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All of them give hair and blood samples to police but a year later, december 1997, they are still not cleared. >> they do remain under an umbrella of suspicion but we're not ready to name suspects. >> reporter: we're learning two years later a grand jury indicts john and patsy ramsey for child abuse resulting from death, an accessory to the murder but then district attorney alex hunter chooses not to charge the couple. >> we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant the filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time. >> reporter: dna evidence from the scene is entered...

Fbi database in december 2003. then, three years later, an arrest. 41-year-old john mark carr, an elementary school teacher with three sons, is arrested in bangkok, thailand, after claiming he was present when jonbenet died. he says he loved her and her death was an accident. carr isn't charged, after dna tests confirm he isn't a match. two years later in 2008, new dna analysis clears the ramsey family for good. the boulder county district attorney formally apologizes in a letter to john ramsey for the cloud of suspicion his family has lived under for 12 years. the apology comes too late for p...

rhetoric certainly is getting sharper. and there are seven major candidates now but after seven more days, will some of those candidates start falling by the wayside on the campaign trail? that's coming up in our strategy session this hour. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're here in dubuque. a bit chilly but no snow. it's getting ready, a week from today, the iowa caucuses. you're looking at live pictures from dubuque. this will be the first state to have an impact on the 2012 presidential campaign, and it's all happening here in iowa. the republican caucuses c...

Hole situation in iraq. you know, so i guess it's going to be a little while, jennifer, before all these pieces get put together and we have a clear picture of exactly how all of this laid out today. >> reporter: well, because we don't have any troops, nato doesn't have any troops, the u.s. doesn't have any forces on the ground, it's difficult to get confirmation. part of the confusion may be because we've also heard from commanders on the ground that he was found in a ditch, perhaps his vehicle was struck, and then the body was found in a ditch. so that's why these initial snippets of reports...

>> now, there are reports a number of the senior officials in the trump campaign/administration are connected to the russia investigation. the attorney general was forced to recuse himself. many members of this committee have urged the deputy attorney general, and he has that authority, to appoint a special council to protect the independence of the investigation. i recall, and i was here in december 2003, shortly after you were confirmed of deputy attorney general, the then-attorney general recused himself into the investigation into the leak. you appointed a special council. i believe you ap...