broadcast booth. hi, i m john madden. pat summerall and i have been with both the teams all week. reporter: teaming up with the unselfish pat summerall to call games on cbs, and then to fox and nbc sports for 30 years, earning 16 emmys along the way. we call it just b.g.d. just big guy defense. that s all. reporter: john madden never stopped coaching football. for millions of americans, he took a complicated game, made it fun and easier to understand. they bring from the outside and, boom, two up the middle. reporter: he became a national pitch man, endorsing several products. boom! tough acting tinactin. reporter: and later a video hall of famer. are you kidding me? reporter: he kicked off a revolution in the industry, krcreating a game with ea sport, the groundbreaking football franchise, madden nfl. his voice, his smile, were infectious and his fear of flying were legendary. when john madden pulled up into
hearing it from somebody with that kind of a background rather than a lot of these other figures that really people don t know and don t have a history with i think would be a pretty powerful witness for them if they can make it happen. the president himself has sort of mocked from the very beginning, even joking about his bad mustache as the president described it. and just to conclude to punctuate this point. the last sentence in this letter from bolton s attorney to the house lawmakers is if the house chooses not to pursue through subpoena the testimony of dr. kupperman and ambassador bolton, let the record be clear this is the house s decision. so in effect we wait for the democrats to decide what to do next. neal katyal, joyce vance, we thank both of you. enjoy your weekends. we appreciate your time. and after the break, there was george pop dop laos, paul manafort, cohen, and gordon sondland. the president brings back his old i barely knew the guy defense. we knew it was coming
until president zelensky committed to pursue the burisma investigation. i was alarmed by what mr. morrison told me about the sondland-yermak conversation. mr. morrison was key. i would assume his boss, mr. bolton, would be even more key. bjojohn cornyn looked at us yesterday and said, i don t know bill taylor from adam. that s their defense. we don t know who he is, some career guy, some career diplomat who lives overseas. they know john bolton really well. this is someone they ve worked with for 20 years in foreign policy. if john bolton testifies corroborating all these things, this is somebody that they can t just deny, like, i don t know who he is. they ve worked with him going back to the george w. bush administration. that s why he is so key to these senate republican voices. this whole i don t know this guy defense is straight out of the donald trump playbook. i don t remember seeing that on
the right. jonathan hunt is live at the courthouse i new haven connecticut tonight. jonathan, the defendant in this trial is blaming the other guy for the murders. and that blame the other guy defense was exactly what the other guy, stephen hayes tried at his trial a year ago painting him as the mastermind now lawyers he never intended to kill anyone. the lawyer said that steven hayes first suggested killing the family. stephen hayes spread the gasoline around the home and stephen hayes lit the match that started the fire that killed the two young girls so they say this was not his plan at all and he was, in their words, quote, stunned and perplexed by it all. shep? shepard: jonathan, the father, the man who escaped all of this, is scheduled to tell