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Are here have been concerned about the president's trade war with china and the differences these leaders have on important issues of the day. back to you. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you so much. she is traveling with the president in france and president trump is now in this bilateral meeting with shinzo abe from japan. the president's schedule on one meeting is not the only one. he'll be meeting with canada's justin trudeau followed by a working lunch and more meetings and a formal dinner. stay with us on msnbc. we will have more news at the top of the hour. right now, we return to our progra...

>> she had quite a story to tell about james. about how he offered to murder ben. >> the night ben died, he said now or never. and i said no. i said not today. don't do it. no. i said no. i said no. no. no. no. >> reporter: hours later, she said, james woke her up from a sound sleep and told her ben was dead. but that, she said, is all he told her. all she knew. >> so you're confident that james had something to do with it? >> i don't know. >> reporter: is that really all she knew? dawn had a 16-year-old son named devin who detectives learned was at home and listening in the hours before ben o...

I started thinking why am i here? something i heard to my left -- >> reporter: a sudden noise? >> yeah. and as i turned and jerked to see what it was, i pulled the trigger. >> reporter: he ran then, he said, left the front door wide open. caught up with dawn in the truck. >> reporter: who drove? >> she did. i started yelling at her when we got in the truck. >> reporter: the truth, said james matlean, all of it. dawn knows the truth and i know the truth. and that's all that matters. i take full responsibility for what i did. dawn needs to take full responsibility for what she did. >> coming up,...

Remember, the police went to see dawn a couple hours after ben was killed, found her fast asleep. >> what time did you think you went to sleep? >> oh, gosh, i watched a movie "the departed" and -- i don't know, about 4:00. >> in fact, she happened to be sharing her bedroom with a 21-year-old family friend named james matlean. >> we watched a movie and went to bed. >> yeah, that's our story. that's it. >> reporter: not exactly a convincing alibi. any more than the obvious fiction that james, a new man in her life, was just a friend. even less convincing when detective ron elgis learned about a ...

His sleep and must live with what he did for the rest of his days. >> i have to live with what i actually did. >> he told his story in court. it was after the d.a. took the death penalty off the table and james decided to plead guilty. that's when melissa, sitting in the courtroom, heard for the first time about something else. james was supposed to kill her too. >> i just automatically said yeah. >> there was a bullet there for you. what was it like to hear that? >> unreal. >> do you believe that she was in the house last night? >> i do. i have a harder time with dawn than james because if it...