. >> cameraman lee roush begins recording an interview with assistant fire chief jim mitchell. >> jimchell, j-i-m m-i-t-c-h-e-l-l. >> okay. assistant chief? >> assistant chief. >> have you guys been busy? is it mostly just calls like these? >> haven't been too bad today. yesterday was a different story. and last night, but today's been pretty uneventful. >> but it won't be uneventful for long. >> in this situation we had some ice on the line. the bigger problem was that snow and ice had collected on the limb. >> the firemen and news crew have no idea the tree limb above the power line is about to break. >> i was, you know, doing this shooting where you're looking through the viewfinder with your right eye and my left eye, i'm looking around, see what's going on. i see the tree branch move a little bit. i kind of looked over at it, and that's when everything let go. >> they're standing only a few feet away from live power lines charged with nearly 10,000 volts of electricity. >> the power lines. more today is medical emergencies, people are out shoveling their walks. >> the electrical

they're on the first name basis that he was jim mitchell to the staff.d there were three gyms metals, we can tell who it is case closed. amy: back to stephen behnke who just left his week -- his position last week. the report says while working at the apa, head of the ethics division, the report says the pentagon gave him a secret contract to help train interrogators. is that news to you, stephen soldz dr. stephen soldz? >> we learned it a couple of months ago, psychologists and journalists wrote about it and we also heard about it from other sources. he was training the so-called biscuit psychologist, behavior science consultants, those who consult to interrogations at guantÁnamo, at the military facility that trains interrogators. this was evidently, napa contract. the money went to apa. so they were directly working -- the amount of money was not big. the big story here is not the financial corruption, but how close the ties were that he was actually working for them. amy: ultimately, dr. stephen soldz what did the apa had to gain by doing this after

mitchell. plenty for tonight. senior analyst, jeffrey toobin, former detective, jim trayman, and mary ellen o'toole, former fbi profiler. >> sweat was saying this was joyce mitchell's idea the idea to kill her husband you. can look and say "that makes sense why else would they have decided they wanted to kill lyle mitchell if joyce mitchell wasn't involved in this?" >> you have to sort out two dfferent things two. possible crimes. one is the escape itself. obviously sweat is guilty. certainly seems like joyce mitchell will be culpable in that as well. then you have the separate question of the supposed conspiracy to kill lyle mitchell. her husband. was there any conspiracy at all? is this a crime that will actually be prosecuted? i don't know. you have joyce and sweat blaming each other. sweat has got to be the worst witness in the united states. no jury is going to going to believe him. will they even prosecute the incomplete conspiracy that never went forward. it is not clear that the conspiracy happened much less who is involved in it. >>en a situation, jeff said sweat know it a reliable source frankly neither is jo

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jim, you were a part of the coverage in the last hour with andrea mitchell. this is the state you live in. explain what you understand, what you've been hear through your sources. >> well, you know i did talk earlier through the at in charge of atf here in nashville and he was on his way and dispatch the atf chattanooga division agents there. you know they said they were waiting for the fbi agent in charge. fbi division that covers chattanooga is in knoxville. that's about a couple hours out, 45 minutes north of chattanooga. so he would be coming down with his crew. he has a local office in chattanooga as well. and chattanooga pd you know, they're a top department. i worked with them many many years. they're very good. hamilton county sheriff's office as well. these are top departments. they're capable and looks like they did a very good job responding to get this thing shut down pretty quick. so sounds like the officer is injured and made it alive to the hospital. you know we went through so many shootings over the years, we always told our people if you're