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Like he was there for 400 years? >> while you are making music, being an artist, living the life you earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. we have to deal with marginalization that's come from 400 years of slavery you said for our people was a choice. >> west defended his comments tweeting to make myself clear, of course i know slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. my point is for us to stay in that position even though numbers were in our side means we were mentally enslaved. they cut out our tongue so we couldn...

Market. let's switch gears, bring in bill karins with an update on the weather. bill, i have to be honest, felt like we skipped spring, went from winter to summer. >> a lot of the east coast. wait until this afternoon. some areas hitting the 90 degree mark around washington, d.c. first, all of the concern for the middle of the country. yesterday, kansas and nebraska, 18 reported tornadoes, some big ones like this. thankfully mostly over open farmland and plains. didn't have a lot of structural damage, didn't have injuries and no fatalities. got lucky yesterday. today is more interesting. sto...

Concern or would they be disregarded, do you think, and are there others, besides jared kushner, with similar security issues? >> so mcentee is apparently a well liked guy. conceivably, he could come back. john kelly had a group of us reporters in his office a few weeksing ago for an off-the-record discussion. part of it he put on the record, including talk about security clearances and he told us that there was a young woman in the white house who apparently had credit card issues, significant debt, that that held up her security clearance, but ultimately it worked out. conceivably, this coul...

Around the world. >> so months after that near unanimous vote in congress to sanction russia over its meddling in the 2016 elections, the white house now finally implements the sanctions. why now, in your view? is it directly related to that poisoning? or something else? >> i think what you're seeing is an escalation. sanctions started back in june and they have been ramping up. and the weapon sales to the ukraine was a strong force showing russia we're not going to tolerate their indiscretions and it's going to keep ramping up, is the prediction i make. i think you'll see that. we have a lot ...

The white house's efforts to harden americans schools will be headed by betsy devos. they're trying to assess how best to address school gun violence. here's what she had to say about that earlier. >> well, everything is on the table. part of the job of this commit will be to study that and see if that is advanced ultimately as a recommendation in next steps. the point being, there's many steps to be taken now. additional steps that will be taken down the road as we do the work of the commission. >> betsy devos, the education secretary. you can imagine the democrats are out there talking about...