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>> reporter: as the father of four, bob motta appreciates a placid night of slumber. but on tuesday, july 16th, 2013, he woke up at 4:00 a.m. unable to sleep, the chicago area criminal attorney checked his office voicemail. thats when he saw that someone from california had left him a message -- >> the guy starts out, well, my brother got arrested down in southern illinois tore a dui. and im, like, "dui? im not driving down there for a dui." within the next minute he says, "but it sounds like wh...

Murder," so then obviously my interest was piqued. >> reporter: it was a stroke of luck. anthony garcias family had been cold calling lawyers looking for someone to defend anthony. bob motta was the first to call back. it was 2:00 a.m. california time when he got anthony garcias brother on the phone. 30 minutes later, bob motta was retained to handle his first murder case. >> i go upstairs. i wake my wife up, who is my law partner, alison motta. and im, like, "we got a murder case. we gotta get ...

Different college educated voter voting this time versus last time. >> theres no question about that. look, midterms are about referendum on the president but also about energy. when i chair the democratic congressional campaign committee we had a cold call voters and beg them to show up at the polls. there was no cold calling. this was just white hot energy -- >> people were in three-hour lines in california when there was ten minutes before the polls were closing. >> who propelled that energy?...

Within the next minute he says, "but it sounds like what theyre actually arresting him for is murder," so then obviously my interest was piqued. >> reporter: it was a stroke of luck. anthony garcias family had been cold calling lawyers looking for someone to defend anthony. bob motta was the first to call back. it was 2:00 a.m. california time when he got anthony garcias brother on the phone. 30 minutes later, bob motta was retained to handle his first murder case. >> i go upstairs. i wake my wi...

Appropriations bills. the senate has gotten ready to go with 9 out of the 12. and the president then says lets shut down the government. it just makes no sense. >> should democrats be worried this is a potent issue for him to be raising this close to the midterms? >> well, let me give you historic context. i was the chairman, as you said, of the democratic congressional campaign committee. october 2013 when house republicans shut down the government over the affordable care act. and i know linda...

They were calling the detention centers to try to locate parents. >> wait a second. the case workers, this is bethany christian services in michigan. >> right. >> they have some tender age children under 5. >> i saw maybe a dozen or so -- >> kids under 5. >> yes. >> so what youre telling me is these case workers are affirmatively just cold-calling detention centers attempting to locate parents. its not some central hing coming from hhs where theyre making the match. >> no. and i will say, this t...

Its filming sixth season, hundreds of crew members on the set in baltimore, maryland and when you said, cold calling people reaching out to them on social media and the response i got was overwhelming. a lot of people didnt want to talk to me but this is what they would say, keep going, keep digging youre doing good work, please expose this behaver. >> there are a lot of victims here, a lot of them really young men, in vulnerable positions getting their start in hollywood. >> i want people to kn...

Including eight people who currently work on or worked on netflixs "house of cards" with spacey. entertainment reporter khloe who broke the story. this was she joins us now. this was good old fashioned shoe leather reporting. you had a list of 100 people who worked on shows. >> more than 100 people. >> and you just started calling them. >> cold calling. >> unbelievable what they told you. >> youre right. poppy, when these allegations by anthony rapp came forward and netflix said we will put the ...

With me now is chloe who broke the story wide open. this is where you start cold calling former and current employees of house of cards. what did they tell you? >> well, brooke , i reached out to more than 100 people, and a lot of people didnt want to talk to me for the story. and they kept telling me keep going, there is something there, i want you to blow this wide open. so i kept going. and the more i spoke to people, i finally got people to come and talk to me. but all these people that i sp...

Characterization. very swrinteresting. you have this guy trying to reach out to hackers like cold calling, e-mailing these hackers seeking these deleted e-mails. it seems kind of clumsy. we know the russians were very sew fisted to their hack iing i doesnt necessarily fit the pattern and it also raises the question why they this guy peter smith is now deceased so he cant answer this question except to the extent he already did in the wall street journal story why he was taking this approach. tha...