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The next 25 is a series of forward-looking essays on msnbc.com to celebrate msnbc's 25th anniversary. my contribution out today actually takes a look back. after years of trying to seize the wheel during president obama's eight years in office, republicans handed the keys over to donald trump and, well, we all know what happened. when i think of the damage a president can do in just a single term, my mind goes back 13 years to a march 2008 meeting in the private residence of the white house with president george w. bush. the last republicans to sit in the oval office before trump made an endur...

>> reporter: as a building contractor brad waite spends a lot of time in his truck. >> reporter: he's haunted by the possibility that at the very moment his sister, shirlee sherman, was being murdered in march 2008, he was driving by, close enough, perhaps, to have heard her scream. >> i basically almost drove by hunter's house, and so it would have been at 4:00 that afternoon. i'd had no idea shirlee was working there that day. >> reporter: later that night, brad says he heard about the two murders in dundee on the 10:00 news. even then he says he didn't know his sister was a victim. that new...

Call it news conference. >> i want to ask you why you and your husband in march 2008, accepted and participated in a very large ipo deal from visa. in a time that there was major legislation affecting credit card companies making its way through the house? would you consider that a cop pliaconflict of interest. >> i don't know the point of your question? is there a point to make glim >> do you think it is all right for a speaker to accept a preferential stock deal. you participated in ipo. the time you are speaker of house, you don't believe this was a conflict of interest. >> it has the appea...

For a interview, but agree to call it news conference. >> i want to ask you why you and your husband in march 2008, accepted and participated in a very large ipo deal from visa. in a time that there was major legislation affecting credit card companies making its way through the house? would you consider that a cop pliaconflict of interest. >> i don't know the point of your question? is there a point to make glim >> do you think it is all right for a speaker to accept a preferential stock deal. you participated in ipo. the time you are speaker of house, you don't believe this was a conflict of...

>> reporter: as a building contractor brad waite spends a lot of time in his truck. >> reporter: he's haunted by the possibility that at the very moment his sister, shirlee sherman, was being murdered in march 2008, he was driving by, close enough, perhaps, to have heard her scream. >> i basically almost drove by hunter's house, and so it would have been at 4:00 that afternoon. i'd had no idea shirlee was working there that day. >> reporter: later that night, brad says he heard about the two murders in dundee on the 10:00 news. even then he says he didn't know his sister was a victim. that new...