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You dont see them out here on the banks of the rio grande where we are here this afternoon. we spoke with -- also spoke with the spokesperson for the border patrol union here in laredo. this is a group that isnt going to criticize president trump by any means, but they welcome the move. they say they are still understaffed by some 2,000 border patrol agents nationwide, and the national guard soldiers can come in and fill those gaps. they very much welcome that. but there is a sense that perhaps ...

Being received in damascus? >> reporter: its really interesting to see because if you speak with folks within the syrian army, they are not even factoring the u.s. in the future of syria. i talked to some very senior soldiers and they were telling me they want to win back all of syria, they want to get back all of their territory. they didnt seem as though they were concerned about the u.s. being there for an extended period of time. it looks as though the syrian government, which is of course b...

Many are expected to come all the way to the u.s. border. leyla santiago is in mexico following these caravans. ed, do people want the national guard deployed to the area? do they see a need? >> reporter: its interesting, its a complicated question for many people here, wolf. by and large, when you talk to people on the street, residents here in border communities like laredo, texas where we are, this whole idea of militarizing the border is not something many people are fond of. having said tha...

About this. we as trial lawyers all the time, wolf, we go before juries and we talk to them about common sense and good judgment. are there any one of you, as you sit there, believe a, b, or c. and the jurors have to answer that question. so in the first way, hes using it to gain the high ground in the court of public opinion, saying, this is nonsense. and the second way hell use it in the event he gets to depose the president to say, excuse me, mr. president, you came to the back of air force o...

U.s. what options do they have? certainly some of the moderate rebels that were on the ground here, they strive to cut a deal with the kurds. you know there is already some talks going on, so it certainly makes it difficult for them and you can see them losing faith in the united states, wolf. >> those kurds have certainly lost a lot of faith. fred pleitgen in damascus, john kirby in washington, thank you. they have pin pointed the source of a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his...

But he maintained a major influence over the probe despite not attending any witness interviews. democrats said he would sit on subpoena requests and not push witnesses like lewandowski to answer more questions. and not schedule witness interviews. instead would conduct side investigations including dispatching his staff to london to talk to the former british agent, christopher steel, whose dossier of trump and russia allegations remained a major focus of nunes. that move blindsided democrat ad...

Grandfather? >> well, i think just as the rest of us, nonviolence is the most potent weapon we have to bring about social change, its something that all of us must embrace as a lifestyle. and so a lot of this stuff that comes out of her, it comes from her. its not being prompted. people should know that. and we thank god that there will be a generation behind us that will continue in the tradition of our parents and us and, you know, yolanda renee is going to be something to watch. >> an amazing...

Bernice, you were just 5 years old when your father was killed. what does it mean to you to see these major tributes to your dad, people marching, listening to his speeches, remembering his legacy all these years later? >> first of all, wolf, thank you for having me on today. im always honored and humbled whenever i hear people referring to my father and whenever we have these moments because, you know, i was raised in a household where my mother taught us about my father, always invoking his wo...

Culture of gun violence. he would be concerned about the sophisticated voter suppression 50 years later as opposed to the crude vote of denial 50 years ago. but more than anything, dr. king would preach to us about the necessity of having hope. you cant make the empirical case for hope because hope is not a matter of an empirical proof but a moral choice. dr. king would call on us to persist and prevail in terms of nonviolence and to perpetuate and move his legacy forward. that, i believe, were ...

Now to a disturbing story. could foreign agents or even some domestic security service be intercepting phone calls right here in the washington, d.c. area? federal authorities say they have detected evidence -- evidence of mobile snooping devices throughout the area. lets go do cnns tom foreman, hes been digging into this for us. what are you learning, tom? >> reporter: wolf, this is like something straight out of of a spy novel, but it could be very serious with very big consequence. 9 departme...