the place where her car was found. we wanted the fbi to get involved and all this. and we were just making a lot of noise. reporter: quietly attending was scott, the young man the police had questioned a week earlier. giselle esteban s old boyfriend, remember, and father of her child. two days later, monday june 6th, the family was called back to the police station for an important meeting. the police finally had a chance to search michelle s car and the status of her case had been changed, from missing person to homicide. and the family felt blindsided. and they said, you know, i think you have to get comfortable with - - with the fact that your sister is probably dead. we were horrified. reporter: and just like that, the information door closed. the hayward police told the family it was a murder investigation now. so department policy they could reveal nothing more. and therefore couldn t or wouldn t tell the family why they thought michelle was dead.
child. two days later, monday june 6th, the family was called back to the police station for an important meeting. the police finally had a chance to search michelle s car and the status of her case had been changed, from missing person to homicide. and the family felt blindsided. and they said, you know, i think you have to get comfortable with - - with the fact that your sister is probably dead. we were horrified. reporter: and just like that, the information door closed. the hayward police told the family it was a murder investigation now. so department policy they could reveal nothing more. and therefore couldn t or wouldn t tell the family why they thought michelle was dead. but without hearing an explanation or seeing any evidence, how could the family believe the police? no. they simply wouldn t accept what the cops had to say. it was horrible.
remember, and father of her child. two days later the family was called back to the police station for an important meeting. the police finally had a chance to search michelle s car and the status of her case had been changed, from missing person to homicide. and the family felt blindsided. and they said, you know, i think you have to get comfortable with - - with the fact that your sister is probably dead. we were horrified. and just like that, the information door closed. the hayward police told the family it was a murder investigation now. so department policy they could reveal nothing more. and therefore couldn t or wouldn t tell the family why they thought michelle was dead. but without hearing an explanation or seeing any evidence, how could the family believe the police? no. they simply wouldn t accept what the cops had to say. it was horrible. we were really angry.
two days later, monday june 6th, the family was called back to the police station for an important meeting. the police finally had a chance to search michelle s car and the status of her case had been changed, from missing person to homicide. and the family felt blindsided. and they said, you know, i think you have to get comfortable with - - with the fact that your sister is probably dead. we were horrified. reporter: and just like that, the information door closed. the hayward police told the family it was a murder investigation now. so department policy they could reveal nothing more. and therefore couldn t or wouldn t tell the family why they thought michelle was dead. but without hearing an explanation or seeing any evidence, how could the family believe the police? no. they simply wouldn t accept what the cops had to say. it was horrible. we were really angry. because, okay. you want to make it homicide.
us back in time. it s not a current meeting they re describing, but this new reporting deals with a time last year when the president, according to the new york times, was asking sessions to flip back after recusing himself from supervision of the special counsel investigation, to step back in and say that he could. we all watched how sessions recused himself, citing specific department of justice rules, because he had been a campaign surrogate, part of the transition team, but that would bar him from being a supervisor over that case. we also know that the president felt blindsided by that, based on all of the reporting and his comments, frustrated. and trey gowdy is an interesting figure in this, because he is the south carolina congressman not seeking re-election. a former federal prosecutor, who has often spoken very much in support of people like sessions, the fbi, and so forth, often a bit against where the president is. so, for president trump to cite him in an explanation of