three girls. find a way to do it. nic robertson, thanks for that insight. any moment now, the nypd expected to give that press conference with more on the three new york men arrested one allegedly on the way to join isis. police commissioner bill bratton should be speaking soon. we keep hearing it s going to be at 3:00 of the we ll bring it live as soon as it happens. we re back in a moment. also though, a guilty verdict in the american sniper murder trial. that s another big story we re following. we re just now getting our first look at some of the powerful evidence that was used in court. the judge finally lifted the squash, the kibosh he put on during the trial itself. new questions about how the v.a. treated this suspect, eddie ray routh. plus more trouble for bill o reilly. another story from his time as a reporter is being questioned. how o reilly is responding to this coming up. it s a full day for me, and i love it.
remember his name. and he turned around and had tears running down his face. quite a scene as you can imagine. his mother, as we just saw, chad littlefield s mom went out in front of the courthouse and thanked everybody. she s a lovely woman. never should have happened. none of this, ever should have happened looking at the picture, this mug shot, he s changed physically from the skinny guy he was when this happened, bulked up in two years of waiting for the trial to get underway. but you know i guess the families cried for many reasons and part just relief, jennifer i imagine that this is finally over. this part of it anyway. oh, yes. i m sure that that is the biggest part of it. his family had to sit through so much brutal testimony they were
american sniper murder trial. the jury just not persuaded by routh s claim he was not guilty by reason of insanity. cnn s ed lavandera was at the courthouse for the verdict. reporter: john and christine, it was a swift verdict. it took the jury here in stephenville, texas, less than 2 1/2 hours to convict eddie ray routh of the murders of chris kyle and chad littlefield, rejecting his claims and his arguments that he was insane at the time of these murders back in february of 2013. this means that eddie ray routh will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. ngtsd inside the courtroom, chad littlefield s father and stepbrother spoke directly to routh after the verdict, calling him an american disgrace. and chad littlefield s mother spoke with reporters just after the verdict in an emotional statement. we just want to say that we ve waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf
welcome back. more now on the fox news alert on the american sniper murder trial. the man who killed chris kyle and chad little field convicted of capital murder in texas. eddy ray routh will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibilities of parole. his lawyers tried to argue he was insane when he shot kyle and littlefield in a texas range two years ago. the jury not buying it delivering a guilty verdict in just about two hours. there were no surprises here. i said it earlier this evening, the jury wants to deliberate after having such a long day as they did today. usually they would want to get home and absorb it. clearly they knew they were on
this has been dubbed the american sniper trial, and that is not accurate. two people lost their lives that day. they were husbands they were fathers, they were sons. and that really struck me. because frankly, at times during this trial there were points when it seemed like all of the attention was on chris kyle, because of who he was. and he was hard to sit there and watch chad littlefield s parents sobbing, when they flashed pictures of their dead son up on the autopsy table. and with a bullet wound in his face. and they sobbed because it seems as if chris kyle got most of the attention during this. that s why this was a capital murder case, by the way, because in texas the definition is if there are two people killed within the same crime. and that s what obviously this was. that s what eddie routh has now been convicted of here tonight. and that is why they only had