and they took me to a safe house. and did they catch him? no, they didn t know where to look. reporter: a few days later, somebody broke into lisa s mother s house in oklahoma. she called me later that day and said when she was leaving work that she noticed this car was following her and she said it was ralph. she called the sheriff s department and she s like, he s here, he s following me, and they arrested him. my mom said she asked him what was he doing. and he said, looking for your daughter. reporter: lester ralph jones was convicted of assault and kidnapping and served three years. but now he was out and remarried and the by the fall of 2007, a pile of circumstantial evidence connected him to paige birgfeld s disappearance. why didn t you just go arrest him? our job is to gather the facts and then present it to the district attorney s office and they make that determination.
well, very interesting, said meagan. he d failed to show up for work. and later that night he offered a truly bizarre reason why. that his family had been in an accident. and we said, what kind of accident? oh, well, my brother and my sister-in-law and my niece and nephew were beheaded on the turnpike in new jersey. he had to go to new jersey. he had to solidify funeral arrangements. he was sobbing and hands were flying and he was just like, i don t know what i m going to do. and just very upset. and we believed him. reporter: as she told the detectives, coralluzzo took the first available flight back to new jersey. and that was that. the detectives thanked her and left. didn t mention a thing about paige birgfeld. and then the very next day meagan was watching the news on tv and saw the story about the burned out car. her car was found ablaze, in this parking lot, off 23 road. and then i saw the paige s face come across the news. and i looked at my ex-husband
denial for president trump, which we did see later tuesday night. of course, however, that relationship didn t seem to have any hope left, and now we do know that rod rosenstein has submitted his resignation to the white house with this expectation he was going to be fired after that story broke. now, it s interesting, jim and poppy, because after the last few days, we have seen the president has had so many other things on his mind, not just with all the drama surrounding his supreme court nominee, that rod rosenstein really judging by people i have spoken with who have spoken to the president, wasn t always at the top of his list. it wasn t at the top of his mind when he was discussing all this, but it certainly was something. clearly, rod rosenstein, someone who had a tense relationship with the president at times, with the president tweeting about him, but things had seemed to improve in recent months. clearly, did not think he could stay on in this job any longer. that s why he ha
i don t know the president well enough to read him well. i think it was first of all, relationship didn t get off to a great start, given the conversation i had to have on january 6th. this didn t improve the relationship because it was very, very awkward. he was asking for something, and i was refusing to give it. again, i don t know him well enough to know how he reacted to that exactly. do you believe the russia investigation played a role? in why i was fired? yes. yes. i ve seen the president say so. let s go to the flynn issue. the senator outlined, i hope you could see your way to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. but you also said in your written remarks, and i quote, that you had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of
why didn t we raise the specific? it was of investigative interest to us if yito figure out, what happened with the president s request? i wouldn t want to alert the white house it had happened until we figured out what we were going to do with it investigatively. your testimony was that you went to attorney general sessions and said, don t ever leave me alone with him again. are you saying that you also told him that he had made a request that you let it go with regard to part of the investigation of michael flynn? no. i specifically did not. i did not. okay. you mentioned that from your very first meeting with the president, you decided to write a memo memorializing the conversation. what was it about that very first meeting that made you write a memo when you have not