>> it was to us just a perry mason moment. >>> coming up -- >> we were together all the time. >> tomoley on the stand with his own fate on the line. >> midway through tom foley's trial the talk around coldwater focused on the damaging testimony from skyler watty and tom's own son heath. what did you think was the strongest part of your case? >> the boys. the testimony of the boys. they heard the gunshot. >> but the defense was about to argue that over time both boys' testimony had changed and in significant ways. >> heath is now stating that it sounds like a gunshot? it's something that he didn't say in the first interview. the same thing with skyler. >> heath's courtroom testimony left tom furious, not at his son but at his accusers, the people who had cared for heath while tom was incarcerated. that's somebody coaching him or encouraging him? >> i believe so. >> coached or not, tom foley's defense team knew from day one that they needed to prove the sound those boys heard was tom dropping a window frame on the back porch and not the fatal gun blast. four days after tom foley's arre

and they had an ace up their sleeve, a moment straight out of "perry mason." one that would leave mouths agape in the courtroom. >> that's a blow poke isn't it? >>> coming up -- >>> immediately runs up to margaret in the house. >>> the blow poke. >>> the alleged murder weapon found. what will it reveal? and then -- >> they said we have a verdict, your heart stops. >>> when "dateline" continues. jimmy's gotten used to his whole room smelling like sweaty odors. yup, he's gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily for all your hard-to-wash fabrics... ...there's febreze fabric refresher. febreze doesn't just mask, it eliminates odors you've... ...gone noseblind to. and try febreze unstopables for fabric. with up to twice the fresh scent power, you'll want to try it... ...again and again and maybe just one more time. indulge in irresistible freshness. febreze unstopables. breathe happy. >> reporter: what had happened on that back staircase? from almost the moment he was retained, defense attorney david rudolf thought michael peters

. >> a couple of perry mason moments, don't come very often. >> reporter: right where tom said he droppedme, they found this tiny shard of glass. immediately they tried to match the shard with the frame tom said he dropped. >> if you take the shard and set it in one of the few remaining in tact puttied areas of the frame, you can see it fits perfectly. >> reporter: it was compelling evidence that tom may have been telling the truth. but schaeffer would need more than just a shard of evidence to prove tom was telling the truth. he next called this woman, jeanette moor, the woman who came forward immediately following tom's guilty verdict. and the reason he was ultimately granted a new trial. moor said she was driving by the foley house right around the time dar had been murdered. >> as i approached, this white car come racing out forward and if i hadn't braked i would have hit him. >> reporter: jeanette moor said she got a good look at the driver. >> it was a young, 18 to 20-year-old kid, had real black hair and his face was real white. and he was clutchin' the wheel like this. >> i though

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perry mason boarded angel's flight to the courthouse.h" as in harry bosch. michael conley says angel's flight's place in l.a. lower made it a perfect setting for his famous gumshoe to search for clues. >> it's a bridge that goes from old l.a. to new l.a. >> this little runway made an oscar for emma stone and ryan gosling. it was no accident. >> he said when he was an up-and-coming actor, he was living downtown, a block away from angel's flight. he always wanted to ride it, but it was always closed. >> yes. like any titan, its career had its ups and downs. in the late '60sing progress in the form of downtown skyscrapers had made angel's flight seem more like a relic. in 1969 it was dismantled and put in storage. >> there was such a human cry. >> it was loved that much. >> it was loved that much by the people of l.a., and the city council of behalf of the people made a promise it would almost come back. >> reporter: it took almost 30 years and aangel's flight came back. there was a problem. one of the cars broke loose killing a tourist. it

>> anybody that watched perry mason can tell you, you never ask the witnesses a question if you don'tack when there was no enthusiasm in the audience, an audience of ceos, to grow and to create jobs with better tax conditions, with a tax break. and in fact it looked like what do you think they would do with the money? are they just going to pay off debt, what do you think they're going to do with it if they get the tax cut. >> they're going to use it to buy back shares. why are they buying back shares? it's the way to avoid paying taxes. if you pay dividends, people have to pay taxes. if you buy back the shares, they get to pay the taxes on the capital gains and it's only on the increase. so it's all a tax avoidance mechanism, let's be clear about that. for the ceos it's really advantageous because they often get their incentive pay based on the share price. >> you even have aei saying don't give it all at once, spread it out over ten years because you're going to create these false incentives that are going to distort investment and distort what happens in the economy in '18 and '19.

here to share the reporting and insights politico's elian na jaupz, perry bacon of 538, cnn's lauren fox and jeff mason with reuters. i do want to talk about the hannity dynamic in a second. let's start off with mish mcconnell saying out loud we were told at the beginning of the week about this sort of mounting idea to try to get jeff sessions back in the senate. he's as mcconnell just said a very, very popular -- how viable do you think this is? >> even if it seems viable, it poses risks. jeff sessions is unquestionably the only person in alabama, the only republican in alba ma who could potentially pull this off. he's the only person with name id like lisa murkowski of alaska who could pull this off. when mcconnell backs an idea, there are more supporters in alabama who automatically dig in it against it. it carries the risk of dividing republican voters and handing a win to doug jones, the democratic candidate. i think that's what mcconnell and republicans in the white house will be grappling right now and in the coming days not to mention that it opens up the attorney general slot which has a whole