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Welcome back, with everybody. now to some breaking news overnight. defense secretary jim mattis arrived in afghanistan this morning for an unannounced visit the there to the assess the war. he seemed encouraged that at least the taliban fighters showed interest in reconciling with the afghan government saying the u.s. would take advantage of fractures in that group. the trump administration has stepped up pressure on the battlefield in the last year with more pressure and increased air strikes. ...

Digging at kushner. there is a very, very hot war going on with the jared and ivanka surrogates disparaging the kelly wing of the white house, throwing all of the rob porter scandal at the feet of john kelly, his deputy joe hagan, my former white house colleague. so theres plenty -- i mean, i guess, juan zarate, this place is still a snake pit. do you hear anything different? >> thanks, nicolle. no, i mean, you and i have friends who work inside there, and obviously theyre doing their best. i th...

Finished jogging i noticed it was slightly swollen. and. during her teaching internship in cape town she was always on the go taking trips and hiking she jogged home from school every day despite the pain. i mean saw i had running through the pain that i tried to ignore it and im thinking it had something to do with me playing so many sports and that it would go away on its own . but the pain persisted even after she scaled back her workouts. back in germany she went to see an orthopedist who su...

Young people, rather than arguing the point they are raising, we are seeing an effort to invalidate them by saying they are front from someone else. its a suggestion of one, fractures in our society, and, two, john, fractures that russian effort is trying to exploit. >> general, sobering warning. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> outfront next, what will president trump do now that hes heard employepleas like this? >> i didnt think it would happen to me. if i knew that i would be at the...

>> you and i may have talked about. this covert influence doesnt create fractures. it exploits fractures. what he was pointing out was the american response in the media and the american political process to what the russians did and frankly, to what the trump administration refuses to admit the russians did. so hes pointing out as a weakness of american society the intense debate taking place with regard to what happened, why, how do we stop it from happening again. >> thank you. students and s...

Compromised bone strength. many of their bones are weak. theyre not fragile for a day or two. theyre fragile over a period of time, so they have many opportunities to break bones. >> he says babies with the disease have bones so fragile that even regular handling can cause breakage and those fractures, he says, are often misdiagnosed as abuse. in codys case medical records show no other typical signs of abuse. >> in the absence of any evidence of external injury or internal injury such as the ch...

One night ronda got scared. >> i went to lay him down in his bed and when, you know, you lay down a baby they do this with their arms instinct and he just did that with one. and i felt that there was just something wrong there. >> cody wasnt using the left side of his body. the doctor told ronda to get him to the hospital. by now jim was working and going tonight school. >> so i called jimmy and told him that the doctor said take him to the emergency room. he goes, okay, ill meet you there. >> w...

>> in march 1996, 30-year-old jim duncan was on trial, accused in a heart-breaking child abuse case. >> i am innocent. i did not harm my son. >> but there is no denying that his two-month-old son cody had 13 broken bones when he was admitted to the hospital. >> how common was it to have an eight week old infant with so many fractures? >> that is a fairly rare event, even for someone that is working in the field. >> florida pediatrician mark morris was the head of the child protection team. he ex...

Ajr, he and his colleagues looked at previous studies from infant fractures determined to be abuse. their analysis found those fractures very likely came from bone disease. >> all right, doctor. what are we looking at here? >> i think this is the anatomically, this is just below the knee joint in the right chin bone. >> can you say to a degree of medical certainty that cody duncan had metabolic bone disease. >> absolutely. no question he had met boabolic bone disease. >> he studied the location ...

Overwhelming. i was in the medical field, so i kind of knew how to read and see x-rays and it was obvious that this childs bones had been broken or fractured. the prosecution put on a much better case than the defense. >> i feel like im a large part of why hes there. >> defense attorney roger mills blames himself for the fate of jim duncan. hes never spoken on camera about the case. >> there were some witnesses that i kind of wish i would have called that would have been been able to maybe have ...