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>> but the prognosis was very bad, wasnt it? machines were -- >> yeah. >> --keeping her alive at that point even, huh? >> yes. >> reporter: the friends all kept an edgy vigil for news about kays condition, waiting for her husband to get to her bedside. lives all changed in an instant. a home invasion and burglary in broad daylight. a woman fighting for her life. and now a perpetrator on the loose. >> you dont know whether you have a guy on the move who could be ready to bust into another house a...

Of campaigning against special interests, against privilege, against fighting and for fighting for the middle class. i mean, she has that record there. >> those are issues. im talking now about performance and mien, right? >> its visceral, you think? >> biden is dont you talk to me that way you rich little creep. while you were like partying and worrying about aids, i was sitting at the bedside of my -- i was taking the train home because my wife died in a car crash. thats what biden can do. >> ...

Nearby. her sister drove becky to the hospital. >> she got to the hospital, you know, she was demanding to get to see her friend. >> she go to bedside for kay, huh? >> yeah, she wanted to get there. >> i said, "what hospital did they go to?" >> reporter: news of the attack quickly spread to another close friend of kays, suzanne frazier. >> i hung up the phone and i was shakin, and so i called my boss and i said, "i gotta go, i gotta go." and i left. >> broke some laws, huh? >> i ran red lights, ...

>> she continues to ask, "well, can we go in and see her? can we go in and see her?" they tell us no. >> reporter: eventually, one of kays closest friends suzanne frazier did get back to her bedside. >> could you recognize her if you didnt know that it was her? >> not really, not really. >> all puffed up? >> very, very -- face was very full. head wrapped. so i asked the nurse, i said, "is she brain dead?" and she didnt answer me. >> reporter: kay was just clinging to life, some wrenching decisio...

People in the waiting room. >> but the prognosis was very bad, wasnt it? machines were -- >> yeah. >> -- keeping her alive at that point even, huh? >> yes. >> reporter: the friends all kept an edgy vigil for news about kays condition, waiting for her husband to get to her bedside. lives all changed in an instant. a home invasion and burglary in broad daylight. a woman fighting for her life. and now a perpetrator on the loose. >> you dont know whether you have a guy on the move who could be ready...

Recovering from surgery. leaving comey in charge. >> i was concerned given how ill i knew the attorney general was, there might be an effort to ask him to overrule me when he was in no condition to do that. i called director mueller, who had been a great help to me. he said, ill meet you at the hospital right now. >> they had to literally race administration officials to ashcrofts bedside. >> the director instructed the fbi agents present not to allow me to be removed from the room under any cir...

Recovering from surgery, leaving comey in charge. >> i was concerned that given how ill i knew the attorney general was that it might be an effort to ask him to overrule me when he was in no condition to do that. i called director mueller who had been a great help to me over that week and told him what was happening. he told me, "ill meet you at the hospital right now. >> reporter: they had to race emergency officials to ashcrofts bedside. >> i was allowed not to be removed from the room in any ...

Literally race administration officials to ashcrofts bedside. >> director mueller instructed the fbi agents present not to allow me to be removed from the room under any circumstances. >> reporter: in the end, ashcroft backed comey and mueller. >> he enlisted bob mueller because he knew that bob mueller had this incredible nonpartisan reputation in washington. >> reporter: that was then. now trump compares mueller to joe mccarthy, and a trump ally warns theres trouble ahead. >> i think the repor...

Hospital right now. >> reporter: they had to literally race administration officials to ashcrofts bedside. >> director mueller instructed the agents present not to allow me to be removed from the room under any circumstances. >> reporter: in the end, ashcroft backed comey and mueller. >> he enlisted bob mueller because he knew that bob mueller had this incredible nonpartisan reputation in washington. >> reporter: that was then. now trump compares mueller to joe mccarthy and a trump ally warns th...

In a very controversial legal drama. >> i was very upset. i was angry. >> reporter: comey was worried the bush administration was determined to keep a warrantless eavesdropping program that mueller, comey, and their boss, attorney general john ashcroft, thought was illegal. but ashcroft was in the hospital recovering from surgery. leaving comey in charge. >> i was concerned that given how ill i knew the attorney general was that there might be an effort to overrule me when he was in no condition...