from them so we can make the identifications as fast as possible. we are working very hard at making those identifications out of respect for the family. i would rather not go into any details about the decedent s or their injuries. i am available to answer any questions. reporter: is the coroner s office equipped to handle this many bodies? i would like to say we are about as equipped as anybody in the country. i don t know that anybody can be fully equipped to handle this, but we ve gotten support through grant money and our county commission through the years. we have trained and exercised and we are putting the training and exercising place right now. i think our staff, along with the police department and fire departments, are doing a heck of a good job handling this, all things considered. reporter: you have enough space at the coroner s office? we do have enough space.
the story. nbc news reached out to mr. spicer for comment and he told us, quote, ed is a longtime supporter of the president s agenda who often appears in the media. he asked for a ten-minute meeting with no specified topic to catch up and said he would be bringing along a contributor to fox news. as ed himself has noted, he has never met the president and the white house has nothing to do with the story. we re going to dig into this. it is extraordinary. joining us now, the man who filed the lawsuit, rod wheeler, and his attorney. rod, let s start with you. you claimed that the fox reporter, malia zimmerman, made up two quotes in this article atri attributing them to you. what do you say ifalse? well, the quotes that she added to her story specifically references me as saying that i knew for a fact that the decedent in this case, seth rich, sent e-mails to wikileaks. and that just was totally fabricated.
the police have hundreds of tips, one of the tips spoke about a person who was in that area. the police checked all of the summons given on cars, and they found chanel lewis had been in that area where because of the car being ticketed, they then went to him, he agreed to let them swap his mouth for dna, and it was a perfect match with the dna under her fingernails. jenna: talk to us about that because of your expertise in forensics. he willingly gave up his dna, but the exact match means what in court? it is like 99% that he had contact with the decedent, by many ways, but one of them is he had scratches on his body when he came home that night. she had his skin under her fingernails, and that is also very important police work.
it was part of the estate of robert e. lee, and it was taken from lee when lee was off, putting together the confederate army. and his wife, mariana, who was the decedent of actually, desce descendant of george washington s stepson, she inherited it and eventually they gave it up during the war. 1864, that piece of property, 1100 acres, was turned into the cemetery we see today. i remember from my tours there, it was almost seen as a sleight, right, they would start burying the dead o lee s property, you know it was done as sort of a, this is where we re going to put those who perish. it s the most hallowed space i ve been to in this country. as a reporter with the military, when we would travel with the
administration going after them. obama administration didn t go after them. the bush administration didn t go after them. but clinton administration didn t go after them. if you count the little man in jail versus top executives from this company it s like the home. ted going moving from the united states. i m happy to see something has been done. the reality executives are insullated. now the boom is being lowered. ted, next come back tell us how you feel. thank you both. who is the most decedent guy in washington, d.c. who is it? stand by after the break.