amount of information that s coming out the dam is breaking. it s not good for the president. the way republicans have been reacting they have been arguing process throwing out conspiracy theories. flat out lying in some cases. they re not speaking to the substance of what s going on. the bottom line the president of the united states tried to get help from a foreign government to benefit his reelection campaign. period. he with held aid in order to do it. now we see there s a pattern developing. and they cover it up. because they didn t want people to know. white house officials were so alarmed they put it on a secret server. this is a terrible fact pattern for the president of the united states. and every elected republican should be horrified by this. his reaction now retweeting about civil wars and treason and everything. it s something else that republicans should be horrified about. and they remain silent. democrats have a good hand here. i hope they don t blow it. me too.
very much like this young woman, phuong le, also vietnamese-american, also a 20-something nursing student, also living in the san francisco area. who, 13 months earlier, also disappeared. there s a lot of similarities, obviously, in that she s the same age category, same ethnicity, same profession. narrator: even the same last name. was a pattern developing? lester holt (voiceover): coming up, police look into the possible connection between those student nurses. and a meeting between police and the michelle s family. in asian families, when you re younger, you re supposed to be very, um, very respectful of the hierarchy in the family. you re not supposed to boss anybody around. but i was just livid. lester holt (voiceover): when dateline continues.
and meeting with the police. and that s when detectives began to understand michelle a little. how kind she was and bright and self-reliant. very much like this young woman. phuong le. also vietnamese american. also a 20-something nursing student. also living in the san francisco area. who 13 months earlier also disappeared. there s a lot of similarities obviously in that she s the same age category, same ethnicity, same profession. reporter: even the same last name. was a pattern developing? coming up, police look into the possible connection between those student nurses and a meeting with michelle s family. in asian families when you re younger, you re supposed to be very respectful of the hierarchy of the family. you re not supposed to boss anyone around but i was just
began arriving from san diego and meeting with the police. and that s when detectives began to understand michelle a little. how kind she was and bright and self-reliant. very much like this young woman. phuong le. also vietnamese american. also a 20-something nursing student. also living in the san francisco area. who 13 months earlier also disappeared. there s a lot of similarities obviously in that she s the same age category, same ethnicity, same profession. reporter: even the same last name. was a pattern developing? coming, police look into the possible connection between those student nurses and a meeting with michelle s family. the meeting goes badly. we were horrified. reporter: it was april 2010. just over a year before the disappearance of michelle le. it was close, perhaps 50 miles away.
and meeting with the police. and that s when detectives began to understand michelle a little. how kind she was and bright and self-reliant. very much like this young woman. phuong le. also vietnamese american. also a 20-something nursing student. also living in the san francisco area. who 13 months earlier also disappeared. there s a lot of similarities obviously in that she s the same age category, same ethnicity, same profession. even the same last name. was a pattern developing? coming, police look into the possible connection between those student nurses and a meeting between police and michelle s family asian families when you re younger, you re supposed to be very respectful of the hierarchy in the family. you re not supposed to boss