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Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s ...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s ...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s ...

>> isaiah asked to speak to his mother. donna, the corrections officer, who had brought suspects to these interrogation rooms for years, was allowed to see her son alone. >> all i could do was hold him. i just felt extremely helpless. >> whatever they talked about, donna wouldnt tell detectives. isaiah stopped talking too. but police were convinced they had the right suspect. they charged isaiah with two counts of murder and one count each of robbery and obstructing justice. but when the trial b...

>> just, how did we get here? how did we get here? i know this isnt right. i know this isnt right. >> their pain was compounded when isaiah was sentenced to 60 years in prison. on appeal the court ruled that three of his four convictions relied on the same evidence in what amounted to double jeopardy. his robbery conviction was reduced to theft, a misdemeanor. and one of his two murder convictions was thrown out. but on the remaining count, the jurys verdict stood, as did isaiahs sentence. >> we...

He needed a new plan to save his client. when court reconvened, he called donna hagan back to the stand. his goal, to show the jury that she couldnt be believed. >> on cross-examination, she admitted that she believed that if the jury heard that isaiah said it was an accident, then they couldnt convict him of murder. >> so you think that perhaps his mother had said these things so that her son could get perhaps a lesser sentence. >> well, yes. >> the problem is the genies out of the bottle. >> y...

As each day of trial passed, hegger collins became less hopeful. there was no direct evidence tying isaiah hagan to her daughters murder, no gun, no dna, no eye witnesses, nothing to prove isaiah was a killer. >> i was at the point where i was prepared for him to be walking the streets. >> prosecutor michael perry urged patience. >> we knew that we did not have enough evidence to convict at that point. but thats why you go to the end. >> there was one person in particular he wanted the jury to h...

Those same arguments to the jury. but the damage was done. it only took the jury four hours to find isaiah hagan guilty on all four counts against him, including murder. >> that was the most relief i felt since it all happened. i felt like it was huge weight was lifted off me. because all i wanted forever was just to get justice for her. i just wanted her to know that we were doing our best to give her some peace and the fact that we finally did it felt really good. and i just remember crying an...

>> and the prosecution presented perhaps the most explosive piece of evidence they had, what investigators found when they searched the home of wandel and donna hagan. >> we were able to locate a towel from that home that was actually the same make, the same model of the towel that was located at the soccer field. >> and there was something else investigators discovered. wandel owned several guns, but one of them was missing. >> did you think that maybe isaiah took it? >> it wouldnt be something...

>> reporter: though there was one thing that was plain to see isaiahs lies. right there in the interrogation video. the prosecution played the entire nine and half hours of it to the jury. >> i think anytime somebody says something that the state contends isnt true, you have to try to understand the dynamic of where it was said. >> reporter: phillips noted that detectives questioned isaiah aggressively for hours. they used profanity, invaded his space, intimidated him. >> im supposed to believe ...