and they have this meeting, and she describes how kushner had a manila folder with him. he opens this folder, and he wants to tell the president about it, and the president says, i don t want to know anything about it. then kushner says it s not really a big deal. well, it turned out to be one of the biggest deals in this entire russia investigation. but what s so interesting there is she gives us this behind the scenes look about the president, every time they would go to him and say, hey, we may have potentially a problem here, he would say, i don t want to know about it. i don t want to hear about it. so they never told him, and it turned out to be a very big deal despite what kushner thought. plausible deniability? perhaps. you see this throughout these fbi interviews of how the president tries to distance himself from some of this. and we ll talk more impeachment later on in the show. thank you, gentlemen, i appreciate it. president trump clinging to gordon sondland s reco
on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. did that just give you chills? it was horrible. why didn t she tell us? did a secret lead to murder? it s got to be unimaginable. welcome to dateline. when the body of brooke morris was discovered by the side of the road, her family started looking for answers. they were surprised to discover that she may have been involved in an allegedly violent relationship. could that revelation be the key to solving her murder? here with nightfall is andrea canning. i d ask that you all close your eyes for a few minutes this morning. i d like for you to envision rom county in the middle of october. the leaves are changing. there s a little bit of a nip in
intensified. beyond emotional abuse was it physical? uh-huh, yes. she had just told me that shawn was getting violent. he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. brooke s family didn t know about any of this, the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasn t until after her death that her family finally learned brooke s secret. did that give you chills when you found that envelope? yeah it was horrible. it was brittany who discovered it when she went about the task of cleaning out brooke s apartment. we were getting stuff in order to pack away and send. i went in her kitchen and on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. brittany opened the folder, it was an order of protection brooke taken out a year before her murder against her former boss, shawn smoot.
there was something she was hiding. tucked away in her kitchen, a clue to it all. on top of the refrigerator this was a manila folder. did that give you chills? why didn t she tell us? did that lead to murder? it s got to be unimaginable. welcome to dateline. when the body of brook morris was discovered by the side of the road, her family started looking for answers. they were surprised to discover that she may have been involved in an allegedly violent relationship. could that revelation be the key to solving her murder? here with nightfall is andrea canning. i d ask that you all close your eyes for a few minutes this morning. i d like for you to envision rome county in the middle of
yes. she had just told me that shawn was getting violent. he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. reporter: brooke s family didn t know about any of this. the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasn t until after her death that her family finally learned brooke s secret. did that just give you chills when you found that yeah, it was manila envelope? it was horrible. reporter: it was brittany who discovered it, as she went about the grim task of cleaning out brooke s apartment. and we were kinda getting stuff in order to pack away and send. and so i went in her kitchen. and on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. reporter: brittany opened the folder. it was an order of protection brooke had taken out about a year before her murder against her former boss shawn smoot.