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Really for the last five years. how unusual is it that he's going to be sitting in jail until monday? >> reporter: well, it's a little bit unusual because he was brought in on an indictment, but he hasn't entered his plea yet. he is charged with violating a federal law that makes it a crime to lobby the u.s. government on behalf of a foreign government without notifying the justice department of the lobbying. and the charges say that for more than a year, barrack tried to influence the foreign policy first of the trump campaign and then the administration by pushing ideas that were favorable t...

That's one thing to talk somebody into murdering somebody for you. but then to talk that same person into killing themselves if they got caught, how do you do that? >> reporter: christine white did not attend the trial. she declined our request for an interview, but wrote us a letter saying she had don had no custody battle in december 2016, only different ideas in school choices, tuition. regarding don's murder, she wrote -- >> reporter: prosecutors natalie and david say the investigation into christine is still open. but they don't know when, or if she might be charged. >> we would have to b...

A reason why care has inconsistent. most of what i know about this, adam, is from your reporting on this. now through two white houses, explain the syndrome, who it targets, and then we'll talk about what we do about it. >> so, you know, this begins at the end of december 2016. you just had kind of during the transition between the obama administration and trump administration, and you had a veteran cia officer who reports at the embassy in havana to report he felt as though he was walking around his house as if there was a beam of energy that was follow him and causing him pain. so he reporte...

Mistake? or a killer trying to cover his tracks? that was the central question as the people of verses lars itzo began in december, 2016. the stakes were high. if lars was convicted of murder, he would face up to 99 years in prison. if he was convicted of manslaughter, as few as two. >> we never for a second believe that he didn't know who that was standing in front of him. >> that the prosecutors knew proving intentional murder wouldn't be easy. especially in this case where you have someone saying, i did it, i confess. but it was an accident. i love my wife. >> yeah, we were aware of that an...

Reporters at a press conference when it comes to cyber capability, quote, we've got more capacity than anybody both offensively and defensively. it was a message obama would return to after the november election when he was asked why his administration had not done more to deter russian meddling. >> whatever they do to us we can potentially do to them. we obviously have offensive capabilities as well as defensive capabilities. our goal continues to be to send a clear message to russia or others not to do this to us because we can do stuff to you. >> we can do stuff to you. that was the message...