he's nba superstar chris andersen. but there's a third person manipulating them with just a few key strokes. tonight, the "20/20" investigation that takes us into the frozen, remote wilderness. >> i have water, my coffee. here we go. >> looking for the pulling their strings online. catfishing them without them knowing it. >> the catfish wanted to see how far they could take it. >> this far, threatening her. >> he said he was going to send somebody down there, and i was going to be murdered. >> almost ruining the basketball star's career. >> why chris? >> police are searching his computer. why can't you grasp that you almost took this man's life? >> tonight, we're catching the catfish. you won't believe who is the mastermi mastermind, operating from this tiny house in the middle of nowhere. >> it just got crazy from that point on. >> good evening. i'm elizabeth vargas. >> and i'm david muir. you can call it a catfish or sometimes even a con artist. either way, it's pretty much the same way. someone faking their identity

cedric andersen targeted his estranged wife karen smith while teaching. >> absolutely terrifying fors in there. >> two boys call the in the cross fire before andersen turned the gun on himself. 8-year-old jonathan martinez did not survive. family and friends remembering a vibrant, joyful boy. authorities trying to determine how the seemingly happy couple unraveled. anderson posting these videos on face book weeks ago. >> she know when to ignore me. it makes a happy marriage. >> authorities probing andersen's dark past including multiple arrest for weapons and dope mosting violence charges. but he was never convicted. karen smith's mother tells abc news, after the pair wed, just over two months ago, andersen revealed a darker side. >> my hutz ba >>. >> smith living with her adult children after leaving him a few weeks ago. she never informed the school of maral problems. >> it appears he had been making efforts to contact her and to have her come back home. she was resistant to that. >> reporter: authorities searched the suspect's home where they uncovered a net he wrote about things

steven dalton writes -- and jeffrey andersen writes -- >> that's rough.news for this half-hour. >> so what are you going to go see? >> of the two, i like brie larson. >> yeah, agree. of the two, fate of the furious. >>> this morning on "world news now" -- the overnight terror raids in france. >> police are on the hunt following the deadly attack at one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world. people at caves sent scrambling for cover as gunshots rang out. we'll have the latest on at take claimed by isis. >> the teacher accused of kidnapping his former student, now under arrest after multistate and week's long manhunt. how they were discovered thousands of miles from home. >> and, surveillance video shows the a police officer accidentally shoot and kill a woman at a community training event. the officer firing during a drill posed as a bad guy. why the video is just now being released. >> and it may be a droom to some, but for baristas, the new unicorn frap is a

but stars david duchovney and jillian andersen both on board to reprise their roles as mulder and scullyve producer chris carter signed on as well. >> right. whole gang. last year's limited revival catapulting it to number three show behind "empire" and "big bang theory." the numbers might be a little skewed. >> because one of the episodes came after the super bowl. >> lead-in audience this big. still, so many people excited. >> yes, should have like prefaced this skinny here, nerd alert city. >> right. i raise my hand. >> yeah. >> anyway. >> we move on. >> yeah, yes, it is. it is. >> you could argue another nerd alert. hbo releasing. >> 15 first-look photos. don't tell me what happens. >> i know. >> you mean john snow is back and dressed in some sort of foxy outfit? >> these photos showing everything from cecre on the iron throne with jamie at her side. >> no. >> they're telling us everything. >> to, i don't know, pronouncing that. let her do it. let it go. and they make landfall, sorry, i am not watching, but i guess i am going to have to start. >> deneres, she is great. loving it. and

welcoming our guest is ryan andersen. r. william e. simon senior research fellow and american principles and public policy. he's also the founder and editor of public discourse, the online journal of the western institute in princeton, new jersey. he's the author of truth overruled come in the future of marriage and religious freedom and co-authored with princeton's -- pro-author with sharif kirkus. the book what is marriage: men and marriage defense. his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the university of notre dame. please join me in welcoming brian andersen. [applause] >> great. thank you, john and everyone for coming. you're really in for a tree. all around us people in power try to deny the obvious. men and women are equal but not the same. basha mcguire has written a timely and important book responding to the drive to abolish male and female. ashley mcguire is a senior fellow at the catholic association preacher writes and speaks with a about freedom, catholicism and freedom. she said cnn, fox, pbs, and the bbc and he

also joining us kurt andersen, host of the public radio program "studio 360." eli, the latest state of play on this as far as i can tell is let's just pretend we haven't given up. >> that is what it looks like. i mean, one take away from all the clips you just played and we've known this for some time is the president's words don't poeld hold much meaning. the day before the vote he said you're going to vote whether we like it or not. up or down, i don't care. and then in the interview with the financial times, he said well, i pulled the bill because i didn't want it to vote. i didn't want them to vote on it. it just sort of completely and constantly revising history and talking about doing a deal with democrats. i think it's clear, and the president, if he doesn't know this, his people know this, that he just has no -- the democrats are not going to give him an olive branch when he is drowning here. they're not going to throw him a life raft and say okay, we're going to help you out on health care because you just embarrassed yourself. they're not about to hel

getting an early andersen face. they had to be separated. time to get the house. 56-37.ld get within five. came to admit the series to-nothing. capitalism it believes one game each. up to that. the first shot ounces up to go away. own rebound at thaksin and tied it three and goes to overtime. he wastes little time. the policemen take two to one series of thin edge. the yankees looking to extend their winning streak against the white sox. matt holliday busts a home run to deep center. 30 to item five, one on with a two run bomb to left center. look at it. new york yankees go on to win 7-4. train to be for your head at the door come here to stay forecast. in 80-degree beautiful easter sunday the cooler weather coming. adam klotz. reporter: yeah, things are cooling down on the east coast. we don't need to be spending all of our time there. there's actually quite a bit of rain. some spring showers bring in some of those flowers. looking at the first rain along the gulf coast in the mid-atlantic. the upper plains states and the very northern edge of that. wintry precipitation

karen smith's mother tells abc news, after the pair wed, just over two months ago, andersen revealed children after leaving him a few weeks ago. she never informed the school of marital problems. >> it appears he had been making efforts to contact her and to have her come back home. she was resistant to that. >> reporter: authorities searched the suspect's home where they uncovered a net he wrote about things in his life that needed closure and feeling disrespected. >>> moving on. one person missing after torrential rains caused flooding in central texas. emergency crews in fort hood spent the day searching for a driver whose vehicle was swept away in a flooded creek. the vehicle was located. the driver was not. dozens of people had to be rescued rain washed out roads. classes at texas state university canceled. several school districts delayed opening of classes. more rain is in the forecast. >>> normally rain is actually the cause of delays during baseball games. but how about a cat? >> yeah, this happened last night. cat got loose in the outfield and climbed the fence, as you can

andersen made up of the crossing barring from his brother but what they gunnysack and the metal garbagecans but then i when brodeur and baal but the knee if this all stain he would pull been the wind was the p. would sail. sometimes it was justin old blanket that was rigged between the mast. and with life and keller and letter-writing and traveled to and then watching those spectacles in the minesweeping sea. but of those mornings to secure the vote and then looking up with those 7-foot wingspan and writing the thermals. but then with their long attention to say anything more dramatic. in to be familiar with all the birds species on the island and with the of multiple stages but these violins are exposed when directors of those ocean currents. and then to turn against them more than once. and then with the note thank you and went back to his task. solitude has no price. [laughter] because it was the same. but the day of hurricane betsy. but with all those predictions but with that said rice burroughs only one hovering. with the red then blew familiar hash marks. and then to honker benea

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and andersen said that they have an ethics concerns. you've never had a filibusters and then.hing really unprecedented. both justice thomas was confirmed with less than six yes votes and justice alito was as well. neil: where does this go? you could argue simple majority is all it takes. the nuclear option notwithstanding, would it be whoever was in control of the senate to take the most extreme judicial nominee possible so if republicans are in charge of those conservative candidates, if democrats -- the most liberal candidate, we look at delaware senator coons who might kick the stand shortly on what he wants to do. this is going to make for more extreme judge choices in the future. >> well, i do think the part of having the filibuster out there as presidents to think about it when they make their nomination and if you don't have that anymore, that won't be there. i worry that as this process gets more and more politicized as it seems each cycle it does as soon it will be impossible for presidents to nominate a justice unless they also -- the party also has control of the se