their dog starts barking in the distance. they investigate what s going on. who do they confront, the escaped inmate hanging out in the creek. they ask him, what are you doing here. he says i m camping. they don t buy it for a second. they call 911, and a large police presence descends on the neighborhood here as they have been for the last week or so. this case-cracking k-9 making this all possible. my conversation with them really something insightful. listen. reporter: so he definitely did bark at the inmate? he wouldn t stop. he kept barking, barking, barking, like this isn t right. reporter: what is it when you come face to face with the person everybody is looking for. oh, my. i was scared. we were both scared. our immediate thought was call 911, get them here, get him back where he belongs. reporter: i don t know if you can call them more than a good boy, but that is the definition, and we know that he is now actually getting a $2,000 check from crime sto
republican and one democrat, or is it bath because the idea of an alternative has potentially never been more appealing than it is right now. years of polling show public interest in something different is there. almost 50% of americans believe that both democrats and republicans have been doing such a poor job that a third option is needed. so is 2024 the year? is the exhaustion at the thought of a trump-biden rematch enough to sway voters for the first time in history? or would it just siphon off the stragglers and if itdoes, which party benefits, democrats or republicans? we re going to get into the calculus. because for the candidates, it is a calculus, including for whomever is on the would be ticket, which we may get a glimpse of for the first time in new hampshire. who s going to be there. in arlington, virginia, nbc news correspondent, ali vitali, and in washington, nbc news senior national politics reporter, jonathan allen and if you re asking yourself, what about ne