there is resentment of abby. there is resentment of abby's family who is getting money from andrew. there are some who are going to suggest without specific evidence that perhaps the girls were worried that they might be cut out of a will at some point. june 1891, there is a robbery at the borden home. andrew and abby are out of town, but the girls are home and jewelry and cash is stolen from their bedroom. no sign of an intruder. the police come and their suspicion is that this is an inside job. in cases like this, who do you blame for an inside job? the servants. there is suspicion on bridget maggie sullivan. while they do not have the staff of folks up on the hill, they do have a servant who lives in the attic in the house, bridget. in the late 19th century, people often use the term make or maggie in a derogatory way for irish immigrants. so many of them had a surname or were named margaret or maggie, so they just called all irish people mick or maggie. the previous name had been named maggie. they just called bridget their new made maggie anyway. that was even though her name w

if she was upstairs, she would have seen abby's body. and all the statements are -- make her testimony seems suspicious. now, her defenders are going to say that this isn't fair. an innocent girl, she is 32, an innocent girl being drilled for hours without an attorney. having just suffered a horrible tragedy. she is suffering from ptsd that her father and stepmother have been killed. in addition, the family physician, dr. bowen, had given her morphine to settle her nurse. they say, of course, her testimony is contradictory. nevertheless, the judge overseeing the inquest had known lizzie her entire life. since she was a child. nevertheless, she comes away saying, this does not look good. she had the motive, the means, and the opportunity to commit the murders, and he orders that lizzie be arrested. i am condensing some facts in the interest of time, but they take lizzie in front of a grand jury, and we discussed in this class what grand juries do, and they are going to hear the evidence against lizzie. at the grand jury, the prosecutor is

abby borden was murdered 90 minutes before andrew borden, which means any murderer ever had to kill abby borden. and then if it was someone outside, hide in the house for 90 minutes and discovered and then emerged to kill andrew borden and then somehow escape. now, edward wood, our expert here, who examined the stomachs also gives some evidence that sympathetic to the defense he ys well the remember the borden had been sick and lizzie had to by pressing acid but didn't find any poison in stomachs. so if she had tried to buy poison here, they say, well, she hadn't poisoned anybody. he also testifies that the blood found on the hatchet was cows blood and the hair was cows hair and that the blood on the dress lizzie borden had brought down to the police to say, this is what i was wearing the day the spot could have been -- blood. also for the prosecution. this is very modern csi ish, a harvard doctor who is going to say based on the blood spots around the crimes that the attacker was right handed. because he would have gone back this way, putting blood on the wall. and lizzie right handed a

this is his wife abbie borden and abbie was the. cond his second wife. he is not the mother to his children and what had happened is his wife had died when lizzie was two. he desperately needs help. he's an gentleman abbie borden had not been married into her thirties, so she marries him and then ey've got a team that can raise family now as some of younow, sometimes the dynamics of a mom and in particular early teenage kids can be tricky d the dynamic in the borden is going to be tricky tricky any questions so far anything on our borden story? all right. let me keep moving. so here are two central figures in the story, elizabeth. lizzie borden, age 32, and borden, age 42, both unmarried, neither have kids, and they are still living at home with their father and stepmother. now, at the time, some people upon those choices and it would give women who had not had kids and were unmarried in their thirties, forties, a derogatory nickname of spinster, someone who was just at home spinning, cloth spinning and not married and doing the the enjoying the joys of

sometime during that hour, abby borden is killed upstairs. guestroom by 18 blows to e back of her head head. okay. 10:48 a.m. andrew borden was doing business, but his feeling ill returns home to find the front door in the side door locked from the inside. by this point, bridget has come back in the house and is washing some windows inside the house and. andrew borden knocks on the door. why is this locked? and she goes, runs over to open the and lets andrew in. he's kind of mad. and bridget will later say that lizzie was standing on the stairs and kind of laughed at the situation and oh, that's kind of funny. all right. 10:48 a.m. i? andrew says, where is your mother? and even though the girls often would not call her her mother, where is your mother? and she says, oh, abby. got a note from a sick friend. and she went out. so andrew goes to the back, the house, the stairs goes, up to the bedroom, and then comes back down into the sitting room to a nap. lizzie will say that she helped him take off his boots, gave him newspaper, prepared him s

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abby this person, it's an accusation. unnamed source said this unnamed source unnamed because he he won't let her come forward. >> well, just just i mean i'm not sure, honestly if you're familiar with the facts of that case, but there was a there was a there was a police report in a district that i represented, monterey, california so the allegation of rape is there. she didn't make that up. it's part of the case. so julie's not just like calling her an alleged rape victim. she went to a hospital and received a rape kit and, well yeah, i mean, of course i wasn't there. she went to a hospital and received a rape kit. so look i there's all of that. he has gone on the hill now. he said well, let me play what he said on megyn kelly, and then we'll talk about what he said on the hill i've never had a drinking problem. >> i don't i'm never no one's ever approached me and said, oh, you, you should really look at getting help for a drink. never. i've never sought counseling never sought help. i respect and appreciate people who w

to your point, abby, under barack obama people never talk about it. we lost a thousand legislative seats. it was starting to be the end. >> since when? since when did the republican party become the party of the working man this is what drives me crazy. >> like apple knows how to make my eye twitch. this is the thing that makes me a good question, though. >> i mean, i'm asking you since when? >> no. look, i worked no tax on tips, no tax on overtime it drives me crazy because there's only so many rich white guys and republicans who could vote for them. >> so they got to go figure out how to get workers. and it's smart as a strategist. >> it's smart because we don't know how to. i've been banging this drum. you don't know how to communicate the democratic party has no idea how to communicate to normal people anymore. >> every community has got a master's degree, has a wrong. >> well, i have a i'm a consultant, i have a master's degree, and i don't do have it figured out. but i also know how to speak to people like they're normal and not like i'm sitting

that abbie would make a really good nurse. so brown gave her a warning on this one condition.mise me you'll go to scrub or nursing school, and slow down, and i won't give you a ticket. could you have ever imagined she would take it as seriously as she did? >> never. >> as soon as he left, an as soon as i got to where i was going, i started pushing myself toward that career, and now i'm here. >> reporter: and now she's here. working as a surgical technician at the university of alabama birmingham hospital. abbie says she loves her new job and gives full credit to trooper brown, who was at her graduation. >> i wanted him to see the impression he made on me. five minutes talking to anybody, even if you don't know them can make the largest impact of their life ever. >> reporter: and you never know when. >> you never know when it could happen, no. >> reporter: trooper brown went above and beyond license and registration to guidance and motivations. and by taking the advice written on that warning, abbie not only helped herself, she returned the exact same favor. >> she made my enti

abby williams' grandfather calling her loss, beyond words.lind that such evil existed libby, german's mother telling allen. her grandmother adding, i hope he lives with the same fear he caused abby and libby in the last hour of their lives. >> without the efforts from those two little girls, we wouldn't be here today. >> reporter: abby and libby were hiking on the monon trail when they went missing in 2017. libby's phone recovered with key evidence she recorded, images of their killer police say and his chilling voice. >> guys, down the hill. >> reporter: in the end prosecutors say it was the two girls, abby and libby, who helped solve their own murder. >> libby for recording the defendant as he walked across the bridge, arguably the biggest piece of evidence that we had, that recording of their killer, and then to abby for hiding the phone so that he couldn't take it with him so law enforcement could find it and get that piece of evidence that libby had collected. >> reporter: the judge looking allen directly in the eye during sentencing and

good morning, abby. >> good morning, ainsley.t atlanta's lpn men in golf. sport to follow. that's what we are seeing happening here in georgia and the lpga's case. they overturned a rule that has been around since 2010. and to could so. >> they cited a science-based approach. and georgia lawmakers are kind of following suit, they are pointing at things like bone density. lung capacity, increased muscle mass, just other ways that biological males have advantages over females it. will be interesting to see. these recommendations still need to make it into the legislative process moving forward. but i think, you know, about president trump coming n january. it's going to be i think we are going to see a lot of things unfold. >> included some things that many of us haven't thought about if a private school play as public school then trornd males are are or females can't play these women's sports. i didn't think about that one and the locker rooms and changing rooms solely based on your sex at birth. we will continue to follow that ju

i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. who's calling the shots? the power struggle in washington may be helmed by somebody who wasn't even elected. trump's right hand man, elon musk, has been taking a leading role in this effort to kill a bipartisan spending bill. that bill is needed to keep the government open after speaker mike johnson unveiled the 1500 page bill. musk took to x to call on his followers to, quote, kill the bill over its pork and extraneous spending. now, he went so far as to say any member of the house or the senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be ousted in two years. republican congressman byron donalds also told cnn simply, we will see the new power of elon. former congressman matt gaetz posted this on x. if musk kills the bill, he is more powerful than all the washington lobbyists combined. so where was trump in all of this? for much of the day? he was pretty silent on this issue until he started echoing musk's complaints via statements on truth social in a joint statement w

abby's grandfather comparing the pain to losing a limb that will never grow back. libby's uncle leaving the courthouse. >> there still ain't justice. nothing will bring her back. >> reporter: prosecutors praising the girls for securing key evidence. recording allen on libby's cellphone just before, they say, he slit their throats. >> libby, for recording the defendant as he walked across the bridge, having the wherewithal to pull out her phone, abby for hiding the phone. >> reporter: the defense maintaining allen's innocence arguing during the trial there's no dna evidence tying him to the scene, and telling reporters -- >> we are looking forward to the next steps in our appeal. >> reporter: while tonight christmas decorations hang alongside memorials in this rural town fover changed by two brutal murders. and allen'team says they plan to appeal soon. state law requires they file initial paperwork within 30 days. lester? >> maggie vespa, thank you. > also tonight the operators of zelle, the popular electronic payment app, and three major banks facing a new federal

libby's mother saying i hope he lives in the same fear he caused abby and libby in the last moments ofir lives. >> having the wherewithal to know that something wasn't right. the biggest piece of evidence that we had, that recording of their killer. and to abby for hiding the phone, without the efforts from those two little girls, we wouldn't be here today. >> reporter: and the judge said this is one of the most heinous crimes she has ever seen, telling allen these families will live with your carnage forever. >> whit: when we come back, the faa expanding its drone ban over 30 areas across new york state and why they're doing it now. >>> and diane saw ysawyer. this is steve's stomach, where voquezna can kick some acid, heal erosive esophagitis, also known as erosive gerd, and relieve related heartburn. voquezna is the first and only fda-approved treatment of its kind. 93% of adults were healed by 2 months. of those healed, 79% stayed healed. plus, voquezna can provide heartburn-free days and nights. and is also approved to relieve heartburn related to non-erosive gerd. other serious st

abbie is a courageous young woman. thank you, abbie fisher. more on courage and the quantities of it a bit later. joining us also is a table of very talented foxes. those knowing many things, the men and women of mccarthy, the law firm that litigated the sfa cases in 2014 they exam and harvard's admissions practices cracked their knuckles and sued. they each have the heart and bite of lion and i had the luck just to be called upon to the roar. concevoir in mccarthy is here with us tonight. this sadly, though, one of the most remarkable lawyers that concevoir mccarthy will concevoir died before the ffa opinion was released. he, more than anyone, was the legal energy, the lawsuit. we miss him and may his memory be for a blessing. and finally, i want to recognize foxy hedgehog. my wife of 43 years, lark bloom, all of the mishegoss, the mishegoss. now that's a yiddish word meaning trouble that i have endeavored create over the last 35 years has been lovingly encouraged by lark. thank, darling. i stand here with immense gratitude and humility. hono

i'm abby phillip in washington. let's get right to what america is talking about. sunshine on matt gaetz's misdeeds. what the former congressman wanted to say. buried is now public. a house ethics committee report that details plain gross behavior, the kind of house of cards like criminality that people believe happens in washington. a lot of gifts, drugs, prostitutes, and perhaps statutory rape. the committee says that they have, quote, substantial evidence of all of the above. elliot williams joins us on our panel now. he's a cnn legal analyst and was deputy assistant attorney general for legislative affairs under the obama administration. i think the big blockbuster headline of this report is what it says about about matt gaetz and victim a. so let me read this. the committee received testimony that victim a and representative gaetz had sex twice during the party, including at least once in the presence of other party attendees. victim a recalled receiving $400 in cash from representative gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex at the time

to your point, abby, the numbers don't lie. lot of people came into the united states. >> but early on in biden's presidency, he was asked about this, and he insisted it was part of a seasonal pattern. and it happens every single solitary year. this was like february, march, april of 2021. well it wasn't. the numbers went up and they stayed up. and when you have 2.4 million people coming in here, i'm sure a bunch of them were great folks, but they're going to have some bad people in here. you're going to have people who have mental issues. you're gonna have people who are members of gangs. you have people who have criminal records. the american people in this past election said, we don't want them here. we want them deported. and, you know, if the if the trump administration rolls out, the first thing they take out is manuel, the busboy and who's who's this good, hardworking guy who's got a family and all this stuff, people will turn against it. but if it's the drug dealers and gang members, americans want them out. >> but you'

and then cops make a discovery so vile it makes prosecutor abby marsh's blood boil. >> they still hade same underwear, and there was dna evidence that was retrieved from the underwear that link to sarah. >> now, authorities know without a doubt, they have their man. but still, there's no sign of sarah. >> i was really just trying to think, you know, she's out there somewhere. what is she going through? you know. is she still alive? how are we going to find her? >> investigators still had hope of finding sarah alive. even though tomÁs legs had a history of assaulting and molesting young girls, he had always stopped short of murder. >> i had hope, but i just didn't see a good outcome. >> still, cops are holding on for a christmas miracle. dedicated officers from all over the state working straight through the holiday. >> we're working feverishly through cell phone records to try to determine path of travel, and then they get it in the wee hours of the morning when sarah disappeared, legg's phone pinged off three different cell towers. >> because there were three towers, they actually we

i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. jimmy carter, his passing echoing around the globe today, as we're learning more about the plans to honor his life, carter will get what's only offered to the most prominent figures in american life a state funeral, a motorcade that will snake from plains, georgia to atlanta. and then carter will take one final flight to washington, where he'll lie in state at the u.s. capitol before a final service at the u.s. national cathedral. the plans underway for a sacred ceremony crafted for a president is also prompting the country to reconsider what is charitably described as carter's complicated legacy. joining us in our fifth seat is the presidential historian himself, tim naftali. he's the former director of the nixon presidential library. tim, do you think that time has been good to the carter legacy? >> oh, there's no question that time has been good to the carter legacy. keep in mind that for the first couple of decades after he left office and he left office at the age of 56 and kept

i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. wray wrapping up tonight, the fbi director, christopher wray, is telling the 35,000 men and women of the bureau that he is quitting after weeks of careful thought, i've decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in january and then step down. >> my goal is to keep the focus on our mission, on the indispensable work each of you is doing every single day. and in my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important in how we do our work his exit paves the way for the president elect to pass america's top law enforcement job to his loyalist kash patel something that donald trump says will end what he says is the weaponization of government, which isn't that ironic, don't you think? >> i mean, especially because kash patel he's literally published an enemies list right here of the people in the so-called deep state who he believes should be

thank you all so much for joining us on >> news night with abby. phillip is up next this is cnn breaking news good evening. >> i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. manhunt breaking news in the search for the killer with fake ids, a bus trip from atlanta. words scrawled on live rounds. and tonight we have some new details of new evidence in the hunt for the gunman who murdered the unitedhealthcare ceo. cnn is learning a lot in the last 24 hours about this suspect, who is now the subject of a frenzied and far and wide search of this city. a source says that the gunman arrived in new york on a bus out of atlanta he was in the city for ten days before the shooting he used a fake id from new jersey to check into a hostel here in manhattan, where he paid in cash. he fled the scene on an e-bike, and as of this hour, no one is under arrest. but police are looking for this man. he's identified as a person of interest. the photos were gleaned from that very hostel, and the man in the picture only lowered his mask. w

now abby has a new christmas special to plug. abby. >> hello and merry christmas to you.elcome to santa school. i went to michigan and i enrolled myself in the official santa claus school and as you can see i've graduated with honors. now it's time to put my skills to the test. ho-ho-ho, here we go. where you from? >> seattle. >> what brings you to new york? >> we had to come see fox news because we watch you guys every single day all day long in seattle. >> that's amazing. have you seen santa claus on the air? >> we have. >> good, now you have. when you start decorating for christmas? >> i would say before december. i would say towards november. >> do you watch any christmas movies over the holidays? >> yep. >> what's your favorite? >> elf. >> okay, will i have a question for you. best movie santa? at as an are from elf or tim allen from the santa claus -- ed as an are -- >> this is interesting. read team, what you think the super fox fan is going to say? >> first of all congratulations on finding the only two conservatives in the city of seattle. [applause] >> that was

oh abby. >> hello tom and merry christmam to you.ed welcome to santa school. i went to michigan and i enrolled myself in the official santa claus schoolclau and as yu can see i graduated with honorso now it's time to put my skills to the test. ho-ho-ho here we go. where are you guys from?ou t >> seattle, washington. >> what brings you to new york? >> we had to come see fox news want you guise all day every day in seattle. >> amazing. have you ever seen santa claus on the airnta ? >> we have. >> okay good, now you have. when you start decorating for christmas? >> i would say before december. towards november. >> you guys watch any christmas movies over the holidaysst?. >> yep. >> what's your favorite? >> elf. >> okay well i have a question for you. best movie santa, ed asner from elf or tim allen from a santa claus? >> tom: this is interesting. red team, back to you on this one.yo what do you think the super foxa man is going to say? >> first of all congratulations on finding the only two conservatives in the city ofcong seattle. [app