also coming up on the day a special report europeans who fought for islamic state in syria and iraq and their caliph it is no more some want to come home how do we know they are not bringing terror with them. you don t want to see that the back and to be obviously don t show in feeding off of shame how strong is their influence well basically will only know when the next that that happens i m afraid. we begin the day with germany s diesel gate changing gears from dirty to downright filthy three major german auto makers dialer b.m.w. invokes wagon are facing allegations that they manipulated tests some involving monkeys and humans to hide the harmful health risks of diesel emissions pseudoscience in fake news to keep the multibillion euro diesel engine industry on
the road well tonight there is outrage from the government here in berlin and calls for a federal probe critics saying that german carmakers have used the same tactics as tobacco companies to convince consumers that a harmf
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man, on the first day of law school whose name was norman francis. norman was better looking, faster, smarter than everybody else. i asked my father. well he informed me. taught what it was look to walk in somebody else s shoes. he said i wasn t just fighting for norman. i was fighting for my right to be with my friend. and weep just kind of group in that ethos. i scant remember, i had written in the book. a number of examples throughout our life. white people have been very angry at us you experienced that as a kid. no, i did. when i was 13 years old. back then it was white people in the council chamber, really, trying to get after the city of new orleans. the city was becoming majority. african-american. way on its way to it. and there were, rabid people. you know, in the streets. yelling and screaming about integration. the story its that, that one afternoon. at 8th period. father harry thompson. the same priest that helped start this facili
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levelling at robert mueller. it s much more personal than it has been in the past. the president used to sort of question the genesis of the mueller investigation, suggested there were a lot of conflicts of interest among his team. now he s really going after mueller. this is of a piece with a decision that we re told will be coming very soon in which the president and his legal team are likely to say and there s always a chance it could be different but we re told they are likely to say that there will be no interview with robert mueller. the president has got the final say, but there s pretty much unaminomt. there was question that i was going to ask at the press conference had i been called on. the two people that were called on did not bring it up. there s reasons why, a multitude of reasons why the president s attorneys believe that he should not sit down with him. first and foremost, they believe
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and donald trump s name wasn t mentioned today. robert mueller s name wasn t mentioned today. this trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. nor does rick gates involvement dovetail with what he did in the 2016 campaign, nor his work on the inaugural committee. it s a highly separate trial involving past clients of paul manafort s. i think if we re reading between the lines, it s the prelude to something that is supposed to be bigger. obviously the prosecutors have a case that they re bringing here, but it does seem like they re looking down the road to try to get or compel paul manafort to participate in the larger mission, which is the investigation to collusion in the trump campaign. and we re all sort of waiting to see what manafort does under this type of pressure. i do agree that the case the defense he is bringing seems highly uncompelling. basically, he i
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speak out on the stuff that you know? and they have shifted gears so much on that, i think that it s interesting to say it s from that investigation that develops, but at best, he spoke too soon. so the president has said he wants this russia thing to go away, he wants people to stop talking about it, stop asking about it, but he s the one who s bringing it up. so here we are a couple of months away from the midterm elections, so how important is it to get out in front, change the narrative, when the president keeps bringing it up. every day, the news of the day is dictated by what the president tweets. one thing we can all appreciate about the president s twitter account, is that we don t not know what he s thinking in the more. i think as we were talking about in the previous segment, republicans want to talk about the economy, they want to talk
about jobs, the unemployment rate and yet the president is ta