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President of the united states, one of just 45 presidents ever, cannot let go of the slightest grievance. not even when its with somebody who is dead. mr. trump likes to say hes a counterpuncher. that is an arguable point, but if he is, hes now punching a dead man repeatedly and his family. keeping em honest, its the kind of story you just wish would go away, because, frankly, its sickening. but it hasnt gone away and theres one reason why the president keeps returning to it. he says its because...

In syria. john, erica? >> such an important development. of course with these people in captivity now there are intelligence assets that can be mined to find out more about the condition of isis. >> some anti-vaxers accused of crossing the line. you will hear from some targets next. (vo) parents have a way of imagining the worst... ...especially when your easily distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, were taking on distracted driving [ping] with sensors that alert you when your eyes are off...

Joining us now from the white house lawn. the president says his dislike for john mccain is because of obamacare. over the weekend, though, it was about the so-called steele dossier. what is the root of some of his disdain for john mccain who most consider, even if they didnt agree with his politics, a lion of the senate and a hero? >> reporter: thats right, brianna. we were just in vietnam when the president had that summit with kim jong-un, and a bunch of us went by the hanoi hilton where john...

Captivity that senator mccain endured, his decades-long record on public policy. he attacks him in these vicious personal terms, i think that this is one of those attacks, one of those things, flaws in the presidents character that makes a lot of republicans very nervous, very uncomfortable. but at the moment he continues to have sky high approval among republican voters. >> i was going to say, why does he have that sky high approval? john mccains colleagues in the senate are afraid to break wit...

Grudge about john mccain for more than three years now. go all the way back to the first big controversy of trumps presidential campaign in august of 2015 in iowa where trump made a really flippant remark about mccain, saying "i like heroes who werent captured" and he got tremendous heat and blow-back on that including from the republican national committee and throughout the party establishment, and trump instead of apologizing to mccain and commending his war service just dug in and ever since...

Just to say to people who are blind, get out there. you can do anything. >> before that he used human guides. good for him. im dana. heres shep. >> shepard: its 3:00 p.m. on the east coast, noon on the west coast, new word that the feds let boeings own engineers certify a key system on the 737 max. they certified it themselves. a system which investigators are now eyeballing into major crashes. well see how that happened. plus, president trump pressuring the heads of gm and the autoworkers union...

About how he and the teen passed the time while he was holding her captive in a cabin. mike tobin reporting live from our midwest bureau. mike? >> reporter: jeff, among other things this man who said he was jake patterson said he loved jayme closs. he did answer the question about what they did during closs captivity. he said, we were just watching tv, playing board games, talking about stuff. we cooked a lot. everything we made was home made. patterson said he does regret what he did without el...

Shall make him april afrafraid. i was stuck bit women of cover because one of the great moments of george w. bushs ten days or so after 9/11, we remember the cathedral, we remember ground zero, but people should go take a look at his remarks at the mosque in washington because he was disturbed by reports that women of cover were being harassed, i think particularly in michigan. he goes and gives a really remarkable, from-the-heart statement about just this. if you want to go to what mike said ab...

>> reporter: and if no one was coming to rescue them, well, then they had no choice. they had to try to escape, come what may, down that cliff. and then, two months into their captivity, the moment came. gunfire pierced the silence. the kidnappers grabbed their weapons and ran toward the front of the camp. and the captives, impulse in unison, squeezed through the cage and slid off the edge of the cliff. >> there was no time to think what happened, "no, we got to go now." >> down a slope like tha...

>> and yet, on the ledgers of the criminal justice system, youre -- >> guilty of manslaughter. >> reporter: its an ending that neither side had hoped for, a family saga with so much love and so much loss. an imperfect conclusion. im craig melvin. >> and im natalie moralis. >> and this is "dateline." i just cant imagine, to be held in captivity. >> dad, just send the money. thats all they want. >> they have an american kid. a 14-year-old kid in the middle of the jungle. theyre thinking they h...