how was it possible, they're odd, nerdy classmate stephen mcdaniel could do something so horrible? a friend of lauren. >> when the district attorney took over it was already a death penalty case, but he wasn't so sure it should be. after all, they had no evidence to prove the cause of death. this was a gruesome crime, yet none of stephen's dna was found in lauren's apartment. aside from the underwear, none of lauren's dna was found in steven's apartment. the circumstantial evidence they did have? a good defense attorney could raise reasonable doubt. perhaps claim stephen had been framed. >> he could reasonably argue that the crime scene, particularly his apartment, wasn't adequately secure -- >> sure. >> and that other people had access -- >> indeed they did. >> and therefore, you can't prove i did it. >> yeah. >> so there was a certain swagger that he and his team had. i think they felt not unreasonably that they could win. >> sure enough, steven's highly regarded attorneys had already accused the state of getting evidence from improper search warrants. >> i think there were eight

. >> stephen: you reveal in the book that as he was leaving office, i think on january 20th, about to get on air force one and leave for the last time, he told ronald mcdanielhen he walked up the steps to air force one for his last flight on the plane to go to florida, he gets into his office at the front of the plane before the plane takes off and mcdaniel was calling him. she wasn't at his farewell ceremony, just to say thank you, good luck, and that's when he dropped this bomb. the way they stopped him from leaving the party is essentially made a series of threats, of warnings, and said if he did it it would cost him tens of millions of dollars. there were legal bills the rnc were paying that would now be his to pay and they would take his big 40 million name email list and they were going to make it worthless, take control and give it out for free so he couldn't rent it anymore. >> stephen: he's a businessman. >> it was going to cost him tens of millions of dollars and he backed down four or five days after january 20th. he told them he was leaving. he wasn't saying i might, he said i'm done, i'm gone, i'm starting my own party, and he backed down. >> s

five days after that conversation with with mcdaniel, trump ultimately backed down. meanwhile on "the late show" with stephenbert, jonathan karl discussed foals he saw from january 6th. >> okay. so i found out during the riot mike pence had with him during the entire time a photographer, an official white house photographer. i got ahold of the photographer. i saw all of them. it was wild to see he was in a loading dock in an underground parking garage beneath the capitol, no place to sit, no desk, no chairs, nothing. he was in this concrete like parking garage, and -- you know, with his family. i mean this is the vice president of the united states. and he's like holed up in a basement. and i went to the vice president, the former vice president, and i asked him if i could publish the photographs, and they refused to let me public the photographs on suspicion the january 6th committee is going to want to see those photos. >> thank you so much for being here. let's start with this. the house committee obviously expanding its investigation dramatically. talk to us if you will about the significance of these su