our chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner begins our coverage. >> warner: the warningsrted at the demilitarized zone dividing the koreas, where mr. pence demanded a nuclear-free korean peninsula. later, in seoul, he pointed to recent u.s. military action as >> the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in syria and afghanistan. north korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the united states in this region. >> warner: mr. pence also declared again the u.s. and allies will act, unless china reins in north korea. in washington, president trump took a moment out from the white house easter egg roll to send his own warning. >> any message for north korea? >> they gotta behave. >> warner: but at the united nations, the ambassador from north korea, officially, the democratic people's republic of korea, was having none of it. >> of the headquarters, the d.p.r.k. is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the americans. >> warner: all of this, after the north launched a ballistic missile on s

joining me from capitol hill is senator mark warner.e is the ranking democrat and vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. we also have asked chairman richard burr to join the program and hope he will do so soon. let me begin with the question of today's testimony. what is the takeaway from what you heard today? sen. warner: today's testimony focused on the foundation. what did the russians do, why did they do it? this is part of russian doctrine that goes back to the soviet era of spreading misinformation. they have now taken it to a much more modern space in terms of using cyber techniques. so it was revalidated one more time. i think everyone but perhaps the president would accept the russians were behind the d.n.c. hack, the hack of the john podesta emails. they were behind the use of distributing fake news. the way they do this is they have close to 1000 paid internet trolls in moscow that create bots that can flood search engines like twitter and facebook and others with false news. real fake news, not the kind of presi

i'll talk to senator mark warner about new controversy surrounding the probe and the alleged unmasking of trump campaign associates. >>> terror underground. passengers panic as a deadly attack on a russian subway train unfolds. is isis to blame and does the terrorist group have its sights on president trump? >>> and high stakes. president trump kicks off a critical week of global diplomacy, unleashing a new threat aimed at north korea and china. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news this hour, the united states senate now barreling toward an epic showdown that could change the rules for confirming high court justices forever. the gorsuch nomination getting the green light from the judiciary committee today even as democrats secured enough votes to launch a filibuster on friday. republicans now amping up their plans to respond by triggering the so-called nuclear option that would lower the number of votes needed to confirm gorsuch and future

acquisition time, time, time warner will be approved. they are working on their review under way right now. he says he sees a huge opportunity in using customer's data to better target ads and grow time warner's ad revenues significantly. he also praised this administration's approach to regulation of the internet. >> it's obviously been an amazing few months in our industry. and there's clearly a return to a lighter touch pro-growth regulatory philosophy. it's not only in our industry, it's across all industries right now. we think this is incredibly positive for our country and it can catalyze economic growth all of us have been looking for. >> he's been in talks quite a bit on the call of corporate tax reform, saying he believes the pro growth philosophy can be a great catalyst for corporate growth. he says he is confident some sort of tax reform will be enacted this year. he can't guess the timing or the magnitude of the changes. >> how do you trade this one? >> if you look at at&t, it's

now warner has one with hbo . comcast has done a couple of small ones. for have a web service comedy fans, but this would pull together the strong programming from across the comcast universe , cable broadcast network networks, and maybe some sports as well. caroline: the advertisers could love this. they do have a certain demographic. >> yes. a product called all access, like the cbs

so, i felt we had to do something about it. >> warner: mr. trump's campaign hopes for a fresh start with russia, had already dimmed amid investigations into moscow's alleged election meddling. the gas attack by its ally, assad, inflamed matters further, prompting tough words from u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. >> assad has no incentive to stop using chemical weapons as long as russia continues to protect his regime from consequences. >> warner: secretary of state rex tillerson did go to moscow a few days later. but after a two-hour meeting with president vladimir putin, he emerged to say relations were "at a low point." mr. trump also has shifted on america's commitment to the "nato" alliance, which derided during the campaign. but on april 12, standing with nato's secretary general, he had this to say: >> i said it was obsolete; it's no longer obsolete. >> warner: perhaps the gravest challenge thrust on mr. trump came from north korea's february 12 firing of an intermediate range ballistic missile, followed by five others and apparent prepara

i give senator warner's time and credence to try to work those things out. things have moved slowly for my taste and i think a lot of members of the committee's taste yes. [inaudible] it's, look, what were saying is we had issues that have to be decided. will work on them all. you used to be right here. your way in the back. [. [laughter] [inaudible] i am totally troubled by mr. flynn, general flynn's actions and this just makes things even worse. there needs to be both on the executive side and on the legislative slide a thorough investigation and they should take it where it leads. these are extremely, extremely troubling allegations today. well, we'll see. again, you'll have to have things worked out between the prosecutorial authorities and the executive branch and the legislative branch but everything must be unturned and no one should hold back on what flynn has done and what consequences that they merit. [inaudible] well, senator mcconnell wanted me to negotiate the wall with president trump. i said to him two things, first, it's not a negotiation, no

complaint that would be brought by rifle distributors seeking access to nearly-beingacquired time warner content. similar protections were proposed in the comcast-nbc order. i don't think anyone is advocating even proponents of merger, no interventions, no protections. we can certainly debate as to whether the merged entity, at&t-time warner would have incentives to foreclose rival distributors from newly after quicked content, i'm speaking about hbo and cnn. the conversation will quickly turn how do we remedy, how do we protect against these sorts of abuses? the template that has been laid out of course are the protections that doj and the fcc jointly implemented in the comcast-nbc merger. cspan: net neutrality is another issue that has been developed under the tom wheeler administration. how has been devoid of economic analysis or part of economic analysis? >> guest: right. in the 2010 open internet order under chairman janikowski the decision was made to not impose a strict ban on paid priority. instead, paid priority was subjected to what is called ex-post or case-by-case review. the

>> warner: those questions came after tillerson and u.n.assador nikki haley appeared to send mixed messages yesterday about u.s. policy on syria going forward. most notably: on the future of syrian president bashar al- assad. tillerson told cbs's "face the nation" that defeating the islamic state, not removing assad, remained the top priority. >> once the isis threat has been reduced or eliminated, i think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in syria. we are hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war, and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions. clearly, that requires the participation of the regime, with the support of their allies. >> warner: but haley seemed to suggest otherwise, on cnn's "state of the union." >> there's not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with assad at the head of the regime. well, regime change is something that we think is going to happen, because all of the parties are going to see that assad

singer: well -- i think just to go back to the at&t/time warner merger, that does present a template, an opportunity to define what the fcc should be doing. i think that it raises the same issues we have been talking about today which is vertical integration, access to rival distribution platforms, carriage by independent content situated to the content owned by the vertically integrated. my only caveat is i would not want to see protections that are associate with a merger that would not apply to other isps. in a perfect world, if it was designed by economists, all of the vertically integrated isps would be subject to the same standards. we would not use a merger as an opportunity to make standards for one provider more rigorous. lydia: you mentioned earlier that you think the fcc should take a step back from politics, but do you think it's possible that this agency or any agency really can be fully independent of what is taking place politically? dr. singer: i think there are ways that you can immunize the technocrats of the fcc from political forces. i think the answer is, yes. i t

: so, halsinger, recently there was the comcast universal merger and they're looking at at&t-time warner cable merger. how would an economic analysis affect those? >> guest: right. so the intervention that i would advocate there is some sort of case-by-case adjudication of complaints that would be brought by rival distributors seeking access to newly acquired time warner content. similar protects were impose held in comcast-nbc order. so i don't think that anyone is really advocating, even proponents, no protections. we can debate where the merged entity, at&t and time warren, would have incentives to foreclose rival distributors from newly acquired ton content. speak ago hbo and cnn. i expect the conversation will quickly turn to how to remedy, protect against these sorts of abuses, and the template that has been late out are the protections that the doj and the fcc jointly implemented in the comcast nbc merger. >> host: newt neutrality, hat -- net neutrality has has has been void of economic analysis. >> guest: in the 2010 open internet over under chairman janikowski the decision was m

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner begins our coverage. >> warner: in a sharp departurem his predecessor, president trump today did what president obama never would-- welcome egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi to the white house. >> you have a great friend and ally in the united states and in me. >> warner: mr. trump made it clear he's rebooting the u.s.- egypt relationship, to focus on fighting terrorism. >> i just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt, that we are very much behind president el-sisi. he's done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. we are very much behind egypt and the people of egypt and the >> warner: the egyptian leader, facing an islamist insurgency in sinai, welcomed the president's words. >> ( translated ): since we met last september, i've had a deep appreciation and admiration of your unique personality, especially as you're standing very strong in the counter terrorism field. your excellency, very strongly and very openly, you will find egypt and myself always beside you in this, in bringing about >> warner: then-co

senator burr and senator warner had a joint press conference this week. i think they clearly laid out that they're going wherever the facts take them. we don't need yet another investigation. we know the fbi's looking at it from their perspective. it's being handled appropriately, and it will be handled well. chris: you have promised that the senate will confirm judge neil gorsuch to the u.s. supreme court by friday. two questions. one, do you stand by that schedule, friday vote; and, two, do you have the eight votes of democrats so that you can beat a filibuster? >> well, look, judge gorsuch deserves to be confirmed, you know? unanimously well-qualified by the american bar association, my counterpart, senator schumer, once called it the gold standard. in the majority 99% of the time, 97% of his rulings were unanimous, only reversed one time in a case in which he participated by the supreme court. president obama's former acting solicitor general said there's no principled reason to pose him. that's why he'll ultimately be confirmed. exactly how that happ

he did not like time warner at&t p said he did not like comcast either when it bought the nbc assets. >> ambiguity about what the administration stance is. >> the market close is next. .ook at the major indexes the dow is down more than 100 points. yesterday, a gain of more than 100 points. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪

i talk about the problems we had with the merger of time warner and it came down to people and culture and priorities. it is a really clear now who has the authority. tom: we will talk later about oath. see morning -- what did you ?hen you saw that name steve: i was surprised. a lot is happened in three decades. i appreciate the fact that tim tostrong is figuring out how bring aol forward. tom: we will talk to mr. case about the various going forward over what goings-on we have seen. steve case will continue with us.

i'll talk to senator mark warner about new controversy surrounding the probe and the alleged unmasking of trump campaign associates. >>> terror underground. passengers panic as a deadly attack on a russian subway train unfolds. is isis to blame and does the terrorist group have its sights on president trump? >>> and high stakes. president trump kicks off a critical week of global diplomacy, unleashing a new threat aimed at north korea and china. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news this hour, the united states senate now barreling toward an epic showdown that could change the rules for confirming high court

the senate committee, burr and warner, had a joint press conference last week. they basically locked arms and said we're going to go wherever the facts take us. i think the american people can depend on the senate intelligence committee investigation to be done on a bipartisan basis and to go wherever the facts lead us. >> so basically, what you're saying is that the president's description of this investigation is fake news, nonsense, phony, total scam. those are phrases he's used since he became president on this. they don't apply as far as you're concerned? >> i'm not characterizing what the president is saying. what i'm telling the american people is they can depend on the senate intelligence committee to do a credible bipartisan investigation and tell us where the facts led them. >> have you seen any evidence -- you're part of this -- there's a lot of gangs when it comes to describing members of the u.s. senate. there is a gang of eight and you're a member of one of these gangs that gets high-level classified intelligence briefings. the same ones that the i

time warner is maybe going to get blocked by at&t. we will see a lot of mna, disney, netflix. i'm saying at least they have the possibility to do that at a very low tax rate. >> i think this is overrated. i think those corporates aren'tplay paying 35%. they are using tax loopholeing, efficiency, whatever you want to call it. in apple's case, they have a lot of debt. they have already given it back so to expect this is a huge boom, i don't know, the o'rony this was a straid trade that threw everybody in. this is a great time. we got great earning, trumponommics lite is happening. >> the banks i like the banks, there are upsides to the banks. can they rally without yields going higher? that's the question. you look at this rally, if you back it up to pre-elevenlths we

you might remember that comcast time warner cable, and that did not go through.ompanies coming together, in a trump administration, that may bring some alarm bells. scarlet: absolutely. we are waiting for any movement here. how much, or to what extent are verizon ambitions hinge on what happens to at&t and time warner? deal, tosingle telco some degree, hinges on that deal. i think the entire general world, in fact, the entire world m&a is waiting to see how the trump administration will deal with that transaction. it speaks to have -- if trump will put politics front and center, or if they will let president and law dictate how it goes through. there is no strong legal argument that i have seen that would prevent comcast from time warner. if the at&t deal is blocked, all of the other telco company certainly are going to approach mna differently because they will realize, ok, politics is clearly the main issue here going forward. scarlet: a lot of hypotheticals there. thank you so much. up, car sales at the lowest level in more than two years. concern growing over

mark warner has said that he is a no on gorsuch and closure.which means he will support a filibuster. he's saying this is senator mark warner of virginia saying, despite his impressive academic credentials, judge gorsuch's responses, even refusing to answer questions regarding the view of cases like roe versus wade and citizens united do not give me confidence he has a philosophy to serve the american public well. that's one thing dianne feinstein said, if they were basing it on the resumÉ on the judges, every judges would get 100 to 0 vote based on their answers. but now mark warner saygthat. we'll hear from chris coombs shortly. he's the ninth member of this committee. >> yeah, and i think the other thing you have to look at when you hear about mark warner, you hear again the numbers starting to pile up on the democratic side. chuck schumer has been saying this for a while now, he said, i think we're going to have the votes, we're going to keep them from being able to get to 60. the question really is, whether or not they're going to blow up

i agree with mark warner, senator warner and others who said we need to get as much background as we possibly. can there are 20 different witnesses that have agreed to cooperate with the committee in addition to viewing the raw intelligence. and at some point we may want to talk to general flynn. >> dickerson: do you have any idea when that point would be that the committee would make a choice on immunity, just when you get enough information to make a judgment? >> it's too early to say. it's going to be... we need to get the context and a lot of the detail before we talk to some of those witnesses, particularly ones who are requesting immunity. >> dickerson: the president also commented on this question of the request for immunity. should he be, the president of the executive branch, commenting about these investigations and about what the senate is up to? obviously it's his right as an american to do that, but is it... do you think that's a good idea? >> well, it is the president's right to do it. sometimes i think this is a distraction from what we should be doing, and we're tryin

i think mark warner's doing an excellent job. i think that senator burr has moved too slowly. he's eventually done the right thing, but he has to be prodded every step of the way, and i don't think that's good. >> reporter: would you urge him to step aside from this investigation? >> well, i have some faith in mark warner, and so far, mark has done things, you know, gotten the things we've needed. it's just taken a very long time. >> reporter: you also called on jeff sessions to resign as attorney general because he did not disclose those contacts that he had with the russian ambassador. do you think they would be worthwhile for sessions himself to be interviewed by the senate intelligence committee? >> yeah, i think -- look, there are lots of questions about jeff sessions. that's why i called for him to resign, and the attorney general's a special office. it's the chief law enforcement of the land. you have to be impeccable. so, if there are outstanding questions about you, as there have been with jeff sessions, a, i don't think that person is the right person for attorney ge

buy time warner. >> that one has an established price.s through, you still have % time warner. >> i want to get to a tweet by john linkediner. >> you mentioned his tweets. >> right to at&t. you tweet that, #at&t map. they forgot to count the 2.3 million 2 g customers this quarter. #, shifty. >> i thought this was something else. >> i thought that, too. but it's safe for children. >> shifty. >> you know what, this gives it so much latitude in terms of he can go ever a at&t because it was an abysmal quarter. you talk ten straight quarters of postpaid losses. >> that number is real. i think valuation makes sense on at&t. i know what tim is saying about t-mobile. a couple things about t-mobile the momentum is still with the stock. they're probably going to be a victim of their own success. it's a point where nobody is going to be able buy them. the market cap is too big. this way t-mobile will go. it will be a $70 billion deal. it's not happening. they have to stand on their own two feet. >> that will be a challenge. >> soliciting gear, netfl

so i know that senator warner and senator burr and intelligence committee will be very careful here. and it is just way too early as adam schiff said today to be talking about anything like this. and i know they won't be doing anything about it without talking to the justice department if this is an ongoing investigation as we believe it is. >> senator, let's talk about pli political irony here. you're not been around as long as i have, but i got to tell you there is an old phrase what goes around comes around and here are these people that were trucking in the business of saying we're going to put people in jail like it's soerk somewhere, pakistan, where are if you lose an location, we put you away. they were talking like that just a few months ago and now talking immunity. did you think of the phrase lock her up when they were throwing that line out in cleveland? >> as a former prosecutor and someone who has had to be very careful before you jump to those conclusions, i can't tell you when i had that job for eight years how many times i would say we are still looking at the evidenc

julie: as of time warner, you say three or six months.ere any clarity on when that is going to happen? jeffrey: not yet. the kind of deals that i think are really going to struggle right now are any deals were big industrial company is buying another big industrial covenant company. united technologies and honeywell talked last year about what would have been and $100 million deal of these big industrial giants. that probably would've cost 10,000 or 20,000 jobs over the course of time. deals like that where one of the headlines is x amount of jobs or meaning of synergies, jobs getting cut, those are the deals being hold off on because they really worried that this administration and the president an in particular will scare them off with a tweet. julie: we will be watching this every monday, every day as you will. jeff mccracken, thank you so much. jeff is the executive editor of our global deals team here at bloomberg. let's get a check of the headlines for the bloomberg first word news this afternoon. mark richt and has more. -- mark cr

tom: but how can verizon or time warner partner with destructive entrepreneurs?ople like you, aren't they, because you guys are not like those stodgy industrialists? steve: here is a key -- it is not just about technology, not just about software, it is starting to impact transportation, energy, education, health care. the entrepreneurs are going to --d them for market assess, market access, distribution, they will need that agile, fresh, destructive thinking. like the african proverb, you want to go quickly, but to go far, you must go together. ofy need to not be scared the entrepreneurs but create a network around the company so they can welcome as entrepreneurs. tom: what was it in hawaii? steve: primo. tom: and a well doing a moonshot 20, 30 years ago. mr. musk is sitting there with a primo, looking at tesla worth more than gm. you have got to be kidding me. what is your advice to mr. musk? steve: i don't think he needs my advice to her he is doing well not just with tesla but with other businesses as well. he is a great example of someone who pushes the enve

chairman burr, vice chairman warner, members of the committee. it is an honor to appear before you as the nominee to be general counsel of the central intelligence agency. i want to thank president trump and director pompeo for their trust and confidence in me. i also want to thank senator kaine for that nice introduction. it was a great privilege and pleasure to meet not just one but both of my home state senators as part of this process. i'd like to use this opportunity to tell you a little bit more about me and what i view as essential qualifications for a cia general counsel. i come from a national security family. as senator kaine alluded, my father devoted his life to the marine corps and to this country. he spent 36 years in uniform seeing active combat in world war ii, korea, and vietnam. there is little doubt that good intelligence kept him and his men alive during those years. he would later write about the remarkably good intelligence brought by bold foreign agents during his fight at the chosen reservoir. when dad returned home from v

mark warner of virginia is joining us, the vice chairman of the intelligence committee. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> you just heard that the north koreans have just launched another ballistic missile. i don't know if you've been informed about that but what's your reaction? >> i've not been informed yet. i think it just happened in the last few minutes. but this is why we've got two bellicose, belligerent leaders ratcheting up the rhetoric. i allies have to stay strong against north korea but we ought to bring kim jong un to the table, not to his knees because if we take a preemptive strike and they get the capacity to launch long-range intercontinental ballistic, we ought to keep that on the table but you not only put in jeopardy american lives but literally hundreds of thousands of folks who live across the line in south korea and seoul. this comes across when you've got this escalating rhetoric where i've not seen from president trump any kind of plan. >> the president says, let me quote him from the reuters interview, he says there's a chance we coul

another source with knowledge of private conversations says it took senator warner and gop committee chairman richard burr nearly two months to negotiate with the intelligence community for access to sensitive information. the a spokesman for senator burr declined to comment though last month he described the committee's access as unprecedented. >> they have been prove vieded thousands of documents and have reviewed to date the majority of documents. we're within weeks completing the review of those dock snumts more than a month ago senator ron wyden wrote senators warner and burr demanding, quote, a thorough review of any and all financial relationships between russia and president trump and his associates. to date that portion of the investigation has yet to begin. >> i think this must move much more aggressively # and particularly on the key issues, open hearings and fog the money, and i have made it very clear to the bipartisan leadership of the committee that this needs to move faster, and it needs be more transparent. >> reporter: republicans and others on the intelligence equi

. >> when we come back, how at&t's acquisition of time warner, starting to bear some growth.he best day since the middle or beginning of march in the dow. back in a minute. when i was first elected mayor, they would talk about kansas city, kansas like... i can't wait to get out of here. through the years we lost over 30,000 people. we turned that obstacle into an opportunity. the speedway was the catalyst... and because of the speedway we now have a shopping area and a wonderful soccer stadium. and now we're starting to grow in population. it's extremely important to have financial partners such as citi® who believe in that same vision. this area is now a destination. there's people that come out here for entertainment. there's people that come out here to work...to raise families. and before the stadium was built it wasn't like that at all. i wouldn't trade playing in my hometown for anything. >>> at&t making an aggressive move and how they might use their acquisition of time warner. julia boorstin is in los angeles with a look. >> at&t announcing it will give access to hbo

actually, she has trick or treated at senator warner's house and the first test of her discretion as an intel professional is not revealing the costumes she's seen over the years. we have deep talented pools of wonderful people who are public servants. and public servants often don't get the thanks they deserve. and they don't get the appreciation they deserve. but bringing somebody before this committee or others who is willing to serve in a really important position does give me a real sense of pride. i think that people who arrive here, they're creatures of their experience. and so frequently, that experience begins with an upbringing in lessons learned through kids, through parents, teachers, grandparents, counselors and other mentors. and with ms. ellwood, that's no exception. she had a foundation in family that really laid the groundwork for her public service career. her father the late general edward edwin simmons served in world war ii, korea and vietnam in the united states marine. and his legacy continues one of the marines corporate at quantico was named after her dad. he

a source would knowledge with private discussions tell cnn the top democrat mark warner is quote very the pace of the committee's investigation. some privately laying blame on richard burke for not expressing a sense of urgency. tonight, republicans are pushing back with committee member james longford tweeting don't confuse silence for lack of progress. >> we go through a lot of documents, interviews, the process. we are doing it in quiet. >> senator collins telling cnn she urges general council nominee to keep open lines of communicate with the committee and saying -- >> obviously, i wish there were a way that it would go even more quickly. but i think it's important that we be thorough. >> all this amid a new cnn report that fbi has gathered intelligence suggesting that russian operatives enlisted advisers, among them, carter page, who denied any wrongdoing and offered to testify before the house and senate intelligence committees. warner and burke suggested the committee will talk it page along with trump's son-in-law jared kushner. once the initial rounds of interviews are finall

this is after their ranking democrat dianne feinstein along with mark warner and patrick lahey say that they will oppose president trump's choice to the nation's highest court. that means that there are enough democrats to block a vote by the full senate. republicans could deploy the so-called nuclear option. i mentioned on top of the show. if they can change the president to conform gorsuch with a simple majority vote. the leader of the senate says there is no way that he will reach 60 votes. he is urging republicans to go back to the drawing board. >> it looks like gorsuch will not reach the 60 vote margin. when a nominee does not get 60 votes coming you should not change the rules. you should change the nominee. our republican friends are acting like they are a cat on a top of a tree and they have to jump off. come back off the tree, sit down and work with us. we will produce a mainstream nominee. >> cats and trees, a real dogfight. meanwhile, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says that a vote on gorsuch will happen this week. and what happens next will be up to the democrats. w

and anna warner has more about that. >> she was screaming, dad, they're taking me in a van. i don't know what they're going to do. help me. >> reporter: larry got the phone call while he was at work. his daughter's kidnappers demanding $10,000. >> they just said don't talk to anybody, get in your car and start driving right now, or he goes we'll kill your daughter. >> reporter: his 19-year-old daughter jenna lee had left for college just the night before. believing her life was on the line, loots went to the bank to get cash and drove through the night to eight different locations, wiring the money to mexico as he was directed. soon his wife donna wondered why her husband hadn't come home. and the next day discovered the money was missing. >> so at that point all you knew was he had taken $10,000 out of the bank and was nowhere to be found. >> that's right. >> reporter: but that was just the start. now her phone rang. the callers told donna they'd kidnapped her husband. >> and if i didn't get them money they were going to put a bullet in his hid. >> reporter: did you believe