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on the run. new information on the manhunt for two convicted killers who broke out of a maximum security prison. fenway stunner. hear from the player whose broken bat hit a fan in the head and how that woman is doing today. it's a working title. under fire. the new spike lee film that some say gives chicago a bad name. good sunday to you. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." i'm richard lui in for alex this sunday. a manhunt under way for two prisoners that used power tools to break out of a prison. officials say they carried out the plot sometime between friday morning and saturday morning. the prison is located in upstate
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new york 20 miles from the canadian border. john yang is there. the question we're still asking a day later power tools at a maximum security facility. how did this happen? >> reporter: it's a building like any other. it has maintenance work to do. the prison did check its inventory and found all tools accounted for so now they are looking at contractors, especially because this escape showed knowledge of the interior inner workings of the prison building. there's suspicion about contractors likely to be a focus of the investigation. this really was a plot right out of the movies. down to putting clothes in the bunks to make it look like they were sleeping. heavily armed police and state troopers use dogs on the ground and helicopters in the air to search for the two convicted murderers. >> this is an ongoing investigation. i can assure that you no stone quill will be left unturned.
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richard matt was serving a life sentence after beating a man to death in 1997 and 34-year-old david sweat sentenced to life without parole for giving a sheriff's deputy in 2002. >> it was elaborate and sophisticated. it encompassed drilling through steel walls and steel pipes. >> reporter: prison staff realized the men were missing during a routine check early saturday morning. new york governor andrew cuomo taking a firsthand look at how authorities believe they escaped. using power tools to cut through the wall of their cell before accessing tunnels ultimately exiting through a manhole in a residential area several blocks away. >> when something like this happens, it puts you on high alert. >> it's like something out of a movie. >> reporter: it's thought to be the first escape from the maximum security portion of the prison in 150 years. as the manhunt continues, so does the search for how the inmates acquired the tools and
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the technical negligent for the escape. the fbi is now on the scene and the search in this area seems to be looking for clues. they seem to be sort of combing the area bushwhacking looking for tools rather than looking for the two men themselves. one thing to keep in mind is that it is just 25 miles south of the canadian border. richard? >> time essential. no doubt. one part about maybe understanding these two escapees, shall we say, is a post-it note they left. gives us an indication of their bravado as well. what do we know about that? >> reporter: it is bravado. it was a smiley face wishing everyone a nice day. >> thank you so much john yang there live. appreciate that. also developing now, the leaders of g-7 nations gather today in the german alps for
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their annual summit. josh earnest is holding a press conference in austria. in his remarks this morning, president obama laid out his agenda for the next two days. >> we're going to discuss our shared future. a global economy that creates jobs and opportunity, maintaining a strong and prosperous european union, forging new trade partnerships across the atlantic standing up to russian aggression in ukraine, combatting threats from violent extremism to climate change. >> we'll have a live report from our senior white house correspondent chris jansing in just a few minutes. stick around for that. so there he goes. triple crown winner american pharoah seen onboard of the plane bound for kentucky this after breaking a 37-year drought at belmont yesterday becoming the 12th horse ever to claim that title. a short time ago he got on his plane to head back to kentucky.
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his loyal side kick a buckskin gelding named smoky by his side happening the morning after mystery was made. >> the 37-year wait is over. american pharoah is finally the one! american pharoah has won the triple crown! >> 90,000 people there to cheer the horse on and among those celebrating was bob baffert, the horse's trainer, who spoke a short time ago. all right. we'll have that sound for you a little bit later. joining me now from the track itself, nbc's rehema ellis. i have to wonder a day after is probably a lot of fun in that part of the world. >> reporter: people waking up still celebrating. folks here were over the moon with excitement. some emotional celebrating a victory not seen in a very long
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time. from the first glance at american pharoah, the crowd went wild. and when the 3-year-old thoroughbred took a commanding lead in the gruelling mile and a half race it was sheer magic. >> american pharoah has opened up a two-length lead. >> reporter: the long 37-year wait for a triple crown winner that some horse racing fans thought they would never see was finally over. >> american pharoah is finally the one! >> reporter: american pharoah's owner said his horse was always ready to win. >> we knew that he was coming in as best as a horse can come to a race. >> reporter: belmont has been the toughest leg in the triple crown. a much longer race than the kentucky derby and the preakness. >> it's amazing that i come here and i win the triple crown. >> reporter: hall of fame trainer bob baffert called american pharoah a dream come true. >> he was the one that did it. we were just passengers. >> reporter: passengers in a
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test for greatness that began five weeks ago with a victory at the kentucky derby. two weeks later, with another triumphant finish at preakness, the speculation shifted into high gear about american pharoah's chances for taking the triple crown, a feat last accomplished in 1978. and now hope for what this win means for the sport. >> i think we'll attract fans. it's amazing thing to see. >> it's amazing to witness. it's history. >> reporter: now american pharoah takes one of the most coveted prizes in sports and his own place in history. so what's next for american pharoah? well, the owner says the breeding rights have already been sold and it's likely that this horse will retire at the end of the year and live a very comfortable life. richard? >> folks will be retiring those hats until next year. we'll have to wait to see them. rehema hell is thank you so much. more on this horse.
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it's won more than 1 million at the kentucky derby 900,000 and 800,000 at the preakness and belmont. that's nothing compared to what he makes his owners after he retires. why fewer races in american pharoah's future could mean more money earned overall. still in serious condition is the update on the reds fan hit in the face with a shard of a baseball bat. carpenter was rushed out during the second inning. the bat broke in half as you see there with pieces of that bat hitting her in the face. >> obviously any time someone is taken off the field on a stretcher you have your fingers crossed realizing it's more important than a baseball game. all i saw is what happened. her breeding and we got our fingers crossed and we pray that everything is okay. >> it's one of those things
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where it was bad luck. there's no time to react behind the dish. i don't feel it's necessary to change bats or anything like that. that's just one of those things it's part of baseball and everything is close and limited netting. it's important to be heads-up back there and what not. >> lawrie said he's happy the fan is out of danger and is expected to survive. a picture was released with a statement saying on behalf of our family we want to thank everyone for the continued prayers and well wishes. weather for you. hurricane blanca is now a category one storm and expected to become weaker before it makes landfall and more severe weather is expected in colorado where destructive tornadoes, golf ball-sized hail and heavy rain have been hitting the region. for more weather, let's go to weather channel's paul goodloe. paul? >> richard, looking at another stormy sunday across the middle of the country from detroit and
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toledo and chicago, indy to st. louis. eastern colorado could see strong and severe thunderstorms. here's the thing. saw storms this morning in chicago. they'll continue to pop up toward the afternoon and they will fire up again as we head toward the evening hours and even linger once the sun sets. a big chunk of real estate dealing with strong and severe thunderstorms not only today but tomorrow, this entire region pushes eastward to nashville toward d.c. and baltimore and even philly could see severe weather. the other side of the world we're dealing with heat. temperatures some 10 to 20 degrees above average today as we head toward tomorrow even toward tuesday we're talking temperatures in the upper 90s in some locations like medford. 98 for a high as we head on toward tuesday afternoon. it's not just heat we're dealing with in the west. we're dealing with tropical weather. this is hurricane blanca. good news is it continues to weaken. category 1 hurricane. this was category 4 hurricane yesterday. and it's moving over some colder
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water but moving toward the baja where we expect this to weaken throughout the day but still the impacts, high surf strong winds and rain. the concern is this is a desert area. could see three to four inches of rain heading through monday. definitely concerned. the moisture moves into the u.s. eventually. eventually brings us rain around the four corners toward the middle of this coming week. richard? >> lots to watch there. thank you for that. courting the teachers. which presidential candidate could gain the support of one of the country's most powerful unions? we're talking to the american federation of teachers just ahead. new details about former house speaker dennis hastert and hush money he's alleged to have paid out.
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ranking member adamship -- >> you can be free from repercussions and one of the big things that we really have to do in addition to our defense is figure out when we're going to go on offense and how we're going to provide a deterrent to future attacks. >> joining me is democratic congressman, member of the intelligence committee and ranking member on the cia subcommittee. thanks for joining us on this sunday here congressman. as you heard there from adam schiff how should the u.s. respond and the question might be and to whom should the u.s. respond to? >> thank you for having me on
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richard. today americans are under attack. their personal information from healthcare records, bank records and even their family photos are being attacked every day through our cybernetworks and often are funded by other countries or terrorist organizations. >> it's your belief that it's state sponsored? >> as far as this particular incident goes i'll get briefed on this when i get back to washington on tuesday in the house intelligence committee. everything we're reading suggests that. but what we know is that this is just another of a series of attacks against our country and we need to start prioritizing our policies in the way that we defend against this. you know we just passed in the house and i voted against it $600 billion in a defense bill and only 15 billion is going toward cybersecurity.
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that's about 2% that we're putting toward cybersecurity when the vast majority and greatest threats we're facing right now are coming in the way of cyberattacks. >> you want for aremore? >> we should put more money in cybersecurity measures and less money in tanks and weapons systems. >> how much would you want? >> right now i think there's much more capabilities we have on offense and to protect our networks. i'll leave it to experts. i think 2% of the budget is too2% less than what we need. >> you say you want 4% of the budget? >> of the defense budget. also we're seeing republicans are proposing to spend billions to put a fence around america to stop border invasions and border crossings when our borders have already been innovated. these cyber criminals and other countries have crossed into our
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networks and we should pass a cyber bill -- >> let me get to this. this also happened and it's related to topics that you and i are talking about right now, congressman. the patriot act. the nsa reforms that president obama signed this past week. you voted in favor of that. one of the measures taken telecom companies now hold onto metadata and not the nsa. folks say does this change anything? the courts have to answer to a warrant and say yes every time they're asked to get that data from phone companies. what's your thought? >> the nsa had no business collecting americans metadata or information we held on our cell phones. if you're not suspected of terrorism, you shouldn't have your information downloaded. now, these private companies will hold onto data and the government will have to go through the proper legal channels to get that information the way it should be. i think the focus should be on
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protecting us from where threats are coming from and we see these cyberattacks are hitting every-day americans and it will hit our pocketbooks even more so and we should focus there and not collecting everyone's cell phone records. >> let me get to this. also what has happened in the last week the tsa, test runs got weapons through airport security 95% of the time, which you're aware of. why hasn't this gotten better. this is not the first report. >> no. it seems like it's actually going the other way and that it's getting worse. that's unacceptable. we know our enemy's number one target is to bring down a u.s. airliner and kill hundreds of people onboard and symbolically show that they can defeat our systems. we have to do a lot better at our airports which means better training evolving with threats as they come in and lifting morale there. tsa employees are under attack by my republican colleagues almost daily in the house trying
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to cut their pay and trying to minimize their work. that doesn't do anything to help them do the job that they need to do when they show up to work every day to keep us safe as we fly all over the country and the world. >> congressman, as you look at morale, often that points to the top of the pyramid. the top of the pyramid is department of homeland security. dhs overseas the secret service which as you know has had some issues within the last year. is this then a call for jaieh johnson to maybe be changed here? >> jeh johnson has turned most of the agencies under his control around and for the better. what this is a call for is to have and confirm a permanent tsa administrator. right now they are working under an interim administrator. jeh johnson from the crisis he's dealt with with undocumented
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flow of migrant children coming across the border and handling that in a humanitarian way to threats we face from isis and foreign fighters i think he's working around the clock. we're not giving him all of the resources we need or the respect that i think we should show to tsa. we just dump on them and we're not giving them training that they need and this is going to continue to happen. >> thank you so much congressman. i appreciate your time today. member of the intelligence committee and ranking member of the cia subcommittee. appreciate it. new york paris, london a big announcement about what is the world's most popular city for travelers this year? that's up next. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping
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they went to washington to seek the endorsement of the american federation of teachers. let's bring in the president of the aft. great to see you. you have the conversation -- >> great to see you, richard. >> tell me which one of the three conversations you had was closest to what you might call just right? >> you know i'll never answer that question, right. >> i have to ask you though. >> all three candidates -- first of all let me just say we really appreciated that all three candidates changed their schedules and made sure that they were there to talk to our entire executive council and many members who we flew in so they could ask questions they asked on our website. we've been having an extensive member engagement process since february. what you saw bottom line is that the three candidates talked about a reset of education
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policy in america where there's a growing consensus about that because we need to focus again on public education and move away from the fixation on testing to a fixation on the whole child from pre-k through public ed through higher ed. that's what they talked about. >> great. what was the headline that came from the three conversations vis-a-vis what you just said a change in policy? >> over and over and over again all three of them talked about how in hillary's words teachers cannot be scapegoats for society's problems and martin o'malley words he has a daughter who teaches in baltimore, that you can't vilify teachers and in bernie sanders words, he wants a political revolution because it's time to stop having this kind of cutting, cutting, cutting of public education. what you heard is also real
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solutions for how to solve the problems of the fact that half our kids in america in public schools are poor. if we actually think that higher education is important, how are we going to fund it like when we thought that the high school education was important, we made it public. >> might you see then based on the conversations with those three candidates that policy if they should win and become the nominee and then win, that they need to be left of the current administration's policy on education meaning more support for unions meaning they will then push for fewer charter schools perhaps. >> i think what's happened is that -- look i know we've had issues with the current administration even though i very much admire president obama and all that he's tried to accomplish. at the end of the day the senate subcommittee on health and labor and education in recent vote on overhaul of no
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child left behind said we need a reset. we need to focus on public education and how we help the whole child and the whole child's well-being and instead of having this kind of sanction and test and competition, let's figure out how to meet children's needs. i think what you saw there was in a very give and take way the candidates saying this is what they would do to do it and frankly, richard, we've asked all of the republicans to come in as well. 30% of our members are republicans and not one of them have even bothered to tell us that they got the questionnaire. >> what does that tell you? >> that tells me that you know they'll do a lot and talk a lot about ideology but when it comes to actually solving the problems of our kids and public schools, you have to roll up your sleeves and work with teachers and make them, respect them create dignity there and find ways to
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recruit, attract, retain and do things kids need separate and apart from teachers like community schools. we see republicans are long on attack but short on solutions. >> thank you. wish we had more time. you have a great sunday. now a quick look at today's number ones. first, we begin with london leading a list of the world's most popular city to visit for a second straight year based on an annual mastercard travel forecast. british capital will host more than 18.8 million visitors this year. that's 600,000 more than what's projected for second place. bangkok, thailand. paris ranks third with roughly 16 million. new york is the only u.s. city in the top ten ranking 6th with 12.25 million estimated visitors. that is a career milestone
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welcome back. i'm richard lui in for alex on this sunday. headlines at the half hour for you. mexican government deployed troops, marines and police to protect polling stations after protests game violent on the eve of the election. in china, mourners gathered today to pay tribute to the victims of the chinese cruise ship disaster. the death toll has risen to 431. only 14 people survived after the ship capsized last monday. 11 still missing. authorities are searching for the driver of this pickup truck driven over a curb through a stop sign and right into the garage of this home in omaha yesterday. the driver fled the scene leaving behind the truck and massive hole on the side of that house. a new report could shed light on former house speaker dennis hastert's efforts to raise large sums of money in 2011. hastert rushed to make money
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shortly before prosecutors say he made his first payment to a man known as individual a. the "time" sites an associate of hastert and he paid individual a $1.7 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. we go to hastert's hometown of yorkville, illinois. adam, let's start with this. the new "the new york times" report that came out. what stands out in it do you think? >> we know that "times" report is indicated he was in a rush to make money. he was working at a firm and wanted to know if there was a way he could get an annuity that would generate large amounts of cash over a period of time because at the began making payments to this person known as individual a who according to the fbi was a student of his 40
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years ago at yorkville high school. we spoke to people in the community to get reaction to the latest news. here's what they had to say. >> it was a very sad situation. and he's going to have to fess up to it and stand up to it like a man and acknowledge it and get on with his life. >> we were proud that we had him in our area and then when something happens like this you are disappointed. >> he should pay for what he did. in other words, especially trying to hide it with the hush money, et cetera. it's a shame. >> there are some in the community here who continue to stand by him but others are beginning to have their doubts and expressing some disappointment. richard? >> part of the disappointment is they haven't seen mr. hastert. he heads to court this week. any sightings of him? >> not at all. it's been 48 hours. it's going to be in 48 hours that he will be arraigned.
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no sign of him. he remains in hiding. we really don't know where he is. we did see some activity at the compound last week. cars coming and going. one of the cars had a vanity plate that said speaker but no sign of him. >> thank you so much adam. new reaction to the history made at belmont park. yesterday american pharoah became the first horse in 37 years to win the triple crown. the 3-year-old champion galloped through a mile and a half of gruelling distance making him the 12th horse ever to win the feat. american pharoah's jockey said this morning he had no doubts here. >> i already know that american pharoah was going to do it. it was a little bit early for me to start celebrating until down the stretch. i won't celebrate until i cross that wire and i know many times the horses have been so close and this time i say, you know what? i'm going to celebrate two jumps
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conducting a review to determine if the officer's conduct is compliant is austin police policy. care-free california songs were the soundtrack of early '60s. behind that was a troubled musical genius. paul danno co-stars as wilson at his creative height when wilson is ravaged by mental disease and his overbearing manager. >> times your inner voice wants to express itself. ♪ god only knows where i would be without you ♪ ♪ god only knows what i would be without you ♪ >> this week alex sat down with the director and producer of
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"love & mercy" and asked bill what drew him to brian wilson's story. take a listen. >> i honestly lyly grew up as a beatles guy and over the years i came to appreciate brian's music much more and particularly pet sounds so when this project came along, it was t'd up for me to jump in. >> i want to get to "pet sounds" in a second. you have two different actors playing the same character. what kind of challenges does that pose for a director? >> i don't know. in the sense that i always saw it that way. i didn't really want to do a bio pic or a surface look at brian's life. i wanted it to be intimate and kind of a deeper portrait of him. so to me in order to do that you got to go for some more limited time rather than trying to cover
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his whole life. we picked two strands. one in the '60s when he reaches the height of hadis creative powers and then thing starts to crumble and we intertwine that with the '80s when he's damaged soul under the care of a psychologist who is doing some improper things. he's kind of saved by his future wife. >> pet sounds. he was 23 years old when he hit these incredible heights of success. do you think that young age is what helped contribute to his demise with his mental stability? >> i think some people are vulnerable to those things. i think brian hears voices and typically you start hearing those things occurring in your late teens if it's going to happen. it did kind of happen with him. generally just a super sensitive guy. that's why he is such a great artist. in order to get to that great
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artistry that sensitivity leaves you vulnerable and he was taken advantage of even to this day he's incredibly pure. he's a pure soul. very innocent and almost child-like in his approach to life. when i first met him and we talked about some of the difficult things that he went through, he said i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for gene even after horrible things he could spin it in a good way. it's not like he doesn't see bad things but he keeps it on a different level. >> for fans of the beach boys you were going to places where they recorded and hung out. talk about that. that's a little stress for you to try to replicate something authentic. >> i think as a director you have to have an ego. a pressure on doing a film about brian wilson or recreate you could just crumble. i think you have to kind of go
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forward with a vision and part of that vision was in fact to recreate the "pet sounds" session so we went in the actual student that brian recorded in and hired real musicians and paul came in and started directing. we shot it more like a documentary. it really was a magical experience to be honest. >> in the end when people leave the theater, what do you want them to take away from the film and particularly about brian wilson? >> certainly it's a celebration of his musical legacy. i would like people to understand that he was much more than surf music. what he was doing. but i think more than that it's the human side of it. it's the struggles that he's gone through with his mental health and all of that and the people around him. i think if people come away with a better understanding of how people like that -- how we can treat them and understand them better, i think that would be a
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white house press secretary josh earnest just wrapped up a briefing from the g-7 summit. the leaders are gathered for the next two days where the agenda which include the debt greek crisis. joining me now, chris jansing. you were just there at that briefing from josh earnest. what did you learn and what are they hoping to accomplish at the summit from what you heard? >> reporter: just wrapped up.
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you could tell from the briefing that if there was a central question here for these leaders of the major economies of industrialized nations, it's what to do about russia. how to handle vladimir putin and that's why a meeting earlier today between the leader of the free world, barack obama, and most powerful woman in the world angela merkel is getting so much attention. half of it or more according to josh earnest was focused on that central question. take a listen at what he had to say just a short time ago. >> as best i can tell, the way president putin's name comes up is in context of the leader of a country that's increasingly isolated from the international community. and that isolation is a result of the ongoing destabilizing activities of russia in eastern ukraine. >> reporter: so the challenge for the president is to convince these european leaders to extend
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the sanctions against russia which have had an impact on the economy but haven't stopped the aggression in ukraine. also i thought it was interesting. what didn't come up in the meeting between merkel and obama was the soccer scandal involving fifa given the number of soccer loving fans among these world leaders, it almost certainly will as this summit continues today and into tomorrow. >> no doubt they love their football/soccer there. chris jansing, just out of that white house briefing. she'll join us again in 30 minutes with more on that relationship between angela merkel and barack obama. why that is so important and the issues that they'll discuss at the summit for us. to politics where the republican field for the 2016 election seems to be growing by the day. there are now ten declared candidates with another five likely. jeb bush is expected to join the fray next monday. bobby jindal with a big announcement the week after that. joining me now is matt and
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phillip. great seeing both of you. matt, kick it off for us here. what about this election as you look at the numbers and we see ten at least on the republican side what makes it unique this year if anything? >> i think it's an open seat. you don't have an incumbent president. i think hillary clinton is seen as vulnerable. and it's just an opportunity. if you ever want to be president and you don't run this time it could be 8, 12 16 years before you have another opportunity like this. so i think it's a deep bench. i think depending on who you ask there's an embarrassment of riches or just an embarrassment. it could go either way. a big field could be a good thing or turn out to be a clown car. we'll have to see how it plays out. >> clown car brings me back to the last two cycles when that word and illusion was used many times. phillip, to you. is it too many? are we going to see a repeat of '08 and '12 for republicans
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where they can't determine their nominee early enough to get the momentum that much needed impetus moving forward into the general election? >> i'm not sure that's true from 2008 to 2012. john mccain wrapped up earlier. mitt romney wrapped up earlier when you compare to 2008 on democratic side when they pushed until june. i think there are in addition to the fact matt is right that this is an open seat plays a big role here but there are a lot of external factors that come into play this year in particular. rise in outside financing which makes someone more viable because they can have the super pac that spends on their behalf. there are other reasons as well. >> you think it's fine in terms of numbers and timing that we're seeing at the moment. >> what happened in 2012 that people roll their eyes are at debates and a lot of personality on the stage. we'll see that. i don't know that it means a lot for next year in terms of electoral chances. >> perception of there being so many. matt you wrote a piece this week. i'll go to it. you argue that shifting focus
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from economy to national security is a good move for republicans. rick perry, he thinks the same it appears if navy s.e.a.l. entourage on thursday is an indication of that. why might this work for gop? >> if you look at history, assumption last time around is it's the economy stupid and mitt romney ran against a president that had a fairly bad economy. it did sort of start to come turn around toward the end but the unemployment rate was high and barack obama managed to get re-elected. the assumption that republicans can win by running against a democrat and bad economy hasn't panned out. you go to jimmy carter the economy was bad. you had stagflation. you also had iranian hostages and a host of other problems. i think historically speaking republicans tend to win when they talk about cultural issues or foreign policy issues.
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it's probably wise not just because it's timely with isis and russia but also just because frankly republicans have a better chance of winning on those issues. >> it might be timely here phillip, when you look at the issues revolveing around hillary clinton and accusations made by republicans and the post-benghazi period shall we say as well as obama administration's criticisms of the obama administration and how it handled certain international policy issues. phillip, will this work all of the way through to the general and will it only work for certain candidates more than others? >> i think it very much depends on who the candidate is. matt is right. in particular because hillary clinton was secretary of state, she has a level of ownership over this administration's foreign policy and failures and successes that other candidates would not and other democratic candidates do not. so i think this will play through the entire general election as people look at what she did as secretary of state.
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benghazi to some extent is a distraction from that because she has ownership over the deal with iran. there's way she has ownership that so far doesn't look like a political advantage. >> you also wrote about announcements that we're announcing today over the past week. you say that hey, when you look across the country. americans are less and less interested in campaign launches specifically. what are they interested in? >> the problem is you started with ted cruz and it had lot of attention through rand paul and marco rubio. it happened so frequently no one is getting that bump that early people did. you'll see it toward the tail end. jeb bush will see a similar bump. just that is the way in which all of these candidates is detrimental to candidates themselves. none of them can make a big splash. >> there we have it.
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>> welcome in. it's 1:00 in the east. 10:00 out west. here's what we're watching for you. a massive manhunt for two convicted killers that broke out of a maximum security prison. they lived in adjoining cells and used power tools to make their mistake. the prison is located 20 miles from the canadian border. john yang is there. where do we stand in the search? as hours go by it gets more difficult. >> reporter: there are hundreds of new york state police and new york corrections officers u.s. marshals and fbi agents scouring this area for clues as to where these guys are. this is a very challenging search. we're in the middle of theed a state park here. hefleyavy heavily forested.
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25 miles south of the canadian border. they are working as hard as they can so far even in this village right now where we've seen them going through fields and neighborhoods in the area. they're not going door to door. they look like they're looking for clues on the ground. we don't have a lot of details going on right now because we haven't had a briefing. no indication of when or if there will be a briefing from officials today. so that's leaving a lot of speculation. a lot of residents here are speculating about that northern border in canada although recently the border has been beefed up border security has been beefed up. some talking about the two nearby mowhawk reservations that
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they could be headed there. a lot of activity. >> all that activity here in that region. so close to the canadian border. how are folks, residents in the region, reacting to this? are they living with great concern. >> reporter: there are people here -- it's concern but it's sort of guarded concern, if you will. the people here feel that in this immediate area are fairly confident they're not here anymore. the guys aren't here anymore. they would want to get out of here. they wouldn't hang around close to the prison in the area. but at the same time i spoke to a woman who said that she for the first time in 30 years is starting to lock her doors. making sure that her car is locked. she said she used to leave her keys in the car as a matter of fact but now she's making sure everything is locked up tight. >> john yang with the latest for us. thank you so much. hurricane blanca now a
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category 1 storm and expected to weaken before making landfall tomorrow in mexico's baja california area. it's pushing its way through the pacific ocean at 110 miles per hour. a tropical storm warning is now in effect in parts of that area. denver expected to get hit with another round of thunderstorms this evening. this after days of heavy hail and rainfall that left thousands without power. top toppleing trees and flooding intersections. tornado watch was also issued in parts of the denver area. we're learning more about the condition of the woman who suffered life threatening injuries during friday night's baseball game. officials say that carpenter is expected to survive after her ordeal. she was sitting in a box seat at fenway park when oakland athletics brett lawrie hit the ball and broke it in half in terms of the bat he was using. part of that bat flew into the stands striking carpenter in the
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head. >> it's one of those things where it was bad luck. there's really no time to react behind the by the. i don't feel like it's necessary to change bats or anything like that. that's just one of those things where it's part of baseball and unfortunately like i said everything is so close behind there and there's limited netting. it's really important to try to be heads-up back there and what not. >> joining us from boston is a correspondent for boston.com. jessica jessica, thank you for joining us. any update on her condition? it sounds like things are not getting worse. >> right now she's still listed in serious condition but the great news for her and for her family is she is expected to survive what was a terrible injury. >> the family released a statement saying "on behalf of our family, we want to thank everyone for continued praise and well wishes." do we know more about how this happened? breaking a bat is a fairly
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common situation unfortunately. >> it was really just a freak accident. it was a broken bat, which is not uncommon in baseball and she was struck by it. there are so many times when fans are hit by foul balls and broken bats. it was the severity of this injury that has really set it apart from others and made it really just a terrible happening. >> has there been any commentary from either of the teams or from the mlb about this situation? >> well yesterday i arrived at fenway park and there was so much buzz among players. a lot of them expressing concern asking questions, do you know the status of the woman who was hurt. the thoughts of the players are definitely for the victim right now. the woman injured. but in order for things to change, this is something that would have to go through major league baseball. i was down in the area where the woman was struck. there are signs that face inward from where people sit warning people of the potential of
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flying bats and balls. this is something where again it was a freak accident. fans are warned. it's something that can happen at a baseball game. >> breaking a bat not uncommon. uncommon situation like this. how do they discuss the issue of safety when it comes to this park to park because i imagine it's different depending on where you are watching a game. >> that's the thing. fenway park is one of the oldest parks and one of the things that makes it so unique is that fans are so close to the action. you can't prevent things like this from happening. they post signs and make fans aware of potential of things flying into the stands and from there it's up to fans to be alert during the games. so often it's easy to get caught up with texting and pictures and sometimes it's more important to instagram a cool photo but you have to remember when you're at a baseball game there's a situation where things could come your way. paying attention is super important for fans to take into consideration.
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i talked to fans sitting a few rows from third-base line and they said they would be more conscious and keep eyes on the action. >> i guess the thing is here that we go to things like this whether it's going to be nascar or it's going to be at a ballpark. you have pitches at 100 miles an hour when you're at a nascar race. they are going hundreds of miles an hour. these are sort of the realities that maybe we sometimes forget. what you're saying is keep your eyes open. jessica, thank you so much for the very latest from boston.com. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on. after breaking a 37-year-old drought at belmont, american pharoah got on a plane and headed home to kentucky this morning with his loyal side kick by his side this is video from it. the plane trip comes after becoming the 12th horse to claim this elusive title. >> the 37-year wait is over. american pharoah is finally the one! american pharoah has won the
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triple crown! >> 90,000 people cheering yesterday as a 3-year-old champion ran into history beating a gruelling 1.5 mile test. joining me now is rehema ellis. take us back. i imagine you were just as energetic as that announcer was. >> reporter: yeah. i mean inside. i wasn't screaming like the 90,000 people here in the stadium. i have to tell you, i was feeling the excitement. this place was packed. one inch of this place to the next. there were people everywhere. it all seemed they were rooting for american pharoah. they may have been one or two that weren't but it seems like everybody was. this is a record they were ready to have met by this particular horse. even bob baffert, the trainer of this horse, been here before he said when he brought american pharoah into this track unlike previous times he said no one heckled him. it seemed after 37 years and drought that went that long people everywhere were interested in now getting a triple crown winner.
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what's next for this champion horse? listen to bob baffert talking just this morning before he went back to kentucky. >> for a horse that ran a mile and a half. he looked pretty darn good. he's just a tough horse. he's handling it so. i don't think -- we'll give him maybe an extra few days off. he's an athlete. we have to keep him moving. you can't let him completely let them down. >> reporter: they're not going to let him down. this horse has already been sold in terms of the breeding rights for this horse. they have been sold. the owner says it's likely that he'll run a few more races but then retire at the end of this year and then go off to pasture and live a very comfortable and probably a very happy life. richard? >> very luxurious life. >> reporter: that's at only 3 years old. >> great thing about this as you
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were reporting is that american pharoah was america's horse. everybody was rooting for american pharoah to win this. thank you. >> reporter: they really were. 37 years is a long time. a lot of things have happened in history in terms of presidents and wars and things of that nature. we just hasn't had that triple crown winner but we've got one now. >> we sure do. thank you so much. what is next for american pharoah as rehema was reporting the legendary colt could become a cash cow like no other horse in history.owners be jeopardizing his future? what were said today about caitlyn jenner?
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developing now, president obama and british prime minister david cameron wrapping up a bilateral meeting at the summit in germany. a picturesque setting. earlier president obama laid out his agenda. >> we're going to discuss our shared future. a global economy that creates jobs and opportunity and maintaining a strong and prosperous european union, forging new trade partnerships across the atlantic standing up to russian aggression in ukraine. combatting threats from violent extremism to climate change. >> joining us now in austria, nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing back with us this segment. chris, what do you know about that meeting with prime minister cameron? >> reporter: well, the two men talked to the media briefly before they went in and not
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surprisingly one of the big items on their agenda is russian aggression in ukraine you heard the president speak about and the decision that europe has to make about extension but not much impact on vladimir putin. there's been increasing aggression in ukraine so it's up to people like prime minister cameron and angela merkel the german chancellor and president to put pressure on european community. they also said they were going to talk about isis and obviously the continuing concerns about the land grabs they've had. let's listen. i think we just got the tape of the two leaders. >> upon his resounding election victory and look forward to working with him on a whole host of issues.
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this will give us an opportunity to discuss a number of issues that require the u.s. and united kingdom leadership. we'll talk about russia and ukraine. and importance of us maintaining the sanctions regime to put pressure on russia and separatist forces and to implement that there could be a resolution to this problem but it will require that europe united states and atlanta partnership and the world stay vigilant and focused on integrity and sovereignty. we'll have an opportunity to discuss the effort against isis and assess what's working and what's not and how we can make
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progress there. and promote the inthings necessary in iraq for a long-term solution. we'll have a chance to talk about hot spots like libya and nigeria where terrorism has got a foothold. we'll continue the discussions bilaterally with others like trade. i am looking forward to this conversation. we have no closer partner.
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i would note that one of the great values of having the united kingdom in the european union is its leadership and strength for global challenges. we look forward to the united kingdom saying a part of the european union because we think it influence is positive not just for europe. david, again, congratulations. >> thank you very much. as you said there are so many issues to discuss at this meeting. it will come down to security and what we want for our people
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back home and a chance for greater security whether we discuss a situation in ukraine and need to fight extremist terrorism in iraq and syria but elsewhere around the world. where the cooperation between security services and our military is as close as its ever been and as effective. there are a lot of issues to discuss that really will determine whether we can have successful trade deals that we were talking about earlier and also the deal on climate change which will be important for our future. a lot of issues to discuss tonight addressing them in the bilateral meeting. >> thank you, everybody. >> this is the first meeting between obama and cameron since the prime minister was re-elected. you get a good sense there of the number of crises and other issues that they are looking at
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"systematically and deliberately trying to make it hard for people to vote." this morning rick perry and governor chris christie fired back. >> i think it's way outside the norm of ridiculous if you want to know the truth of the matter to call out the people of the state of texas because that's what she did. i just happened to be the governor that signed that legislation i supported but the vast majority of the people of state of texas support that so secretary clinton basically said the people of the state of texas don't know what they're doing. >> she doesn't know what she's talking about. in new jersey we have early voting available to people. i don't want to expand and increase the incidents of fraud. folks in new jersey have plenty of opportunity to vote and maybe she took questions places and learned things and maybe she wouldn't make such ridiculous statements. >> joining me now is lauren fox, correspondent for "the national journal."
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when you listen to this back and forth with hillary clinton and her comments about voting rights and then a response from two republicans, is this an issue that you believe that hillary clinton or for that matter the democratic nominee will be using throughout the coming election? >> certainly this is an issue that's been concerning for not only minority voters but for liberal voters. this is sort of her messaging to her base explaining that she's concerned about these issues and making sure that liberal voters are getting excited about hillary clinton. we have to remember she's not the only candidate in the race and those like bernie sanders and martin o'malley are making a play for the left of the party. she has to be making that appeal. i think that's what's happening here. at the same time republicans have continued to sort of use this issue as governing rights issue and sort of discussing how this can lead to voter fraud if there aren't voting bills on the table they've been signing as governors. voting fraud is rare but
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welcome back. american pharoah winning more than $1 million at the kentucky derby and 900,000 and 800,000 at the preakness and belmont. the real money will come from stud fees. joining us is jason page. in the time we got here stud fees were sold breeding rights 20 million or something like that? >> yep. >> is that average or lower than average? >> 20 million is the numbers but there's escalators in there built into that deal because that was before the horse won the belmont.
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so there could be more than that now. now there's talk about the horse racing further. there's debate about should the horse race more and will the horse race more or do you retire the horse. if you race the horse, what if the horse gets injured? now you're in a world of trouble. now if this horse decides to race breeders cup end of october, the horse could wind up winning that and now the horse is worth more money and could race the traverse stakes. horse could make more money. >> let's stick with triple crown. $20 million was the number put out there. but what's the value of that 20 million? what could he earn based on stud fees and that? >> i think it's 75 to 100. there are lots of things to consider when you talk about the long-term future of this horse. >> so if american pharoah does win more you're saying that they could therefore demand more
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on the stud fee? >> absolutely. escalators could raise this up. you have to keep taking into consideration if you race the horse again, the insurance you have to take out on this horse to race again, are you going to be compensated by tracks for racing the horse. >> the highest earning is $300,000 per mare. if american pharoah wins more could it break that record of 300,000? >> i don't think so. i think it would take a lot for that to happen. to me it would take a lot to get there. many people think this horse winning the triple crown is about the field it was racing against as it is about american pharoah. so there is some debate. the horse is great. 37 years since we had a criptriple crown winner. the horse only raced eight times. the least run triple crown winner ever. >> important point made there. racing longer could prove that
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pedigree increasing value. thank you. appreciate it. a bystander in austin texas, was pepper sprayed while videotapeing an arrest on his phone. when one police officer took the man's phone ands you see there, another pepper sprayed him. the austin police told nbc news they are aware of the incident conducting a review to determine if the officer's conduct is compliant with austin police policy. there have been nearly 400 fatal shootings by police across the country this year. the numbers compiled by "the washington post." the analysis shows overall black americans were killed at three times a rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by population of the census tracks where shootings occurred. no complete and accurate federal tally of police shootings. reporting is voluntary and according to the post 3% of police departments report fatal shootings to the fbi.
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let's bring in "the washington post" reporter. how is it there is no complete record of police shootings? >> this idea that states have the right to keep statistics while feds have rights to keep other statistics. law enforcement breaks down at the state level largely and at the regional level and so essentially we have thousands of police departments that act as their own symptoms where sheriff is in charge or head of troopers is in charge and police chief is in charge and they don't necessarily have to report whether it be to the department of justice or even to state agencies very often. >> what's the fix? is it legislation? >> the day after that piece came out last week and this is part of an effort we'll do all year there was legislation in effect introduced to try to address this. what would need to happen is federal government would have to require police departments to report to the doj and hopefully they would make that information publicly available and so no matter what even if they pass this type of legislation this year, we'll probably still have
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several years before we really know what these numbers really are and as you know this is a conversation happening right now. we don't really have a lot of time to wait. >> there's not a lot of information, if you will outside of just antidotal evidence that's out there. let me go back to what i was reading. black americans killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting for population of the census tracks. >> the other thing we found is that in the unarmed victims, black unarmed victims were more likely to be fleeing the police and blacked armed victims were likely to fleeing police while white are more likely to attack police officers. it's hard to do a lot of analysis because we know our numbers are imperfect but also because what we need and this is part of the reason we're doing this type of project is we need to create this information so we can do these analysis based on race and gender and location and are there certain populations of people who are facing
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disproportionate policing and policies changed to cut down on the number of people killed? we can only know that if we get these numbers. >> you may or may not have these numbers. what is the number of arrests and convictions of officers related to these killings? >> so over 385 that we highlighted in that first piece, there have been three officers charged with a crime. none of them convicted yet because this is all this year. but of 385, three have been charged with a crime and all three of those cases the shooting was on video. we're having a long conversation right now about body cameras and police video. video played a role in all three of the 385, the three where there were charges, every case had a video. >> that's the case now. video, video, video. when you looked at data what stood out to you about how it's being used and how it was part of the process we're discussing today? >> of course. so in the three cases where there have been charges where there was clear video and in fact cases where there would not
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have been charges there were not video. everyone moved along and nothing to see here until that video came out and in some cases officers have been cleared because of video. i can think of a shooting in oklahoma where a man with ptsd was shooting at officers. there was questions from media about what's going on. that officer was wearing a body camera. everything they wrote in their report had happened. this question of how much daylight on these interactions and know about them and what we know is that when you have video and you have presence of video camera, it gets rid of that ambiguity and answers those questions for us. >> you put daylight on this issue by reporting today. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> director spike lee once again facing criticism over the working title of his new movie. it's called "chiraq." he began filming in the windy
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city this week reig might --ry igniting backlash. joining me now is michael phillips film critic for "the chicago tribune." we look at this. spike lee reacted to controversy last month. this is what he said. we'll share that with you. way back when i may do the right thing there were people who said this film would cause riots across america and black people would run amuck. those people ended up being on the wrong side of history and the same is going to happen in chicago. what do you think here? is the movie even about gun violence in chicago? what are you hearing about this film? >> this is a bigger mystery than devil in the white city. spike lee has been very very close to the vest about any plot details and there's been a weird amount of media speculation especially in chicago but
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nationally as well about what this film is going to be saying and is it going to incite more gang violence or what? we do not know. i heard every description from it's going to be a musical comedy based on ancient greek classic about a sex strike waged by women to bring an end to the war to a gritty kind of really hard edged portrait of inglewood in contemporary chicago. i don't know what the film is going to be about. it's a working title. it's a ridiculous amount of speculation this early. we don't know. we do not know yet. >> what about the title? how are folks talking about it in chicago from what you heard? >> inflammatory no question. really inflammatory title. really good title some people say. that phrase has been kicked around for several years in the rap community.
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it's not brand new. spike lee didn't come up with it. and again it's just simply -- i think the concern in chicago is you have a whole spectrum on far end of one side you have people aldermen and other politicians and people in inglewood saying this film should not be made and the title should not be allowed and pull the state incentive tax rebate funding for the project. that's one extreme. >> i know that you summarized it quite well. spike lee not new for him to be in the middle of a discussion when it comes to his work. appreciate it. thank you. >> you bet. thank you. an addiction that started 31 years ago this weekend is now making gaming history. that's next. which saves paper, which saves money. they have smart online tools so you only pay for what's right for you which saves money. they settle claims quickly
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entering the video game hall of fame. joining me now is nbc.com's devin. >> video game hall of fame. it's at the center for history of electronic games in a museum in rochester, new york. >> you would love to probably be a caretaker. i wouldn't mind. talk about a job. why were these games selected though? >> this is the initial sort of six games. they are going add more every year. these are six most iconic to start with different eras. we have pong and pac-man and super mario brothers and other highly influential games and important ones in the history of gaming. >> i can see the debate in nerd places all around the country and world because i think what about defender?
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what about centipede. >> they could have picked worse ones. these are important. >> how do they go about the process? >> originally they were nominated. it was publicly nominated and then people voted and they looked at it and they made an editorial decision. they are adding more next year. you can go to the museum and nominate your own favorites. you can put up whichever you want. >> that's what i'm going to do once we get off the air right now. i wish we had more time to talk about this. i know we would enjoy it. appreciate it. they've been on the run for more than 24 hours. we're keeping watch on the manhunt for two killers from a new york prison. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping
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president obama is in germany today leading with leaders of the g p countryings. two topics of many talked about is the crisis in ukraine and
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greece's critical debt issues. david serves as director of policy planning. you have a unique incite into these talks. will they get anything done this time at the g 7? >> i think the biggest thing that they're trying to do is to sustain transatlantic cooperation on russia. several of the european countries are much less keen on keeping soonkssanctions in place. i think angela merkel will try to use her close relationship to obama to make sure things are sustained into the early months of 2016. >> when we look at this outsiders not being there and looking at how they've communicating, it seems like we have two special relationships really getting better or improving based on what happened in the past. some of the headlines coming out of the uk saying they have to
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tackle anti-american sentiment but it looks like things are warming up if you will. >> i think things are going to be pretty warm. i think germany really wants to highlight its relationship with the united states. it's now the key european country in both dealing with russia and in dealing with greece, and david cameron really wants to get progress going on this u.s. eu trade treaty to help keep britain in the eu. >> give me two headlines. since we were introducing the topic of the crisis in ukraine, what needs to happen for them to have progress on that? >> i don't think it helps save ukraine. this is all about keeping sanctions in place to ensure that you still have this mechanism for making russia pay an economic and financial costs
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for their misbehavior. this isn't going to solve the ukraine crisis. on greece i don't think there's really going to be any progress here on grease.ece. that's going to depend on what the talks between the new greek leader and angela merkel early next week goes into. the other big topic they're going to talk about is the islamic state and libya and the potential of hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing from north africa into southern europe this summer. that's the big looming crisis to far nobody is talking about. >> how does this g 7 meeting become a success? >> so i think it will be a success if you get a common statement from the g 7 on the need to sustain sanctions on russia until the two accords are
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completely incorporated and i think that holds russia's feet to the fire. if the leaders can do that this g 7 meeting will be seen as a success. >> and quickly, before we go here, one of the headlines was that because angela merkel was hosting this she wanted to unit all the leaders. is that just as important here? >> i think, yeah but the italians in particular have been very critical of sanctions. i don't think ren zi is going to break with the other leaders. i'm reasonably optimistic. this marks the return of gee owe politics to the g 7. the g 7 used to be this coalition for dealing with russia during the cold war. it hasn't been that since the fall of the berlin wall. we're now emerging into this back to the future type relationship with the g 7.
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