a man who wanted nancy howard killed and wasn't shy about suggesting how it could be done. >> he toldn that he wanted nancy to be robbed while she was stayin' at the hotel in grapevine. and he wanted it done with a baseball bat. >> reporter: john provided a photo of her, details about her schedule and even suggested nancy be killed while scrapbooking with friends. >> she didn't do nothing wrong. she's a christian woman, dude. that's it. you know? >> who shared with you that she was a christian woman? >> john did. >> reporter: dustin told the detectives john liked to spread his money around. >> he started layin' out the whole thing regarding his stepdad, billie johnson, his mom, meetings with john. large sums of money bein' transferred. he started throwing out some big numbers and we asked him, "you know, those sound -- you know is that bs?" he goes, "no," 'cause he was talkin' right in the millions. >> sounds hard to believe? >> yeah. and so he -- he lays out -- including his grandmother -- receivin' money -- billie's other children that were involved. >> reporter: soon dustin says me

after bush's narrow victory in 2004 there were a number of non-evangelical leaders like howard dean and nancy pelosi who reached out to progressives and moderates and in some ways they echo the moves that bill clinton had made a decade earlier. combined with bushes growing unpopularity gave progressive evangelicals leverage. in many ways obama had anticipated the democratic party's new strategy. obama entered the national stage of the memorable keynote address at the daschle -- democratic national convention. obama said that we worship an awesome god. he was trying to blur the colors of the culture wars but many americans certainly recognize that raise awesome god as an allusion to the swaying chorus line of the popular worship song. one of the few political advantages that obama's unorthodox background provided him was the chance to fashion his own story. obama was not the typical democrat voice in public life. he was not a white southern moderate like bill clinton or an african-american minister like jesse jackson or an urban catholic like mario cuomo. the presidential politics there were n

after bush's narrow victory in 2004 there were a number of non-evangelical leaders like howard dean and nancy pelosi who reached out to progressives and moderates and in some ways they echo the moves that bill clinton had made a decade earlier. combined with bushes growing unpopularity gave progressive evangelicals leverage. in many ways obama had anticipated the democratic party's new strategy. obama entered the national stage of the memorable keynote address at the daschle -- democratic national convention. obama said that we worship an awesome god. he was trying to blur the colors of the culture wars but many americans certainly recognize that raise awesome god as an allusion to the swaying chorus line of the popular worship song. one of the few political advantages that obama's unorthodox background provided him was the chance to fashion his own story. obama was not the typical democrat voice in public life. he was not a white southern moderate like bill clinton or an african-american minister like jesse jackson or an urban catholic like mario cuomo. the presidential politics there were n

howard baker of tennessee mark hatfield republican from oregon. george mitchell, a democrat from maine. bob dole, republican from kansas , nancy. barbara mikulski, democrat from maryland. this is a place where friendships were made. i will never forget, hubert humphrey was on his last leg dying of cancer, going through intense chemotherapy. he died shortly thereafter. very goldwater walk up to him and them embracing. both crying. the entire united states senate rising to its feet for sustained , emotional applause. barry goldwater and hubert humphrey. as a consequence the senate functioned as it was designed. the nation in the midst of the turmoil in those early years that i served arrived at consensus. all of america was better for it. all those i mentioned, including former and current senators are with us today. they understood and understand no one has a corner on the truth. no one's perspective is the only perspective. each of them understood as teddy that our actions in this chamber must ultimately reflect the decent saying, the honor, and the capacity of the american people. that we are privileged to serve. i know it is