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With mr. trump as choosing darkness over light. the american public will be able to watch i hope, him come out of the darkness and explain what the real president trump is like. i believe and i hope that to continue that understanding that mr. cohen would be willing to come book my intelligence economy and help him understand the communications with russians and the financial through the trump administration. >> i know youre intelligence committee chairman. he wants him to testify behind closed ...

Presidency. i think its the sort of thing that historians when they look back at this presidency, they will end up noting this. and that is that president trump, of course, has been at the center of the most serious presidential scandals probably in u.s. history. hes facing the most serious investigations of any president ever. he is probably facing the most serious legal jeopardy of any president in u.s. history. but at the same time, his legal defense has been a crazy quilt. i mean, theres his...

Flipped against him and is now awaiting the start of his federal prison term. there are the unusual hires, the unusual choices he made for his initial counsel to handle the russia investigation. they both flamed out, but not before distinguishing themselves by having loud conversations about very sensitive aspects of the presidents legal defense at an outdoor table at a washington restaurant while they were seated next to a reporter from "the new york times" who promptly reported everything they...

Years ago, they made it fair for the people sentenced before then, matthew was one of them. this was long overdue justice. the bill was modest, not a great prison break, just going to bring justice to people like matthew and how sands of others. >> dana: matthew did you make decision when you were first sentenced and serving your prison term, that you were going to try to do everything right so that you have this second chance? i know that the judge in the case said you did everything right. eve...

>> but before the judge allowed justine to leave the witness stand, the prosecutor stepped to the podium and asked a question on behalf of the victims families. a question that froze the courtroom. >> what they wanted to hear from you for a long, long time also is "im sorry." can you tell them that? >> im sorry for your loss. but i cannot -- i dont know what youre meaning by, you want me to say that im sorry. >> and so the hammer came down. >> its the order of the court. the defendant is committ...

But number two, we know this is not a witch hunt because witch hunts tend not to catch witches. this investigation has resulted in charges, indictments, in sentences, even in prison terms and at least one of those targets having already completed his prison term, too, i think actually in this investigation. that suggests there is actual criminal activity here and not just a phantom witch hunt that the president and his supporters like to point to. >> ned price, joyce vance, thank you. >> thank y...

Remember how she felt about the lawyers who began zeroing in on her ex-husband just before he fled? >> i think its a bit opportunistic but thats the state of our legal system in this country. >> shes changed her mind about that. >> i thought the lawyers were targeting him and he was just too cowardly to stand up and thats why he left. but i didnt think he actually did any of these things. >> but now you do. >> i do. >> you think the lawyers had a right to go after him. >> oh, yeah. im very glad ...

>> so it was decided. soon after ethan and his mother had their talk, he appeared before the judge and admitted he did participate in the murder of his good friend, kate. he agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence. >> you understand that the court still treats this as a guilty plea. >> yes, maam. >> and that your criminal record will reflect that as a guilty plea? >> yes, maam. >> of course, since heather pleaded guilty to murder and forgery and...

>> hed claimed to be their great friend, sociable, gregarious, larger than life. then said his neighbors, once chris was arrested, he seemed nervous. and now he was gone. and so they wondered, was david novak running from something? the loft friends began re-examining all those stories told them over the years, particularly those about his criminal past. >> started comparing notes and stories and it becomes clear, wow, david told me a different version of that. >> hed been lying, to put it rathe...

He did participate in the murder of his good friend kate. he agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence. >> you understand the court still treats this as a guilty plea? >> yes, maam. >> and your criminal record will reflect it as a guilty plea? >> yes, maam. >> reporter: of course, since heather pleaded guilty to murder and forgery and obstruction of justice, they didnt need a trial for her either. guilty but mentally ill, by the way. at her sent e...