it didn t surprise me. it hurt you though. it hurt. i thought when you have a police officer who interviews her within an hour, hour and a half of this shooting and she is clear as day saying these are the things i heard from my back window, whether she had been drinking that night or not, to me that s the most believable version of events. reporter: so a hiccup perhaps, but then there was the crime scene. remember, the coroner and the csi officer said at the time that the scene screamed suicide, but this prosecution witness. name is jonathan w. priest. priest is a forensic consultant who used a miniature model of the bedroom to show ashley s position. so she has to be here and bent down so she ll fit into this trajectory. he was convinced that if ashley shot herself there would be more blood on the floor and surrounding surfaces, not just this one carpet stain. we have indications of bleeding, but the type of injury that we re talking about is going to bleed a lot.
it is entirely possible. the abortion bills have certainly gone too far and that is not my view. that is apparently institutional view of the republican party. you have literally the press secretary for the rnc saying or the chairwoman saying this. so, yes, they anticipate this is going to energize candidates on the left and democratic candidates who are female are well positions to mobilize and position around these issues. it didn t surprise me. my question is whether or not that will last. and this is a news cycle. i don t anticipate that it will. will it last for elizabeth warren and kamala harris? that is a tough question. but i do think that noah is exactly right in that the female candidates have taken the lead here and joe biden in his first major shift really since becoming a candidate said that he finally was in favor of repealing the hyde amendment which poses federal funding for abortions. and so i think when voters see more of a consistency and maybe
did you expect that from her? yeah. it didn t surprise me. it hurt you though. it hurt. but i thought that, you know, when you have a police officer that interviews her within an hour, hour and a half of the shooting saying these are things i head heard whether she d been drinking or not, to me that s the most believable version of events. so a hiccup perhaps but then there was the crime scene. the coroner and the csi offerser said that the scene screamed suicide. priest is a former homicide detective and forensic consultant who used a miniature model of the bedroom to show ashley s position. she has to be here and bent down. he was convinced that if ashley shot herself there would be more blood on the floor and surrounding surfaces, not just
people. that came up yesterday. was there anything that surprised you there in the references to roger stone and wikileaks and what donald trump knew and what michael cohen alleges he told him to do? it didn t surprise me, but it was new information to hear about this alleged speaker phone call in which roger stone called touchdown and said i just talked to julian assange. now, knowing roger stone a little bit now over these many months, i don t think that he actually did julian assange. but he still could have told 100%. it sounded like a plausible story. roger stone denies it, but it could have happened. and it seemed that michael cohen is sort of looking back and piecing things together and telling this personal narrative of, huh, that struck me as funny and i remember when don jr. whispered something to donald trump and maybe it was about the trump tower completing and i remember this phone call from
investigation and whether or not he had conversations with the president after the briefings. nadler says he doesn t find the insistence that he didn t have conversations with the president credible. jerry nadler is threatening a subpoena, if it s necessary to get those answers. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. let s talk about what happened there on capitol hill. we have a professor at the university. always good to see you. thanks for giving us your time. thank you. i heard earlier, matthew whitker was basically snarky. he didn t want to be there. he said he would be there. didn t want to talk about the investigations with mueller. he didn t give up much. did that surprise you? it didn t surprise me. he s in a difficult place.