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It is not -- they have not been able to count each, individual person. it is an statement. but its anima estimate that ise official number now. and it matches the number of entities that reported missing families and friends. given the pressures of the press coverage, given the woodward book, anonymous, manafort and kcohn all on top of each other. the weather forecast, a chance of showers each day, what must beexpe we expect over the weekend? >> it will be interesting to see if the president man...

>> the campaign is on. 60 days out from the midterms. they are both putting their biggest quarterbacks on the field. look, trump can take justifiable credit for how the economy has done under his watch. but he cant say that he was inheriting a disaster of an economy. the country was not anywhere near recession. when obama came in, the world was in crisis. you can argue it wasnt a strong enough recovery and trump can take credit for goosing the economy with regulations and corporate tax cuts. not...

Communities. in a report, it says the burmese military carried out mass killings. some could face trial for genocide. the burmese government denied allegations. the outcome of this trial adds to the international pressure burmese government is already under for the crack down on people. reuters said the conviction is intended to intimidate press coverage. these two journalists have been in detention since december last year. the u.s., u.k. and e.u. have called for immediate release. thank you li...

That. it is counttory what were used to hearing from our leaders. this is a reminder of those more traditional values. >> and when senator mccain asked the people to speak at his eulogy, he planned every minute of this and set the tone for that in his own message and in meghan mccains message. i am told the president and others speaking were also told not to hold back. this was the theme, this is what he wanted them to share. and, youre right, it was a message that was heard in a different time,...

Back. within two months of cynthia nixon declaring, cuomo reversed public positions on recreational marijuana and plastic bags in new york and public housing and restoring voter rights to felons. on these issues, at the same time threatening unions and community groups if they gave money to anyone supporting nixon. you are going to lose my number. you are still the entrenched politician these progressives are arguing against. you are still just the dog. you are not the rabbit costume. >> lawrenc...

Shouldnt have said that. i should be more sensitive about how that may play out to people. i certainly didnt mean it that way. im just experimenting about the things that he could say. the fact that he turned it around into something else, how does this move forward in the campaign? >> i think ron desantis should keep talking. keep taking these pages out of the trump playbook. theyre going to fire up democratic turnout because our voters are sick and tired of this white house treating communitie...

President. do you connect it, as april does, to the uproar really over it? do you connect it to the troubles that the president is going through now legally and politically? >> i certainly connect it to the negative media coverage. there was really a backlash when the flag that was lowered upon the news of mccains death saturday evening went back up at midnight yesterday, as u.s. flag code dictates, without a proclamation from the president. i think thats why his aides were so eager for him to s...

Juan? >> i think the heart and soul of what happened in terms of the coverage is that last year in charlottesville we saw the unite the right people come together and express not only hatred, intimidating folks, but kill somebody and as a result, when you have the unite the right now come back a year later for a rally in washington, d.c., and we see protesters turn out in greater numbers, nonetheless the press is going to pay attention to people who are there who organize to spread their hatred ...

Bad for the police, because theyre standing there -- were going to get into this more with fuhrman and bonginono -- but theyrehi standing there. this is their job. theyre just trying to keep the peace between two groups, one small and one very large and try to keep the peace.y you saw the video. we didnt play all the videos. were going to play some in a few moments. >> i think the larger narrative is that we have reached a point in american society where the media really does believe that the no...

[ bleep ] >> laura: clever. this was posted by an nbc reporter on his twitter account. it shows his camera crew assaulted by these nut jobs. [ chanting ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> dont worry about this now. dont worry about d me. dont worry about him. >> laura: later when nbc went to coverage of this event with the same reporter, they omitted the fact that their own crew had been assaulted and thee showed no video of the incident. how curious. imagine if some conservative group had done ...