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Think you know the north korean story but its moving. a short timee ago, an escalating situation with north korea, there are new threats from that country, through their national media. they are now saying they are going to fire four missiles at guamgo or near guam. their generals present a strike plan to kim jong-unsi sometime n your august, next week. trump warns a fire and fury, we know that. they responded again to the north koreans pricing trumps warning as "a load of nonsense." north korea...

Commotion. >> anthony: civil commotion. >> man in black shirt: yeah, we have a crime problem, related only to gangs. skbroobsz >> mario: its a gang related warfare. >> anthony: it aint all good for everybody here, by a long shot. trinidad with a population of only 1.3 million people had 460 murders last year, giving port of spain a per capita murder rate higher than detroit, oakland or chicago. mark bassant covers the subject of drugs and gang related violence as an investigative journalist. >> ...

Helps us in economic ways, but obviously theres a political aspect to it. john? >> reporter: thank you, sean. it was widely reported on sunday that the president is the first in the white house since jefferson to not have the dinner around ramadan. was there a reason? >> i dont know, john. >> reporter: on may 3rd, i asked sarah if the president would stick to the list of 21 he had in the campaign from which judge gorsuch came, and she said that was her understanding, he would stay with it, and t...

>> anthony: people want you dead. >> mark: you can say that. >> anthony: who wants you dead do you think? >> mark: well, two years ago i did a piece about the state prosecutor dana seetahal was shot dead. >> mark: when state prosecutor dana seetahal left the ma pau car park just before midnight on may 3rd, she had no inclination that it would be her last moments alive. >> anthony: when mark began to look into the murder of the prosecutor an informant told him there was a 20 thousand dollar contr...

Port of spain a per capita murder rate higher than detroit, oakland or chicago. mark bassant covers the subject of drugs and gang related violence as an investigative journalist. >> anthony: people want you dead. >> mark: you can say that. >> anthony: who wants you dead do you think? >> mark: well, two years ago i did a piece about the state prosecutor dana seetahal was shot dead. >> mark: when state prosecutor dana seetahal left the ma pau car park just before midnight on may 3rd, she had no in...

Intent is the central theme here. i keep going back to the litany of testimony weve received thus far that pushes back on this. i think this is what former director muellers going to have a hard time trying to reconcile. because recently you had both the dni and nsa director, both of them state for the record that, no, there was no pushback to them. may 3rd, you had the former fbi director, comey, state the same thing. he said, no, this was not my experience. and then that was backed up and doub...

William jefferson clinton was impeached. the obstruction of justice charge, he was impeached on in the house. theres a very real possibility here. obviously with a republican house that makes it difficult. but where were going to get boxed in here is this. the fbi director, the former fbi director, james comey, may 3rd, testified in front of congress and said, its not my experience that anybody put pressure on me to stand down the investigation. andy mccabe, current acting director, doubled down...

Comey felt pressured into dropping the investigation into flynn. is that it? >> there would have to be other evidence besides what weve seen, and there may well be and other conversations that donald trump had and comey had. but the investigation would concern the president of the united states trying to stop and end an investigation that imperiled him with possible criminal culpability. >> he also has the deputy a.g. rosenstein and the current a.g. both wanting to fire comey for other related r...

Attorney general sessions both said that they wanted to fire comey for disarray, morale at the fbi. >> yeah. >> and for the way he handled the clinton investigation and the fact that he said on may 3rd that he would do it all over again whereas trump tells less tore holt tt he did it because of the russia investigation. >> the cover-up that rod rosenstein might have provided for him, trump blew within 24 hours. >> i think theres another explanation too. he was really upset that comey wouldnt go ...

May 3rd, director comey testified that he believed the handling of the clinton declination was a proper and appropriate and he would do it again. i know that was a great concern to both of us because it did not -- it represented something that i think most professionals in the department of justice would totally agree that the fbi investigative agency does not decline criminal cases. its a pretty breathtaking use of patients on the responsibility of the attorney general. thats how we felt. that ...