Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on Nick Reiner being arrested on suspicion of murdering Rob and Michele Reiner

The son of Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner is being held on suspicion of the murder of his parents.   

Police say 32-year-old Nick Reiner's been booked for murder after Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their Los Angeles home.  

They say he's a suspect in the case and is being held on a US$4 million bail. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Heather du Plessis-Allan that Reiner and his wife had apparently taken their son to a holiday party, where he had apparently been disruptive, the day before their bodies were found. 

He says it allegedly led to a shouting match between the father and son. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we're joined by US correspondent Richard Arnold. Morning, Richard,
good Now. It is a particularly grim twist, isn't it.
That's the Rhiner's son involved. Yeah, there is still widespread
shock over all the details of this, these brutal murders
of actor director Rob Ryaner and his photographer wife Michelle,
as police say their son, Nick is responsible their words,

(00:20):
and Nick Reiner is expected to make his first court
appearance over this pretty soon. Leading up to this court appearance,
he is in custody without bail and booked for murder.
He had checked into a hotel before police arrested him.
In the state of that Santa Monica hotel room is
something no one needs really to know about in detail,
just a trail of blood. Horrendous, they saying. Earlier, Rob

(00:40):
and his wife had taken their thirty two year old
son to a party at the home of television host
Cone and O'Brien, where Nick Reiner was said to be
disruptive and tweaked out, with one account that led to
a shouting match between father and son. Former President Obama
and his wife Michelle were said to meet with the
Rhiners on the night the murders happened. Michelle Obama now
has spoken with late night host Jimmy Kimmel about what

(01:02):
has taken place.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Rob and Michelle Reiner are some of the most decent,
courageous people you ever want to know. They're not deranged
or praised. What they have always been are passionate people
in a time when there's not a lot of courage

(01:25):
going on.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Deranged of course the term that the President Trump has
taken to using more of that and tick. From the
age of fifteen, Nick Hiner was a drug abuser who
went in and out of Rehabit was homeless for a while.
Rob Ryan, of course known as the son of brilliant
comedian Carl Reiner, and he became known for his Sarola
normally as All in the Family of the TV sitcom.
He then went on to make so many brilliant movies,

(01:48):
including the drama A Few Good Men, The Rock Sataire,
This Is Spinal Tap, The romance When Harry Met Sally,
the fantasy Princess Brian, so many really great films in
so many many different areas. Back in twenty sixteen, though him,
he made a film called Being Charlie, based on a
script by his son Nick and talking about Nick Ryaner's
drug abuses, including well everything, cocaine, heroine, whole list. He

(02:09):
had a heart attack once on a plane because of
cocaine us He threw a rock to a treatment center
window one time, and so on. Rob Reiner said that
the family had tried everything to deal with all of this,
and he said of the film versions they put together,
making this film not only forced me to see what
he was experiencing, but I think it forced him to

(02:31):
see what I went through and what his mother went through.
Now this, well, there's been a flood of reactions and
tributes to Rob Reiner and Michelle. Comedians Billy Crystal and
Murray David went off to the Rhiner's home after their
bodies were found Billy Crystal near tears By accounts. Harry
Sheer from the Spinal Tap movie says of Rob Reiner,
he was a deeply caring character in his own right,

(02:55):
and he brought that to his work The Wonder Center.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Donald Trump, Michelle Reiner actually took the Trump photo on
the original cover of Trump's Out of the Deal book.
Right after the murders, Trump posted this on social media,
calling Rob Reiner quote a tortured and struggling, but once
very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away
together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger
he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction

(03:22):
with a mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome,
sometimes referred to as teds end quote. You know, there
was an instant backlash to those disgusting remarks suggesting these
brutal murders were all about Trump, Republican Senator John Kennedy
saying Trump should have shut up, Republican Marjorie Taylor Green
saying this atresia, while the Republican speaker Mike Johnson simply

(03:45):
ran away from reporters when questioned today about the Trump remarks,
at most find beyond the pale. Now, what do we
know about this plots that the FBI foiled? Yeah, well,
in the midst of the mayhem, we know that they've
stopped a bomb that the bomb plot they said could
have turned New Years Eve into a blood bath in
southern California, arresting four men who had the ingredients in

(04:05):
detailed instructions for bomb making. These are said to be
members of some anti capitalist group calling themselves the Turtle
Island Liberation Front or whatever says prosecutor is say, Lee.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or
innocent people were killed.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
These suspects are being arrested in the Mohave Desert. So
a couple of hours out of LA and officials had
taken aerial surveillance as these four were said to be
rehearsing their bomb plot. Richard Scods talk to you. Thank
you very much for that. It's Richard Arnold are US correspondent.
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