Robert Durst: ‘I Was High On Meth’ While Filming ‘The Jinx’ On HBO (Exclusive) | TODAY — Transcript

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1. 0:00we have an exclusive look at a taped
2. 0:02interrogation of real estate Heir and
3. 0:04accused murderer Robert Durst NBC's
4. 0:06Gotti Schwarz is out in Los Angeles he's
5. 0:08got the latest on this Gotti what can
6. 0:10you tell us good morning Matt in this
7. 0:12newly released videotape and
8. 0:14corresponding audio recording we are
9. 0:17getting a full picture of the interview
10. 0:18between Robert Durst and a Los Angeles
11. 0:20prosecutor and in these recordings Durst
12. 0:23seems open to speaking with the district
13. 0:25attorney even without his
14. 0:27lawyer I mean after more than 2 and a
15. 0:29half hours of questioning a frail Robert
16. 0:31Durst sitting across from the prosecutor
17. 0:34now charging him with the murder of
18. 0:36durst's longtime friend Susan Burman I
19. 0:39think you want me to go through details
20. 0:42of of of Susan I do okay so now what
21. 0:47would I ask for tell me if I tell you
22. 0:50those things I'm pleading guilty the
23. 0:53video and audio of the interrogation
24. 0:54were recorded separately and submitted
25. 0:56to the court as two different pieces of
26. 0:58evidence Inc news is showing them
27. 1:01together for this report throughout the
28. 1:03nearly 3-hour interview Durst and the
29. 1:06prosecutor go back and forth the
30. 1:08prosecutor asking why Durst would agree
31. 1:10to be interviewed for the HBO series The
32. 1:12Jinx a documentary that profiled the
33. 1:14mysterious deaths of three people in the
34. 1:17Millionaire's life when I did the
35. 1:19interviews for the Jinx yeah I was on
36. 1:22meth the whole time I was on meth but
37. 1:26when challenged by the prosecutor Durst
38. 1:28said that doing meth didn't affect the
39. 1:31veracity of his interview in one of the
40. 1:33most pivotal scenes in the documentary
41. 1:35The Producers hold up an envelope
42. 1:36written by Susan burman's killer and a
43. 1:39letter Durst wrote to Burman years
44. 1:40before confronting Durst about the
45. 1:43similarities can you tell me which one
46. 1:45you didn't
47. 1:47write no shortly after there it is your
48. 1:53court Durst caught on a hot mic alone in
49. 1:56the bathroom muttering to himself what
50. 1:58the hell you
51. 2:01kill them all of course taking a page
52. 2:04from the documentary in the
53. 2:06interrogation room the prosecutor asks
54. 2:08the same question can you tell me which
55. 2:11one of these you didn't write I couldn't
56. 2:12begin to while denying they were
57. 2:15identical Durst did acknowledge they
58. 2:16were similar and when asked directly
59. 2:18about the deaths of Susan Burman or his
60. 2:20wife Kathleen Durst who in missing in
61. 2:221982 Durst responds with this if you had
62. 2:26killed
63. 2:28Kathy would you tell
64. 2:30me no if you had killed Susan would you
65. 2:33tell me no prompted by the da in Texas
66. 2:36dur does discuss killing and
67. 2:38dismembering his neighbor in Texas a
68. 2:40case in which he was acquitted of murder
69. 2:43cutting up that body the way I was doing
70. 2:45it was the hard way cutting through a
71. 2:48bone is not easy with anything and then
72. 2:51before the interrogation ends D asks the
73. 2:54prosecutor what's in it for him what's
74. 2:58going through my mind is
75. 3:00if I tell you what I know okay that
76. 3:04answers your questions what can you
77. 3:07possibly do for me durst's attorney dick
78. 3:10dearin is outraged over the release of
79. 3:12the interrogation this could very easily
80. 3:15affect the jury pool dur denies killing
81. 3:19Susan and even though he hasn't been
82. 3:21charged in connection with his wife
83. 3:22Kathy's murder he also denies killing
84. 3:25her during the interview whether these
85. 3:26recordings will be allowed in court will
86. 3:28now be argued in front of a judge during
87. 3:30a hearing for Durst tomorrow Hoda Matt
88. 3:33back to you hi Gotti thank you very much
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