one of the people with a bad temper was the senator hiram johnson from california. he is a very ornery guy. hughes, because of the limitations of travel in those days hughes has to get to the , east coast. he swings through california before the primary. johnson is the governor. the californian republican party is so split. they cannot make any decisions of who will escort who, who will chair the meeting -- it is worse than the palestinians and israelis. the feelings are so bad. finally what happened is, there is an incident in long beach, california where hughes who has still not met johnson goes in to rest in a hotel, does not know johnson is there. johnson knows hughes is there. they leave the hotel. they never meet. it is claimed that hughes had alienated johnson in this. really johnson could have made the move. he knew and he could have gone over. right after that, hughes through an intermediary invites johnson to chair a meeting and introduce him in sacramento. johnson refuses. and hughes loses the state by about 3000 votes. they do not know until the next frid

. >> dustin hirams, he gives us the name of michael speck. michael speck is billy johnson'ss soon revealed a surprise. not only did they hear billy earl talking about somebody named michael. they also heard another familiar voice. it was "the voicthe voice of fr howard. >> i can get out of here, it will take aim month, but i need some money. >> that's part of the problem. what happened to michael? i gave him a bunch of money. >> how much did you give him? >> i don't even know any more. it's been so long. >> you give him 20? >> uh, at least. >> it's clear from those phone conversations at the jail that frank is directly involved in orchestrating this. >> michael has everything i have left. he said he could take care of everything. >> even though the police were sure michael speck was one of the men in the silver car, they had no idea who the other man was. then a few months later a call out of the blue seemed to provide the break they'd been looking for. the caller sounded credible because she knew details that only the shooter and nancy would know. for instance, in a fluster