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. you re not going to tell us why. reporter: ritchie understood the family s anger. but as far as he was concerned, he had a murder investigation on his hands and that meant the family had to be kept in the dark. there s certain procedural things that we have to keep close to us, that we can t put
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 the fact that your sister is probably dead. we were horrified. keith morrison: 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 d to say. it was horrible. we were really angry. because ok, you want to make it homicide, you re not going to tell us why. keith morrison: ritchie understood the family s anger, but as far as he was concerned, he had a murder
white house. glenn thrush is the white house correspondent for the times, kristen, after calling the democrats obstructionists and more, donald trump strikes an agreement on the debt limit with them. and he raved to schumer and pelosi about their news coverage this morning, what the heck happened? it is a stunning turn of events. according to officials we have been speaking with, republicans felt blindsided. just to take you into the oval office, republican lawmakers went in pushing for a longer exsengs of t extension of the debt limit. democrats were not having it. they would not go with that plan, they were dug in on wanting a shorter time line.
those things are hard to predict, when there s a very, very in this case, a very, very small cloift kloikter of p around here. not a good thing for his intelligence services to do, so he s very much, i think, in a sort of a decisional bubble, and he makes these decisions on, pretty much on his own. do you think he has a plan for syria? what his long-term plan is, i m not sure he has one. i think he s kind of winging this day to day. did the president ever express to you disappointment? did he ever say he gauss blindsided or felt blindsided, for instance, by russian military action in syria? actually, in that case he wasn t. we d done pretty well with his recent evolution with russian intervention into syria. we had that down pretty well.
though we have new reporting tonight from our gloria borger than other people of the legal team are, and this is not a legal term, freaking out. the legal team felt blindsided by mayor guiliani. meantime the president weighed in with series of legalistic sounding and un-trump sounding, yet potentially self damaging tweets on stormy daniels admitting for the first time he repaid michael cohen for making the hush agreement and more likely michael cohen s claim he did this all on his own without the president s knowledge, nothing to do about the election, could possibly be true. then at the white house briefing this afternoon, press secretary sarah sanders gave a series of non-responder answers she told little or nothing about. will you give the very best information we have at the time? again, we give the best information possible at the time and again i ve given the best information i had at the time.