their case would rely heavily on the word of one man, the killer himself, alexander bennett. y had to believe this guy bennett? >> absolutely. >> reporter: your case was going to rise and fall on that? >> he was going to be the star witness against stephen cooke. >> reporter: bennett told jurors the same story he told investigators, how he killed heidi. video cameras weren't permitted, but bennett's testimony was audiotaped. he decided to confess, he says, because of his faith and for heidi's family. >> i wanted to be a human being. i wanted to give a family some type of peace. i wanted to have faith enough and to grow up into a man and to accept and take responsibility for what i did. >> reporter: but the question still remained. if stephen cooke had planned heidi's murder, why had he done it? according to stephen, they were in love and planning to marry. but some of heidi's friends testified that she was so miserable in the relationship, she was preparing to leave. >> she had asked a friend of hers for a small loan for an easy storage facility in an effort to move out. >> re

alexander, thank you very much. >> i want to bring in senator michael bennett. he sits on the committee of health, education, labor and pensions. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to play something that orin hatch said. >> their vote will turn the whole thing into a socialized medicine. i can't imagine any republican wanting that, but that is what they're doing. who can you work with over there? they, half of the time they won't even come to meetings, they're not serious legislatures unless they get their way. >> do you believe the testimode and the republicans are so far away that there is no space for them to come to the table? >> i have never had trouble working with them on a range of issues from immigration do taxes including orin hatch. that has personally never been an finish for me. the problem with the true in my view, and i know this will sound presu presumptous of me, but i don't think they care what happens. they cobbled together something that is not really a health care bill to try to answer id ideological frame work. >> have you talked to the

alexander: madam secretary, we talked before about this report that the higher education community did at the request of senator mikulski, senator bennett. we said, "give us specifics about what you do not like about what they call the jungle of red tape that takes away money that interferes with their administering the 6000 colleges and universities' money which might be better used for students." about a dozen of those recommendations can be done solely by the secretary. four of the 10 most important can be done solely by the secretary. i think you know what those are. they have to do is simple time, return, title iv funding, updating standards, modifying state authorizations, distance education. there is also another one that would streamline the reporting data that now comes through 11 different annual surveys. will you make a priority and give it your attention -- the dozen proposals within the kirwan zephyrs report to get rid of the jungle of red tape and in higher education? will you make that a priority? sec. devos: yes. yes, in fact we are well , underway examining the steps we can take to accept and examine exactly what has be

alexander: madam secretary, we have talked before about this report the higher education community did. this was at the request of senator mikulski, senator bennett, senator byrd and me. give us specifics about what you don't like about the jungle of red tape that takes away money that interferes with their 6000istrative success, colleges and universities, money that might be better used for students. about a dozen can be done solely by the secretary. four of the 10 most important can be done solely by the secretary. i think you know what those are. they have to do with simplifying return of title iv funds, updating financial responsibility standard, modifying distance education. there is also another one that would streamline the reporting data that now comes over an annual service. will you make a priority and give your attention to the dozen proposals within the report to get rid of the jungle of red tape and higher education, the things that you can do yourselves? will you make that a priority? betsy devos: yes, sir. in fact we are well under way with examining the steps to take examine what exactly has been recommended. with regard to one of