odin lloyd stayed over aaron's house several times. odin lloyd was aaron's friend.on go ahead and kill this guy? it's not possible. aaron hernandez's defense team felt that they had a pretty good case. ♪ hodgson: he showed no signs of real nervousness. seemed pretty confident, just sort of, "okay, i'm in a different place," and saying, "i'm not really in jail. i'm in training camp. i'm going to be back playing with the patriots because they're going to find out i didn't have anything to do with this." if he beats the case, america loves a comeback, and there will be nothing to stop him from doing that. but then something really unexpected happens, and aaron hernandez's name gets tied to another criminal investigation. daniel: in july of 2012, there's this drive-by shooting in boston's south end where two guys, safiro furtado and daniel de abreu, had been shot in a car. the men had been at a club and with their friends. the only real evidence that the police had was footage of a car that had pulled up alongside the vehicle driven by abreu and furtado, and they knew t

aaron said.on indicate that his mother had been hurt? >> yes, he did. >> did he identify who did that? >> yes, he did. >> who did he say? >> his daddy. his father. >> you had a good day on the stand with that testimony. that they would hear aaron telling a different story. about the gruesome discovery of his mother's remains under the outdoor shower. >> i was digging the hole -- >> sitting a few feet away was his biological father. >> i picked up the coconut object and it was a top portion of her skull. >> when you see it's human remains, what do you do? >> we set the top portion back in the hole. i called my mom who i refer to as my mom, jean frazier. >> aaron is not the kind of person who shows emotion. >> the defense did not cross- examine aaron to challenge the meeting of the testimony about daddy hurting mommy. >> you never determined as to what he was talking about. >> i did ask was it during the day or night time? he said nighttime. >> you didn't try to establish if it was yesterday or a y

aaron and his brother moved in with ralph full time. but aaron couldn't move on.s of his mom online. and a terrible suspicion took hold of him. something that is uncertainty. his mother must be dead. his father, must have done it. >> after that it became more of where would he put her body? >> he was maybe 13 or 14 when he thought about those old coal mines around walsenberg. >> so you went out and looked? >> oh yeah, i went there. >> you're looking for the remains of your own mother. >> i can't explain it. that fire that just drives you to do something. >> and then one day. >> i had been going through some of my dad's stuff in the basement and i found a box full of stuff that she supposedly took with her. it was a denim jacket, passport, driver's license, cell phone were down there. >> wait a minute. what was that like? >> that was kind of the final straw. >> naturally if she was gone, she would have taken those things with her? >> that was my final piece of the puzzle. he left it there, the box in the basement, and emerged a changed person. shannon told us aaron

aaron.s the terrible can become worse. >> let me ask you this under starmer government, i promise you that it will because they they have promises to keep and they have promises to keep and they can't afford to keep them without raiding. >> in some ways, the pockets of those people who still have any money. >> so obviously there's no want from a starmer government here, but they would push back against that passionately and say that they are absolutely the party. to help sort out the mess of this country. >> i let you into a very small secret. >> if it's a small one. yeah. okay >> the question political parties lie directly during the 1997 election, the labour party put out a broadcast saying that the tories would abolish the state pension , that she said state pension, that she said that it was a direct, absolute lie. they've never been punished for it. there has never been any trouble about it. it's a flat like and i can show you the party political broadcast in which it was said, well, yo

i'm aaron armstrong.ocal apology to victims of the infected blood scandal, describing it as a day of shame for the british state. the inquiry found a subtle, pervasive and chilling cover up from those in positions of trust and power, including the deliberate destruction of documents by government officials. the final report concluded patients were knowingly exposed to unacceptable

aaron clean up its corruption. aaron says.helle, you are always on the side of the tax avoiding rich can you tell me how much money do you actually think is enough? well it's not for me to tell anyone how much money they want and need. a lot of people are very happy earning minimum wage that supports their lifestyle and they are very, very content. other people want different things. you know what? i do support an open society with opportunity where you can achieve whatever you want. that's what i applaud anyway. look, you might have seen the front page on some of the newspapers this morning. now, what they're saying is sex education will be banned for children under nine years old. good. what took them so long? what do you make to this, jacqueline? >> well, i say the same thing. what took them so long? we've been this sort of, went a bit sort of pear shaped, particularly during covid. there were lots of things actually started to happen within the education system, etc. which we then came to the fore and then we realised what

it doesn't get much worse than that, aaron.at the time, together with other levels of government and private sector leaders, decided we had to do better. we've really focused on being the original 15—minute suburbs so that people can access education, health services, employment, leisure, study, all within a 15—minute radius. and we continue to invest in elements like active transport, greening the city, elements that we know are vitally important for liveable cities. and, sally, you've been lord mayor for six years. and, of course, melbourne has been a top place to live for many years. what's your personal legacy for the city? that's a really big question, given that the, you know, last few years have included the very extreme circumstances of the pandemic. in fact, aaron, we're one of the cities with the most days experienced in lockdown. it was very, very traumatic. and so, for me, a majorfocus has been kick—starting the city and then resetting the city for a new trajectory, a new rhythm, a different future, but in many ways

but aaron, what do you say?st watching that clip again, i was i was a bit gutted because given the words coming out of her mouth, given what she'd done, she should be wearing some makeup, a wig and a little flower with a water pistol hidden in it because she's behaving like a clown. this is the same mp who called sir keir starmer. sir keir softy. she said he wants open borders . this is the mp for doven >> while you're talking i'm going to play some of these tweets. i'll put some of the tweets. i'll put some of the tweets up on the screen whilst aaron's talking away, where she criticises the labour's sorry, i don't know, maybe i've ruined the shtick here. no, you have not ruined anything. keep going, and i just find it utterly ridiculous. look, you can have views one way or another. that's absolutely fine. but what? natalie elphicke here has embodied is the indisputable fact that the majority of the political class in this country believe in absolutely nothing except the next paycheque and their own hide. and i

and the co—founder of novara media, aaron bastani. welcome back , everybody.verybody. these new policies, they are being pulled out of a hat like nobody's business. the latest one today we've seen . did you go to we've seen. did you go to university? do your kids grandkids go to university ? and grandkids go to university? and if so, did you find it worthwhile because the tories today are focusing on what they call mickey mouse degrees ? call mickey mouse degrees? they're having absolutely none of it. they want these universities to be able to scrap up these courses and use that money instead to invest in 100,000 more apprenticeships schemes. i've got to say, you heard earlier on from olivia utley , rishi sunak did come utley, rishi sunak did come a bit unstuck earlier on when he was asked to define an example of a mickey mouse degree, and he struggled a little bit . anyway, struggled a little bit. anyway, peter hitchens, what do you make to it all? >> well, i have been two things. ihave >> well, i have been two things. i have been a student and i've been an a

aaron, our thanks to you as always. i want to bring in our chief legal analyst dan abrams. you and i were talking. two days of deliberations, and we know the judge instructed this jury to make sure you cannot come up with a verdict here, guilty or not guilty, based solely on the testimony of michael cohen. you must look at the totality of the evidence. there must be corroborating evidence. they asked about david pecker's testimony from "the national enquirer" to be reread along with other things and came up with their decision, their unanimous verdict, guilty on all 34 counts at the end of day two. what did that signal to you? >> that they clearly believed the corroborating evidence, right? it can't just be about michael cohen, so it means that when they were asking to have that testimony reread of david pecker, they wanted to be reminded, what exactly did he say? in particular, about how this scheme started. according to the prosecutors, this starts in 2015, not in 2016. that's when the effort begins in a meeting with david pecker, michael cohen, and donald trump discussin

>> david: aaron katersky again tonight. thanks, aaron. >>> we turn now to a horrific case in florida. the very disturbing police body camera video tonight. a deputy opening fire seconds after a u.s. airman opens the door of his own home. how did this happen? and were authorities at the right home? there are still many questions. here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, a new criminal investigation into whether a florida deputy was justified in fatally shooting 23-year-old u.s. airman roger fortson in his own home. you see the tragic moment unfold in this body camera footage. the officer announces his presence at fortson's apartment after receiving a report of a disturbance. >> sheriff's office. open the door. >> reporter: fortson appears and is shot almost instantaneously. look closely. you see the door open and there appears to be a gun in fortson's right hand. but it's pointing downward, never aimed at the officer, who immediately fires off six rounds, striking fortson in the chest and t

aaron katersky at the courthouse. >> reporter: today, in court, donald trump watched in rapid attention as his lawyer susan nechless aggressively questioning stormy daniels. daniels pushed right back. it came after daniels testified in graphic detail about an alleged tryst with trump in a lake tahoe hotel suite back in 2006. an encounter trump denies. today, his lawyer challenging the porn star, "you have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real?" daniels firing back, "the sex in the films is very real, just like what happened to me in that room." she added that if she were to fictionalize her encounter with trump, "i would have written it to be a lot better." necheles portraying daniels as a scheming opportunist, insisting her story of her time with trump "generated a ton of publicity for you." "lots of bad publicity," daniels replied. necheles pressing on. "now you had a whole new fan base and were able to sell yourself?" "i just did the same job i always did," said daniels. trump's lawyer pointing out this candle daniels sells online -- stormy, saint of

we'll show you aaron story in a moment. but what exactly is scamming? essentially things coming in a general form is, is a really way of deception right on this coming. anything in particular phones coming or on lines coming is a modern way of social engineering attacks where basically are exploiting individuals emotions or potentially weaknesses and trying to lose them and, and making some profit. ok, scam us, pray, allow of trust and often offer money. one of the 1st into those games with poorly, with an email from the so called nigeria connection. for example, i receive money in my account which i then transfer in exchange for a reward. of course that isn't any and effectively longer to the money. but in today's world, it scans out on the rise using a software like chat, c, p t scam us can now translate, scam emails into any language with increasing accuracy, mistake free and tailored to each target group. one popular scam is the so called shock, called a scam, a pausing as a police officer, the monster paid for a family member, allegedly involved in

. >> that's exactly right, aaron. and so far cohen has come across as quite credible, but they are just at the end of today beginning to get into the alleged crime, which is the falsifying business records and then prosecutors are going to have to walk cohen through some pretty uncomfortable material, including his multiple convictions and then his years of attacks on the defendant the prosecution's most anticipated it witness, michael cohen, taking the stand in donald trump's criminal hush money trial, repaid or lawyer a legal expense. we believe expense is a league with friends it's marked down in the book legal expense facing his former boss, cohen spoke about his ten years working as trump's attorney and fixer while trump sat back in his chair closing his eyes, not reacting to cohen's testimony. cohen said he enjoyed working for trump and whenever he received direct praise or completing a task, he felt like he was on top of the world cohen told the court that when trump was mulling are run for the presidency in 20

i'm aaron told me berlin, thank you for joining the world of free speech. free open access to free information for every stop dreaming. next, take action. detail use global, easier for them. 2024. a bunch of any practiced in now. lots dissipates from all over the world. i'm ready to share their solutions, and to say, tomorrow, join us and register now for the d. w global media for in 2020 for the. wait, am i reading this, right? i can follow social media accounts and make over $260.00 in a day. well, it's a scam of course, but scribes like this, a huge global business. and many scam us, even victims themselves. what topic on ship? this is arrow. he was taken to me and under false pretences and forced to scam people online or via the phone. we'll show you aaron story in a moment. but what exactly is scamming? essentially things coming in a general form is, is really a way of deception, right? and it's coming anything in particular phones coming or on lines coming is a modern way of social engineering attacks where basically are exploiting individuals emotion

donald trump studying the jurors' faces as well, all listening intently abc's aaron katersky who was there and noticeably absense, and the final argument if both sides. >> reporter: tonight, a jury of five women and seven men, on the brink of deciding the first ever criminal trial of a former american president. >> we'll see how it goes. this is a very dangerous day for america. it's a very sad day. >> reporter: in a packed and stuffy jurors heard hours of closing arguments. the defense went first, telling jurors they cannot convict the former president based on testimony from the prosecution's key witness, trump's former fixer, michael cohen. defense attorney todd blanche said cohen "told you a number of things on that witness stand that were lies, pure and simple." he called cohen the "greatest liar of all time," an "mvp of liars" and said cohen came to the witness stand bent on revenge, with "an ax to grind." but when trump's lawyer told the jury, "you cannot send someone to prison based upon the words of michael cohen," judge juan merchan said that went too far, calling the comme

>> david: aaron katersky leading us off here.aron, thank you. >>> we turn to the breaking news the images coming in from downtown youngstown, ohio, the scene of a massive and devastating building explosion. a bank on the first floor ripped open. there were alarms just before the explosion. apartments in the building above. and tonight the race to account for people above. several people rushed to the hospital. abc's alex perez with late reporting for us. >> reporter: tonight, a terrifying building explosion in youngstown, ohio just before 3:00, sending debris flying and creating a plume of dust. the front of a chase bank on the first floor ripped off. one witness standing about 30 feet away says he heard an alarm sound right before the explosion. >> people running all over the place, smoke, debris, there was stuff coming like insulation, and paper flying all over the place coming out of the bank. >> need multiple ambulances at this location. multiple people trapped in a basement. rescued one, we're working on second. >> reporter:

dan abrams is here tonight and aaron katersky at the courthouse leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, the fate of donald trump, the first former president ever to face criminal charges, now in the hands of the jury. less than four hours into deliberations, a bell rang in court, signaling a note from the jurors. they wanted four pieces of question testimony read back to them including testimony from david pecker, who buried stories for trump and one from trump's former fixer michael cohen about a trump tower meeting with trump in august 2015, where prosecutors said the three men hatched a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election. an hour later, jurors sending a second note asking judge juan merchan to re-read instructions. you are asked to make another very important decision, think of the former president as another member of the community. you must set aside any personal opinions or bias you might have in favor of or against the defendant and you must not allow any such opinions to influence the verdict. the jury weighing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records that prosecutor

president aaron peskin has announced his candidacy in kron 4 stephanie lit sat down with pets. can to talk about why voters should trust him to lead the city. >> san francisco aaron peskin is going to look like a caring city gets things candidate aaron peskin projecting confidence as he enters the race for mayor. i've stood up for safety, stood up against hate crimes. the president of the board of tested lawmaker entrenched in the rough and tumble world of city politics for more than 2 decades representing high-profile areas like chinatown, fishermans wharf, union square and the financial district. we need a neighborhood mayor with experience to rebuild our city. >> from the ground up. >> his past battles with sobriety now part of his campaign message. i know something about recovery of san francisco is going to recover. let's bring positivity to this i'm tired of and in a race dominated by centrist democrats, jostling for the spotlight. could peskin is distinctly progressive stance, seized the attention of voters being progressive has really been about listening to and bringin

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aaron kennon of clear harbour asset management. let's look at what is underneath the markets with the need to take over. just did need to take over. bad day for the work day. >> the worst since march 2022. the company is suffering after it announced lower expectations for subscription revenue. even though this quarter, numbers came in line, this is not enough to bring optimism to investors. subsequent -- subscription sales are projected to be significantly lower, a key metric for the company. the ceo is trying to bring optimism, saying they are expanding internationally, but you can see that on the street the sentiment is very pessimistic. bank of america cut their target. katie: down double digits for workday. things don't look too much better when you look at intuit. denitsa: interesting enough, intuit had a pretty strong earnings report. it saw a big increase in higher customers, but were investors see concern is the lower income consumers that access tax software for free. the numbers are following.-- falling. the competition f

will she campaigned for donald trump or focus on her own future aaron jeff. thank you very much. and outfront now, from our trump white house insider and communications director, alyssa farah griffin, also of course, on the view. so alyssa i mean, there's could be any de right. any de that had happened, but it happened today. haley comes out major speech saying she'll vote for trump. did you see it coming? >> so it was disappointing, but not surprising. i mean, she joins a long list of people who are deeply critical of trump who have said he was unfit for office, who have launched every tack against them that they could. she of course, was also the first prominent republican after january 6 to speak to the republican party and say, you know, we need to move on. but then ultimately come back into the fold because at the end of the day career ism, ambition and being able to have a longstanding in the gop is more according to most politicians, what's interesting to me is this. she continues to put points on the board. this pennsylvania primary that jeff mentioned. >> i am not convin

aaron, what else are we hearing from the u.s. side? >> reporter: hallie, the white house is monitoring this closely. there are already very real fears that the israel/gaza war could spark a larger conflict. israel and iran attacked each other last month. the president's national security adviser is in israel this weekend working to get a cease-fire. contain any conflict and the death of iran's president could further destabilize that region. hallie? >> and aaron, president biden is where you are, at morehouse college in atlanta today to deliver the commencement address. any protests? >> reporter: this was a speech that was mostly well received here at morehouse, hallie. in his salute to class of 2024, president biden talked about faith, leadership and so democracy, among other things. he also faced the israel-hamas war issue head-on, calling for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the hostages taken by hamas, and he also said he supports peaceful protests and told the graduates i hear you. a handful of graduates turned around in t

aaron katersky leading us off tonight.e turn to the major global headline tonight. the hardline president of iran confirmed dead after a helicopter crash. tonight here, new images of the wreckage discovered. what we know so far. what led to this crash. as we also now learn iran reached out to the u.s. for help after the helicopter went down. martha raddatz tonight with late reporting here. >> reporter: new images tonight, of the deadly helicopter crash sending shockwaves across the middle east, killing iran's hardline president and other top officials. in dense fog, search teams locating the mangled wreckage, wedged between trees, in the rugged mountains of northwest iran. the bodies of iranian president ebrahim raisi, his foreign minister, and six others, found at the scene. as iran investigates the cause, defense secretary lloyd austin tonight made clure the u.s. had no role. >> the united states had no part to play in that crash. and so -- and that's -- that's a fact, plain and simple. >> reporter: the state department

we have aaron, good. he is a political scientist historian, as well as author of american exception empire in the deep state and interest, and we cross to michael maloof. he is a former pentagon senior security policy analyst, a gentleman cross that rules and effects. that means you can jump anytime you want, and i always appreciate michael, let me go to you 1st here. you've been watching the coverage of the amazing transformation of mike johnson, the us speaker. um, but you know, the, the media received this package for ukraine with great fanfare, as i said in my introduction. but even in main stream media right now, there's a whole lot of questions. i mean, you know, is this i, for 1st the 1st crunch and, and over many, many years. what is the strategy? i mean, this isn't the mainstream that we've been talking about it for 2 years now. it's in the mainstream. so this big divergence between the elite and the media and everybody else is just getting greater and greater. michael? yeah, i, i think that the

aaron, amongst them, top quarters of democratic leadership. in fact, chuck schumer, senate majority, the first ever june majority leader of the united states senate did not address this issue at all on the senate floor today, he was asked yesterday about the initial delay of those weapons to israel when he was asked about it, he said that the israel and america had an iron-clad relationship. and he says, quote, if faith and what the biden administration is doing manuel. >> thank you and out front now, former israeli prime minister, enough tally bennett, president biden, making it clear to me that if israel launches a ground invasion into rafah, into the population center, that the united states will help weapons shipments here's what he said. if they go into rafah, i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities that deal with that problem. we're going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out of you i'm not le

aaron gilchrist with the president in atlanta, thank you, aaron. former president trump, meanwhile, spoke at a gathering of the national rifle association on saturday accepting an endorsement from the gun rights organization in what could be his last campaign appearance before a verdict in the criminal hush money trial. nbc's priscilla thompson is in dallas with more. good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. former president donald trump proudly accepted that endorsement from the nra on that stage last night. he also rolled out his gun owners for trump coalition telling gun owners no one has done more for them than he has. and, contrary to what research shows, he accused gun owners of not participating in the political process. >> gun owners don't vote. it's so crazy. they should be -- i would think that they would vote more than any other group of people, and it's just the opposite. they don't vote. >> reporter: during the 90-minute speech, he also repeated his common claim that gun owners are losing their rights, comparing it to his curre

aaron cohen says they are tired. they look tired. now columbia has said they want these officers to be out there until may 17th which is past graduation. what's the staging effort at the college tonight at columbia? >> well right now i think nypd is quite frankly relieved that they were able to get onto the scene because this should have happened a long time ago. we know that the longer you do not involve law enforcement, the more this will spin out of control and it's been out of control and then it becomes more dangerous for law enforcement and for those involved. so thank you so much nypd for getting in there and doing your job when you were permitted to, but you are right, this will be a long haul. nypd is a large police department, they are the finest and the best i believe and they are up for this task. the key is to let them do their job. if you just let them do their job, those entrusted to enforce the law, this would not be happening. let's look back at december of 2020. you brought up a good point, trace. the summer of 2020

aaron all right. >> well, thank you very much. melanie. and tonight, if you think about it, merger taylor greene's biggest supporter who has been trump, has signaled on more than one occasion, but he backs johnson, although he's really kind of really wait to see where the wind blows on this one. but now it seems to be much more pro johnson greene tonight insist though that she is still following trump's lead for doing i'm the biggest supporter president trump, and that's why i proudly wear this maga hat. >> tom foreman is out front we're going to reelect our favorite president, the greatest president in united states history, donald j. >> trump, right? georgia, from the get-go, it was a conservative dream team. let's get the firebrand president there's uncompromising congressional ally pledging allegiance and scorched earth. not only do we support president trump, we support his palm and republican that isn't willing to adapt these policies you're completely eradicating from the party, then 2022, i'm going to blow away the democrats social

dan and aaron, our thanks to you both. we'll see you again tomorrow night. >>> we turn to the other developing headline tonight. supreme court justice samuel alito refusing to recuse himself from cases involving january 6th despite the flags seen for a time flying outside both of his homes. tonight, he's now putting the responsibility entirely on his wife. terry moran covers the court. >> reporter: after days of calls for him to step aside from all supreme court cases stemming from january 6th because of two flags flown outside his homes, today justice samuel alito told congress he will not recuse himself. in a letter to lawmakers, alito wrote that he was not involved in the decisions to fly either of the flags at issue, and that both were raised by his wife martha ann, adding, "my wife is fond of flying flags. i am not." "the new york times" first published this photograph showing the american flag outside alito's house, flying upside down, traditionally a signal of dire emergency. "the times" says the picture was taken i

>> david: aaron katersky leading us off here tonight.volving the former president tonight. the judge overseeing donald trump's classified documents case at mar-a-lago has now indefinitely postponed that trial. is there any chance this now happens before election day? let's get right to our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas, live in washington. pierre, what have you learned. >> reporter: david, the likelihood there will be a trial in the classified documents case before the election is fading fast. judge aileen cannon has taken a may 20th trial date off the calendar, saying there were too many legal issues to resolve before trial could go forward. some of the issues have sat for months, and some are not even scheduled for hearings until later this monthov or june. the special counsel tonight declining to comment. but david, this delay makes it all but certain this case will not go to trial before the election. >> david: pierre thomas, thank you. >>> and as i mentioned off the top tonight, there are reports of multiple tornadoes on

>> well, i have to say beginning tomorrow morning, aaron and the justices will begin handing down the most closely watched cases of their session and it will begin tomorrow and run through the end of june. and as you mentioned earlier, two of the most important cases involve donald, former president donald trump's efforts that culminated on january 6, to the capitol. all part of the stop the steal campaign. one of those cases goes to whether former president trump should be put to a criminal trial for four counts of election subversion. that special counsel jack smith on behalf of the justice department, the american people, has brought that's one really important case involving potential immunity and the other is more directed january 6, and it involves defendants who do not want to be subject to obstruction charges of official proceeding. so or in big cases to be decided based around vague cases. and this on the eve of that potentially happening, joan. thank you so much. >> thank you. and we do have more breaking news and this quote from nikki haley, she said, quote, i will be votin

aaron: i think that is right.l question is, is there any pressure that could be exerted on either party to bring them around to some middle position, which tries to square the circle of conflicting demands and political necessities that both hamas and the netanyahu government and war cabinet are operating under. right now this is the seventh month of the war this week. i don't see any lever right now that could be pulled that could free hostages, deescalate israeli military activity, and surge humanitarian assistance into gaza. that is the real tragedy here. i see no way out of this right now. i would describe it to you as a strategic cul-de-sac with no way out right now. william: given everything you are describing, we know the biden administration has been trying, somewhat fruitlessly, to pressure the israelis on this front. what would you be counseling them to do? what can they do to move that needle in any way? aaron: all politics is local. tip o'neill was right. i had to keep reminding myself of this every si