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in the preserve. so there was no reason to issue a plea on media that he, brian, does not have access to. police are now denying that a recent campsite was found at the carlton reserve after a source close to the family reported one wednesday, holding off chris laundrie from the search for a day while police investigated. north port police telling cnn, quote, it possible they thought there might be a campsite out there or something they may have seen from the air, but when they got on the ground, that s not what it turned out to be? sure, i think that s a possibility. but he also says, quote, bottom line is that investigators are telling me that no campsite was found out there. meanwhile, gabby petito s parents and stepparents grieving her loss and telling fox news they hope brian laundrie is found alive. he is a missing piece of the puzzle to find out what happened. he is the key to the puzzle. what happened out there. you know? until they find him, we won t know. we believe h
reporter: today brian laundrie s father chris laundrie assisting authorities in the search for his son. after leaving his house alone this morning, chris is seen entering the carlton reserve along with the police. the attorney for the family telling cnn brian s father spent more than three hours at the 25,000 acre reserve, assisting authorities in the search. chris was asked to point out any favorite trails or spots that brian may have used in the preserve, although chris and roberta laundrie provided this information verbally three weeks ago, it is now thought that onsite assistance may be better. brian reportedly told his parents he was headed to the reserve when they last saw him on september 13th. more than three weeks later and still no sign of gabby petito s fiance. the attorney for laundrie s parents telling cnn brian s parents believe he is still there, adding the parents see no reason to make a public call for brian to surrender to authorities because he says, quote, in shor
who said this scenario was a murder/suicide pact and the president should not do it. reporter: the most comprehensive account so far of the president s wide-ranging plot. new accounts from inside the office on january 3 when trump blamed b.j.pak for failing to find massive election fraud in georgia and wanted him fired that prompted acting deputy attorney general richard donoghue that night to call pak that night to tell him to preemptively resign, which he did. republicans have already issued a rebut toll the report, dismissing the idea that trump was attempting a coup, noting that ultimately no action was taken by the doj. in fact, if he had made another decision, you would have had a problem. reporter: but the senate report just adds to the mountain of revelations showcasing how trump and his loyalists tried to keep the former president in power, and the plot didn t just target the doj. this memo obtained by cnn in mid-september shows how conservative lawyer john eastman
hides, the less he can try to say it was it was a mistake or he had nothing to do with it. i want to see him in a jail cell for the rest of his life. reporter: this as a lawyer for chris and roberta laundrie, brian laundrie s parents, clarifies when brian left home with a backpack telling his parents he was headed to the nearby reserve. the laundries, initially, told law enforcement he left tuesday, september 14th. but stephen bertolino now telling cnn we now believe the day brian left to hike in the preserve was monday, september 13th. bertolino saying the laundries have had no contact with brian, and are concerned. petito and laundrie had spent weeks traveling cross country in petito s white ford van but laundrie returned to the florida home he and petito shared with his parents in her van without petito on september 1st. her body was found in wyoming on september 19th. the coroner ruling the death a homicide. it was in an area where there was a few trees and there was the re