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Who has to authorize any kind of proactive measures to counter russia's election interference efforts. >> all right. asha and sam, thank you so much to both of you. any minute now, president trump will be talking to reporters after a meeting with members of congress. will he address the rob porter scandal? stay with us.
Election, trying to stop it from happening again. why is that such a significant lapse? >> well, it's just really disappointing because there is a body, the national security council, and i served on it for four years, whose responsibility and mission it is to coordinate inner agency policy on a range of issues. what that means is there are several agencies -- the f burks ho -- fbi, homeland security -- that provide input to the policymaking process. the national security council under h.r. mcmaster should be taking those inputs and making policy recommendations to the president at which point...
Nothing. and sam was also moving on with his life. in may 1994, just months after cathy's murder, sam walked into a local restaurant. >> he walked in with his friend. and i just remember thinking that he was cute. >> reporter: tina montelongo was a hostess then. >> so, i offered him some free food. and then we started talking. >> reporter: she felt the spark right away. >> i did think i would marry him when i first saw him. that was, like, the words that came out of my mouth. "i'm going to marry that guy." >> reporter: you were taken with him right away? >> i was. uh-huh. >> reporter: sam and ...
>> reporter: they dated for a year, and then married. >> i was ready. i was, "this is it. this is who i want to be with. this is who i want to grow old with. this is who i want to have kids with." >> reporter: and they did. a year later came a baby girl. and sam embraced his role as dad. >> he was like mr. mom, you know. he stayed home and took care of the baby while i worked. >> reporter: if sam had anything to do with cathy's murder, he certainly didn't act like it. he stayed put. living with his wife and baby right down the street from cathy's mom, mary. >> she would sit outside and stare a...
>> reporter: in the murder of cathy torrez? >> yes. >> reporter: he hadn't told you that? >> he hadn't told me that. that was in the first couple of weeks that i was dating him. >> reporter: sam emphatically denied any involvement in cathy's murder. but just the idea spooked tina. so she made up a lie. >> i met him and i told him that i was dating somebody else. >> reporter: which was not true? >> which was not true. >> reporter: you were a little freaked out by that? >> well, yeah. >> reporter: but the spark that drew her to sam was too strong, and though tina had only known him a few short w...