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And sam had that solid alibi. tina was still married to sams brother, armando. the two families intertwined, as cathys family continued to search for answers. >> and then in april of 1997, i got a phone call from mary bennett. >> reporter: cathys mom. it would be their first conversation of many. mary told daron how shed seen reports about a new program in orange county centered around investigating cold cases. cathys case had specifically been mentioned. >> and mary said, "if theyre gonna use m...

With xavier is any leverage you had to get him to name sam? >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: and now you really are back to square one? >> yes. >> reporter: is that the end? >> to some people. >> reporter: but not to him. and not to mary. you put a lot of faith in daron. >> i put a lot of faith in god. daron was his tool. >> reporter: but for the time being, it seemed darons hands were tied. after all, the case had been rejected by the d.a.s office twice before. this case getting a lot of bagga...

>> its bad for consumers, because we pay more. its bad for our workers because theres a lot more workers in industries like auto industry that use steel than there are in the industries that produce steel. and then theres all the industries that are going to face new tariffs from europe, from canada, from mexico, that will be hurt as well. >> so again, to keep it straight up, it seems like there isnt a real factual basis to say this is a good thing. that the only remaining argument would be this...

Agreements and it will be along the lines of a road map like elise said or potentially the parameters for a deal, but really the challenges, the follow through, and the verification. >> do you see the u.s. having leverage right now? >> well, i think the united states, of course, has leverage, has economic leverage. i think the president of the united states has significant leverage, but at the same time hes offered up a lot of it up front. hes offered the summit, which is something kim jong-un g...

Could be real progress here. you risk if it falls apart, the u.s. losing influence -- first of all losing leverage in the process and getting way less. way less verification of whatever you do get in the end, the u.s. losing influence. remember, were already seeing china meeting with kim jong-un and then suddenly things seem to change for the u.s. after that. you see russia yesterday meet with kim jong-un. all of a sudden theyre saying, denuclearization is a long, fazed in process where north ko...

The outs. they could use that with their leverage with kim jong-un. very interesting to watch. >> certainly, thanks for breaking it down for us, elise. now i want to bring in my panel to dig a little deeper on this situation. we have amy parnes, senior political correspondent for "the hill." julian else selser, a cnn polit analyst and historian at princeton university. and david edlesman is the former bureau chief, now with the national law school. amy, is the president scrambling for politica...

World who wanted to believe and who would like to believe that the leader of the free world, one of the titles we bestow on every president of the united states is simply not going to talk about them, think about them, or use any leverage to try and better their plight. its distressing. >> from an ethical perspective, walter, to have this meeting not in the roosevelt room or in another place in the white house but in the oval office, how do you receive that? >> i mean, theres no government ethic...

And i think, you know, they both have a little bit of leverage if they want to keep this going. the question is, what is really achievable. the president obviously concluded that that grand bargain that boris spoke about was not possible. you heard just a couple of days ago senior state department officials saying that for this summit to take place, that the u.s. was looking for something historic from the north koreans. now its more of a get to know you. its i think -- >> moving the goal post. ...

Back on again. and whats really unclear right now is what the goal is of the summit. exactly what does the united states hope to accomplish? what does north korea hope to accomplish? and as you mentioned, the president is spending this weekend at camp david. hes been joined there by some of his closest advisers in the form of his offspring, his son, donald jr. is there, his daughter tiffany trump, his other daughter ivanka trump and son-in-law, jared kushner, are all part of this weekend getaway...

China. the announcement just came out that the u.s. will be sending this official delegation to lead the trade talks this weekend in china. what can you tell us about that? >> well, wilbur ross is arriving tomorrow for talks with china. there was talking on whether both countries would slap tariffs on each other. the u.s. went ahead before these talks to gain a little leverage and announce theyre going to launch, you know, billions of dollars of tariffs on the -- on china. they want more access ...