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. and it was page after page of just crazy stuff that he did to
great man himself, and he was great, he would always keep a manila folder here and wait well into the interview and just open it up and say, you said, let s take a look it, and go to the tapes. and it doesn t seem to matter anymore, guys. you can say that newt is speaking is with a forked tongue. it doesn t seem to matter. you can say a president can t obstruct justice, he just said he could. but doesn t anything hold true for more than a couple of minutes anymore? well, it may be true that newt gingrich isn t held to account for these conflicting statements, but the fact is that we have a legal system that is to some degree impervious to this political debate. and i think that s what a lot of people are counting on, that there s going to be the special counsel is going to investigate. it s going to find what it s going to find. and we ll see what it is. and some of this political debate is either irrelevant or even harmful to the president s case. there are cases when the president
in october and then the fact that he showed no sentiment in his testimony and no regret about having done what he did last year. but having said that, this was done in a way if you could figure out how to do something good and do it right and then figure out how to do it exactly the opposite, they chose exactly the opposite. they made him look petty. he fires comey while comey is on the west coast. they don t even know that comey is in los angeles when they send the beefily for ex-security chif over with a manila folder containing the document. they don t have a communications strategy. they don t have their act together with regard to what they re going to say. and then after they finally start saying on tuesday night late and on wednesday we did it because the deputy attorney general gave us good explanation why we should, on thursday the president undercuts his own spokesmen by saying, it didn t matter, i was going to fire him anyway, and virtual in the next seasons it was because
in july and what comey had done in october and then the fact that he showed no sentiment in his testimony and no regret about having done what he did last year. but having said that, this was done in a way if you could figure out how to do something good and do it right and then figure out how to do it exactly the opposite, they chose exactly the opposite. they made him look petty. he fires comey while comey is on the west coast. they don t even know that comey is in los angeles when they send the beefily for ex-security chif over with a manila folder containing the document. they don t have a communications strategy. they don t have their act together with regard to what they re going to say. and then after they finally start saying on tuesday night late and on wednesday we did it because the deputy attorney general gave us good explanation why we should, on thursday the president undercuts his own spokesmen by saying, it didn t matter, i was going to fire him anyway, and virtual in
in october and then the fact that he showed no sentiment in his testimony and no regret about having done what he did last year. but having said that, this was done in a way if you could figure out how to do something good and do it right and then figure out how to do it exactly the opposite, they chose exactly the opposite. they made him look petty. he fires comey while comey is on the west coast. they don t even know that comey is in los angeles when they send the beefily for ex-security chif over with a manila folder containing the document. they don t have a communications strategy. they don t have their act together with regard to what they re going to say. and then after they finally start saying on tuesday night late and on wednesday we did it because the deputy attorney general gave us good explanation why we should, on thursday the president undercuts his own spokesmen by saying, it didn t matter, i was going to fire him anyway, and virtual in the next seasons it was because