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Down to the question of will two female republican senators in this case susan collins and lisa murkowski, essentially say i don't have enough belief in the stories told by these fellow women to vote against brett kavanaugh? i mean, that's essentially the question that will ultimately determine his fate because i have a sense that senate democrats are going to be able to corral all their votes and essentially put the pressure on collins and murkowski to say i can't side with dr. ford and debby ramirez, there's not enough there. that's a very difficult place for them to be. >> is there also pos...

My sense is they basically are waiting to see where the chips fall. one of those chips are what do the democrats in red states do? it was widely seen that the mansions in the world, the heitkamps in the world, end up voting for them. it's given heitkamp and mansion and donnelly to say, we can't take our chances with this guy. >> i would take sam's scenario and spin it out even further. i think sam is right, the democrats have a free pass to vote against him. and then you are looking at a very, very dicey situation. let's say for sake of argument, kavanaugh's nomination doesn't go forward. it d...

One of those chips are what do the democrats in red states do? it was widely seen that the mansions in the world, the heitkamps in the world, end up voting for them. it's given heitkamp and mansion and donnelly to say, we can't take our chances with this guy. >> i would take sam's scenario and spin it out even further. i think sam is right, the democrats have a free pass to vote against him. and then you are looking at a very, very dicey situation. let's say for sake of argument, kavanaugh's nomination doesn't go forward. it doesn't seem conceivable you get another nominee before the election,...

Role was helping the prime suspect -- javier's cousin sam lopez. tina montelongo, sam's then-wife and javier's friend, wasn't buying it. can you conceive of javier going through with a murder or being involved in it because of his loyalty to sam? >> no. i don't see that. if sam did it, would xavi help him just because they're close family? i don't see that. >> reporter: neither did the d.a. who decided there was not enough evidence to file charges. how do you tell mary bennett, "we had javier, but we had to let him go"? >> it was extremely difficult. there was a lot of crying on both sides. >>...

Ultimately, cathy decided, says tina, that she was so broken up about albert she was going to tell sam the answer was no. >> she's crying, and then she said, "i'm going to tell him this saturday that i'm not gonna take off with him, that i will not elope." that was wednesday. and then saturday she never came home. >> reporter: sam's admitted jealousy, cathy's doting on albert, a rejected proposal. all of it seemed to add up to motive. but motives don't prove murder. there was still no physical evidence tying sam to the crime. all the blood on the car had been tested, and it was all cathy's. bu...