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Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why y...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why y...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why y...

>> isaiah asked to speak to his mother. donna, the corrections officer, who had brought suspects to these interrogation rooms for years, was allowed to see her son alone. >> all i could do was hold him. i just felt extremely helpless. >> whatever they talked about, donna wouldn't tell detectives. isaiah stopped talking too. but police were convinced they had the right suspect. they charged isaiah with two counts of murder and one count each of robbery and obstructing justice. but when the trial began in the summer of 2018, prosecutor michael perry knew that proving the charges would be difficu...

>> just, how did we get here? how did we get here? i know this isn't right. i know this isn't right. >> their pain was compounded when isaiah was sentenced to 60 years in prison. on appeal the court ruled that three of his four convictions relied on the same evidence in what amounted to double jeopardy. his robbery conviction was reduced to theft, a misdemeanor. and one of his two murder convictions was thrown out. but on the remaining count, the jury's verdict stood, as did isaiah's sentence. >> we want him to know that we are -- we love him, and we are going to be there for him, no matter wh...