job, like the cia s job is fundamentally about getting to the truth. but the truth is so poisonous to this administration that they will continue to try to raise doubts and to isolate and to criticize anyone around them who speaks the truth. let s turn to the other top story, the white house says that white house official didn t do anything wrong when they asked the fbi to knock down reports of contacts between trump aides during the campaign and russian officials. you sit on the house intelligence committee which is already investigating links between russia and president trump s fired national security advisor michael flynn. should your committee begin digging into this as well? yes, we should. and i mean, the idea that they didn t do anything wrong is just absurd. there is a memo from may of 2009 that makes it very clear that people in the fbi and justice department in general are not to have this kind of contact with the white house. people should think a little bit about what
it is a vacuum and they can make advantage by taking the drone. donald trump received that phone call from the leader of taiwan, china objected strenuously to it. an incident with the drone now. in general, gordon, how does china respond to sabre rattling? if donald trump goes in with a tougher policy what does history tell us china s response would be? china will challenge the new president. they challenged george w. bush in april 2001 and challenged president obama in marred and mand and march and may of 2009. what trump did with a call from taiwan, he challenged the chinese before taking the oath of office. scrambling things up. basically what trump is saying, the u.s. will take the initiative. it s a subtle message but the chinese nonetheless got t. you write extensively on north korea and north korea an area of great concern with the current administration and the next administration. president-elect trump hinted one
forcefully removed. when the district attorney decided there wasn t enough evidence to prosecute, the group was released from the county jail. manson decided that stays at spahn was getting too risk. always talked about going to the desert. that s a great idea. go out to death valley. that society is perfect for you. there is no society in death valley. getting here at the barker ranch wasn t easy. it was difficult. very difficult. they showed up with this bus and it was a miracle that they got the bus up here. the family moved here to barker ranch, built in the 1930ss, it is located in extremely rugged and desolate area of death valley. you are looking at the last footage of the ranch shot by fox news before it was gutted by a suspicious fire in may of 2009. charlie wasn t very impressive to carla and i. hunting partner was. he was trying to talk religion with karl about the
ways made great strides. in part just by walking through the doors of opportunity that those giants helped to open up. but i also think that we all recognize that there continue to be challenges that require not just individuals living well and raising good kids but requires collective action and mobilization. talking generally there. but he s part of that generation. he s part of our history. he s our first african-american president. as we know this issue, the politics of barack obama have been part of our race discussion. look at our latest poll out today, race relations under president obama, a poll of all americans are they bet centre 15% now say this in may of 2009. 32% said that. are they worse? four in ten americans think race relations have gotten worse during the administration of our first african-american president, 45% say about the same. what do you make of that? i think it s hard to
president. in this new cnn/orc poll only 15% say race relations have gotten better while 39% say they ve gotten worse. in may of 2009 just a few months into president obama s term 32% thought race relations were better. just 6% said they were worse. in a radio interview that aired this morning, the president said he s concerned that younger americans feel far-removed from the civil rights struggle. this isn t ancient history. i worry sometimes our kids black or white, they are in a classroom and they see the i have a dream speech during black history month and they kind of think this is something way back in the past. you know this is something that happened within my lifetime. major turning point for race relations, civil rights in the united states came about because of an incident on an alabama