so ed lavandera, standby.nd now, mark o'mara, he said in the interview with the new yorker i did it i dont't know why i did it, but it tore my fing heart when i did it. did his own statement point to guilt? >> well, i have a case right now where where it points to a heinous crime, and when the police showed up and he had no idea what they were there for. and so if you were looking at the case and he was look ging at littlefield, because he didn't like him, but he said in the statement that he had to kill kyle because he would have killed me, because of what i did, that is a rational thought, but then he decides to leave, and that is flight from the scene, and taking the car and driving on the right side of the road and so that is rational and if you can show it on both sides of the event, the killing, and then it is much more difficult to show that the insanity is a narrow slice. the one slice that you want to be be excuse foded for the criminal act, and so the statements in the "new yorker" and all of these t

we will get to the panel, and also to cnn's ed lavandera who is live outside of the courthouse in stephenville texas. and ed, we heard more of the audio from the conversations that eddie ray routh had with the "new yorker" and what did they hear here today that led to the verdict? >> well all through the testimony if anyone was hoping to hear a clear motive of why he shot and killed chris kyle and chad littlefield, they didn't get one. there was a number of explanations of the two men who were trying to help them. he talked about one point where they were not talking to him while they were driving tout the gun range. he was mad that chris kyle decided to drive him through a fast food restaurant on the way to the gun range. he felt that he was being force fed. then he was mad apparently at chad littlefield, because at one point, he had decided to stop taking part in the shooting a eddie ray routh was mad at him and told him in the new yorker interview audio that was played in court that eddie ray routh was mad that he was not participate manage the shooting at the range. so a series of bizarre

cnn's ed lavandera is following the trial for us in stephenville texas. >> reporter: he did not appearon to speak before the jury. he appeared in the form of a two-year-old videotaped confession taped hours after kyle and littlefield were killed in 2013 in the town of lancaster. he led police on a high-speed chase and taken into custody. this is significant because it is really the first time the jury has been able to see and hear eddie ray routh in the moments and state of mind in the hours after chris kyle and chad littlefield were murdered. he comes off rambling and speaking inn coherently about his soul. a lot of issues that point to someone that was disturbed. the detective described him as someone not normal. he is repeatedly asked if he knew what he did was wrong. after initially saying he could not tell if he had done right or wrong, he said he knew what he did was wrong and if he was given the chance to speak to the victims' families he would apologize. >> ed lavandera. thank you. >>> a big blow in the pocketbook for lance armstrong. he has been ordered to pay $10 million as a

let's go back to ed lavandera at the courthouse. ed? >> reporter: hi, anderson.ury is basically deciding the fate and deliberating at 6:30 central time. 7:30 p.m. eastern and basically two decisions they have to make. if they find him guilty he would be sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole. there is no other option in termsoverterm terms of sentencing and if not by reason of insanity sent to a state prison hospital and one or two more locations that he would be sent to but that's the decision this jury must make tonight. >> any word how late they may deliberate? >> reporter: we've got a little bit of an indication. but we're really here at the discretion of the jury. we've been told that everything is in place to let them work as late as they want to go tonight. it's really at the skregsdiscretion of the jury and i don't think the court officials even though but if there's a court verdict, he's prepared to go into sentencing. it could be a late night or come here tomorrow. >> ed lavandera, thank you. that does it for us. for another edition o

cnn's ed lavandera is following the trial for us. >> reporter: christine and john the defense team hasted in the "american sniper" trial. eddie ray routh will not testify. the defense's last witness was the medical expert. a psychiatrist who spent six hours last year interviewing eddie ray routh. in the interview, he says routh talked about pigs taking over the world. he felt that some of his coworkers at some point were can cannibals. the prosecution will take advantage of one thing that this expert witness said. that is the statement from routh that said as soon as i did it he was talking about killing kyle and littlefield, i realized i made a mistake. prosecutors are not done. they have two of their own medical experts expected to testify today. then it will head to closing arguments which could come as early as next week. christine and john. >> ed lavandera, thanks so much. >>> hope realized and dashed for same-sex couples in texas after the first gay marriage license was issued on thursday. the texas supreme court stepped in and blocked any additionally additional licenses were is

drug use, including the smoking marijuana and drinking whiskey the morning of the murders. >> ed lavandera, thanks for that. >>> there is new hope for women battling an aggressive form of breast cancer. a cocktail of so-called an magic bullet drugs and chemotherapy can help beat the disease for up to 16 months. >>> he explains why he will not call it islamic extremeismextremism. what do you think of the president's answer? does it go far enough? that's next. >>> president obama defends the fight against isis saying the u.s. is not at war with islam, but how can he fight islam if refuses to call it radicalism. >>> this arctic blast slamming millions. we will tell you what this means for you besides shivering ahead. >>> deadly exposure. hundreds of people exposed to a deadly superbug at a hospital. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. this morning, president obama is striving between the violent extremeism which is what the white house calls it and respect for muslims around the world. at a three-day summit on countering violent extremism. the president ca

cnn's ed lavandera was at the courthouse for the verdict. ed. >> reporter: john and christine, it was a swift verdict. it took the jury here in stephenville, texas, less than 2 1/2 hours to convict eddie ray routh of the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield. rejecting his claims and his arguments that he was insane at the time of these murders back in february of 2013. this means that eddie ray routh will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. inside the courtroom, chad littlefield's father and stepbrother spoke directly to eddie ray routh after the verdict, calling him an american disgrace. and chad littlefield's mother spoke with reporters just after the verdict in an emotional statement. >> we just want to say that we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son, and as always, god has proved to be faithful, and we're so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight. >> reporter: eddie ray routh showed no emotion as the verdict was read. he just stood there and took

ed lavandera is live outside the courthouse in stevenville, texas, with more. reporter: good morning, carol. the reason this videotape is so crucial is it really gets to the heart of whether or not eddie ray routh knew what he did the day he killed chris kyle and chad littlefield. did he know whether it was right or wrong? that is the central issue in this case. in the videotaped confession from two years ago eddie ray routh looks far different than he does today. he's dressed in the same clothing he wore to the gun range when he shot and killed chris kyle and chad littlefield. one of the investigators said he even notices bloodstains on routh's boots. this was recorded just after routh surrendered to police after a car chase and a few hours after the killings. routh starts with a rambling and incoherent answer when he's asked what happened. he says i keep talking to chris. there's a few dozen chriss in my world and it's like every time i talk to another man named chris or get sent to another man named chris it was like talking to the wolf you know? the ones in

let's bring in cnn's ed laf lavandera. he's in stevenville, texas covering the trial.er: good morning. that medical expert for the defense said eddie ray routh didn't know right from wrong at the time he killed. the prosecution will bring their own medical experts. the question is which of these experts is the jury going to believe? this is the picture eddie ray routh's attorneys want the jury to see, the image of a decorated marine before he descended into darkness gripped by demons and psychosis. his family helpless to stop it. laura biel wrote about it titled "the enemy within." >> for them it was like watching a car crash. you can see it but you feel powerless to help. >> reporter: psychiatrist laid out the psychosis. july 2011 he's diagnosed with psychotic disorder and ptsd. a month later another hospital stay. he shows signs of psychosis. in september 2012 routh is diagnosed as having major depressive disorder with psychotic features and january 2013 just a week before the murders, doctors say he's paranoid and psychotic. routh believed american sniper chris kyle

christine. >> ed lavandera, thank you. >>> look at what is coming up on "new day."joins us. >> john berman christine romans. competent and fetching couple. we have new developments in the war of fill in the blank. we say that isis making fresh territory in iraq and syria. ukraine, the cease-fire is not what it was supposed to be. now what? we will take you to the situation as well. i say fill in the blank because we have a problem with definitions right now in the war against isis. sometimes the media gets caught up in the "and then" aspect of coverage. the summit at the white house gives us the chance. the president gave an important speech we will take apart. he was very nuanced about what to call the enemy. is that happening here?elping here or abroad? that is why you have the disaffected mass to be radicalized. what is going on with our allys? we will put a couple of them to the test. the foreign minister of bahrain. they are fundamental with the region and the problem. we have iraq's ambassador to the u.s. we will ask him. he says he thinks isis will be defeate

ed lavandera, he's following all these twists in turns in steebtexas. what is all that about?e the home of him hours after he was arrested and finally turned himself over to police. they found a trove of drug paraphernalia inside the house. glass pipes they say that are consistent with the use of methamphetamines as well as some of the drug paraphernalia hidden away in an old-fashioned hershey's chocolate tin can. his uncle has even testified in the hours before he went to the gun range of chris kyle and chad littlefield, they had smoked marijuana and drank whiskey together all of this very important because the prosecutor said it was the abuse of recreation drugs, not the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol that led to the deathay that chris kyle and chad little field were killed. >> ed lavandera. thank you. >>> here we go, top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. right now isis terrorists are

i spoke to cnn's ed lavandera last hour.s been following this trial in texas since it began. >> reporter: insanity cases, especially here in the state of texas, very difficult to prove. this is -- eddie ray routh is the defendant and by most accounts is extremely troubled. what's debatable is the severity of his mental illness. prosecutors thought it was more of a personality disorder and not a psychotic disorder. but clearly it's a very difficult case to prove, as we've seen here unfold tonight. john? >> the court has released some of the evidence after the trial. anything really stand out to you? >> reporter: there's so much. especially it's the video portions and the audio portions that were released and this includes a video of eddie ray routh talking in the back seat of the police car just after he had been taken into custody. there's a nearly 90 minute interview he gave to the investigators after he arrived at the police department. there's a jailhouse phone conversation that was recorded that he had with a writer that

cnn's ed lavandera has more from the state of texas.his week starting monday morning here in stevenville, texas. the jury of ten women and two men will continue hearing testimony. they've already heard three days' worth so far. the prosecution is still putting on its case. they will continue to call witnesses detailing the events of the day chris kyle and chad littlefield were murdered. they will get into the details and mental health issues they are trying to knock down. remember. prosecutors are trying to show it was more the abuse of recreational drugs and alcohol which had a greater effect on eddie ray routh instead of the mental health issue. so we will see a lot more of and that continued testimony here this week ahead. ed lavandera, cnn, stephenville, texas. >>> coming up next hour on "new day" a suspected gunman is dead in denmark after opening fire on a cafe and a synagogue. now the prime minister is speaking out. >> translator: this is not a battle between islam and the west and not a battle between muslims and nonmuslims but

. >> our ed lavandera has more from stevenville, texas, including dramatic testimony from his sistertate of her brother'smental health. >> reporter: right after eddie ray routh gunned down chris kyle and eddie littlefield, laura says her brother was talking about pigs sucking on his soul. she called 911 after he left. >> who did he say he had killed? >> he said he killed two guys. they were at a shooting range. he's all crazy. he's [ bleep ] psychotic. sorry for my language. >> is he on drugs? >> i don't know if he's on drugs or not, but i know he has been. >> reporter: in court, she described the scene. the person who came to my house is not the man i knew as my brother. then she turned to him and said i love you, but i hate your demons. the judge is not allowing courtroom audio to be broadcast, but prosecutors are zeroing in on her words. the drugs have been the focus since opening statements. >> he used drugs and alcohol that morning and he knew what he was doing was wrong. >> reporter: prosecutors say that he ignored orders from his doctor to stop drinking and smoking weed. >> i

ed lavandera is live in stephenville texas.the jury just started to watch the videotaped confession that routh gave to police after his arrest? >> reporter: yes. fascinating moments have started to unfold here. this is probably the most significant moment in the first four days of testimony where the jury is now watching the videotaped confession. he was interviewed by a texas ranger detective just hours after he was arrested. so this was the if irsfirst time that the jury is hearing videotaped statements from eddie ray routh himself not too long after the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield were committed. an incredibly significant moment. the videotape just started to play. before that, prosecutors were interviewing the detective who carried out the interview with eddie ray routh. you will hear that he had dee ray routh stated that he was wrong to kill chris kyle and chad littlefield and wished he had hadn't done it and he was sorry for what he had done. this is incredibly important because the prosecution must prove t

ed lavandera, stevenville, texas. >>> joining us now is jeffrey toobin and sunny hostin.o see both of you. i was surprised to hear that the judge announced that the jury pool, anyone in it, having seen the movie, "american sniper", or read chris kyle's book is not a disqualifier. they could still serve as jurors. is that unusual? >> i don't think that's necessarily unusual. you don't want a juror that's been living under a rock. this is a blockbuster film. most people have seen it. i've seen it. you've seen it. i don't think that should disqualify a juror. what you want is a juror who has seen the movie and read the book and still be open minded as to the evidence coming in. and i think our jurors do a pretty good job of that. >> and it's also, jeffrey, not unusual in a high-profile trial to hear something like that. but counter balancing that, for three straight weeks, every showing of this movie was sold out. so that tells you something about the intensity of interest, but which way will that play out? >> i don't think it's a disqualifying factor. i understand why the j

ed lavandera, stephenville texas. >>> the fighting persists in eastern ukraine. >>> also, a look at theg influence of isis, and what it means for your safety wherever you are around the world. you're watching cnn newsroom. >>> welcome back. with a tentative cease-fire in the balance, the ukrainian spokesman says five were killed in fighting with separatists. >> grave concerns have been expressed about the fighting especially around a key transport hub. >>> germany's chancellor was one of the four leaders who negotiated the peace agreement in minsk last week. and this is what angela merkle had to say about the latest fighting. >> translator: the situation is fragile, particularly with regard to this area. it was always clear that much remains to be done and i've always said there are no guarantees about what we are trying to do to succeed. it will be an extremely difficult path. >> angela merkle petro poroshenko and vladimir putin discussed the developments in a phone call conversation i'm joined by our matthew chance live from moscow. so what was discussed in this phone call and what ar

let's bring in ed lavandera. he's in stevensville texas. ed. >> reporter: good morning, carol. as prosecutors have been focusing extensively on eddie ray routh's drug use, his family and friends telling bizarre stories including one that the night before the murders out of the blue he dropped down in his kitchen and proposed to his girlfriend. she testified yesterday. >> right after eddie ray routh gunned down chris kyle and chad littlefield, he drove to his sister's house. laura blevins says his brother was talking about pigs sucking on his soul and he had to take two souls before they could take his. she called 911 right after he left in kyle's pickup truck. >> who did he say he had killed? >> he said that he killed two guys. they went out to a shooting range. it's like he's all crazy. he's [ bleep ] psychotic. i'm sorry for yelling. >> no. >> i don't know if he's on drugs or not, but i know that he's been. >> reporter: in court blevins described the scene. the person who came to my house is not the man who i knew was my brother. and then

. >>> ed lavandera in stevenville, texas. also with me here, joey jackson, retired judge alex ferrari, as well. when's the earliest you think the jury could get the case, ed? >> reporter: well, we're expecting to hear at least two expert witnesses testify on behalf of the prosecution here at some point today so i'm not entirely clear that closing arguments will start this afternoon. probably more likely i think at this point although this is very much in the air to start monday and the first forensic psychologist to testify, ongoing as we speak, is a sipsychologis that interviewed eddie ray routh here at the jail in stephenville and what he has to say is completely different from the defense's own medical expert saying that not only does he not think that eddie ray routh suffers delusion or psychosis, more of a personality disorder which is not psychosis and that the psychotic behavior did display induced by drug and alcohol abuse and this is significant because here in the state of texas that is considered a voluntary choice

. >> ed lavandera joins us now. the family said he suffered from ptsd.know about his military history? >> reporter: a lot of people when they hear he served in iraq said it had to do with that but no record of combat. it was his experience in a humanitarian mission in 2010 in haiti that affected him deeply. his mother talked about how he saw dead bodies on the beach and those images and those experiences he had in haiti, his family members say had a much deeper and more profound effect on him. >> ed lavandera, thank you very much. >>> a lot of people have been sick with the cold, and we have more coming up on the "rick dick you list." "and we will have more on the world banana hammer coming up. and through it all my retirement never got left behind. so today, i'm prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be. every someday needs a plan. let's talk about your old 401(k) today. i have the flu with a runny nose. [coughs] better take something. theraflu severe cold won't treat your runny nose. really? alka-seltzer severe cold and flu relieves your worst f

ed lavandera, thanks so much. >>> testimony resumes today at the massachusetts murder trial of former nfl star aaron hernandez. it's been delayed for weather. the judge has granted his ex-fiancee shianna jenkins, immunity. she will be able to testify without implicating herself. prosecutors believe she followed instructions from hernandez to dispose of the gun allegedly used in the shooting death of odin lloyd in 2013. >>> the bobbie kristina brown case is now a criminal investigation. police are still trying to determine how the daughter of the late whitney houston became unresponsive in a bathtub. they questioned her boyfriend about bruises found on her chest. bobbi kristina remains in a medically induced coma at emory university hospital in atlanta. >>> some counties have dug in their heels in the defense of a federal judge in the u.s. supreme court have now begun issuing same-sex marriage licenses. many counties are refusing to do so following the direction of alabama's chief justice. a federal court hearing is scheduled thursday to clarify the situation and determine whether stat

. >> ed lavandera joins us now. the family said he suffered from ptsd. we know about his military history? >> reporter: a lot of people when they hear he served in iraq said it had to do with that but no record of combat. it was his experience in a humanitarian mission in haiti that affected him deeply. his mother talked about how he saw dead bodies on the beach and those images and those experiences he had in haiti, his family members say had a much deeper and more profound effect on him. >> ed lavandera, thank you very much. >>> in a few foemts you can see a special report in the life of the film based around him. blockbuster, the story of american sniper. top of the hour on cnn. first though a lot of people sick with the cold and snow by now but this winter bringing out the best in human ingenuity. two words for you. banana hammer. the ridiculist is next. >>> time now for the ridiculist. we'll try to melt your icy heart with a story of few people who put cold and snow to good use. sure gotten almost a hundred inches of snow in boston this year but wha

>> ed lavandera covering this trial for us. i was prepared to ask you about these incredibly bizarre statements that he made to the police until ed just said that they found evidence of the use of meth. now we're talking hardcore drugs. does that what i think the metric for an insanity defense, joey? >> it certainly could. the defense is claiming it's a psychiatric history, the fact he went and went overseas and he fought in iraq and he saw things that he wasn't prepared to see and humanitarian mission and hospital and failed him. in the event you can't establish a psychiatric and mental history but drug use -- >> meth use. >> if it was meth use, of course that changes the dynamic because similar to voluntary intoxication, you get drunk and do something, not a defense -- >> doesn't even mitigate what you do. >> in fact, it can get it worse. people shouldn't be doing drugs is the norm and the custom by the court and the jury has to figure out all the facts and circumstances was it the methane drug use or the psychiatric and menta

>> ed lavandera for us in texas. >>> chris cuomo joins us now. >> how you doing, christine?reports this morning, one is about the new weaponry that supposedly the coalition is going to be offering to syrian rebel fighters. they're high-tech equipment. i'm trying to find the right way to say it because we don't know exactly what they're giving them yet. if they're giving them anything sophisticated the question becomes can you trust these rebel troops? what's going to happen a month from now. that's been the concern from the beginning. now this new infusion of assets raises questions. also there's some really ugly rumors about what isis is doing now to make money that's coming out of the iraqi government that involves organ harvesting. we're chasing that as well. there's a big article in "the atlantic" that says the terror group's real goal is end of days. that that's what this is really about for them. it's not just about operating land. what does that really mean? so we're going to unpack all of that stuff. we're also going to take you through the american sniper trial beca

cnn's ed lavandera at the courthouse for the verdict. >> reporter: john and christine, it was a swift verdict. it took the jury here in stephenville texas, less than 2 1/2 hours to convict eddie ray routh of the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield, rejecting his claims and his arguments that he was insane at the time of these murders back in february of 2013. this means that eddie ray routh will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> we just want to say that we've waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son, and as always god has proved to be faithful and we're so thrilled that we have the verdict that we have tonight. >> reporter: eddie ray routh showed no emotion as the verdict was read. he just stood there and took it all in which is basically the way he's acted throughout most of this trial. there's been very little reaction from him. most of the times in court he has just sat there and taken pages and pages worth of notes. but eddie ray routh found guilty of the murde

>> ed lavandera, thank you for that. >>> new revelations this morning about a road rage incident lastat ultimately left a woman dead. las vegas police say tammy myers was killed when she and her son who was armed with a gun went looking for the driver who had confronted her a short time before as she was giving her teenage daughter a driving lesson. it ended with an exchange of gunfire and the mother's death. tammy myers' husband spoke at a vigil for his wife tuesday night. >> there was mistakes made like every one of us have made in our life but this particular mistake was made to keep a bigger mistake from happening. and my wife paid the ultimate price for it because of the mistake she made. >> police are now searching for that suspect. >>> it was a good day, then a very bad day for some 800 budding computer scientists. 800 of them dreaming of admission to carnegie mellon's prestigious graduate program. first they were told they had been accepted. then hours later, the university rescinded the offer in a second e-mail. the problem, would you believe, a computer error? school officia

cnn's ed lavandera is in texas where it is all playing out in real life. >> reporter: if you live inexas, chances are you've heard of chris kyle. in fact, the story of chris kyle has reached legendary status across the country. the navy s.e.a.l. is considered the deadliest sniper in u.s. military history with at least 160 confirmed kills over four tours of duty in iraq. >> i'm ready. >> reporter: "american sniper" is a huge hit at movie theaters across the country. it's now the highest grossing war film ever, earning more than $300 million and it's nominated for six academy awards including best picture and best actor. but chris kyle's life from rodeo and ranches to war hero doesn't have a hollywood ending. kyle and his wife made no secret of how their marriage almost fell apart after he returned home from war. it's what inspired kyle to devote so much of his time and energy to helping other veterans transition back to everyday life. in february of 2013, kyle and his friend chad littlefield brought a marine suffering from ptsd named eddie ray ralph to the rough creek lodge and resort

at one point, taking nine different medications. >> ed lavandera, appreciate the update.nn legal analyst, mark geragos and danny cevallos. you say the shooter when he was caught he was paranoid. you say that is -- >> in texas, voluntary intoxication is not a defense to the crime. and the prous prosecution benefits from the drug evidence. the prosecution benefits from that whereas the defense probably wants to keep it out. at the end of the trial, if the jury gets the instruction of voluntary intoxication which says voluntary intoxication, not a defense. they go back in the jury room and say all of that evidence of drug abuse is not evidence of insanity. so we can disregard that. so with each drug they put in front of that jury and i know there was controversial issues today, that will help the prosecution. >> the fact though that right away he was saying i've been paranoid all day, i've been schizophrenic. could the prosecution also say, well, the fact he's so self-aware about his mental condition, that indicates that he would have known what was right and what was wrong.

ed lavandera has details. >> reporter: eddie routh is breathing heavy and teary eyed.officer asked if he's okay and routh said i'm so nervous about what's happening in my life today. i don't know what's been happening. i've been so paranoid and schizophrenic all day. they don't allow the broadcast. at times, agitated in the video. squirms around in the backseat and other times, rests his head with his eyes closed. people who know routh said the former marine changed before the killings of chris kyle and chad littlefield. >> i did notice a change several months before all this took place. it's hard to describe exactly but it just seemed like he was a little bit more jumpy. >> i got a woman and a kid moving towards the convoy. >> reporter: the legend of chris kyle was well established by the time he took routh to that country side gun range but routh seemed to be more frustrated and annoyed with the two men trying to help him. the small arsenal of weapons brought to the range that day shown to the jury that included these five long rifles and several handguns including o

thank you, ed lavandera, very much. two members of the jury, i spoke with stacey matthews and heidi correa earlier tonight. so heidi, i know this case hinged on whether or not the shooter knew he was doing right from wrong. you as a jury decided he did know right from wrong. i'm wondering, what convinced you of that? >> reporter: it was just kind of an overall, it was you get so much information in the matter of, you know, the 10 or 11 days of the trial. you hear one side and then the other. it was the preponderance of the evidence that he admitted he knew it was wrong, and the one thing for me, everybody has their own hinge thing that convinced them, but for me, it was when he admitted that when he was riding in the back of the truck on the way to the shooting range that he said he considered killing them then. but he knew if he did that, that the truck would wreck and he would get hurt. the other thing was the chad and kyle thing. he shot chad, which was a murder. it wasn't the american sniper but it was a human life.

here now is cnn's ed lavandera. >> fredricka, a battle of the medical experts.sychiatrist will this injure believe? all those time he's seen rambling the prosecution's medical expert says these moments are examples of the personality disorders. >> a military age male watching the convoy. >> at the time he killed chris kyle and chad littlefield, the forensic psychologist said he was in a substance-infused scottic state and he knew what he was doing was wrong and he did it anyway. the judge is not allows courtroom auld use to be broadcast until the trial is over. >> if he wants to drink alcohol or he can do that, but can no not use it as a defense to a crime. >> we're talking about a -- there he was. >> the prosecution's psychologist even suggested that seinfeld might have -- hesh inside the jail where he spent the last two years, and might have been -- where the character cramer is convinced he's seen a half pig/half man create terr roaming a hospital. >> i just saw a pig man, a pig man. he was sleeping, and then woke up and made this horrible sound. another says

cnn's ed lavandera is following the trial. >> reporter: christine and john, the defense has rested in. eddie ray routh will not testify. the defense's last witness was a medical expert. a psychiatrist who spent six hours interviewing routh. he said routh talked about pigs taking over the world. he talked about how he thought chris kyle and chad littlefield were half human and half pigs out to get him. the prosecution will take advantage of one thing the expert witness said. that is the statement that routh said as soon as i did it talking about killing kyle and littlefield, i realized i made a mistake. prosecutesers prosecutors have two experts to testify today and then closing arguments as early as next week. >> thank you, ed. >>> look at what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo has more for us. >> hello my friends. this is a critical day to assess the trial of chris kyle and chad littlefield murder case. we will break it down with experts and let you see insanity is difficult. there are so many things that don't have to matter to the trial that will. who the victims were what the

. >> ed lavandera, thank you. that does it for us. for another edition of 360, cnn special report of no laughing matter inside the cosby allegations starts now. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >>> last fall, the legendary bill cosby was restaking his claim as an a-list super star at the age of 77. >> cosby was really looking at a career rejuvenation. >> 30 years after his nbc blockbuster, the network was cooking up another cosby sitcom. netflix had plans to stream a comedy special and a 500 page biography was in new york times best seller. >> and then it hits. >> bill cosby, under fire. >> fallout. one project after another getting pulled from em battled comedian bill cosby now accused of multiple sexual assaults. >> bill cosby mounting me. he drugged and raped me. you are such a perverted creep. >> bill cosby has -- >> the cosby allegations. >> denver colorado, a thousand miles from los angeles. 2,000 miles from new york city. but denver is where barbara boweman decided she could grow up to be an actress. >> i was a go get

let's head to texas and ed lavandera. ideo shown earlier in court of the suspect being taken into custody. ed tell us more. >> reporter: this is interesting video that was played before the jury yesterday, carol. this was just moments after eddie ray routh led police on the high-speed chase and he was taken into custody and put in the back of the police car. the officer asks him if he's okay and he starts talking, "i've been so paranoid all day. i don't know what to think of the world right now. i don't know if i'm sane or insane. i don't know what's sane in the world right now." one of the moments that prosecution has been showing so many of these dramatic videos. we're not allowed to play for you the audio on these videos. we can only quote from it until the trial is over. really kind of an incredible glimpse into everything that unfolded that day. the prosecution has rested. the defense attorneys are taking their turn. one of the first witnesses they called was eddie ray routh'ser who and detailed how he changed and how

cnn's ed lavandera is following the trial for us in texas. >> reporter: christine, the star witness on trial was eddie ray routh himself. he did not appear in person to speak before the jury. he appeared in the form of a two-year-old video confession after chris kyle and chad littlefield were killed in 2013. he was interviewed in the town of lancaster after he led police on a high-speed chase and taken into custody. this is significant because it is the first time that this jury has been able to see and hear eddie ray routh in the moments as at least as close as possible and see his demeanor and state of mind in the hours after chad littlefield and chris kyle were murdered. on the tape he comes off rambling and speaking inn coherent coherently. this points to someone very disturbed. the detective described him as someone who wasn't normal. he is asked over and over on the confession tape if he knew what he did was wrong. after initially saying he could not tell what was right or wrong, he answered he knew what he had done was wrong and if he could speak to the victims, he would apologi

as ed lavandera reports, the accused's own words were again in the spotlight on tuesday. >> reporter:ie ray routh is placed into a police car after authorities chased him down on a texas highway. the officer asks if he's okay. he says i'm just so nervous about what's happening in my life today. i've been so paranoid schizophrenic all day. the judge isn't allowing courtroom audio to broadcast until after the trial. at times, he appears agitated in the video and squirms around. other times he rests his head with his eyes closed. people who know routh say the former marine changed before the killings of chris kyle and chad littlefield. >> i did notice a change several months before this all took place. it's hard to describe exactly, but it seemed like he was a little bit more jumpy. >> i got a woman and a kid 200 yards out, moving towards the convoy. >> reporter: the legend of chris kyle was well established by the time he took eddie ray routh to that gun range, but he seemed to be annoyed with the two men trying to help him. the small arsenal of weapons brought to the range that day was

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. >> ed lavandera. thank you. >>> here we go, top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. right now isis terrorists are a few short miles away from hundreds of u.s. troops. american warplanes have been spotted flying over this iraqi town that is now under control of isis. they have stormed al baghdadi with rocket launchers and mortars waking up sleeping cells within the town of ramadi to help them carry out these series of attacks includingeing rahmani. it's a base home to some 320 americans who are there training iraqi forces well within range of isis rockets. and cnn has now confirmed they believe most if not all of the isis militants were wearing iraqi uniforms. this just coming in today from the pentagon. so let's go straight to cnn's phil black. you're saying security forces have been called in. tell me why? >> reporter: clearly they're under pressure brooke i don't think there's any doubt about that. the attack of al baghdadi puts significant pressure on local security forces. in terms of the air base the pentagon says it was successful. the iraqi forces dealt with i

. >> cnn's ed lavandera is with me from stevenville, texas.urprise we heard the insanity defense. we were all expecting that. what else did we learn in these opening statements about the relationship between chris kyle and the defendant? >> reporter: ashleigh, what's fascinating about all this is that from the moment chris kyle and chad littlefield drove to ed die ray routh's house and made the drive from routh's house to the gun range where kyle and littlefield were killed, there was talk this morning about, we didn't know much about what those three men has talked about, not a lot of details. but the attorney for eddie ray routh did bring up a text message that chris kyle had sent to chad littlefield. they're in chris kyle's pick-up truck. kyle is driving. littlefield is in the passenger side sitting next to kyle. and eddie ray routh is sitting directly behind littlefield. about an hour and a half into the drive, chris kyle texted littlefield next to him and said to him, this dude is straight-up nuts. and littlefield texted back, he's right

ed lavandera is outside of the courthouse in texas. he joins

ed lavandera looks at the moments of the trial we couldn't show you until now. >> reporter: eddie rayittlefield but the world never heard routh until now. this is him confessing to the murder wearing clothes he wore to the gun range that day. chad littlefield's blood still staining his boots. >> it's not what it's about. >> what did you tell her? >> i told her i killed a man today. it wasn't that i wanted to. it was a need. i had to to get out of the situation i was in today. >> reporter: the jury heard from chris kyle's wife. >> who were you married to prior to that day? >> chris kyle. i'm sorry. i'm not nervous. i'm just emotional. >> reporter: emotional as she remembered the last time she saw her husband. later she called kyle and sensed something was wrong. >> normally going out there, it's beautiful. he feels good about helping somebody. usually he's making their day. he knows it which is what happened earlier. he thought that the guy sounded excited to go and so he thought he was doing a good thing. >> he sounded irritated when you talked to him that afternoon? >> it was very sh

ed lavandera is outside the courthouse in texas. , what was significant to you about this all playing out in the courtroom? >> reporter: a real significant moment that i think joey and danny will have a field day talking about this, if you remember, look back on last friday. there was a detective with the texas rangers who had testified about these boxes with drug paraphernalia that was found inside the home of eddie ray routh tapping into the theme that prosecutors have been pushing, that it was recreational drug abuse for eddie ray routh that led him to commit these murders more so than these mental health issues. but in part of that testimony on friday, the detective held up various glass pipes in a vial containing a clear unknown liquid. part of that testimony included that detective saying a lot of this paraphernalia was consistent with meth use. then we learned today that those vials that had that clear liquid was actually not anything that eddie ray routh owned, that it was put in place there at the crime lab when the forensic

we had cnn's ed lavandera read these statements so you can hear them clearly. >> i've been so paranoid, schizophrenic all day. i don't know what to even think of the world right now. i don't know if i'm insane or sane. you can't just keep letting people eat your soul up for free, you know? it's not what it's about. it's about having a soul that you have in you for yourself and there are tons of people that are eating on my soul right now. i keep talking to chris, there's a few dozen chrises in my world. and every time i talk to another man named chris or get sent to another man named chris, it was like talking to the wolf, you know? the ones in the sky are the ones that fly, the pigs. >> i want to bring in our legal experts to talk about the insanity defense and why these jurors said, no way. cnn legal analyst paul callan and joey jackson is joined with fred teesy here, a former prosecutor. a lot of people saying they're not surprised. but that man with his own words help himself and hurt himself. why did it not work out in his favor by a long shot? >> it didn't because in watching the

. >> ed lavandera with more from steubenville, texas, including dramatic testimony from housing's sisterhe state of her brother's mental health. >> reporter: right after eddie ray routh gunned down chris kyle and chad littlefield, he drove to his sister's house. laura laura believe insaid he was talking about pigs sucking on his soul and he had to take two souls before they could take his. she called 911 right after he left in kyle's pickup truck. >> who did he say he had killed? >> he said that he killed two guys. they went out to a shooting range, and -- he's all crazy. he's [ bleep ] psychotic. i'm sorry f.y.or my language. i don't know if he's on drug or not. but i know that he's been -- >> reporter: in court, blevins described the scene. "the person who came to my house is not the man i knew as my brother." then shoe turned and said "i love you, but i hate your demons." the judge is not allowing courtroom audio to be broadcast until the trial is over. prosecutors are zeroing in on those last words from routh's sister in that 911 call. the drugs have been the focus since opening stat

ed lavandera, cnn, texas. >>> still to come on "cnn newsroom," the cease-fire in ukraine in peril as leaders try to make it work. stay with us. >>> welcome back everyone. a big setback for u.s. president barack obama's immigration policy. a federal judge in texas has put a temporary hold on the president's executive order. >> now this ruling doesn't mean the president's actions were illegal necessarily. just means that a court will now have to decide whether they are, in fact constitutional or if the president overstepped his authority. now, texas, important context here texas led a 26 havana state lawsuit again the programs which would grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants in the united states. one of those programs was meant to begin wednesday. the attorney general of the -- of texas calls this decision a victory for the rule of law. certainly there will be those who disagree with this. we want to bring in christina jimenez, managing director of united we dream. the largest immigration youth-led organization. thanks so much for joining us on cnn for this developing s

we can't play audio from that tape but cnn's ed lavandera who is covering the trial tells us some of you shoot first and routh says the one he could clearly identify. he's talking about chris kyle. i knew if i didn't take out his soul he was coming to take mine next. >> the defense is trying to make the case that routh was insane when he committed those murders. >> he was in the grip of a psychosis. a psychosis so severe at that point in time he did not know what he was doing was wrong. >> mental illnesses, even the ones this defendant may or may not have don't deprive people of the ability to be good citizens to know right from wrong. >> former army doctor and ptsd expert joins me now. welcome, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you for being here. i think many of us are struggling to understand ptsd and what symptoms and what the symptoms are associated with that condition. first of all, tell us what symptoms are there? what symptoms do ptsd victims show? >> ptsd is an emotional, a physical and psychological after math of a life threaten situation that results in four groups

." >> now, our ed lavandera is in steubenville texas, and had more on the verdict including emotional reaction from families impacted by the killings. >> reporter: it was a swift verdict here in steubenville texas, where the "american sniper" jury has found eddie ray routh guilty of murdering chris kyle and chad littlefield. the verdict came in less than 2 opinion 5 hours after starting its deliberations. the jury rejecting the fraurms routh and his lawyers that the former marine of instain time of the murders. after the verdict of read chad littlefield's father and step did brother gave emotional sometimes directly to routh calling him an american disgrace. and outside the courtroom, littlefield's e's mother spoke with reporters in an emotional statement. >> we've waited two years for got to get justice for us on behalf of our son. and as always god has proved to be faithful and we're so thrilled that we haved verdict that we have tonight. >> reporter: eddie ray routh showed little emotion. that's the way he's been throughout most of the tile. sitting there, taking pages and pages of

. >> ed lavandera there. the so-called legend of chris kyle has sold a lot of movie tickets.e u.s. veterans and family members say kyle's story is a lot more complicated. and you can read that and more, of course, on cnn.com. >>> it may be six months before police in california determine what caused a fatal crash involving bruce jenner. the former olympian was involved in a multi-accident over the weekend that killed a 69-year-old woman. >> now police will look at cell phone records of all four drivers involved. it's against california law to send or to receive texts while driving, and phone must be hands free. >>> now once headed for the top office in france, now dominic strauss-kahn is set to testify about his alleged role in a six ring. details coming up. >>> first, there were questions about respects from iraq by a top u.s. anchorman. how it some of his other stories are getting a closer look. >>> also ahead, the crisis in ukraine. the kremlin says russia will not be bullied ahead of a key meeting with germany and france. >>> welcome back. we pressure you staying with --