything really like that. so you're asking someone to denounce one person's word against a whole litany of people who have said they never heard it. >> leslie: one person is a highly decorated military member, a gold star father, and somebody that is extremely respected on both sides of the aisle, inside and outside the military. i'm not going to go and call that man a liar.
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>> harris: leslie, first of all, we are people of faith here on this couch, my coasts. we are sisters in christ. and from the bottom of my heart, i'm sorry you had family members killed in the holocaust. i think we can all agree that we want to start there. i look at when people choose to say things and how they say them and whether or not they come forth with anything that is helpful to judge a person today. he has been president before. if these things were true about him and people who spent so much time, if his jewish son-in-law who has spent so much time and was so important to get the abraham accords, if those people cannot come forth with the receipts and show that to the man is, maybe there can be just a little room for a kelly or anyone else to have been looking for a moment of shine in that moment, or to have remembered it
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differently, or have a differing opinion. the all of this starts not as a criticism, but just as an ask, that when people say things about others, and there are so many things to believe otherwise, could you consider it? >> kayleigh: i think that is absolutely well said. doug, i think the bottom line is, when you look at real clear politics -- and it is tied nationally today, donald trump could be the first person who's your republican in 20 years to enact popular vote. possibly, we don't know. half the country season very differently than the linkage being used. >> doug: the biggest thing here is you have someone you can't run on anything else except now i've been rejected on the economy and on immigration. when i get a question i don't understand i don't want to ask, i'm going to have a weird sound moment. and the american people are not buying it, which makes the so close praise in the next thing you've got to do is say there's an existential threat, worry that the world will come to an end if i don't vote against donald trump. it's an against donald trump moment, not for. >> leslie: if that's the case, don't you think the polls wouldn't be tied? in the first to admit i can't
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menendez brothers being home -- whatever home means to them now -- by thanksgiving, some 35 years after they killed their parents, jose and kitty meningitis. they have always argued, including at their trial, that they acted out of fear after years of sexual abuse by their father. now the district attorney george gascon is recommending the judge change the brothers 'sentenced to life with parole rather than the current sentence of life without the possibility of parole. >> there are people in the office that strongly believe they should be released immediately, and that they were in fact molested. >> if the judge agrees, erik and lyle menendez could be very quickly freed by the parole board, given that they have already been behind bars for more than three decades. many members of the extended menendez family support the d.a.'s recommendation, but others believe they should stay behind bars, including kitty menendez's brother, mills and
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anderson, whose attorney talked to us earlier today. >> we think any decision to change the sentence is a mistake. mr. anderson firmly believes that what the jury rendered when they convicted lyle and erik is correct, and the sentence that was imposed was also correct. >> now we wait for a judge to schedule a hearing, likely within a month or so, but they will be opposing arguments in court. kayleigh, this is not a done deal yet for the menendez brothers. >> kayleigh: jonathan, thank you. who better to have on this than emily compagno? in your true crime podcast you've done a ton on this pit i am intrigued by this abuse evidence, new evidence they are bringing forward. there was a mistrial with the evidence was there and then the second trial wasn't brought up. now there's new abuse evidence. does that give them any sort of leeway for admitting to killing their parents? >> emily: yes. here's the deal. he summed it up perfectly.
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there was the first trial that resulted in a mistrial, and indeed introduced at trial was allegations that both of those brothers had been subjected to a pattern of absolutely horrible abuse. at that time, the cultural landscape was just after the o.j. simpson acquittal. keep in mind that public opinion matters, climate matters. at the second trial, the evidence of abuse was excluded, and not only were the allegations excluded, but the prosecution said in front of the juries that there is no evidence of any abuse whatsoever. in addition, at that second trial there was not the option for a lesser charge, so the jury was essentially told, you will find them guilty of this premeditated murder with no option for manslaughter. now in 2024 not only has there been new evidence that indeed one of the brothers wrote to a cousin just months before the
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murders and said yes, i'm being subjected to this abuse, because the judge said, this is far in the past, we are not going to let it in. this is an indicator, the defense team argues, the brothers are being subjected to abuse right then. in 2024 we have a different climate. we appreciate the impact, the horrific impact that horrific trauma can have. no one is saying they did not kill their parents, nor did they ever maintain they were innocent. what they said was that they were the victims of abuse, and in that trauma, that it would help to secure a commensurate conviction of manslaughter and a commensurate sentence which meant parole after an amount of time. here you have them saying we have served our time for this lesser charge that would have been commensurate, that the jury never got to hear, that the prosecution tainted it by saying the evidence didn't exist. there are thousands of inmates currently overstaying their sentences under the first step
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act and others, and gascon has a list of inmates and people who have records that have been pleading with him to revisit the case. my point is, if this is correct or not, there are a long list of others after this that need to be revisited and inmates to be released. >> kayleigh: but the question i have that i keep getting at, the dad is the one accused of the abuse. the mom was also killed. so if the abuse factors into the murder of the dad, how can you in any way ameliorate the murder of the mom who had no part in this? there's no allegations. >> leslie: they said she had knowledge of it, and erik does allege that there was an up or beat behavior with her stripping him down and asking them to lie down with her. >> kayleigh: to my knowledge it would not be affirmative defense. >> emily: and one more additional piece of evidence i have to say, a member of the prominent popular band, menudo, had allegations at the same time that the father was also sexually abusing him, too. meaning it establishes the m.o.,
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and of a child the same age as one of the brothers at the time. you're right, it doesn't ameliorate -- the low point it s it is not ameliorating culpability, but is a commensurate with the sentence? >> doug: what she just mentioned, this is an issue with the need to be looking at this -- also this is my problem with this. by now? he's been doing this for a year. you are 11 days away from election. >> harris: how does this help anybody other than the menendez brothers? >> doug: and put them out in front of the camera. i think these all need to be looked at, but i think we have to have a fair court system and a fair judicial system. the only concern is we are bringing this out now, and i think it's going to tank which should be an actual true process that works for all who go through the system. >> kayleigh: and they say there was a tiktok and social media movement feeling this, a netflix documentary, and all of a sudden here it is. not all black male voters are sold on vice president harris, and some democrats say it is
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>> it's down to the last 11 days and all the candidates on the road. donald trump and kamala harris in texas today, guess who's campaigning tonight? beyonce. we've got all the moves in
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democracy '24 at head. will the menendez brothers walk free? is a justice or just a reelection play for george gascon? we will take a look at all the eagles. migrant crime on the political agenda today. we'll talk to two grieving mothers whose daughters were killed by illegal immigrants. and hillary clinton doubles down on deplorables, suggesting trump supporters are nazi's appetizers. i'm john roberts. come join sandra and me at the top of the hour for "america reports." see you then. >> emily: trump and harris are both trying to enact over black voters. trump's are poorly buying ads on would have been described as the biggest r&b and hip-hop radio stations in philadelphia. just weeks ago harris' campaign was buying ads at the same two stations, but harris has seen some erosion from some black male voters this election. big-name democrats are calling out black men who are not all in. >> i'm not certain why there is this panic about black men
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voting. they vote. in fact, they vote more than their counterparts in any of the community for democrats. however, we do have to acknowledge that there is sexism, there is racism, there are challenges in our electorate. >> we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when i was running. i also want to say that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. i've got a problem with that, because part of it makes me think -- and i'm speaking to men directly -- part of it makes me think, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president. >> emily: oh, goodness. doug collins? >> doug: that's the way i want to go win voters, schooled them and tell them they are bad. >> emily: shame! >> doug: shame everybody, that's the best way to look at it. it is a
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to does surprise me.stacey abrag in a governor races, that the reason she couldn't get african american males to vote for her was sexism. this is not a new argument. it's like the arguments we had about the name-calling of trump. this is where we are at with this race. look, harris is running ads on fox news. that's what you do in elections. >> emily: harris, the best way to earn a vote would be to have policies that help that voter, so we know trump has got a check in that box. purchasing ads on radio stations, but that's a really stark contrast from policies that some allege are blatantly racist and pandering, and then this shame quotient by a former president and by the party surrogates. >> harris: it is not just shaming, emily. he's telling them how to be black. and now the litmus test is whether or not you vote for a black woman president. it is shaming and it's also insulting. people can't figure out a reason to vote for someone based on their own interests and values can act like the economy makes
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the color not about brown or black, it makes it green. we need more money and opportunity in communities. i would say this, if democrats plan -- and stacey abrams gave us a window into this -- if their plan is to blame black men if they don't win this election, that is so hurtful to young black boys in this country. they better stop it. that is really bad. >> emily: but what do you expect from a administration that says "you ain't black if you don't vote for me?" and that was a white old man telling them that. >> leslie: i don't feel that democrats, at least in the conversations i've had with people in my party, plan on blaming anybody, because we are hoping to win, one. and i don't think in their headquarters they are saying those guys are voting for trump. and we had african american men call into my radio show and it came down to three things. she's a woman, she didn't turn my vote with your campaigning, i don't agree with her policies. that's what it came down to. >> kayleigh: i don't think there are many people saying
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she's a woman. donald trump added to my income in 2023, my wages went up higher twice, versus obama-biden. i'm voting for donald trump. >> leslie: some of them. >> kayleigh: stay with us, >> kayleigh: stay with us, guys .l. >> kayleigh: stay with us, guys get a newday 100 va cash out loan at lower mortgage rates to pay off those high rate car loans.
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>> kayleigh: it is the texas tuesday eight to step monitorinh candidates in texas and 1:30 p.m. eastern coming up former president trump delivers remarks on border security and what he calls migrant crime. it is happening in austin. senator ted cruz will be but tim. 8:30 p.m. eastern trump's used in texas and beyonce reported a label to join they are breaking out the celebrity vote. the celebrities vote. >> kayleigh: i'm sure they do unfortunately. >> have a blessed week and thank you for watching us. "america reports"'s next. >> the question that

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