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♪ anthony: detroit's problems are well documented. a lot of attention has been paid to a history of spectacular mismanagement and corruption. detroit is hardly alone in this. koch era new york, we forget too soon, was a cesspit of mob-influenced corruption. chicago, boston, machine politics, they wrote the book. but detroit differs in that its scandals seems so comically lurid. so surrealistically squalid. the last mayor, kwame kilpatrick, is currently serving time in the jug for some of his less hilariously bent behaviors. through all of it, one man seems to have known what's going on. ad...

What did you think then? >> that was tragic. >> that was devastating to us. >> you expected a not guilty verdict? >> oh, yes. not a doubt. >> deputy d.a. burke strunsky was disappointed too. he was also determined to retry the case. but first he sent his investigator on a mission to explore the life and marriage of chris hall. and what do you know. in idaho, where hall had been a disgraced police chief, the investigator uncovered a startling accusation. >> chris was a great, great con man. >> former los angeles police officer jerry winkel is a county commissioner up in idaho now. but once upon...

Believe that even if he did it, he should be confirmed. in other words, the republican party as a group, a majority of them, don't think this was that bad. they think that this was kind of a, well, teenage guys do that kind of stuff thing. but senators had to kind of conceal that and make the case that it was either about something else, oh, are we going to convict guys for drinking beer in high school? no, that's not what it was about. it was about assault. >> i want you to weigh in on this also, melanie, and how it is people can say, we believe dr. christine blasey ford, we just don't believ...

Is what they will be voting about tomorrow. >> brett's assault on me drastically altered my life for a very long time. i was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone these details. i did not want to tell my parents that i at age 15 was in a house without any parents present drinking beer with boys. i convinced myself that because brett didn't rape me, i should move on and pretend it didn't happen. over the years i told very, very few friends that i had this traumatic experience. i told my husband before we were married that i had experienced a sexual assault. >> the first all-senate vote on brett...

>> i don't know if anybody ever asked him if he ever got around to actually watching what she said. he said he plans to. i don't know if he ever did. but senators watched it. they all did. so they can't say that they don't know what christine blasey ford brought to washington that day. senators watched it. senators know what her testimony was. and so that, again, indelibly is what they will be voting about tomorrow. >> brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. for a very long time i was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone these details. i did not want to tell my parents that i at ag...