chuck cruz. >> so the brazos county sheriff's office kept investigating chuck, even communicated withnd jury. chuck and his lawyer spoke to the detective on many occasions, and the detective continued to think chuck's behavior was suspicious. and that he still seemed nervous. did you ever think that maybe the reason that chuck cruz was acting this way was that you guys were coming down pretty hard on him, and he's lost his girlfriend. i mean, is there a way to act? >> i don't know, but he had several things going against him, and we just couldn't walk away from him. we either had to prove that he did it or prove that he didn't do it. >> but chuck says he should have been cleared almost right away. so even though the dna didn't match -- >> there was no match but they insisted on targeting me as the prime suspect. they were trying to build a case that wasn't there. >> while chuck's life had been on hold for a year, kristen was starting to feel like her old self again. in the six months since her attack, she had taken up running, had a new boyfriend, and though kristen hoped the pain of

senator chuck grassley says the president's claim that noise from wind turbines causes cancer i'dotic. senators ted cruzcornyn warned about closing the southern bothered saying it would be, quote, devastating and, quote, a terrible mistake respectively. senators mitch mcconnell and house minority leader kevin mccarthy pushing back on the president's on again-off again healthcare approach, and then following the democrats' request to see president trump's tax returns republican senator john kennedy said he would like to see them, too. michael smerconish is a cnn political commentator and host of cnn's "smerconish" and joins us now. listening to everything that republicans are saying, i wonder if the president is saying et tu, republicans? what do you think? >> i think it's newsworthy because it's such a rarity. so few instances in the two-plus years that he's been in office where republicans, members of his own party have been willing to confront him, so when it does happen and happens in rapid succession, we all pay attention to it. i'm thinking of the executive order and the border, quote, unquote emer