alexis somers: that was strange.l was what happened after michelle died, when alexis went looking for those pills, asked her dad about them. where were they? alexis somers: he told me that, oh, the police must have taken them. but i later found out that he had my brother and his girlfriend flush them down the toilet and throw the bottles away. and his reasoning for that-- he told them that it made him too sad, looking at-- having her medication there. keith morrison: some very unpleasant thoughts rattled around in alexis's head. and then there was the business of the funeral. alexis somers: my father was very adamant to have her funeral right away. keith morrison: and at the funeral, said his daughters, martin talked less about his wife of nearly 30 years than he did about himself. alexis and rachel were appalled by that and angry, but even as they pondered what to do with their blossoming suspicion, the autopsy results were released. and to then police chief michael smith, the results seemed crystal clear. michael s

it certainly feels like a lot more somer of the most boring work you are ever going to do in your job. you hit on something right there which is the influence of large firms and guiding the creation of these new regulations. to punish implicitly or explicitly to punish the competitors economist called it regulatory capture. this is my libertarian angle coming out here. if you have a government that's going to be involved and regulatingnd portions of the economy through creative regulations or running a welfare state they're going to move visitaround trillions of hundref billions of dollars and haven't regulations that impact firms and individuals on every level. it seems almost politically impossible to avoid a situation where you're not going to get a large amount regulatory capture. so what kind of hope do we have for trying to put the genie back in the bottle or at least build a wall around it?ll >> to put this out in the public sphere to raise awareness. on the first is to diagnose the problem. because today the solution many people offer put in more regulation as i show most horr

and in that same timeframe, luke somers and robert levinson, two other brave...urnalist, and robert, even a former fbi agent, who also were abandoned in captivity, essentially, to make... it really pushed president 0bama to do a full government and non—government review. so it was kind of a moral awakening, i like to think, that made our government realise we have to do better, we have to look at this. of the world, have been released, and there have been negotiations to get those people released. it's been a blessing. we've had more than 130 since 2015. it's truly remarkable, stephen. but it does also raise some very difficult questions, because in the recent past, there have been some very high—profile deals, deals, for example, with russia, which have allowed the russians, as part of an exchange, to get americans out of russian detention, have allowed the russians to get, in one case, a convicted murderer, in another case, a couple who were convicted of spying in the west, to get these people home to russia. mm—hm. exactly. when you hear that these deals have

and in that same timeframe, luke somers and robert levinson, two other brave...urnalist, and robert, even a former fbi agent, who also were abandoned in captivity, essentially, to make... it really pushed president 0bama to do a full government and non—government review. so it was kind of a moral awakening, i like to think, that made our government realise we have to do better, we have to look at this. and there's been a levinson act, so—called... yes. ..which establishes a new protocol for handling these so—called hostage situations. for wrongful detention designation. yeah. you've got now a special presidential envoy within the state department who handles these particular cases, roger carstens. and he says, "what we now refer to as the hostage recovery enterprise "would likely not exist without diane foley." well, i was angry, stephen. and i told the president and anyone who would listen that i thought we could do much better as a country, that we had to value our citizens who go out in the world to serve, be they as businessmen orjournalists, aid workers. and

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this is a busy road for the thoughts of historic stories are somere fights, some shootouts people wereis road. lots of trying to steal bodies in the cemetery, gunfights it was crazy. all these articles. georgia medical school, probably howard medical school as well. all of the medical schools. george washington. literally the text but how they would have a box with the gun away from people there's another story a man came to see his brother was buried the day before. i sent this article. went to go find his brother but he was just. the day before and he wasn't there. he wouldn't get a detective you went up to georgetown medical college. and found his brother as a cadaver. yes, yes. those the stories that were happening. this is about 1890 the stories are coming out. so this is oak hill. you can see the difference in care. we would say his death reflects wife. that is what we wouldld say. those who feel comfortable in their shoes this is rock creek so there's a lot of rocks. though you don't see had markers with wooden markers a lot of those are done we have two saved in the church the

alexis somers: there was justice for my mom today. keith morrison (voiceover): martin mcneill was sentenced to 17 years to life, but he would not serve his time in full. in april, 2017, martin died by suicide, a dark ending for the story of a family that began with so much hope. that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] this sunday edition of morning joe weekend. here's some of the conversations you may have missed this weekend. >> a new book by bob woodward maintains that donald trump has maintained a relationship with vladimir putin since leaving office. it cites an unnamed trump aide claiming trump and putin have spoken as many as seven times since trump left the white house in 2021. it alleges as the conversations were happening with trump and putin, trump was also pressuring republicans in congress to block military aid to ukraine to defend itself against russia's invasion. additionally the book reveals that back in 2020 trump secretly sent putin covid tests for his persona