not prepared to speak on if there was anyone else in the room but we know the building was occupied by a number of people at the time of the incident. as far as any kind of conversation that happened between the victim and suspect, we are still working to determine what that may have been. so that is still under investigation. julia with nbc news. what can you tell us about the relationship between the student and professor? were they in a class together and did this happen in a classroom? we are still exploring the relationship between the professor as well as the suspect. we cannot be specific at this point about where it happened. it is still under investigation. we still have the building secured as we are still looking at evidence as well as doing multiple searches. you re listening to the
Comforting kimberly they found this and working with another country. not comforting they are getting across the southern border. right. that s great to hear. but the issue by the way and guy makes a great point about the got-aways. it s not just the got-aways. look, the department of homeland security puts out statistics about the number of encounters they have at the southern border with people on our terrorist watch list. fiscal 2021 that was about 15. fiscal 2022 close to 100. there was new numbers in the spring of this year where we had already almost hit 100 just in this year fiscal year alone. so, this word is getting out to people. if you want to do harm to the united states, we have a porous border. there are increasing number of bad guys trying to get in that way. and this administration is not sending any signals that this is a priority and that they are going to do everything they can to keep those people from getting through and spreading out. bret: julia, it s not just republicans a pointed out, the new york situation with the new york city mayor. this is getting to a point
They cite the trial date here in d.c. for the federal case starting the day before super tuesday i understand the republican primary start a trial before stupor tuesday. ticking off voters. goosing turnout. could help him in a republican primary. bret: to that point, just getting word from fox digital that former president trump has raised 9.4 million since being processed and taking that now infamous or famous mugshot in fulton county, georgia last week. that brings the total in august to $20 million, julia, that s the most we have seen former president trump raise in a short period of time. and arguably it s only to guy s point increasing his poll numbers. yeah it, shows it has a galvanizing effect on illustrates base and having this trial start before super tuesday, you know, looking at it at this point it seems like it
Self. a year since her arrest had taken a toll. but he urged the jury not to be fooled by the for a woman in the courtroom. if you believe that the defendant is guilty of doing one thing, just one thing, on the night melvin roberts was murdered, to aid in that murder, then she is guilty. have a seat for me, miss julia. the prosecutor began by showing the jurors julia s interview with police. she wanted them to hear one of the first thing julia said on the night of the murder. here you go. they put a blanket on her and asked if they could take some photographs. can i get some pictures real quick while we re in the warmth? now you re not gonna use these four playboy? no. the first thing the woman says, are these going to be used for playboy? right there. boom. that was inappropriate. then, the prosecution dropped a bombshell. they found a witness to testify that this was not the first time julia had melvin s murder on her mind. a police informant name guy blinken ship, a man with a criminal past claim that a few years after melvin died, julia tried to hire him to do the hit.
Found on julia to do an accurate test. if this had been the fbi lab, any of our military labs, they could not have justified that the gunshots residue were there because a number of particles were there did not meet the trash hold. the defense team continued to pound home the notion that there was no physical as it and linking her to the murder. and if this was a murder for hire, they asked, where was the killer? they built a case based on no evidence. they want to say to you, we have no idea what happened, but we want you to guess at the victim. that s not how it works. next, the defense attacked the prosecution star witness guy blankenship, the man who said julia had hired him to kill melfort and. they said he was a criminal, and not to mention he was motivated by money. you went so far to call guy blankenship a magnet? i don t remember.
This. maybe they had miscues behind the wall. they also wanted to revisit the sound of that pipe she d heard. detectives asked her to close her eyes. just listen. it s not the type of sound you heard? not exactly. they were hoping it might unlock any suppressed memories from that night. she did remember more details about her attacker s voice. he said it with a dialect. he wasn t american like i am, speaking with english. detectives continue to gently guide julia through the crime scene, but she often became emotional. it all seems to be taking a toll on, and melvin s family worried about her. i called julia on several occasions to check on her and she was shaken up a bit. she was worried that someone was still out there? yes, to the point where at
but it turns out, julia s financial troubles and pill addiction were no secret. a few years earlier, emily said her grandfather had even stepped in to help. he sent her to rehab. and she willingly went? correct. that must have made melvin really happy? that he could help change her life and spin around to be a positive, yes. when word got out that cops were asking tough questions about julia, many around town thought the police were wasting their time. everybody thought there was an outside person. there s no way that julia would kill melvin. he was the love of her life. and julia said that was the case, right up to melvin s death. she told police she had planned a celebration for that night. turns out, it was her birthday. and julia had a few surprises for melded. melvin collected matchbook covers and she had gotten a few