before i take my life. the bomber repeated his warning. roberto s brother eduardo was next. in fact, the whole ayala family was in mortal danger. he said i wanted to make sure you get this letter and have time to help these guys. reporter: it was sent as if i ve been assigned to do something i don t want to happen. i want you guys to prevent it. that was basically the gist of the letter. reporter: did you warn ed? not exactly. there are things in the investigation we could not release. there was information about the letters that we could not release. keeping that stuff confidential was important to the integrity of the investigation. reporter: but the man s life might be in jeopardy. we did talk to ed. we gave him as strong a warning as we could without going into specific detail. reporter: one of those details was that the killer had been given a deadline. the letter said i was given eight weeks to do this job and it will be re-assigned in five weeks. i wanted to g
him a barron. and first lady melania trump weighed in, saying a minor child deserves privacy and sha be kept o , and should be kept out of politics. and let s go to bill karins, you said squall, luckily for you it was recorded. we went to the tape. let s go to the tape. did i say squall? we have a little bit of snow kicking in. this is lake effect snow, because of a cold blast coming through the great lakes, but kind of like a quick burst of snow, and some of this may make it all the way toward new york city and connecticut later on this afternoon. all right. you said it. the definition of a snow squall is a quick burst of snow. i m just saying you didn t use the word squall here, we like to be fact-based on this program. we re a fact-based program. where would that be on the meter? i will give it to you. you got the gist of it. you got the gist. the timing and the burst but
the general gist of it. take a listen. your reaction to the president s letter. no reaction. it s ridiculous. you have no reaction. why not? i haven t really fully read it. we ve been working. i ve seen the essence of it and it s really sick. reporter: the speaker never really mincing her words. drafting a letter to the entire democratic house caucus underscoring the stakes of the moment the caucus is taking up. part of the letter saying very sadly the facts have made clear that the president abused his power for his own personal, political benefit and obstructed congress as he demanded he is above accountability, above the constitution and bo above the american people. in america no one is above the law. a as i speak the house rules committee is laying out the structure of the debate tomorrow on those two articles of impeachment. one thing is certain, how
he knew nothing of the ben novack case and his department wasn t involved. there was people that knew the name and knew about the fontainebleau and all. i wasn t one of them. i didn t know anything about it until i talked to detective wilson in new york. the letter, written in spanish, was nothing less than a blueprint to the murder, naming names, citing motivations. this is shocking and it could be a big break. sergeant wilson in westchester couldn t wait to see it. whoever wrote this letter obviously had information, inside information. looking back, that letter had the whole story, the greed, the inheritance, the obstacles in the way of the inheritance. the facts of that letter were on the money. here is the gist of the letter. it claimed narcy s brother, a man named cristobal had hired thugs to kill ben novack jr.
but democrats began to believe republicans were trying to bury the votes. you get the gist of it. what do you think of that? yeah, i mean watching the hearings all day, it began to take the feel of a grudge match, sint it? yeah. i mean, people were repeating the arguments. they were offering amendments that weren t going to go anywhere. so, yeah, i think this is the impeachment hearing we all deserved in this time of hyperpartisan politics. nobody s minds were changed. everything was on a party line vote. and yeah, it would have been in the republicans interest to drive this final vote to the middle of the night so they could turn around and accuse the democrats of hiding the vote in the middle of the night. so, it was smart politics for nadler to gavel it down. but we re going to start this right back up in the morning. and nothing is going to change. everyone is just more stone walled in their positions