he said he knew a guy in jail named robert mullens, the same who testified against rick. mullens shared a secret. he had lied about rick's involvement in the murders. >> i mean, i already knew it, but to hear somebody else say it, you know. >> that mullens had lied. >> yeah. >> he was kind of proud of what he was able to do. >> yeah. >> now this snitch-on-snitch story had the judge's attention. >> the judge had to make a determination that the result of the trial would probably have been different. >> because mullen's story was that important in getting the conviction? >> right. >> the judge vacated rick's convicti conviction, saying the new county solicitor who replaced humphreys could refile charges if he wanted. the solicitor said he did not. so in 2013 after eight years inside, rick gagnon walked out of prison. he settled on the carolina coast now married with children. >> just the smell of the ocean, it's like freedom. it's a terrible thing that i went to prison for something i didn't do. it's changed my life. >> his old girlfriend believes her life was up-ended, too.

now, these love birds also messaged back and forth about special counsel robert mullen. er, they had five months of missing texts? well, right after robert mueller was appointed on may 19th, two days after the appointment, strzok was debating about joining the investigation. struck asked his lover page an investigation leading to impeachment? even before mueller's probe. even before it got started of strzok and page were tog about impeaching president obama. now, this part is very important. during the same back and forth, strzok texts well you and i both know the odds are nothing. if i thought it was likely, i would be there no question. meaning with mueller. i hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there's no big there there. pretty stunning admission. now, strzok helped start the russia investigation but he thought there was no there there. also directly wrapped up in all of this is the demoted doj official bruce ohr and his wife nellie. they are players six and seven in this game if you want to call it a game of corruption. bruceobruce ohr reprimanded at

mullen investigation into the president? answer to that up next. >> laura: the big question now for president trump and the country is whether the revelations in that fisa memo are reason enough to end robert wants russia investigation. let's ask former fbi spokesperson john in minneapolis and with me here in washington david riff ken an attorney who served in both the reagan and bush 41 administrations. david, i wanted to start with you, should this mueller investigation be ended with what you know now? >> i would not say ended certainly is troubling. if further investigation reveals there is additional misconduct that led to the mueller investigation. >> laura: this memo says that the fisa warrants were applied for with the essential element in those warrants being the dossier. they admitted a material fact to the fisa judge, namely that the dossier was oppo research document from trump's opponent. >> which they did not tell the fisa court. >> laura: i'm curious why you say this is one if they find out more. i guess there could be more. isn't that enough? if you are essentially lying to a federal judge in the middle of a political campaign, two weeks before an election, doesn't that show