>> gillian: that video. this guy is alive during all this. i want to clarify. >> yeah, the snake was alive. it was crazy. one of the strongest things i've ever handled. it was a true beast. after a 20-minute fight with this thing of pure muscle, they are cold blooded and they lose power quickly and after 20 minutes the thing was a wet noodle. it was alive in all the pictures and everything. >> bill: 15 feet long. job well done. i want to point out florida encourages people to catch the pythons because they are invasive. like a lot of people in florida who have them as pets they drive to the everglades and let them go. these guys can produce a lot of babes, can they not >> they can have up to 100 eggs, big snakes like that their babies go out and spread like wildfire in the everglades.
our colleague out of washington, d.c. >> gillian: good to be here. five degrees cooler than d.c. i'm glad to be here. i'm gillian turner. lawyers from brian kohberger are seeking a trial delay slated to start in october. he is charged with four counts of first degree murder as well as felony burglary. defense is claiming he was out driving alone when those four students were murdered. prosecutors say they want details including specific places he claims to have been at the time of the murders and witnesses to back up his alibi. >> bill: nancy grace joins us for a deeper dive into the hearing and the evidence and what she expects but first to the story and news and dan springer outside the courthouse in moscow, idaho. >> brian kohberger has been at the other pre-trial motion hearings and expect him to be in court today six weeks before the start of his murder trial. a lot of loose ends in the case to tie up before this thing can
>> we have big spotlights and looking for these snakes. we look in the woods and this snake was sitting there with his head stuck up. we ran over to the snake and we knew how big the snake was. the head was the size of a frying pan. i shined my light in the woods and i didn't see where the snake ended. i got in position to jump on this thing. i jumped on it and first it didn't do much. the battle quickly began after that. it was all hands on deck. my uncle and. it was a full on wrestling match. it took all three of us, my uncle and one of the glades boys with us and we fought this thing. i had the head so no one got bit. one of the glade boys we were with made sure the thing didn't constrict me. my uncle was behind me unwrapping it help us get it to the main road where we could control the snake.
about his past during a speech earlier in the week if milwaukee. comes as more and more democrats now say they are concerned about his age and fitness to serve a second term. let's bring in "wall street journal" columnist kim strassel and author of the biden malaise. >> great to be here. >> gillian: i will quote you when harry met sally. the democrats are putting forward their weakest nominee in decades. it makes jimmy carter look competent. scathing. >> here is the thing. democrats are making this extraordinary bet if you think about it for a second. they are essentially saying your candidate, meaning donald trump, is worse than our candidate and therefore we will win the election. that is making bets on a couple of things. one, that donald trump is the actual nominee. right now the frontrunner but uncertain that dynamic might not
the three months is almost historic at this point. >> gillian: one of the many shocking things about this case, john, is the degree to which this is not some freak incident or anomaly. this kind of thing actually happens often especially to american children. you say you have spoken to hundreds of other parents who were through something similar. what do they say to you? >> that's correct. it was overwhelming after we went public with our story originally and once we had the national legs for the story, the messages came pouring in. text messages, facebook messages from victims. victims' families. many of which who paid many. many of which who didn't. many of which who sent content to these perpetrators and it feels like it is happening to everybody especially young people on social media. they are ripe for a target for
to prison. dropping out of school is much more likely and so on. reading is the key. the key subject. so states are right, i believe, to have retained students or as we used to say hold students back if they can't read provided they do something constructive with that time. and some states, like mississippi, have done just that. another thing to think about, though, is summer school. if you are not getting it during the regular school year, go to summer school. the tip of the hat to south carolina. if you can keep your schools open in south carolina during the summer, you can keep them open anywhere. and great leadership there in south carolina and mississippi and so we're seeing some improvement. but you have to have the reading under your belt before you move on. >> gillian: it looks like the trend does not get better as kids advance and get older. look at this.
this thing. >> bill: i saw a note where you almost lost it in court yesterday. it has to be overwhelming for you, john and the rest of your family with two young ages 7 and 9. you are doing this for a memory of your son and it strikes me that you will pursue justice until you get it. >> 100%, yeah. i'm pretty confident that the case that the u.s. attorney's office has right now we'll get convictions with the two we have and the one other pending extradition charges in nigeria. i'm confident this will play out and hopefully it will be a swift trial. there was some evidence that came up in the pre-trial conference yesterday that sounded pretty strong for us. sounded like they made some admissions during the interview process with the f.b.i. in nigeria when they went there to interview the suspects. a lot of photos that they have initialed and different things.
to be the oldest president whoever ran for reelect electric. clear mental decline issue. an open topic of conversation with a not great economy for many people. we heard your reporter talking about inflation and gas prices. and here is the thing that democrats have some other people who could certainly step up and win a primary against him or step up if he were to say he is not running again. but nobody wants to do that. it is kind of crazy. >> gillian: it is a bipartisan talking point in washington as we all well know. the guy on the other side of the aisle is not far behind the president. republican frontrunner former president trump. take a look at this, kim. this is what voter feedback about the top reasons why they say they disapprove of the president right now. number one his handling of the economy. number two his policies. number three his age, mental state. number four his dishonesty and