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Father. his father benjamin was on the fbis most wanted list in the 1960s. this is the boposter at the tim. he was captured for robbing a bank in phoenix and in 1968 he escaped from a prison in texas and at that point the fbi considered him a known fugitive and in this poster down in the corner under caution, it describes him as a diagnosed -- let me get my notes here to get it exactly right. it -- a diagnosed psychotic and someone who had suicidal tendencies. there is no such indication that th...

Is why he was on the ten most wanted list. >> i see. >> it does make me wonder. that happened in 1968. and offender, the shooter in las vegas was i think born in 1954-55, what his home life was like. he is being raised by a criminal. we dont know all that much yet. in regards to the brothers contrary statements, chris, its rare for families to come forward after something like this and say i knew something like this was going to happen. even if they did. >> boy, thats intelligent. let me get bac...

>> ballpark, $1-1.5 billion. >> reporter: and then, halloween eve, 2009. more than a year had passed since melissas murder with tony villegas still sitting in jail awaiting trial, and another twist to the story. >> scott rothstein has disappeared. >> reporter: unlike melissa, scott was not a murder victim. but he was a fugitive, a bernie madoff figure on the run. he had left the country in a private jet for morocco with $16 million in cash and his collections of watches and jewelry, fleeing afte...

Then everybody got into a panic mode. nervous, where is he, where is he. and even the dea agents were running around trying to find him. and john and i were going from point a to point b and then all of a sudden, here comes monzer, he walked out of the bathroom. >> once we arrived at the baggage claim, the fugitive squad of the spanish police put him under arrest. >> im here today to announce the arrest of international arms dealer monzer al-kassar on charges of terrorism and arms trafficking. y...

Why did your parents flee columbia to this country. why did they bring you here and remain undocumented in this country? >> the part of columbia i was from, there was all types of conflict and terrorism from revolutionary armed forces that killed any grandfather and to give us some type of life here. >> you said through your years fwroeing up and certainly before president obama passed the executive order that protected you and other dreamers you felt like you were a fugitive in hiding. so knowi...

I cant speak to what was going through donald trumps mind. but it is so unusual at this early same of a presidency to conduct -- to issue a controversial pardon like this to a political ally. bill clintons pardon of mark rich was appalling, a disgrace. rich was a fugitive. it was on the last day of his presidency. his pardon of his brother, roger clinton, was on the last day of his presidency. george herbert walker bush pardoned a lot of the iran contra people at the very end of his presidency. ...

Those people deserve respect and compassion, and that is something that the president of the united states is incapable of doing. all he knows how to do is throw a bone to his base and damn everybody else. >> jeffrey toobin, one of the theorys kicked around, its throwing a bone to a supporter in some kind of legal trouble, which has led people to wonder whether or not this was a sign to people who are tied up or connected to this russia investigation saying hey, when push comes to shove, if you ...

And this is one of the rare moments in which president trump was being generous in effect in the clintons direction by mentioning only a couple of the pardons that bill clinton did on his final day in office. he pardoned 140 people on his final day in ofrls. some of them represented by hillary clintons brother as the lawyer. this was as bad as it gets. >> many of them donors if i remember correctly. >> in american pardon history. until now this is a new version. this is a brand-new version. this...

Including that of mark bridge, who was a fugitive at the time. and tripatricia hurst was pardo by bill clinton. this suggests the president is going to use the pardon power in a very political way. hes not just going to lose it for the low level drug offenders that barack obama mostly -- that president obama used for his presidency. and i think it is a power within that the president clearly possesses, no doubt about that. it is something that anna correctly pointed out is something of great int...

And well handle the legal stuff that comes up along the way. legalzoom. legal help is here. >> martha: we are back with the more of the story from d.c. tonight. here is some of the other stories making headlines today. after four-day manhunt, the fugitive at the center of thursdays deadly terror attack in barcelona has been found and killed. 22-year-old younes abouyaaquoub was wearing a fake suicide belt tote ago bag of knives and shouting allah is great before being fatally shot by police.