- you want to borrow mine? - oh, you're good. one little thing for your mother, and you can't do it? it is more energy efficient if we take one car.. - fine, but i'm driving. - why do you get to drive? because it's an unmarked, and because i'm a cop and becau.. just get in the car, maura! have a good time, girls. i am n n listening to led zeppelin. i'm not listening to yo-yo ma. i don't listen to yo-yo ma.. ...in the car. oh, that's right, pardon me. yo-yo ma's just for the jacuzzi. - put your seatbelt on! - it's on! the next lake is 42.3910 degrees north.h. longitude? really? can you just tell me to.. "turn left at popeye's chicken?" there is no popeye's chicken in western massachusetts. 72.3830 west.

[rock music] the acoustic vibrations of hard d ck have been shown to increase the risk of an accident. did you pass gas? no, i did not! okay. [cell phone rings] hey, ma. (angela) 'are you girls having fun?' (jane) 'oh, yeah, we're great.' maura's having gastrointestinal issues. i am not! (angela) 'jane used to fart on long car rides and blame her brothers.' did you just say "fart"? 'have you listened to the audiobook yet?' 'it's in the cooler.' uh, "what to do when your former best friend is a bitch". 'really?' mm. too bad it's wet! 'have fun. love you both.' bye, ma.

he was a professor at waltham university. professor of hydrology. studied groundwater. hmm. fracking is an invasive way to extract natural gas. proponents say it will liberate the u.s. from dependence on foreign oil. but my research indicates it will destroy the environment. - 750,000 views. wow. - popular professor. mm. not everybody loved him. listen to this comment. "what does this idiot tree hugger want us to put in our gas tanks? how about his blood?" somebody killed him. we don't know that, frankie. you saw the front of his head. oh, wait. you...you didn't, did you? remind me not to invite you to my next floater. go straight past the coniferous spruce. maybe i'll pass a hemlock, too.

oh, crap. in a guard booth. - love and light. - love and light. - you here for the retreat? - yes. okay, what's your name? oh, uh, our names may not be on n ur list. we...we just ascended. today, in fact. oh. well, unless you have your double platinum soul certificate i can only allow you go as far as the public picnic area. ohh. well, we understand. - love and light. - 'love and light.' let's hope he doesn't run that. there's the lake. nothing gets pass you.

- hurry up. - okay. oh! shoot! 'we need to leave.' no, i need to talk to matthew moore. no. listen to me. we're in danger. 'those don't look like yogis. what did you take a picture of?' i'll tell you in the car. please! trust me. rachel definitely swam in that lake. and i know why it's so polluted. i saw fracking equipment. what is fracking? it's a controversial process to drill for natural gas. they pump hundreds of chemicals thousands of feet underground. - it pollutes groundwater. - you've got to be kidding me. that's why we pulled a thelma and louise? well, jane, it's illegal here. rachel was a geologist. maybe sensei matta didn't bring her here to sleep with her. maybe he brought her here to help. yeah, but she wouldn't have helped. her interest was in the environment. exactly. so maybe she saw what you saw..

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maura, get out of the car. get out of the car! - i can't get my leg out! - maura, get out of the car! - my leg is stuck! - maura, go! run! stay down. stay down. go for the tree linene go! go! i got jane's voicemail again. cell service is iffy, though. maybe they're yelling so loud, they can't hear their phones. what is that? looks like a partial impression of a shut-off valve, a big one. 'you only find equipment like this in boiler rooms.' i think your floater was in the tunnels. (barry) 'where we found rachel's body?' (korsak) 'yeah, i think his head was smashed against' 'a shut-off valve somewhere in the tunnels.' we might be looking at a double homicide. so, how'd he get in the river?

there's an outflow of the tunnel that dumps right into the charles. look for a link between rachel lawson and paul mcnamara. come on. we got to try to keep going. come on. we haven't seen them in hours. i need to stop. okay! what? what? did you pull something? no. - take it off. - alright, alright. oh, my god, maura. your leg, i-it's hard, and it's cold. it's like a dead body. what is that? - it's compartment syndrome. - well, what does that mean? the post-tibial artery must have ruptured in the crash. but you've been walking on it! aah. blood from the artery is leaking. the pressure built. and now the blood is trapped in one of the lower cocoartments of my leg. okay, bottom line it for me. the blood supply to my lower leg has been compromised. i'll lose my leg unless-- unless we get you to a hospital. maura, come on! no, unless you do a fasciotomy. - i need something sharp. - what? no, maura, i ...

do you have sugar packets? no, why, did you bring coffee? i could use it to dress the wounds. - do you still have your phone? - yes. yes. why didn't i think of that? that's luck. we can call 911. oh, it's busted! the touch screen is gorilla glass. no, maura. i'm ... i'm not gonna do this. it'll work. okay. you're gonna make a six-inch incision right here. and a five-inch there. okay, just try not to cut the superficial peroneal nerve. - no. i can't do this. - take off your shirt. what? okay, now i know you've suffered a head injury. and let's go. to bind the wound. okay, come on. oh, god, maura. please.. please don't make me do this. listen to me. listen to me. you just keep on cutting, okay, till the blood starts to flow. maura, i'm sorry. i can't do this. you're a sprout trooper! okay? just...once you make the double incision you massage the wound like this. okay, the blood will be black. i can't. i can't. i'm so sorry. i can't do this.

oh, please. - come on. - oh, god. - okay. okay. - okay. alright. alright. you ready? okay. use more pressure. i'm okay. you're alright? ow! i'm not okay! aah! ohh! maura? maura? (korsak) 'rachel was a phd candidate in geology at bcu' mcnamara is a professor of hydrology at waltham university. too close to be a coincidence. she didn't take any classes with him. - 'nope.' - any e-mail correspondence? no. no phone calls, text messages, nothing. maybe she watched his "fate of the earth" talk. searching rachel's browser history. 'hold on.' there it is. his "fate of the earth" talk.

so, she knew his work on fracking. (barry) 'they were talking to each other.' 'i found a thread in the comments section' between mcnamara and "rockrachel." what's it say? "i have evidence of fracking. "can you meet today in tunnels under geo building?" 'that's two weeks ago.' looks like they met again... the day rachel was killed. "meet me. same place. three o'clock. bad news." where the hell is jane? come on, maura, it's time to wake up. 'i dreamt we were camping.' i voted for you. can you turn the heat down? come on, we got to get you out of here. you won sweetest camper again.

my leg hurts. why.. why does my leg hurt? - sensei matta, i presume? - and you are officer.. - detective rizzoli. - detective? kind of stupid to drive a car registered to the boston police out to my retreat. don't you think, detective? - get up. both of you. - my friend's hurt. she can't move. get her off the ground. let's go.

i don't know what i'm doing. i can't find anything just when i think it's just not going to work. this woman that works there comes over and asks can i help you? and he was so happy, to do it amazing right? i never would have expected would have thought that anyone would find that do that. make that go out of their way for me. right then, right there i couldn't believe it he was so helpful i know it's such a small thing little thing. simple thing but it made me smile made me happy made my day share your story. publix. where shopping is a pleasure. what if their car crashed? try not to worry, ma. i'm sure they're okay. the state police would have called bpd, mrs. rizzoli. alright, thanks. that was my contact in army personnel records.

he was a blackwater operative, too. sounds like one bad-ass yogi. i'm gonna take a ride up there. take a ride? they could be at any one of those seven lakes. i got to something. jane and dr. isles are out there. how'd you make the transition from yoga to fracking? hard left at fraud? this land is full of black gold, all from shale rock. i just needed capital to tap its potential. and a religion to hide behind? so you swindled vulnerable college students? i was already a martial arts master. didn't take much to repackage what i knew and sell it. you figured out that rachel was a brilliant geologist and you brought her here to analyze your rocks for free? actually, she paid me for r e privilege. she was very obedient. and she...helped until she realized that you were destroying this wilderness. she stole shale samples from me gave them to an environmental conspiracy crackpot. i guess you could say we were at cross-purposes.

every cop from here to boston will be looking for us. too bad you can't look behind you. you'd have a nice view of the water when it comes through. see, you're in a spillway for one of my reservoirs. a few million gallons of water's gonna come pouring through here. it's pretty toxic from all the fraraing. if i were you, i wouldn't drink it. let's go. come on! come on! try your phone. i can't, maura. it's busted, and it got wet. call your mom. tell her we're friends again. okey-dokey.

hey, ma.. oh, crap, it works! 'the microprocessor dried.' yay! maybe just texting. wait. crap. no. i-i can only send symbols. son of a... type 42-point... 3910... okay, thank you, maura. bing-bing. boop-boop-boop. bing-bing-boop-boop. it's morse code. nice job, maura.

that view is not okay. - jane? - maura, you down there? korsak? down here! help! - you okay? - yeah. we got to get maura out of here, alright? the spillway to the reservoir is open. hurry. did sergeant korsak come on our camping trip? great job with the morse code. the coordinates put me almost on top of you. watch her leg! watch her leg! can you walk? 'uh, i can hop.' you stayed with her. i wouldn't leave her. frankie, come help! 'they're back from the hospital!' - okay, i got her. - you got her? - alright? - yeah.

i spoke to korsak. they got sensei matta and his guys. - got her? - yeah. - are you sure you're okay? - yeah. 'let's get her some water.' thank you. so, i didn't tell my pop about knowing you-know-who. i think that's wise. you think i should tell my ma? - no! - tommy, did you hurt her? - no. - no, no, he didn't. my surgeon was very impressed with jane's incisions. i always wanted a doctor in the family. well, too bad. you got two cops and.. - an undertaker. - no, no, no. no. not doing that ever again. i got three great kids. i think you got a doctor, too. thanks. and thank you for saving my leg, jane. i think you two should apologize to each other. - butt out. - butt out. i'm sorry if you are.

no, we were both jerks. you were both [beeps] ma! watch your language! [laughs] and.. ...i didn't really win "sweetest camper" award. you didn't? i missed you. i missed you, too.

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>> i was just, "what." i was just shocked. >> what was wrong with the jury? what do they know that i don't know? how could they convict a man on what they had? >> i knew what a conviction was meant for me. life without the possibility of parole. >> my sister is still dede. it still didn't bring her back. but you had a little bit of faith in the justice system. >> reporter: in the hours following the verdict, it seemed everyone in coldwater was relying on faith. >> i said to myself, "god isn't gonna let me go to prison for the rest of my life." something had to turn around. >> reporter: then less than 24 hours after the verdict, tom foley's defense team got a phone call from a woman -- >> this is a woman who essentially says, "i saw the murderer, and it wasn't tom foley." coming up -- >> there's the killer, right there!

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jumper, 18. he hits it with five seconds -- >> 24 years after the one-time hometown hero named tom foley made coldwater history, the now convicted murderer of the same name sat behind bars awaiting his sentence. you ready to spend the rest of your life in prison? >> no, absololely not. >> reporter: to tom foley's attorney, tom schaeffer, and his private eye, ken koberstein, the guilty verdict landed like a crushing blow. >> this was a grassroot whodunit, and we thought we had shown that it wasn't this person who had done it. >> i was devastated.

when this ended, i could have walked into a wall. >> reporter: but just one day after tom foley's conviction, a woman stepped forward. she had new information that suddenly gave new life to tom's defense. >> she came forward and said, "i saw this white car storming out of the driveway, almost hit me." "it looked like somebody was either high or running away from something." >> reporter: the woman was certain the driver was coming out of the heath bar farm right around the time dar was murdered, and she was equally certain the driver looked nothing like tom foley. >> there's the killer right there. she saw him, the person leaving our property. >> reporter: and then like a dam breaking, two other witnesses came forward, each having seen a mysterious car of their own, either parked on the foley property or speeding away from it. all the sightings were within two hours of dar's murder. >> i mean, it was just like one

after another, a a i'm saying, "what is going on? where were these people before?" >> reporter: the judge who was about to sentence tom foley to life wanted to hear what these new witnesses had to say. and after a year of appeals that went all the way to the state supreme court, tom foley was granted something most people convicted of murder never receive, a second chance. >> i was walking through the chow hall in prison, andnd somebody says, "hey, tom, i saw you on the news." i said, "really, what for?" "well, they gave you a new trial." >> i said, "what?" >> reporter: but news of a new trial didn't change the minds of dar's family. they remained convinced, not only did tom kill dar, he did so on the day of his son's tenth birthday celebration. >> you think tom's cold blooded enough to do something like that to his kid? >> yes. >> i think there's evil in him. >> reporter: prosecutor terri norris agreed.

>> tom foley. there is nobody else. >> reporter: a year and a half after tom foley's conviction both sides filed back into the courthouse to once again determine tom's fate. >> circuit court is again in session. >> thank you. >> reporter: as before, the state opened its case with crime scene analysts. >> what isist that you found in the basement? >> i found a yellow dunham's bag and located inside the dunham's bag were three shotgun shells. these are phone records. >> reporter: norris also showed the jury the foleys' home phone records from around the time dar was killed. >> there were no calls that either came in or left. >> your wife doesn't show up somewhere, why not call home and say, you know, "have you left yet? where are you? we're waiting for you." >> that's what i'd do. >> reporter: according to detective karbon, tom didn't bother calling dar at home because he knew dar was already dead. then, members of dar's family stepped forward to testify that

tom and dar's marriage was troubled and that tom wanted out. >> he told me that his wife is very controlling and that it was wearing on him, and he did not necessarily want to stay in the marriage anymore. >> reporter: and there was more evidence of an unhappy marriage. according to this woman, back in 2006, tom had a wandering eye. >> please state your fululname for the record and spell your last name. >> carolyn zuck. >> reporter: carey zuck taught at the same elementary school as dar, who was known at school as "dee dee." that's how carey met tom. >> he told me that he was thinking about leaving dee dee. >> reporter: according to carey, tom also revealed he had feelings for her, and later he tried to kiss her. >> and what was your reaction to that? >> i didn't want anything to do with it. >> reporter: the prosecution wasn't done.

this woman took the stand. >> please state your full name for the record and spell your last name. >> marion victoria crandall. >> reporter: out of the presence of the jury, marion crandall told the court that, like carey zuck, she met tom through dar, and a couple of weeks after dar's murder, marion stopped by the farm to offer tom support. >> i don't mean to embarrass you but you had sex with tom in his living room? >> he tried to, and it was stopped. >> all right. who tried and who stopped? >> he tried, and we both stopped. >> you don't have sexual relationship with somebody within two weeks after your wife's been murdered in that house. >> reporter: but the jury never heard marion crandall's testimony because there was no indication of a romantic relationship prior to dar's murder. the judge ruled, just as he did in the first trial, that her testimony was prejudicial and,

prosecution's case. >> it supports the position that they weren't this deeply in love couple that he kept trying to present. that would have proven that. >> reporter: but norris still had her two key witnesses, tom's own son heath and heath's friend sklyar wattie. both two years older and now more certain than ever about what they saw and heard the da dar was killed. >> last year at church camp for one of our activities, we fired shotguns, and it most resembled that sound. >> reporter: then it was time for heath to take the stand. the last time tom had seen his boy was at a hearing, also in court almost a year earlier. >> while you're in the barn, do you hear something? >> yes, i thought it was maybe skylar kinda ran into a wall. either that or a gunshot. >> you think the boys actualal were, if not eye witnesses, then ear witnesses. >> ear witnesses to what

happened. >> -- to a murder? >> yes. >> reporter: tom schaeffer knew that if he had any hope of getting tom foley acquitted, he'd need to prove the sound thososboys heard was anything other than a gunshot. just two weeks before trial began, while inspecting crime scene photos, schaeffer found what may be the key to his client's freedom. >> and i says, "ken, is that what i think it is?" >> it was one of these, "holy crap!" >> it was, to us, just a perry mason moment. coming up -- >> we were together all the time. >> reporter: tom foley on the stand with his own fate on the line. >> i wanted to convince the police. i wanted to advice my wife's family. >> could he? when "dateline" continues. olay regenerist renews from within, plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation

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delivery. hey. lo mein, szechwan chicken, chopsticks, soy sauce and you got some fortune cookies. have a good one. ah, these small new york apartments... protect your belongings. let geico help you with renters insurance. the defense began presenting its case in hopes of convincing the jury that foley is innocent. >> reporter: midway thru tom foley's trial, the talk around coldwater focused on the damaging testimony of skylar wattie and tom's own son heath. >> what do you think was the strongest part of your case? >> the boys. the testimony of the boys. they heard the gunshot. >> reporter: but the defense was about to argue that over time, both boys' testimony had changed, and in significant ways.

sounds like a gunshot. it's something that he didn't say in the first interview, the same thing with skylar. >> reporter: heath's courtroom testimony left tom furious, not at his son but at his accusers, the people who had cared for heath while tom was incarcerated. >> that's somebody coaching him or encouraging him? >> i believe so. >> coached or not, tom foley's defense team knew from day one they needed to prove the sound those boys heard was tom dropping a window pane on the back steps, and not the fatal gun blast. four days after tom foley's arrest schaeffer and koberstein took a trip to the farm to try and do just that. >> a couple of perry mason moments don't come very often. >> this is the frame that we found. >> reporter: right where tom said he dropped the frame, they found this tiny shard of glass. immediately they tried to match the shard with the frame tom said he dropped.

it in one of the few remaining intact puttied areas of the frame, you can see it fits perfectly. >> reporter: it was compelling evidence that tom may have been telling the truth, but schaeffer would need more than just a shard of evidence. he next called this woman, jeanette moor, the woman who came forward immediately following tom's guilty verdictct and the reason he was ultimately granted a new trial. moor said she was driving past the foley house right around the time dar had been murdered. >> as i approached, this white car come racing out forward, and if i hadn't have braked, i would have hit him. >> reporter: jeanette moor said she got a good look at the driver. >> it was a young 18 to 20-year-old kid, had real black hair, and his face was real white, and he was clutchin' the wheel just like this. and i thought, he's crazy. he's gonna kill somebody!" >> why didn't you call the

afraid. >> reporter: but when jeanette moor learned about tom foley's guilty verdict, she said she could no longer keep her silence. >> god forgive me, and i truly mean that in my heart, that i didn't come forward sooner. if i hadn't have been so darned scared. >> reporter: what followed was a succession of other witnesses, each claiming they too saw mysterious cars, either on or leaving the heath bar farm right around the time of the murder. >> whoever killed dar foley was either in one of those cars or all of three of them participated in this murder in some fashion. >> reporter: but tom foley knew if he had any hope of acquittal, the jury would need to hear from one more witness. >> i call tom foley to the stand your honor. >> i just didn't want to convince the 12 jurors. i wanted to convince the prosecutor. i wanted to convince the police. i wanted to convince my wife's

family. i wanted them to know and look at me and hear me. >> reporter: tom started by answering some still nagging questions like how did a yellow plastic bag with shotgun shells in it get into tom's basement. >> did you have dunham's bags in your home? >> yes. >> how do you explain the bag in the basement with the shotgun shells in it? >> they weren't ours. that bag is probably ours. i mean, my fingerprint's on the bag. but for three clean shotgun shells to be in my basement just doesn't make sense. >> you have no idea where those came from? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: tom said he's never owned or used a shotgun. >> never. wouldn't know how to operate it. wouldn't know the first thing about it. >> reporter: tom schaeffer then asked why tom failed to call his home when dar didn't show up at the birthday celebration? >> something just wasn't right. so that's why y went home. >> if we had cell phones, i would have called her on the cell phone. i had to find her. i had to go and see where she

was at. >> reporter: then it was time for tom to describe his relationship with dar. it didn't take tom long to lose his composure. >> we were very close. and we were -- >> go ahead. >> we were together all the time. >> reporter: tom admitted to the jury he did once flirt with carey zuck, but he says that happened three years prior to the murder during a brief time when he and dar were arguing more than they were communicating. >> that put quite a bit of distance between us, and it also led to intimacy problems between her and i. >> reporter: tom says he eventually told dar about his feelings for carey. he also says he went to counseling to work on their communication problems.

things get better? >> absolutely. >> reporter: but then why was it so easy for tom to become intimate with marion crandall so soon after dar's death? >> this is like three weeks after dar died. >> yes. >> and you're in the house where dar died? >> yeah. >> what am i to think of that? >> think that i don't care about what had just happened to my wife. that's not true. if i could go back and change it, i would. but i can't. >> this was an event that involved grief and a reaching out, and it happened. >> do you love your wife? >> i love her very much. >> did you love her on february 7th, 2009? >> very much so. >> did you have anything to do with her death? >> not at all. >> reporter: before closing arguments, the prosecutor had one more card to play in the

witness who could unravel tom's alibi. >> please state your full name for the record. >> amber rapelje. >> reporter: out of the presence of the jury, dar's niece told the court that one week before dar was murdered, she went to the farm to baby-sit heath. >> she told us not to go out in the back porch without shoes because tom had dropped a frame and there might be still some glass out there. >> reporter: but the judge ruled that amber's testimony was hearsay and therefore inadmissible. the jury never heard her challenge tom's claim that what the boys heard the day dar was murdered was him dropping a window frame. >> reporter: now, with the evidence that was admitted, and for the second time in two years, a jury was about to decici tom foley's fate. >> my stomach was turning. i wasn't eating. i was physically sick. >> coming up --

wept for 20 minutes. >> as he did in the first trial, attorney tom schaeffer prepared to address the jury for what he and his client, tom foley, hoped would be the last time. >> when your defense rested, were you comfortable? >> yes. >> you thought you were going to win? >> very much. yep. >> you thought that once before? >> yes, i did. >> apparently, the theory of the prosecution is if a marriage ever has a bump in the road, then that is a motive for murder. is it reasonable? i suggest not. >> reporter: tom foley, he says, had d thing to do with dar's death, but those mysterious cars did.

been there. >> and the prosecution has not given you any explanation why they were there because there is no other explanation other than that they had some connection with the death of dar foley. ladies and gentleman of the jury, i submit to you there's more than reasonable doubt. i respectfully ask you to find tom foley "not guilty." >> reporter: then came prosecutor terri norris' turn, and she started by attacking the credibiity of those witnesses who say they saw the cars. >> if you were to believe that all of these vehicles were there, there was a party at the foley home that day with a -- with a bunch of white cars and a black suv. that makes no sense whatsoever, none. >> reporter: terri norris wanted this jury thinking only one thing. >> who had the motive? it's tom foley. whose fingerprints were on the

tom foley. >> tom foley is "guilty" and i'm asking you to bring back that verdict. >> reporter: the outcome of tom's second trial was far from certain. >> what worried you the most? >> just that he was such a nice guy that you would have never guessed that he would've done something like this. >> he didn't seem like a murderer. >> right. >> reporter: and then at the fabled eleventh hour, it was time. the jury filed in. were they looking at you? the jurors? >> no, they weren't. i took a couple of deep breaths. and i just -- >> your honor, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. >> the waiting had -- it had paid off. >> as to count two, not guilty. >> the reaction of tom at the time of the verdict. absolutely incredible. he collapsed to the floor and wept for twenty minutes. unbelievable. >> he got away with murder, but he almost didn't.

we had him convicted and to actually have to go back and talk with that family and give them some consoling, how do you do that? >> you're just angry, and you're angry at the jurors, the judge, and there's nothing you can do about it. >> i was more concerned about heath at that point, because i knewewhat he knew his father killed his mother, and i couldn't imagine having to go back and live with the man that killed your mother. >> yeah, get it. >> reporter: tom has regained custody of heath. and he treads very carefully when discussing that tragic day with his boy. >> from him i at least want to know, 'why do you think i did this?' i deserve that answer. and all he could say i i "i don't know who else it could

never forget dar. >> i still think she's beside me. i'm going to continue to raise our son the way that we wanted him to be raised. >> do you harbor any grudge because of this? >> all i can say is they made a mistake, and that's all i am asking is that they search and search and search until they find dee dee's killer. >> reporter: according to prosecutor norris, there would be no point to that search. you're not investigating anymore? >> there's no one to investigate. and there's been no new evidence of anybody else ever having committed this crime. >> reporter: this boyhood hero wrote a whole new set of headlines as an adult, and coldwater may never be the same. as for those who remain convinced of tom's guilt, they cling to the memory of the one they lost and loved so much. >> are you ready? >> reporter: they gathered to release balloons in dar's honor.

attention. so, this is her center of attention. >> two, one. >> they rise closer to where she is at, and hopefully she sees that we're thinking about her. >> we love you, dar. >> that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. this sunday, donald trump is still leaping ahead and nothing he says seems to slow him down. >> i know where she went. it's disgusting. i don't want to talk about it. >> will 2016 will the year the plit lolitical establishment gets toppled? i'll be joined by bernie sanders, another outsider who upset the old political order. also, the commander-in-chief test.

with america facing challenges on a scale not seen since 9/11, which candidate is best qualified to keep us safe at home and abroad. and film director spike lee on america's gun culture. >> why are we okay with that 88 americans die everyday from gun violence? why are we okay with that? joining me for insight and analysis are matt bai of yahoo! news, helene cooper of the "new york times," amy walter of the cook political report, and michael gerson of the "washington post." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." good sunday morning, i'm andrea mitchell in for chuck todd who is taking a well-deserved holiday break. 12 months ago, most political pundits would have laughed in your face if you suggested that by the end of the year donald trump would have a commanding lead in the race for the