whole bunch of potential presidential candidates. this is going to potentially become very public inside the republican party during the battle in 2016. that seems to have hurt republicans at least with swing voters. >> well, absolutely. i think that there will be less -- look, same-sex marriage just to take one issue has never been as potent as something as -- like abortion. abortion will remain a litmus test i think for any republican running for a national office. that's going to be problematic in the general. i think you have to keep paying attention to what republican leaders, other than the ones you mentioned, are talking about. if you read the republican -- the op ad in "the wall street journal" last week, they are talking again about reforms that steer away from the wedge issues and focus on how can we help families with tax reform and things like that.

>> these guys, they are not going to like this? >> they are not going to like the way -- they see the polls. here is the thing. judicial activist is a big part of this. this is the way republicans, especially politicians in powerful seats in washington, can kind of get around this issue. >> you go to judicial activist, i mean marriage but i'm not saying it. >> that's part of it. there are a lot of battles within the war. the next battle is on religious liberty as it relates to pastors speaking out from the pulpit. think about this. if pastors are actually speaking from the pulpit against gay marriage, a hate crime potentially, is that the next wave? that's a battle that hasn't been waged. >> if republicans don't win the senate, there are going to be leaders that say, it's because democrats won the culture wars and democrats used cultural wedge issues to win. >> the democrats need these cultural wedges more than the republicans really do.

>> total flip. think about where we were a decade ago. >> the republican candidates out there are not bringing up these issues. democratic candidates are and forcing them against the wall, making them take a position on thi things they don't want to talk about. unfortunately, so many are not very good at articulating in a compassionate rational way. it's too much of an emotional thing. >> quickly, david, how much do you think marriage is going to be a litmus test in iowa in 2016. >> definitely. there's no question about that. >> a pro same-sex marriage republican nominee is that possible? >> i don't think so. no in the 2016. a lot of people fighting against it. >> it's an interesting platform. david, kathleen, thank you both. up next, by november 4th could be independence day. i will explain why the fate of the senate might not be decided by democrats or republicans. >> time for for cnbc's executive week ahead brought to you by

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the 2014 mid-term focus was about whether the democrats hold on to the senate or republicans take it. while we won't have that answer until election day or maybe a few months later, here is one thing we know for sure. voters are frustrated and fed up right now with both parties. in our last poll, 68% said they would accept new people with few ties to the political process. with that in mind, let's take a look at our map this year, the senate map. not long ago, it looked like this. assuming republicans held their two competitive races, georgia and kentucky, three of the six seats that republicans were going to need seemed like total shou shoo-ins. look how independent candidates are shaking up the republican map. now an independent candidate now

leads the incumbent pat roberts by ten points. let's assume he wins and worse case scenario for the republicans, he caucuses with way democrat. it changes the numbers and republicans need four to take control of the senate. well, there's new chaos in south dakota. this democratic-held seat is being shaken up. republicans looked like they had it in the bag. recent polls have shown that we have a three-way race, the democratic nominee, an independent and guess what, both of those guys could end up k caucusing with the democrats. look how the map changes again. suddenly, republicans need to win five of the remaining six competitive races in order to get their majority. there's more to this. there are third-party spoiler

candidates who could have a different impact on the campaigns and where a vote for them is none of the above, which could ultimately help the democrats or the republicans to victory in tight races. listen to this guy. >> i really didn't want to do this. i can't stand the idea of walking to the voting booth and seeing the democrat and the republican on the ballot. >> that's a pizza delivery man for the u.s. senate in north carolina. he has 7% of the vote in a recent poll, enough to swing the election by siphoning votes. it's the same in florida. people are fed up with the negativity. if that happens, look at what it does to the race if this guy stays in double digit. hurts the incumbent republican here. here is the bottom line, this is what we are learning. it's an angry electoral there.

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we have seen our borders ignored. so if someone with ebola wants to come to the u.s., just get to mexico and walk right in. >> we have an ebola outbreak. we have bad actors that can come

across the border. we need to seal the border and secure it. >> that's one of the republicans why i have been adamant about closing our border. people are coming in from normal channels. can you imagine what they can do through other borders? >> we know the saying is all in fair in politics. as you saw there, politicians aren't being shy about pushing the panic button. our panel is back to discuss. sarah, robert, you are campaign advisers. i understand the politics of fear can be good but it can be irresponsible. >> it can. and this ebola outbreak is a serious national security issue that particularly political elected leaders need to think very carefully before they make statements like that. >> i was going to say, you think that making statements about oh, my god, ebola can come across the border through mexico is a little bit irresponsible. >> i think it's irresponsible. i would take it a step further.

it's also wrong. sure, the united states government should take precautionary measures at our borders. unless you are planning on eliminating all flights into the united states, you cannot contain the risk of the spread of ebola. think about it. you are going to build a wall in mexico but then people will tfl all over the world? >> one of the reasons republicans are going to this issue is they want to keep nationalizing the election. the more nationalized, the better for republicans. do you buy that? >> i think so. we see the inconvenience of having an election during a public health emergency -- >> you call it an inconvenience. >> i'm being sarcastic there. we have to be careful -- everybody has to be careful about what we say to enter that into the political sphere is potentially a mess. i think it has the real chance of turning off independent or

voter tha ers are going to say, crazy. that could help somebody else other than the republican in that race. >> one of the reasons why politicians have felt so comfortable playing this fear card is the media has gone right in. >> they have. >> we say they. >> i just said to one of our producers, if you had a false ebola scare in a super 8 in dallas, would you give it three minutes. the fact it, it doesn't deserve three minutes. we need to get clarity in what we are dealing with about how it's transmitted. are the emergency rooms prepared to deal with patients who walk in with symptoms? many of them are not. president obama has put it on the agenda. the healthcare system in the country is responding quickly with our national cdc and others. they are very aware of what's going on. what helene did was a great service going into west africa and telling people what it's like when you get there.

so this is a national unifying issue that ought not be a partisan issue. this affects everybody here. we need to deal with it. >> helene, you were talking about the protective clothing issue and it was -- you have been champing at the bit to explain. here is how protective clothing could actually be a problem. explain. >> i don't think -- i was looking at this texas case, the second case and the reports say that this texas althcare worker was wearing protective clothing. i think it's just important to remember that one of the things about protective clothing is that you have sto be careful ho you take it off. it's not to go into a room and you come out and you are safe. when you take it off, you have to make sure you bleach and color natu chlorine is used. we need to be rational about how we discuss this. >> we need to be rational and we have an election coming up in three weeks.

good luck. thank you to everybody today. busy morning. we will be back next week. three sundays until the election. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." i was the responsible one. >> a working mom, new at the office. she loved her job and really loved her handsome, young boss. >> the thing that i never wanted to face was the hurt that i was going to cause. >> a passionate 9-5:00 p.m. affair. the problem, she was married and so was he. >> i grabbed his face and i was like, you know what, i love you.

i am not going anywhere. tell me what's happening. >> cheating husbands, scheming wives, suburbs are full of secrets, but being unfaithful to your spouse isn't a crime, is it? that would come next. [ screaming ] >> oh my god! >> it was every emotion possible all in one second. >> i went, oh my god. >> murder in the dark. who was blind it and who would pay? >> when you see him on the video, he's armed and ready. >> two couples, two families and a single moment that shattered it all. >> i knew one day that this was all going to come out. >> a marriage, a murder every, a mystery. i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." here is keith morrison. >> look at this place now, so ordinary with its pharmacy, its grocery store, its carefully-tended parking places

all like the suburban strip malls from business mark to bakersfield. but that night, that cold night a heat gathered here, sweet, terrifying, doomed. >> for the longest time i couldn't go anywhere because i'm thinking everybody is looking at me. >> this is the story of two married couples. how the advice they can offer others, now that it's too late for them. >> if i could tell them anything, it would be put your family first. >> but, of course, that's not what happened. in this parking lot, there will be a body here before we're done. [ screaming ] >> oh my god! oh my god! >> careful when you stir the hot pot of desire. ♪ >> the place is meridian, idaho.

little brother to boise. this is where they got to their perfect place. the end of their rainbow. it w 2006 and luck was on their side. they had just moved from southern california and they were happy, they were fulfilled at work, they had two beautiful children. they had everything they ever wanted. they were rob and candy hall, one of those charmed couples who had fallen in love at first sight in their case, first sight meant admiring each other in the dim. >> we were out, i think, that weekend and then we never stopped. >> what was it about that relationship? what was it about him that you liked so much, that was so good? >> we just connected instantly. >> by the time rob and candy moved to idaho, they had been together for years, had two teenage daughters. rob landed an excellent job as a computer specialist at the ada county sheriff's office, specializing in vehicle locators inside squad cars. >> he loved every minute of his

job. >> and as if it was a sign that this is where they belonged, candy's career as a paralegal took off, too. she was a natural. could sell her confidence and skills to anybody who walked in the door. >> it didn't hurt that she was pretty. >> no, it didn't. and her co-worker, sofia, idolized candy. >> you became close. >> oh, we became very close. she was like a mother to me. >> yes, it was all just about perfect. and then -- who knows why these things happen, exactly. they just do. and no one imagined, why would they? how this thing was going to end. about eight months into his new job, rob started traveling for work. nothing unusual about that, of course. but soon he seemed to be staying away from home a little longer than he really had to. started snapping at her, too, candy said, about little things. not like the old rob at all.

>> so at this point you begin to suspect something. >> yeah. i start thinking, what is going on? why are you acting like this? >> and then one night after a late flight from california, rob laid down his wife in bed and it all came tumbling out. >> he just started to cry and he said, i'm having an affair. and i laid my head on his chest and i said, rob, please, just fix it. >> you didn't get upset? you didn't yell? you didn't scream? you didn't cry? you didn't do anything? >> that's what shocked him. you know, the typical response is, get the hell out. >> you throw the clothes out the window. >> oh, no. the last person on this planet that you would think to have an affair would be robert. >> but, of course, it was devastating, crippling. every day she went to work and every day sofia saw her friend

turn herself inside out and just seemed to wither. >> i watched her go through misery. sobbing in her hands daily and just trying to figure out what this woman had that she didn't. >> did she still love him? >> yes. dearly. >> and wanted the marriage to continue inspite of the affair? >> yes, she did. she didn't want to believe in her head that she found something in this woman that wasn't in candy. >> well, he felt bad about it. agreed to go through counselling with candy, but -- >> after he confessed to you and you said fix it, he didn't. >> he didn't know what he wanted. >> come on, no. i mean, he wanted to keep going with the affair? that's what he wanted. >> i for sure told him to stop. >> stop right now or else i'll stamp my foot and hold my breath. >> yeah. >> he kept doing it. >> yeah. it was my fault. he had a void because of me. that's what i was thinking. >> what do you think the void might have been or what did you think the void was? >> i just was boring. >> boring old candy hall.

rejected, apparently unlovable. and nearly 40. and then one day at work candy was introduced to a recent law school graduate who was looking to staff his new office. a boyishly handsome, smart as a whip, cocky young lawyer. his name was emmitt corigan. >> my friend, she said, emmitt, you have to meet candy. she's just as passionate and aggressive as you are and she would be great for you. >> and something suddenly lifted in candy hall. by the time those words had left her friend's mouth, candy knew, she just knew. how about you? think you know where this is heading? when we come back, candy hall has a decision to make and it will have consequences she never intended, deadly ones. >> the text popped up and rob read it. rob is like, why are you texting my wife? ♪

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♪ in boise, idaho, inside this law office in the fall of 2010, was a paralegal whose charmed life was falling apart. kandi hall was an unhappy woman. her marriage was dying or dead. her 40th birthday was bearing down like a chinese bullet

train. and then one day it got worse. kandi's boss told her she was also unemployed. my husband's had an affair. now my attorney, who i worked for, as fired me. >> yeah, pretty low. >> such problems. and then there was him, emmett corrigan fixed everything. he was handsome and he thought she was gorgeous. and, of course, he hired her right away for his new law office and, well, you know what came next. soon there were racy e-mails, spicy text messages. >> i would like to be put on that pedestal. emmett made me feel that way. it was pretty much an ego boost for me. >> she wasn't really trying to get back at her husband, said kandi. at least not consciously. >> i was thinking about me and only me. you know what, it made me feel good. i made me feel like i was on top of the world.

>> sitting here now, is kandi still only thinking of kandi? perhaps as you hear the rest of this story you can be the judge of that. any way, back then there were a few hitches in kandi's new-found fantasy life. to start with, emmett corrigan was also married and lived in this quiet cul-de-sac just a couple of miles from kandi, with this woman, his wife, ashley. >> he was just a guy that everybody wanted to be around. >> enthusiastic, full of energy? >> sometimes too much energy, but that's kind of one of the things i loved about him. >> just like kandi and rob, ashley and emmett met in a gym. there's was in college in utah, 2003. also inseparable from that moment on. and they certainly made a striking young couple. they were married after just six months together. made their vows before god and the temple and the lds temple.

>> we both were like, you know what, i think i'm ready to be parents. >> first came twin girls, followed soon by a son and then another daughter. >> he loved being a dad just as much as i loved being a mom. >> in the winter, they went skiing, sledding. in the summer, they camped and swam at the lake they so loved. they meat memories. ashley never doubted this was how their life was supposed to be. she was pregnant with her fifth child when her ambitious husband opened his law office that fall of 2010. and made the fateful decision to hire a paralegal named kandi hall. not that he had any idea he was sealing his fate, of course. anymore than his wife, ashley, understood his private motivations. >> did you suspect she was involved with emmett? >> with emmett? >> yeah. >> no. >> the way she described her was an older woman who he looked up to in a motherly way. he said, she just believed in

me. she thinks i'm going to be this great lawyer. >> and you saw her and she was an older woman. >> she was almost 40 and i was 28. so it wasn't something that i felt like a competition of, i guess. >> but for the many reasons that plainly escaped those who aren't seated smack on the hot stove of desire themselves, emmett and kandi thought otherwise. oh, they tried to keep their hands off each other for a little while, said their co-workers. but if they believed they were hiding their obvious imfachuation, their hudly messy hairs, their suddenly hastily rearranged clothes, they were fooling themselves. >> i noticed a significant change in her attitude. i went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy, you know -- >> spring in her step again? >> oh, yeah. >> such timing now that rob wanted to seem to fix their marriage, kandi became a study in presence. honesty took a holiday.

>> i was living a lie. being in an affair is one big lie. you lie about everything. >> yes. and she lied to herself, too. you were thinking of you and he together, striding across the bow of the titanic. this is going to be it for you for ever. >> yes. >> then one night a couple months into the affair, events suddenly ticked measurably toward their deadly conclusion. around bedtime, kandi received a text from emmett and couldn't hide it. >> the text popped up and rob read it and it said, i wish i was there with you tonight. >> what did he say? >> he was angry. kandi, what is this? and i said, i don't know. so he calls emmett. rob goes, why are you texting my wife at this time of night? >> emmett's answer, two minutes later he showed up at rob's house. they talked like duelling lovers out on the sidewalk. then rob came back inside.

>> rob tossed my phone up on our bed and he said, you win. i can't compete. he's young. he's a good-looking guy. he's an attorney. you make him a lot of money. and he was just devastated. >> now you got yourself a pretty complicated life at this stage. >> yeah. >> of course, that february, 2011, emmett's life was complicated, too. ashley could see how stressed he was, didn't understand it. that or why he seemed to avoid coming home. >> there was one time when my son asked me if he lived with us anymore and later in the bedroom, he was like, what's that all about? i was just like, well, we miss you. and he just kind of yelled and screamed and left. >> ashley thought maybe it was her fault. she went to marriage counselling. emmett refused to go.

>> i had felt really pushed away and was trying to find an answer and so tried to surprise him by cleaning out his car and found a weird envelope. >> weird envelope? >> just an envelope that was some sort of pill. i researched online and one of the side effects was problems with intimacy and sexuality. i thought, maybe if he was doing that that that could explain why he didn't necessarily want me. >> did you take it personally, too, though? >> you want to be everything that they want. it was hard not to take personal. >> especially when emmett, who had been working out more and more announced he was going to a fitness competition in ohio on their wedding anniversary. >> what does that feel like? >> lonely. he calls and said, happy anniversary. i'll call you later but didn't call back. and the night before he came home, my oldest son, who was --

he had just turned 4, was screaming one night for probably two hours. my dad is going to die. my dad is going to die. he's going to die and i just held him. tried calling him but he never answered his phone. it was a very strange weekend. >> strange? strange is not a big enough word to describe what was about to happen. coming up -- >> i literally was like, emmett, please do not leave. and he said, no, i'm leaving. >> a secret meeting at walgreen's and something will go horribly wrong. >> i said, no, i'm not doing this. and he's like, oh, we are doing

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it was the 11th of march, 2011, this was it. the big event, d-day you could say. it was early evening, cold as the sun went down in meridian. cold and bleak. and in two homes in particular it was very bleak indeed. kandi hall arrived home from work to find her husband, rob, packing boxes. to leave? what other reason could there be? >> i know we were probably coming down to the wire. >> you're having the kind of unfair fights that married couples have all the time, they betray each other with abandon and then wonder why it doesn't work out. >> yeah. the thing that i never wanted to face was the hurt that i was going to cause on so many people. iw one day that this was all going to come out, but the way that it usually ends up. >> well, now you can only look

back and wish it had turned out that way. >> right. >> around the same time across town, perhaps two miles away, ashley corrigan had just made the mistake of telling her husband emmett, that in her desperate state of worry, she asked her family members to pray for them. >> he said, your family -- i hate your family. if i could beat your brother up, i could kill all of you. i grabbed his face, i was like, you know what, i love you. i'm not going anywhere. i don't care what it is. just tell me what's happening. then, i don't know, i felt like that was the last chance and he didn't take it. he didn't open up about anything. >> that night, though, a trusted family member who had agreed to help counsel the couple called and emmett answered the phone. >> he went back into our bedroom and i could hear everything he was saying because the baby monitor was on. the hard part then was not a word he said was true. >> what was he saying? >> i think she might be sleeping with this person. she says i'm the worst father

ever. and just things that i know i had never done. so when he walked out, i flipped the baby monitor off and i said, oh, how did it go? it went good. he thinks you're as crazy as i do. i said, okay. well, do i get a turn? he said, i don't care what you do but you're not using my phone. and emmett said, hey, i'm going to run to walgreen's and i'll be right back. i put the phone down. i literally was like, emmett, please, do not leave. he said, no, i'm leaving. >> you should have felt like your life was falling apart and you didn't know what to do. >> i kind of felt like, okay, maybe this is the grand finale. >> that he needed a wakeup call. >> he did. he needed a wakeup call. >> careful what you wish for. getting late now. very dark. over at the hall house, kandi had been talking to her husband, rob. maybe he shouldn't move out. maybe they should try to fix their marriage, make it work somehow. and then, right in the middle of

that, she suddenly told him she had an errand to run. couldn't wait. guess where? >> i said, i need to go to walgreen's. i'm just going to go through the drive-through. i said, i'll be right ba. >> here is kandi's explanation for the way the meeting with her lover was arranged. >> as i was pulling out of the back of my driveway emmett texted me. hey what are you doing? i said, i'm going to walgreen's. he goes, i was just there. hey, meet me there. >> and then, what happened next -- you can watch it yourself right here on surveillance tape. >> i go to walgreen's, go through the drive-through, and i pull around and i park my car. then he pulls up and i get in his truck and we go to fred myer. >> there there again getting gas at fred myer. >> emmett pulls out all these prescription bottles. i said, what are you taking? he said, if you don't want to grow a penis, don't take it.

then he got back in the truck and we drove off. >> from there, kandi and emmett pulled into a secluded spot and had sex under the street light and that's where they were, tangled up in each other when kandi's phone rang. her daughter coming home from a date had seen her dmcar in that parking. >> she said, mom, why is your car at walgreen's. i called dad. all right. okay. i'll be home in a minute. >> too late. because now the wind was up. rob, the unfaithful husband had to know. now he was the aggrieved spouse. sure enough, as kandi talked to her daughter, here he was in his pickup truck come to walgreen's to look for his wife. >> phone call from rob. he goes, are you with emmett? and i go, took a deep breath and i said, yep, i am. emmett looks over at me and he takes the phone away from me and

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mission. as you can see on these store surveillance videos, rob parked his pickup truck. went through the front door. roamed the beauty and cosmetic aisles. he was looking for his wife, kandi, who, of course, was also in a pickup truck with her lover, emmett. here you can see rob leaving the store looking at kandi's parked bmw. then, strangely, getting back into his own pickup truck, pulling out and then reparking it on the other side of kandi's car. curiously his door now just out of range of the store surveillance camera. this is when he made that phone call, the one in which kandi confessed she had been with her boss, emmett corrigan. and he said to rob, what's up, chief. and here was emmett's truck speeding through the parking lot. still time to stop this if wiser heads had been in charge, but they weren't. nothing wise about what's coming. >> i see rob in his truck and he has just this look on his face like -- oh, man.

and i get out of the truck. then emmett gets out. and then rob gets out and walks over to us. >> this is just the sort of moment in which a person might have wanted to cool the overheated atmosphere, control the spitting anger, but had chosen words carefully. that is not what happened. >> rob is standing next to me and he's like, what are you doing out with my wife at 10:00 p.m. at night? and emmett said, rob, she don't want to be with you anymore. okay? she's done. i mean, really, rob, what did you make last year, maybe 40,000. kandi, what do we make last week, 20,000, last week in one week, rob. that's how much i make. you don't make anything. >> nasty, of course, arrogant, like a thoughtless young buck who needed to be reminded of something. >> rob said, well, what about your kids and your wife? she just had a baby. they're at home waiting for you

and you're out with my wife. and at that moment emmett's eyes got huge and he pushed himself off of his truck and went over to rob and pushed rob very hard on his chest. >> and then, the climax. the confrontation that had been building for weeks. >> that's when i said, enough. that's enough. you get in your truck and, rob, we got to go. as i was walking to my car, another car came by and i had to stop. and at that point, i hear pop, pop-pop. i didn't know what it was. i didn't know if that car just backfired. i had no idea. and i stopped and went -- like what was that? and all's i see in my peripheral vision right here is rob covered in blood, like someone poured a can of red blood all over him. and i went -- >> frantically kandi's fingers

somehow found the fingers, 9-1-1. >> oh my god! oh my god. rob -- robert, robert! >> the pistol went flying somehow. no one disputes that. there it was, lying on the pavement between two men, both shot. one alive, one dying. and kandi hall entered that twilight zone where memories are made that can't ever be erased, though, as you and the police department and lawyers and a judge will soon see, they can certainly be amended. what we know for sure is that she rushed to the prostrait body of one of those two men. >> i gave him a kiss on his cheek and i'll never forget, ever, but he took that last, you know, deep -- it was very surreal. just turning gray, here to here to here. i didn't have much time to think of much other than thinking to

myself, oh my god. he's dead. >> but which one and what just happened? a tragic lapse in judgment, a thoughtless but unintended crime of passion? or, was it murder in the first degree?

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