The attorney for heuermanns estranged wife will join us in moments. First to bryan llenas live outside that courthouse watching all of this unfold just moments ago in river head, new york. Hi, bryan. Hi, martha. What we just heard, the Suffolk County direct attorney ray tierney explain what happened. There was a 30minute delay. The two attorneys spoke with the judge and the preliminary conference hearing began, lasted 510 minutes. Rex heuermann in his black coat suit, khaki pants, staring ahead with no emotion as they discussed the fact that they have to begin the long process, weekslong process of turning over 13 years worth of evidence involving these three murders that hes accused of committing to the defense. That process is going to happen on a rolling basis. The d. A. Saying theres about eight gigabytes worth of evidence. None of the evidence that has begun to be turned over doesnt include the evidence that they removed from the house after that 12day search there were at least t
the home of the suspect who has now been arrested and is in custody. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. rich, hello to you. rich: rich edson in washington for john roberts. this is america reports. major break as the suspect is set to make his first court appearance in less than an hour now. identified as rex heuermann, 59-year-old architect at a new york city firm. sandra: the news brings a sense of relief to residents of gilgo beach nearly 13 years after the body of a 24-year-old woman was discovered there. remains of nine more people have been found in the years since then. mary ellen o toole is a former fbi profiler will join us with details what we know. but begin with lauren green. good afternoon, sandra. the most intense investigation for a supposed serial killer on new york s long island for more than a decade. police joined by the fbi have been searching for a suspect in the gilgo beach murders. last night, they made an arrest. the suspect
good afternoon. two hours and counting until david weiss has to meet this deadline for house republicans to answer questions about the hunter biden probe. i think we can say with confidence he won t meet the deadline. the reason we can say this with confidence, he said so himself in a letter to republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan late last week. i want to read party of it. this is from weiss to jordan. he said in his letter last friday to jordan, the donald trump appointed u.s. attorney quoted a prior letter from june where he wrote clear cheer. a few weeks later, trace, how judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote to weiss asking him who told him to sign that letter. jordan doesn t believe that weiss called the shots in the probe. he think us it was doj. jordan believes this based off of the testimony of irs whistle-blower shapley who investigated the hunter biden tax probe since 2020. he s been on the record numerous times say he saw weiss complain that he was
trail. griff. hey, happy 4th, bryan and gillian. voters in those states are getting a healthy dose of old glory, gop candidates for the parades. ron desantis marched today in a parade in wolfboro, new hampshire, and another one in merrimac, he ll be joined by tim scott, doug burgum. only in america could the son of a single mother rise from poverty to be a candidate of president. america is the land of opportunity, not oppression. fire that burned in independence hall, 56 men pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty. meanwhile out in the hawkeye state. mike pence taking part in urbandale, and francis suarez busy in cedar rapids, iowa, running a 5k race this morning and then making pancakes, noticeably absent from the trail today, former president and front-runner, donald trump, who leads in fox news latest polling among gop primary voters with 56%. desantis trailing by 34%, and single digits down there. we ll next s
white house press briefing since secret service agents found cocaine stashed in the west wing. reporters have a lot of questions. bill: gillian, hello. our white house team confirming that agents found the drug in a bag in a personal cubby area used by staffers and guests into the west wing. a secondary drug test confirmed it was in fact cocaine. the first family was at camp david when agents found it in a routine sweep. gillian: and begin there for hour two. bill: bill hemmer. john roberts and sandra have the day off. cocaine is a drug, along with oxycontin and fentanyl, begin all new at 2:00 right now. gillian: a federal judge in louisiana says likely the biden administration censored free speech, and blocking officials from contacting social media companies about content. a lawsuit brought forward by louisiana and missouri, accusing government officials going too far and pressure ling them to censor posts during the pandemic. overreach in doing so and influence ove