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trying to expand their territory, but they've got their own problems to deal with. starting with new allegations against herschel walker. we'll go to georgia live in just a minute where a walker event just wrapped up. plus, president biden trying to sell pessimistic americans on his economic message, pointing to new gdp numbers that are stronger than forecast, as proof of things getting better. with food and gas prices up 10% in a year, does anyone care about the gdp? i'll ask white house deputy chief of staff jen o'malley dillon when she joins me later in the show. the mass exod...

Prohibited, the type of information that could come out? a couple of things on that point. it's becoming clear to myself and my colleague jonathan deitz that this isn't something that happened last week. this has been on going for some time which means it would fall outside the 60-day window, 90-day window where specific steps that would need to be taken need to be run up the flagpole of the department of justice and approved at the highest levels. the most important part of this, it doesn't apply to senator menendez. he's not running for election. under the spirit and rule of this guideline -...

Up somebody who is running for re-election because he's not. as far as the senator's background, initially under fbi scrutiny starting in 2019, our colleague jonathan deitz broke the story that he was under federal investigation, ultimately charged and indicted in 2015 with the doctor who is accused of being involved in a massive medicare/medicaid fraud scream, convicted of that, sentenced to 17 years in jail. his prison sentence was commuted by former president trump on his way out of office. who proposed that commutation? senator robert menendez. he pushed for it. we have no indication at th...

33 years ago today. jonathan deitz has been covering this case, and we have the mother of summer thompson, a second grader abducted and killed on her way home from school in 2009. is this a fella never interviewed, he was on the radar screen, but was never interviewed by investigators in the first go round? >> that's correct. that was detailed at a news conference yesterday. what led them to this suspect was a tip. appare apparently he had been talking about how he harmed a child in new york years ago. he suffers from a mental illness so perhaps they did not take them seriously until they bega...

Been searched when you had a missing child and now the whole thing has been altered be p. >> i don't think it was part of their procedures to look if the trash. we got lucky to find somer in the trash. it's ashamed to think of how many people are in our land fills. that's come a long way since then. >> you've received closure in your case in that the man is behind bar, life in prison. that was a decision you were comfortable. originally you thought a death penalty but you thought life in prison was the best outcome you would hope for. >> i wanted to make sure he paid for what he did. i didn't ...