my friends and the people of missouri. >> reporter: his legal team has fought back hard, accusing st. louis prosecutor kimberly gardner, of political buy as. she dropped a felony invasion of privacy charge against the governor last week after the judge agreed she could be called as a defense witness. a special prosecutor has now been appointed to consider refiling the charge. r consideri refiling the charge. a political firestorm with the woman at the center of it saying she is done being a punching bag. >> i had no ill intentions, other than not being made to be a liar. i'm not lying. this was hard. it was hard at that time and it's hard to talk about now. i'm not lying. >> she adds that she has not accepted any money to tell her story. and apologized to the governor's wife. she's not showing her face, you noticed. she says that's to maintain whatever privacy she has left for her children. savannah and hoda. >> blake, thank you very much. >>> we have a lot more to get to, including a...