chuck cruz. >> so the brazos county sheriff's office kept investigating chuck, even communicated with. about possibly convening a grand 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 main 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 th

cruz, briefly shook hands. the president joked that the monster storm left a hole in the u.s. budget. senate minority leader chuck schumer responded by saying he felt that set a bad tone. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you have thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on puerto rico and that's fine. we saved a lot of lives. >> mr. president, enough. stop blaming puerto rico for the storm that devastated their shores. reporter: by and large the president received a good response on the ground there from people of puerto rico when there, during that briefing throughout really during the day. he has praised the response from those on the ground, in part at one point, by noting how the death toll was a fraction of those who lost their lives in hurricane katrina. >> what is your death count as of this moment, 17? >> 16. >> 16 people certified. 16 people, versus in the thousands. you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. reporter: not just puerto rico on forefront of the mind of president, david. he is meeting this afternoon with the gove

cruz has been saying everything during the campaign that we've been saying. he's not a conservative, he never will be a conservative. birtherism in 2007, gave to chuck, hundreds of thousands to the dnc. >> among others. said hillary clinton was great president, would make a great president. >> don't we need ted cruz to say that now? the only people who are saying that, and then they go, okay i quit. no. i need people that are there to say -- i commend jeff flake, bob corker. >> i agree. >> stay in the fight. i need somebody to say that and stay in the piet. >> in real time. >> people need to speak out against donald trump. >> what does that require? >> what do you mean? >> courage. >> well, it does. >> leadership. everything you were sent there to do. >> you have to think about -- one thing i keep thinking about through all of this -- we've gone through a civil war, two world wars, korea, vietnam, watergate. >> great depression, recessions. >> the country will survive this, too. so it's a real -- it's a great test to our constitution. our government is supposed to work when we have governing majorities where the people support what the government is

republican in the senate, as well as senator ted cruz, are not here today you do see the chair of the overall umbrella senate judiciary committee, chuckis here he made a little bit of a belated entrance the democratic side is stacked here so that could mean that there are going to be some tough questions coming for these top attorneys from facebook, google and twitter. guys >> and kayla, that reminds of the big read in the "journal" today about how google's closeness with washington and sternl certainly with the democratic party does not seem to be nearly what it once was. >> reporter: certainly that is the case the tides have changed significantly, kelly when the ranking member of the committee opened the floor, he said in reading the testimony of these three companies, and the facts that they put forward, no serious person could deny the fact that russia influenced the election, and used their products to do that. the fact that lawmakers are talking about this with such serious tones here means they want answers there is regulation on the table. there are various ways that they could go about this and potentially there could be pena