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His father to honor the cop killer as a champion of mental health. the mayor says the apreefl for tre day was mistakenly stamped for a new staff who did not research the man's back ground. new orleans removing a last standing peels of history taking down the last of four confederate statues this morning. crews shutting down surrounding streets as they remove the 60-foot statute do you of robert e. lee. supporters and protests still in disagreement over the removal. one saying the statues are the reminders of slavery and seeing grey gasmghts others say important part of history. beauregard and ...

And i think that's the area this is being, why this is being pushed out of there. i had heard this morning that mike rogers was the front-runner. we'll see how this shakes loose. they don't make conventional decisions on the staffing or how they sell the staffing. >> that's the caveat. you never know what donald trump will say deste wha aides may be whiering to you at the time. but i think it is interesting that he might be playing toward mccain. mccain and lindsey graham and lieberman were known as the three of egos. they are the three who have been the biggest thorns in this president's side...

Public process, since at least the weekend, joe lieberman, former senator of connecticut, former vice presidential nominee, is a front-runner this is president colombia arriving right behind me. at he will be a guest of the president and be at the news conference that's coming up. as he front-runner among choices. he stands out because he has a political back ground. obviously a democrat for much of his career. >> kelly, can i stop you for a second? we have a camera on the president of colombia getting out. just that to be greeted by president trump who is waiting there. not with anybody else ...

On joe lieberman who savannah guthrie is reporting has emerged as perhaps the top candidate for fbi director, one of the three amigos, this remember, graham had expressed on "meet the press" that he might have some reservations about a politician, someone who has run for office. those concerns have been all allayed. and he was asked to respond also to president trump's recent comments a few minutes ago, expressing his misgivings, shall we put it about, the appointment of a special counsel. temd president is entitled to his own opinion. and we caught the tail end of that. i asked about lieberma...

Press" that they don't want to see anyone political. no political choice for the fbi director. do you suspect that this choice might be the one exception to senator graham's comments, rick? >> i think that there's a little bit of a safe harbor feeling with joe lean that would not be present with even a mike rogers who has fbi experience and a lot of back ground on this. i do think that it may be a slight exception but i wouldn't necessarily call it a done deal until you see the land scape of the senate. i think the democrats willse this as leverage. eyl bring an awful lot of pressure on this a...