people may not have heard of kevin cooper especially outside of california but can you tell us first and foremost why is kevin cooper who is now sitting on death row in california such an important story. well i think it represents one of the and all of the most flagrant abuse is a state power to frame a person for a crime he had nothing to do it they wanted to solve this case and they wanted to they wanted to pin it on him. and so they used a lot of dirty tricks to do that it was a tremendous abuse of state power. precisely and then you know just to reflect upon the case this is one thousand eight hundred three we're talking about a quadruple murder a white family in chino hills area and the man who is penned for the murders is this man kevin cooper who had recently escaped from prison and even though the suspects were whites and even i believe the girlfriend of one of the suspects had reported saying i believe my boyfriend was involved despite all this what was the motivation for from the from your perspective as a researcher and author for pinning it on kevin cooper when all the e

sentenced to die for the brutal >>> for decades a man named kevin cooper has been sitting in san quentin sentenced to die for the murders of four people. >> but did he actually commit the crimes? dave brian has more for the push for a dna death row test. >> reporter: the murders of doug and peggy ryan, their 10- year-old daughter, and her 11- year-old friend. they were killed with a hatchet and at least two other weapons. only the ryan's 8-year-old son joshua survived the attack. he thought three men carried out the attack, but only ken cooper was arrested -- kevin cooper was arrested. he had escaped from a minimum security prison and was hiding in a house next door. he claimed he was innocent, but a bloody shoe print led to his conviction. >> somebody discovered the print in the crime lab, but no one saw it at the scene. >> reporter: 17 years ago the state agreed to do new tests on evidence in cooper's case on a hair, a stained shirt found near the scene, and cigarette butts dropped in the ryan's stolen station wagon, but at the time results did not clear cooper. >> this case is absolut

what about the evidence in kevin cooper's case. >> it may be too late, or too much time has elapsed to find touch dna object the handle of a hatchet for example. we don't know so let's find out. >> lawyers for cooper sent a request to governor brown. today the governor's office says the request is still under review. a statement was released today saying dna testing should immediately take place to resolve the ryan case and to finally be sure justice is served. he said back when she was call's attorney general cooper's lawyers requested permission for the new dna test and her office refused. melissa cane, kpx i five. >> the state is about to pay a former inmate $2 million because he was wrongly in prison for four decades. governor brown signed off on the plan that gives the 78-year-old man $140 for everyday he was in prison. he was wrongly convicted of killing his girl friend and her son in southern california in 1978. his payment is the largest ever awarded under california's program. >> his ex girlfriend dropped a bombshell on the witness stand. she admitted she was lying by being be

was kevin cooper framed for murder? and in a piece released thursday on the "new york times"' website, christoph questions why governor jerry brown and senator kamala harris, who was state attorney general for many years, haven't signed off on allowing new advanced dna tests to be taken at the expense of cooper's defense team. in los angeles, dave bryan, kpix 5. >> the governor's office says cooper's clemency petition remains under review. >>> the senate as approved gina haspel as cia director, the first woman to head the agency. she worked for the agency for 33 years. she was confirmed 54-45. six democrats supported, two republicans against. haspel came under fire for her role in enhanced interrogation techniques after 9/11. dianne feinstein said: also voted no and tweeted: "torture is immoral and the person we choose to lead the c-i-a should be able to state that unequivocally to the american people." haspel assured senators: she will not allow the c-i-a to engage in torture.. under her watch. the kilauea volcano in h

ax here. >> reporter: the multiple assailant theory was abandoned when investigators discovered kevin cooper next door. he had been hiding out after escaping from prison on a burglary conviction. in february, 1985, cooper was convicted of the murders. although serious questions remain. how did cooper manage to use three weapons at once? >> he's ambidextrous. he could use either hand equally well. >> reporter: cooper's fingerprints were not found anywhere, just a single drop of blood that a state expert said was cooper's. but most troubling is the revelation that there was evidence pointing to another suspect. and at testimony at trial, it was learned a sheriff's deputy destroyed it. >> i looked down, here was these coveralls. i picked them up. as i picked them up, the more i picked them up, i saw the blood. >> reporter: when diana roper, now deceased, found bloody clothing belonging to her boyfriend, a man with a violent criminal history, she turned them in. floyd tidwell was the is hsheri. wouldn't you say taking in coveralls that appeared to be cover in the blood and throwing them away bef

comments at first, senator kamala harris is calling on -- to review the -- evidence in inmate kevin cooper. a new york times investigation questions the state's refusal to request his defense and retest several items including a buddy hatchet and t-shirt, use to convict cooper for the 1983 murders of four people in san bernardino county. cooper's defense believes new dna technology may exonerate him, but prosecutors say the evidence has already been tested several times. they are convinced cooper is guilty. >>> a suspect is back in custody after she managed to slip out of her handcuffs and get behind the wheel of a sheriff's car. it happened just north of santa grew -- santa cruz, just off of the extension. a remote area that has seen recent complaints about drug use and traffickers. >> reporter: investigators praised the deputies on the scene, saying they did all they could to survive this morning. this happened at about 3:30 in the morning on ocean street extension, when deputies spotted a stolen car. they began to question a man and a woman. them -- the woman was placed into the back of

cooperating. a democrat from california spoke to our kevin cirilli on capitol hill.tely must keep restrictions on the products this company sells. there is clear evidence that these products, these cell phones and other products, our direct conduit of information back to china. no way, no how should anybody in the military ever get their hands on these phones, and if they have them, they should toss them. kevin: [indiscernible] john: there are some nefarious reasons why he did. one is a sense of negotiations with china on trade deals, giving up our national security in exchange for a trade deal. i don't think so. the other is $500 million. within days of his decision to make china great again, by sending american jobs or increasing jobs in china, an organization which he is deeply involved in in indonesia received a $500 million loan so that project can go forward. what is one of the major elements? a trump golf course, a trump hotel and trump condos and apartments here there is something rotten here. kevin: the administration would say that is not the case. they wou

cooperation in europe, coverage of that starts at 3:00 p.m. on c-span3, online and with the free c-span radio app. communicators,e kevin mccarthy and minority leaders talk about the congressional hack ua thon. >> it is important we find ways like this to come together and engage the public in a positive way to make congress more open and transparent. >> this year we have a test going into a number of offices. pretty soon it will transform all of the district offices.

cooperate with governor jerry brown. the m ministers and is proposing a rollback of fuel efficiency regulations, which has support, but not so much that it will split into two national standards. here is kevinirilli at the white house. and craig to dell in detroit. let me start with you, kevin. what are we expecting at the meeting? top u.s. andf international auto companies already gathered here at the white house. as you mentioned, the divide is a showdown of a political battle between the california governor and president trump. now, the auto ceos would like to see a walk back of swords from the obama era environmental policies. president trump, sometimes a credit to the automakers, obviously international automakers alike, has suggested that he is on board with that. but it comes at a time in which the regulatory structure between the u.s. and california could lead to a legal showdown, that would cost many, many political fights for years to come. that is on one hand. on the other hand, we have an ongoing issue of nafta. mexico reportedly, according to bloomberg, has a suggested that it would be willing to lift the automaker threshold from its current level of 62.5%, to 70%. the white ho

kevin cirilli. many of these questions begin with "what did you think about" of."hat was the purpose the prospect of a sitting president refusing to cooperateon by his own justice department is galling. it remains the president's safest play. reporter: the president at 10 of 5 a.m. is heading over to the state department to get -- at 10:00 a.m. is heading over to the state department to get the swearing-in of his new secretary of state, mike pompeo. we will see whether or not this is really weighing on the president's mind, but also if he is taking the advice of his legal team telling him to keep quiet on this. tom: stephanie baker brilliantly laid out who wrote the questions and all the stuff that is in the gossip out there. the new item this morning is his lawyers maybe even can't get security clearance. kevin, when does he get frontline washington-based experienced legal counsel? everybody, i would think, once that for our president. reporter: the moment he decides to listen to it am a that's when. i think what you have seen is that this president has largely look at his past and said that he has always been in charge and in command of h