we appreciate your time and see you again at 6:00. bye-bye. tonight, breaking news. for the first time, former acting a.g. sally yates revealing how she warned the white house about former national security adviser michael flynn, saying he d been compromised, and that he could be blackmailed by the russians. tonight, how she describes her meetings inside the trump white house. also breaking, police just holding a news conference in boston. two doctors, engaged to be married, both found murdered. and new reporting tonight on what was found in their apartment. the college student who fell down the stairs. why did no one call for help for 12 hours? 18 frat brothers now facing charges and tonight, one of those students who was there comes forward. the headline just in. the serial sniper allegedly taking aim at drivers and at people in their front yards. what we ve just learned. and the shark alert tonight on the american coast. january 30th, the very day she was fired for refusing to enforce president trump s travel ban. i don t know whether that ever happened, whether they ever looked at that evidence or not. reporter: democrats today asking why flynn was allowed to stay in his job for 18 days after the warning, even participating in an oval office phone call between president trump and russian leader vladimir putin. but some republicans were focusing on how classified information about flynn ended up in the press. have either of you ever been an anonymous source in a news report about matters relating to mr. trump, his associates, or russia s attempt to meddle in the election? no. absolutely not. reporter: and yates with a final warning to the american people about russian meddling. i think they re coming back, senator. and i think that we have to do a whole lot more, both to harden our election systems, our state election systems, to ensure that folks out there know when they re looking at news feeds that it may not be real news that they re reading. all right, so, let s get to pierre thomas live at the capitol tonight. yates also testifying, pierre, that the white house counsel asked during one of those meetings whether flynn should be fired, they asked her? reporter: david, yates said she offered no recommendation, saying it was a white house call, not hers. and we learned one more thing today. from obama administration officials who said the former president warned trump in the oval office about flynn two days after the election. david? the president warned them, as well. all right, pierre thomas leading us off, thank you. sally yates not only making news over her warnings involving retired general michael flynn, as you ll remember, she was fired after she refused to enforce president trump s travel ban. she believed the ban was unconstitutional. she was pressed on that today. listen to this. who appointed you to the united states supreme court? i was that determines isn t it a court of final jurisdiction, who decides what s constitutional and not? i personally wrestled over this decision. and it was not one that i took lightly at all. i believe that it is the responsibility of the attorney general, if the president asks him or her to do something that he or she believes is unlawful or unconstitutional, to say no. sally yates on the hill testifying about her role, standing up to the proposed ban and then getting fired because of it. the president s first version of that ban was blocked by the courts. a new version was halted, too, and today was debated yet again. will it survive this time? at issue, this question should the president s words while he was on the campaign trail matter in determining his true intention for the temporary ban? here s abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega tonight. reporter: in a virginia appellate court today, one of president trump s most controversial campaign promises came back to haunt him. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. reporter: plaintiffs say that is proof the president s travel ban temporarily restricting people from six majority-muslim countries, at its heart, is a muslim ban. lawyers for the trump administration argue the president s statements before election day don t count. generally, they shouldn t get much weight, because you haven t taken the oath of office to uphold the constitution, you haven t formed an administration or consulted with them. reporter: but some of the 13 judges skeptical. are you saying then the president could say that every day as a candidate for a year, i intend to ban muslims. they are bad people, and then the first day in office he does that. you have to you re saying that nub of those statements could be considered? reporter: another judge weighing in he s never repudiated what he said about the muslim ban. it is still on his website. reporter: why does the president s website still explicitly call for, quote, preventing muslim immigration ? i m not aware what s on the campaign website, you d have to ask them. reporter: if it s still on the website, if the president s words are being used against him in court today, is it worth you clarifying that once and for all? yeah, i m i m trying to figure out why i would i ve been very clear i don t think i need to clarify what we have said or what the president has said. reporter: and within minutes of our question, that muslim ban statement, wiped from the site. back in february, when the courts first put the executive order on hold, the president warned potential terrorists would pour into the country. and have you seen any evidence that that s been the case in the three months since this ban was lifted? i think that s a question for the department of homeland security. and cecilia vega is with us tonight from the white house. cecilia, we heard sean spicer say there, you should ask the department of homeland security. and so you did. what did they tell you? reporter: well, david, they say that, unfortunately, this information is not readily available. we do not expect a ruling on this travel ban case for a few weeks. david, out appeit appears headee way to the supreme court. all right, cecilia vega with us tonight. cecilia, thank you. we move onto other news this monday night, and to the investigation under way this evening in boston. the district attorney there holding a news conference just a short time ago. two doctors murdered. the couple was engaged to be married. the suspect was arraigned today in his hospital bed. and at that news conference, the d.a. revealing what they discovered at the scene. abc s eva pilgrim from boston. reporter: eyes closed, laying in a hospital bed, the man suspected of killing two boston doctors in their luxury apartment appeared before a judge. a plea of not guilty has entered on your behalf on both counts. reporter: 30-year-old bampumim teixeira, who was shot by police during his arrest, now facing two counts of murder in the gruesome deaths of dr. richard field and his fiance, dr. lina bolanos, friday night. both individuals, your honor, were bound and both were deceased. reporter: prosecutors revealing today they found a bag filled with jewelry from one of the victims, along with a replica gun. this murder defies rational explanation. reporter: on friday night, dr. field desperately texted a friend for help. got a message from his friend saying that there s a gunman in the house. reporter: police rushing to the apartment, finding the suspect in a dark hallway before opening fire. police say last month teixeira was released from prison after serving time for bank robbery, captured here on a surveillance camera. he previously worked as a security guard in a nearby building. you can t get up there without a key. like, the elevator wouldn t even open the door for you without a key. so, there s no access unless someone lets you in. reporter: david, authorities aren t confirming how the suspect was able to get up into the apartment, but are saying that he did not know the couple personally. david? eva pilgrim in boston tonight. thank you, eva. next this evening, to the case making national headlines at penn state, where a college student fell down the stairs and authorities say it took 12 hours before everyone called for help. that student died. 18 students now facing charges tonight. and one fraternity brother is coming forward with what he saw. abc s gio benitez on campus. reporter: tonight, as 18 fraternity brothers face charges in connection with the hazing death of a pledge, another brother not charged is now speaking out with our robin roberts. there were people surrounding him, kind of pointing and laughing and i think i said, why is tim on the couch? and they were like, oh, he s fine. he s just had too much to drink. reporter: kordel davis says he saw 19-year-old tim piazza after he had fallen down a staircase, following what prosecutors say was a hazing ritual of extreme drinking. surveillance cameras reportedly capturing the brothers slapping him, pouring water over him, seemingly trying to wake him up. davis checking his pulse. i said, we should call 911, get him in an ambulance. and i m screaming. i got thrown against the wall. i didn t know what to do after that. i felt kind of useless and i felt like i had no say in the situation after that. you didn t feel like you could leave and call somewhere else, go outside or do anything? you didn t think i was told that i was overreacting. reporter: investigators say someone finally called 911 nearly 12 hours after the fall, but it was too late. meanwhile, davis says the frat brothers weren t worried about those surveillance cameras. they said, oh, the cameras aren t going to be checked. reporter: and david, eight of the brothers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault. defense attorneys saying there wasn t any intent, reportedly arguing that they didn t realize the seriousness of piazz a s inju injuries. david? gio benitez at penn state. overseas tonight, north korea in a new act of provocation, taking another american into custody. north korean media reports that kim hak-song has been detailed on suspicion of, quote, hostile acts. he was doing agricultural work at a university in pyongyang. another american teacher at that university was detained last week. at least four americans are now being held by the north korean regime. and to france tonight. getting ready for a new president now, after a high stakes election being watched by so many right here in the u.s. would french voters halt the wave of nationalism? marine le pen, who publicly supported donald trump and wanted to take france out of the eu, the euro and nato, conceding defeat. celebrating victory, the 39-year-old centrist, emmanuel macron, with france s new first lady. abc s chief foreign correspondent terry moran from paris tonight. reporter: a night to remember in paris. emmanuel macron, joined by his wife and chief adviser brigitte, basks in his victory. at 39, the youngest leader of france since napoleon. merci, mes amis! reporter: and this morning, already taking center stage. joining incumbent president francois hollande in a solemn ceremony to mark the end of world war ii in europe. in choosing macron, a pro-european union centrist, french voters decisively rejected the far-right nationalism of marine le pen, who president trump practically endorsed, calling her the strongest candidate. the margin a whopping 66-34. le pen was dancing last night after conceding defeat, but her campaign, which stoked fears of terrorism after hundreds have been killed in recent attacks here, nevertheless, failed miserably. her defeat, a crushing blow to the right-wing nationalist movements in europe and perhaps elsewhere. tonight, there s an investigation into that massive computer hack on the macron campaign, which not only did not help le pen, but may have backfired with voters angry at a cyber attack here. david? hacking there in france, as well. terry moran with us from paris. terry, thank you. and back here at home tonight, and to the wildfire threat in the south tonight. mandatory evacuations now widening. crews battling more than 100 fires in florida alone. the worst of them tonight, along the border with georgia. the flames and smoke rising above the okefenokee national wildlife refuge. the smoke from that fire, seen from space. you can see it right there, drifting out over the atlantic ocean. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this monday. two female police officers attacked, fighting with a suspect. the officers then thrown to the ground, punched. the suspect allegedly trying to steal one of their guns. you will see the good samaritans who rush in to help. we have a breaking headline coming in at this hour. the serial sniper allegedly taking aim at people in their cars and in their front yards, what we ve now learned. and the shark warning along the american coastline this evening. nearly two dozen great whites in the waters. some of them spotted just ten feet from shore. we re back in a moment. doctors recommendoms taking claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. claritin provides powerful, non-drowsy, 24-hour relief. for fewer interruptions from the amazing things you do every day. live claritin clear. every day. when you have allergies, it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. luckily there s powerful, 24-hour, non-drowsy claritin. it provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. live claritin clear. when this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn t have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. predictable. the comfort in knowing where things are headed. because as we live longer. and markets continue to rise and fall. predictable is one thing you need in retirement to help protect what you ve earned and ensure it lasts. introducing brighthouse financial. a new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities & life insurance. talk to your advisor about a brighter financial future. there is a developing headline coming in tonight, in the search for an alleged serial shooter in phoenix. authorities say the gunman haunting the city for more than a year, accused of killing at least nine victims. police tonight do have a suspect in custody, and here s abc s clayton sandell. reporter: tonight, police say they have a suspect in a string of 12 random street shootings that terrorized a phoenix neighborhood, leaving nine people dead. it s my brother. they just shot him. reporter: investigators say the suspect is 23-year-old aaron saucedo. he is already in custody on unrelated murder charges. aaron saucedo. reporter: accused of killing his mother s boyfriend back in 2015, a charge he denies. today, saucedo was rebooked into the maricopa county jail for 26 additional felony counts, including multiple counts of homicide, aggravated assault and drive-by shootings. reporter: the serial street shooters victims were shot in darkness last year, between march and july, standing outside their own homes and cars. the youngest victim, a 12-year-old girl. at the time, police released this sketch of the suspect. he literally pulled out a gun and shot on me while looking at me. reporter: and david, you ll remember, there s a second shooting spree in phoenix on the freeways that is still unsolved. but tonight, investigators say they don t believe saucedo is connected to that case. david? 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saw a flare being fired into or being thrown into a police suv. the police also took that out. that fire we saw was just a few minutes ago. these are live pictures of kptv in oregon, the official protest cancelled, we have seen now just dozens and dozens of these people, basically just moving freely through the streets, kicking in windows at several stores, sara sidner has been in seattle, and she joins us now at the protest that is going on in portland. sarah, this protest in portland, the official protest was cancelled, but there s clearly a number of people that the police are describing as anarchists who seem to be moving down a block in an uncontrolled way at this point. reporter: yeah, i think been destroyed. and so there is a lot of consternation there, where there are folks here who are concerned about that same group, the antifa, or anti-fascists. they sometimes call themselves far left. you re actually seeing a police vehicle with tactical units, basically hanging on either side of the vehicle, actually two police vehicles with heavily armed police officers moving through the streets in portland. and as sara was describing over the last 10 or 15 minutes, this group of about 100 people or so, mostly clad in black, who have basically just been moving through the streets, seemingly at will, it s not clear from the pictures, because we re only seeing one or two cameras on the scene. but it s not clear exactly how the police have set up to try to control this crowd, there you see some people throwing things police have reported molotov cocktails being thrown, there was a flare put intro introa police vehicle, and police went in to get that flare. there s the windows of a store being kicked in by one of the protesters. and there you see the flare being set and thrown into the store by one of the protesters as well. so we re going to continue to monitor this situation in portland, we ll bring you any updates throughout the night as warranted. we re going to keep a close eye on that. really throughout the next two hours. but there s been a busy day in u.s. politics, the white house says president donald trump stands by his unfounded claim that president obama wiretapped him, that was after the president seemed to get testy when he was pressed on the fact jong-un would sit face-to-face and have a conversation? not right now, i can t. at a very young age, he was able to assume power, i m sure a lot of people tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else and he was able to do it. so obviously he s a pretty smart cookie. white house press secretary sean spicer acknowledged the obvious, kim jong-un is a there s a lot of things that would have to happen in terms of his behavior and signs of good faith. reporter: spicer also seemed to echo his boss claims of kim jong-un s leadership quality. he assumed power at a young age, when his father passed away, and he s obviously managed to lead a country forward. reporter: the president also had glowing comments for philippine president duterte. his war on drugs, where thousands of people have been killed. the number one concern of this president is to make sure that we do everything we can to protect our people, and specifically to economically and diplomatically isolate north korea. jim acosta joins us now. what are. reporter: at the white house, anderson, senior administration officials were not that pleased about president trump s comments about duterte. they were surprised by the invitation that the president extended to duterte. it s been reported that duterte has made comments he s not sure if he has time to meet with mr. donald trump. but they will be able to meet later on this year in the philippines, but it s worth there would have to be the maximum of conditions and roll backs of their program to get a meeting with the united states. seeing that there could be a major, major conflict with north korea one day and dangling a meeting a few days later and complementing him as a very strong leader, does that make sense to you. it doesn t make sense to me. perhaps he s trying to message president xi in some way, but it s not going to work with kim jong- jong-un. here s the really strange thing, his national security team has actually done a good job of running a deliberate, measured interagency process on how to deal with north korea. and they have done this since the inauguration. despite all the travel by the vice president here recently, all that makes sense. i didn t hear anything from secretary tillerson that you didn t hear from the obama administration. but all of that is being put at a disadvantage if you will by the president s own sort of bellicose rhetoric and his inopportune tweets where he sends out these messages, all of that is unraveling where the national security council has actually taken us. some say the white house who has basically unleashed the police force to encourage the killing of the extrajudicial killing of drug dealers, drug addicts. we re talking about 7,500 people have been slaughtered in the several months, almost a year since duterte has been president. throughout the whole international community, people who care about human rights have come out very, very heavy on him. but it s true that his popularity is sky high in the philippines. but somebody like duterte probably wouldn t have been allowed inside the united states because unless he was a president. he doesn t have any influence, if the chinese president doesn t even know kim jong-un, then duterte has no pressure to put on north korea. sean spicer said today that it s a way to isolate north korea. christian is 100% right, they have no political, economic or even diplomatic throw aways in northeast area, what they have been able to help us with, and we have a legitimate mutual security alliance that dates back to 1951, but they have no throe weight at all in northeast asia. so the call about building this international coalition was absolutely completely empty, there was nothing there, he needs to call duterte on the carpet for these human rights violations. coming up, president trump standing by his unfounded claim that president obama wiretapped him, despite republicans, democrats and the head of the fbi saying there s no evidence of that. here s what he said when he was pressed on it. plus a 360 exclusive, this is a stunning story got a national security brief that s been kept quiet until now. an fbi staffer who ran away with the isis terrorist she was actually assigned to investigate. we re going to tell you where she is now and what s happened to her. you won t believe the story that s next on 360 ahead. terminix. defenders of home. could be preventedrrent with the right steps. and take it from me, every step counts. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. hidden in every swing, every 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saw what happened with surveillance. what happened with surveillance? you can figure out that. you called him sick and bad. look, you can figure it out yourself, he was very nice to me with words, and when i was with him, but after that there s been no relationship. but you stand by that claim? i don t stand by anything, you can take it the way you want, i think our side s been proven very strongly. i think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens. i think it s a very big topic, and it s a topic that should be number one and we should find out what the hell is going on. i just wanted to find out, you re the president of the united states, you said he was sick and bad because you can take it any way you want. but i want to get it from you. you don t have to ask me, because i have my own opinions, you can have your own opinions. i want to know your opinion, you re the president of the united states. there s no evidence to support president trump s wiretapping claims, and for the record, it s not just me saying it, it s pretty much everyone. we don t have any evidence of that taking place, in fact i don t believe in this last week, i don t think there was a tap of trump tower. there s no ed of that. this outlandish claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor, it really ought to appall americans. with respect to the president s tweets about alleged wiretapping by the prior administration, i have no evidence that supports his tweets. do you have any ed that now ryan lizza and jack kingston. i m curious as a reporter what you made out of that interview. and the president s refuse stall, he says he doesn t stand by anything, but he s clearly standing by those comments. he didn t make a case specifically, he just threw out some words, but he didn t actually make a specific claim. previously he said in a tweet that it was a wiretap. then he said that the british surveillance intelligence services perhaps were responsible for this and then he said that it was actually about incidental collection and unmasking. so there are three claims, each one was debunked and there s no evidence for the original wiretapping tweet or any of the others. but he still seems to want to generally to be thought that there s something behind it, without actually making any specific claim anymore. because all the other ones have fallen apart. he really gets that frustrated, but he seemed very frustrated that he was pressed on it which to me is a sign he s given up defending this, but doesn t want to actually admit that he was wrong and lied in that original tweet. everybody s talking about it, sometimes it s a verbal tick that he uses, during the campaign we heard it a lot. he also said that there should be the number one topic of discussion, surveillance. hi, everybody been scratching my head about this one because it s demon straably falsz. here s my here ray. joe lewis great prize fighter, they kept asking him, why do you want to fight again? he said fighters fight. liars lie. he just can t help it. it s pathological. i had forgotten about that even, i was ready to go on to the next issue, fight over health care, which apparently will be coming up soon. he just can t stop himself. which is the only thing i can think of. it s a very simple thing, he told a lie and he s going to continue to repeat that lie. even though the head of the nsa, the republican leader also says it s false. can you imagine the president demanding, we have to find out what the hell is going on, which is what he said about a number of things during the campaign, he is president of the united states, he could call in the head of the fbi and the head of the nsa and say what the heck is going on with surveillance. he has access to all the information out there about surveillance in the united states, so the idea that somehow he doesn t know what s going on or couldn t know, seems odd, don t you think? and that the unmasking, show the american people, we all deserve that information. i don t think the president s a liar, i know he s not a liar, i know he s guilty of imper situation if anything. perhaps you saw the susan rice unmasking documents, it led him to send that tweet. it was an imprecise tweet. it s one that should have been sought over. maybe twitter wasn t the best medium to send that out. but there s a question about the unmasking of people in the trump campaign by cia officials. unmasking wasn t what the president was talking about initially. but there is a case to be made that wiretapping is a term that s been used since the 80s to use surveillance in a broader way, it can be defined broader than just obama tapping he sent the tweet and called it a wiretap and then later learned from nunes, because he was concerned about unmasking. that unmasking he learned about weeks later. i was in congress when he passed the patriot act. i was in congress and got classified briefings on eric snowden s treason. i think there should be a lot of concern, democrat and republican on surveillance of american people during the metal data debate. we track your phone calls but we don t listen, no, we don t frack your phone calls. we have gotten a lot of information from the intelligence department. you wonder, how much information do these people really have on us? that s what the president he talked about surveillance. and i agree with joe lewis, he s a fighter. he was talking about president obama wiretapping his phones in trump tower. that s the tweet right there, how low has president obama gone to tap donald trump towers during this very say sacred election. i don t know how he knew what he knew when he knew it. by his own timeline, the president sent that tweet out and several weeks later, devin nunes said i have some information you should see. and he said i was right about the surveillance. even if you accept the information that this information was somehow scandalous, the president said he didn t see it until long after this has all been litigated in public for a long time. and obviously it s something that john dickerson asked him about, but the fact that he s still sticking by, he has yet to acknowledge any fault or the most generous interpretation, that the original tweet, he didn t really know what he was saying, it s horseshoes, and after he was investigating the thing, what he was really concerned about is collection under the fisa act. he didn t like the fact that the intelligence agencies could unmask people. it is the number one fool that they use to there has been information fed to trump supporters that 702 and the nsa are tapping your phones illegally and they can intercept anything they want. with the debate he started, sacrifices 702 this summer and republicans start turning against that, that s going to have ramifications. when the patriot act was passed originally. eric snowden has become a edward. edward, excuse me. trump has aligned himself with snowden on this issue. and he s got to make a decision. but you need to be more specific. when you have susan rice, an obama administration official admitting on television, i can t deny or confirm and according to the reporting on cnn have said that there s no there there. that s why the american citizens should be able to see the documents. and i would say that i go back to joe lewis s quote on susan rice, i think he was accurate. this was a woman who said there was no genocide in rwanda, that this is the united states of america has accused his predecessor of violating the law and the constitution by wiretapping him, that is a it s a prevarication. cps. the outcome is that they lose this tool, that s going to be a big deal. we got to lever ave it there the new republican health care bill is the list of no votes could be longer than expected. [team member] we re proactively advancing our security the legislation is going to to pass the house in its current form? thank you for having me. let me say this, the bill in its current form is problematic for a few reasons, one, the medicaid provisions are changing, it does not pro governor s kasich, sandoval have also i would tell you too that the states aren t given enough flexibility for resources to deal with medicaid. second the tax credits are not sufficient for many people who will transition from medicaid on to the exchanges. they will not be able to afford insurance, meaning that they will go naked or bare. and the amendment that has been proposed i believe makes it more difficult because it does potentially remove people with preexisting conditions. do you think that s act root or do you know of more no votes out there that maybe are not on anybody s list? i suspect there are probably a few more no votes than 21 at the moment. i don t know what the exact number is. i have heard that it s within two or three votes or as many as ten. i suspect it s closer to ten than two or three. so you know some people who are planning to vote no who right now are not being counted? pretty much, that s correct. one of the biggest sticking point, besides the medicaid issue you talked about is the fight over preexisting conditions. president trump said the bill is not in its final form now and it will be every bit as good on preexisting conditions as obamacare. do you think that s true? not with the amendment that was offered last week, that amendment in my view would remove protections with people with preexisting conditions or it could possibly remove them because the state would have the option to wave out of providing those potential health benefits. in it s current forms i would say that the protections aren t there for people with preexisting conditions. so the bill does not match some of the rhetoric we re hearing right now. you said earlier today that health care should be a bipartisan effort. would it be better if you got democratings on board? should it be a repair rather than a replacement? i think the mistake that was made by the democrats in 2010 is that they muscled obamacare through congress on a partisan basis and they have been wrestling with it ever since. we should try to work this bill from the center out. we have to get our rhetoric right. there s parts of the health care law, obama care, that needs fob repaired, reformed and overhauls and parts need to be retained. we need to enter this debate from that perspective. what you re saying sounds reasonable, it s a very moderate position, moderation is not something that a lot of the lines are clearly drawn on this right now. that s true. but i have said since we the republicans have taken the majority of the house for the last six or seven years, in order to do anything in a durable and sustainable way, in order to make any reforms, we need to do it on a bipartisan basis. we re going to have a vote on-we will need democrats to help us. that has been the case for hurricane relief, disaster relief, appropriations bills, debt ceilings, and that has been the case for the last few years, we will need to assemble bipartisan coalitions for infrastructure and tax reform. the democrats health care law obamacare is not as durable or sustainable as it should be because it was done on a partisan basis, we as republicans should not make that same mistake. just ahead tonight more of the violence on may day protests in portland after the firm protest was cancelled. a wave of vandalism erupted. there were very peaceful may day protests around the country, we ll go to portland just ahead. . when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in near real time. stay with me, mr. parker. .saving time when it matters most. stay with me, mrs. parker. that s the power of and. i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan. if you re totally blind, you may also be struggling with non-24. calling 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. may day protests are going on in portland and seattle. joining me on the phone is a local freelance journal irs in portland, mike bibbens. explain to me how many protesters there were. police are describing them as anarchists, we have seen some flares being thrown and windows kicked out. what was it like? reporter: it was fairly intense, at one point the police explained, oh, they have got a slingshot, there was rocks flying around. i would say there s definitely more than three arrests, i want to say like eight or nine. so there was a few arrests, more than a few arrests. my understanding is that the permit for the protest was revoked because the police say, because of the actions of what they describe as the anarchists. it did seem like these people, men and women in black were basically kind of moving relatively freely through the streets. i was looking from the air and a few cameras on the ground. was there much control over where they were going? reporter: police would try to cut them off, for example they would have the bridges out of downtown blocked off because that s a target of protests. but what had happened is they had kind of mixed in with the permitted annual may day protest. and so, you know, they were having to, the police were having to deal with these protests as one mixed together. then the rocks started flying and the smoke bombs started coming up. so once that started happening, the police in the city, they just cancelled the entire thing and urged everyone to come home, then they followed the protesters, i think about 80, 90ish protesters. then they were growing, i don t know if you call them flash bangs or noise, very loud noise, booms, eventually they cracked down at city hall and started tackling people. are those protesters that the police were describing as anarchi anarchists, is that over now? the riot police have driven away, and the people are recognized as protesters. who knows if something will knock off of this. the local media is on this corner, so maybe something will happen. for all we know there could be a roving band of protesters right now who broke away from this protest. the rally is being staged by labor unions and civil rights group mostly have ben peaceful, protesting president trump s immigration policies among other things, from his promise to build a wall along the southern border, to ending sanctuary cities, and his immigration ban that s hung up in the courts. i spoke with jorge before the disturbances in the portland protests. are you surprised the president hasn t been able to enact more of his immigration policies, whether it s funding of the wall or the travel ban or defunding sanctuary cities? not really surprised, but really for the hispanic community and the immigrant community, it s been horrible. it s been very difficult, it s been 102 days of fear. don t hold your breath on getting a check from mexico, that check is not in the mail, mexico won t pay for that. and i m surprised that the new budget doesn t create room for the ball. 70% of undocumented imgrants come by plane or overstay their visa. if i want to build a fence on my property and then i ask my neighbor to pay for that. the wall, i don t think is going to work, i think a good immigration policy, emphasizing legal immigration, but on the other hand atmosphere is still prevalent. just yesterday, sean spicer said that the wall will get built. do you believe it will get built as president trump described it? not the way trump described it. there s a 1,200-mile wall that president trump wants to build. i don t know how he s going to do it. the estimates that i have seen suggest that it could cost from $20 billion to $50 billion, and it s completely useless. let me just say, it s completely useless. when almost half of all immigrants come by plane or by visa, why do you need a wall? and as long as you have about 20 million americans in this country using drugs and paying for drugs, there s always going to be a drug traffic in latin america willing to take the risk in crossing that wall. for those who support the president s ideas of stopping undocumented immigrants from coming over, there have been successed that the white house can point so. in last year, there s been 13,000 apprehensions and deportations, and there s been as much as a 60% decline in apprehensions of people crossing over, that something the white house can point to as a success. but there are other numbers, in the first two months of the trump administration, the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants went from about 16,000 in the obama years to about 21,000 what i m really concerned is the undocumented immigrants with not criminals. the concern is the new policy, the trump policy is emphasizing the arrest of people who have done absolutely nothing wrong in this country, of course they broke the law when they came here, but we all do it complicitly, when we live in a house or an apartment building that was built by immigrants, weerz you don t believe that even deporting those who have not committed a crime, whether they re actually going out and actively seeking those people or whether those people, under the obama administration, many of them would come and check in yearly, it seems like the people who have had to check in yearly in safety under the obama administration, those people now when they check in, in many cases, they are being apprehended and deported out. it clearly creates fear, i understand that, in the community. but do you think it actually does prevent others from coming over? as a deterrent, yes, i think it s a deterrent, there s no question about it. fear works. but i think when we re talking about undocumented immigrants, we re talking about human beings, and we re talking about people who are here because of us. we have to take responsibility for that. they are here because they are working for us. millions of americans, you and me and those who are watching, benefit from that and there are thousands of american companies who are hiring them for a reason. it s simply a matter of supply and demand. so, yes, fear works and we re talking about human beings and if trump has a big heart like he says, he controls both the house and the senate. he can legalize 11 million. you have a big heart mr. trump? show it. well, it not a secret that president trump s a fan of andrew jackson, the seventh president in the oval office. what he said about jackson in the civil war in a sirius xm radio interview surprised a lot of people. they said my campaign is most like, my campaign and win was most like andrew jackson with his campaign and i said when was andrew jackson? it was 1828. that s a long time ago. had andrew jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn t have had the civil war. he was a very tough person, and he had a big heart. and he was really angry that he saw what was happeni ining with regard to the civil war, he said there s no reason for this. people don t realize that the civil war, if you think about it, why? people don t ask that question. but why was there the civil war? why could that one not have been worked out? the civil war of course started 16 years after andrew jackson died. the reason the war broke out, many books have been written on the subject. and it was the fight over the states right that ulgt matly led to the civil war. and president jackson himself was a slave these comments, what do you make of them? as usual it s hard to figure out what he is saying, what we believe he is saying. it s not historically accurate, both the idea that andrew jackson was not alive during the civil war, so he could not have been upset about what was happening during the civil war. i think even more importantly than that was that his belief that jackson could have worked something out. what would have been his work out? the only acceptable resolution for the civil war was the abolition of slavery. what would jackson compromise been? semi-slavery? for the president there s a lot to touch on here. as charles said for the president to say jackson was alive, it was odd. he got it wrong on that account, no? here is the thing with andrew jackson. the president identifies with his economic populism. when it comes to race, i don t want my friend charles to fall over, but i agree with him. i would add not simply was an economy built on the backs of slaves, the democratic party was built on the back of slave and race. my argument is that that culture of race and racism and obsession with race has never left the party and is still present there today. that is part of the legacy the racial legacy of andrew jackson which is terrible. charles, is slavery the brainchild of one political party? jeffrey lord knows if you walked into any room in america 100 years ago and asked the african-americans in that room whether or not they were republicans or democrats, almost all of them would have said that they were republicans, because the republican party was the party of lincoln. it was the it was the it was that party. until the decades leading up to the 60s and the 60s in particular. even into the 70s and 80s, when the republican party decided that it wanted to attract the people who hated black people rather than keep the black people that it had. and explicitly said that they wanted to attract the negro folks that s a word that they used. not black people. and that betrayal of the black people and black voters in america who had stuck by the republican party their entire life for generations and to be betrayed by that party, to be turned away and told that they the party then wartwanto attract the people that hated them was a betrayal black people have never forgiven. jeff? for the president also to question why the civil war happened in the first place, asking why couldn t it have been worked out, just last week in a reuters interview he made a similar question about the israeli and palestinian conflict, saying there s no reason why there s no peace, no whatsoever. i don t get the idea of those comments as if these are simple issues that could just kind of be worked out. i think in truth that he looks at all of these things as he looks at many other things that are not related to these issues, particularly i say this as a northerner, you know, slavery was not negotiable. had i been around, i would have been an abolitionist. i just think that that s that was the problem there. president trump sees himself as a deal maker and i think wonders had he been around could he have done it better. but how i guess how could andrew jackson, who owned more than 100 slaves or enslaved people, how could andrew jackson have worked that out? i think what appeals to president trump is he was tough as nails. i suspect he is thinking here that maybe being tough as nails he could have gotten a better deal as it were for america. it s hard to see in retrospect how we could have avoided this if people were intent on keeping slaves. let s give our viewers a little bit more history lesson in how tough as nails andrew jackson was. andrew jackson is also the person responsible for the indiana removal program that forcibly removed indians from the lands and included the trail of tears when thousands of indians died being marched west of the mississippi. this man was a white supremacist. he believed that white people in the south had the right to forcibly remove those people and take their land, had the right to enslave other human beings because of race. this is not the man who could have solved the slave issue in a way that would have been amenable to people who look like me. trump has it wrong because he doesn t know anything about history and refuses to read the history of the presidents that came before him. that s his words, he didn t read those books. this is what you get when you have a president who doesn t read. charles, jeff, appreciate it. up next, a story you have to see to believe. story of a rogue fbi translator with top secret security clearance who married an isis terrorist. she was assigned to investigate that person, the forbidden relationship remained hidden for years until our investigative team started asking questions. wait until you hear where the isis bride is living right now. the 360 exclusive in a minute. t. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote moisture sensors use a reliable network to tell them when and where to water. so that farmers like ray can compete in big ways. china. oh . he got there. that s the power of and. i like that. 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assumption that there is a price somehow for which kim jong-un and his predecessor, his father and his grandfather, would give up this nuclear program. i m not sure that s right because the nuclear program, to their mind, is the one thing that guarantees their survival. and the moment that they give it up, they re in the position that mow mar qaddafi was in when he gave up his nas entitle nuclear program in 2003. and he got a lot of promises of integration with the west and of course as soon as his people turned on him, the united states and europe and the arab states all joined in to drive him from power. the koreans were very, very aware of this and i would doubt that there is a price out there for which they would give up everything. and therein lies the big problem. let me go to you, ambassador. we tend to look at this through our own eyes, thinking like, why in the world would anyone want to risk being even using the artillery on the southern border north korea. as others said if they give up their nuclear weapons, what s to stop south korea or the united states from somehow invading north korea. they want those guarantees. the second thing is that we have long said that we re not going to even talk with north korea diplomatically unless they first give up their nuclear program. well, that hasn t worked so maybe we need to sit down and see immediately and see what we can do to move forward. howard, that also brings us a little to david s point. if there is nothing to get them diplomatically to give up their weapons, there s nothing we can offer them if they re not going to do it, they re not going to do it. and is it just sort of a cat and mouse game? we don t have to worry about them using the artillery on the southern border against seoul? i see that as the more imminent danger. that s definitely tactically strategically what they do with their nuclear arms. this is a pattern donald trump certainly won t like. the iranian deal, people like it or they loath it. the state department said the other day that it s working. donald trump is skeptical. but the hard liners in iran think that the iranians gave away too much when they allowed the amount of inspection and control that they we now have in that country. maybe as controversial as it is, there is a model there in iran that we could use in korea. except let me go back to you, david. the whole issue about i mean, they re just not going to give it up. they see what happens to gaddafi when he went up, everyone went in and qaddafi is dead. that struck a note with them. to howard s point on inspection, one of the advantages that everybody had in the iran nuclear deal, whether you like the deal or hate the deal, is they hadn t built weapons yet. and we knew pretty much where all of their major production facilities were. north korea is a much more complicated state. they ve got somewhere between ten and 20 weapons and they ve dispersed them. we don t know the exact number. we think, but we don t know for certain where all of their production facilities are. they have never allowed inspectors to go beyond the main reactor complex north of the capital. and even if they did, finding all of these weapons and finding the production facilities in a nation as mountainous, for bidding and secretive as north korea would be quite a job. so, it s an inspection problem from hell that actually makes the iran inspection issues look relatively simple. howard, maybe we should just we tried so many things. maybe if we ignore them. if they re four years off on the nuclear weapons, they re probably not going to fire the y artillery at south korea. i don t think we can ignore them. on one hand you can t take it face value, ridiculous statements they re going to use a super weapon to destroy america. they could destroy seoul. they could do a lot of damage. you could not ignore them. and the whole world has to keep paying attention. it is the inspection problem from hell, but it might be the one we have to go to. if there is going to be any change. gentlemen, thank you. one thing we need to remember one thing we need to remember is china does not want the south to ever take over the new york times. they don t want a unified korean peninsula. they don t want democracy on their door steps. china has every incentive to keep the north korean regime going, but they know in order to do that they ve got to help us stop north korea s nuclear development program. the problem is they ve known that for years and they haven t done anything. that s the whole problem. we end up back in a circle because this is just an impossible situation. but i m going to take the last word. gentlemen, thank you. thank you. still ahead, is the republican health care bill back from the dead? could a vote on the house floor really happen next week? and if you are covered under obamacare, should you be worried? that s ahead. also, attorney general jeff sessions under fire for comments he made about a judge in hawaii. we will tell you what the attorney general said and what it has to do with president trump s travel ban. plus, outrage over a new plan to charge our vets thousands of dollars to use the g.i. bill to get an education. we ll talk to a vet who is fighting back, and this. i didn t know i was going to get arrested. neither did i. we came in for testing. please don t touch me. disturbing video of a 10-year-old boy with autism put into handcuffs, hauled way from his mother and detained overnight. why did this happen? was it legal? that s ahead. dear predictable, there s no other way to say this. it s over. i ve found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something. set it free. see you around, giulia this for two months, maybe even less than that. the plan gets better and better and better, and it s gotten really, really good. and a lot of people are liking it a lot. we have a good schans chance ofg it soon. i d like to say next week, but i believe we will get it. a confident president trump on a new health care bill. it s a steamy hot issue in town halls like this one in idaho. if you believe health care is a human right, do you simply tell people who can t afford to buy health care [ inaudible ]? [ applause ] i do not believe health care is a basic right. [ booing ] and get this, when congress gets back to washington in a few days, a new obamacare repeal bill could be waiting. politico reporting a possible vote could come as soon as next week. two republican group leaders have a proposal trying to bring both far-right and more moderate sides of the republican house together. tonight minority leader pelosi saying, trumpcare is a moral monstrosity that will devastate seniors, children and hard working americans and republicans have decided to make it even worse. a reporter for political, editor for the washington examiner, page coming in as a health care reporter for the washington post. page, first to you. what is in this bill they think can bring the republicans right and left together? some provisions in this amendment have been discussed before they left for recess. one is providing waveers to states to allow them to opt out of some of these insurance regulations and that s something the conservatives in the freedom caucus had really demanded. another part of this which would be concession to moderates perhaps is putting back those essential health benefits that are requirements in the affordable care act. so, i think this really represents an effort to bring those two parties closer together. here s what i think a fast one is being pulled. tell me because i know you re steeped into this. they re going to keep preexisting conditions in, right? that s in, right? that stays in? correct. okay. but they can opt out of the prohibition on charging certain people more, which means this. the two of us, they could charge you a dollar and they could charge me, if i had like a serious health condition, they could charge me a million dollars. so, that essentially does keep me out if they can do different pricing, that does do away with the preexisting illness part. well, it should be noted that states would have to apply for a wafer to opt out of that to charge people more for preexisting conditions. you re right, this is one of the big disputes. what s the point of requiring insurers to accept these people if they can jack up the price to where they re unmanageably expensive. the question is what would states do. some states have a situation where preexisting conditions couldn t charge more, other states they would be depending on the actions of that state governor. i think i think that s pulling a little bit of a fast one. alex, you re reporting this is going to be put up on the floor next week possibly? look, clearly that s what the white house wants to happen. but it s a little unclear why they re talking about doing this especially so soon. look, next week they ve got to deal with government funding and a potential government shut down. that s really what republicans on the hill really want and need to tackle. here s the bottom line. there are a lot of republicans on capitol hill who want to put the health care fight behind them. they want to get on to other issues like tax reform. but you sort of get the sense that trump here just can t get over this loss with health care reform, and he maybe he s a little bit insecure or sensitive about the idea we re almost 100 days in and he doesn t really have a major legislative accomplishment under his belt just yet. tim, for the life of me i can t understand why they can t multi task. why can t they deal with both of these, government funding, maybe they shouldn t have gone away two weeks, but why can t they do health care and funding? part of it is they don t have what we call regular order. they don t do the committee process. i have asked republican leaders and rank and file members, why did you do it this way? paul ryan had a consultative process rather than a collaborative process. if you have questions, ideas, bring them to us. it was still the republican leadership doing it. so, you can t have energy and commerce writing the health bill and ways and means writing tax reform and appropriations doing the because the committees aren t really working in their normal fashion. and the republican leadership and the white house are taking it all on themselves. that s why they can t multi task because the parties have so changed the way congress works for whatever reason, it against ts gets centralized. maybe they ought to change the way congress works. whatever they re doing isn t working, right? right. we can all agree on that, right? the system they re using now is not working. i think a collaborative process could have brought on the mott rads and the conservatives. but ryan s process sort of lost them both by the end last time. i think what s notable right now is you see the speaker s office really stepping back. they re not involved in negotiations right now. it s actually done directly between the leaders of the freedom caucus and the tuesday group. the committees are stepping back. they re only involved a little bit in technical advising. it s interesting they wrote this legislation and now it s up to these other leaders to try to reach consensus on a bill that was really floundering. it will be interesting to see what happens. i want to know how they re going to fix the disparate amount of cost to people and how that doesn t get around the preexisting issue. but we ll see what they do. anyway, thank you. attorney general sessions rips a federal judge in the state of hawaii. was it an unforced error or was it strategic? and how about this for a coincidence. the judge donald trump quoted over his, quote, mexican heritage is now overseeing a new lawsuit involving the president. and this alarming and upsetting video, a 10-year-old boy with autism pleading with officers do not like to be touched. the arrest and the question tonight. was it legal? st everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a coupe soup. 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because his heritage is mexican. reporter: so what? because i want to build a wall. now to the new legal battle over when i judge curiel will hear, juan manuel montez alleges that the government did not show documentation to explain why sending him back to mexico was legal. i m back with alex eisen stat and tim carney. alex, i ve tried a lot of cases, hung around the courthouse a number of years. we lawyers say horrible awful things about judges when we lose, but we re not president of the united states or attorney general of the united states. that s a big difference to me. absolutely. well, look, those clips that you were showing, trump s comments of judge curiel, that may have represented the lowest point of trump s general election campaign. i mean, you saw a massive shake up in his campaign after that point. this is really the low point. and you sort of saw him back off those comments at a certain point. but it s going to be interesting to see if he comments on this looming case because immigration was really the cornerstone of his campaign and you re actually seeing a lot of trump loyalists, a lot of people who supported him during the campaign getting i am patience with him for not moving faster on the wall and forms of undocumented immigration. in fairness to the president it hasn t been a hundred days. he made a lot of promises. it s not been 100 days. tim, your thoughts on this, the attorney general and the president. i mean, it is an island in the pacific. he s totally he s true. it s really in the middle, not just off the coast of california. hawaii is far away. all right. so, he s literally correct. he s got the facts. it s actually many islands. many islands. but what you ve got is the question i share with alex, is trump going to sound like candidate trump? one of the biggest problems i think in the first hundred days is he hasn t adapted to being president of the united states. sort of pushing his daughter s shoe brand and, you know, saying oh, well, america today he didn t take the bait he was asked about kim jong-un. someone said was he mentally unstable, didn t take the bait. in the last couple weeks he s saying is he adapted to the fact he s not just a twitter troll and a game show host any more. but is actually president of the united states. and this curiel thing provides the perfect opportunity for that. so, in the first hundred days, we have ten more days, right? we ll get another test. has he kind of become president of the united states yet by day 100. by the way, i think everything changed on the hundred days. a lot of tension on the hundred days. if he gets tax reform by the end of the year the discussion about how much he accomplished will be completely irrelevant. anyway, exxon, it wants to drill for oil in russia. a very blunt senator john mccain writing on twitter, are they crazy? secretary of state rex tillerson used to run exxon/mobil. the company is now seeking a waiver from u.s. sanctions to start drilling on a deal tillerson negotiated in 2012. tillerson saying he will not be involved in any decision made while in office. you know, alex, he s not going to be involved and i believe that. but why would exxon even get why do they want a waiver, except for money, why should they get one? it s a good question. exxon does do a lot of business around the world. they ve done business with russia in the past. but, look, this comes at a time when there is already a lot of scrutiny into this administration s dealings with russia. and, so this isn t the administration s problem. the administration didn t seek exxon to ask for a waiver. this is exxon doing it. that s true. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. you re already seeing tillerson saying i have nothing to do with this and he s saying he s not going to have anything to do with any exxon any exxon business that comes before the state department. and the nature of these waivers is usually, for instance, when we had sanctions on burma, there was a provision in there saying, oh, well, if it s certain natural gas fields then it s okay with the idea being, well, some of these things, it actually if we re advancing the u.s. interests with these sanctions, there might be an exception where if we don t do this business with russia, somebody else will. if an american country i don t think exxon is doing it for magnanimous reasons of national security. i think they re doing it strictly for money. any time people get these exceptions in the sanctions it s special deals for special people and exxon if there are sanctions i mean, i don t think tillerson is going to have anything to do with this, but it s like the tax code. some people get special deals and that s unfair. the simpler it is obviously the less possibility there is for cronyism and that sort of thing. what you have to worry about is not just tillerson involving himself but some mid level bureaucrat saying, is it going to purse off tillerson if i don t give exxon this thing? it creeps into their mind. this is something they must go up high. this can t be some mid level person who says, okay right? tillerson had a hard time finding people to run the state department. who knows he s going to be making this i think his bigger problem is he s not talking to the press enough. i d like to he see tillerson r talking more to the press. do you hold him accountable for this? doesn t make sense he wouldn t be. that would be even more improper. thanks for putting me in this nice spot. thank you both. do you want to charge veterans for the g.i. bill to get an education after they serve their country? some members of congress do. it is going like a lead balloon with vets. a video of an autistic boy handcuffed and taken away from his mother ask dee taped a night. is that legal? i didn t know i was going to get arrested like this. neither did i. neither did i. we came in for testing. please don t touch me. chnoloy gave us the power to turn this enemy into an ally? microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their dna to fight disease. there are over 100 million pieces of dna in every sample. with the microsoft cloud, we can analyze the data faster than ever before. if we can detect new viruses before they spread, we may someday prevent outbreaks before they begin. there try phillips fiberway to ggood gummies.. they re delicious. and a good source of fiber to help support regularity. mmm. these are good. nice work, phillips ! try phillips fiber good gummies! nitrites or artificial mesquite preservatives.added nitrates, now it s good for us all. like introverts. extroverts. 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[ bleep ] yes, it is, and i ll get a lawyer. i agree. this is for something months ago we didn t know neelgter did i. we came in for testing. i don t want to be touched. please don t touch me. as they lead the child out to the police cruiser, lieu ann explains to the officer her son has autism. [ bleep ]. can i ride with him? no, ma am. so, you really can t tell me as the parent i know you don t know what s going on. can you tell me what s going on or have any paperwork that you can show me? i don t know what s going on. excuse me. do you have any paperwork or anything you can say to me? i don t know what s going on. i don t understand. i know, honey. he has autism. he doesn t know what s going on, he s scared to death, he s 10 years old. i don t know what s [ bleep ] going on. i don t either, honey. i don t want to go. listen, i don t want you to hurt nobody. it s all their fault. i m sorry, honey. [ bleep ]. i have nothing to do with this. no, he s not going to be okay. the autism society of america saying the school s response was, quote, beyond wrong and evil and a tremendous failure by allegedly irresponsible institutions the police and the school. the officers say they were not aware john has autism and there is more. the 10-year-old spent the night in a juvenile facility. he will be a rained may 11. the school commented in part that they could not provide details on the incident due to the law. katie fa is a prosecutor, both are legal analysts. ted? you have to ask yourself what is going on in that school system. are they stuck on stupid? this is just terribly insensitive. you have a 10-year-old child. now, remember what happened, this incident was alleged to have happened six months ago. you lure him to the school. you put this child in handcuffs. you keep him overnight. there is something deeply flawed and insensitive about that system, greta. i think insensitive is a really light word to use for this. i mean, this is so beyond the pale. i don t know where you find adults, more than one adult to do this. they found two police officers and apparently the school is complicity. katie. so, the school resource officers were acting on an arrest warrant as ted said for an incident that occurred almost six months ago. they knew where the young man lived. they could have gone and addressed it. i mean, i agree, greta, it s not the word insensitive. it s a gross level of indifference as to a special needs child. there is touch sensitivity that is commonplace among autistic children. and they handcuffed a 10-year-old. i mean, even if he didn t have autism, what in the world are you doing handcuffing a 10-year-old for something that happened last october, and the kid was summoned to school, has president been in school since to take a test, and they called the police. come in and handcuff this kid. you torture an autistic child, take him from his mother, throw him in a police car and keep him all night long. and that s the other thing. you handcuff him, you keep this child in jail all night. the child, from all indication, has never beenway from his mother all night. can you imagine how frightened you would be even as an adult under these circumstances? i just think this is reprehensible and something needs to be done to that school system. and the school is so lame to say they can t talk about it. i know why they re not talking about it because they re up to their eyeballs. this happened to the school. why didn t someone step up. why didn t someone step up and say this is a child, 10 years old, he has autism, what in the world are you doing handcuffing this kids dragging him off for something that happened six months earlier. what s crazy is the school is an alternative school known for dealing with kids with trouble or special needs. the school could have said i can corroborate this child has autism as the mother is saying. you would note the mother tells the young man when he s placed in the back of the police car, please do not hurt anyone. so, he does have a tendency to maybe hurt someone else he s autistic. you need to be very careful. he s a troubled child who has special needs. he s going to be a rained for a felony. not only for a felony. now his behavior may escalate under the circumstances here. and the mother was not even shown the warrant. she didn t know anything. all she knows, she s taking a child to school for a standardized test and all of a sudden she s being locked up. we re not going to show you the warrant. we re not going to tell you anything. what is going on in that school system? katie, i think because the school is a special needs school has greater responsibility because of kids having these needs. you have a heightened awareness on the part of the administrator. why not corroborate the young man has autism, why not work with the school resource officers. what do you achieve by prosecuting him for a felony, what in the world is achieved by that? i don t think they re going to prosecute him. i think the prosecutor under prosecutorial discretion will not go forward. but it s because of the heat that they are going to feel upped the circumstances. having him in jail overnight, detention center, we ll see. i m anxious to find out what the school and the police have to say. what we ve seen so far is not good. anyway, thank you both. why are we taking this one out on our vets? congress about to do something that is going to hurt our vets. if you are a vet or you know someone who is, you need to watch this coming up and venezuela just seized a general motors plant in venezuela. are they trying to provoke the u.s.? 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[ gunshots ] general motors which has a huge operation in venezuela has now been seized by the venezuela an authorities. jose is an anchor in venezuela. he has covered venezuela for many years. good morning, jose. what is provoking this protest? greta, you know what s going on in venezuela? a disaster. it really is. the situation that s happening in the world one of the most rich est countries in the world as far as natural resources are concerned, it has the largest reserves of petroleum in the world. and yet we re seeing a country where essentially power is being held by one particular group. it s hugo chavez s people that are now with the president nicholas maduro. what he s done is consolidated power at the risk of destroying the economy. just last month, greta, inflation was at 455%. think about this. that s inflation rate of the month of february in a country where most people have a tough time finding a way to find their daily food. and, so, just earlier this month, the president and his puppet, the supreme court, decided to remove to cease power from congress excuse me. they decided to say congress doesn t legislate any more. and, so, now you have a situation where they ve kind of backtracked and they re saying, well, congress does exist, but they can t legislate. they re not getting paid. they re not getting any kind of support. and what people are seeing is a vacuum of power, all of it going towards one particular group of people, and the economy destroyed. all right. well, we talked about the economy. obviously the tension i have is on our company, american company gm has now been seized by the venezuela authorities. you can see the looting, the water canons. this is a situation that is not getting any better, at least not from this video. i realize this is not live video. but where does this go? this doesn t look like it s going in the right direction. no, it is not. and it is not, greta. it is of concern and it should be of concern to us in the united states, notnly becau venezuela is an porter ooil, but also because iis a country that is very important for latin america. and the fact that you have a country that is in turmoil and with no easy way out of it leads one to believe that maybe we re going to have to be focused more on that, you know. the fact is that you have a government that just told the opposition, including a governor of one of the states, that they could no longer be involved in politics. so, from one day to the other, opposition leader enrique who is a governor, sitting governor, was told that he no longer is a governor, and that he can t run for office or participate in office for the next 15 years. so, when you have a government telling the opposition that, number one, in congress they don t exist, they can t legislate. they re telling politicians and governors that they are no longer governors. what can we expect to happen in a country like venezuela? and it s an important country to the united states. and it s also almost one of our neighbors. it s not that far away from the united states. and, of course, the situation is only getting more wicked. seizing an american company and, of course, now deaths on the street. jose, thank you very much. gm has been working since 1948 in venezuela. they re the largest car manufacturers in that country, and thousands of people work for gm in that country and all of a sudden their future is also in question. i read 2700 2,700 employees. thank you, jose. good to see you, greta. coming up, a new plan to make vets pay for the gi bill sparking outrage tonight. plus the wells fargo scandal, revealing an even deeper failure to protect you. that s yex. looking for balance in your digestive system? try align probiotic. for a non-stop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support, with align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. also in kids chewables. that gives you better taste and better nutrition in so many varieties. classic. cage free. and organic. only eggland s best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. i am totally blind. and for years i ve struggled with non-24, a circadian rhythm disorder that can turn my sleep cycles upside down. it kept me from doing the things i truly love to do. sometimes i d show up early; sometimes i was too late. and sometimes, even though i was there. i didn t really feel. there. talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424 to learn more. dearthere s no other way to say this. it s over. i ve found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something. set it free. see you around, giulia don t let dust and allergens and life s beautiful moments. flonase allergy relief delivers more complete relief. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause all your symptoms, including nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. flonase is an allergy nasal spray that works even beyond the nose. so you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. flonase. 6>1 changes everything. there s no question in my mind we need to do more for our veterans, but we may be taking a step backwards because there s aids new bill in congress that will require veterans to pay thousands of dollars in fees in order to receive g.i. education benefits. some veterans groups call it a troop tax. congressman phil rowe is chairman of the committee on veterans airfas. he defends his bail saying these pro-vigzs if enacted would benefit the men and women who currently wear the uniform and would preserve g.i. bill benefits for generations to comcom come. paul, thank you for joining us. my pleasure. okay, scandalized. i ve worked with a lot of vets who come ohhome, the head injuries. i m skandized when we nickel and dime them. i know you are too. this is a whole new level of stupid out of washington. it s not just about nickel and diming veterans. it s will our national defense. this proposal wants to charge privates enlisting in the military $100 a month to buy into their g.i. bill. so as bombs are dropping on syria, we re a nation at war, some folks in congress think it s a good idea to start charging enlisted junior soldiers a hundred dollars a month for about two years. these are people who make on average, their base salary is about $19,000. it s bad for recruiting, bad for national defense, bad for the pentagon. it s bad for american because the g.i. is the biggest return on investment we ve had. our message is clear. iava and leading veterans groups are going to defend the gi bill. we re not going to allow congress to come after our benefits. this is a cost of war. if you come after this, we re going to vigorously defend it and oppose any cuts, any fees, any taxes that congress tries to come up. you look at it completely differently than i do. you talk about the economic costs. i look at it from a completely different vuppoint. i look at it from i m ashamed. we should be. i look at it like i can t believe we re trying to nickel and dime these vets. have they ever seen these vets? i mean it s just extraordinary to me. i just am almost speechless. here s the video of someone who is really hurt, but i don t think we should do it to someone who s not hurt, who s been stateside the whole time. the response has been swift. you re one of the first national news agencies to cover this. i think that everybody who has put their name on this is going to face a furious and immediate backlash. if you want to run for re-election, go into your town hall and tell them you re goi to charge privates and veterans to buy into their gi bill. anybody who says we have to do this because they might tut cut later, that s garbage. we d love to hear what president trump thinks about this. i hope somebody asks sean spicer about it tomorrow in the daily press conference. you just tipped him off to do that. i actually think that president trump would be scandalized by this. i m actually surprised at who is pitching it too. i think that he hasn t thought it through. i mean the people who are sponsoring this haven t really thought this one through. look, there s so much government waste in washington. i could walk up the hill and find you about six projects that we could cut to pay for this. right. there s no better return on investment than the g.i. bill. it s produced countless outcomes for our imagine a recruiter sitting in a mall somewhere trying to convince a private to join the army. he says we re going to need you to maybe fight in syria. by the way, $100 a month for your g.i. bill. how is that going to go over in mainstream america? i m just embarrassed. we should all be embarrassed. you re right, i and hope people call their congressmen. let them know this is dead on arrival. thank you for joining us. thank you, ma am. appreciate it. i want to say something for the record. this is also disgraceful. it s when corporations bamboozle us. take us last week when the united airlines ceo apologized sort of for having, quote, reacom da reaccommoda reaccommodated the passenger who was han manleds. meanwhile he sent an internal memo blaming that passenger. that s lousy, but it s worse when our taxpayer-funded government joins corporate america and plays us. now, you also know that wells fargo got caught red handed secretly setting up millions of fake bank and credit card accounts without telling customers or getting their permission. now, that s fraud. it s a crime. in fact, thousands of crimes because each account that was fraudulently set up is a crime. maybe you were one of the victims. while the wells fargo board knew about this scam or should have because since 2005, they had been receiving regular notices of suspected violations. they just didn t do anything about it. they looked the other way for money, maybe yours. but it gets worse. the taxpayer-funded bank regulator who is supposed to protect you from this kind of bank fraud, did nothing, zero. the office of the comptroller of the currency, starting around 2010, received 700 whistle-blower complaints about wells fargo and this giant scam but did nothing, zero. 700 whistle-blower complaints and did nothing. they heard all about it. one complaint should have been enough. so can you tell me why we have this government office, this comptroller? why are all you taxpayers having to pay all their salaries when they re not doing anything for you on this? are you ready for more? when the news broke that the government bank regulator ignored those 700 whistle-blower accounts for years, in other words, after they got caught, it issued a statement saying are you ready for this? it s enforcement of wells fargo was untimely and ineffective. you think? i know of a swamp that needs some draining. president trump and senator elizabeth warren, are you both listening? this is just perfect for you. fix this one. thank you for watching. i ll see you back here tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. eastern. if you can t watch live, set your dvr.
taking pictures with a bunch of people. if the warriors are feeling any stress at all, it certainly is not clear. now, they haven t played in a long time. nine days off and they ve only played 13 games in the last 46 days. you just saw a shot of steph curry there going through his warm ups. i think that s much more preferable than the situation last year when steph was hurt, hobbled through the okc series. the warriors were able to overcome a deficit in that series, but he struggled in the nba finals. one final thought to wrap it up. steve kerr talked about playing with joy. some of the assistant coaches in the warm ups were talking about that s great, but against the cavs we need grit and we need physicality. certainly when dealing with lebron jim cramer. in 15 minutes i ll talk with an old friend from espn. there is a huge international contingent of media here. i ll get you that and our own pregame show coming up at 5:00. that s a wrap. dan, alma, back to you. look forward to that. thanks so much, larry. abc7 news was at the alameda county food bank where they are putting cleveland on notice. laying down the challenge once again as the food banks vie for dominance in the food court. it s online fund-raising competition to see who can bring in the most dough during the nba finals. throwing down the gauntlet to our friends in cleveland. what we hope is to put a big dent in hunger, have some fun rivalry, and get fans engaged in our work. it s a great idea that does some good. the mayors of both cities launched the competition in place of the more traditional city hall wageers. the san francisco food bank is also in on this and yo can help end hunger now and meet this challenge. here s all you do. just go to our website abc7news.com, we have a link set up there for you. well, today warriors fans are sporting all of their gear, especially the superstitious fan. laura anthony is live to tell us about an east bay man who has a lucky warriors themed small kitchen appliance, laura. reporter: well, that s right, dan. when it comes to sports and playoffs, especially everybody has their lucky stuff, you ve got the hats, the jerseys, the socks. here at mo-mo s in walnut creek, they have a special drink. a warrior drop. their signature drink for the playoffs for the finals. earlier we met a guy who has a lucky toaster. this toaster here is responsible for the last 28 games. reporter: it looks like any other toaster to the naked eye. to die hard fan roni reyes, this isn t just any small appliance. it is one with special powers at least since klay thompson signed it in march. ever since then we ve been undefeated. reporter: 27-1 actually. the one loss came when thompson wasn t playing. and he looked at it, is that a toaster? reporter: here s a photo of thompson signing the toaster at an autograph event in san francisco. he recognized some of the signatures. he recognized david lee right there. and he recognized draymond. so i m like, yeah, draymond and david lee right there. that s cool, it s the first time i ve ever seen this. reporter: since then he haded jim barnett. reyes and his toaster have become celebrities. at least among his coworkers. do you let the toaster out of your sight? not at all. reporter: and he will never, ever use it for its intended purpose. it injures burns the logo onto the bread. it doesn t toast it that well. reporter: that s okay, as long as the warriors toast the gachlz in the finals. laura anthony, abc7 news. love it. like the past two years, the warriors will host official watch parties at the oracle arena when they head back to cleveland. watch party tickets for games three and four game on sale monday. season ticket holders get the first crack at 10:00 in the morning. priority wait list begin at 11:00. tickets are $20. and abc7 is the only place to watch every game of the finals. here the schedule. game one at oracle. game two is also in oakland sunday at 4:30. game three is in cleveland. wednesday at 5:30, and game four is also in cleveland next friday, june 9th at 5:30. have to settle in for what should be an exciting series. abc espn coverage begins at 5:30 here on abc7. join sports director larry beil and mike shoe nan for #dubson7 pregame show brought to you by jeep. larry and mike will be live at oracle arena tonight at 5:00 p.m. as the three pete final gets underway. well, three bay area planned parenthood centers will be closing for good at the end of this month. the centers are in central richmond, pilts burg, and vacaville. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow explains why these three locations were chosen. reporter: planned parenthood of northern california provides health care and education to approximately 155,000 people a year, everything from cancer screening to birth control. now the provider has announced it will close centers in central richmond, pittsburgh, and vacaville on june 30th. this is a decision that was made in a really careful and deliberate way. reporter: that s because planned parenthood chose locations that are close to other locations. on july 1st we want to be able to keep seeing everyone who needs us at the nearby locations or other locations. reporter: employees will also have the option of working at other locations. still the news concerns pro choice advocates. we will lose people who provide family planning and abortion services in communities that need it the most. we re fighting for immigration rights and civil rights, and we re fighting for lgbtq rights. we cannot forget that mmrajority of women in this country are facing health care disparity. reporter: they are not limited to federal action. low medical rates impact the organization. we continue to offer the services, but the reimbursement doesn t keep up with the cost. reporter: planned parenthood supporters are urging lawmakers to set aside funds from the tobacco tax to support a med-i cal rate increase for family planning services. melanie woodrow, abc7 news. a herd of goats narrowly escaped a fire in milpitas and a week later we have new video showing the recovery of one of the most badly burned animals. i m spiencer christian. we have sunny skies as the warm up continues. i ll have the accuweather forecast in just a moment. is there enough staff to clean the cages, to walk the dogs as much as they need to be walked? tonight on abc7 news at 11:00, an abc7 eye team exclusive, critics say the contra costa county animal shelter is under staffed, mismanaged and overwhelmed. the women in charge answer our questions. and we continue to await a verdict in san jose on the trial of three jail guards accused of beating an inmate to dea wow means you save 50% or more. there are three stages of wow. denial. is this price right? acceptance. and boooyah! wait for it! boooyah has three o s . grocery outlet bargain market it s buy one, get one free on snickers and twix miniatures. it s buy one, get one free buses across the east bay. game one of the finals is right here on abc7 in just over one hour. ticket demand for games one and two of the finals is off the charts. in fact, according to stub hub, in the last five years, only games one and two of the 2015 finals between the warriors and the cavs ranked higher than this year. international sales are on the rise as well, up 140% over last year, with fans from 29 countries purchasing tickets. one final note from stub hub. warriors fans are more willing to support their team on the road, buying 15% more away game tickets than cavs fans. all right. stay with us. 49 more minutes to abc-espn coverage of the finals. you but let s move on. goats escaping the fire last week is on the road to recovery. a love creek sanctuary and farms tells us charlie is getting better. today he woke up hungry, which that s a good sign obviously. he s being treated at u.c. davis. they are bringing him this stuffed animal to play with today. sky 7 captured the small herd of goats that got trapped between the flames and that fence you see in the front of the screen last thursday. most managed to escape with minor burns but one goat did not survive. and this is new video today of other goats in that herd in san jose. they seem to be enjoying their new home and their new friends who are treating them so kindly. a pair of osprey chicks born in richmond have names this afternoon. after almost two weeks of voting this morning the golden gate audubon society named her after rosie the riveter. is it live or a picture? that s one still bird. the names were chosen during an online vote. the chicks were born about two weeks ago. not even blinking. droneview7 gives us a look at a san francisco institution that could soon reopen after being closed for a decade. and we re looking live at blue skies from our camera in the east bay hills. spencer will return to update the forecast in just five minutes. stay tuned for that. before we move on for a break, let s update the breaking news, abc7 news reporter david louie reported the verdict is imminent in the case of three correctional officers on trial for the death of an inmate. we plan to bring you that sky 7 live over oracle arena as we count down to game one of the nba finals, the warriors and the cavs which you can see right here on abc7. so happy to have my old friend here and i m so envious because you are going to do the play by play for espn spanish channel for espn. [ speaking in foreign language ] how many people, how many countries will that broadcast go to? u.s., puerto rico, and all of latin america. so, from tijuana to and the best part, larry, is we re growing the sport. we re turning soccer fans into hoop fans and specifically into dubs fans. a lot of new converts to dub nation. you were telling me the support in latin america, especially for the golden state warriors is just rising so rapidly. everybody loves a winner, right? everybody loves the show they put on. but what s surprising to me, for example, in argentina, you can imagine the spurs are the number one team. but to find golden state fans that say, i love manu, but i want the dubs to win no matter what and i want them to win in four games. it s something new to me. it s shocking to me. we can hear your broadcast on abc7 tonight. yes. if you do listen to me in spanish, you re listening to the secondary audio program. fidget with your audio settings. either way you learn. you ll learn spanish with me. you ve been telling me for years, larry, come on, we need you on deportes. i ve seen you speaking spanish for a while. i ve rehearsed a lot of that, un poco. give me steph curry. the only thing is nylon. net, i go steph curry. and that means? nothing but net? nothing but net. you ll be hearing a lot of that in the series. we hope so. it is so good to see you. thank you, larry. old friend from espn in bristol. listen to him on espn deportes.o guys, we have a big pregame show. he s using my own lines against me. 5:00, 5:00 the jeep pregame show #dubson7. he s using it with authority. oh, yes. muches gracias. he s encouraging you to speak more spanish. this is highly entertaining. scary. thanks, larry. all right. well, pride month has started in the bay area. happening now in san mateo the first lgbtq center in san mateo county is hosting a grand opening ceremony. the center is on 11th avenue on el camino real. grand opening continues through 7:00 tonight. it s decision today telegraph hill institution, not just hoit tower, but the cassel which sits right below as you can see in the video shot by droneview7. the san francisco planning commission is considering whether to allow the restaurant to reopen. it closed in 2007 after decades in business. city planners have recommended that the planning commission grant conditional use authorization to reopen the restaurant in the landmark building despite concerns about traffic. spacex will have to wait until saturday to launch its first recycled cargo ship. a lightning strike near the kennedy space ship in florida delayed the launch of the spacecraft. it first flew into space three years ago. aviation buffers are still buzzing over the largest plane ever built. enormous, strat owe launch debuted yesterday in the mojave desert. it has a wing span larger than a football field and is powered by six boeing 747 engines. its first flight is months away, the first rocket flight launch could happen as early as 2019. it is co-owned by microsoft co-founder paul allen. sunny and mild, a live look at doppler 7. patchy fog, we ll see the fog extending across the bay locally overnight. overnight lows will be mainly in the low to mid 50s. many of our farther inland locations will be clear overnight. tomorrow will be sunny day with just a little patch of fog lingering at the coast line. highs will range from low and mid 60s at the coast to mid 70s around the bay, mid- 80s in the warm est inland locations and in san bruno tomorrow is the graduation ceremony for cappuccino high school at 1:00 p.m. and all throughout the afternoon. it is going to be sunny and mild with temperatures in the mid to upper 60s in san bruno. that is my gift to the graduates. here s the accuweather seven-day forecast. wish i had a job for you, too, but i don t. [ laughter ] this weekend we ll see partly cloudy skies. it will be nice and bright, though. high temperatures will drop off a few degrees from tomorrow s highs but will start warming up again monday. tuesday looks like the highest with 90s inland. heating up. thanks, spencer. up next go inside the dejong museum for a sneak peek at an art exhibit. next at 5:00, draymond is on the court and so is lebron james. they are ready for a rematch. i don t want to feel what i felt last year. steph curry looking for redemption. the team now has kevin durant. fans hope he s heading to an up stoppable team. we ll see what happens. it s a team game. we re definitely excited. and we are just minutes away from the #dubson7 pregame show brought to you by jeep. jose county courthouse where the verdict is being read now. we have details on the complicated case and complex verdict on abc7 news tonight at 10 effect 30. well, san francisco s legion of honor and dejong art museum is recognized as having some of the best collections of american art in the world. except something has been missing all this time. tomorrow night they will display works of art by prominent african-american artists. the question is why did it take so long. abc7 news reporter lyanne melendez tells us why. reporter: guard dogs attacking black men, a reality of the civil rights era now embedded in the fabric of american history. yet the art world has neglected to recognize and celebrate african-american art. it s often thought of that a lot of the african-american art is less than and it s not as valued, it s not as appreciated. reporter: today the fine arts museum announced they have acquired 62 works by 22 contemporary african-american artists. they will now be part of their permanent american art collection. the director of the museum s max holine took over last year and noticed a gaping hole in the collection. a big chapter is missing and that s really in this case the whole story, the history, the appreciation of african-american art, especially from the deep south. reporter: most of the artists were born in the era of jim crow segregation, carrying with them the memories of their ancestors. the slave ship by thornton dial is a moving image of their transatlantic voyage. while revealing they also touch upon universal issues. racism, poverty, religion, class differences. and, so, it s a story that we can all relate to whether we have that unique african-american experience or whether we re from the south or whether we re from the bay area. reporter: board member belva davis believes it is an acknowledgment of a complicated past. this is a trigger for human emotion. the trigger to connect us back to our souls if we accept it. it really makes me emotional. reporter: the exhibition opens this friday night and will be in this gallery for the next ten months before it moves on to the permanent collection. in san francisco, lyanne melendez, abc7 news. and you can get the latest news any time with the abc7 news app, you can download it for free. just be sure to enable push alerts to be the first to know aout breaking alerts where you live. next the lineup, the #dubson7 free game show brought to you by jeep, followed by nba count down. game one starts at 6:00 p.m. followed by the toyota after the game show. now, after basketball coverage is done, text wheel of fortune, at 9:30, followed by jimmy kimmel live and we ll be back with you for a full hour of abc7 news starting at 10:30 tonight. great night. thank you so much for joining us for abc7 nes at 4:00. i m alma daetz. and i m dan the energy conscious whopeople among usle? 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police came. my other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. you can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. we heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. i could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar-15, and we could not see i kept yelling back are you friendly? we didn t know if it was another gunman or if it was return fire. and the capital policeman put his head around the dugout and i could tell it was them returning fire. it was a very chaotic situation, and it lasted for at least ten minutes and it just kept going on and on. some estimated over 50 shots. i stood up up in the dugout trying to get a sense of where the gunman was. he walked around first base outside of the fence. . and he got into the dugout. and we realized we were not safe there. could you see what kind of a gun. could you see what kind of weapon it snfs. no, i couldn t. and someone saw him raise a rifle to begin with. when i saw him i didn t see the rifle. i think at that point he may have had a handgun. once someone yelled the shooter is down, i ran over to steve scalise to apply pressure to the wound. were you the first person to get to him? from your account, the gunfire, cross fire, went on for ten minutes, was he on the ground out towards the outfield for ten minutes pile the gunfire was going? yes, about ten yards into the outfield on the grass. and you can see the trail that he left, the trail of blood, from where he was hit. and he was laying there and that is what was really tough. we were treating another staff member that was shot in the dugout, and making sure that joe martin s 10-year-old son made it to the dugout, and putting him as deep as we could under the bench so the gunman could not get to him. and we just didn t fwhee to do at that point. we could not rush through the gunfire to get to steve, so as soon as we heard that the gunman was down, that s when i ran out, and some others followed later. let me ask you, when you first got to steve scalise, was he talking? yes, he was coherent and conscious. we tried to keep him talking. the gunshot was on the left hip so i put psh on that, i had a batting glove still on and tried to keep blood from coming out. we used that shirt to put pressure on, and ten minutes later after we knew the shooter was down, someone brought some gauze. we tried to put that on, but there was a lot of blood. where was his wound, senator? on the left hip. we could see the entry, we never saw the exit. he has had surgery now so we will know more about that but there was a lot of blood and we tried to keep the bleeding down. where was the staffer s wounds? it was on the leg, right about the calf, and we had someone take off a belt, and we used the belt to wrap around to stop some of the bleeding as well. so there was a lot going on, but a lot of it involved just trying to duck down as far as we could to keep out of rain of the gunfire. how large was his detail. he had a detail there, thank goodness, but i think it was two or three. they came out, it was after awhile to steve, and he brought a kit and he had a wound that was on his foot. i think he was shot on the foot, and i think he may have been the one to bring the gunman down, but he never stopped. it was, i could tell you there was a lot of heroism there among the capital police, and thank goodness that steve was there at practice today, we would have fwhn a much, much worse situation. did you hear the gunman say anything? no, people ask that, there was yelling, but it was too tough to tell given the chaos who was yelling what. i was doing some yelling to try to figure out if the gunfire behind us was friendly or not. we feared there could be more than one gunman, and feared that he might make his way around and into the dugout where there was the biggest concentration of members let me ask you about joe mart martin s son, the emotional impact on a child, how is he? i tell you, he did the right thing. he was in, there is a little batting cage, and i had just walked by and saw him in the smaller one, and i was wondering in the dugout where he was, and he rushed into the dugout and i think joe martin was behind the dugout looking for him, extremely concerned, but we want today make sure he was as stach as we could. we stuffed him under the bench where he could not be scene, and that was a tough thing. do you practice every day in the days leading up to the game, that was scheduled for tomorrow night and will be played as schedule, to the cheers of house members, do you practice every day? typically, i don t want to give away too much, but leading up to the game, we re out there early. we have been going to that field for a long time, someone would know that, they don t have to be a local. there has within reporting from that field and practice. it could have been known. just to just date you update you, the alleged shooter at the republican baseball practice is someone that volunteered on his campaign and he is sickened by this and we will continue to bring you that up. right now the prayer is being delivered on the house floor. paul ryan will be taking the house floor senator, we ll go there momentarily, stay with us, if you can, while we listen. . we as americans are blessed by a free and open society with rights secured by law and the constitution. but once again, we are reminded that there is a vulnerability that comes with that openness. may we all be vigilant in being good citizens, neighbors, and defenders of our way of life at a time when so many challenges to our way of life and government seem under siege we thank the men and women that respond to the crisis that fall before us, es earherba personal especially the capital police. may they be assured of our appreciation of their service. in this great silence, as we are gathered most dramatically as this assembly at the people s house, may republicans and democrats be mindful of the rare companionship they share. men and women that have taken very public responsibility for our country, that carries so many burdens and today the remind reminder of shared danger. may this day be characterized by kindness, goodwill, and compassion to one another. god bless america, and may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. amen. the examination of the journal for the last day s proceedings, pursuant the journal stands approved. the chair will lead the house in a pledge of allegiance and invites the members of the gallery to join. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. for our purposes, the gentleman is recognized. my colleagues, there are very strong emotions throughout this house today. we are all horrified by the dreadful attack on our friends and colleagues and those who serve and protect this capitol. we are praying for those attacked and for their commanders. steve scalise. matt mika. special agent crystal griner. we re giving our thoughts for those being treated at this moti moment, and we are united. we are united in our shock, in our anguish, an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. i spoke with special agent bailey and special agent greiner this morning. one was just finished with surgery and the other was going in. it is clear to me, based on various eyewitness accounts that without these two heros, agent bailey and eighth greiner, many lives would have been lost. i know that we all want to learn as much as we can about what happened, we just received a briefing from the sergeant of arms. i have complete confidence in the investigation being conducted by the capitol police, the fbi, and local law enforcement. we want to extend our gratitude for the outpours of support that we have received from throughout the capital and from throughout the country. knowing steve scalise as we all do, he is likely really frustrated he won t be able to play in the baseball game. i also know that he wants us to commend the bravery of those that came to the aid of the wounded. in the coming days we will hear their stories and have a chance to hold up their heroism. there are so many memories from this day that we will want to forget, and there are so many images that we will not want to see again. but there is one image in particular that this hot should keep, a photo i saw this morning of our democratic colleagues gathered in prayer this morning after hearing the news. every day we come here to test and challenge each other. we feel so deeply about the things that we fight for and the things we believe in that at times our emotions could clearly get the best of us. we do not shed our humanity when we enter this chamber. for all of the noise and furry, we are one family. these are our brothers and sisters in the line of fire. these are the brothers and sisters that saved count less lives. let s slow down and reflect to think about how we re all being tested right now. i ask each of you to join me to resolve and to come together, to lift each other up, showing that we re one house, the people s house, united in our humanity, it is that humanity that will win the day and it always will. god bless, i yield. seeking recognition. mr. speaker, i rise to join the distinguished speaker in paying tribute to the brave men and women of the capitol police force, and also in sadness for the assault that was made on our colleagues and members of the staff. to my colleagues, you will hear me say something you have never heard me say before, i identify myself with the remarks of the speaker. they were beautiful remarks, mr. speaker, thank you so much for the sentiments they represent. thank you so much. again, we re not one caucus or the other in this house today, but we speak for each other in seeing that we send our thoughts and prayers to our colleague steve scalise. personally we have our italian american connection, so as soon as i heard his name, i was filled with concern as i would be for anyone here, but we had a special connection, so our hopes and prayers, and i will be asking you every five minutes how is steve coming along, also zach barth, matt mika, a former staff member. age knowledging their sacrifice and if they were not on the scene, lives may have been lost. every day the capitol police protect all of us, takes risks for us, and while a day like this is a time when we can focus on it so sadly, it doesn t mean that other days are not as channelling. especially i want to call attention to detective john gibson and jacob chestnut that 1988 lost their lives protecting the congress, the capitol, and not just the members of congress, but the staff, the press, and our visitors. people who come to see this capitol. this great edifice around the world. it is an attraction, and that makes it all of the more risky. you may not need this, my colleagues, but every time i pray, which is very frequently, i pray for all of you. all of you together. i used to pray for your happiness. for the fact that we would, working together heed the words of president kennedy in the closing of his inaugural address when he said god s work must truly be our own. how do we view what god s will is for us. how do we come together to give confidence to the american people that as our founders intended we would have our decision agreements. we would debate them and have confidence in our beliefs. in more recent years, our safety, i can say that quite clearly, it has probably been the target of more threats than anyone. and so, i prayed for barack obama, and now i continue to pray for him and i pray for donald trump that his presidency will be successful, and that his family will be safe. because it is about family. we are called for a purpose to this body. it is a great thing and we know what it means to each of us to serve and we recognize that in others, and it recognizes that we respect you and your constituents that sent you here. so e pray, my prayer is that we can resolve our differences in a way that furthers us towards e plerbus uman. as i mentioned a minute ago in sports are a wonderful thing in our country. one of the most unifying we like to say the arts, but sports really bring us together. the differences in opinion on politics, but when their team is on the field, people come together. so when this team was on the field practicing, in such a cay with such comradery and brotherhood, we have sisters on our team, for this person to take this action was so cowardly, so cowardly we all learn more about motivation and the rest of that, but it seems particularly sad and any violent death, of course is sad, but particularly sad that at a time when people want us to come together, and we re prepared to come together tomorrow night, that this assault wlould paid, but we cannot let that be a victory for the assailant. wement everyone to do their very best, and we will use this occasion to bring us together and not separate us further. with that, again, i want to thank the speaker for bringing us together and again with e endless gratitude to our capitol police. thank you for the opportunity to share thoughts with you on this sad day. steve and others you re deeply in our prayers. we count the minutes until you return. please convey that to him, mr. speaker, thank you. in a moment, an emotional moment on capitol hill. nancy pelosi saying an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. we re at a family, when especially on a baseball field. this is what people want, seeing members from both sides coming together and that tomorrow night s baseball game will continue on as scheduled. my colleague kacie hunt, who herself was out practicing for our reporters versus members charity game, that we all participate in next week on capitol hill, you were out this morning as part of our practice and went right to the hill when this happened. tell us about the emotions of the members. that is right, and we cut our practice short. everyone started receiving the news in various ways. and i have to tell you i was part of, as members came out, they walked in one long line, and ahead to are people that i cover every day. it is not a situation where they re always comfortable with you. you re a journalist, not necessarily looking out for their best interests, but in this case there is a real sense of shock. i talk to them, i come up to the capital complex to work here every day, and i think there is a sense of gratitude to them, what happened today in eve preventing it from being much worse than it could have been. a moment of bipartisan solidarity, and shared feeling and experience. paul ryan says an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us and i think you feel that in the halls right now. paul ryan identified the names of the plaufss that we have, and he said we would not report them until he said so. the two police officers that were members of his detail, and senator jeff flaik told us just moments earlier that these are members of the detail that would not have been there if steve scalise was not playing today. as a part of the leadership, he has security detail that the average senator does not. after ten minutes, an exchange of gunfire between the detail and the shooter, that until the all clear was sounded, it was ten minutes when he was out on the ground. others then joined in trying to stem the flow of blood. he saw an entry wound in the left hip. i wanted to read to you one of our top investigative producers, from illinois, the home of the suspected shooter, who did die after being medivaced out, police say when they arrived, they found him with a weapon and a valid illinois firearms license. the police report says that hodgkinson was advised not to fire in that area. he was firing among pine trees, still shooting. only a few months ago at 3:06 in the afternoon. someone that may have been practicing, doing target practice, but he had a valid illinois license. all of that is pretty shocky information. we also know from the statement bernie sanders, that he apparently for his social media, he was a volunteer in sanders campaign. sanders acknowledges that and says he is disgusted and appalled by this dispickble act of violence and calling for nonviolence. so whatever the mental condition of this man, now that he has died, there is no way to question him, but in his condition, there was, at least he thought there was something to address. yes, we re getting a complete picture. we mentioned the police incident from earlier this year. firing 50 or 60 rounds behind his house. that is consistent with what witnesses here said they heard. the police said he was legally allowed to own that weapon. there is another half to this cocktail of violence which is another report that folks on the investigative team have flagged that says he was charged in the past with assaulting a girlfriend in his home. you have a note of history of violence and a note of firearms, in the woods behind your house, and draw the notice of the local authorities. you mentioned the political activity, senator sanders says it is deplorabldeplorable, it s despicable. you just heard the speaker and leader nancy pelosi talk about the call for bipartisan here, the political and antirepublican leanings are being drawn into the conversation here in a twha is not likely to go away any time soon either. yeah, he in still photos in the past has ban protester, and this will like i will be swept up through social media. i think the thing to focus on now, if they can, of course is the feelings of unity on capitol hill. i was a congressional correspondent in the day. and now in my role, i flow living and working on the hill, among them as a reporter how the members come together, it is alt a time that many of us can recall, but the baseball game tomorrow night will be one of those moments. the teams practice on special fields and he may have been staking out the republicans given his past political strange background. but he was going after steve scalise that he had tweeted or indicated some objections to steve scalise in the past. steve scalise is apparently recovering from surgery. he says the first to reach him out on the field, when you think about it out in alexandria, he was out there beyond second base. he crawled on the ground, and he was out on the field. . it is so striking when you hear the members of congress that talk about this. they describe something that sounds like a battlefield scenario. you have scalise around second base. a staffer who was hit in the leg, there is nowhere to take cover in this scenario. you remember rand paul this morning describes on the other side of a fence watching two staffers playing in the outfield understanding if they had to lay flat or get up and try to run. this is what you hear about for a moment. two congressmen believe they saw this gentleman out and about this morning asking about whether or not it was the republicans or the democrats this morning. not the kind of thing that drew their attention in the moment, they see dog walkers and congressmen coming by. i was starting to think this particular interaction is od, but coming from illinois. they are coming out here, the investigative side answering how and when this gentleman got from illinois to the dc suburbs. and apparently, garrett, the all member closed briefing today security was a major issue. and they reported that members brought up the amount of death threats they have received and talked about offices. we also from from gabrielle giffords, we about to hear from adam schiff. you were a member who attended that all member briefing today? yes, and you re right. members are deeply concerned about security. i get a sense that many members are seeing a real escalation in the number of death threats. i think we have all gotten those threats from time to time, but they do seem to have escalated given the deterioration. . there is a real concern that this kind of thing is happening with what feels like increasing frequency. i want to share with you a statement from gabrielle giffords. we remember how shocking it was whin they announced that she would be doing a corner meeting with her constituents and what happened with her injury, and she says i m heart broken for the pain, thankful for the great courage of the capitol police that were my protectors and friends. i know steve and everyone there this morning have up great courage and great supply. love for their friends and family and the ability to go about making this country the best. we always come back stronger. how are members feeling today? i think they are feeling very somber, and there is none of us that serve in a body as small as it is, it feels very small today, for those that were shot like steve, or many of the police officers that protect us every day, so it is deeply personal. we know each other, our families know each other, and despite the differences you see on display, many of us are friends with each other. it is a hard and sad day. it brings back sm of the painful memories. the first alert on that, the alert was that she had been killed. it really takes our breath away. and a lot of us that covered congress in the past, that used to just drive up and park on the plaza there a there and walk right up, before 9/11, regretted how much capital hill has becombecome an armed camp. and for those that have not had as much connection to personal security. it was a debate that we had after gabby was shot. we talked about are we going to continue to do our own office hours, and we made the decision that we could not do our job if we were not accessible to our constituents, and that will be the same conclusion that we reach now when we have big gatherings of members, we may take different precautions. it was the fer duty of te futil field, there was no security there because none of the leadership were there. that probably doesn t make sense and things like that will be revisited, but probably, you know, most within our capacity is to come together at a moment like this, show our solidarity for attacks with any motivation. adam schiff, thank you for being with us today. our hears and prayers are with all of you members of congress. bernie sanders or if ied to learn that the suspected shooter that died in the cross fire, from one of the capital police firing in response, he took to the floor to speak to the senate. madame president, i have been informed that the alleged shooter at the republican baseball practice this morning is someone who apparently toll tiered on my presidential campaign i am sickened by despicable act. let me be clear, violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and i condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. joining us now is claire mccaskill. we re all thinking of you, the senate, and the house on a day like today. yeah, it is a moment where i really hope that not just those of us who serve, but the people that we serve, could put down the partisanship long enough to unite. against even. unspeakable evil in the face of common desen sis. i hope this is a moment that will bring us closer together to remember there are so many things that do unite us and we get caught up in the back and forth, and many times that important principal goes by the wayside. do you have concerns, we just heard from senator sandersings that partisans on both sides are going to try to take action because he was a member of protesting against republicans. this is not the first time that someone has been shot by someone who was not well and had evil in their heart if is not the last, but i think a big mistake to use this as a moment to find division among us. to take sides, to sign up for teams, to play gotcha politics. this is a moment we all need to realize that we come here for one reason and that is to serve. and even though we may disagree, many of us get along much better than people realize. even when we have different opinions. i hope this knits us closer together, that would be the only positive thing that would come out of a moment like this where someone attempted what would be a mass murder if it was not for our brave and courageous capital police officers. do you think that security has to be increased? we have a lot of security now, and there is some security at our offices, but i have resisted this notion. i know governors have a big security entourage. i typically don t want that. i want to talk to people at the grocery store. i want to drive myself to get a haircut, and talk to people in the parking lot. i want the ability to visit with the people i work for in the most natural and normal way and not have a bunch of folks around me protecting me from the people that i work we don t go too fa. maybe some common sense change it is we have a lot of people gathered at one place mike might sense. like softball practices that are comprised of members of congress. but i hope we don t go too far, because i think that would be a mistake in a country where we cherish our freedoms. senator claire mccaskill, thank you very much. thank you. pete williams is joining us now, our chief law correspondent. pete, obviously the suspect, the alleged shooter, has died from that crossfire. what else do we know about the investigation as to how long he may or may not have been tracking steve scalise and other republicans? reporter: we don t know whether he was tracking republicans. what we know is that he is from illinois where he was a home inspector from bellville, illinois. we know he had a run-in with the authorities in march when neighbors called the police and said they heard gunfire. the sheriff s office came out. you re looking at a picture of him. we ll get to this anti-republican groups issue in a moment. but the sheriff s office went out and talked to him and said you can t be firing your weapon near these houses. so he said okay, he would move away or go to a shooting range. but that indicates because of the number of rounds that were fired and because the sheriff says he had a rifle and pete, we ve got an aerial shot of his house. you can see it s a residential area, but there is some wooded area and apparently he was shooting into those pine trees. go ahead, sorry. reporter: yeah. so that would indicate perhaps he had the rifle he used today as early as late march. what we re told by authorities is he had two weapons, that he had an assault-type rifle with multiple ammunition clips or magazines and a hand gun. we don t know yet whether he fired the hand gun or not or whether all the shots fired today were from the assault weapon. authorities have obtained a search warm. they re searching his house. neighbors say he had not been living in the house recently, and we re told by local authorities here in alexandria, virginia, that he had been in the alexandria area. that s where the baseball practice was. that he had been in this area for the past several weeks, but why he came to this area, where he was staying, whether he was in touch here, what caused him to come to the washington, d.c. area, we just don t know that yet. that s obviously something of great investigative interest on what motivated this. he s a person who had strong political views. he didn t hike the republicans or the president. he didn t like republican tax policy. he s been a prolific writer of letters to the local paper for the past decade or so. how much of this had to do with today s event, we are still waiting to find out. i think it s safe to say the investigators don t know the answers to those questions yet either. thank you so much, pete williams. the fbi is the lead on this, because it was the victims include, of course, steve scalise, a federal official. the manager of the team representative joe barden of texas, whose 10-year-old son was ran into the dugout and was kept hidden jumped under the bench there among other members was being protected as best they could during the exchange of fire. joe barden, still in his red republican baseball uniform, returned to the hill and talked to the press. came out to practice, started shooting. he start at trent kelly, our third baseman, shot at steve scalise. he hit steve scalise. scalise s security detail and capitol hill police immediately began to return fire. and alexandria police also immediately came and began to return fire. they shot the shooter, and i think the security detail saved a lot of lives, because they attacked the shooter. so the heroes are the capitol hill police, the alexandria police and steve scalise s security detail. do you know what the shooter looked like? he was middle aged man, blue jeans and a blue shirt. i think he was angelo. he had a rifle and i think pistol. can you please tell us what it must have been like in this idyllic tesetting, to have there s going to be all kinds of i m the manager of the team. several security people were hit. one of our staffers were hit. scalise was hit. i ve talked to the speaker and the capitol hill police. i m sure there will be some sort of general statement later on. luckily no one appeared to be killed, and then i just want to thank the security detail. is there usually security detail? yeah. how long did it last? about five to ten minutes. there were dozens, if not hundreds of shots fired. it was scary. did you take cover? of course we did. where did you take cover? some of us were in the dugout, some of us were on the ground. my son, jack, was under an suv and he was very brave. my other son, brad, was in the batting cage, and he also was very brave. senator joe barton, who had two sons there, including his 10-year-old son jack. kristen welker joins me now. this is a moment that brings the country together, for the worst of possible reasons. violence against a member of congress and the police officers, the two shot were crystal brinert and david bailey. heroes both. what is the president saying today? reporter: you re right, andrea, and you highlight the key point we heard from the president. he stressed the need for bipartisanship, talked about the fact that, yes, there are differences, but that ultimately everyone is americans. of course, sent prayers to steve scalise and his family as he hopefully recovers quickly. the president has been on the phone this morning, andrea, in the wake of this shooting. he reached out to the wife of steve scalise, also to the house speaker, house majority leader. and others, the vice president also on the phone today as well. this white house has gone into response mode, effectively changing everything today. the president was set to deliver a speech to the labor department. he wanted to talk about jobs. he wanted to talk about an apprenticeship program. wanted to get back to the business of his agenda in the wake of what we saw yesterday on capitol hill. instead, he s been focused on monitoring this situation, and he canceled that speech. the vice president canceled his speech. and stop staffers have been in and out of meetings throughout the day. it is the president s 71st birthday, but not a day of celebration. instead, very somber here at the white house. andrea? thank you. and msnbc s hans nichols is outside washington s med star hospital where congressm maman scalise is being treated. hans, i know one of your basketball buddies was one of those injured, matt mika. reporter: for all the talk of partisanship, it s actually a community. matt mika was a basketball player, now he s a lobbyist. and there s been a community around talking about prayers and hopes of cross party lines because he has been hit four to five times, including chest wounds. he could be in bad shape. one of his friends said he was in critical condition. another said stable. so there s uncertainty on what sort of shape he s in. but four to five shots does not give you an indication that h s he s there is a sense here, and you look at what both nancy pelosi said, as well as what speaker paul ryan said. it seems to me that all parties are trying to all sides are trying to use this as a unifying moment. as a moment to get past some of the divisive moments. that s really one of the hopes going on today, as well as a great deal of concern for friends, classmates, housemates that just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. and this, hans, in a residential neighborhood, a beautiful neighborhood, just miles from capitol hill across the water in alexandria, virginia. a place where many congressional staff members and other federal workers work. it s a great place to raise families. reporter: it s a lovely community. you can metro into town. she have some shops and restaurants to walk to. there are a lot of pentagon officials that live down in that neighborhood, because it s so close to the pentagon. when this happened this morning, i was at the pentagon and thought i might have to run down there and cover it. it s two, three miles from the pentagon. then you come into capitol hill, so it s a great place for congressional staffers to live, as well. just a little bit south of reagan national airport, if