and this evening, moments ago, our correspondent asking, how concerned are you about the 737 fleet? there are so many of them in the air. abc s david kerley leading us off. reporter: investigators tonight scouring that mangled engine, looking for every piece that landed on the ground, 60 miles from the philadelphia airport, hoping to learn if there is a problem with the 737 fleet. this was the second engine failure like this in two years. a source telling abc news they are similar engines, seems to be similar failures, metal fatigue, a fan blade breaking at about the same spot. new details tonight about those horrifying moments at 30,000 feet. the first radio call. southwest 1380 has an engine fire. descending. southwest 1380, are you you re descending right now? yes, sir, we re single engine descending. reporter: the bang of the engine ripping apart. that window blown out. depressurization. a passenger sucked part-way out of the jetliner. other passengers jumping into action, including tim mcginty and a firefighter. the guy helped and we got her pulled in and they tried to resuscitate her. reporter: mcginty stood in front of the window to protect others. jennifer riordan lost her life. we learned tonight it was blunt force trauma. a mother of two, a marketing executive remembered tonight by her loved ones as the bedrock of our family. more praise for the pilots, including captain tammie jo shults, who was one of the first female navy fighter pilots, and whose calm demeanor came through on the radio before the emergency landing. is your airplane physically on fire? no, it s not on fire, but part of it is missing. they said there s a hole and someone went out. reporter: this boeing 737 was delivered 18 years ago, but that engine was rebuilt in 2012, and southwest says was not in need of an overhaul. but that apparent uncontained failure, in which extremely sharp shrapnel spews forward rather than back through the engine, is very similar to this 2016 southwest incident. two similar incidents. are you concerned about the 737 fleet tonight? we are very concerned about this particular event. engine failures like this should not occur, obviously. we feel that this is a deeper issue. we have the capability to issue urgent safety recommendations. and david kerley with us live tonight from philadelphia airport. and david, you were just at that ntsb briefing. we saw you asking the questions, and you re learning just what those pilots had to do to get the plane down safely? reporter: immediately after that engine ripped apart, david, the plane lurched over to 40 degrees, a bank of 40 degrees. normal bank is about 25 degrees. and it was coming in past, 190 miles an hour. took 22 minutes to get here, but they touched the ground at 190. and david, meanwhile, the faa has been working on a new rule that will require more inspections of heavily used older engines. that rule has not been finalized. david? just a terrifying description of the final moments. david, thank you. and as you heard david report there, one of those pilots, tammie jo shults, brought the plane down safely. she was a navy fighter pilot before. and so many were moved by these images. the pilot immediately going back into the cabin when they landed, hugging the passengers. martha raddatz tonight on the pilot, and how passengers are now describing her. reporter: as one of the first women to fly navy fighter jets, tammie jo shults had exactly the kind of training for just this kind of emergency. unflappable and deliberate, guiding her crippled jet in for a landing. yes, sir. we re single engine descending, have a fire. reporter: once safely on the ground, she s seen here, hugging passengers after the flight. she s phenomenal. she s amazing. reporter: the training shults got back in the navy was not always easy. shults trained in the f-18 at a time when female pilots were not allowed to fly with combat units, and some male aviators were far from welcoming. just after she left the navy and pursued a career flying commercial airliners, combat positions were opened up to women, who shults praised for their tenacity and professionalism. and martha raddatz with us from washington tonight. martha, those images of that former fighter pilot going back into the cabin to speak with the passengers, to hug some of them, i know you have mutual friends who know the pilot. really just speaks volumes about her. reporter: it does. and they were in touch with her just after this happened, they said she was fine. i said, what did she say about the landing? and they said, nothing. her only concern was for the passengers and especially for the woman who was killed and that woman s family. that does say it all, david. it sure does. martha, thank you. next tonight here, to president trump, and that face to face meeting planned with kim jong-un. tonight, what we have learned, that before the president sits down with the north korean dictator, the cia director already has. tonight, what we re learning about that meeting, kept secret until now. and here s abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl on what president trump just said about this moments ago. reporter: he just completed one of the most high stakes diplomatic missions in a generation, but today, cia director mike pompeo was on capitol hill fighting to be confirmed secretary of state. i m enjoying my time here, trying to earn every vote i can. reporter: down in mar-a-lago, where he spent the day meeting and golfing with japan s prime minister, the president offered a review of pompeo s secret trip to north korea. he just left north korea. had a great meeting with kim jong-un. and got along with him really well. really great. he s that kind of a guy. he s very smart, but gets along with people. reporter: pompeo made the trip in total secrecy over easter weekend, sitting down with kim jong-un to lay the groundwork for a summit with president trump. days after his trip, he had his confirmation hearing for secretary of state. pompeo hinted at but did not reveal his secret mission. american people, you should know, there s work being done in preparation for that. reporter: the president hopes he can convince the north korean dictator to give up his nuclear program. if i think that it s a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we re not going to go. if the meeting, when i m there, is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. so, let s get to jon karl with us live tonight from west palm beach. and jon, we just heard the president say there moments ago, he hopes to sit down with kim jong-un, and soon. reporter: in the coming weeks, david. but one of the biggest questions here is where will this meeting happen? the president has said that five locations are under consideration. one of them is not the united states. i m also told that north korea has been ruled out. china has been ruled out. the bottom line, finding a secure location that is acceptable to both sides, david, is no easy task. jon karl with us again tonight. jon, thanks, as always. and next here, the deadly wildfires raging tonight, from arizona to oklahoma. fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions. and apparently, the cedar trees. the sap helping to fuel these flames. abc s kayna whitworth from oklahoma tonight. reporter: from the air and on the ground, firefighters continuing their relentless fight across the scorched plains of oklahoma, battling dangerous wildfires and wind. the charred remains revealing the devastation. more than 50 structures lost, and at least two dead since the fire started last week. james and lisa newell feel lucky their home is still standing. everything was on fire all around here. everything was on fire. everything was aglow ember and our balance is still standing. reporter: the fire, the biggest so far, burning more than 283,000 acres. one of the big problems are these cedar trees. you see how quickly that has burned here right behind me. firefighters say they burn extremely violently. wind gusts of 30 miles an hour helping spread those burning embers. david, firefighters are calling this fire epic, as they deal with historically bad conditions, these high winds and extreme drought. people i spoke with said they re just holding on until this weekend, when the rains come. david? kayna, our thanks to you. meantime, hawaii is bracing for more flash floods tonight, after torrential rains and rescues already. and word tonight that famous surfer laird hamilton has rescued many. here s abc s whit johnson. reporter: tonight, bracing for round two. more torrential rain set to batter hawaii, the fear of roads once again transforming into rushing rivers. we heard there s another storm coming, and we don t want to take any chances. reporter: in kauai this week, more than two feet of rain in just 24 hours. cars flipped over, submerged in mud. roads washed away. power lines down. devastating loss. even laird hamilton, big wave surfing legend, joining the rescue, using his own boat to save a young family and local campers. it s hard to conceive that that much water could come from the sky. reporter: the coast guard with rafts and helicopters evacuating more than 340 people from the hardest-hit areas. david, the heavy rain is expected to move in tonight and last until friday. flash flood watches have been issued throughout the islands. david? whit johnson. whit, thanks. next tonight here, to stroern surrounding president trump and his ambassador to the u.n., nickykki haley. she declared on sunday that new sanctions were coming on russia, after the chemical attack in syria. then on monday, the white house said, not so fast. then, in just the last 24 hours, the president s new economic adviser, larry kudlow, saying that as far as haley was concerned, there must have been some momentary confusion, that she got ahead of the curve. tonight, nikki haley saying, i don t get confused. here s abc s mary bruce. reporter: minutes before nikki haley walked into the chamber at the united nations today, a reporter shouted out this question ambassador haley, how s your relationship with president trump? perfect. reporter: but the president was reportedly furious when he saw haley on television sunday announcing new u.s. sanctions against russia. so, you will see that russian sanctions will be coming down, secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday, if he hasn t already. reporter: that may have been the plan, but the president was not on board. the white house then scrambling, saying sanctions are only being considered. trump s new economic adviser larry kudlow blamed haley for the contradiction. she got ahead of the curve. she s done a great job, she s a very effective ambassador. there might have been some momentary confusion about that. reporter: haley shot right back. confusion? no way. i was able to get in touch with nikki haley. reporter: haley telling fox news, with all due respect, i don t get confused. all right, mary bruce live in washington again tonight for us. mary, nikki haley appearing to stand her ground and now larry kudlow is apologizing? reporter: david, kudlow was quick to backtrack here, telling the new york times, haley was certainly not confused, i was wrong to say that. he says the policy was changed and she wasn t told about all of this. david, kudlow tells us he has apologized, and that this whole thing was a, quote, process mistake. david? mary, thank you. tonight, we have new reporting here on who plans to attend the funeral for former first lady barbara bush this weekend. known to her family as the beloved enforcer. her straight-talking, down to earth style endeared her to all. there s word coming in tonight from former presidents and former first ladies, all revealing their affection for barbara bush. she sure made them laugh. abc s dan harris is in houston again tonight. reporter: american flags flying at half staff today on orders from president trump in honor of former first lady barbara bush. today, we heard from her son, jeb bush. i m so blessed to be her son. she taught us to serve others, she taught us to be civil. she taught us to love your family with your heart and soul reporter: we also heard from his brother, george w., the former president, telling the fox business channel that his mother s humor was on display during their last visit. she and i were needling each other. the doctor came in, she turned to the doctor and said, you want to know why george w. is the way he is? and the doctor looked somewhat surprised and she said, because i drank and smoked when i was pregnant with him. reporter: and he spoke of his mother s spiritual side. she had great faith. she truly believes that she is that there s an afterlife, that she ll be wonderfully received in the arms of a loving god, and therefore did not fear death. and as a result of her soul being comforted on the death bed, my soul is comforted. reporter: tonight, president trump remembering mrs. bush as an advocate of the american family. the obamas calling her life an example of the humility and decency that reflects the very best of the american spirit. and the clintons saying barbara bush was fierce and feisty in support of her family and friends, her country and her causes. she showed us what an honest, vibrant, full life looks like. we re also now learning that in barbara bush s final hours, her husband, the former president george h.w. bush, right there, holding her hand. and late today, he released a statement, saying, we have faith she is in heaven and we know life will go on, as she would have it. and dan harris back with us tonight. from barbara bush s hometown of houston. dan, we know the funeral is on saturday, and what are you learning tonight about the current first family and former first families who plan to be in attendance? reporter: the current first lady, melania trump, will be in attendance, and according to the associated press, both the obamas and the clintons will be there, as well. in the meantime, dan, you ve learned something really very personal about barbara bush, about where she ll be buried? reporter: that s right. after the funeral on saturday, she will be buried at the george h.w. bush presidential library, next to her daughter, robin, who died at age 3 from leukemia. dan harris with us from houston again tonight. thank you, dan. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. the new storm threat. major snow coming across several states. hard to believe. roads covered already. drivers struggling. the system then heads into the northeast. we re tracking it. also, the home explosion after a car smashes into this house. family members inside. just unbelievable. and david copperfield, in court today. the spectator who suffered a brain injury. and copperfield s team forced to reveal the magic trick. we ll be right back. my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. i went to the er. they said i had afib. afib? 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supply. what else is stop is a recently resurfaced concert venue a grateful kestrel sound isn t just down to skilled musicians acoustic technicians also play a major role. you d think they d check the acoustics by getting a musician to play an instrument think again. shots fired in dresden score two apologist a woman has loaded a gun going on stage and is firing at into the air. while a man stands by listening attentively. common and maglite lautenbacher are acoustic technicians in the last few years the call to a palace has undergone major renovations and the two were part of the project from the outset no they re testing to see if the acoustics are as good as they had hoped obviously they need an audience in its place they use specially made lengths of fabric a full concert hall sounds very different than an empty one. firing the gun allows them to measure reverberation. but why don t they just use an instrument. there are several ways of measuring reverberations what s important is to make a noise that can be easily reproduced the exact sound made by a musical instrument can t always be reproduced to report the sound a gunshot makes can be consequence and it covers the full range of frequencies and has sufficient energy especially in the lower frequencies so the volume and so on pattern of a fired hand gun is always the same. at strategic spots in the concert hall the acoustic technicians measure how long it takes for the sound of the gunshot to die what exactly is an impulse response here s a floorplan of the stage circle installs the sound made on the stage is the impulse . it reaches the audience from the stage both via a direct route. and also by reflecting off the walls. this is the rooms response to the impulse and it needs to be uniform everywhere in the room. the hall is structured like a vineyard to ensure a consistent impulse response testing every single sound frequency would be too time consuming so the acoustic technicians bundle them into what are known as one third octave bands they sound like this. a deafening roar but there s a trick to it to understand what here s a crash course in sound and acoustics. sound is a wave like vibration whether a sound as high or low depends on the frequency of the vibration frequency is measured in hertz one hertz equals one vibration percent and humans can hear a sound in the range between sixteen and twenty thousand hertz anything below sixteen hearts we call infrasound anything above twenty thousand hertz is all to a sound music is usually between fifty and eighteen thousand hertz it s impossible to individually measure the impulse response of so many sounds or frequencies that s why acoustic technicians divide them into sets encompassing eight notes. let s take this low c. for example as a starting point it has a frequency of one hundred thirty hertz. an octave higher is middle c. its frequency is exactly double that of the low c. two hundred sixty hertz after the same interval you come to the next c. which has a frequency of five hundred twenty hertz and so on the frequency doubles with every octave. the sound waves frequency can be divided into sets with the help of an octave eight notes into what are called octave bands. then divide these into a further three sets one third octave bands the signal emitted contains the full range of a one third octave band as soon as the war dies out the technicians check to see if the full range of frequencies are being reflected equally by the room to hear their actual then we have the direct sound that s the easiest and fastest route from the source to the microphone we can see a vast amount of reflection from the. ceilings and combinations of all these responses reaching the ears. that since around music. that s the sweet spot the technicians measure it in every corner of the room the acoustics are perfect. let the music began. nature can put an impressive concerts as well. for move on that she growls and songs produced by artists from the animal world just head for d w dot com slash noisy animals and of course we re also on twitter and facebook. sounds can be closely tied to remembering do you have a memory that will stay with you for the rest of your life we asked you that on facebook here s some of your responses. septa and rio remembers the first day of kindergarten he says it was the first time he recognized the importance of names and identities. cara and he remembers a much saturday the day her father passed away. never forget celebrating with his. only after graduation. and fog they go on her show the first glimpse of a soulmate was an unforgettable experience. thanks for those comments keep them coming. why are we more likely to remember scents and sounds and facts and figures it seems that the more emotional an experience is the more likely it is to end up in our long term memory. the first kiss with their first love. and aaron peter will remember this moment for their entire lives but why. do you make that plays a central role in deciding the importance of our experiences the momentous and emotional way all the morning or chemicals the region releases in the brain things like sour tone and joking me and norepinephrine and the higher the release the stronger the memory of an event. such as an hour in p.t. his first trip together to africa where they had a close call with the lion the. dramatic experiences like this send signals directly from the a mic dela to the hippocampus which appears to act as a kind of gatekeeper for long time memory it also decides what ends up in short term memory like your last order in a restaurant long time memories include things like your first major fight and other critical experiences. nerve cells in the brain still memories when stimulated these neurons fire off chemical neurotransmitters to neighboring brain cells stronger stimuli activate small cell connections memories can never be viewed as networks of large numbers of nerve cells spread throughout the brain and the active remembering is all about activating one of these networks and for instance such as the cologne worn by a rival ceuta can be enough to trigger a vivid memories. of. the network of what s called perceived your own memory still sequences of movements has become almost automatic this is what allows anna to drive a car without having to think about it and lets peter play the piano for his sweetheart off to give practice. the left side of the cerebral cortex. stalls general knowledge including speech. even though peter hails from england he can communicate easily with anna who learned english in school. what s called perceptual memory is located in the cerebral it helps you recognize patterns. allowing anna to identify an apple as an apple. and letting peter pick and his face out of the crown. the more you exercise your brain the bettin you can recall memories. that s why peter has dedicated himself to rehearsing this song with his singing group. together. but what really sticks in the memory of powerful emotional moments because peter tries so hard to please her and i remembers every new dish he s ever cooked. the birth of their first baby is another experience peter and i will no doubt always remember but what if they never have children studies show that sperm counts are falling dramatically among men in the western world it s an alarming trend with potentially catastrophic consequences. are humans a threatened species. for now our cities are densely populated but the western industrialized world is witnessing an alarming trend male fertility is in decline. guy levine is an epidemiologist who works at the hebrew university of jerusalem and the dasa medical center he s evaluated one hundred eighty international studies on sperm counts that s going to be really dug them up to we re seeing a dramatic fall in the total sperm count and the sperm concentration and men in the western world. the studies which levine evaluated work. compiled over the last four decades between one thousand nine hundred seventy three and two thousand and eleven they examine the sperm count of healthy men in europe and the us a senior position at the hebrew university s school of public health he says the decline in male fertility is alarming yet sperm counts have fallen fifty percent in forty years. a human issue these days there are many men and israel germany austria the us denmark most western countries but not only in the west who suffer from fertility problems today you will. roni coke men is a gynecologist and fertility expert at the party clinic of the dawson medical center she spent fifteen years researching the concentration and motility of sperm provided by israeli donors. her research shows a forty percent drop in sperm quality. the quality of donated sperm needs to be excellent but if this trend continues by the year twenty thirty it will have declined to such an extent that i don t know is will be in fact sile salami a profoundly worrying development. we. all know. that we must identify the causes and stop this. the israeli environment and health fund is hosting a conference in jerusalem. everyone here is permille year with the results of the guy libyans research. the. u.s. microbiologist linda barron bomb is director of the national institute of environmental health sciences in the u.s. state of north carolina she s convinced that the decline in male fertility is caused by environment. factors there is growing evidence that some of that it s that there are many chemicals in our environment which did not used to exist which do a fact are in decline systems and many of them are affecting male reproduction he told her colleague guy levine agrees with her findings. are still hold we re familiar with a few of these components but not with others and one thing became clear at this conference we can t afford to wait until we have an entire next generation suffering health issues or even worse that no next generation is no orne because of declining fertility. but what exactly are these chemicals in the environment which appear to have drastically reduced sperm counts within just two generations. no one including fertility expert roni cockman has so far found an answer but as an expert on diseases caused by environmental factors she has a few working hypotheses she suspects chemical such as valid used in plastics and other products could be to blame. so these synthetic materials plastics interfere with our chemical balance by acting like easter gentle and he engines easter jen is the primary female sex hormone androgen is the male home when i m in the sea a little didn t want to be the gov we had the table this wall the telephone it s all made of plastic plus this. when men come into contact with this stuff on a daily basis then it will have a chronic effect and it s possible that it has an effect on the quality of sperm. and then there s the matter of nutrition we don t even know what all the fruits and vegetables we consume have been treated with. in fact the presence of contaminants in food has been demonstrated six workers with the dole food company claimed they were left sterile after coming into contact with the pesticide b.c.p. used on a banana plantation in nicaragua in the one nine hundred seventy s. they went to court and last year were awarded some three million dollars in damages the case was the first of several lawsuits involving our cultural workers levine s research also shows that food treated with pesticides has an effect on the people who eat it. the point of pesticides by definition is to prevent reproduction so it s no wonder that our research in the us shows there s no adverse effect on the sperm of men who consume fruit and vegetables that have been traded. on the moon. that for now the birth rate in israel remains robust. even so researchers warn against complacency. that it might go alongside our research we need to protect the public from these chemicals chemicals we know are hazardous and should be banned and the manufacturers should be held accountable and there. is time running out for humankind while the researchers in jerusalem continue to explore the causes of the cloning sperm counts they re also pushing for legislation prohibiting industrial use of chemicals the best aside d.c.p. is now banned researchers say it s time others words to. even studies on stem counseling conducted in asia africa and south america but they appear to show that male fertility death is fairly stable. mates and makes people and animals better when they re sick right not always. overused and misused in health care and husbandry. this is led to the emergence of multi resistant bacteria. and if pathogens that i mean to therapy end up and water distribution systems it would be a major cause of concern. like other microbes antibiotic resistant bacteria are invisible that means they can easily pass unnoticed but can they survive in our water systems could they be found in tap water to answer that question we re going to take a trip into the depths. and talked to experts who know all about this mysterious world among them chemists health geographers a microbiologist they all work for a german research group known as who are and they re interested in answering the same questions as we are. where are their antibiotic resistant bacteria and pathogens. and concentrations of these bacteria in our waterways and sewer systems office and poor. let s begin with sewage that means a visit to a wastewater treatment plant. facilities like this receive wastewater from both hospitals and private households so waste created by both sick and healthy people the sewage stinks and it s pretty disgusting but apart from tampons and fecal matter does the sludge also contain antibiotic resistant bacteria from the looks of things it wouldn t be much of a surprise. first the sewage is run through clarify is which removes solid waste. these days it s standard for the sewage to go through three stages of treatment after that the water certainly looks cleaner but it s important to remember that any bacteria would remain invisible anyway the scientists take their samples back to the laboratory. here they test not for the bacteria directly but for its d.n.a. or more specifically resistance genes. each dot in the data cloud represents a resistance gene the image on the left is before treatment the one on the right after so there are still antibiotic resistant bacteria in the water. we don t yet know exactly how these bacteria behave in an outdoor environment but they do represent a potential risk to people if they come into contact with these germs and get infected. treated water is channeled into rivers and streams along with its bacteria so the microbes are released into the environment the water from the treatment works mixes with that in waterways and is diluted so what does that mean for the bacteria time to meet up with another teen from the who recover research group they regularly check germany s rivers and lakes here to they find resistant bacteria and there s a further source of risk when you are. many farm animals are also given antibiotics and excrete bacteria this is later spread on the fields as fertilizer where it seeps into the ground. earth and rock act like a natural filter for the water but do they trap all the resistant bacteria in the manure once again the scientists take samples. the further downstream they go the more residual waste they find from animals and people and that s reflected in their results. so you have a higher percentage of bacteria that are resistant to three four or more antibiotics and. a. few people in germany who drink water directly from a river but what happens to the water next first passes through dense natural substrate filters in the ground or river bank. after that it s directed on to the water works where it s once again filtered unchecked the water then flows into homes across the country having come full circle. although the water doesn t go through a sterilization process the scientists have yet to find any pathogens in german drinking water that are resistant to antibiotics. our rivers and lakes are certainly polluted with this bacteria but our purification process for drinking water is good and that largely protects us. so drinking water in germany is not contaminated with antibiotic resistant bacteria at least for now . the most is psycho depends on sun and rain the sunshine water evaporates clouds form rain fools and the earth s bodies of water and replenished the into action of sun and rain also results in one of nature s loveliest phenomena every year from india wanted to know more about rain. from surat gar wants to know. why do rainbows appear as an ark. rainbows form when the sun is shining and light reflects refracts and disperses and water droplets in the sky. water is denser than air like glass it redirects light and splits it into different frequencies raindrops act like miniature prisms all refracting sunlight light bouncing off raindrops therefore creates the rainbow one person sees but someone else will see different rays so in a way everyone perceives their own personal rainbow. double rainbows are formed by a further reflection of sunlight inside raindrops but the colors of the secondary rainbow appear to be reversed and also fainter that s because the extra reflection scatters many more of the raise. rainbows are actually full circles but appear as are expected as from the ground only their upper half is visible. another example of the phenomenon is what s called a fog because of the small size of the water droplets that cause fog fog those have very weak colors one can even appear white so they re sometimes called white rainbows. then there are upside down rainbows these result from an optical phenomenon called circumstance arc which arises from the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals rather than raindrops. and if you re very lucky one day you might catch a glimpse of a full circle rainbow from an airplane or the top of a mountain anywhere where the view isn t blocked by the horizon. if you have a science question go to our website and send it in if we answer it on the show you get our d.v.d. featuring a lighthearted look at albert einstein s most famous theories. the most important thing is to never stop asking questions. on our next show we ll head to greenland with the ice is disappearing leaving behind huge amounts of photons sludge a research project is looking for ways to profit from it so that s next week on tomorrow today see you then. cut cut cut cut cut. cut. cut. cut. cut. the other codons a significant cuts to the environment the new trend which proves islam susanto us in chile a major producer of the boom has had devastating results the reason running its uses lost amounts of water and i m not has human and environmental costs of a card in. the movie shows up in 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campaign. all as part of an effort to undermine that investigation. he s pardononing people, perhaps sending a message to witnesses who might testify against him that they, too, could be pardoned. so stay strong. if an effort to prop up the dying coal industry his administration is reportedly weighing an unprecedented intervention in the u.s. energy grid which would basically order some folks to get their lick trits from coal plants. he tipped off wall street this morning about confidential employment numbers more than an hour before they were officially released. possibly to give himself some cover from last night s decision to slap steep tariffs on our closest allies in europe, canada, and mexico, renewing fears that he is leading us into a trade war. when given a chance to denounce a racist comment he instead attacks the press. he suggested one of his criminalityics should be fired for using offensive language rod will not go any further and something is going to happen. i don t know who gets fired or what happens, but we are going to be buckle up your seat belt. david? you know, that s all certainly possible. but we can t forget that the united states has seen worse than what we are experiencing right now, by several orders of magnitude during the nixon administration. and the system held. thist system worked. i want to be really, really careful about using words like constitutional crisis. i do think that the president could act impulsively and create a political crisis. but a constitutional crisis is an order of magnitude greater than that. we need to be careful about our rhetoric. as you have seen time and again when you cry wolf and cry wolf and cry wolf when the wolf is actually at the doorknob believes you anymore. i understand that. listen to what john brennan said in an op ed in the washington post. for more than three decades i observed and amized the traits and tactics of incompetent and narcissistic foreign officials who did everything they could to exploit power. these demagogues routinely relied on lies, deceit and suppression of political opposition to cast themselves as popular heros and to mask self serving priorities. it never downawned on me we cou face such a development in the united states. here s the thing, i think if we had a different type of president in office, one of the things that he may have done over the past year and a half would set off real alarm bells of but he is doing these things, pushing these boundaries every day, sometimes multiple times a day. when you consider that, do you think that, i don t know, john, maybe eric holder is not sounding the alarm enough, maybe he is down laying it while john brennan is the one who is maybe looking at it more clearly? i think brennan has the right analysis here. politically. he hasn t suffered political consequences from this. during the election, he did all this and was elected. republicans in congress are in primary season right now. you have candidates running for office on the republican ticket who don t want to cross trump because that s just the reality of the republican base right now. that may change later on. we ll see. but at this point i don t see the incentive for them just from an analytical perspective to stop the president from saying these things. no incentive for them. but the republican party has always been a party that s been very serious about their principles, very serious about what they believe in and what they do not believe in. morals were certainly a big part of it. but also the rule of law was a big part of republican orthodoxy. they would tout it a lot. what did they go on this? i think to speaker boehner s point it s not in a the republican party is taking a .i a. it is in a deep high better nation. ticking their head in the stand and saying we just need to survive. they don t care how far it goes. frankly they are taking a page out of donald trump s playbook as long as they are not suffering major consequences it s okay to continue. is it right. do you hear people like myself and david and others screaming as loud as we can? it doesn t seem to matter because that s the way things are going. to the earlier pony about when is there a constitutional crisis, how do you ganl it? i don t think we are anywhere near there. i think we are at a different crisis, and that is a conscientious crisis. what our leaders are allowing to be deemed as normal is a disgrace. david, what do you think about that. what if the republicans are napping what is going to be the thing that shakes hem awake? i like that phrase conscientious crisis or crisis of conscience. i think there is a of the how of people who are setting aside a lot of values they advanced for the sake of attaching then selvesity at least for now to the trump administration. the question is, what does it take to sort of change the dynamic. really and truly, it takes election results. one of the things that really caused a lot of people who sort of held their nose and voted for trump to now be enthusiastically behind him, they never expected he would win. when he won they loved it and it shook up their expectations. these things happen in cycles. will the republican party love trump as much if there is midterm disaster? i doubt it. if there is midterm success this is going to be more of a trump party. there is a lot of people in washington, people i talked to who are hanging back. they don t love trump, they don t know what the future holtz holds. they don t know what to think. that s not a profile in courage. but it s not wrapping their armed around trump. they are up in the air. he ran on politicians not being truthful. not being who they are. doesn t all of the things he has done in this white house, lied repeatedly, broken norms, doesn t that really pull off the mask for republican politicians more than anyone else to say that they really only care about getting reelected and keeping their seats as onned to what they actually signed as opposed to what they signed on for, which was protecting the constitution and doing what is right, being putting their country over politics? you only know you have values when holding those values has a cost. for a long time it was easy to say that you believed in those things and get elected as a republican. and to say that you believed them. then when donald trump comes along and you say character matters in a politician, lying matters even if the economy is good. and then that has a cost, and people go silent, then i doubt they ever truly had that value in the first place. right now the values are being tested. here s where the republicans haven t gone silent. suddenly a lot of them woke up from boehner s word their nap when it comes the tariffs and trade. kevin brady, these tariffs are hitting the wrong target. sass, this is dumb. alexander, tennessee senator, these tariff will raise prices and destroy manufacturing jobs. paul ryan, i disagree with this decision. senator mike lee i m sorry, this is pat toomey, he issing go to be cosponsoring mike lee s bill to reign in the executive brachl s power to impose unilateral tariffs like these. why is this what woke them up? it is the traditional disagreement the president and the republicans have had dating back to the campaign. this is the agreement? it is simpler. look at the people making those statements. it s about their jobs. this is where they get to say i m going to stand up because my constituents will vote for me later down the road. it s still it is not out of principle. what kind of impact is that actually going off? not any. my point is they have voice these concerns and the president goes ahead with it anyway. again, what is the political consequence. their vote. their vote. if they hold it against the president when he is trying to get something passed, that s their only chip. they are trying to protect the economy. they believe that protectionism hurts the economy. i think they are right about that, by the way. but that is an indirect way of saying i want to get reelected. because if the economy goes south over the summer their constituents are not going to be happy and it will be worse for the republican party. what is interesting is that they chose to take an issue like trade, which is really not a matter of deep constitutional consequence, and speak out on that rather than on these assaults on our system, assaults on integrity, assaults on the truth. that s why they are deserving to be called banana republicans. they are lookeding like they are living in a banana republic. let s put a pin in it there. david french, caitlyn, jonathan, sus susan, stay with us. ahead, a meet the press exclusive. you wondering why i m here today? 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i don t know. you don t know what he wants here? you don t know is this about a nafta decision? you don t have an idea what he wants. the reason i don t know is because he has talked about the fact this he is worried about trade surpluses and trade deficits around the world. well they have a $2 billion surplus on steel with us. so it s not like trade is imbalanced against the u.s. favor on this one. our panel is back. caitlyn huey burns. susan del percio. is trudeau laying it on thick there? yes, he should be. that s what his people want to do is stand up to donald trump. donald trump said we don t need friends this the world. i think it s great that leaders are standing up now i don t know at what point of what mass it takes to shake donald trump a little bit to get him to start recognizing we have to have our allies in place. but does he just think that the allies are going to be there no matter what if we really need then? this sort of thing is not really going to move them because they need us ultimately more than we need them. i think that s the case. listen to what he said talking about north korea. everybody wants a solution here so everybody is going to be there for us. i think that s certainly a part of the mind-set. which is not an accurate one. i m not saying that. i m saying that s how he has been explaining it. the other thing about trade and tariffs specifically, is that he talks about it as something he campaigned on. certainly, he did. but a lot of these target the very voters who helped propel him to office. harley davidson, that s in wisconsin. are going to be affected by this. right in and so this is this is where it can go wrong for high pressure. the canadians are actually targeting trump areas with a number of these retaliatory measures. look, sometimes history is about what didn t happen. and that has huge historical consequences. for 200 years, we have had a relationship with canada like this. we have never had any border disputes. we have been together in wars, as prime minister trudeau said. and we have been together very much in peace and building between our two nations the strongest continental economy the world has ever seen. by orders of magnitude. and to jeopardize this, even in a small way, to have even a lover s quarrel in a basically stable marriage is pointless. it s harmful to people on both side of the border, and it s reflective of the idea that this president dup have a clue as to what he is actually doing. trudeau is still calling that meeting of nations, the g7. the french foreign minister isn t calling it the g7 mim. he is calling it the g 6 plus one. unfortunate we are going to have a g 6 plus one with the made to alone against everyone and running the risk of economic destagization. he is saying we are going to be i don t know the red headed stepchild of the meeting of nations. what is crazy is that normally, famously, canada is a boring story, the famous headline, worthwhile canadian initiative is supposedly the most boring headline ever written. boring is good when you are talking about global relations, g7 to turn the g7 and our bilateral relations with canada into a reality show is really dumb. unless your only point is to create reality shows. what happens next? i gave up guessing with donald trump. does he pull back? today when he was talking about north korea and the summit and he said something really interesting, and it goes to this point. he said, you for example it s much better for japan and south korea because they are so far away. they you know, that place over there is so far away from the united states. no matter what happens we are okay, because we are us. i think that s the way donald trump likes to use it, as a way to reach out to his voters, who believe america first, america alone will be fine. is this all about perception for him? he wants one on one trade deals because he says they are going to be better and he wants to say he is the big negotiator. i don t think it s a lot about facts because what he does is he says something that s not true and then he continues to say it even when you say, that is not true. he bragged about it in march, washington post had a story about him telling his donors that he didn t even know what he was talking with, but he told canada he had a trade deficit. here s the thing. in the discussion of pardons, these are things he can do alone. he doesn t need anybody else to make these things happen. that s why he likes it. he has given up on the fact that he is going to get anything done working domestically. and he is finally saying oh, wow, this is what i thought i could do as president. i can do anything by myself. it is a ego centric way of doing business. he is like acting out like a child by saying i can with a pen do this or pardon that. or maybe like a senile senior citizen when he says today i got a very entering letter from mr. kim and he hasn t even opened the letter yet? 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charlie sykes, and eric digins. charlie, first to you. what do you make of the reciprocal anger from trump, the white house, and conservatives towards samantha bee? first of all, i mean we live in this era of what aboutism. we are in a downward spiral of incivility. i think it s revealing that after this textbook case of racism that we got from roseanne barr the response from the white house of course was not to express outrage or concern, but simply to say, well, what about this liberal comedian, who by the way also crossed the line, also crossed the line and was also, by the way since we are talking about comedians, grossly unfunny is this this is part of the problem. this is what you get, the degraded political culture and dialogue that we are getting. that you do have this duelling hypocrisy. and how hypocritic is it that we are talking about the trump white house expressing indignation and outrage over sexist slurs. you probably saw that c worth displayed at trump rallies you cuffed throughout 2016 so there is a little bit of fake posturing going on around here. the thing about that word, i never heard donald trump say it but he called ted cruz the p word on stage, and hillary clinton was shlonged by obama. he has a history but when it comes specifically to that word i never saw the president call out to any of these crowds and say to this person, hey, this is too far, this is not okay, you can do it. he almost condoned it. he certainly capitalized on that sort of anger and behavior in order to propel himself to the white house. eric, what do you think? why hasn t the white house come out, though, and tried to take a if they want to take a moral stan against samantha bee, should they have taken one with roseanne barr first? well, i mean, obviously, this is a white house that guess after the people they feel are attacking them. and they viewed roseanne as an ally. that s why they haven t spoken out against her. i think it is a mistake to focus too much on who used what word when. samantha bee admitted she made a mistake in using that word. i think she did. i think what is important is you have to look at a broadcaster or a performer s history. do they have a history of using sexist language, of demeaning women, of saying things that are racist or homophobic or islamophobic. ? roseanne barr s case she had a history of saying things on social media that were in a similar vein. she had said she had compared former obama aide susan rice also, another black woman, to an ape. she had said disturbing thing about islam. and she had also retweeted conspiracy theories. so i don t think you can compare the two cases simply because samantha bee admitted she crossed the line but when you look at her history her reports and her comedy have been about looking out for women s issues, about highlighting when women are oppressed or when women are held back. and she crossed the line in using this word. and she has apologized for it. so i think these two things are very ditch. are we perhaps in peril doing down a slippery slope if we continue to demand apologies from dmeed yons? their job is to push the envelope not to say this is pushing the envelope. i think the real problem we have here is we are focusing on the wrong issues. it is not the use of an individual word. in the case of roseanne barr and what she did it s about echoing a trope of stereotyping comparing black people to apes that we have been dealing with for hundreds of years. it s been rapt inside a lot of our media for many years. trike to eof the re rad kate that systemic prejudice. trying to get people understand that comparing black people to apea extends the stereotype that has held black people down for many years. i think people are trying to conflate these things because they don t want to have that discussion about systemic prejudice. they don t want to have that discussion about when a performer says something that reflects a wider problem in society. i don t think anyone thinks that samantha bee was trying to reach out to sexists in the audience by using that word. we are talking about two different things here. i don t i think the evident to conflate them is an effort to make roseanne look like she was just cracking an off-color joke rather than doing something that was much more damaging. charlie i m old enough to remember when donald trump ran on being politically incorrect and ran against those who are clutching their pearls at everything. exactly. of course, he in fact has created an environment in which people feel they can push these lines. go back and look at the twitter feed of dinesh d souza, the things he said referring to barack obama as a boy out of the ghetto and thing like that. you know, going to this point of the danger of having a double standard. look, they are not equivalent. i am not arguing that they are equivalent. the trump white house i think is very cynically using samantha bee in order to take attention away from the racism of somebody who was touted by the president of the united states. but on the other hand, you know, isn t this kind of a moment to realize that, you know, if you want to have a higher moral standard here, if you want to have the higher ground, then don t find a way to excuse vulgar sexist language as opposed to vulgar racist language. i m in the saying they are equivalent because i don t think they are. but i do think that there is a real danger for people falling into kind this double standard. by the way, it s hypocrisy olympics all the way around here. let s remind people that samantha bee was talking specifically about a trump policy that was just enacted at the border ripping families apart. here s what her statement about that says today, the white house s war on the full frontal host risks calling more public attention that s not the one. we spend the day wrestling with the repercussions of one bad word when we should have spent the day incensed as a nation we are wrenching children from their parents and treating peop people seeking asylum as criminals. isn t that the real problem. yes. that s what she was talking about, this policy of the new cruelty. had she not used that word maybe we would be talking about that. this is where you undermine, you blow yourself up, you make yourself less persuasive. yeah. again, comedians first of all should be funny. if she wants to be an activist she should try to actually advance the cause rather than provide this kind of a distraction for the cause. the trump administration of course has seized upon this, that we are not talking about why did the president of the united states, why did the major network promote someone who, a vile racist like roseanne barr. and by the way, this was completely predictable. instead of that we are talking about the what aboutism. and that s self-inflicted. you know, i have got to say the samantha bee word blew that immigration story out of my rundown the other day. so don t 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the business advisors at office depot can assist with exactly what your business needs to grow. get your coupon for 20% off services, technology and more at office depot and officedepot.com. welcome back. time now for the lid. the panel back. kate listen huey burns. jonathan alter, susan del percio. michael cohen is back this the news for the tactics he used as donald trump as fixer. listen to how he spoke to a reporter who was doing a story on a trump pieiography which a deposition from ivana trump, donald s first wife, saying donald trump had raped her, which donald has denied. so i m warning you, tread very [ bleep ] lightly because what i m going to do to you is going to be [ bleep ] disgusting. do you understand me? what does it say about the way donald trump operated? like the mafia. the only question is if it s more like the sopranos or the godfather. i tend to be on the corleone side of the argument, because it s not just thuggish, it s stupid. the campaign reached out for comment and they sent him michael cohen. this, i think, shows that michael cohen was playing the fixer role, not the legal role, and i think that s really important in the context in which we re going to be thinking and learning things about cohen with the mess that he s involved in. like a $130,000 hush payment in which stormy daniels said she was pressured into this happened before the election, because tim mack was my colleague at the daily beast and we had at transcript of that. nobody cared. it was reported endlessly that not only do the trumpsters sound like the mafia, they were in business with the mafia. nobody cared. there is this myth that s going around social media now that we never reported any of these things about donald trump, and it s like, did you turn on the television? we reported about this stuff every single day. you might have cared but there was a good chung of the public, enough of them to get them into the oval office that did not care. at the end of the day, it s from being with president trump. anthony scaramucci had the same problem. he got fired for conducting an interview. we were going to talk about roseanne barr and samantha bee, but i think we need to talk about immigration. families are being torn apart at the border. they say this is a law, it s policy. what do you do if you re seeking asylum and we re going to take your kids away? it s illegal because asylum seekers have not broken the law. under federal law, they are entitled to a process to determine whether their application for asylum is legitimate or not. they are being prevented from having that process, then separated cruelly from their children in defiance of everything that we stand for as americans, everything about the statue of liberty and what we re supposed to be. but it s very important to understand that even though there were some abuses in the obama administration, which is what the what-aboutism types are always saying, that was a different situation. that was not dealing with these asylum seekers and short circuiting the due process that they re entitled to under the law. is this what republicans stand for? some republicans apparently, but not all republicans. and i think what would be really interesting is if there weren t other things kind of covering up this story, if you will, now. whether it s north korea or rosean roseanne, whoever. this was a story with a visual that really just could have worked to have hit donald trump in a different kind of way. this is a story that really started off with legs and i thought was going to have a really big impact. it still has legs. we re going to still report on this. i have no doubt that you ll still report on it, i just don t know in the scheme of things how much oxygen it will get within the public. which is really interesting, because we talk a lot, or people perceive the white house to be in this chaotic state. but when you look at things like immigration policy, it s incredibly important and tangible and actual things are happening in terms of this administration putting things forward in terms of policy. so, you know, if you are running for office, these are the kinds of things you might highlight, right? not to say that this isn t a constant state of chaos, but that this is an administration that s doing stuff and doing stuff like this. and real quickly, there are a group of republicans, moderate republicans, who are fighting back, who are angry, and who are fighting back and may side with the democrats to get something done. that is very true. i said rosie o donnell earlier, i meant roseanne barr. donald trump called rosie o donnell a fat pig, let s not forget that. my apologies no rosie o donnell for looping her into this conversation inadvertently. guys, thank you very much. let s pay homage to sarcasm. the trolly awards are back. they came to us because of their own strength. a free press. the essence of communication must be that our failures as well as our successes will be broadcast around the world. when people are given the chance, they inevitably will choose a free press. it gives voice to the voiceless, exposes injustice. i consider the media to be indi indispensable to democracy. doctoring up the trump-kim summit coin to an entirely different kim. and responding to roseanne barr, racism is not a side effect of any sanofi sanofi i can t say it medication. hope they make a cream for that burn. hey, not anybody can get a tr l trolly, it s an honor just to be nominated. and trolly two, arnold schwarzenegger. trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants. schwarzenegger s response, i eagerly await the
clear why that decision wasn t made to press charges further and the police chief addressed that as well. in may of 13, we did have a situation where online threatening comments were made. we had a detective assigned to investigate it. the detective spoke with legal counsel for the capital gazette. several members of the capital gazette staff. it was discussed that the capital gazette did not wish to pursue criminal charges. there was near doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation. reporter: craig, so a lot of questions about what could have been done differently then. although it s likely it would have just ban restraining order situation. we don t know whether that would have changed events here but that s part of the conversation going on here. interesting to hear the police chief talk how this guy is still not cooperating and also they used facial recognition software to help identify him. what more do we know about that? reporter: we know the suspect wasn t speaking to police, or cooperating, wasn t particularly interested in being helpfuled. there was misinformation last night whether or not his fingerprints could be read. police confirmed they used facial recognition software allowing them to take a picture of the suspect while in their custody with the picture taken after he pled guilty to this misdemeanor harassment charge that started this odyssey with the paper back in 2011. garrett haake on the ground for us, thanks as also, sir. i always talked to gazette columnist terry smith about the paper, about the people who work at this community paper. this is part of that conversation. terry, i know you ve been in a high school football game and you depend on that paper. more importantly, birth and death announcements, this is the record we go to. one of the oldest newspapers in the country. and it is the oldest state capital in the country. so the history here is deep. and when you drive down annapolis streets there is a mailbox and then a separate box for the capital because everybody gets the evening capital. it was called. now the capital gazette. if you re not connected to one of these victims directly, you re connected to what they wrote. you read their work every day, and so it is sort of unfathomable for a town this size. we don t see this type of thing here very often. and more than 300 years old, the paper. older than the country itself. in fact, there was a report earlier today that the day after the declaration of independence was written, it was actually on page 2, because local news was on page 1 here even back then. i know you were in court this morning. the suspect appeared via videoconference. we have not seen that video. what more can you tell us about his demeanor? what more can you tell us about anything he said? we re deliberately not using his name here, by the way. he sat there stoic, looking at the camera with a stone face, sat there in a green jump suit given by the prison system. talked how he barricaded the back door of the building. a lot of questions yesterday what security was like yesterday when this all happened. according to wes adams, the state s attorney, he barricaded the back door, went through the front door. shot out the front door and went and began executing, his words, the members of that staff. anthony messenger, an intern working here and recalled terrifying harrowing moments that transpired here yesterday. here he is on the today show this morning. take a listen. i quickly recognized, well, this is a malicious situation. here s here to do harm to us and we immediately ran and got under one of the desks in the far back corner of the office and just huddled as close as we could to one another and tried to stay out of sight of whoever it was doing this at that time. and tweets from during the actual shooting. nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you re under your desk, and then hear the gunman reload. from phil davis. this from reporter chase cook. this one s gotten a lot of attention. here s chase s tweet. reporting with the paper, i can tell you this we re putting out a damn paper tomorrow. and they sure did. the cover, of course, of the capital. a good chance you ve seen it by now. here s the cover of that newspaper. catie beck what does it say about the people that work at this newspaper? what does it say about other small town local newspaper reporters across this country? i think every reporter knows the story how they start out. start in a small place, not paid a lot. asked to do more with less, work long hours, and these people did this job because they loved it. there was no big payday. there were no 40-hour work weeks here. people committed to this community and that is evident by this paper they miraculously somehow were able to put out today. if people question the loyalty of journalists, here is a perfect example of people that are so loyal to their profession and their craft that even when their colleagues are killed, they get up and cover it nap is not something emotionally i think most people will ever have to encounter and these people did it today successfully and with grace and honor to the purpose they have here. good to hear a couple of hours ago the associated press has decided to lend a hand, if you will, to the newspaper as they continue to recover. they ve decided to devote resources to help the capital. one of the things that s also struck me, phil. the speed with which law enforcement was able to respond. i asked the police chief about that a short time ago. here s what he told me. there have been reports that your officers were able to get inside in under two minutes. 90 seconds. is that true? how were you able to do that? it s true. so 60 seconds between the 911 call and the officers pulling on to the lot, and within a two-minute timefrak, somewhere 90 seconds to two minutes we were moving inside to deal with the suspect and nuell tralize the threat. what officers descended on him inside the building? did he say anything? he hasn t said much the whole time. fortunately for everybody involved, he decided that surrendering to the officers was the correct frame of reference for him, the correct action for him, but when i tell thaw we have a lot more unanswered questions than answered questions, that s kind of what i m talking about. we haven t gotten much. phil, what are some of the, the biggest, outstanding questions now for you? i think one of the things we would like to know. know more about the beef, why it took so long for someone to figure out what was going on here. one of the other things mentioned, too. the speed with they got here. just had a drill here six or seven days ago. the mayor told me this morning. this stuff was fresh in their heads from law enforcement and one of the reasons they were able to react quickly. we re close to the navy academy, the state capitol. first responders are well have their act together when it comes to things like this and responding quickly. that is a news conference a short time ago. the same police chief. the chief talked about the evidence found as well as the weapon. here s what he said about that. we did find evidence at the residence. i can t go into a whole bunch of details about it but i will tell you that it s evidence showing the origination of planning. things like that, in his apartment. we ve confirmed, i think, already that it was a shotgun used in the incident. i would confirm it was a pump action shotgun. it was legally purchased a year or so ago. i mean, the reality is, the loss of life, five people, tragic. had it not been for the speed with which law enforcement responded and had he been using a semiautomatic weapon, we would be talking about a significantly larger number of people who are dead. yes. that s what authorities said. they said this guy came here to kill as many people as possible. evidence by the fact he blocked the back door. this was somebody that was probably not going to stop until he had accomplished his mission, according to police. so, yes. this was an incredibly quick response and i think, as you mentioned, the training played a role in that. one of the things, too, mentioned at the court hearing, he had no prior anything. no prior history of mental health, substance abuse. lived in an apartment alone what about the 100 tweets threatening the newspaper? that a horse other story. when it came to that, talking about that in court, they talked about that. one thing that s a red flag and going back to police saying the last time there was a credible threat they knew are, 2013, that s, what, five years ago. interesting to find out what happened between then and now. phil, thank you. catie beck, thank you. our thoughts and prayers, of course, with your hometown near annapolis. in less than a month former trump campaign chairman paul manafort s first trial will get started. today a judge laying the ground rules for what evidence cannish used in that case. an update from court, also talk about the pressure house republicans are trying to put on robert mueller. also, the return of president obama. the new message that he is sharing with democrats about winning the mid-term elections. sign to quit cable, then here s some signs. it came from the toaster. now you can quit cable. switch to directv and now get a $100 reward card. more for your quitting cable thing. that s our thing. call 1 800 directv. wearing powerful sunscreen? 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quick, my understanding, other things the judge needed to take care of before the, they got to the manafort portion of the program, so to speak, this morning. i think this hasn t been entirely a result of just hearings and arguments that have been heard regarding the manafort case. in addition to that, craig, there s also a, there were documents received by the defense, and so they requested a recess. so i think this has all been a little fluid here this morning, and sometimes these pre-trial hearings can go on for a little bit. it s called motions add limine. as far as what evidence can come in to the trial, what things the jurors can be asked about on their questionnaires, the details how this trial will proceed and where it s going to go, and sometimes those are pretty strong lines that both sides, the prosecution and the defense, will draw in the sand and really try to make sure that they can intlud clude our exclue things they think are important to their case. these tend to go on for a little bit of time. i don t see how a judge in virginia can overrule a judge in d.c. and somehow decide that manafort gets out of jail ahead of this trial. so at this point, i don t anticipate for there to be a ruling on that today, but, you know, i ve covered enough courtis cases to know anything can happen and bubble up. one revelation we did get from wire reports, an fbi agent testified on the stand the first time the department of justice found out that paul manafort had a, had a storage unit that may have contained documents pertaining to an investigation actually came from the associated press when they made inquiries about it and the fbi agent testified to that early this morning according to wire reports and waiting four o inin reporter to come out and brief us. we remind viewers, this criminal case is not against manafort. not directly connected to robert mueller s russia investigation. pivot to that. as the call for mueller s investigation to end continues to grow, those calls, take a listen to what representative trey gout fwdy said to deputy attorney general rod rosen sfoo stein. if you have evidence of about the trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. you have evidence, present it to the american people. whatever you ve got. finish it the hell up. so the irony here, of course, that gowdy himself ran the benghazi investigation if i recall for the better part of roughly two years. no criminal prosecutions. mueller s investigation has been about a year going. it continues to go on. your assessment of what we just heard from the congressman? 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i think they re hurting. you know? no one expected this to happen in our city, and we we are still trying to process it. did you know any of the victims? yes. so we it s a small town. everybody knows one another. these journalists cover our city, you know city elections. they cover city hall. they do stories on us. we ve all been into that newsroom and know exactly what they were going through. we no there was nowhere to hide in the office and mentioned the horror they ve had to go through. let s get caught up on the latest with the invest gatiigan. people williams following it closely. what do we know at this hour, pete? reporter: quite a bit. doesn t seem to be much of a mystery why this happened, because the man charged with the shooting, jarrod ramos had a grudge against this newspaper for seven years and went through three years of lawsuits against the paper, losing them, accusing them of defamation and losing that, because the courts ruled the newspaper accurately reported the fact he had used social media to harass a woman that he knew from high school. apparently he never got over that. former people who used to work for the newspaper say that he published online threats that got increasingly worrisome. the police, in fact, did question him about these threats. the police say that they talked to the newspaper s lawyers and eventually decided the newspaper decided not to press charges and also not to seek a restraining order, because they felt it would only make things worse. he was well known to the police. he was well known to the newspaper. the former publisher was so worried about hill, he told us this morning, that he put, got a picture of ramos and put it at the front desk and said never let this guy in here. the police chief says he bought his gun a year ago. a pump action 12 gauge shotgun used in the attack and as the police were responding, you could hear the sirens inside, ramos hid under a desk, and that s where police ultimately found him. no shots exchanged. now, you asked a moment ago, craig, about this facial rec anything s system. very interesting. because he wouldn t talk to them. they had difficulty getting good prints, or getting a fast response on his fingerprints. so they didn t know for the first couple of hours who he was. he wouldn t say a word to them about his identity, but they took a picture of him and compared it to a maryland state database using facial recognition and that s how they found out that he was, in fact, jarrod ramos. that system has pictures in it from previous convictions, which he had. a misdemeanor conviction for harassing people online. this woman that he knew from high school, and it also has department of motor vehicle pictures. your license plate mug shot. driver s license mug shot. using that technology is how they figured who he was that led to the search and gave them a much faster headstart on this investigation. pete, that facial recognition technology you re talking about is not unique to maryland, as i understand it. reporter: no. do we know how widespread this technology is? do we know how many other states or municipalities are capable of doing what they did lehere in maryland? reporter: not many, but there are some. the fbi has its own independent system. unlike the state systems, the fbi system consists only of mug shots. people who have already been charged with a crime. that s all that s in the fbi database system. if you think about it, this is sort of how the national fingerprint system works. obviously, the government doesn t have a copy of everybody s fingerprints on mile. anybody s who had a background check, convicted of a crime, pictures taken, they will be in the base and they can figure who did a crime based on latent fingerprints found at the scene. similar, taking something physical in the world, like a print or a picture, and using dimensions to digitize that and put it in a computer system and that s how they found it. our justice correspondent pete williams for us this afternoon. pete, thank you. and bring in a former baltimore police officer, former justice department official as well. rob, thank you, sir. at one point investigators have made here, the ease of entry into this newspaper s news raoul. lo newsroom. a long history between him and the newspaper. how dig a factor was the fact it was so open, so easy, apparently, to get inside? we talk about access control and visitor management routinely. the fact of the matter is, tragically, in this day and age, you have to be aware in every business across this country, who gets into the building? how are they screened and once in the building, do they have restricted access within the confines of the building itself? a hard look at locks and doors, so on and so forth. apparently this suss sweuspect shot through a glass door andible to get into the offices. tragic. it s about visitor management systems sound and trained by the employees that work there. rob, the government used a shotgun. apparently legally purchased. what role did that play in terms of the shooter s access to the weapon, and the type and number of injuries here at the scene? well, the fact of the matter is, we don t know the true motivation. we can piece and stitch together all the evidence so far, but the fact that this was a legally purchased pump action shotgun would lead me to believe the carnage could have been much worse had he use another weapon. pump action shotgun is one of the most traditional in the country that requires some manual loading and reloading and so on and so forth. what we know about active shooter situations, generally they end when law enforcement arrives and according to witnesses and your reporting, when the police officers were arriving at the scene is when the suspect hid under the desk. we don t know whether he had more ammunition or ran out. but i do think the weapon he chose tragically five people were killed. thank god it wasn t worse. rob winehold. thank you. thank you. slow and subtle strategy from the white house. a new report detailing the administration s quiet quiet campaign to create that supreme court opening. man: it takes a lot of work to run this business, but i really love it. i m on the move all day long, and sometimes i don t eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition i m missing. boost high protein now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. and it has a guaranteed great taste. man: boost gives me everything i need to be up for doing what i love. boost high protein. be up for it. that s going to change. from now on, facebook will do more to keep you safe and protect your privacy. so we can all get back to what made facebook good in the first place. friends. because when this place does what it was built for, we all get a little closer. better things than rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don t start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts, and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz xr, and monitor certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. don t let another morning go by without talking to your rheumatologist about xeljanz xr. we are here in annapolis, maryland, where five people were shot and killed yesterday as a gunman opened fire at the capital gazette. about 200 yards behind me. president trump a couple hours ago talking about the tragedy at the white house. journalists like all americans should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job. former deputy assistant secretary of state to hillary clinton. charlie sykes is contributed eder toed ed eder editor to the weekly standard. and contributor to us. and found what the president said to be ironic? ironic is one way to put it. hypocritical is another way to put it. you can t run around and encourage people to, at the very least, intensely dislike or hate fellow americans who are doing a job and then be shocked when something like this happens. and, you know, there s a lot of debate on this person s timing. clearly, he was a very troubled individual. and you can t say someone did something entirely, but he s been troubled for seven years, and, you know, people like that who are living on the edge, and when they snap, you don t know what sets them off, and you can t make an argument about anyone that disagrees with him will have an argument of destructive discourse. and someone who s been to a trump rally and seen and heard people boo and hiss and scream obscenities at you, there is an environment when you go to one of these rallies that a lot of journalists have said they don t always feel safe. is there a reason to believe charlie sykes? this might be the beginning of a change in the president s tune, or just a moment that a week or two from now will forget about? maximum respect to all the journalists in annapolis, maryland, and the way they ve responded to all this. i m glad the president said what he said but words matter. tone matters. leadership matters. no way to know this was related to the president s word and that shooter. we have to be cautious about that, but this is why civility matters. the emotionalism, and people being on the edge, appeal to better angels not to stoke up this anger and the rhetoric about the enemy of the people and fake news has fed into a narrative and i know that journalists don t like to they don t like to play the victim card, but how do you not feel a sense of menace, you know, from the tone that s been encouraged by the president and his supporters? felipe and other political news, former president obama in california last night making his first public comments, and some say at this fund-raiser telling democrats, do not wait for the perfect message. don t wait to feel a tingle in your spine, because you re expecting politicians to be so inspiring and poetic and moving that somehow, okay. i ll get off my couch after all and go spend the 15, 20 minutes it takes for me to vote, because that s part of what happened in the last election. i heard that too much. how critical a role will barack obama play in the march towards the midterms? to start, playing a critical role when he speaks directly like that. he s making it very clear people have to fight, they have to vote. starts with that. if you don t, you can t complain what doesn t happen. it s clear he s going to do whatever the party and individual candidates ask. what he s not going to do is, he s not going to carry the mantle of the democratic party. he knows that there has to be a new generation of leaders who come forward who take that on, because if he does it, if he takes it on his shoulders that doesn t do anyone any good. others have to take it on. by the way, look around what s been happening in both the special elections and the energy in general. people are taking it on their shoulders. i think he s managing that balance between contributing everything he can and not intruding too much very well. charlie, new york times reporting about the, the supreme court justice vacancy now and the president s quiet campaign to get justice candidates to retire. what the president said about kennedy if you recall, back in april of last year, as neil gorsuch took the judicial oath. in just a moment justice gorsuch will be sworn in by justice kennedy. a great man of outstanding accomplishment. throughout his nearly 30 years on the supreme court, justice kennedy has been praised by all for his dedicated and dignified service. you ll also remember, charlie, ivanka trump tweeting this picture of her visiting the supreme court with her daughter at the invitation of justice kennedy. charlie, do we think that perhaps there was this campaign to force justice kennedy into retirement? well, there was a campaign forced to make him uncomfortable, far more important and decisive was the fact, the way the process is working out. the list that was created. the role of the federalist society in saying, look, here are the people that we, conservative jurists respect. that i think is the crucial thing that in a lot of ways this selection process is the least trumpian thing going on in this administration. despite all the disfunction of this administration, he s out, sowed this to people president kennedy trusts. all of it play add role, but looking at the list that the trump people have put out. you know, justice kennedy was able to look down there and go, look, not a judge generjeanine random guy out there but somebody i think has the judicial temperament and knowledge to take my place and i think that was the key element. charlie, thank you. felipe, thank you as well. enjoy the weekend, gentlemen. thank you. the shooting here in annapolis marks the 154th mass shooting in america so far this year. i ll talk to the parent of a marjory stoneman douglas high school student running for the school board because of the tragedy in her community, right after this. and seamless experience across web and tablet? 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well, obviously we need more things done with gun control. how many more children have to die? how many more mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters? how many more people have to die? obviously not enough is being done, and more needs to be done. one of your opponents in this school board race is the parent of the student killed in parkland. this is what she said to me about a month ago. my daughter, alyssa, was brutally shot down and murdered. and i do not want any other parent to go through the pain and anguish that i go through every day. i do not want any child to say to their parent, mommy, am i going to die today in school? so that is why i am running for school board. how are you going to differentiate yourself from laurie and other parkland parents? of course i m fighting for the lost angels that we lost on that shooting. but it s about experience and qualifications. i ve been serving communities over 16 years. i work for the government. i ve been working for county and city level. so i know how to review budgets. i have the degrees. i have the experience. we need somebody on that board that cannic ma sound decisions, has the experience in contract negotiations, looking at contracts, ensuring our children are being sent to school in a secure, safe, academic setting. i m also fighting for mental health. we need a focus on mental health. i don t see that now. it s all about broward county, state of florida. united states of america. the gun control needs to be taken care of. we need to help our children. we need to focus on mental health and get these numbers down. so many people are dying from guns. it s sickening. something has to be done. thank you. thank you for your time and good luck to you, as well, in the race. thank you. thank you so much. here in annapolis, the families of five employees of the capital gazette are grieving today after losing their loved ones. nbc s stephanie gosk has more on their lives and their legacies. reporter: the five people killed in thursday s shooting were some of the most experienced at the capital gazette, representing, together, 80 years at the paper. a columnist and life-long newspaper man was a gifted writer and father. his brother, acclaimed author carl, posting a message on facebook that read, in wart, we called him big rob because he was so tall. it was his remarkable heart and humor that made him larger than alldisappearing, this after the shooting for the reporters at the capital gazette to start doing their jobs. crime reporter phil davis started tweeting as soon as he reached safety. there is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you re under your desk. and then hear the gunman reload. and then there was this declaration. even as the gravity of what had happened was still sinking in, reporter chase cook tweeted i can tell you this we are putting out a damn paper tomorrow. this morning, this community needs it more than ever. before we go, the opinion page. opinion page of the capital gazette made a powerful statement. it was left mostly blank with just this message. today we are speechless. this page is intentionally left blank today to commemorate victims of thursday s shootings at our office. tomorrow this page will return to its steady purpose of offering our readers an informed opinion about the world around them that they might be better citizens. it s pretty amazing out there. the world is full of more possibilities than ever before. and american express has your back every step of the way- whether it s the comfort of knowing help is just a call away with global assist. or getting financing to fund your business. no one has your back like american express. so where ever you go. we re right there with you. the powerful backing of american express. don t do business without it. don t live life without it. in the movies, a lot of times, i tend to play the tough guy. but i wasn t tough enough to quit on my own. not until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. it reduced my urge to smoke to the point that i could stop. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking or allergic and skin reactions which can be life-threatening. stop chantix and get help right away if you have any of these. tell your healthcare provider if you ve had depression or other mental health problems. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. the most common side effect is nausea. my favorite role so far? 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whether social media blogs and instagram photos contribute to the problem where to anorexic girls hang out online. while your parents are flabby your stomach is soft and your thighs are a disaster we re surrounded by all sorts of slender women who gather likes for their bodies you can see instagram photos of girls who are clearly anorexic i m interested in chatting with some of them so i set out to join a pro and meanwhile leaning contrived normally and eat pretty normally to. lenny lives alone with her two cats she s a trained seamstress and a you tube post she visited pro and blogs during the early stages of her disease. it helps i don t idolize all that pro anna stuff like some girls did but i d resist the pages now and again for motivation or inspiration especially the photos. then on one page i met a girl and we decided to lose weight together. last name they called us a twin someone with similar measurements that you lose weight with. us but what was it like having a twin are you still in touch. let the last time we broke was about two years ago. and then one day i saw a post on her facebook page. rest in peace. she just fell asleep and didn t wake up the next morning after one. of. these good value feeling went ok my twin istead now that s probably. been forgotten yes i think it s really sad. because i shared part of my life with her but her to me death was kind of a relief for her. because i knew that she didn t have to suffer anymore. but as per the op i didn t ever get that bad for you that you felt like you wanted to die. with. well i didn t want to die or. king world but the way i felt back then i didn t want to keep on photos done by since remarkable. i think that s. when germany s next top model came back on t.v. lots of radio stations. would call us to ask what our patients thought about it and they all answered are you crazy do you really think this caused my own ass minor. as of this is the i mean really how superficial reasons of the from a scientific point of view society s obsession with losing weight and staying slim is of course a part of it without it eating disorders probably wouldn t be an issue that many of these girls have problems dealing with life in general it s not easy because you know it isn t. in the girls we look after completely lost control somewhere along the way and they ve developed these damn resemblance to try to take back that control get with their composites. and what about those social media groups like whatsapp or facebook. have they changed anything how does a nerd. i don t. dismiss the magazine you d have to gather scientific data i can t even gauge that but i have realized that these women have constructed an illusory reality that s linked to the eating disorders must be accomplished they have body scheme disorders and they don t trust their own perception of their bodies i ve met girls who say things like you re lying or photos of people who died of anorexia or fakes from the storm i ve seen things like that on pro and other sites the song it s like a cult when somebody if they don t get involved in this stuff find something else it s more like an expression of their personality disorder. it s easy to construct alternative realities on social media just like my whatsapp group of america does it i ve even noticed it with myself they re always writing me and that makes me think about it more they went instead of the stuff that you don t want anything on it only exactly that way you won t have to worry about other things. other life demands can take a step back and you can take back control in a limited sector the main problem is that they don t know who they are. anymore. so the eating disorder becomes like a partner for life and if they let it go it s like getting divorced. they feel they ve lost control they re overwhelmed and look for something they can control their body their weight that distracts them from bigger issues in their lives horsey and yulia have been living together for nine months yulia was pretty sick when she arrived last summer. down by force i just felt like i wanted to die young i simply couldn t bear any more this burden of living i wanted to make it as small as possible the less there is of me the less burden there as those were the kind of thoughts i had. as i spent a lot of time on facebook i had so many friends there and they post food pictures and so did i i was smaller and smaller portions i didn t know but by liking them they d reinforce my behavior. that was hard to digest i m completely exhausted after the visit. want to tell he was so open with me and i felt a little overwhelmed by it i was astonished by what they had to say. but it looks like they re both on the road to recovery. but i m not done yet. there s still that whatsapp group it s time to leave. when it holds i m out now i told them i m a reporter it feels a little strange. i don t know if i did the right thing. maybe i should have offered them more help. but this feels right. if that can even be said about a group like this. and either way i m glad to have gotten out of there.