his name was jason scott. >> jason scott lived two, three blocks away from the dewitts' house. so obviously that's somebody that i want to go talk to. >> reporter: the detective and the thief met in a police station holding room. the subject, who was quick to deny he had anything to do with any of the burglaries, looked to schartner like a pipsqueak. >> he was a small guy. he was meek. his voice was very low. he wouldn't speak to me as you and i are speaking. he would only whisper. he would actually come up and actually whisper in my ear. >> did you think, tony, that point, "i got a suspect here"? >> no. >> reporter: a.t.f agents john cooney and dave cheplak led the federal investigation into the weapons theft, and they too were having a tough time trying to read jason scott. >> usually we're pursuing the most violent criminals in the united states. for lack of a better word, you know, this guy wasn't a thug. >> reporter: in fact, jason turned out to be a college graduate and a valued employee at ups. >> we did a background check on him. and really, he had no criminal history.

>>next in sports giants general manager scott harris talks to our sports director jason dumas sub out a surprising season. we saw >>and i support we doubled our speeds the fastest just >>san francisco giants gm scott harris has had a few weeks to digest the season and what a year to have your debut as a gm everything was totally normal is all a walk in the park. no, but all seriousness harris said his goal was for the giants to play meaningful baseball deep into the season. and they did just that they finished just a game short of the final playoff spot in the national league behind milwaukee. in fact their season came down to the final pitch on a call that giants fans are still annoyed about but at the end of the day this sport is about results and moving forward harris realizes the expectations will continue to rise for the organization. >>it turns out we played meaningful baseball down to the 27th out of the final game of season, so in that i think we certainly achieved that goal of playing meaningful baseball, the of the season. but we're a highly ambitious we have bigger plans fo

jason carroll in salt lake city. thank you very much. >>> joining us now, karen finny, and scott jennings. karen was a senior spokesperson for 2016 campaign, and scott a special assistant to george w. bush, and friends, thank you all for being with us so early morning. i can make arbitrary rules because my bosses aren't awake to stop me, and the arbitrary rule i'm going to set yet, is the one thing we can't say is if it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter. if it didn't matter, it does matter. let that sink in for a moment. tolu, i'm going to go to you first you probably got the least sleep. what's your major take away? >> in a way, it doesn't matter because it didn't change the trajectory of the race. >> those are the rules. >> he's down double digits and needed to change the trajectory of the race. every day he needs to change the trajectory of the race, and that doesn't seem to be happening. i think kamala harris was able to sort of do no harm to the position of the biden campaign. they were able to, you know, put forward their points and really attack president trump's administration over

scott jennings. he was a special assistant to president george w. bush. and also us jasont, the author of "democracy in one book or less." one of the things that's become a little bit accepted in our political history that barack obama is an incredible campaigner for himself. he has won his elections that he has run for himself very big. hasn't always been as successful campaigning for others. whether it be in midterm elections or hillary clinton last time. how do you think the former president will be most effective and did you hear that at all in this interview last night? >> first of all, thank you for having me on this morning. and let me say, we're in a pretty remarkable situation where the most trusted figure in american politics is michelle obama and the second-most trusted figure in american politics is michelle obama and the second most trusted figure in american politics is michelle obama's husband, barack obama. so both have a unique authority to speak to the american public, not just democrats, but also independents and republicans about what this job takes, ab

jason, thank you very much. joining us now to talk about our takeaways, we have angela rye, former executive director of the congressional black caucus and ceo of impact strategies. scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. bush and errol louis, political anchor at spectrum news. they are all cnn political commentators and we are glad to have all of them at this hour. errol, give us your top-level takeaways from what you saw last night. >> the top-level takeaway for me was the coronavirus, which is the center of what's dominating all of the news and really all of our lives at this point was not really given the level of attention i was expecting it to get. i thought they were going to get into the weeds about the administration's response, about what was done as far as the interplay between the white house and the various states. about mike pence's personal role as head of the coronavirus task force. and we've just kind of skipped over it in some ways. the moderator gave them a couple of minutes to talk about it. there were a couple of exchanges of talking points. i was a little surprised by that, because so many other issues flow from that, like