maybe subpoena his tax returns. i think that might have something to do with it, a little bit, and you calling out on the russia investigation so much. i would be remiss if i didn t ask, this is the first interview i ve seen with you since the threats that you received and about 15 we know threats from a floridian, an extremist, a very fervent trump fan who send mail bombs to multiple democrats, chairman pelosi leader pelosi and others. in this kind of a climate where speech can actually produce violence, how do you respond to that? how do you live with that and how do you respond to it? well, first of all, i think that what has happened with the targeting of individuals who have basically been opposed to this president should tell the president about what is going on. all of us who are targeted are
hill and the pittsburgh jewish community stand for. it s representative of our community, our city at large. and when you choose to do something here, you re making a very bold statement about attacking good. and so i have encouraged people to do, many people ask what can we do to help? in order to honor the lives of our friends and family members and in order to honorer our community, go out and do something good today, in judaism, we talk about repairing the world. you know, tree of life is where i learned that for the first time. the pittsburgh jewish community center is where i practiced that. i m encouraging people to just do something positive and connect yourself to the lives that were lost and the people who didn t ask to be martyrs but today are. if you do that, you re essentially winning and making the world a better place. isn t that the better message? jeffrey, thank you for coming in. one other note. i notice in nearly every single description of each one of these
made no connection between that and something she noticed about her boyfriend, john creech. i discovered he had scrapes on his hands and on his arms. she didn t think he had a eng to do with the disappearance. reporter: but when detective o brian heard about creech s skrarngs she thought about gavin smith s wuvenltdz he needed to talk to him again. he found him in jamie serving eight years on a cocaine charge, his second conviction for dealing drugs. not exactly an upstanding citizen. could they prove he murdered gavin smith. he went to him. didn t ask him questions, put a picture down in front of him with the shol shallow grave. reporter: how d he react to that in. very wide eyed 57d the first call to his attorney. reporter: the record of calls detectives found in creech s cell phone from the night gavin
i have to put myself in that spot. i think you get a little leeway there. emily, let me turn to you. what happened when jeff flake came back and the vote that followed. what does it say to you about the institution itself. when you look at those two guys who are friends as well as colleagues, how outside the norm are they today? what does it say about the state of the senate? they are quite a display of bipartisan friendship. i heard chris coons say he considered it a compromise to limit the fbi background check to one week. the idea of compromise, working across party lines. it seems rare indeed in this climate. even throughout the hearings there s hyper partisanship on display. there were democratic senators who didn t ask questions of dr. ford. there were republicans senators who didn t ask questions of
senators, including the ranking member, but the ranking member didn t ask judge kavanaugh about the allegations when she met with him privately in august. the senate judiciary committee held its four-day public hearing from september 4 to september 7th. judge kavanaugh testified for more than 32 hours in public. we held a closed session for members to ask sensitive questions on the last evening, which the ranking member did not attend. judge kavanaugh answered nearly 1300 written questions submitted by senators after the hearing, more than all prior supreme court nominees. throughout this period, we did not know about the ranking member s secret evidence. then, only at an eleventh hour on the eve of judge kavanaugh s confirmation vote did the ranking member refer the allegations to the fbi. and then, sadly, the allegations were leaked to the press.