the past six years she is called law enforcement well over 50 times all because of one man, james durgin, a total stranger to and when he started leaving cryptic messages outside her home. >> he wrote i love you, i love you, wink, wink, wink.>> reporter: surveillance video card and repeatedly lurking outside of her door at all hours of the night, sometimes dressed all in black or with no close at all. >> completely naked. >> yes. >> he has even tried to break into >> you could actually see him trying to get into your house? >> yes, i sleep with a taser in a single blade knife. >> you sleep with that every night? >> yes. >> reporter: james durgin has spent much of the past two decades in and out of jail, law enforcement sources tell us he's been arrested more than 60 times in san francisco and had of the 17 restraining orders filed against him, four of them from churches, including one little accused him of using flare candles to start a fire. >> i want to say how grateful that you took a real careful and thoughtful interest, and i'm so grateful, because people don't care, but you guys di

and durgin served the maximum time allowed for avoiding probation.owed up, the judge ordered him released. watch our six-part series "saving san francisco." you can stream is anytime on peacock, roku, or on our website, nbc area.com saving san francisco. >>> last week, joe biden and republican ron desantis combed california for contributions. it wasn't the first time for either candidates to be in the golden state and certainly won't be the last. nbc's political analyst larry gerston joins us, hi, larry, good to see you. they both handied fund-raisers, multi estimate here in the bay area for joe biden and ron desantis. are they here only for the money? or please tell us there are other reasons our state is so important? >> well, i'll tell you, good morning to you, when you talk about money in california, it is the nation's atm, no doubt about it. presidential candidates come here to clean up so they can use that money elsewhere along the campaign trail. but, look, there's more than just money in this case and there always is, for that matter. in the

i think it's worth watching durgin as republicans speared the heads of the fbi, asking a question thatp. it's so bizarre and so extraordinary. it's not the fault of sue gordon or andrew mccabe. it's the fault of trump and the things he did and said, russia, are you missing? i've got this stuff but i can't show them to you. they're classified. the 49 pages of jack smith's indictment of mishandling and willful retention of classified documents are full of things that no normal president says or does. but here we are. i wonder what you think of this moment in terms of mistakes for u.s. national security. >> i think sometimes when we discuss, you know, this prosecution and, you know, andrew and i sometimes get into the details on our podcast as former prosecutors, but i think what sometimes gets lost is exactly what you're pointing out, nicolle, the information we're talking about here that the former president handled so carelessly for his own political purposes. so even if we accept him at his word, right, even if we accept him saying these documents were mine, of course i could take the