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Extra." im craig melvin. detective donna velasquez was laser focused on finding david jacksons killer, working around the clock, the relentless investigator had tracked down a woman who had claimed davids killer had confessed to her in horrifying detail. the 15-year-old cold case was now red hot and there was about to be an astonishing new wrinkle. was davids murder a family affair? once again, heres keith morrison. >> david jackson was murdered the in 1988 in florida. that much detective donna ...

Of the murder. how does he know that? >> a phone bill from her mothers home placing calls to arizona that night. >> whats a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere where you could grab for evidence by the defendant? >> her father was a meticulous record keeper. >> whats to say it wasnt an answering service that picked it up. >> they testified there was no answering machine. >> something changed in december 2010. >> there was new evidence discovered. >> the prosecutor who inherited th...

Her innocence, claims there was a certain reason michael wolf lied about her that way. it was pay back, she said, for something that happened when they were married. and here came another one of those odd stories. earlier there was the one suggesting drug running on davids delivery truck. now a story about michael and gun running. >> i was putting away laundry one day and i saw a bulge in a dress shirt pocket, and there was quite a bit of money there. and when he got home from work that night i ...

The fifth estate actually work together. and yet people entities and do is damaging it even more. in future hurricanes or future natural disasters, people dont trust the government. they feel the government is deceiving them and the press is deceiving them. donald trump is part of the reason for that. >> and i believe in past hurricane seasons famous conservatives like rush limbaugh in the path of storms doubted some of the forecasts and if thats stretched out to a point where lives are in quest...

Welcome back, everyone. joining us now with a look at washington, d.c., mike allen. mike, what is the one big thing you guys are tracking for us today? >> good morning. >> one big thing is trumps great gift to traditional media. the other day on air force one, the president is pouring over some data. hes looking at charts, hes looking at fine print. as viewers know, this president is usually more the big picture. this time hes going deeper. what is he looking at? cable news ratings. theyre way u...

Omarosa or michael wolf? >> i think its a great question. and you saw bob woodward defending his reporting on "today," the fact that shes spoken with more than a hundred current and former staffers. he has recordings of all of his interviews, and he really stressed his methodology during that interview with savannah guthrie. youre right. president trump lashing out. he was clearing watching infuriated by all of it. one of his tweets, the woodward book is a joke. just another assault against me i...

Effect confirming woodwards reporting that senior officials are working secretly to frustrate the presidents worst inn colin cases, quote, americans should know there are adults in the room. we fully recognize what is happening and we are trying to do whats right even when donald trump wont. in other words, the call is coming from inside the house. much of this isnt shocking, with he knew from the chaos from michael wolf, omarosa and our own reporting. we didnt know the senior staff was working ...

You essentially have a pretty high-level individual according to "the new york times," potentially someone who even works within the white house, who is talking about the mental state of the president. who is talking about the presidents inability and his inability to be effective at the role. and what that means as far as a national security of our country. i think thats why this still has legs. this is much bigger than michael wolfs book and much bigger than omarosas book or the bob woodward b...

Is it really just adding to the chorus? >> i have a couple of thoughts here. first of all, bob woodwards book and his account, it echoes many of the themes we saw in michael wolfs fire and fury and omarosa manigaults "unhinged." hes a much more credible narrator than either of them. we know along with his two pulitzer prizes, his work with bernstein helped bring down eventually the nixon presidency by exposing watergate. i think he has a lot more credibility coming into the gate. on the question...

Focus on other things? you have white house staffers unable to deflect any culpability here. how has this disrupted white house operations? >> the problem for the white house, its not a new story. its the same narrative that weve seen coming out of the woodward book. also from michael wolf, and onlieronly er onlier rosa. so this drip, drip, drip isnt about the last few days it starts pretty much on day one. >> okay. i do want to get to another astounding moment this week, this is when our former...