quisenberry the family friend who made the last phone call to earon and kenneth williams who admitteda witness he was part of a robbery that turned deadly. now, it was time to bring both men in and interrogate them. >> i was a little apprehensive. no nervous. no butterflies. just because it was something i planned on and prepared for for such a long time. >> you were ready. >> i was ready. >> 15 months after the shooting quisenberry and williams voluntarily came down to headquarters. each knew the other was there. >> i wanted to understand if they didn't tell us the truth, the other guy may be. >> as a tactic, even walked williams past a closed circuit monitor where he could see quisenberry in the interrogation room. he's got time to think, hey, what's he telling them. >> they needed both to admit they were in the house when shootings went down. back up murder charges against both of them no matter who pulled the trigger. quisenberry was interviewed first. said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. >> i wasn't ther

battle, i guess she did have earon's fighting spirit, to pull through all of that. so thank god for that. >> that is all for this edition after "dateline." i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. >>> good morning. i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc headquarters. it is 7:00 on the east and 4:00 out west and here is what is happening. cutting ties and raising questions what a source told nbc news about former national security adviser michael flynn and the russia probe. >>> person of the year or not. president trump is saying thanks any way to time magazine. >>> and the first daughter's club sends a message to the tabloids about leaving malia obama alone. >>> and new this morning, another jab in the sparring between president trump and time magazine over the person of the year distinction. first the president tweeted time magazine called to say that i was probably going to be named man, person, like person of the year like last year but i had to agree to an interview and a major shoot. i said probably is no good and took a pass. thanks any way. time magazine fired