margaret and martha sat in court suffering as prosecutors labeled their dad a killer. they would accuse my father of double murder, or the wife, murder the staircase murder, and we couldn t stand up and, say wait a, second this is not true. michael peterson did not testify in his trial, but, he did sit down with us to answer questions about all the evidence against, him nothing was off limits. i know i did not kill, so at a certain point, you think, you are crazy. to understand the case, he says, he would have to go back to the very beginning, to the moment police arrived at the, scene and recognized him as the say michael peterson who liked to publicly criticize them in the local paper. you think the cops had it in for you? you think that s what set in motion? absolutely. no question. they were delighted when something really bad can happen, and would have been more
the national debts in eight years. and he added eight trillion dollars to the national debt in four years. let s bring in our panel. joining me now, we have new york times business reporter emma goldberg, podcast host josh barrow, former organizer for hillary clinton and republican strategist jason jason, i will start with. you is chris christie trying this radical honesty approach, hoping that other people will jump on board? what is this the purpose of the approach is taking? if you look at everything is put out there from a fundraising standpoint and some of the get me to the 40,000 donors and the 1% in the polls, i can take trump on in the debates. that, i think, is his goal. i kind of looked at chris christie getting into this as, he is the face of the super back super pac as trump. he s doing a very good job at it. and i think him stepping out in front on this is making other candidates realize wait a, minute, we don t have to play in trump s sandbox.
he says i m more important than the country. these are my papers. if what it says is actually the case, president trump was incredibly reckless with our national security. this indictment contains serious charges and i can t defend what is alleged. reporter: and some republicans believe that the allegations will help trump politically. this is uniting people. people are saying wait a second here, it is not d versus r. it is us against them. reporter: he too doesn t believe what is in the indictment. for you to know what is really the charge, you have to believe the charger. so contents of the indictment are essentially disqualified? completely disqualified because it is all done by a completely tilted justice department. reporter: and despite the latest allegations, he doesn t plan to change his vote. you voted for trump in 2016?
report that it wasn t. so how can i believe that at face value too. reporter: even as trump faces legal jep arrestky, he remains the clear frontrunner in the gop primary. the former president s rivals so far offering a range of reaction to the indictment. he says i m more important than the country. these are my papers. if what it says is actually the case, president trump was incredibly reckless with our national security. this in-kdictment contains serious charges and i can t defend what is alleged. reporter: and some republicans believe that the allegations will help trump politically. this is uniting people. people are saying wait a second here, it is not d versus r. it is us against them. reporter: he too doesn t believe what is in the indictment. for you to know what is really the charge, you have to believe the charger.
donald trump is actually benefiting from a system that favors a former president. i mean what other federal accused, alleged felon is allowed to keep his passport and declare not a flight risk when he owns his own plane. by the way it is not like he s hiding. at some point, how many now defendants get to say, you know what, i might get a job one day, so can i not have a trial scheduled that is going to accommodate that. i can t have a trial that will last 21 days, because i might get a job at some point in time. that is why when you talk about the rnc hopefuls, they will have to look at, this and say wait a, second he could be off the campaign trail. unlike the eeg carroll state civil trial, he has to be their president off the campaign trail for three weeks. nobody else will get the benefit of saying, let s take that in consideration. he does happen to be the leading candidate for president on the republican ticket, and right now i think ahead in the average ahead of joe b