here again is josh mankiewicz with "troubled waters." >> reporter: to detective sean murphy it soundedan suspicious. eric bechler taking up with a gorgeous redhead just three months after his wife was lost at sea. but murphy didn't have much more than a gnawing in his gut until his phone rang. >> we got a call from kobe's lawyer, said he wanted to arrange an interview again with kobe. >> reporter: kobe laker, eric's best friend and volleyball buddy. he told sheriff's detectives that the bechler marriage was great. now he had a different story. >> eric's told me on several occasions that he's sick and tired of his wife. he would tell me that he just couldn't take it anymore. he was tired of it. >> reporter: about seven months before pegye vanished, kobe says he and eric had a conversation that kobe describes as haunting him ever since. >> eric asked me about what he thought -- what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife. and i was pretty much shocked. i didn't know what to say. he told me that he was thinking of taking her out to the ocean and dumping her in a barrel. >> he said

murphy hopefully will earn the trust of the people there in eastern north carolina. jim and i have endorsed him. he will be a member of the freedom caucus and a real fighter. >> sean: i got to tell you this is important for a couple of reasons. we need more of you guys. without the freedom caucus, we have nothing. those are not words. we now have seen what you guys have been doing behind the scenes. so as you look at the reaction to the president, jim jordan kim jong un, he did not bribe him. he's not bribing iranian mullahs. the only thing the president gives is time. that is it. his time. and he says america first and he doesn't want to intervene in a war that we are going to pull out of because it is politically charged three years later. so to me, that is common sense. >> advocates for the democrat party instead of reporters of facts. it's unfortunate but that is just too they are. they don't report the real facts that matter, like the fact that unemployment is at its lowest in 50 years, taxes have been cut the regulations reduced, economy growing as you said, over 3%. 210,000 jobs added last month. neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh in the court, hostage out of