Three hours, the jury found 27yearold Eddie Ray Routh guilty of killing former navy s. E. A. L. Chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield, the former marine seemingly showing no reaction as the judge sentenced him to a life behind bars without parole. He thought he had to take their lives. Because he was in danger. Jurors rejecting defense arguments that routh, diagnosed with ptsd was legally insane. Ive been so paranoid schizophrenic all day i dont know what to think of the world right now. The 27yearold shown here in 2013 moments after Police Arrested him for shooting kyle and littlefield multiple times at a gun range. Later routh told police that he thought his victims were pighuman hybrids. In an unusual circumstance the judge barred audio from the trial until the verdict was reached. He was very suicidal. Rouths mother jodie, who claims that routh threatened to kill himself and their family told us the moment she heard that her son killed kyle. I had chriss number in my phone and i dialed that number praying to god he would answer. Taya was overcome on the stand. Recalling the last time she saw her husband. Just that we loved each other and a kiss and a hug like we always did. By the way, taya kyle was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read because she had stormed out during closing arguments arguments, she was so angry by some of the points that the defense made about the murder of her husband. Understandable martin thank you for the reporting. It was obviously fast. But what the verdict obvious at awe. Paul callan cnn legal partner at callan legal and a former nyc prosecutor and criminal defense attorney and joey jackson, hln legal analyst. The judge pushing them to deliberate. Do you think it was a factor and are you surprised by the quickness of the verdict . I wasnt. Paul . Im very surprised at how fast the verdict went. Whatever you want to say about this case there were complicated issues involving Mental Illness. Theres to question he did it obviously, but i would have expected it to go overnight in terms of deliberations. The speed of it surprised me. And joey lets talk about something here. Were going to learn, throughout the show were going to be playing you a lot of sound about what was said by people during the trial. Because we couldnt do it now we can. The prosecutor said crazy dont run. And the prosecutor said he was a weird little guy, and the prosecutor said some of us have cancer. Some of us have Heart Disease. But were still good citizens. Im tired of Mental Illness being an excuse do you find those acceptable comments . Well what they did as the prosecutor and certainly on appeal you can argue that you know was it a fair comment or was it too inflammatory. At the end of the day, what the prosecutor did, i think skillfully was to embrace Mental Illness, but at the same time say that that more relates to someone who is troubled as opposed to meeting the definition of legal insanity which is the distinction between right from wrong. I think the prosecutor was playing on the stigma where people dont want to see Mental Illness as illness, they want to see it as an excuse thats why they use the word crazy and characterize them as weird instead of ill. Cancer and Heart Disease, how do those diseases deal with your ability to deal with right from wrong. When you think about the jury system in america. Weve asked this jury to make a diagnosis, a psychiatric diagnosis of a defendant before they decide a criminal case, a huge responsibility we put on juries in america. Was it enough because of the fairness under law, thats justice, right . We all know that as lawyers and you know it now from watching all of these things take on. The Legal Definition was narrow do you know right from wrong. Was this guy done when he kept saying it was wrong, it was wrong. He ate a burrito, he ran afterwards he took a cell phone. Was it over . Every insanity case ive looked at through the years, has a collection of evidence. And theres always evidence that right and wrong was understood by the mentally ill person. But thats usually outweighed by other things indicating the severity of the Mental Illness. And the jurors in this case they kind of picked and, they picked the issues that they wanted to believe in to find him guilty. Is this guy meantly ill . Hes clearly mentally ill, but is he legally insane. Theres a difference. Do you think the system is fair . Is it fair in terms of us saying there are so many mentally ill people who commit crimes we cant let them all go. This is the underlying fear that nobody expresses. Is that going to address his illness . Im talking about the fact that the prisons in america are filled with people who have done robberies, rapes and other gardenvariety crimes who have Mental Illness. Or are drug addicts. People who commit crimes and have Mental Illness. Should go to hospitals,ed jurors know this. This is a special thing that they have for only very very special kinds of crimes where you get a not guilty by insanity. You know whats going on in america, theyre saying boy, that cuomo is soft on crime, he wants to help all of these sick people he doesnt want them to be held accountable for what they do like everybody else. Are they like everybody else . The point is that insanity to begin with is looked upon with great skepticism the reason for that chris, is we cannot see inside peoples minds. If chris cuomo is sick if paul callan is sick you might slow some signs. Your nose is running, you look feverish your skin color changes. As a result of being mentally ill, we cant get inside your mind. Thats why nationally theres a skepticism of this. And in several states there is no excuse that you can use with regard to saying that youre legally insane its not an excuse. I want to remind chris cuomo of one thing that went on as we covered this trial every morning joey and myself. You called in favor of the prosecution, saying they this h put on the board that he understood right and wrong. Now looking back were saying but the system is what it is. The system is what it is and this jury applied texas law, they probably apply it correctly. So i dont think can you criticize the jury for doing what the law probably required them to do. 100 agree, it was a horrible thing here and people want to not see someone rewarded for doing something horrible. Chad littlefield and chris kyle were doing something good and their families will never have them back. When youre a prosecutor this is a social commentary. Mental illness, we call you crazy and youre a weird little guy and were going to liken it to Heart Disease and cancer. Does it show that we know how to deal with it in this society. This jury had ample evidence to find either way, i would argue. There was information before this jury to say, this was a premeditated act. If you look at yesterdays testimony. With regard to the expert who analyzed the crime scene. He described it as a sneak attack. That would be indicative of someone who plotted and planned, waited until people could not pose any danger to themselves. And then acted and acted to take a life. So with respect to the jurys decision there was ample evidence before them to make a decision that this person knew right from wrong. Thats the Legal Definition. At the same time there was evidence before that jury where they could have concluded that based upon the mindset of routh, his history of illness, the medications he was on the statements he was making that were irrational rambling and incoherent that they could have went the other way. Texas makes it easy for this to be the verdict. The jury looks at these things. Were not surprised by the verdict. Did their job responsibly. I was surprised it was that fast. But the judge pushed them that way. Thats not a criticism. Now we have our verdict. What im saying is the result is the man is in the jail for the rest of his life jail. I wonder what chris kyle and the others trying to help this guy would think about that verdict. Because hes not going to get help for his Mental Health there. Its just interesting, from the perspective of how this all started. And of course everybody, i looked into his brothers eyes you know you lose a brother, they lose a family youll never be able to put anything on that that will make it okay. Listen you guys did a great job on this, paul callan, joey jackson, sometimes a trial is about a lot more this is one of those, appreciate it. Were just two days away from the possible partial shutdown of the department of Homeland Security. Today, signs of a compromise to end the senate stale mate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell offering a socalled clean bill to fund dhs shortterm and a separate bill to repeal president obamas executive action on immigration. Cnns jim acosta joins us from the white house to help us understand the latest. Good morning, alisyn. President obama is just standing on the sidelines right now, watching to see whether or not the republicans who are in control of congress can get this done as you said senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has the plan to allow a vote on a clean spending bill for the department of Homeland Security so the department does not shut down at the end of the week and offer up a separate vote to allow republicans to cast a vote registering their complaints with the president s executive action on immigration. The democrats for their point of view, they believe that the republicans wont follow through on this over in the house, and that is why Senate Minority leader harry reid said yesterday, hes skeptical. Heres what he had to say. Unless the speaker is in on the proposal of course we have to make sure we get a bill to the president. Not that we send a hot potato to boehner, that doesnt do the trick. Now, speaking of hot potatoes there was another piece of legislation making news yesterday. And that was the Keystone Pipeline bill. The president vetoed that yesterday, only really the first veto of his presidency on a major piece of legislation, hes had three so far. Take a look at the president ial veto count. Three for president obama, 12 for george w. Bush and many more for bill clinton, george h. W. Bush and ronald reagan. That number three for president obama, its really a monument to gridlock here in washington. Back in the old days 10 or 15 years ag lmaker wles they disagreed, they still passed legislation and president s would veto the legislation. These days theyre so bitterly divided they just dont pass legislation. Thats another reason why the veto count is so low. Really interesting context. Further point of the stalling thats going on there. Frustrating to be sure. Turning to syria. Isis militants are believed to be holding 150 syrian christians captive. Its believed that theyre going to release a message today threatening to kill them. Senior National CorrespondentNic Robertson is tracking this for us live from london. This is just another offensive against syrians there. Against christians weve seen in syria. The northeast of syria, isis went in they have captured women, children men, priests, elderly, is what were being told by syrian Human Rights Group and a syrian Human Rights Group as well. Not only are these 150 people been kidnapped, but there are others at risk in the area. 700 families were forced to flee 3 tlourks people forced out of their homes. And we understand 600 of those could be holed up in a cathedral. Close to the town where they were forced from their homes. So at the moment isis threatening here potentially their lives. What weve seen when isis has captured christians in the past is to either give them an option, you either convert or you get killed. And during that operation last night, isis radios were overheard, they were talking about capturing crusaders, as if these people had never lived there, for hundreds and hundreds of years, chris. All right. Thank you very much nic, appreciate that we. We have new information about three teenaged girls accused of running away from home to join isis. British Police Believe the girls have crossed into syria. Theyre believed to have crossed maybe four days ago. Police arent absolutely sure exactly when or where they crossed. But either way, they do appear to be inside syria. And possibly in isiscontrolled territory. That will be devastating news for the families. Because they know that the chances of their daughters coming back home are now very unlikely. Michaela . All right atika with that thank you. Ukraines army getting some muchneeded help from the west. British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron announcing 75 soldiers will be sent to ukraine to provide training and nonlethal support. This as the u. S. Announces its own plan to deploy troops to ukraine to complete a second round of combat medical training. A missionary has been kidnapped in nigeria. Demanding a ransom of more than 300,000. Officials say it is purely criminal, this action. They havent identified any responsible group. Sorter is a missionary for the Free Methodist church runs an organization that educate children in the region. Take a look at this unbelievable video. 15 people were hurt after a natural gas explosion leveled this home in new jersey on tuesday morning. Neighbors reported a strong smell of gas and crews headed to the scene to fix a suspected leak. Officials say the house was evacuated before the blast. Neighbors say the explosion could be felt more than a mile away. Two utility workers were critically injured in that blast. So scary. Terribly frightening. Especially if you live in the neighborhood and hear this explosion. You smell gas, get out. Neighbors see something, say something. We saw it happen in manhattan. Neighbors were hearing thing, they get it is the Response Time right. You know theres some risks here we have to remember the men and women trying to stop these in time and were sorry about their injuries. But not often you get to see that video. All right want to turn to a significant winter storm thats developing in the deep south. Georgia and alabama have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm. The danger is real. There have been at least 30 related deaths notice last week in tennessee. Meteorologist chad myers joins us from the cnn center in atlanta. The south just not accustomed to this kind of deep freeze. You never get accustomed to an ice storm. Theres nothing can you do when it rains on ground thats 31. You cant drive on it its hard to walk. Maneuvering is just impossible. So this storm goes all the way from dallas texas, tyler, texarkana, all the way across the deep south, northern mississippi, alabama and georgia with the winter storm warning. The pink area. The purple area the Winter Weather advisory area. Expecting atlanta to be 33 to the south of the city 32 and ice where im standing and 31 and snow just 20 miles north of here and that snow could be could be six inches deep. And theres just no way to plow that when you have like ten plows for the entire city. I know theres a few more than that, because every little municipality has a certain number of plows. Heres the storm. As it rolls across the south. You get memphis involved. You get nashville, jackson, mississippi. You get birmingham and huntsville and all the way through atlanta. And finally exiting the coast where raleigh and Elizabeth City and Hampton Roads completely get smashed with snow. Yes, the low country of North Carolina will get a big snow event. Could be eight to ten inches of snow there. Where atlanta, were expecting four to six, you get up to rome dalton maybe blairsville and the like ten inches of snow. This is snow that no one likes, when it comes to the south, its particularly annoying. Maybe they have time to get some loaner snowplows, tens not going to do it. Chads covered a lot of those stories. Surrounding communities and states, they help. Its about time and what theyre handling as well. I think cha cha, my 5yearold got it right. We were reading a story about Mother Nature. She said Mother Nature shes not very nice. Dont mess with her. She no very nice. Theres a seesaw on how the war with isis is going. Isis terrorists in syria are on a rampage. They kidnapped 150 christians mostly women and children. What is this about . Essure. Disrupter of supply chains. Stealer of bedtime stories. Polluter. Frustrater. Time thief. [cars honking] and one day soon well see the last one ever. 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