reporter: it was a quote similar to one in shakespeare s play the merchant of venice. if you harm me, shall i not revenge? not often does the merchant of venice come up in a murder trial. never before in my career, yeah. but that s your motive. sums up the case. that s our motive. yeah. reporter: they argued that garcia killed because he was angry about his termination from creighton and that it prevented him from being accepted into other programs to which he later applied. as he continues to try and have some sort of a career, it follows him. every time he tried to get into a different program or licensed somewhere, this creighton thing pops up. reporter: and prosecutors said items found in garcia s home indicated that he was trying to destroy traces of his troubled past. there s this trash bag sitting in the sink, a chemical odor emanating from that, and it s all these papers in there. in these papers after they re dried out is the termination letter from dr.
whole bunch of times in the mueller report both for his 302s and contemporaneous notes while he was suffering as jeff sessions chief of staff when sessions was attorney general. they also want the memo to file that trump s white house counsel office drafted after sally yates came up from the justice department to warn the less than one week old trump administration that the serving national security advisor they had just installed was compromised by the russian government, and maybe have you ever thought that might be a problem for the country and you should get rid of him? remember they didn t actually get rid of him after that warning from the justice department but apparently somebody in the white house counsel s office wrote a note to file about that warning they got about mike flynn and what they apparently weren t going to do in response to it. well, the judiciary committee wants that memo to file. they also want the draft termination letter for james comey, the one the presiden
they want the memo to file that trump s white house counsel s office drafted after sally yates came up from the justice department to warn the less than one week old trump administration that the serving national security adviser they had just installed was compromised by the russian government, have you ever thought that might be a problem for the country and you should get rid of him? remember they didn t actually get rid of him after that warning from the justice department, but apparently somebody in the white house counsel s office wrote a note to file about that warning that they got about michael flynn and what they apparently weren t going to do in response to it. the judiciary committee wants that memo to file. they also want the draft termination letter for james comey, the one the president ordered to be drawn up explaining he was firing james comey because of russia. that s before they decided they should maybe roll out a different pretext for it.
dictators. it s just another anecdote. gentlemen, thank you. i appreciate your time. thank you. there is more news to get to tonight. william barr sworn in as the new attorney general just a few hours ago. that means he now has broad control over special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. so much has happened since the events that kicked that investigation into high gear, and we have the tape. so let s take a time, take you back in the time machine when president trump fired then fbi director james comey. here is jessica schneider. it s the firing that sets off a frantic cascade of events at the fbi. we have major breaking news. the president of the united states has terminated the director of the fbi, james comey. may 9th, 2017. james comey learns he has been canned as fbi director while watching cable news in california. president trump s long-time private security guard delivers the termination letter to fbi headquarters while comey is across the country, v
right wing president who admires dictators. it s just another anecdote. gentlemen, thank you. i appreciate your time. thank you. there is more news to get to tonight. william barr sworn in as the new attorney general just a few hours ago. that means he now has broad control over special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. so much has happened since the events that kicked that investigation into high gear, and we have the tape. so let s take a time, take you back in the time machine when president trump fired then fbi director james comey. here is jessica schneider. it s the firing that sets off a frantic cascade of events at the fbi. we have major breaking news. the president of the united states has terminated the director of the fbi, james comey. may 9th, 2017. james comey learns he has been canned as fbi director while watching cable news in california. president trump s long-time private security guard delivers the termination letter to fbi