. >> nancy simpson was elise's friend as well as one of her supervisors. >> i knew that it was a bunch of crap. elise never told me that she had been sexually harassed at work. if that had happened, she certainly would have told me. it would have never been covered up. >> but eddie makdessi was outraged. to him, the evidence was clear. >> eddie believes that quincy brown went there to shut her up and to make her stop talking about what was going on at the base. eddie's also said that quincy was part of a larger conspiracy involving higher navy forces to keep her quiet. >> as proof, eddie pointed out that elise had recently been demoted at the navy base. eddie claims in retaliation for her sexual harassment claims. >> eddie says they really slowed down her training, reassigned her because of it. >> then, investigators noticed small inconsistencies in eddie's story. according to quincy brown's cell phone records, he called the makdessis' apartment at 9:36 on the night of the murders, which was after eddie claimed they were assaulted at the door of their apartment. the knife found under q

of course, it doesn't compete with nancy kerrigan and tonya harding and o.j. simpson and everything. right? but people start to notice this. okay? and the u.n. gives him a directive to try to cut costs. right? you're spending too much money. which he -- what they were spending in the former yugoslavia? he says millions of dollars a day. a day. and he had a $50 million budget for the entire year in a situation that was just as complex in its own way as what was going on in bosnia. okay? and so i think you raise a good point here. is racism an element of this? you know, the evidence certainly weighs on that side. david? >> certainly it's an element between the tutsi and the hutu. and i think that the u.n. -- the mission's initial misunderstanding or at least their inability to kind of comprehend how deep that divide really went kind of froze them to where they couldn't anticipate the genocide that would occur. i mean, because ultimately the big -- for me, we ask the question could this have been prevented, the big question for me was it could have been prevented if it h

nancy kerrigan? was it with monica lewinsky? >> i think it was all of those things. i mean, i think even the o.j. simpsonit was a real trial, it was a real criminal justice matter, but it became covered in such a 24/7 kind of way that it really transcended to dominate the news and now there are no boundaries. the princess diana death and how that was covered. that was -- princess diana was kind of a tabloid figure who then became a huge news figure in general. there wasn't that distinction anymore. and that's the world we live in now. and i think it's actually exacerbated now by the fact that the technology that came out of the 1990s with the internet then ultimately became the internet in your pocket and now everybody can post video to the internet. and so it only increases the idea that we're living in a world where what's tv and what's really, what's tabloid news and what's serious news, all these things are in one mishmash. >> the threenight miniseries "the '90s: the last great decade" premieres sunday july 6th 9:00 p.m. david sirota, thanks so much. >> thank you, jake. >>> coming up next, a celebrit