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be a conversation. more details on the bbc website. _ we're just four days away from the start of the first tennis grand slam of the year. the australian open gets under way in melbourne on sunday but it's an incredibly busy week of qualifying and preparation. with tournaments taking place in adelaide, melbourne and auckland at the moment. let's bring you up to date, because it's been a mixed day for the brits in the australian open qualifiers. francecsa jones is through to the next round after a straight sets victory over margaux rouvroy of france. harriet dart is also through, as is oliver crawford, who only last week switches allegiance from the us to britain. not such positive news though forjan choinski, he's gone out to the german benjamin hassan. as has heather watson, beaten by lulu sun 6—4, 6—3. in adelaide, dan evans is out, but compatriot jack in adelaide, dan evans is out, but compatriotjack draper in adelaide, dan evans is out, but compatriot jack draper is in adelaide, dan evans is out, but compatriotjack draper is through to the quarterfinals, after he survived

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if someone wants to criticise me, if my manager wants to pull me into a meeting and say i'm not performing because of this, absolutely, i will take it on—board. for me, performance is the most important thing. i don't really have the fear of speaking out about any more. you don't become accustomed to it. of course, you know, there's still things that you read. i read things about myself and i'm like, "oh, really?" "is that what people think about me, or is that how i look? you know, and it still impacts me. but, you know, i'm kind of a bit more better with dealing with that, whereas a younger player maybe coming through that gets a comment like that could end up, you know, not eating. and having to compete at a high level, and you see their performance drop, and it really impacts these young players coming through. ijust felt it was important for people to realise, as long as you are fit to play your sport, at the highest level, and that can impact in terms of your body shape and how you are, but for me, if you are at that level and you are consistently performing well, for me, body shape shouldn't be a conversation.—

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Dateline

>> and then just as suddenly, the tension broke. liam stopped searching. explained the cops had been on his tail. >> about what? >> about killing sara. >> anthony said back and listen to liam. the officers hung on every word. >> and not even -- that's not even the worst part. >> it was chilling, i mean -- we looked at each other we couldn't believe what we were hearing. >> it nauseated me. >> then the cops had something else, liam wasn't in this alone. he had an accomplice. >> the two of us -- >> they talked for 20 minutes before liam slipped out into the night. >> it was good talking to you, bro. >> good talking to you, take it easy. >> the detectives of monitoring the appalling conversation. they kept lean under surveillance as warrants were drawn, out and based on what he said to anthony curry in the car. >> you did hear about it? >> they arrested liam. liam who had seemed so helpful when he told police that he had been without that last day. >> we went to get food today. >> liam who had voluntarily gone downtown to tell detectives about his great friend, sarah. >> but if you do during the day? >> she draws. she watches youtube videos. she walks her dog. >> liam who joined a search for her, who had gone on tv to praise her. >> she's pretty strong, so

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like she killed herself. he said it would be like a movie. >> the you think he was two years at that time? >> no. >> but the young filmmaker explain to the jury, when he learned sarah was missing, he and his dad went to the police. >> in his cross-examination, defense attorney diaz-cobo, attacked anthony curry's testimony. all anthony's squirming, it wasn't nerves, no, he was lying. >> your testimony, today sir is that liam told you, prior to december 2nd that he was planning on taking money from sarah? >> yes. >> was anybody with you and my client when he allegedly told you this? >> no. >> so, the only person that would've hurt it would've been you, correct? >> yes. >> you never recorded that conversation. ? >> no. >> he has a motive for her. he just made national headlines as the horror film maker that's part of this murder case.

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going to turn on him, right? >> fortunately, anthony took his digital camera and photographed his telephone depicting that snapchat message. and he had traveled to the police department that night and was able to forward that message to us. >> all those little clues that didn't fit together, sarah's last conversation with carli, the mysterious old cash, sarah leaving her stuff at the draper 's where we considered in light of anthony curry's story. though the county prosecutors still had questions about anthony. his name was chris creamy joni. >> based on the story that he told us, the question arose, how did he did anything about this when sarah went missing when he heard about it? we had experienced investigators that were on this case that interviewed him.

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

general assembly is set to convene for a special legislative session on august 21st to address gun safety. and how much is the republican supermajority control of the debate in the tennessee legislature going to allow that to be a real discussion? that's a question raised by veteran tennessee investigative reporter phil williams after analyzing the debate from this year's legislative session. quote, what we discovered is evidence that republicans have enormous power to control the entire conversation on hotly contested issues, or, as democrats see it, to silence debate. republicans have in some cases cut of democratic committee, even refusing to consider their amendments. joining me now, democratic state representatives justin j. pearson and justin jones of tennessee. gentlemen, good to see you again. thank you for being with me. >> you too. >> i want to ask you a bit about this, justin jones. phil williams was referring to

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opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on y to>> another conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn't top the top 50. doesn't crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consecutive degrees at a, time which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn't believe in that sort of thing. it's gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it's better than not having them, but it's a slow process. >> and blew the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn't mean it's not worth talking about. >> one of the things that make minneapolis interesting though is that the fundamental problem on that police force was the union chief, and that is the case in many american police forces. the police chief, the george floyd, the mayor, the governor,

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

significant setbacks. the russians are taking the losses, the ukrainians are making gains, but we are off to a start two weeks into a months long campaign. >> i want to ask you about something that was zelenskyy said to me on the anniversary of the war that he now has reiterated to richard angle about why america needs to stay behind ukraine on this one. listen to the conversation. >> >> translator: there is a candidate or senator who thinks it was too much for the united states to support ukraine. is he ready to go to war to fight, to save his kids? are they ready to die? because they will have to do this if nato gets involved. . and anyway, if ukraine would lose, if russia would occupy ukraine, russia will continue going towards the baltic countries, poland, et cetera. they will start a war with one of the nato countries and at this moment the united states will have to choose --

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about when we were saying that the democracy in our state is turning into a mobocracy, where the mob rules instead of the people rule. the majority of people in the tennessee want to see something done, but people legislature 10 abuse the power to do nothing. that unacceptable, a moral, it's time for us to do something. >> so justin jones, explain to me how this could go down. i don't mean this particular session, but the idea that you've got a governor who is prepared to have some conversation about some things. not everybody is going to get what they want out of this thing, but there's some idea that when people get shot in schools and malls and movie theaters are your greatest fears getting rundown in this country in greatest fear for your children is that gonna die from gunshot wounds and gunshot killings are the largest killer of children across this country, there are conservatives. or a second amendment protectors. there are republicans would like to see some reasonable things done and can get somewhere. but yours is an example of a supermajority in a state

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majority so now might north carolina lawmakers have a chance to rethink their stance on all of this. the question is, will they take it? that is the show for tonight. now it's time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. >> they didn't take their last opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on >> i loved your conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you're worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn't top the top 50. doesn't crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consent decrees at a time, which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn't believe in that sort of thing. it's gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it's better than not having them, but it's a slow process. >> i believe the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn't mean it's not worth talking about. >> one of the things that make minneapolis interesting though is that the fundamental problem on that police force was the union chief, and that is the case in many american police forces.

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