house lawn. we got the tweet and reporting. we re now getting reporting later it was on the table. you wonder if that will resurfaces at some point. look, even if he does pardon him, you still have the state attorney general in new york who canning come in and fill the vacuum. there are crimes under the new york penal code that are better than some of the crimes that can be used under the federal criminal code. spoken like a real prosecutor. if you had a choice between rikers island and club fed, what would you take? what about the idea? i mean, what is the metastory here with dowd? it s a strange thing for us to be learning this right now. i don t know who the sources are. but it s interesting to me that dowd leaves and now we re getting this presumably not from the dowd himself. what do you make of that, paul? you know, the president doesn t so much like lawyers as fixers.
reporter: canning is a retired police chief who says like many other american household, his household has rules but he says rachel chose to leave home in a dispute over curfew and chores. rachel is an honor student at morris catholic high school and living in rockaway, new jersey, with her best friend and their family, who canning says is bank rolling the lawsuit. we would be whole and healed as a family if she were back home. i think she s being enabled. i think she s being steered down the wrong area and it s killing us. reporter: people we spoke to it didn t quite see two sides to this story. i think my house, my rules. you know, there s a respect there. it s his rules, your father s rule, you stay home. you can t, time to move on. i feel kind of bad for her but i also feel bad for the parents. reporter: the lawsuit was filed in family court last week. neither rachel nor her attorney were available for comment. both sides are expected to appear in court. it will be th