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Fdr. you have doris and meacham why did you focus on fdr first? >> doris used the team metaphor. this not about presidents putting points up on the board for their own team. it's about transcending partisanship and bringing the country together and doing things for the whole country. well, fdr, because he faced the greatest challenge in the 20th century, and he summoned all of his talents to be able to meet that challenge and doris in her book talks about some of those characteristics that you need for leadership, ambition. you know moral purpose. a kind of selflessness which seems contradicto...

Very kind chairman of the committee who really tries to let everybody have their say, was rattled at times. >> norm, this book, here's how i'm going to weave it into today's news, this book talks about you and your family and the czech republic of your family's roots, even the holocaust, but it gets back to the shining example of american democracy central to this tale. is that democracy, do you think, under any threat given what we see today, given this era that we're covering here every night? >> brian, i do think that we're seeing a threat. the same types of threats that the five people i w...

Very kind chairman of the committee who really tries to let everybody have their say, was rattled at times. >> norm, this book, here's how i'm going to weave it into today's news, this book talks about you and your family and the czech republic of your family's roots, even the holocaust, but it gets back to the shining example of american democracy central to this tale. is that democracy, do you think, under any threat given what we see today, given this era that we're covering here every night? >> brian, i do think that we're seeing a threat. the same types of threats that the five people i w...

It's generally the case there is a lot of decorum in the senate and these hearings even if there are ideological divisions, which have grown, it's still a rather quiet place, a bunch of lawyers arguing about the law. between the protesters, the 60 of them who stood up and ended up getting arrested and the democrats' insistence on continually erupting and making this procedural argument was something we've never seen. chuck grassley, who is a very, very kind chairman of the committee who really tries to let everybody have their say, was rattled at times. >> norm, this book, here's how i'm going...

Street-level narcotics. all the victims were shot or stabbed several times. >> reporter: intimidation helps control their business, drugs and prostitutes. las vegas is hoping to stop this gang before it takes root in is in -- sin city. >> bill: a new book talks about the 2016 campaign. >> the trivial story generated an fbi investigation that was compromised in retrospect but was an fbi investigation into her activities. hi, i'm kathy ware.