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i want to bring in now pat brown are founder and ceo of the sexual homicide exchange to talk about this crime. pat, we appreciate you being here. horrible, horrible story. we'll listen to the suspect's ex-wife in just a second, but before i get to that sound, i want to ask this question of you, before you even know anything about this man or even any histories, to hear this crime. you don't start your criminal career with a crime like this, do you? >> well, there's probably something in the past. i mean, he's not that young, he's beenin adult for a good 12 years. possible there's other crimes and he's lived in other places so he'll backtrack to see if other little boys have gone missing where he's lived. >> let's take a listen now to what his ex-wife giving us some insight maybe into this suspect. let's listen. i'll ask you about it on the other side. >> nobody knows what's going on. i'm just now finding out information. i've been in total shock since my pho off the hook at 8:00 this morning. spoken to him not long ago, and everything seemed to be fine. >> total shock. everything seemed

after having the experience of 1960 and then the setback for 1962 having lost the governorship to pat brown in california. maybe some people thought he would never again surfaced as a public figure. in 1966, he visited 47 congressional districts. lo and behold, 47 republican congressmen were elected. his thinking was moving more and more towards running for president again. became east enjoyed a very young crowd, pat buchanan, i was a little over 31. bill safire, who was not a few years older than we were. also alan greenspan. a small campaign began to build. also my domestic counterpart. they put together a comprehensive programs. this is very important. it is important, when you study president reagan, to whom i was quite close over the years. when a it said that president nixon read, he did read deeply and he communed deeply with those who have specialized knowledge. he broke on tablets like that. that is exactly the way he wrote his inauguration speech. also his first inaugural address. all of these study habits and these deep discussion habits and thinking habits are brought to bear in

after having the experience of 1960 and then the set-back in 1962, having lost the governorship to pat brown in california, and making a decoration that some people thought meant that he would never again surface as a public figure. in 1966 he visited 47 congressional districts. and lo and behold, 47 republican congressmen were elected, 46 men and one woman. his thinking was moving more and more toward running for president again. by 1968 i was asked to take a leave of absence from the hoover institution on war and peace at stanford, university, and come east to join a very young crowd. pat buchanan nan, 28 years old, raymond price, 30 years old. i was a little over 30 years old, 31 years old. bill sapphire, who wasn't but a few years older than we were. alan greenspan, and a very interesting cast of characters, young, and a very small campaign staff, began to build. martin anderson, my colleague, my domestic counterpart, richard whalen, a great speech writer and thinker. this group of individuals put together, if you will, at mr. nixon's behest comprehensive programs. what ed said is very i

former homicide investigator and fox news crime analyst rod wheeler and investigative crime profiler pat brown. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> both of you think it seems a little suspicious. let's start with the little boy falling down the stairs. pat? >> well, generally speaking, little boys don't fall downstairs and die. that's one incident that should raise the eyebrows especially with the second incident on top of it. >> i want to talk about the mysterious way in which the girlfriend was found. she was found hanging from a balcony reportedly with her hands and feet bound. have you ever heard of a suicide like that? >> well, let me tell you, in many years of investigating homicides and suicides, what i can tell you, alisyn, is there's two instances in which we've seen cases like that and what they are real quickly is this. one, we've seen people that's been bound like that and then appear to be hanging when it's actually a homicide and somebody is trying to cover it up. but what the bad guy doesn't know is there's a lot of things that we can determine from the autopsy whic

after having the experience of 1960 and then the setback for 1962 having lost the governorship to pat brown in california. maybe some people thought he would never again surfaced as a public figure. in 1966, he visited 47 congressional districts. lo and behold, 47 republican congressmen were elected. his thinking was moving more and more towards running for president again. became east enjoyed a very young crowd, pat buchanan, i was a little over 31. bill safire, who was not a few years older than we were. also alan greenspan. a small campaign began to build. also my domestic counterpart. they put together a comprehensive programs. this is very important. it is important, when you study president reagan, to whom i was quite close over the years. when a it said that president nixon read, he did read deeply and he communed deeply with those who have specialized knowledge. he broke on tablets like that. that is exactly the way he wrote his inauguration speech. also his first inaugural address. all of these study habits and these deep discussion habits and thinking habits are brought to bear in

pat tee ann brown is on the story from the breaking news desk today. >> reporter: it was yesterday afternoon, a tour bus heading from washington d.c. to niagara falls around 4:15pm that bus ran off the road into a wooded medium in upstate new york. two people were killed, 35 injured after the bus flipped over and hit some trees. authorities are still trying to determine where the driver lost control. state police say it may have been due to a tire blowout. the tragedy happened on interstate 390 in baath, in western new york, 55 miles southeast of rochester. this is the latest in a string of tour bus crashes this year alone. back on march 12th an accident on i-95 in the bronx killed 15 people. police say that bus headed to a casino in connecticut was speed. two days later a bus from new york city to philadelphia hit a head wall on the new jersey turnpike killing the driver and one passenger. and then on may 31st four people were killed in virginia on a bus bound for new york. the driver admits he fell asleep at the wheel. and on june 27th, a bus headed for new york city crashed on the pennsyl

pat tee ann brown has more on that story. >>> as you say as many as 18 fires have been set in los angelesst five days. arson investigators frantically searching for the culprit. the series of suspicious blazes began early thursday morning. they all started around 3:00 in the morning. the suspect appears to move down the block, starting a few fires in quick succession. the fires have burned apartment buildings, a motor home and several other vehicles in north hollywood. luckily no injuries have been reported. the area of the arsons is west of lankershim boulevard, van owen street to the north and burbank boulevard to the south. fire officials have no describe describes of a suspect or a vehicle. they are working on this case with police debts. they are asking the public to call them with any tips. please call the number on the screen. jon. jon: let's hope they get that guy. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jenna: more horrific details emerging about the man who is believed to be responsible for a massacre in norway. he was ordered held for eight weeks before he reappears in court again.

brown's 2008 re-election committee. news4's tom sherwood is live in our newsroom now with the latest on this story. tom? >> reporter: pat, the u.s. attorney's office was already looking into the brown campaign mess, but this is the first time that there are formal allegations that crimes may have been committed. while council chairman kwame brown ran a budget meeting in the council chambers thursday -- in a small room a few blocks away, the city's board of elections voted to request a formal criminal investigation into evidence that brown's 2008 committee can account for about $350,000 in money raised or spent. >> unable to verify the accuracy -- >> reporter: an audit detailed fuzzy expenditures and mysterious money raised. much of it going to a brother of the chairman. elections board chairman togo west said the board could have considered a major civil fine, but decided a criminal probe is needed first. >> allow the proceedings to move forward. >> let me tell you, the referral to the u.s. attorney is considered the bigger of the sanctions. >> okay. >> that's saying -- don't you know what a referral with a violation me

pat buchanan and mike barnicle with with us. tina brownin the dailey beast and what you think the president should do. >> he writes a good piece today. he says -- hijacking of our constitution to close a view. i wonter if it isn't what we need? he thinks it should be a watershed moment where he forces discussion. >> didn't he try that? >> i think nixon tried that. president obama is now rejecting the latest calls for a short-term hike to the debt ceiling. he made an appearance yesterday. during the briefing, he invited leaders to meet with him thursday challenging them to reach an agreement. >> we need to come together to reach a deal that reduces the deficit and upholds the faith and credit of the united states government and the credit of the american people. it should not come down to the last second. it's important for us to show the american people and leaders we can find common ground. we know it's going to require tough decisions. it's better to take them sooner rather than later. it's my hope everybody will lead their ultimatums at

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brown. and in washington, nbc political analyst pat buchanan. let's start there. i must say grading both of these gentlemen, both of these leaders on performance, i would have given them an a. i thought both of them had compelling messages. i agreed with one more than the other. >> which one? >> i better not say, actually. but why did they do that last night? >> i think actually it should be jarring to the markets because no new ground was -- there were two political speeches. what was the purpose of it other than making all of america that was watching it just a little more nervous? >> it's a very good question. clearly boehner is responding to the president of the united states, frankly. and i thought boehner but very much above his game and the president is eloquent and it's better to have a superior podium. but why did the president do it? it was utterly unrealistic what he was saying. he's talking about, you know, the corporate jets and the taxes on the billionaires and all this. that is yesterday. there aren't going to be any tax increases. harry reid nor bo