[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. our charles river floaoar is paul mcnamara. 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.

- 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, look. a homo sapien. 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 your list. we...we just ascended. today, in fact.

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. (all) love and light. - 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.

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.. ...she uncovered the fracking, and that's what.. nexium 24hr is the new #1 selling frequent heartburn brand in america. i hope you like it spicy! get complete protection with the purple pill. the new leader in frequent heartburn. that's nexiummlevel protection. phil! oh no... (under his breath) hey man!

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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 h hd 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.

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 compartments 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 ... maura, i'm not gonna cut your leg off with a nail file. 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.

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. - i'm sorry. - i really like my leg, jane. oh, please. - come on. - oh, god. - okay. okay. - okay. alright. alright. you ready? okay. use more pressure. i'm okay.

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."

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. i didn't win. 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

- get up. both of you. - my friend's hurt. she can't move. get her off the ground. let's go.

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. matthew moore is an ex-army ranger. 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.

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 the 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. i'm a homicide detective. 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 fracking. if i were you, i wouldn't drink it.

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...

okay, thank you, maura. bing-bing. boop-boop-boop. bing-bing-boop-boop. it's morse code. nice job, maura. what the hell? 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?

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?

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. okay, but i'm less sorry. 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?

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investigators had exhausted hundreds of leads. and themselves. >> i knew it was having an impact on my physiological health as well as my mental health. >> on august 8th the chief took his family out of town for some r and r. and the very next day a woman named karen lange happened to be a member of amyjane's church announced to her husband dan she was going for a walk. >> and she came down. and i'll never forget what she said.

out for dessert afterward. >> karen was an accomplished singer and pianist. dan vice president of the local community college. her walk along the river levee in downtown pendleton, the river walk was almost a daily habit. it was 4:30 p.m. lots of sun left on the warm august afternoon. >> and the last words she said to me were, well, i guess we'll just have a nice boring evening. >> dan went back to tinkering on his motorcycle. lost all track of time. it was dark when his son walked into the room and asked an innocuous question. >> where's mom? i said, well, i don't know. i'll give her a call. so i went -- i tried to make the phone call, and i couldn't get hold of her. >> but it was after 9:30 p.m. karen usually walked for less than an hour. she'd been gone for five. in some people anxiety stokes panic.

it's a coping mechanism, he stays calm. he made another call. >> long day, 10:00 at night. i answer, hi, dan. >> remember jed and lisa hummel? friend of amyjane's from church? karen always parked their car in front of her house when she took her late afternoon walks. >> says, is karen at your house? no. i just got home and i asked lisa if she'd been over. and i said, no, haven't seen her. >> and i had looked outside and sure enough the car was still there. so we went out to the car and she wasn't there. >> so jed and lisa grabbed flashlights and walked a couple of blocks from their house down to the river levee. there in the parking lot sat a pendleton policeman. what should they do they asked him. >> he just thought it was unusual enough that he got ahold of dan. >> as the officer left to talk to dan, jed and lisa kept looking through the dark along the riverbank.

>> there's a fear of not finding anything. and there's a fear of finding something. >> when i got to where the policeman was, we were talking, and he said, you seem to be awfully calm for your wife being missing. and at that point i thought, holy mackerel, you know, if there's something -- if there's something bad that happened to her, i could be a suspect. >> from his patrol car the officer was able to pull up images from cameras stationed around the river levee. no sign of karen. then her cell provider sent a ping to karen's phone. it turned up across the main road about half a mile from the river. in the parking lot at walmart. where again, the officer could not find karen. what was going on? around and around the river walk they went pointing their puny flashlights at a sea of dark. >> i did go home at about 5:00.

gone. i don't know where she is. i just have to go to bed. and i went and i just cried. >> he did not sleep long. the phone call that startled him awake brought news. some good, some very, very bad. coming up -- amyjane's murder and karen's disappearance. could they be connected? investigators are about to discover a disturbing clue. >> i think in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom,

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by that time going on 6:00 a.m. karen lang had been missing more than 12 hours. then finally the morning sun lit up the banks of the umatilla river. >> then the policeman called, we found your wife. >> she was found and alive but what the policeman said next was terrifying. >> well, when he said we found your wife and she's alive, that was a great relief. but he certainly made it sound like it was a tough thing. >> oh, it was. karen had been struck from behind by some heavy blunt object. her skull was crushed. the wound was massive. right away the detective called the chief on vacation in the mountains five hours away and described the way they found her. did he think she was dead already? >> he thought she was dead. tremendous amount of blood. he indicates that he reaches for

her wrist to see if she has a pulse and her leg moves. and she gasps. >> but it didn't look like she'd be alive for long. the detective drove dave lang to the hospital, told him prepare for the worst. as he arrived at the emergency room, dan ran into a nurse he knew. >> and she took one look at me, and it was so heartbroken that i, of course, broke down. and then i had a chance to see karen. >> the doctors gave her a slim chance, 1 in 100, maybe. she was airlifted to a bigger hospital in portland for specialized care. as dan kept watch at her bedside, he remembered an odd comment karen made a few days before she was attacked. her boys were in college, nearly grown. she wasn't sure what her purpose was any more. as she told dan -- >> i really wish that i could

be, you know, more useful, if i'm going to remain here. >> on planet earth. >> on planet earth. i would assure her that god has a plan. and you will be used. >> but what kind of use was this? if she lived, she might never regain consciousness. if she regained consciousness, she might never be the same. how useful could that be? and then suddenly, the case in the murder of amy brandhagen and the attack on karen lang seemed to take on a new and terrifying meaning. chief roberts returned from his vacation to be handed this photograph by investigators. it had been taken four years earlier. >> one of the detectives had gotten his hands on an image of amyjane brandhagen and karen lang together dated august 14th. >> oh, my god. >> amyjane brandhagen was murdered on august 14th. karen lang was assaulted on august the 9th one year after amyjane's murder. >> you think somebody's

targeting them or someone within the church has some strange motivation? >> it could be a member of the congregation or it could be somebody who they provided outreach services to. >> in pendleton at the free methodist church, the word spread quickly. >> i think in that moment most of us knew that that wasn't coincidence. and i can't tell you how we knew. >> well, small town, same church. >> small town, same church. we all knew each other. i think we just knew. >> in a town where murder is rare, two women, one photo, and dates that lined up like a message. had to be a connection. >> certainly crossed my mind. crossed my mind. >> so they scoured hours of video recorded by dozens of cameras stationed around town looking for a suspect. good luck. when amyjane was murdered in broad daylight, those videos turned up exactly nothing.

but then, then luck turned. they saw this. recorded by one of the cameras stationed around the river walk, 6:31 p.m. karen lang, there she is right there, out for her walk. and following her, a man watching her with what looks like a pipe hidden behind his back right there. >> they cross a small foot bridge. there's a short stretch there maybe 50 or 60 yards where there's just no visibility from any direction unless you're actually on the path. and right there is where he attacks her. >> is that where she was found? >> she was found about 30 feet down the path. >> and then they found this video recorded by another camera about an hour after the attack. same man enters a park bathroom. and minutes later emerges to use a drinking fountain. >> i immediately said it's the same guy. we've got to show it's the same guy. >> wait, same guy as who? chief roberts remembered after

witness who saw anything reported a young man with dark hair wandering near the motel. >> basically the description was fairly generic. male, 20-something, dark hair, a little bit longer, with dark toned skin. now we have this second crime a year later, almost to the anniversary, and here's a male profile or image on our network camera system that fits. it fits. >> but who was he? and why was he targeting women from the same church? within hours a very unusual kind of pendleton roundup was underway. the order was clear -- find him. fast. coming up -- the evidence that was about to send this case into overdrive. >> it gave me chills. phil! oh no... (under his breath)

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when the free methodists of pendleton, oregon, went to their weekly worship services that offered their prayers for karen lang lying in a portland hospital in a coma. her husband dan a constant presence at her bedside. the prognose was poor, but dan,

to hang on. >> it's just a faithful attitude that says no matter what happens it's god's plan. and his plan is to prosper us. even if i were to lose karen, i had to hold on to that and realize that. >> in those first two days since karen was found in the brush alongside the pendleton river walk, shock spread like bad electricity. >> someone came up to our senior pastor and said, you know, i think i'm glad i'm not part of your church if all these things that have happened. >> yeah. >> you're thinking is there a serial killer around? >> not fear exactly, not yet. but someone was out there, was among them, had killed once perhaps twice. and so the unease grew. dark places were avoided. >> the odds of a stranger picking two people that were as

mind around. >> umatilla county district attorney dan primis. this sounds more like a zodiac-type killer. like one of those weird puzzles. >> absolutely. as you're working these investigations, you're thinking all those things. trying to determine what connection is there between karen lang and amyjane brandhagen. >> it seemed very likely to the police and the d.a. the man seen in the surveillance video was the one who attacked karen lang, and that he might also have been the killer who stabbed amyjane to death in that motel room one year earlier. but who was it? the chief asked his street cops to look at that video. anybody recognize him? and what do you know? one of them did. >> he looked at the image for a second and said that's danny wu. >> how did he know? because he'd encountered him four times in the previous year. minor infractions, though.

name actually was danny wu. but there was one thing that might help i.d. him. >> he had a very distinct tattoo on the inside of his left wrist which read, semper fi. >> he's a marine. >> that was my initial reaction. >> while chief roberts didn't know who the man really was or where he was now or why he targeted two women who once taught bible school together, he knew they had to track him down right away. >> this is a community on edge. >> and now he's out there. >> he's out there. and we've got to find him. there could be more victims. >> the chief canceled all time off, called in every available officer. a manhunt was on. and then a bit of luck. the very same sharp-eyed detective who found karen noticed something odd nearby. a wooden panel on the back of an old batting cage beside the river walk looked not quite right. so the officer reached behind

one end. the dna confirmed it was karen's blood. and then when the crime lab compared a dna sample from the other end of the pipe with the material found under amyjane's fingernails? >> i get that call on a sunday afternoon. now we've connected the dots. >> the man who assaulted karen and amyjane brandhagen's killer were one in the same. right away the police chief shared the news with the d.a. >> i was at home. chief asked me if i was sitting down. he told me that the dna from the pipe matched the dna found underneath amyjane's fingernails. and it gave me chills. >> but though chief roberts' officers scoured the town, even distributed flyers with wu's picture on them, they found nothing. hours piled up, days, more than a week. no danny wu.

but anxiety? oh, yes. >> you didn't leave garages unlocked. >> no. >> sheds, doors, windows, cars. >> yeah. you do. you feel like there's a serial killer in town. >> and then a call from the local convention center. two catering company employees told the dispatcher they'd gone in through a side door to the kitchen. >> and here sits this person who they readily recognize as this danny wu that we had disseminated the images of and he was sitting there drinking a coke. and he basically picked up his stuff and disappeared into the facility. >> so he's in the building somewhere. it's a big building. >> it's a big building. >> within minutes the police surrounded the convention center. a search dog trained to bite joined in. they set up a command post outside one of the center's windows. >> the dogs just woof, woof, woofing at the door. and the oregon state trooper behind us says i can see a leg hanging out of the ceiling. >> looking through a window. >> i take about two steps back from where i'm standing and i can see it.

enter. they enter, go straight to this location in the stairwell and there he is. >> minutes later the suspect, the man known as danny wu, the man who may have murdered one woman, possibly even two and terrorized the town of pendleton walked out in handcuffs and into the flashing cameras of the local paper. later, officers took this video of his hiding spot in an air-conditioning duct in the convention center ceiling where he had a blanket, radio and some >> it looked like a nest. and looked like he'd been there for a while coming and going, hiding in plain sight. he'd been here all year. >> but now what? would he talk? lawyer up? or even would he reveal who he really was? and why it appeared he was targeting the women of the free coming up -- inside a heart of darkness. >> i didn't understand that. i've never heard that before. >> revelations that would leave

shattered. i didn't know whether to scream.

here he was, the man they here he was, the man they knew as danny wu, the man detective sergeant rick jackson had been chahang for a year. >> i'm sergeant rick jackson. i work here at the pendleton police department. i know i'm not dressed like a normal police officer. >> jackson was out hunting elk when they caught danny wu. and rushed in still in his camo hoping finally to get answers to his year of questions. >> are you willing to talk to me? >> to a certain point. >> the chief and the d.a. watched from a nearby office. >> i didn't expect him to say anything. i expected him to ask for a lawyer. i wasn't sure how he was going to respond to any of the questions. >> but d.a. primis and all of them were in for a big surprise. >> what's your name? >> my name is lukah chang. >> i want to write it down. what's your last name? >> sure enough not danny wu.

lukah chang, 23 years old, the son of christian missionaries. a deserter from the u.s. marines who drifted into town without any plan and stayed in that downtown motel w wre he encountered a maid named amy jane. >> did you talk to her? >> no. only in passing like she would knock on the door. >> soon he was broke, living on the street, spending his days at the town library across the street from the travelodge. >> you walked by and saw -- >> saw working. i saw her working and just. >> how long did you have to wait? >> probably a half hour. >> you're weighting there a half hour, you're thinking to yourself what? >> i'm going to do it. >> grabbed her, brought her into the motel room or into the bathroom and then what happened? >> i stabbed her. >> with what? >> a knife. >> when detective jackson tried to get into this young man's head, the conversation veered off into a cold and disturbing

place. as a missionary's son, was lukah chang rebelling against his parents, against god? detective jackson asked the question on just about every mind in pendleton, oregon. >> why? >> to see how it felt. >> see how what felt? >> taking a life. >> why? >> i was curious. >> how did it feel? >> empowering. >> empowering and saddening? >> at the same time? >> yes. empowering because i took a life. saddening because i realized i've seen life is precious. >> that was it? to see how it felt? i've never heard that from a >> but why the second attack? did he target those two women because they taught bible school together? because they appeared in that photograph together?

>> not really. it was approaching the anniversary of the first time. >> and that was just about it, said lukah chang. >> she was walking by, i noticed, followed, attacked. >> he was a brick wall. if the real answer was buried in his religious past or his failed military career or some other secret corner, we were not to know. ever. >> do you feel remorse? >> not really. >> why is that? >> i got tired of feeling. emotions and stuff like that. i got tired of feeling the feelings. so i'm like all right. let's just cut that out. >> then having had hisay, the man the police had been chasing for so long was safely tucked away in a jail cell soon to plead guilty to murder and attempted murder. and to begin serving 35 to life. >> i can't even describe the relief. it's like the world is lifted off your shoulders. >> i didn't know whether to cry, didn't know whether to scream.

just kind of dumbfounded. >> across the state in portland dan lang told his comatose wife karen they caught him. though, of course, she couldn't hear that. and then in a few days later dan turned on his video camera. >> karen, can you raise your yeah, can you raise that hand up? yeah. very good. >> to the astonishment of her doctors, life flooded back. >> i'm doing very well. i feel great. >> and just a year after that vicious attack, here she was, karen lang, the woman whose ordeal wound up catching a killer. not exactly the purpose she expected when she talked to her husband dan that day. >> like i told him not that long ago i said don't ever pray for more to do with your life

answered on that. >> the recovery took a long time of course. three hospitals, surgeries to rebuild her skull, months in a protective helmet. but of that awful night, she had no memory at all. what was the sense you recall at least of coming out of this blackness into -- back up into life again? >> well, a lot of it was just a feeling that i didn't know what was wrong. i didn't know whwhi was in a hospital. i didn't know i was in portland. >> the langs' troubles are not over. a few months after dan brought karen home from portland, he was diagnosed with cancer. so a skeptic's question. you know, you two have been through so much in the last year that, i mean -- has this not damaged your faith? you're not angry at god for

>> no. >> i mean, if there's a plan for you, it's your plan to be so brutalized by an attack and by cancer? >> well, the beauty is that we also see the blessings, see how it's had such a positive effect on people and how it could be so much worse for me. i see it as we need to go through it. it will be a season of recovery for us. >> and then september 2014 it was pendleton roundup time again. and the emcee's voice boomed through the arena. miracles happen, said the announcer. >> no one in pendleton knows that better than our singer today. for our national anthem please welcome miss karen lang. o say can you see by the dawn's early light

opportunity to really just thank the people of pendleton for all the support and things that they did for me and for my family. home of the brave >> in pendleton the world was back on its axis. though perhaps a smaller and sadder place without the girl who always reached out to the lonely, to the strangers just like the one who drifted into town and killed her. pretty remarkable, huh? i mean, isn't he exactly the sort of person she would have sought out? >> i find that very ironic. and it's also the same person that if she were here today she would say take the way of forgiveness, it's the better way. >> let's pray. >> and every sunday the faithful still fill the pews at the

pendleton free methodist churcrc and a barefoot sprite who loved to dance lives on, at least in memory. >> amy's life was great. and i think the people who knew her would want to live better lives because of knowing her and knowing who she was. >> that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. this sunday, the one-month sprint to iowa and new hampshire begins. >> we are all in in iowa. we are all in in new hampshire. >> while donald trump takes aim at hillary clinton, by attacking bill clinton's sexual peck dillos. >> that certainly will be fair game. certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me that will be fair game. >> it may be fair game.

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