entirely on winter food and drinks so let s have a sneak peek at some of the stories coming up. tito i germans are jumping on the british t.v. tradition. of dipping in and warming up the insides with swiss cheese fondue. i m just desserts enjoying a winter treat in the mountains of austria. when it s cold outside people tend to favor warm hearty dishes for their meals as opposed to light and fresh cuisine in the summer months a country like poland generally has cooler temperatures for the majority of the year so it s no surprise that most of the dishes a wholesome rich and warming a modern influence has cooled to top restaurants to appeal more to the international market so in one of poland s a new the craziness tablets ment s chef sylvester at least shows us how he keeps up with the times whilst maintaining polish traditions. the tucked her mountains in southern poland are among the most popular tourist destinations in eastern europe. not far from book away in a touch is where chef sylvester elise has his restaurant. he s famous in the region. and one of his specialties is leg of lamb. clearly jobs on the maronite chili pepper finally put it on the lounge to give it spiciness. i want to create a confrontation on the plate of my serve dumplings made from pumpkin and sweet potatoes with the lightly spiced meat looking for. proof. apart from the chili there s also lime rosemary salt and pepper in the marinate. he rubs it into the meat well and then adds a few drops of whiskey. there is that although he was composed of whisky has a particular role models with couples it has a bit of a sweet aftertaste which goes well with a solid line together that gives it a very special combination of flavors of those with the future. but if it s local may not its market. he adds meat stock and lets the lamb stew at eighty degrees celsius for twelve hours. in the meantime he visits the neighboring farm to get some cheese for a moose that he ll serve with the meat. of the cheese called back is made from sheep s milk first the milk is heated and then the she s is formed into balls that are pressed into wooden cylinders. that s how the cheese acquires this pattern so typical for the region. later the cheese is smoked. this is the type that service to lease uses in his restaurant. that of the entire regions diversity is contained little is a change reality is about that the smoke among the three feels very cold at the moment so i can taste the grass barretts the mountain out of the cheese tastes of nature the much you don t want. back in the kitchen he makes the moose mixing the grated cheese with goats cream cheese milk and butter milk. then he prepares a cranberry jelly to provide a flavor contrast first to cooks the cranberries in red wine sweetening them with a little honey. he also makes the jam from onions garlic and butter tomatoes red pepper and pumpkin. my uncle catawba. is actually the opposite of what you think of as jacques it s made of vegetables not so comfortable but everything is chopped up small and coach of the sun and so why shouldn t i call it jeremy. that s another game was another one. for the side dish a mash is cooked sweet potatoes and pumpkin adding an egg and some flour. then he rolls and cuts the dough to form dumplings that are called capecchi. he uses jerusalem artichokes crumbs to cook them his modern take on traditional cuisine. is for you have to adapt to your environment to what the people want to what they re interested in. why have the great opportunity to be able to create what others can t describe in words. i can make a tangible proof life has to go forward that s when the little bitch it s michael writes. after twelve hours in the oven the lamb is lovely and tender. he carves the meat and wraps the pieces in philo pastry parcels putting them back in the oven briefly. then he serves them with the vegetable jam and the dumplings. the cranberry jelly and cheese mousse provide the finishing touch. to go down there i would recommend a dry red wine to go with it to create a contrast with the solid fruits and sweeter scientists have six or more complex. marinated lamb with sweet potatoes dumplings a commentary journey through poland s mountains. well after day on the breezy mountains or in fact anywhere that s cold outside there s nothing highlight mol them coming inside a cup of tea so british of me i know but i m not alone here in germany taken the taste buds on a large area of your tongue. the tasting is aimed at convincing the participants not just to keep enjoying their old favorites but also to try out new teas. the teas have a smoky dry or sweet taste each one s really different but is a shot i find the black very strong and all the different teas get weaker as you go along the green teas are a bit grassy and the white very mild and the smoke from this is what s so interesting is that they all come from the same plant it s the different way they re prepared for the different steps in preparation. the tea shop offers some three hundred varieties you can recognise a good tea by its type rolled or needle shaped leaves and where green and white tees are concerned the paler the leaf the better. of course you have to consider providence the country and plantation of origin and tea fans are also collectors like wine lovers and they make sure they get the very best quality from narrowly defined plantations. the latest and most luxurious product on the european team market is much of. it is finally powdered green tea leaves beaten to a froth with a bamboo whisk. green teas in particular a prized for their health promoting qualities. just a two foot a lot i think some doctors say cheese promotes health you can tolerate larger amounts of it than coffee and it has several advantages. it lowers cholesterol levels and contains some vitamins and as a gourmet i wouldn t drink tea for my health but always for pleasure the most i m going to. money kullu man has been serving customers in her to room in the well heeled hamburg suburb since one nine hundred eighty eight she has more than forty different varieties on offer she serves the beverage the traditional english way with scones clotted cream and jam. perhaps more germans have taken to teach drinking because it s such a charming and calming ritual. using tea as a quick takeaway drink doesn t do it justice. oh in my opinion it s good any time of the day but it is certainly better when paired with a slice of cake that of course depends on your taste but if you prefer a more savory tree then maybe cheese is more your thing to get through the cold winter day is the swiss typically like to warm up with a cheese form the national dish that dates back at least three hundred years and is dairy which is also open to visitors mass to cheese makers produce up to forty. wheels of gruet a cup of bats like this hold almost five thousand liters of milk after the curdling process and the separation of the liquid way the curd mask is cut into granules by large knives called cheese hops. the chalk eco fate decides when the cheese has the right consistency something that requires knowledge and experience. one of the things i like best about my job is the cutting of the kurds. at the moment the milk becomes a solid mass and you cut it there is a reaction it s a physical and a chemical reaction but there s something magical about it too and of course i also like to taste the cheese i ve made almost. at an air temperature of fifteen degrees celsius and in human conditions the grew year ripens for up to eighteen months in the long good ages the shock of the flavor to make fun too it s best to use medium age group master cheesemaker bees tests the will that s been ripening for months. if the taste is fruity very floral with just a dash of the acidity that s typical for a good year it s magnificent green the menu for. the oldest known fondue recipe was found in a cookbook from syracuse dating back to sixty ninety nine so in spite of all the legends funders origin s a lightly in the city not in the mountains. in the nineteenth century fondue was a staple tissue in every middle class home and was even considered elitist. the grew aboriginal history museum in the city of boom has devoted an exhibition to the success story of its fame. chaney s which forms the basis for fondue in the sun secretly our home. just has cheese union began a promotional campaign in the one nine hundred twenty s. suggesting fondue is nice for puts you in a good mood fondue belongs in every family and after world war two for do was served to soldiers during their military service. and so only young men in switzerland learned how you eat from do and brought this with them when they returned to their families used ones will come for you funny you know jewish to. fondue is as much part of switzerland as the alps the sweets eat this national anywhere and everywhere and fundraise popularity has of course spread far and wide eaten around the globe but there s still no better place to enjoy the classic original than in switzerland. while we re staying in the outs right now as after all of that alarm and cheese it s time for your child does it i don t know about you but i m certainly working for tights on the show today about having you heard of a kaiser before it s one of australia s most popular sweets it s basically like a pancake that s all been chopped up and then it s set with sugar and cherry sauce on the side decadent it certainly is bought a perfect treat after a day on the slick. the pitch called lazio is austria s high a ski resort here the ski season lasts until may three restaurants feed hungry went to sports enthusiasts one atop the glazier that s almost three thousand five hundred metres above sea level and the others at an elevation of almost three thousand meters. after a day on the slopes he is can enjoy delicious helping of. the sweet days just as much a part of austrian identity as the alps. a wonderful just like my grandma used to make it. nearby you find austria s highest back to serene stephany s than tele is hard at work a paying pastries and. you put it on when everything is produced up here in the bakery we make all the desserts for the two restaurants fish bits and customers and we also supply cafe three for forty with fresh cake instituted. every morning that is sent up by cable car to austria s highest coffeehouse cafe three full forty it lies six hundred meters about the bakery aside from the fantastic there s another treat for visitors at the so-called place yes no cake. course on the coconut fine apple very fluffy very light when you if you get it fresh it s quite magical i certainly recommend it for use in feet. but operating a sky high bakery has its pitfalls. about three thousand four hundred forty meters the boiling point is different so if we know that the weather will change will produce the biscuit bases a day early because otherwise they might not be so fluffy and could fall apart inside this nice ocean to cool them. milk. eggs. sugar that s all. kinds of smarm doesn t require any delicate preparation just mix the milk in flour then separate the eggs and beat the egg white with sugar until stiff. it s coming out now we sell up to four tons of man in the winter season that s one hundred fifty to two hundred portions a day. kaiser should be baked for five minutes on each side and it s ready. stephany s i m gonna also supplies the restaurants with viennese apple strudel and clips. crisis monica said to get his name from a pancake that went wrong. the austrian emperor of france use if loved. but when a pancake fell apart during cooking it was scrambled up and served to jam. the emperor loved it and emperor scrambled all the smart phones. now it s just missing the icing sugar on top and up here we serve our kaiser man with apples also ending on bearings. isn t just a favorite into rolls it s one of austria s most popular designs. you have to get right to the top where the nicest pine cones are. how high up to about twenty five meters. june is the best month for harvesting pine cones they should be green and look like this on the inside. only then do they have what s needed for that real black forest buzz. kill distillery in keno marta s force in southern germany has been in operation for four generations but knowledge wanted to do something new the idea came about during a skiing holiday and she rolled a region with a long tradition of distilling occur from a swiss spine. i came home i suggested we try it there are no swiss pines but there are wonderful white pines the black forest white pine is something very special in my opinion it s big powerful and strong and before long we were all in agreement we try and make something with the pine cones. senior junior and father in law together they re a team with the perfect blend of expertise and courage to branch out their house looks like a winner. that that s a really nice aroma. they began steeping the young white pine cones in summer followed by months of waiting. these budding distillers experimented for about three years with a few ups and downs along the way. but. the first batches were like cloudy apple juice and we didn t like that so it was we paid about with the temperature and the storage until we achieve this lovely shiny copper color it is fifty percent very strong and. the tinkering paid off and will to be pinal eco is now his passion. this decorum is for me it s a piece of home the forests the feeling and the taste. in a bottle. and if you have one too many you might even hand distant cold cuts of black forest. found like the perfect tip over this chilly season and it might be for today today if you want to say any of our other special episodes of e.m. s from this week then you can find them on our website it s just below here to tell me to come forward slash lifestyle well be back tomorrow with more when so will miss but for 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facility as well as another site. so three sites were struck tonight. we just heard from secretary mattis. here s what he said. tonight, france, the united kingdom and the united states took decisive action. clearly, the assad regime did not get the message last year. general dunford said that syrian surface to air missiles had been engaged at the beginning of the air strikes. they, however, have not reported that there were any u.s. or allied losses as a result of those sam missiles being fired. there was no sign that the russians engaged in any way. general dunford said that the deconfliction hot line was employed but the u.s. did not give russia any advance warning welcome and thank you all for your time tonight. we re told that u.s. navy warships were used, also b-1 bombers. given your experience in the military, tell us about the capabilities of those two working together they re impressive capabili capabiliti capabilities. the navy assets, of course, are really good at what they do. this sent an impressive message tonight, not just that the u.s. is going to stand by its word and the president means what he says, which will alleviate a lot of conflict in the future. when he says something, people won t try to test him. but it sends a strong message to russia and iran that we are serious about standing up for good order in this world and standing with our allies, even if you bluster. let me bring you in here because i had a lengthy conversation with a senior gop lawmaker, very much a hawk on the hill, saying they were worried. they don t think the president s speech was strong enough. they don t think the strikes were broad and impressive enough to send a long-term message. well, hopefully i m sorry, jason. sorry, shannon. hopefully, what they did is actually did deplete the ability to deliver the chemical weapons. if we knew there were chemical weapons in those places, why didn t we go preemptively take that out? i think bringing in france and the uk does send the right message. it begs the question, where are our other partners? where are places like germany? why weren t they with us? mightily at german hands for the use of chemical weapons. so i just thought that was an interesting historic reference. but then he also mentioned the gulf states and their role in the coalition and what he s expecting now in terms of their participation in the nation-building aspect and the reconstruction aspect after we completely destroy isis and drive the rest of the syrian conflict to hopefully some type of broker negotiation. that was under the guise and in the context of the president wanting to get u.s. soldiers out, to not get bogged down and spend more money and that he s clearly looking at the saudis and the other gulf states to step in there. mm-hm. so, dave, now as somebody who has served our country on the front lines, what does it mean to our men and women in uniform? there s been a lot of talk on the hill and elsewhere about having a long-term strategy, that we need to understand, we already have boots on the ground there, what the long-term plan is for them? do you think this administration has articulated that well enough? do they owe more to the men and women there is this certainly they owe more on the long-term plan. they haven t articulated that. what we re very good at is tactical strikes and executing things like this. we re excellent at that. what we re not good is articulating what s the end game with this, where do we go with it. i agree with this strike and where it sits. we go beyond that, and now we re getting into, hey, start telling the american people and the soldiers fighting what you re fighting for. like i said, we ve been getting a number of reactions from capitol hill. there are republicans and democrats on both sides of this. what have your republican colleagues says this. these defensive sites are unconstitutional and reckless. speaker ryan has completely abdicated one of his most important responsibilities. where do you come down in this debate? he s never supported frankly votes against the defense budgets every time it comes up. he s not a pro-military person whatsoever. i come down. our job in congress is to use money to make differences that way. but the president is commander in chief. and you have a lot of members in congress and the senate that want to feel extremely important, so they say there should be 535 commanders in chief, anytime the president does anything, we have to have a say. standing against the use of chemical weapons, the president acted reasonably outside of having to get congressional approval. what do you make of the role of israel in this whole thing? that s their neighborhood. they re there. we ve been hearing that russian president putin has been reaching out this week. they re not going to stand with anything that would allow iran to encroach any closer on their territory. what s their role tonight? they ve united saudi arabia and israel. it s unbelievable how close they are in terms of their positioning on this. and you look at the proximity on israel. i guarantee you our political leaders are understanding that. jordan is just to the east of israel. they are dealing with hundreds of thousands of refugees. they too have a vested interest. they are great partners with the united states of america. and again, i think the president did a very strategic limited type of hit tonight. i think it was called for. i think it was right. but i do think it would be stronger long term if the president needs to have continuous action to get the support of congress and put people on the record. make them vote on it. if there s a clear and president danger, the president should do whatever he needs to do. if they re going to be sustained for a long period of time, show the world that the united states congress is behind the president. we hear fr from john mccain. he says to succeed in the long run, we need a comprehensive strategy from syria and the region. also the ongoing conflict in syria and malign russian influence in the region. but they alone will not achieve u.s. objectives in the middle east. what does the president need to say to the american people or to congress to those points? there s a few things there. if you look at how the targets were struck, it s interesting that we went after not the air force. one, the syrians moving their air force assets to intermingle with the russians, to raise the bar there in terms of potential escalation. and then two, we are hearing the president wanted to make a much broader strike and stronger statement to stop the syrian capability once and for all, but general mattis pushing back because he was concerned about russian escalation. to your point of where are we going with this more broadly, i think the administration has been clear that we need to, number one, defeat isis once and for all, but also set the conditions for the return of isis. the last thing we want to do is completely pull out and see isis 3.0 go back. we re looking for others to take on that reconstruction role. but then the second part, to jason s point and to congressman s point, is what are we going to do more broadly about the syrian civil war. we re trying to drive that to a un-brokered resolution. i think we could see some type of potential power sharing arrangement. but the key there is assad must go. i cannot foresee some broad power sharing agreement with assad still in place, given what he has done so brutally over the last five years. and i think everyone s exactly right. we need to set that broader strategy, what are our goals, and drive towards it. i want to give you a chance to wrap up this panel before we check in in jerusalem. i think he s right when he talks about we need a broader strategy for the region. we don t know what that is, what our objectives are. and i don t think not hitting the russian pieces was intended just for russia. you don t want to weaken assad so the rebels become emboldened. so i think it was a cautious good strike. we ll see what happens in the future. and we always know that when a leader is taken out, there s a vacuum situation, and that bears much caution. all right, thank you very much. panel, if you ll stay with us. let s check in with mike. hey, shannon. right at the start of the strikes, a message came through the twitter account, saying, good souls will not be intimidated. the assessment of the damage is being done. two of the targets struck were previously struck by the israeli air force twice over the past couple of years, insinuating that they were struck with no effect. but the reporting is generally favorable to the assad regime. syrian state tv is claiming that what was hit were scientific research centers. it was a total of three. and what we ve heard from the pentagon is what they re calling a scientific research center was research and development for the chemical weapons. we ve got a claim from syrian state tv were the strikes were further north, what was hit was a storage facility. they claim that syrian air defenses did engage at the start of the strike. that was confirmed by the pentagon, who said there was activity. state tv claimed that 13 tomahawk missiles were shot out of the sky. that was not confirmed from the pentagon. in fact, we heard the surface to air defenses that engaged engaged to no effect of the there was no information that they were able to damage any of the u.s. hardware. we have the first statement we ve got out of israel. it s a reading, last year president trump made clear that the use of chemical weapons crosses a red line. tonight, we enforce that line. syria continues to engage in and provide a base for murderous actions, including those of iran that put its territory, forces, and leadership at risk. we also have a tweet from the russian ambassador to the u.s., saying, such actions will not be left without consequences. again, the sun is up. the assessment of the damage is beginning. and we ve got information that loud speaker trucks are now driving around the neighborhoods in damascus blasting nationalist songs in the wake of the attack. as word of the strikes went public, we heard first from the president. he spoke live from the house. and then followed by mattis, dunford. so we want to give you a recap of what they all had to say tonight. my fellow americans, a short time ago, i ordered the united states armed forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. a combined operation with the armed forces of france and the united kingdom is now underway. the assad regime again deployed chemical weapons to slaughter innocent civilians, this time in the town of douma, near the syrian capital of damascus. these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead. following the horrors of world war i a century ago, civilized nations joined together to ban chemical warfare. chemical weapons are uniquely dangerous, not only because they infli inflict gruesome suffering, but because even small amounts are unleash widespread devastation. the purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons, establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the united states. the combined american, british, and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power, military, economic, and diplomatic. we are prepared to sustain this response until the syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. i also have a message tonight for the two governments most responsible for supporting, equipping, and financing the criminal assad regime. to iran and to russia, i ask, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children? syria and the people have suffered terribly under the prolonged brutality of the ashad regime. on april 7th, the regime decided to again defy the norm of civilized people by using chemical weapons to murder women, children, and other innocents. we and our allies find these atrocities inexcusable. as our commander in chief, our president, has the authority to use military force overseas to defend important united states national interests, the united states has vital national interest and specifically deterring the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. all right, let s bring back our military experts and panel of analysts here. dave, i ll start with you. we talked about russia s influence in the region there. and there have been times when we talked about being united with them and fighting isis and terror elements there. but they do have different interests in that region when it comes to assad and whether he stays or goes. they have a foothold that we allowed them to get. they re not going to give that up very easily. iran is the same way. now they re trying to connect this crescent that goes through iraq over the land to lebanon so that they can counter or attack isai israel. we also have turkey. you ve got a lot going on. well, and congressman, i ll bring you in here to talk about turkey and the fact that that s an important part of this whole conversation. yeah. turkey s important. everything that s going on there is important. what you have right now in syria is this resting place of i don t want to use the term empires, but great and super powers, including you us. this is not the old soviet un n union. as mike pompeo mentioned the other day, we killed 200 russian mercenaries. we pushed back lethal weapons to ukraine. and my guess is, it is beyond what putin expected and now i would guess he wishes he never entered syria in the first place, but it will be hard to extract himself. people saying that the president wanted to be much more aggressive in moving forward. and yet the generals were cautioning him. they don t want to escalate things with russia beyond any necessary point. they ve done precision targeted strikes and yet some worry about the broader message to russia. the president not only called them and iran out tonight, he said this. he referenced 2013 and he said putin promised to guarantee the eliminate nation of these weapons. and basically said, this would not have happen, what happened last week, if putin had kept his word. multiple ways in which the president is trying to put pressure on the russian leader. we were assured by john kerry that they didn t have these capabilities during the obama administration. so it wasn t even within the realm of possibility. but what is also i think very striking is the change in the approach from donald trump. just about a week ago, the president was talking about pulling out of our troops. and others were expressing concern, hey, do we really do that and leave that power vacuum there. again, a very difficult situation on how to find that right balance. but think of the contrast between a week ago what president trump was trying to do, which is bring our troops home, which is where i think his heart is, but then you see the problem in doing so and leaving a vacuum where the iranians and russians want to fill that vacuum. there are a lot of people who say the president just signalled days ago he was going to get us out of this mess in syria, and then this chemical weapons attack happens, drawing the u.s. back in, knowing we can t look away from this. there s some things you just cannot not get involved in, when we re talking about innocent women and children and men being attacked by their own leader. why would assad act in this way? we have our leaders on the record saying they re convinced it was him, that he acted. france and the uk are saying the same. and let me give president trump credit where it s due. on the one hand, he s constantly being beat up for being soft on russia. this doesn t look soft on russia to me. syria and assad is absolutely 100% a client state, a surrogate of russia. they are armed by the russians. they ve russian equipment. they are trained by the russians. if putin wanted to stop this today, he could do so. so the president is rightly calling the russians out for this atrocity. he also gets beat up in the media and other places for not being a humanitarian and not caring about humanity. and by all reports, multiple reports, he was incredibly emotionally moved by what was going on with this chemical attacks and the brutal suffering that people undergo, women and children. and yet the previous administration, obama did nothing. and then the third criticism you hear is that he doesn t listen to anyone. in this case, he wanted to take a much stronger stand and have a much broader strike, but his general officer stepped in and urged caution, given the escalation potential with russia, and he listened to him. and we now have a very measured strike. assad is a brutal thug that is using any weapon at his disposal. we have a genocide here that i think history will look back on second only to the holocaust. and i don t mean to be hyp hyperbolic by saying this. and just watching what happened over the scale of seven or eight years now, those numbers continue to grow. and in case you re just now joining us, we re continuing in our breaking news tonight. u.s. military attacks on syria have been carried out, along with our allies in the uk and france. president trump spelled out the purpose in a prime time white house address. he says these precision missile strikes are meant to do one thing: establish a global deterrent against the use of chemical weapons. they are convinced there is proof that assad has used them against his own people multiple times, including last week. let s go back to jennifer griffin. hi, shannon. well, defense secretary mattis joined britain and france in saying that he is certain that assad used chemical weapons on his own people. he said that he received the evidence of that yesterday. defense secretary mattis was joined by chairman of the joint chiefs joe dunford. they spoke about one hour after the strikes began at 9:00 pm eastern. the strikes are over for now and involved three targets. a scientific research center in damascus. there was a chemical storage facility that s about a two-hour drive north of damascus. it is also syria s third largest city. and the third site was a chemical storage facility. the goal, he said, was to stop chemical weapons use and the r&d and infrastructure was destroyed as a result. they lost expensive chemical weapons precursors and equipment. this was a one-time shot unless assad does not get the message. clearly, the assad regime did not get the message last year. this time our allies and we have struck harder. together, we have sent a clear message to assad and his murderous lieutenants, that they should not perpetrate another chemical weapons attack, for which they will be held accountable. british tornado war planes took off for cyprus. the u.s. donald cook, a navy destroyer which had about 75 tomahawks on board, was also involved. about twice the munitions as last year were used to send the message. here s what he said moments ago. the president has the authority to use military force overseas to defend important united states national interests. the united states has vital national interest in diverting a worsening catastrophe in syria. general dunford said there were no reports of any allied losses. he also said that there was some initial surface to air missile activity from the syrian regime, none from the russian regime however. no russian air defenses seem to have been involved. there was no prenotification of the targets that were going to be struck to the russians, but general dunford did say that they did use the deconfliction hot line. they ve done so in the past. he said this wave of air strikes is over. mattis said, i am confident the syrian regime used chemical weapons. he said they were confident that chlorine had been used and possible sarin gas. fox news was the first to report that b-1 bombers were used in the strike as well. chemical weapons facilities were the only targets. they wanted to minimize the civilian casualties. thank you very much. and by the way, you re looking at live pictures there in syria as it is dawn there. the sun is coming up and folks are looking to see, and they will soon have more of an opportunity to see what happened overnight, what damage as been sustained. and we ll learn more, as we understand that it is dawning there in syria and we ll soon get a look at the results of the attacks coordinating in response to that chemical attack last weekend. meanwhile, the president announcing the move tonight. also, a couple of other shakeups on the national security team this week. well, shannon, great to see you. remember, this president campaigned as someone who would not be an interventionist if elected. about a year ago, did in fact intervene in syria before all this because of another chemical weapons attack. at that time, the president saying the images he had seen on television and elsewhere led him to believe that that the assad regime needed to get a message tonight. they re getting a much stronger message. in fact, as we see damascus getting smacked. this president also talked a lot in the campaign and the early days of this administration about the fact that he felt president obama, his predecessor, made a big mistake by laying out that red line in syria back in 2012, saying that if assad used chemical weapons, that would be a red line and the u.s. would have to respond with action. when president obama did not follow through on that after assad used chemical weapons, donald trump as an outsider attacked him, has since brought that up in recent days again. tonight, he tried to lay out his own rationale for why he s accusation acting now. establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the united states. the combined american, british, and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power: military, economic, and diplomatic. you mentioned that new national security team. the small group of reporters say that john bolton along with sarah sanders, but that john bolton was reading along with the president, line by line to the side as he delivered those remarks. contrast that with mattis, the defense secretary, who has been urging more caution. we ll check back in shortly. thank you very much. there s been this ongoing debate about whether the president needs congressional authorization to do what he s done tonight in syria. he s tracking all the response from both sides of the aisle. paul ryan praised the united states military for taking decisive active in syria. we are resolved. his regime s unconscionable brutally cannot be tolerated. pinpointed limited action to punish and deter assad from doing this again is appropriate. the lawmakers need more information to determine the scope and effectiveness on this action. the commander in chief must outline the mission. in syria today, we cannot answer those basic fundamental questions. so to have a commander in chief who refuses to give that kind of guidance is a disservice to our country, our constitution, and to our troops on the ground. now, house speaker paul ryan has said he thinks the president has the authority under preexisting military authorizations. he says he s worried about tying the militaries hands when they re facing threats around the globe, including groups like isis. mattis made it clear yesterday that the administration doesn t feel they need the authority. i disagree. i think that the misreading of the constitution. i also think we ve strained the 9/11 aumf to its breaking point. i ve got an idea, keep us here over the weekend. congress is not expecting to be here over the weekend. we ll see whether there s appetite to debate and ultimately vote or whether lawmakers prefer to look the other way and allow the commander in chief to do what he feels is necessary. live for us on capitol hill tonight. thank you, mike. we re getting reaction at this hour there now russia and syria. they ve been called out. iran as well, by this president. what are we hearing tonight? yeah, absolutely. we were watching with reaction from the russian government. they claim these strikes are an attack against them. syria right now is the battle ground for a number of different conflicts and a few proxy wars that are ongoing there. it will russian ambassador to the united states has just provided a statement. again, we are being threatened. we warned that such actions will not be left without consequences. insulting the president of russia is unacceptable. now, over the past several days, the uk, the u.s., france, and others have fought with russia at the united nations security council over there. russia has denied it and blamed the british government for staging it. the u.s. says that russians enabled the syrian government to carry out these attacks. it also says it normalized chemical weapons use, which is the reason they push back in these manner. but just yesterday in his senate confirmation hearing, the secretary of state mike pompeo knowledging publicly that the u.s. military has already killed russians. those russians were mercenaries fighting with forces there. now, russian, iran, and turkey met last week to discuss the future of syrian. the iranian government has yet to react from this. but we are getting a tweet from the syrian government. this is a translation from the associated press saying, good souls will not be humiliated. while pompeo waits for his confirmation vote in the u.s. senate, sullivan is down in peru at an international summit. tonight at the state department. thank you very much. we re going to take you back to our military and government experts so we can check in with them. thank you all for sticking around with us. there was a caution tonight from secretary of defense mattis. he said, we know that as the sun comes up there and things are assessed, there will be a disinformation campaign. what do you expect to see? you expect to see the russians continuing to question whether the assad regime was responsible. i think you re going to see perhaps claims of civilian casualties. you re going to also maybe even see claims of russians being harmed or killed. and then i would not be surprised if you also saw claims of american planes, british or french planes being shot down in this kind of boisterous display of russian and syrian prowess. another point that i want to make that s also watching this very closely as the sun comes up, is north korea and kim parts and supplies moving from north korea into syria. it s worth remembering that the israelis bombed a nuclear reactor in syria. well, and that brings me to his comments. in part, he says this. president trump opted to sustain the attacks if assad doesn t learn his lesson. they might want to learn the easy way. so how much do you think, as michael talked about, this was a message beyond just syria? well, i believe in the message of peace through strength. i think a strong united states of america, when you have a strong president who will actually do what he says, it makes a difference and makes the world more peaceful. look at what happened with barack obama. he drew a red line, they went over it, and he did nothing and the world became less and less safe. you can t trust the russians. they went went into georgia. so you can t trust the russians. you have iranians who have nefarious intentions. we gave them over $100 billion in a ridiculous deal with iran. and now you ve got president trump, who is going to be viewed by the world, that he will actually do what he says he s going to do. and that makes the world a safer place. no one wants to see the military action, but blame that on assad and those supporting him. and they need to know that donald trump will actually take action. we ve heard a lot of talk tonight about the fact that he campaigned about a lot of people voted for him on the fact that he would extricate from a lot of places overseas. tonight he said this. he said, america does not seek an indefinite presence in syria under no circumstances. as other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home, and great warriors they are. you continue to be one of them. how important do you think that part of the message was tonight? i think it s a good part of the message. we do want to get out of these places. we want the afghan government to stand up on its own and govern itself and our men and women come home. we want to say in iraq and syria. it s interesting though, getting behind the desk of the oval office is a very sobering position. and sitting down and realizing that there are massive strategic objectives out there, that the united states plays a vital role in, is very sobering. and seeing in syria people choking to death on gas. that has a different impact on you when you re the president. knowing that the iranians are on the doorstep of israel has a very sobering effect to you. and i think the president has responded very well to this burden of leadership. and america as a unique role to play. he said it s a very troubled place in middle east. but america can go around and purge the whole world of evil. but the fate of the region lies in the hands of its own people. absolutely. i love that quote, too. the fate of the region lies in the hands of its own people. they need to take some responsibility, or all of it, for their region. there seems to be a recurring theme here of our intervention, whether it s the west europe or united states, is putting a different dynamic in place that s causing a lot of the chaos or at least contributing to it. so we need to try and extricate ourselves from it. the embassy here in the u.s. saying we have warned that such actions will not will left without consequences. all responsibility for them rests with washington, london, and paris. but we know that they did all of the normal back channeling that you do when you have to deconflict and area. they said they didn t coordinate with the russians. but it sounds like we were very careful to make it clear to them, get your people out of there, get away from certain targets. we don t want to escalate this beyond what we have to. when you hear this from the russians, is it just talk to look tough with their own people? do you think there is some understanding between these two powers? we re trying to keep this from turning into anything more than it has to be. they have a domestic audience as well. and putin is a master at and he s been playing maybe a pair of nines at best the last decade. the economy s in shambles. their military, except for a very small elite force, is antiquated and still in a conscript, all draft force. this is a lot of bluff. but there are some very real considerations. and those were some of secretary mattis s concerns. we do have about 2,000 soldiers on the ground that we had to consider. we also had a number of ships out in the mediterranean, the russians in both their naval and their air bases now have put their most sophisticated missile systems that can project anti-denial territory type of strategy where they can essentially push our ships and also our aircraft off with these missile systems. there was a lot to consider here. and that s where i thought you were getting some caution and secretary mattis putting his foot on the brakes a little bit. please stick with us. i want to check in with kristen fisher. she is here now with more on how britain and france have gotten involved, what they re saying tonight. president trump made it clear that the u.s. is not going it alone in syria, that this is a coordinated effort with our allies. and the president has spoken repeatedly this week with may and macron and over the last 24 hours and 48 hours, they ve been mulling over their options. and all three are defending their decision to take military action. macron said, the red line has been cross. so i ordered the french armed forces to intervene tonight as part of an international operation and coalition with the united states of the network and the united kingdom and directed at the clandestine chemical arsenal of the syrian regime. she said it was not a decision that she took lightly. she s received a lot of opposition to it. but she really didn t feel like she had a choice, that syria had crossed the line. and she put out a statement that said, there is no practical alternative to the use of force by the syrian regime. this is not about intervening in a civil car. it is about a limited and targeted strike. so from may to macron to secretary mattis at the pentagon, we are hearing that this is a limited targeted strike aimed at the assad regime and not at russia or iran. back to our military experts now. it s interesting that we re getting reaction from both sides of the aisle. it s kind of a mixed bag. some who think that the administration needs to be talking to congress for any further authorization. chuck schumer is praising limited action to punish and deter him from doing this again. but he says he s cautioning the administration into getting us further into syria. and we know that the president has said that s something he doesn t want. there s some conflict in some of the message. i can almost look at these as two separate events, our involvement in syria that s been ongoing with isis, and then a limited strike response to a chemical weapons usage. and i think if we separate those, let s get a handle on it and make this very measured, narrow, and well-defined this is about the chemical weapons. it s about syria s use. everything else is a different problem set. they bleed over, but let s try and separate these for now. we need to have the larger objectives. what are we trying to do? and there is a lot of dissonance on that. there s been a lot of disagreement. there even was to the level of what this strike would be. i m sure you ve heard much more of the inside chatter than i have. but it sounds like it was coming to a head with the president wanting to do something aggressive and his generals saying let s be precise about this. he has great respect for the military. he s made that clear. but when it came down to it, it seems like this is potentially a compromise between the two. in the words of george w. bush, ultimately the president is the decider. it s the president s decision. and i think that needs to be very clear here, too. i do want to talk about something quickly very broadly, which is the whole idea of syria. there s a lot of talk about let s stay out of syria and not do anything. the reason isis exists right now is because of bashar al-assad s brutality. so i think this was a very important move by the president tonight, but long term, these are strategy talks that we re going to have to have as americans. but there s no doubt that tonight it sucks to be russian because they got embarrassed and i think we made a very strong statement. something else we heard from the pentagon tonight, mattis, who has been pressed this week to step up and say that this was assad using chemical weapons on his own people. he said that they are fairly confident that there was chlorine gas used, yes. they re not ruling out sarin. but for now he said this is a one-time strike. we ll see if assad tries again with chemical weapons. and this was completely tied to the issue of chemical weapons and not any broader issues with isis or anything else with ashad assad s regime. yeah, i do think we pour a lot of money in this country. the american people fund a lot of intelligence. this is where you have to have the very best intelligence. you ve got your satellites that are engaged. and then the human intelligence to make sure you re making the proper decision, that you know where those targets are. sometimes it s hard to see in the future when you spend literally billions of dollars to do that. if we knew about these three facilities before this chemical attack happened, why didn t we take it out before it was used? assad has supposedly over the last year, there are 30 different accounts, some verified, some a little iffy, where there were potentially chemical weapons used. maybe what we ought to be doing is something a little bit more proactive. they don t even have that capable. secretary john kerry told us they didn t have this capability, but obviously they did. now we have a whole other situation. michael, to you, russia and iran have put down some serious roots there. it has moved and it has metastasized. what is to be left of syria? how does this eventually come to any kind of resolution, political, military, or otherwise? we ve talked a lot tonight about russia s involvement with syria. and i mentioned a while ago that the syrians are armed and particularly their military is largely aligned with russia both tactically, and from an equipment standpoint. but make no mistake. iran is equally to blame here. and spiritually, particularly with the there is a close alignment, very close alignment with iran. there are weekly flights to damascus, some say even daily flights. iran has its irgc and army on the ground, along with other militias that they re shipping in from afghanistan and other parts of the middle east. i am absolutely thrilled to see the president explicitly call iran and russia out for this behavior and they are 100% responsible. how does all of this end and where does it go? i think we have to at some point, iran and russia have to be responsible actors theory and move this country and move this conflict towards some type of peaceful resolution. but, dave, does that serve their interests? i think russia can be pragmatic. so russia can sit sl sit there and say, what am i going to gain and lose from this? iran has established themselves on an their goal is to destroy israel. that s not russia s goal. it s to expand its influence in the region. so they re looking at this as strategically positioning of their forces and expanding their influence. iran, no. you can influence via stick only. and that could be economic, too. and, shannon, this is also key as we re heading into key
the u.k. over brexit? julian joins me. we ll talk about donald trump and kim jong-un. plus swamp watch. but you may not know about the european union that will blow your mind. you will see clearly while the u.k. voted to walk away. later, you ll get a receipt as i take you on a tour of some of my favorite spots right here in london. let s get to it. joining me here s cohost of america s newsroom, sondra smith and douglas. the director of the data analytical company. sondra, i m so happy you could join us. coming up on the first year anniversary of the show. you are there on our first show. i m so thrilled that were in this incredible setting. you have been covering the wedding over the last few days and during the ceremony, what are your reflections? there is love in celebration they have the power to change the world. they re going to get to work this week. steve: there so much and we ll talk about all the time. these things that divide us and people getting so angry about politics and everything. even the skeptics are not that convinced about the real family. there s something about the fact that everybody was so happy. i feel like in you know you can people either love the royal family or they do not. those that are obsessed with following the close from the pageantry of the family. sometimes it six applican extra. but the world could look on and appreciate them expressing their love in a public way. royal weddings have taken on a much more public nature. william and harry are so immensely popular and respected for their military service. their love for their mothers that they lost at a young age. that they snuck out of the catholicastle the day before juo greet those who are gathered. they talk to kids and. steve: the theme of the show is positive populism. the wedding is a hundred% positive. an address was stunning. a lot 11 the wedding. but let s talk about some of the news we been covering. not a lot of love going on right now between europe and the u.s. over the iran deal. just while the celebrations were being prepared here on friday, european leaders got together and decided to take a completely different view on the iran deal. to basically try to keep it a live. seems to me there s something going on with the e.u. and trump. whatever he is for they are against. we see a profound difference in outlook between the european elites in the united states. in europe, the ruling elite likes to think in terms of post nationalism. only if they were reasonable to them what they be reasonable back. there s a lot of self-interest. french and german companies with very fat contracts. steve: we covered that last week. you re right. there s a huge financial interest. so there s some naivety on the self-interest. combined let s taking them in a dangerous place. your believe somehow if it allows the deal to continue it will contain a threat. we know actually the deal signed wasn t much of a deal at all. iran agreed to pause nuclear weapons but it did not stop or put an end to it. we can see that iran has some proxy wars and that s a denial. steve: that s at the president a point he made. what about this attempt will they get anywhere? i think they ll have to give up. no european company is going to run afoul of the united states. we seen some in this no-nonsense approach from america. i don t think any european company will want to part of that. the leaders of france and germany we seem go to washington to deal with donald trump. but if you do business with iran you re going to get in trouble. that was an interesting relationship developing their. america got a glimpse of th that. when they first invented macron and the president was knocking something up his shoulder and said i want you to look perfect you are perfect. there is a friendly nature but we knew why he was there to urge the president to stay in the steel. and then michael says it s not perfect but it s what we have. that was his case as well. as what we have now we can work on something better for the future. so what happens to that relationship? with macron in the president? so friendly but clearly the president is putting his foot down. it s great that they get along but europe is going to have to shift their position. the united states has an orthodox approach and i think europe will have to shift. steve: some people say that s how it will turn out the real outcome is that the chinese and russians are going to get in there. china is going to want to do business. i believe india does business with iran. the united states is looking at what s in the interest of the united states. ultimately you have to recognize have to pay attention to that. as the united states is putting your defense bill. that s a great point. going back to macron, she did not come to this president for some to try sam. will be fascinating to see how the president continues to react and respond with the european nations. a lot of the elites in europe believe the rest the world is going to become like the european union, and the reality is, iran and china and the rest of the world is nothing like the european union. i think they will have to adapt. i don t think that s what people want. this is been a huge opportunity for the president to grow his relationship with the world leaders in a public way. we ve all been watching what the future the deal will be. i think marco made her views on this very clear a macron talking about the businesses in the threats that we are hearing coming from that. it will be something to watch. steve: there s many times and form policy in the west that trump is a great disruptor. perhaps it s making people challenge the assumptions about how to handle north korea, iran and many issues around the world. steve: that seems to be the way it s going. the notion of really upending the traditional way of doing things is key. maybe the experts in the state department got it wrong. steve: imagine that. thank you so much. jillian is 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but we won t get there without you. visit alz.org to join the fight. steve: it feels like the history making some of between president trump a north korean leader is on for next month. that s after the threats from north korea to back out. over tests in the area and denuclearization. what to a stand to gain up the summit happens? joining me now we have former white house national security jillian turner. we have been here thinking about the wedding and getting excited but a lot happen on north korea. there are developments that were significant. the president finally nominated an ambassador to south korea whose the current commander of the the form policy community washington rejoice because they been calling for the administration to do this for months. that finally happened. i will take some pres pressure f the president. if the summit goes for the president plans to raise the issue of cyber hacking with kim jong-un directly. that means we ve known for years that north korea is a cyber menace to the u.s. and they poke around in our electric grids and hack e-mails. but the president committing to racists brings it up a level makes it a top-tier national security issue. the other major development is that the united states diverted some of our planes from the airspace that was with the north koreans. that was trying to pull them back in so the june 12 summit can go forward. people jumped on the spat over those exercises. that trump doesn t know it is doing is falling apart. they were gleefully jumping. when that happens you think maybe his strategy is working. there is a piece and foxnews.com that explored why north korea is acting up, because the president has them in a corner. it could be assigned the president strategy is working. absolutely. it s his it s a scenario where the song has been sung many times before for like 20 years. it could go either way. i don t think anyone who tells me they know the outcome knows what they re talking about. the more you know the more you don t know. but for the back-and-forth gestures away every little move is so important is because were still technically at war with north korea. the korean war of the 1950s ended without a peace treaty in place. we back south korea and it leaves us in a perpetual state of the default for us is that were enemies. the president really wants this to happen though. i think it s become his number one priority. i get the sense from covering the administration that it s become his number one. the president made really clear that he did not agree with the comparison of the national security advisor john bolton made around libya he said it will be like libya not to not end well. the president said no. he said the goal is for north korea to become a normal, rich country. that s a smart take on it. that would be something that would appeal to kim jong-un to get back into the normal life of a prosperous country. when kim jong-un hear something like that he ll think i ll end up deposed and possibly doug, this is not what i signed up for. of course there will be problems. i was surprised to see hear them say that. then were left wondering if it does happen what gets accomplished. what is made public as we all anticipate the details of it. i think we would love to be a fly on the wall. i was thinking that for this particular meeting it s almost as if what the president says coming out of the meeting matters more than what actually happens in the meeting. when you have the bumps in the road toward the summit. like the secrecy of the meeting before the confirmation hearing, it s amazing what led up to this. i just get this strong sense that the president s critics for which we know there are many, whatever they say they want this to fail. they don t want the president to have the incredible, unexpected triumph. i don t know. if this meeting happens i would think the president would be wildly praised for getting this done. even with bumps along the road at many times it looked like it was not working and it was getting really messy. a question i was asked was is the summit a success in and of it so. meaning if they leave the summit and they say it went well but nothing happens on the tail end of it, and that happens a lot. does that still qualify as a success because it s the first time a president has met with the dictator. steve: the fact that they are sitting down talking is incredible. it s interesting because if we don t get total denuclearization out of the north koreans it leaves, not a staying, but maybe a check mark in kim jong-un s corner because the president has stated it is a goal. with all the uncertainty into world leaders who are effective of keeping their cards and their bag. they do not display or broadcast the next moves. we are left wondering a lot of things. you said when we got down here, just don t know. steve: that s what makes it so fascinating. we will keep talking about it. it s very unexpected development that he could be on the brink of something historic in an area nobody has gotten into. of the president has put a lot of steak in his relationship with world leaders. and he puts a lot into it with his own powers of persuasion. that will be interesting to see in this case as well. when mike pompeo left the meeting with kim jong-un not really praising him but say he seems like a different guy. steve: i remember him saying that we can do business with that, with the sky. it s a defining moment. thank you both for being here. one of the leading proponents of the brexit movement joins me after the break. later, swamp watch takes on the shady e you. stay tuned. sleep plays a huge role in my life because no two days are alike. on my tempur-pedic, the sleep i get is better than any other mattress i ve ever tried. i recommend my tempur-pedic to everybody. the most highly recommended bed in america. now ranked highest in customer satisfaction with mattresses by jd power, and number one in comfort, 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they can t wait to investigate everyone else, they can afford it. the campaign found shocking expenses by the european officials. in a single year they spent a quarter million on quartering, 23000 on chauffeurs, and over 1000 chocolate. they re trying to cover up their spending was shady accounting. they spent 54000 euros at hotels and labeled it commission policy and legal advice. when they spent over 3000 euros they describe it as agriculture and rural development. and when the science officials spent 22000 euros at a hotel they called it direct research. direct fraud more like. the whistleblower found 130 million pounds discrepancy between two sets of hooks in 2001. she tried to raise the alarm with the bookkeeping. she was fired. that s one of many corruption scandals that have plagued the e.u. in recent years. in 2012, john valley resigned in and influence peddling accusation over politicization over an 18 million-dollar kickback from the tobacco industry while overseeing tobacco -. goldman sachs investigated and are now looking into a meeting with european commissioner vice president in late 2017 to discuss trade and defense issues. a meeting they said was personal and private. rights. here s another example, in marcd in the third step down after a british newspaper reported they agree to propose legislation in return for bribes. it would not be a proper swamp without a vast lobbying industry. they published a report but it was so damaged that they tried to delete it from the internet. according to the report, in 2015 there over 8000 registered lobbyist associated with the european union. the lobbying transparency was actually they only register if they feel like it. so the estimate of 8000 lobbyist is likely underestimated. the corporate europe observatory says there s between 15 and 30,000 lobbyist. a 2015 report found you officials recorded over 4000 meetings with lobbyist and six months. including google, general electric and others. the lobby fact website says top ten companies spent a combined total of 39 million euros every year. that s just reported on a voluntary basis. the revolving door spinning around nicely. an organization found 50%, half of all those working in the biggest lobbying firms previously worked in one of the e.u. institutions. from 2009 - 2010, six out of 13 departing commissioners move from public office into corporate or lobbying jobs. no wonder they tried to delete this after is published. that s what they mean by the right to be forgotten data loss. european union has a hard time reconciling the interests of the united states. guess what they came up with two promote corporation and common identity? 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talks a big game. but what s he done? a chicago lawyer? huh? thirteen losing campaigns - seven in illinois? cox lost campaigns as a republican. and as a democrat. gave money to liberals. supported big tax increases. no wonder republicans say cox is unelectable in november. no wonder republicans say marshall tuck will change that. in california, 3 million kids can t read at grade level. tuck turned around struggling schools, raising graduation rates over 60%. marshall tuck for state superintendent. marshall tuck. steve: welcome back. working to discuss tonight swamp watch in the e.u. i think this is all corruption you have to look at the accountability. most people don t know where the money is going. here were seen the very same thing. is captured by the big business and so on. a lot of what we see is big business going to brussels lobbing the rulemaking and getting things made on diesel recognition and doing it because they want to make the world a better place. what you re really doing is making sure they get commercial advantage using the regulatory system in the beltway to read the rules for their advantage. let of ordinary businesses and people feel like they re excluded from the process. it s not just morally corrupt and bad for the environment, i think it s making the economy less competitive. one of the reason why is there s fewer jobs in the center of the world economy it s now the back. all of these regulations are making them a bad place to do business. a lot of the arguments he made in your book, loved your book. rebel, how to overthrow the oligarchy. so tell us the main argument. i think populism is a good thing. the problem is were told by the elite that populism is problem. the way the elite rigged the economy is what is the underlying problem. there s a number of parliament that after 12 years the political processes rigged by career politicians. i felt bad every month getting a paycheck from the taxpayer. i felt bad about as a libertarian and wrong as a taxpayer. we have all these things that they think you re entitled to have these things at the public expense. no wonder they are in favor of mark government high taxes and telling us what today. steve: this aligns neatly with the growth and big government. how do you see it? we had to find how tax money is wasted. infrastructure projects very much wasted. it s unfair to taxpayers kids ordinary people who work hard just want to pay their taxes and even when the state does things that appear to be good what they re doing and i discovered this is there subsidizing the payroll a big corporation by subsidizing those who pay low wages. in the united states and in europe we see welfare programs where governments take tax mon money. when i was a new member i thought it was a good thing and i wanted to live in a world where people are not struggling to pay their bills every week. what s going on is governments are encouraging big employees to pay their staff low wages and hoping the taxpayer will top the amount subsidizing low wages. i think that s the root cause of problems we have. the collaboration between big government and big corporation to keep wages low and top them out. steve: you all have to buy his book. it s really important. next a go on a tour of some of my favorite spots in london. please join us after the break. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. where we re changing withs? 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i do, that s right. julia roberts was down here. this is it? this is it. i used to come here all the time, close to where we used to live. it s owned and run by english heritage, anyone can come free, it has rembrandts and it s in the beautiful location. every morning when i lived here, i used to live down there, i d go for a run, and it was so special to be able to do that. especially when you think about the view you get from here. i know you went on the london eye, nice view of london, but nothing like that view. wow! that is what you call a view. this is the only place you can basically see the entire city laid out. beautiful. steve: so amazing. i could run. right? steve: we ll be talking of running, if you are thirsty. let s go get a drink. steve: i think that s a good idea. i ve always loved where we are, it s right at the heart of north london. all the time i lived in london, this is where i lived, my friends were around here and it was fantastic, and this is the pub we re going to go to, it is so special, and i would love walking up here and you see it. this is so great, yes! this is your life? steve: yes, this is where i used to hang out. we are in your favorite pub why. is that? steve: so many amazing memories. 20 or so years i lived in london. loads of different times we come here in the evening or the weekend. one special story that comes to mind? steve: one of the more recent was just before i moved to america, and i remember just being here and i remember rachel, my wife, calling. she told me our second son, in fact, was a boy. we didn t know the sex of our child and i got the news. it s a boy. so it s a very special memory. but there s so many from this place. you came in here and got another pint. steve: exactly. speaking of which, i think it s time we had a drink. okay. when we walked in here, steve, you were giving me advice about the beer. steve: anyone coming to london and wants to order a pint of this delicious beer, you cannot say a pint of london pride, you have to order a pint of pride. a pint of pride. steve: pretty spot on. teach us how to pour. 45 degrees just under the nozzle. you don t want it spilling out. you do one good firm pour. there we go. a little bit more. that s pretty good. here we go! cheers to pride. cheers to pride! that is all tonight from windsor. my thanks to our panel, chloe wesley and gillian turner. you can learn more about the next revolution by following us at next week turning point usa candace owens will be one of our guests, back in los angeles. i m steve hilton. see you next sunday when the next revolution will being televised.
eighty one after a long illness while the news was announced by her personal assistant when mandela was the ex-wife of the late president and anti apartheid icon nelson mandela her legacy in south africa was mixed for decades she was long admired as a determined fighter against white minority rule in south africa but women to his reputation began to suffer and later years due to a number of controversy still she does remain one of south africa s most of fining figures and tributes have been pouring in for her this is what one member of the current government had to say she was really it was. solved in african names. is the sea deep our evolutionary pain. of this great i call of regimes drug. serfontein is a south african journalist author and documentary filmmaker she has reported extensively on her country thank you so much mr serfontein for being here with us who was winnie mandela well she s obviously in the former wife of nelson mandela but she was so sort of a very strong figure in a own right she was a social worker one of the street to go and study in the united states in the nineteen fifties and married to mandela. and then off to he went to prison and she became the voice. of nelson mandela because he was in prison and with twenty seven years she kept his legacy alive and i strongly believe without him he would have not have been that i can he became my so it s about that because she s been so tainted in the past couple of years but this is a very interesting point you think that well everyone was in prison the a.n.c. was in exile his organization he was in prison his comrades when prison and she was still there and they slammed her with banning orders but she kept on breaking her book banning old is she kept on speaking up she was beautiful she was well spoken and she was not scared of anyone she was really feeling and that got into trouble in later because no one could control her not to watch apartheid government the nato not to see that she was when he was one of the most fearless people have ever met fearless woman fearless activist you know her personally what kind of impression that should make on you know well she was incredibly charming on a one to one and you know like if you would speak to her you had the full attention and she was just the sort of very charismatic person more so than when they re lively she just had. this charm and with charm people but then when she was angry she just always have vicious as one is seen in the townships and that when she confronted the security police right so where did it all go wrong i mean you refer to it already shared this fierceness which couldn t couldn t be bound i think when they benish ten nine hundred seventy seven to bring forward to an area which she didn t speak the language where people would politicised and she was very very isolated and she did start to have a drinking problem and i think that broke in addition to have early as sort of spells in detention which she was sort of kept without trial for eighteen months and raped in that time and that must have broken her just when the people were not treated for post-traumatic stress syndrome in those days so she was a very lonely person when she was invented and she spent about nine years. she was also been active being a social worker she started like feeding. feeding the people. organizing them getting sort of activities for the trold wron getting foreign governments to fund have projects so she was also very eco active but she was very lonely in that time and i think that broken in she went back to see a way to she was surrounded by the wrong people she was not a with the judge the best judge of people s character a very complex history of a complex woman what will her legacy be i think her legacy would be that at the time when everyone was in prison or when exiled she kept the legacy of the anti-apartheid struggle alive for many many years all to great extent be aren t only answer from time south african journalist talking to us about the legacy of the now late winnie mandela thank you. all right and other news reports are coming in from see. that rebel fighters are leaving their last stronghold in isa hotel syrian media showed us is said to be carrying militants and their families leaving the area persian forces say they ve cut a deal with the largest rebel group the army of islam but some members of the group deny that sources also tell the news that hundreds of wounded fighters from a different group have been bussed out of the area it s on now an anti government and activist and citizen journalist nor adam has sent news exclusive footage of video diaries showing the final days of rebel control in the besieged area. different species. you can. see it for us they force us to leave that s our goal. that s where we are. they destroy our. our goal how do you conceive that suction this terrible. thing to now there are families. that are of going to have this thing. going now we are actually. we don t know really getting back to that what we were what he was doing. our city is how we fight i would do if i didn t know what happened to the feeling like oh. i was being arrested for any of this and jane and oh exactly it s going to be done there i should and the us and them to see our we know we ve. got three countries feel the power of all the court going to the fight. and russia . as. my mrs. did you. instead of. yes if i write. my dad he. said simply. i ve been lost like more than twenty five or twenty six right. and right now. a lot of them is going. for nothing but it is my life i want to sponsor the taliban for the sick winds. and to say it s a. window that is going for nothing. personnel a video diary out of some hotel there all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world. israel says it has agreed to deal with the united nations on resettling thousands of african asylum seekers israel had faced criticism for previous plans to send the migrants back to africa and mass forty one percent then in the previous presidential election critics also argue as sisi had just one opponent a token candidate to give the election the appearance of a genuine contest opposition groups that called for a boycott of the vote. well with voters handing a second term to president have to have sisi what does this mean for the arab world s most populous nation going forward ruth michaelson is a correspondent based in cairo and she will be able to provide us with some contacts was this a vote by egyptians for a sisi or for stability in the country. well government and c.c. himself bill this vote as a vote as a vote for civility a vote for the country a kind of vote for egyptian patriotism as a whole but of course high turnout for turnout of any kind benefits he says will he wanted a strong mandate going into his second term in office to be able to push through further reforms perhaps even constitutional little ones we saw that there was forty why i m just on forty one percent turnout which is about a four percent dip from cc s last victory in twenty forty but he got roughly the same amount of votes ninety six point nine percent in twenty fourteen and this time around ninety seven point zero eight percent of the vote so roughly the same between twenty forty and now alone of course we have no way of knowing if these figures are correct all right now let s talk a little bit about what is ahead of him now egypt s economy is in dire straits inflation is pretty bad ordinary people are in area the gypsies are suffering many many hardships what has he promised to do to turn the economy around for his people . well we see that season at some. economic reforms following. egypt s acceptance of a twelve billion dollars loan from the international monetary fund twenty six and this led to the cutting of subsidies. to a subsidy there are. then widespread contemplation that he s going to cut subsidies including natural gas subsidies when we see a new budget. that there s no clear confirmation of that yet and c.d.c. is also frequently lent on the mega projects that egypt has enacted over the past couple of years and new capital city a second series cannot have a saying that these are going to bring prosperity to the country but that hasn t necessarily been the case just yet and there are a lot of people who are worst a whole society who say they re not seeing the benefits of any of these reforms just feeling the pinch. michael some reporting off from a cairo thank you. because presidential election has resulted in a resoundingly victory for the governing party the winner is also being seen as a victory for gay rights carlos over otto of the ruling citizen after party has vowed to legalize same sex marriage his opponent an evangelical pastor campaigned against gay marriage polls had predicted the runoff would be taped but in the end it wasn t even close. the crowd went wild when carlos alvarado was announced the winner. 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is a direct impact. it s absolutely right to impose tariffs because i ve seen the news about the us crapping trade deals with us it s right to fight back. the new tariffs are china s initial response to the u.s. move to slap tariffs on steel and alimony i m imports the u.s. is also threatening to impose further tariffs on sixty billion dollars worth of other chinese imports a year over what it terms the theft of intellectual property china by contrast is raising tariffs on about three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports. beijing says it will never submit if the u.s. launches a trade war and says that tariff increases are in line with world trade organization rules to protect its interests still the scale of china s new tariffs is modest the move looks more like a warning shot than a major counterattack the u.s. is china s largest single market a full blown trade war is the last thing china would want. now when it comes to rolling up its sleeves and doing some serious hard work portugal is a country that know something about that the financial crisis hurt austerity even mall. but the country pulled through and started spending again well before everything looks rosy growth is now two point seven percent so we took a trip to a warmer and brighter looking part of europe. business is going pretty well for eva organized his co-operative has been making wine since nine hundred fifty seven but sales haven t been this good for years. in the beginning there were only this part and then you have to upgrade it to increase the capacity then we. will double the capacity we ve put. just side by side because we are in the maximum capacity of production and we have more demand than with what can you produce around thirty people work on the cover where a cooperative. working conditions have improved for most portuguese in the past two years thanks to a raft of reforms including a higher minimum wage instead of starting economic growth it s accelerated it at least that s how 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a robbery in northern germany in twenty sixteen they thought to be the remaining members of the so-called red army faction and stop both cut and daniella cleta. they belong to the factions third generation they re pretty says a spot to national crisis in the one nine hundred seventy s. with attacks government blackmail murders and kidnappings terrorist activities peaked in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven with the murders of germany s federal prosecutor general secret blueback bank manager yogen panto and the kidnapping of the president of the german employers association hands martin the terrorist shot him dead germans clearly remember that wave of terror. despise what they believe the main topic on t.v. and in the newspapers it was as distressing as the islamic state activities are now the fashion it was a shock you just didn t think they would become as radicalized as they did about the student protests of nine hundred sixty eight defined germany s political climate at the time extreme left wing violence also took shape that year two department stores in frankfurt was set ablaze symbolic acts to protest against capitalism and dress but and could written ensley in took part in the crime they would later found lead the red army faction hans christian scribbler was an active member of the student movement who yelled apollo back then a.p.o. the non-governmental opposition students movement wasn t just a movement for revolutionary change in germany i also wanted that it was an international movement was. wrong and the left at the time sought self in that context. but some people a minute percentage said that we should not simply accept things that we had to take up arms. of. the buddah mine health group officially disbanded twenty years ago it s believed the trio s recent robberies were more likely carried out for the money than for political reasons discussions about the factions still divide germany today former conservative parliamentarian votes gangbuster worries that they may still hold a fascination for some up to us and no one can seriously claim that the end of the red army faction would also be the end of all if we need stream of lift to six trimix who are prepared to be violent so you should never say that chapter is closed forever on its. shriven of pleads for a more differentiated discussion. it would help us work through this history and a discussion about it today if people debated these incidents more calmly without blinders and without prejudice or do it for a laugh and laugh and. the red army factions wave of terror a shocked germany during that era the country was an agent ideologically divided even now the group s actions of the subject of passionate debate throughout the country. are now to something altogether different a very insidious puzzle in the southeastern corner of germany is experiencing it for a city the world s first museum devoted to ducks and they re known as the sausage dog opens its doors to the public while the museum s a founder says about time that sausage dog fans had a shrine dedicated to their beloved breed. excitement has been growing ahead of the museum s opening. man s best friend has already been having a sniff around the premises which is filled with some two thousand objects inspired by the sausage dog. museum founder and director is. a proud but very and can hardly believe no one came up with the idea before him. but often the world needs a sausage dog museum once captured the essence of bavaria you know the dog in the world enjoys the same kind of recognition or popularity here as a sausage dog. some of the pieces on display might be considered kitsch by most people but probably not for ducks and lovers. one of the more serious exhibit pays tribute to famous sausage dog lovers among them nobel physicist albert einstein and actor leonard nimoy better known as spock from star trek. there s even a drawing of the sausage dog sketched by none other than pablo picasso. and of course no museum would be complete without a gift shop visitors searching for the perfect souvenir for themselves or others and purchase a gift box that s sure to bring a smile to any sausage dog lover. i must say ok you re watching you have unusual still have a lot more to tell you about including life as an immigrant in saudi arabia some foreign workers are facing new arches because of country s ambitious reform program and frankish our files a rebel court of the kingdom on the cusp of change. that coming up and a whole lot more in just a few will be right back. meaning that it s connected to being realistic martin luther king jr. just legendary speech for our area. this edition of a society free of racism. was written in one dramatically good night on the fiftieth anniversary of his death the dream of martin luther king jr to. close up in forty five minutes to tell the truth. we may come over a week or times of office that found out that if we are the civil service or. the want to shape the continent s future or to. be part of it and join african youngsters of testing share their stories their dreams and their challenges. to seventy seven percent of the platform africa is charging. one hundred million tonnes of. devastating interest in its. mission to the consequences. the storm. coming to america two frequencies. one spin stuart. no stopping them. just starting to pull something d.w. . great to see you again you re watching the news these are main headlines right now sells the africa and the apartheid campaign when he mandela has died at the age of eighty one the ex-wife of the late president nelson mandela was seen by many as the mother of the nation but only years her legacy was tarnished by a number of controversies she died peacefully in a hospital after a long period of illness syrian state media says the rebel fighters have agreed to a deal to give up their last stronghold in near damascus eastern who took has been in rebel hands since the start of the conflict. china has slapped import tariffs on ports and a whole range of other u.s. imports the move comes after president trump imposed punitive terrorism on china u.s. stocks are down intriguing amid fears of a possible change for. saudi arabia is known as one of the world s most conservative societies but falling oil prices have hit the kingdom hard and that is triggering change his wallet was home on has unveiled an ambitious program of economical for known as vision twenty thirty thirty eight and our reporter funny for sure travel to saudi arabia to find out what his vision really me. riyadh is an international city a third of the population comes from abroad many of them manual workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall khan they once enjoyed is starting to fade . saudis first know that the saudi government s plan to reduce unemployment among native saudis employers who hire none so ds will have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example will be restricted to saudis only. foreigners will be banned from at least jobs. stores selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson male or. how does asian is a good idea there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. but he and a lot of service return from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners after their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from saudis. we are in a neighborhood in the south of the city it s a tough area most of the people here are foreign workers want to here is from bangladesh here i ve got a month ago to work in this shop learning how to assemble picture frames everything is getting more expensive in the salaries aren t enough for everyone it s hard to it s if that had to survive for the person s life for manual row course was never easy in saudi arabia just as in many parts of the world but falling oil prices have made it more difficult and as your prices doubled in a year pushing up prices and recently new taxes on basic goods added an extra burden it s even more to here has just finished his shift how many hours did you work today i swear words sixteen hours that s a lot. maybe it s a lot better and i need to do that for the salary he makes one thousand three hundred saudi ryall a month that s about three hundred fifty u.s. dollars on the way home he tells me he used to have a good life until his father got very sick. you know we lost our almost all of our money in his treatment so i just thought that i should come here to. keep them alive being the eldest in the family he border responsibility he dropped out of engineering studies and came to saudi arabia to earn money but it wasn t as easy as he had expected life is becoming more difficult for foreigners most of the people of other countries. and even here here s the cause. because there are now just and they can t live like that maybe my boss gave me a place to live. there was a not like that even some people don t have a job sometimes the slaves near the road don t have time money to buy food. i want to hear chooses not to show me the room he lives in with three others he doesn t want to get into trouble and be sent home he wants to stay as long as he can to make money for his family he s just one of millions of foreign workers in saudi arabia they are realizing though that the future here belongs to the saudis. some examples there of the work of iran the artist is surely in the shots who is the subject of our culture for our parts twenty one this week and there on your own mail is here from our culture desk i mean i have to disclaimer here she s one of my favorite artists i m so happy that we re talking about her today she lives in the u.s. how did she end up there tells us that well she went to study in nine hundred seventy five at the university of berkeley in california and in nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution happened and this was a real shock and it obviously changed the role of women in iran. immensely i mean overnight they became almost second class citizens the shots prevented her from going from britney and then in one thousand nine hundred she went back to iran eleven years later and that was actually what sparked it and you know how to create evictee as an artist and ever since it s her art that prevents her from returning because she often focus on the injustices especially of women in iran anyway let s find out more about this wonderful woman. in this truthful. it deals with contrasts between islam and the west men and women light and dark where reality segues into train. and sure enough shots work always uses the female voice. it s always this the ballots here in extremely fragile and vulnerable and yet extremely strong and defiant the female experience in iran was the subject of her first feature film women without men about four women seeking to escape their lives . that i. guess is that if i have. yes. in twenty seventeen nesha turned her focus to the world of opera when she directed aida for the salt spec festival. was an art are. sure initiates work is constantly evolving mirroring the trajectory of her life. werman tell us about her new film love that s coming out about a legendary egyptian the singer known as star of the orient yeah i d starve the audience just where you know she is better than me. i now i mean wonderful. was legendary in the twentieth century is even legendary to this day is the greatest singer ready of the middle east and apart from the film telling us about this extraordinary musician it shows the major sacrifices a woman had to make in islamic society if you want to be an artist of any car and. own cultural by the way is not outside the middle east by certain musicians bob dylan evidently is a big fan as is maria callas kind of even called her the woman with the in comparable voice let s hear it now this is an actress actually in the film but the voice is the of the original voice that she. was. some wonderful way of saying and i must say old it s only songs i m told a about unrequited love with a very sad or happy yes i ve seen some with trans i just love it it s really not sort of long and yeah. let s talk about the other movie that s coming up that she s also making about iranian women in us in the us in exile this is a quite a change that shuttles come out next year meanwhile if people are interested as you are you can see an entire program on a program outs twenty one about it s running up this week or it s available on our website at d.w. dot com slash culture yes awesome we re going to definitely to you know i definitely well thank you so much ellen greatly appreciate it all right and i m going to hand you over now to helena. shares in emerson fellow shopper monday off the us president donald trump renewed his attack on its relationship with the united states postal service dragging the dow down almost three percent natural claims that u.s.p.s. is losing money on delivering for amazon and taxpayers he says off financing the losses will analysts point out that the online retailing giants payments actually support the postal services other money losing businesses and it s not says pension obligations they say amazon is helping the u.s.p.s. stay afloat but estimates say amazon pays the u.s.p.s. roughly hope of what rival postle services would be charging. now twenty five years after the end of apartheid in south africa white farmers still own most commercial farmland to fast track land reform the governing a.n.c. party had adopted a policy of land exploring creation without compensation but a closer look reveals it has less to do with correcting historic injustice and more to do with winning back voters ahead of elections. the northern part of free state province is one of the most fertile areas of south africa it s here that yucca owns a large farm he s one of about thirty five thousand commercial farmers in the country for me about three an authentic this is my new my soybean sunflowers and from. produce about fifteen thousand tons of grains per year four hundred days of cattle. twenty five people permanently and all those helping south africa being the only food secure country in africa white farmers like me are the backbone of south africa laggard culture but the original black owners of many white owned farms were pushed off their land during the colonial and apartheid periods after the end of apartheid the government addressed this injustice and created a land reform program on a willing buyer willing seller basis but only around ten percent of white farm land has been transferred back into black ownership. many like julius malema and his left wing economic freedom fighters all find that this is not enough. to know what all this is why it is so hard to know. if you are why you re. so. well it s real really we are we. are only since such demands have proven popular with many voters the governing n.c. has recently adopted a policy of land expropriation without compensation and wants to amend the constitution accordingly. so south africa is headed for national and provincial elections in twenty nineteen and the debate about land an expropriation is entirely situated within that issue between the a.n.c. and the year if if if for making this their number one election issue but i don t think we are ever going to see land express expropriation without compensation in south africa the constitution provides ample scope for government to implement responsible land reform without having an impact on the investor confidence or indeed on challenges with regard to food security in south africa but given the heated debate about expropriation and uncertainty as to what the future may bring farmers like you are holding on to their money rather than investing it. because we run a big farming into process we need to constantly put capital into the business and that this moment we re not sure we will that we are going to do it because of all these procreation thing i m still very positive about the future and i think there s a great future of the eight of us if we can all work together in this country economic growth in south africa is slow and the country faces many financial challenges so the government needs to consider carefully if it can afford to lose farmers like minnaar and foreign investors who fear instability. well did you know this month kicks off frankincense season in oman in the middle east resins harvested this time of year to create your own bed that many may associate with christmas and the trade has survived the centuries but modern life is now taking its toll. frankincense is using essential oils in french perkins and that has partly helped drive global demand you know eskil declared part of the deal for region it s not a no man s land of frankincense a weld heritage site. but if you go. to what frankincense is still considered a precious well the trees are rare in order to protect them we collected trees from many places in the door for products we protect them at this reserve for natural frankincense trees. you need to look. you ve got but you. efforts here could help protect the bones will your trees that produce the resin for frankincense for trade in the future demand is so high that the trees here do not have enough time to regenerate. but there s more to the you know school site here this area was also an important stop on the ancient silk road which runs all the way to china in those days frankincense was traded in exchange for spices textiles and silk. from ancient frankincense to new technology of course tech usually comes with a few teething problems and drones in a different russia s postal service has been taking them for a spin to deliver apostles but things didn t go quite as planned during the day. a russian drone was supposed to deliver its first parcel from one remote village to a neighboring want. the postal service wanted to celebrate the occasion. you know it you but i m very happy that we re launching this project here today which would undoubtedly be successful. however the drone didn t get far. crashed after just a few seconds in the air. nobody was injured. but the dream won t be flying again any time soon. all over the firm date of us forces here to talk us through the soccer weekend action all the things are starting to crystallize some things are leyla certainly by and for example they inched a little closer to the title but a lot of things are up in the air to especially the race for the champions league places all right well sunday s big game saw frankfurt to travel to brainless take a look. craven s florian cofield has been working to emulate the kind of success nico kovach has had in frankfurt unlike the former croatia international though cofield builds his team around attack thomas delaney with a pinpoint cross not to lose of its. one nil to brain in the twenty eighth minute a high quality goal you know high tempo game. in the second half frankfurt struck back with some style as well. kevin prince boating with a snappy back heel assist for a look at your age. three minutes later the eagles nearly soared into the elite your bitch threw on the republican who pulled a crucial kicks in how crucial this crucial use of it is crossed deflected high into the air by dabdoub around. and into the net. lucas with its key tried and failed to control the ball perhaps down by the sun. frame and walked off to one winners the trend under cofield just keeps going up. right to all the fifty dollars first here still with me how big of a blow is this for frankfurt it s a pretty bad weekend from frank first point of view you know that was fourth at the start of the weekend in the champions league places they finished it six out of the champions league places as we say here but you know the good news for them is that it is very tight as i said at the top that by an obviously way out of and shall kill i think an album for a champions league place now but below that dortmund down to six by frankfurt you ve only got three points gap between them and it s only another three points further down to hoffenheim in sevens so there still could be a lot of movement there you know and i think the head to heads are going to be really important also saying that they re allegations i m braman i think after that when i now saif i think they can stop worrying so they say and i think the head to heads are going to be really important in the champions league rights and next week as early as next week with one of those levees and playing leipsic fourth against. those are the games that people really need to watch out for now i can t help looking at that sherry look at byron my god that gap couldn t even get wider just how did i say bye and you know just on another planet compared to every other team in germany right now for years we ve been talking up dortmund is that being the big rivals and you know every time the two meet we call it deck classic you know the classic and and we try and drum up this rivalry because we want it to be true that there are these two titans in german football facing each other on saturday that now this season that is just the fast it s not the case anymore that being said it wasn t the perfect weekend for buy and they were hoping to win the league at home for the first time since two thousand and one eleven leads final since then always away from home that was confirmed the title away from home so a bit of a disappointment and we ve heard from some of the let s hear what muscles the defender were here to say. yes i think most of the fans and most of us would like it to ruin the retired lads home. but of course you know we won t try to win it in our school kids to close this game to home so maybe that s ok. all right not too bad not too shabby ali but what about dortmund can their coach survive this i think it s the end of the season probably you because it s very late in the day to change coaches now but beyond that i don t think goldman have been anywhere near good enough and i think it s been mediocre at best he did steady the ship after the disastrous baseball but it certainly doesn t look good enough to really build on what they ve done this season and in fact dillman do have a couple of really big games coming up the next three games are against the shock of the big rivals and late because none of the champions league contend and like i was saying this head to head games they re going to be what s really important the rest of the season if they lose all of those then it could be gone even before the end of the season for whole of britain s mind out there thank you so much ali for talking to us about this thank you art and i m going to head to some surfing now because australia s surfing great mick fanning is in fine form in his final event before retiring the thirty six year old who famously fought off a shark while competing in twenty fifteen progress to the fourth round of the world surf league event at bell s beach in australia the three times world champion produced a near long list performance in front of his home crowd you ll hope to secure a fair well victory later this week. are the defunct chinese space station has really entered the earth s atmosphere years after scientists lost contact with it this young one was launched in two thousand and eleven and serviced china s first space station astronomers say it mostly disintegrated upon their entry but people were fortunate not to have been hit by the remaining debris. after orbiting over a year and asia the chiang gong one disintegrated above the remote south pacific far away from human settlements astronomers a calling it a lucky escape. launched in two thousand and eleven the station had mocked a giant leap for china s celestial ambitions astronauts on board conducted experiments and practiced space dockings but the vessel stopped working in two thousand and sixteen and began orbiting closer and closer to earth west in space experts think china had lost control of the station something beijing denies. astronomers say the spacecraft mostly burn top upon re-entry but ditched some debris to the north of tahiti. they say the fear is over where the station would reenter the sammis fear point to an issue that needs into tension. sincerity as i m honored to have something like a degree removed because we are more than a force of five hundred set of lights in orbit only once are far from it are you that means we have three solid objects or bigger stars which may later already into the atmosphere and i think we have to do it. with space junk only likely to increase the question is to whom does it full to regulate the outer reaches of our world. they re watching the revenues from iraq more coming at the top of the hour now we ve heard about museums first 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constand, the accuser in this case. reporter: so tom maze roe, you tried and failed. the personal attacks did not work. bill cosby, three words for you, guilty, guilty, guilty! tom mesereau, the high profile defense attorney bill cosby brought in for this retrial after he was found guilty. there was some discussion of whether whether or not there should be bonds cosby stood up and yelled at the prosecutor saying you asshole. here s more of what his attorney had to say just moments ago. we are very disappointed by the verdict. we don t think mr. cosby s guilty of anything and the fight is not over. thank you. are you going to appeal, sir? yes, yes. yes, very strongly. is mr. cosby prepared to go to prison? no comment from bill cosby s sexual assault and harassment has changed a lot since the first trial. how much that impacted the jury in their deliberations, i don t know, they re human beings. i know they were ad monished not to allow what was going on in the culture and socially to interfere with their deliberations in the case, but their human beings. your accusations of bill cosby stem from an event in 1979, so we re talking obviously decades here. there has been a real sea change just in the last few months but prior to that in the last few years as more and more of bill cosby s accusers, stood up and spoke out. a number of you doing so together. how did that change things for you knowing that you weren t the only one out there who was making these allegations? when i came forward in 2005, i thought i was the only one until andrea constand tried to have him charged the first time, so i was jane doe number four in the original 13 jane does and i can t tell you how amazing it much do you think that has empowered other men and women? i hope it s empowered women. i hope they know now that this is proof that they don t have to stay silent any more. what do you think is going to happen in terms of sentencing? does it matter to you? it doesn t matter to me. i had no control over this outcome, so my purpose from the beginning has been to tell the truth and to let andrea constand know that she was not alone and none of that has been easy for any of us. we have been vilified and called horrible names by many members of the public and some members of the media, but today, in this moment, it has been worth all of that. patricia, appreciate you taking the time for us today. thank you. thank you for asking. i also want to bring in cnn legal analyst areba martin. you and i have talked a lot about the impact of these different stories, whether it is an accuser of bill cosby, of harvey weinstein, this is a this is a remarkable day in terms of that conversation? yeah, this is huge. i don t think we can underestimate erica, how significant this is for women. i ve been a civil rights lawyer for two decades. i ve watched what has happened in this country around sexual assault how this movement has evolved and to see someone like bill cosby convicted is monumental. we have to remember that the prosecutors in this case, the original district attorney refused to file charges and there was a lot of back and forth between the prosecutors about whether there was substantial evidence, whether constand was a credible witness and we saw cosby s new defense lawyer, his new defense team go after andrea constand and the five other women really hard, really challenge their credibility, and despite that, the jurors still found that andrea constand was telling the truth, that she had a credible story to tell and that bill cosby was guilty of what he was charged with. so this is incredible. we ve seen men fall. we ve seen men lose their jobs and careers but we ve not seen a man in recent history, particularly a man of bill cosby s stature being convicted. three criminal convictions, facing up to 30 years in prison, this is a significant sea change in the whole movement to keep women safe and free from sexual harassment and assault. cnn jean casarez has been covering this from the very beginning extensively. she joins us now from pennsylvania as we wait for this press conference with the prosecutor. jean, you had been in that courtroom, you have witnessed a lot of this first hand, no cameras were allowed. you have been an incredible set of eyes and ears for us. reporter: we re getting word that this press conference is just about to begin with prosecutors. we do understand that andrea jurors for their diligence, the sacrifices that they made as well as the sacrifices of their families so that they could serve in this important duty that they did. so today we re finally in a place to say that justice was done. as prosecutors we have a responsibility to seek justice and we have to go wherever and to whomever it takes us and to begin, i want to step back to a point that was pretty desighive in this case and that s when the judge released the civil case deposition and indicated in his opinion that the defendants deposition showed the stark contrast between bill cosby, the public moralist, and bill cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper and perhaps criminal conduct. at that point the prosecutors, who are here to do the right thing and specifically my predecess predecessor, opened up and reopened this investigation. so that s a duty but that duty took courage because she had to open up a case against a powerful man, but i can say definitively that that s one of the things that is done over and over again in the montgomery county district attorney s office. we have shown from our record that money and power or who you are will not stop us from a criminal investigation or prosecuting a case. what was revealed through this investigation was a man who had spent decades preying on women that he drugged and sexually assaulted and a man that had evaded this moment here today for far too long. he used his celebrity, he used his wealth and his network of supporters to help him conceal his crimes, and now we really know today who is behind that act, who the real bill cosby was and a juror has spoken with one voice, in a court of law and found the defendant guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting andrea constand in his home. there s a number of people up here and i m going to try to address as many of this as i can. and the most important person in this is andrea constand. where are you? there you are. 14 years later it may be easy to forget that she was that first courageous person that stood up in public to go to the authorities and say that bill cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her. her courage and resilience in the face of horrible and unfounded attacks upon her and her family has been so inspiring to all of us. we thank her, we thank her family, we thank her mother gianna for trusting us through this process of prosecuting her attacker. standing next to her there is the dolores triani who were the ones that were asking the questions in that deposition that the judge obrano was referring to that got us to the point where we were able to reopen this case and seek justice. and standing with her through this whole process has been a lot of other courageous women who are willing to stand up and tell their stories about being drugged and sexually assaulted or raped. 19 were willing to stand up with us in this prosecution, take the witness stand and we are humbled by the courage all of them showed and we can t help but applaud and celebrate the courage of the five witnesses that had a chance to face bill cosby in this case, to tell the jury, to tell all of you, what he did to them. so heidi thomas, shallon lasha, janis dickerson, janice baker-kinney, the public thank all of them, i called each of them after the verdict was not able to talk to all of them, but they they know what they ve done and they know what their courage helped all of us do. so supporting all of these women have been the victim advocates, the victims groups, the womens group, the antirape groups and so many others and each of these groups play such an important role in supporting these women and helping them to heal from the ordeal that they have been put through. those are the people we all owe a debt of gratitude too today for their strength and resilience through this entire process as well as every day, because they stand with us, they work with the victims and they make a difference in their lives. i m very grateful to stand here before you with this team and again, it s not all of our team, who worked to see that justice was done, but we had to overcome many legal hurdles that were thrown at us by various defense lawyers who have been on this case for the past 28 months. this time from the lawyers of four different law firms and each step of the way, we fought for the opportunity for the victims to be heard. the opportunity to get this case to a jury, an opportunity to be standing before all of you after hearing the defendant had been convicted of three counts of aggravated, indecent assault. this team has been incredible. i can t say enough about the prosecutors, the detectives, dedicated staff who despite everything that was thrown at us, at them stayed the course. i own the ball and work today get us here today and i m so incredibly proud of these talented people. their committed always to do the right thing for the right reasons and i m going to have to start with, i think, i heard them referred to recently as thunder and lightning. so mr. ryan here on my left, he heads our family protection unit and he s prosecuted a lot of cases, sexuality assaults, rapes and those who have been drugged in sexual assault cases. he s been with our office six years and just is one of the best. you saw some of that talent coming across throughout this trial and and i got reports on how i looked as i was watching what they did. and the other thing i enjoy doing is coaching and, you know, you get to these points where you work with kids, you work with young adults and you get to that point where you put them out on the field or on to the court and there s not much you can do at that point other than watch and i could not have been more proud of what they did, throughout this whole thing and some of the cross-examination that you all got to see and some of the quick witted remarks were something. i think even caused the jurors to laugh when testimony was being coming back on things where they had the the ability here to close, and kristen here, so we wouldn t be here if not for her and i say that because when when we came back to look at this case, reesa and judge furman now asked kristen and some of our team to go to toronto to meet with andrea and that was a difficult task and when kristen came back, she was adamant, adamant about what we should do, and we moved forward and it was the right thing to do and she has stuck through this the whole way, and she had an opportunity, which was kind of a bad day for me when she had a great opportunity for her and her family to go to an excellent law firm, stradley ronan and we talked a lot and kristen did not want to leave this and not see it to the end, and we talked to bill sasso the chairman of the firm who we all owe a debt of gratitude too, for allowing her to stay on with us and stay with us through this case. and and you have seen the results of that. she, like, like mr. ryan here has prosecuted so many sexual y assaults and domestic violence cases and i couldn t have found two better partners and two better people, two better prosecutors to walk this journey with. their commitment to doing the right thing has been extraordinary, and i got to talk about this one and the one on the end. our deputy district attorney, bob fallon, the captain of our appellate unit adrian jappy. we have seen what seems like hundreds of motions from the beginning when these charges were filed throughout the last days of trial and these incredible, legal minds have found the law that we needed to support our positions despite those many law firms and many lawyers that have made it difficult for us to get to this point. they ve supported our positions to keep it moving forward. they have kept up with everything, all of these lawyers have thrown at us and did it with just amazing grace. you ve seen them in court. you ve seen what they can do and there s been some pretty memorable writing along the way from from each of them and you all saw a difference maker too when the judge ruled that we could bring prior bad acts in, adrian handled that argument and just did a stellar job to get us in the position we re in. our law enforcement community, some of them are up here with me, all the folks from shade with our department and detective reap who i heard it may be your birthday today. yeah. we re all going to sing happy birthday now. these detectives worked really hard to reopen this case and throughout the whole process, and i couldn t be more proud of the entire investigative team. they are they re supported by the lieutenant from our major crimes, chris cooklyn, deputy chief, mark byrne who has handled so much of these investigative efforts, chief gallen and all the support that they provide and have picked up in this. beyond the guilty verdict, there have been some other, i think, important outcomes in this case. as we understand, this has been important for sexual assault victims everywhere. but we did this case because a crime was committed against andrea constand and it happened in our jurisdiction and that was our duty to move forward on, and when you look at this and look at what andrea has done to stand up and declare what happened to him, she has been a major factor in a movement that has gone in the right direction finally, and her quiet courage and her actions through this have helped victims to stand up and tell what happened to them and i think now there s tremendous awareness of how these crimes have been covered up and papered over for the years and i hope and i pray that our actions have shown that we will stand up with those victims and all women that are out there standing up and telling their truth, i, we, support them and encourage them to keep it up and i hope now everybody recognizes that here, you re going to be treated with dignity and respect through the process. another outcome has been increased. look at rape myth or the myth of sexual assault especially by someone they knew or trusted will immediately report it to the authorities, that they will behave in a certain way or they will never talk to anyone again, we ve dispelled that here and that s because that s false and that s not always the way it goes. too often these types of crimes, sexual assault do not get reported especially a case in where a drug has been used, an intoxicants so the victim does not have a clear memory of what went on, so we hope that this case sends a strong message that the victims of these types of crimes can come forward and be heard on what happened to them. so there was a defendant in this case, the next steps. a sentencing date will be issued by the judge. that is typically within about a 60 to 90 day period of time on when the sentencing date will come. in the interim, he ll be looked at and assessed in a couple ways. there s a presentence investigation that will be done. there will be a sexually violent predator assessment that will be done and all of these are standard procedures in these types of cases. these assessments will then be used by the judge in determining the sentence and that sentencing hearing. we ll have the opportunity to put evidence on as will the defense. the defendant may be facing years in prison. he was convicted of three counts of this, so technically that would be up to 30 years, however, we have to look at merger of those counts to determine what the final maximum will be that he is facing. so in addition to jail time and i mentioned this because there s been some things that have been asked about it over time and you know, typically what is done in a case is that a defendant will be assessed and all of these things will be looked at in terms of a sentencing but when a sentencing occurs, there s also an assessment for the cost of prosecution. we expect that we ll be arguing that the cost associated with both the trials, the sequestration, the sheriff s costs for this will go to the defendant and i will be relying on defense counsels opening remarks in this when he was talking about $3.38 million being a paltry sum or simply a nuisance, so clearly the cost of prosecution in this matter should not be a problem for the defendant. dolores, you wanted to say something here so let me get out of the way. good afternoon. i know it s going to be disappointing to you but i have the privilege of speaking for andrea and andrea will only will not be speaking today. only i will. first of all, we have to thank the montgomery county for doing what they have done, kevin, kristen, stuart and the many, many lawyers in the d.a. s office who have been diligent in bringing about this just result. i can t even begin to name all the people who have worked on this case. we also and i m doing this on behalf of myself and my cocounsel who unfortunately moved to philadelphia is probably stuck on the schuylkill expressway as we speak or she would also be here. we want to thank all the police officers who have dedicated themselves to this case. detective reap, sergeant schaffer and the many others who are unnamed who all contributed to what has happened today. most of all, i want to express on behalf, if i can, the gr gratitude of so many women that admire andrea for her courage. she came here 14 years ago for justice. i am so happy today that i can say, although justice was delayed it was not denied. it took a lot of courage for her to come back and to do this. there are so many people who have expressed their admiration for her, the millions and i do mean millions of people who have admired her courage, admired her calm, admired her demeanor and i d ask you to bear in mind that when something like this happens to someone, male, female, whoever, they have to work every day to be happy. something that we all who have been fortunate in our lives and not been victimized do not have to do. and when you see andrea and you ve all commented about how calm she is, how graceful she is, that s something she s had to work out every day since january of 2004, probably january 6th or 7th when this happened to her. this is a life altering experience for any woman, any victim and the person who i think needs to be heralded for what she has done is andrea. thank you. we ll take questions. you were in the moment as this verdict was being read, take us back please. i know there was an exchange with the defendant immediately after, but in those moments, what was going through your mind, please? well, i ve been at this for a while, 25 years and when a verdict comes back you re always anxious on what the result was going to be. i keep the verdict sheet in front of me and i checked them off as they were read. it s a solemn moment because it s hard work for a jury, 12 ordinary folks from our community that came in and served and so i didn t react. i won t under those circumstances and we heard the verdict, and i m just greatful for what they did and that they stood up for what happened. i have never seen the type of attacks that were levied on people that were coming forward to describe how they were sexually assaulted and when that happened, i was concerned. i was really concerned that that we re not moving past the vest vestiges of what happened. they listened to dr. ziff, they heard what was real and what was false and they were strong when they came back. they were polled, meaning that every one of them was asked whether they agreed to the verdict and all i heard from each of them was strength and i m grateful for that and grateful for what they all did and the commitment they gave to montgomery county, our citizens, our communities and this this is bigger. during the discussion of bail, an incredible outburst by the defendant throughout your opening and closing statements, you ve said this is not dr. huxtable, this is not america s dad, is that the man you were speaking of? i guess you got to see a brief view of who he was. that s just him acting out. i think everybody got to see who he really is when each of those prior bad act witnesses got to testify. the guy the guy was an actor for a long time and it was an act it was an act. we got to see who he really was, so kevin, standing here before us you speak with emotion in your voice, especially in talking about andrea, you speak with tears in your eyes, describe emotion alley what this process has been like for you especially the critics who did not think it was retrying this case? look, this is this is about our duty as prosecutors and it s it s really not that complicated. it s about doing the right thing. we had to investigate a case, we had to make determinations on what happened and then move forward and that s our job and that s our duty and we i hope that it in as grateful way as we could despite what was being thrown at us and being thrown at a number of people, but i m not going to get into nonsense with him on this. do you think other prosecutors will look to this case in dealing with allegations of sexual assault? i don t know. i can t speak for anyone else, but i can tell you, it s been an interesting start to becoming district attorney. i ve had i ve had a couple cases here that have been with powerful people as most of you know. i tried a case where the chief law enforcement officer in the state had committed crimes and we had to go in and that s not the most comfortable place to be when you have to tear apart your profession in some ways because she was a prosecutor, but i think that s just an example of, we re going to go where the investigation s take us. we are going to look to see who has committed a crime and whether they re powerful, whether they re wealthy, whether they have evaded the law in the past, we just have to do our jobs and i hope, if there s anything that comes from this is, is that, you know, you can move forward on these cases and when you do, you know, i ve now had two jurors stand up against the powerful and say guilty on every single count that has been alleged against them and i think that s a recognition of the fact that we re doing the right thing and the fact that the jury s understand the significance of this. are you going to continue your attempts to get bail revoked for mr. cosby before sentencing occurs? and express what your concerns are about and i said it in court. i m concerned when there is somebody with the wealth and the aspects of, you know, being a potential risk of flight because of what he s facing. the judge made a determination and i respect his determination that that could be satisfied by him remaining in montgomery county for the present and we ll have to take a look at it. it s not necessarily a closed issue for you at this point? no. these things never are. we have cases every day where people are out on bail and they commit new crimes or they try to flee or they do something along those lines. we just have to be vigilant and make sure that we re keeping an eye on every aspect of this so that we can be prepared if something like that happens. yes, sir? a number of legal experts have pointed to the 404 b witnesses of being a potential vulnerability on appeal. can you talk about how you re ready to defend against that and do you feel confident that that s not going to expose you to problems on appeal? so i mentioned them before. we have our deputy district attorney bob fallon, captain of our unit, adrian jappy, i ll put them up against anybody. anybody. and they walked with us through this and we asked for 19 and we felt that we had the grounds for 19 or otherwise we wouldn t be asking for it, so we re appreciative that five women got to voice what occurred to them in the courtroom, but this is a case where there were so many more. do you expect to have some more women testify at the sentencing? would that be the appropriate place for more victims? potentially. that s something and i m not going to say today what we re going to be asking for in terms of sentencing. that s all the assessments that need to be done, so you do the presentence investigation, you look at, you know, what these assessments developed. you speak to victims. they get a voice in this and they should have a voice in this to make a determination of what the appropriate request is at the time. so that s all the process that we ll be going through in between now and when the sentencing date is. is it a place for more victims potentially can be heard? potentially can but it s also an area that is somewhat gray in pennsylvania to be able to do that, so we ve heard testimony in effect from five of the women at this point, so i think that goes into the consideration and we ll be assessing it and our appellate unit will tell us what we re allowed to do and not allowed to do. have you has your office been approached by any new cosby accusers since the trial began? i can t speak about investigative matters. i ll leave it at that. mr. steele, this is a vastly different trial than the first one. speak if you can about the importance of having those five women allowed to testify, the additional accusers and counter acting the defenses claims of [ inaudible ]. you all got to hear from someone who i think very highly of, dr. barbara zeiv and the legislature in their wisdom has given us the ability to have somebody who is an expert in this area educate a jury and you saw that as our number one witness, our first witness in this case, and i think in the process she was able to explain the situation and then, when you heard from the different people and you saw what the defense was trying to do despite those sexual assault myths that lie out there, there s a recognition and again i hope it s not attacked, it s continued, because it didn t work. and it is a situation where it was a different trial. we were able to do that on the front end of the case and i think i think that s the benefit of having done this once before. without the legislature making that change, only a few years ago to allow someone like dr. ziev, you wouldn t be able to call her to the stand? how critical was she in your conviction today? i think that would be a better question for the jurors on how impactful she was, but to us it was very important and it s something that we kept going back to and looking at and kristen did the direct examination from her, but we went back to that report that she did a lot, because it was significant in showing what the real science is behind this and how this how this goes and dr. valiare who testified in the last trial about this, she s another great expert in this arena and you think it s important that these messages get out, that that s what this is and maybe at some point we won t need to put on an expert to educate a jury because we ll all recognize that those sexual assault myths are not real and we should be looking at everything that happens to somebody who has been sexually assaulted. any chance that margts rit jackson could face perjury charges? can t talk about investigations. can you talk about the difference of having a local jury as opposed to an out of town jury and whether that had an impact or made a difference? i m not saying this jury seemed different. they took a lot of notes. they really were paying attention, so did you do you think that had an impact as a montgomery county? do you think that helped? obviously it helped, you won. i appreciate being on my home court. okay. i do. it s we have a great community here, we have a community that supports law enforcement, we have a community of people that sacrifice so much, to think going into this you re going to be removed from your family as the defense kept saying for a month, is a huge sacrifice to make but they re willingness to do this and as you said to pay the rapped attention they did to every step of the way, we re just grateful and i m grateful we live in this community and i m grateful that we get to choose jurors like that who do the right thing and right thing. that s what happens here and it happens over and over again. it was great being on our home court. what is your message to prosecutors in other jurisdictions, new york city, los angeles, chester county who may view the cases historically as very different to prosecute? after today, what is your message to any prosecutor who may be on the fence about pushing forward with a case of this nature? i m not here to send messages to my colleagues. we are in a great community of prosecutors, particularly in pennsylvania. and i get to work with them through the pennsylvania district attorney s association and all i can tell you about that is the incredible outpouring of support that i have gotten every step of the way along this journey that they have been great and, you know, i look at, you know, our colleagues in the attorney general s office, you know, and how they have walked this walk with us. michelle henry, for example, who tried the cane case with me. you know? each step of the way these folks are here to support. so i don t think it s any need or time to send a message to all of them. we re all working these cases together and each person has to deal with it in their own jurisdictions. mr. steele, what is your thought to victims? in your closing argument, there were character assassinations in that courtroom and if someone feels too scared to come forward at this time, just a chilling effect. i hope the end result will not cause somebody to refrain from coming forward. because we got to the right result in this. and yeah, it s difficult. and people were put through character assassinations. and it was very difficult to sit through. and watch. but you also saw what the jury did in the end. and i hope that people recognize that you got to show courage like this lady did. like she showed courage. she stepped up. she went forward. and and we got to the right result. and she stayed through this. you know? she didn t have to start down this journey with us. she didn t have to come here for the first trial. she didn t have to come here for the second trial. but she did. you know? and i think that means so much and i hope that others that have been victimized understand that and see that courage and see where it can get. because for all of us it was just about doing justice. you know? and sometimes you feel like that s just us. that is looking for that. and you got a lot of people working against you to that end. but despite each of these legal hurdles, these things that happened across the way, you know, we got here. and we got to all sit in that courtroom and hear the defendant convicted of all of the offenses. you know? found guilty. and i think that s important for victims to know and understand. that we re going to stand with them. we re going to walk this journey with them and do the best that we can and treat them with dignity and respect. you talked about what that was like being able to mark off on your sheet for each count guilty, describe the moment when you were able finally able to turn and face andrea after you heard the verdict. i waited until we got upstairs and i gave her a hug. kevin, which of the hurdle is it knowing that, you know, the d.a. at the time in 2005 declined to prosecute and, you know, you guys made a point of apologizing to andrea in the closings and thanking her which i thought was pretty powerful. how do you think she was treated back then? you talked about right in the middle of the investigation when pulled the plug. he didn t even have the courtesy to know they were pulling the plug. found out from reporters on the doorstep. press releases and threatened with arrest basically herself. and they were threatened with arrest. you had other hurdles to overcome. what was that like for you guys? and how do you all i ll say on that was on behalf of our office we are sorry for what happened then. but we got a chance to make up for it. and we hopefully have. we hopefully have. so all right. thank you, everybody. thank you. one word. so you just been watching the press conference there with montgomery county district attorney kevin steele a. couple of things that came up, the deposition of 2005 with bill cosby and related to andrea constand s allegations back then and the other talk was about the five other accusers who were allowed to testify. what do you think was more powerful here for that jury, bill cosby s own words being read to them where he talked about quaaludes and sex and drugs and alcohol? or was it these other witnesses, these prior bad act witnesses? i think it was both. i think that cosby s own words let the jury know that this was not dr. huxtable from the television show but a human being who was fatally flawed in many, many ways and then the combination of his own words sort of coupled with the testimony of the women who found the same pattern of behavior as the main plaintiff in this case, ms. constand did i think was very instrumental in helping the jury understand what happened here. but i think what was very important from a trial strategy standpoint was the opening of the case with dr. ziv. remember, she is the forensic psychiatrist who talked about the rape myths, how women behave after being sexually assaulted. so they started the case by educating the jury. this is how people behave in the aftermath of these cases and it is not always consistent and it s not like television where they call the police immediately or things of that sort. so i think the combination of the introduction of forensic psychiatry with his own words and the prior bad act evidence leading up to andrea constand s testimony was that which convicted him in this case. cnn s jean casarez with us, as well. you have been there from day one of the earlier trial, even, jean and you were in the courtroom for much of this. was it a different feeling in that courtroom? reporter: there was a different feeling and i was in the courtroom for both trials. the different feeling in this one was that, you know, trials have momentums on both sides for the prosecution, for the defense. but in this trial i felt a continual momentum for the prosecution. it was just a feeling that i had in that courtroom. now, of course, the trial started out after the opening statements with dr. ziv who was a sexual assault expert and that was someone that talked about the character of a sexual assault victim. but then you started having the prior bad act witnesses. one after the other. and, you know, maybe that added to the momentum at the beginning and strategy on the side of the prosecution to do it in that manner and then you have andrea constand. so that set the stage for the rest of the trial. in terms of those prior bad act witnesses, this was brought up during the trial and a question to the d.a. earlier. tom mesereau said they plan to appeal. the d.a. was asked about concerns using all five of the witnesses. michael, on appeal do you think that could be an issue? so the rule in these prior bad act cases is whether or not there is motive, intent absence of mistake or common scheme or plan and i think that this fit the common definition of bad act evidence. i think they will have a hard time overcoming the ruling of the court to allow this evidence in because the pattern of behavior between cosby and his victims and cosby and his own words i think set the legal predicate for the judge allowing