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When . Weeks and still has not ruled. Nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Where do things stand after todays arguments . Reporter judge Aileen Cannon said she would rule promptly on these two motions to dismiss and seemed skeptical this afternoon of the argument about the president ial records act. Remember, what donald trump is saying under the president ial records act he could deem any record in the white house whether classified document about Nuclear Secrets or ide...

get hurt. >> we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trumps lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wa...

I said yeah, whats up. he said that gal that testified against you killed somebody. >> this is scott cannon. you can imagine his surprise when he heard the news that the woman who had been the star witness against him was now a convicted killer herself. what do you now know about bimla boyd that you didnt know at your trial? >> looks like shes not afraid to kill people. >> but would the latest death on what became known as murder mountain make any difference in cannons case? when we met him in a...

Its easy to answer it. but it falls on deaf ears a lot. >> the families of the victims all tell us that they believe in their hearts that the right guy is in prison. that you did it. what do you want to say to them? >> i disagree. i can understand why they want to believe that and why they do believe that. it probably makes them feel better. but you know, its not so. >> and while cannon had been languishing in the state pen, his family had stood by him. his girlfriend sarah, the mother of his tw...

Know about? >> we turned over every rock, and you start to think is there something we dont know about. did we miss something. >> it turns out it wasnt the defense that missed something. as prosecutors were examining boxes of physical evidence from the first trial, there was a bombshell waiting to hit the headlines. in december of 2009, just three months after cannons new trial was ordered, the victims families received phone calls from prosecutors, calls they will not forget. >> it hit you as a...

>> waiting there, his son mathias who had seen his father arrested at gunpoint and he was now at age 20, a man himself. >> this is going to be a new experience. and the defense attorney and that reporter, turned private eye, who in cannons mind had made all the difference. >> i knew youd do it, man. >> lets go home. >> the cars this way, buddy. >> after having your life taken away from you to have it drop back in your lap its, wow -- its -- i dont want to be cliche but you stop and smell the flo...

Gunpoint. >> as the years go by, it fills me with this rage that penetrates nearly every single, you know, factor of my life. theres an injustice that happened here. >> scott cannons version of the events of that deadly day has never changed. he said that when he went out to the trailer to make some estimates on plumbing repairs, he saw that unidentified hispanic looking man inside the trailer and heard him arguing with another man, presumably jason kinser. cannon says he told one of the women w...

They began trying to identify the hispanic looking man whom cannon had always claimed was at the mobile home the day of the murders, look what they found in the dusty court file. a photo array or throwdown, as its called, made by polk county detectives in the hours after the murder. like a police lineup with photos. in it, only dark-haired hispanic looking men. mason, the reporter turned private eye, took the photo array to prison and showed it to convicted killer scott cannon. >> ten years afte...

And in 2008, the newly minted private eye walked into the oregon state penitentiary, where at the visitors desk, he recognized an inmate named scott cannon. he said i tried to find you, i have been looking for you, i knew you were a good investigator, would you take on my case. i said absolutely. i didnt hesitate at all. >> you covered the story as a journalist. >> correct. >> now youre investigating as a private eye. >> um-hum. >> is scott cannon the killer? >> i dont think so. i have confidenc...

Leave the mobile home. the time, shortly after 3:30 p.m., he says, about the time those two men who were making a drug delivery arrived. remember, they testified that cannon met them outside the trailer, acting strangely, discouraged him from going inside, then followed him off the property in his van. >> the implication being the reason you didnt want them to go inside was that you already killed everyone in the trailer. >> that seems to be the states theory, yeah. i basically gave them their a...