>> oh, hi, nanette.this is jenny. >> reporter: the detectives told the daughters to give nanette a call and record it. >> well, first of all, a lot of checks -- there are a lot of times that i sign for him on many things. >> uh-huh? >> with his permission. >> he gave you permission to sign his name? >> excuse me? >> he gave you permission to sign his name? >> oh, yeah. i've signed his name on many things. >> huh. he never let us do that. >> reporter: although nanette told jenny she was sure bill had signed that particular check. but then the detectives got involved, and they found more money missing from bill's accounts. nearly $500,000 and also discovered nanette wasn't exactly the person she had portrayed herself to be. detective voth learned she'd grown up in phoenix. you can barely recognize her from her high school yearbook picture, she had so transformed herself. and despite what she told eric, she never studied business, never even got a college degree. she never invented anything but her own back

>> oh, hi, nanette.

like nanette.t her while working one day at this gym. >> what did you think when you saw her. >> i thought she was a snob, little stuck up. she had the sunglasses on, the expensive watch and she was a little snobby. >> well, at least she was a first but -- >> so what made you friends. >> proximity. she was a fun girl. we worked out together. i'd say we probably worked out together more than anything else together. >> he was impressed by her intelligence and what she told her about himself. that she had a business degree for example. >> she graduated early from high school and early from college. >> reporter: in february 1994, ten months before bill mclaughlin was killed nanette's affair with eric was in full bloom. which given the fact that eric wasn't exactly flush turned out to be fine because -- >> she had no lust for money as she talked about things and as she drove her new cars and footed the bill for everything we did together. >> so what did eric know about bill and bill's relationship with

the president can spew all he wants about nanette and those types of things. i think it was a rehearsed line. when you look at a key state, say virginia and others, that have such military assets and to hear the president talk about that in such a demeaning derogatory way, i do not think he gains any votes. that is a huge change and difference between barack obama and mitt romney. dagen: did mitt romneymake, though, enough of a connection whether it is the weak economy or the $16 trillion that? did he hit it hard enough? >> absolutely. that romney talks about what we need to do in terms of china and currency manipulation. we talk about our friendship with israel. there is no one that believes that president obama has bent over backwards to solidify our relationship with israel. i think mitt romney is exceptionally strong and that ray. they have demonstrated it in their talks and actions. i think mitt romney coming across presidential. dagen: in two weeks time hopefully we will know. congressman, thank you event hopefully? dagen: well, you know, it has happened

no, no, nanette. not only do they say they don't like our plan. i get that kid in you don't like our plan. what is your plan. >>> four years ago we went through the worst financial crisis since the great depression. millions of jobs were lost. the auto industry was on the brink of collapse, the financial system had frozen up, and because the resilience and the determination of the american people, we had begun to find our way back. >> the president has a view very similar to the view he had when he ran years ago that a bigger government, spending more, taxing more, regulating more, if you will, trickle-down government would work. that's not the right answer for america. i will restore the vitality that gets america working again. up next, look at the findings of a new public opinion poll in the american attitude towards muslims and arabs. the polls conducted filing recent violent protests in the arab world that erupted in a film than a gritting islam. our al arabiya news channel was part of this 90 minute event hosted by the brookings institution.