Truman was this man of integrity. But i never really understood the trajectory of this man until i was writing my last book, the arsenal of democracy in. That book there was a book where senator truman goes to detroit to investigate the Car Companies and their failure to produce airplane pieces. It struck me as amazing that this on cure person should become the most powerful president in the history of the world. Even my last book was done i was beginning in my head to structure this one. In your book to talk about a newest session. What does that mean and what were they . When you research this book, you end up eating a lot of Peanut Butter sandwiches and going through cheap hotels. You talk about something newest asession. It just means this is a document thats new. And it will list the date when it showed up. So the great truman biographies all came out in the 1990s, right . Anyway, so i knew if i found these documents that they hadnt been available to biographers in the 1990s and i
ambulance and closed the door so the dog couldn t get to them. don t move, stay there. stay there and we call me and we ll wait a few minutes and the police are right. reporter: then, max had made his way to his pickup truck as police pulled their weapons and approached the dogs. the one actually started charging towards the officers and that is when they made a decision to open fire on him. reporter: the second dog was captured by animal control and is at the welfare league. they said nothing to him so far and fears the man is angry and will confront him about the loss of his pets. and i get problems with him. i want to live in peace. reporter: no one answered the door at the home of the dog s owner when we knocked earlier today. the animal welfare league is taking care of the surviving dog as it waits for the results of the investigation and police say the owner could be sightd for not controlling his pets. seems like he got and jumped to into action. repo
exterior of the structure. karen grey houston has the details. reporter: it could be 2014 before the general public gets to peek inside the washington monument again. there is a lot of work that has to be done as a result of that damage from the earthquake. it is hard to see that damage with the naked eye but we are told there is a huge crack that is visible from the west side of the monument, which you cannot see from here. but there is video, that shows missing mortar on the interior of the structure, the park service has done a major assessment since the earthquake after structural engineers repelled down the surface in rather dramatic efforts to figure out how severe the damage was. the park service is saying it may take 12 to 18 months for the entire project, park service accepting bids on the construction project right now, they expect to award the bid by some time in september. i don t think we found the damage was worse than anticipated the challenge is the height
meetings. it got worse. he said when he was asked to testify the first time, i took the fifth in everything he was going to ask me. this federal prosecutor was not serious. he was there to harass me. the guy decided he wanted to grill me. he lied to me. during cross-examination, condit was asked repeatedly about his relationship with levy. i m not going to answer those questions, he said. i m not going to respond to those questions. are you pleading the fifth asked the defense attorney? no, i m not going to answer those questions out of respect for chandra levy s privacy and my privacy. the judge told him to move on. he did not force condit to answer. the defense maintains ingmar guandique had nothing to do with chandra levy s disappearance, and in questioning condit they attempted to show the former congressman something to hide. gary condit repeat lid said today that he and chandra levy were friends, and he feels if chandra levy was alive today they would still be friends.