but as we walked through the fields, pickers told us how precarious a day can be for them - when they have to rely on there being enough good berries to pick. >> even with the small raise after the strike, it didn't seem like it was enough to help workers like they'd hoped. >> for everybody that thinks that farm worker is unskilled labor - they're wrong. i would challenge them to go to the fields for an hour and let's see if they can pick some strawberries. but the fact remains that the workers are some of the most marginal workers within mexico. >> miguel is a strawberry picker for berrymex. like the majority of farm workers here, he comes from oaxaca, one of mexico's poorest states. >> how was your day at work today, what'd you do? >> most of his money goes towards renting this small room and paying for food - and the rest is sent back home to his wife and family in oaxaca. >> does that make it seem like it's not worth it? >> what's the hardest part about living here? >> how long do you plan on doing this? >> berrymex has said that workers have the "opportunity" to make between 5 an

his name is picker. his last name is picker. it makes every news story distracting. i'm nine years old times five. it's funny, his name is picker. when it comes to the pickle mr. picker put the president in, i think it is sort of worth letting it out, giggle through it. let that happen. acknowledge that it's funny. but then you do still have to kind of soberly grapple with the fact that this guy, mr. picker, has long been a really central part of donald trump's life and particularly mr. trump's carefully managed public image. during the presidential campaign, it became desperately unsubtle. it became impossible not to notice. could you not buy a quart of milk without being confronted with the relationship. because his media empire includes the "national enquirer." you can watch the progression of donald trump's quest for the presidency over the course of the covers of the "national enquirer." when it came to the end of the republican presidential primary where the last man standing against ted cruz standing against him was ted cruz, this was the "national enquirer" c

david picker are close friends and allies. the national inquirer's editor in charge issued this statement. we accurately reported a story that recounted the relationship between joe and mika. the truth of which is not in dispute. at no time did we threaten joe or mika or their children in connection with reporting the story. we have no knowledge of any discussions. after the explosion accusation from the couple on air, the president responded. he watched@morning joe for the first time in long time. fake news. skarb row called him out. yet another lie. i have texts from your top aids and phone records. also they show i haven't spoken with you in many months. he told nbc news executives about calls as they were happening. an official says it was joe scar scarbough about the national inquirer story. but there was -- >> jessica joins us now. to your reporting that joe tweeted he has texts and call logs, does he or nbc plan on releasing them? >> so far they have not released the texts or the call logs. in addition he has not respon

>> why did ami and picker sort of respond so maniacally.t seems they are desperately fearful of something. is it really just about some of their stories are politically motivated? duh. so that is the $64,000 question. >> the president remained sound. asked by reporters if the president was aware of the allegation. here's what he said. >> i'm not sure if he's aware of it. and year not going to get into something between jeff bezos and a tabloid magazine. >> president trump has not been shy about sharing his opinion. the president tweeted so sorry to hear the news about jeff ebozo being taken down by a competitor who's reporting i understand is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the amazon "washington post." hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better more -- he's comparing the "washington post" with the "national enquirer" and i can't stop laughing. it's insane. who believes this crap? >> it's a long way beyond parity. he's been saying that national enquirer deserves the pulitzer prize and ragging on the "w

that's why they appointed the pickering/mullen review. but there is no sort of hidden agenda here, and they should try to push this aside as fast as they can. >> well, they want mr. pickering now to come forward behind closed doors and give deposition. because darrell issa says he doesn't want to make it a show. really? they've already had nine hearings. the right wing wants this story to stay around as long as possible, to tarnish hillary clinton as a national candidate. no doubt about it. bob shrum, here's a clip of darrell issa. why don't you respond to it. here it is. >> what did secretary of state hillary clinton fail to disclose or fail to do that makes her a target for you? >> hillary clinton is not a target, president obama is not a target. >> isn't this an effort to take downhillry in 2016, bob? they're political opportunists. >> sure, this is all about fear of the hillary candidacy in 2016 and resentment that president obama won in 2012. the republicans have been down this road before. it's sort of out of their playbook. they tr

pickering's alleged mistress. mrs. pickering, in other words is suing the other woman. news. first, another moralizing c street connected politician has a personal hypocrisy problem. as a congressman, chip pickering lived at c street, which members call a christian fellowship house. on hess website was this message to constituents. "mississippians know my leadership is grounded on our principles of faith, family and freedom, and when in washington those are my guiding values." in 1998, congressman pickering said of president clinton, "i think for the good of the country and for the good of his own family it would be better for president clinton to resign when someone puts himself forward for public office, then his personal conduct does become relevant." the timing of congressman's pickering's only extramarital is still unclear but he and his wife filed for divorce in june of last year. congressman pickering left congress in january of this year to become a lobbyist for the firm that represents cellular south. a telephone company owned by the family of his alleged mistr

pickering. he will be joining us on "the last word" tonight. one word to describe today's 11-hour benghazi hearing was pointless. that's if you listen to what trey gowdy says about what he learned in this hearing. >> i would imagine that i thought more about what happened than all of you put together. i have lost more sleep than all of you put together. >> but it soon dissolved into bickering. >> would the gentlemjgentleman ? >> i would be happy to, but you need to make sure to -- >> that's exactly what i want to do. >> then go ahead. >> he had unfettered access to you. >> i don't know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of the deaths of four americans. >> you would think for the time we spent on him he was in benghazi manning the barricades. >> you had two ambassadors that made several requests and here's basically what happened to their requests. >> and she's not letting them get under her skin. >> i'm sorry that it doesn't fit your narrative, congressman. i can onl

that ambassador pickering conducted. >> he's an 83-year-old gentleman named ambassador pickering, and i've heard a lot of testimony, and i was there for his deposition, and it was also trance scribed, and i don't remember which it was and before his testimony before the oversight committee, and when he talked about his appointment to the arb, he talked about what an honor it was. what bothers me about what has gone on, when there are attacks that, it's like attacking him and at 83-year-old i refuse to sit here and let that go by. i remember listening to him, and i said to myself, you know, this is the kind of guy that we all ought to honor, serving under presidents for 40 years, democrat and republican, high up on the chain with regard to integrity. i don't know how you even attack this guy, all right? one of the things he said in his testimony, he said -- and this was -- you appointed him, and he talked about the appointment, and i quote from a june 4th testimony, he said, chris stevens worked for me as my special assistant for two years when i was under secretary of state. this was

>> rose: ambassador pickering? >> a real test will be whether in fact out of all of this there can be more cooperation on a very difficult problem like iran especially with the messiness in iran over the last two or three weeks and, indeed, how that's thrown i think a hand gren grenade in the middle of the efforts of the obama administration to try to deal with iran. although i admire the administration for continuing to try to keep the door open to conversations. i think they're important regardless of what has gone on inside iran, but that's not an easy road to hoe here at home. i think finally the question will be also extremely important once agreements are reached whether they could be sold here domestically there's no question there will be opposition, although 60 votes in the senate are very important in selling agreements and i would suspect that plus president obama's renown skills at explaining things and portraying them in the ways i think people can understand and attach themselves to are very, very imp

according to prosecutors, picker and howard both played a role in the campaign finance violations to which cohen pleaded guilty this week. crimes that he, of course, says that the president of the united states directed him to carry out. it was picker and howard who paid off karen mcdougal to cover up her allegation of affair with then candidate trump and tipped off cohen when stormy daniels was preparing to going public with her allegation just before the election. allegedly, ami first made an arrangement with the president long before that. according to the charging documents all the way back in august 2015, at the being of the trump campaign in coordination with cohen and one or more members of the campaign, picker identified as chairman one, offered to help deal with negative stories about individual relationships with women by among other things assisting the campaign in identifying such stories so they could be purchased and publication avoided. individual 1 is, of course, donald j. trump. it was almost a full year before the deal we know about with karen mcdougal. and on the s

back ton diplomatic relations with cuba, i think ambassador pickering made a good point.ou do eventually need legislation and it's not just republicans in this case but it's democrats like senator menendez who were blind sided in opening relations, are going to be much more difficult to work with now when it comes to critical issues about lifting sanctions. should we or shouldn't we, it is much harder to address that issue given the way the situation has played out. >> ambassadors thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> that's all for now. the conversation continues on @ajconsiderthis. and you can meet me >> in jacmel on haiti's southern coast surfers aren't an unusual sight these days, but just a few months ago, some of these boys couldn't even swim. they're all part of "surf haiti", an ambitious project aimed at bringing tourists and their money to the beaches. joan mamique who runs the camp says surfing here is about more than just catching waves. samson jules, who was one of the first boys to learn to surf here, tells us the project has the p

in the lawsuit filed against pickering's mistress, pickering's wife claims the adulterous relationshipuined both the marriage and pickering's political career. she claims mississippi governor hailey barber then offered then congressman pickering the senate seat of trent lott in 2007 and the lawsuit further claims pickering's mistress insisted if pickering accepted the position their relationship would not be able to continue. a spokesman for barbara denies that the governor ever offered pickering that seat but here's the real curiosity. not only did mr. pickering campaign on family values and pushed a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, not only did he call for the resignation of president bill clinton, but mr. pickering was living in the christian fellowship home on c street in washington, d.c. otherwise known as the fellowship or the family while he was allegedly carrying on his extra marital affair. the c street fellowship hall was also occupied by the nevada senator now confessed adulter john ensign as well as former congressman and now confessed adulter er mark sanford.

about charles pickering, whether they would need tables for a pickering event. we know about now because we can see in it black and white. he denied having played a significant role in that nomination while he was before the senate the last time they had him under oath in 2006. so keep an eye on that question about his role. it is a name that is not a household name. back in the day, charles pickering was a disastrous nomination for the bush white house. he eventually got recess appointed because they couldn't get him through the senate. he had to step off the bench and it was a big embarrassment. he did do stuff to get the seat that was seriously controversial. you might understand why he didn't want to be associated with that very controversial nomination. the bad nomination when he was such a bad headline for the bush white house. you understand why he might have done that. but saying he wasn't involved there, we know in black and white that he absolutely was, understandable as it may be, trying to save his own skin and stay away from controversial issues tha

next. >> and we're back with ambassador kurt volker and ambassador thomas pickering.hey are both joining us from our studios in washington. ambassador volker, there was the president pleading with congress not to pass a resolution. if the nuclear talks fail there's going to be an automatic set of new restrictions on iran. the president is saying, it's probably going to happen but don't stick a finger in the eye. >> that is his position, it's very important that he make it clear that that is his position and that's the way he views it. if a sanctions bill is passed it includes a provision for president to have a waiver authority, a national security waiver to say if negotiations are fruitful that he can waive the applications of those sanctions. it is making a play for sanctions really taking effect. what i see here is a difference of judgment between the administration and the republicans in cock about where we -- in congress about where we are in negotiations. the negotiations have slowed down around the nuclear program that they haven't been able to continue to deve

>> right the relationship between picker at ami and picker goes back to the '90s.there has been additional reporting that has showed that david picker and ami has benefitted from its relationship with trump. if truable to basically get theo cover up stories about him and promote negative stories about hillary clinton. that david pker in turn may have received benefits from his close relationship with the white house, especially when it came to business pursuits that he was pursuing with the saudis. and so -- listen. trump is not the only person on whose behalf david picker has done favors and has like waited into questionable -- and question whether or not a legal tactics. to help benefit them. >> this is getting more and more interesting by the day. thank you both. and up next amazing new reporting from the "washington post" about a virtual pipeline of undocumented immigrants to find work at donald trump's property. ork at donald trump's property got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today. and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team. the team? g

ambassador pickering, you led this investigation along with admiral mullen. and the criticism about this investigation is, it didn't go far enough. you didn't specifically interview secretary of state clinton. you didn't probe into what she did or did not do in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. you focused on lower level officials and didn't sufficiently address the very point the chairman brings up, which is why wasn't there the sufficient address to the fact that there was a deteriorating security situation if benghazi? >> let me say that i hope the chairman has read our report. our report has 29 recommendations. the bulk of them concern the insufficiency of the state department's preparation of that post to deal with the security challenges. i don't think that there is any other explanation. and i can't believe that in fact, he still sits here and makes those charges. the second issue he raised was the seven hours. we looked into this extensively with the military. admiral mullen. >> talking about the night of the attack? >> the night of the attack i

ambassador pickering heard what the administration wanted to hear.he only under oath people i know about who have said what happened on the ground that day was, in fact, before our committee just on wednesday, and more importantly, you know, when "face the nation" had susan rice saying one thing and the president of libya saying just the opposite, that should have been a wake-up call, a real wake-up call, that there was something wrong, because we were effectively calling the president of libya either incompetent or a liar. either way, diplomatically, we went down the wrong road. you reconcile with the government that is hosting you before you go on national television and make that kind of claim. >> what is the big picture here? you're saying that administration officials or these political advisors to the president, or these non-political appointees bullied the cia into saying what the -- the political advisers in the white house wanted to say? is that your charge? >> david, we're not making charges. >> you just said. the cia had to back down from

professor pickering had a young harvard man doing that work for him, computing.his maid could do a better job. and so professor pickering fired the harvard man and replaced him with his maid. wilamina fleming who did a better job, even without the benefit of a college education. she actually turned out to be so good that she was eventually appointed curator of astronomical photos, photos which are the raw data sheets with which they have mapped the universe. after being dazzled by fleming, professor pickering then hired only women as computers. to manage his team of computer, he hired annie cannon who was born on this very day in history in 1863, which is why she's being celebrated today on her birthday with today's google doodle. well, a google doodle seen around the world is not nothing, but like most women in science, annie cannon has never been given enough credit for her work. annie studied physics and astronomy at wellesley, a women's college not far from harvard. annie's mother actually got her interested in astronomy. annie's parents fully supported her e

i think abood did cite pickering. and if one looks at the briefs in abood, the parties on both sides were arguing pickering. but beyond that, i think -- justice roberts: in terms of that, but in terms of the substantive analysis, it can't really seriously be called a pickering case. general verrilli: no. but i think it shares what i said at the outset, mr. chief justice, is i think the key point: that this court's first amendment law in the public employment context has, over time, converged with abood, in that the cases generally have recognized that when government is acting as employer, it has interests that, if government were acting as sovereign regulating the citizenry, wouldn't suffice to justify conditions on speech. justice alito: well, pickering is -- pickering is the heart of your argument, so i do want to ask you a couple of questions about it. is it different from the situation here in several respects? one was brought out. pickering -- the pickering cases involve the termination or the discipline of a pu

nobody had ever gone to the garbage dump to talk to garbage pickers. in fact, if i was radicalized, which i think i was in some ways, the radicalizing moment came when i was a little boy with my dad and my aunt and some of my cousins in downtown tijuana. and we had gone to a restaurant to eat, we were going to eat chicken, mexican style brassiered chicken. it was a big deal. and we were walking into the restaurant and there was an indigenous woman begging onhe sidewalk, probably mixed. what they call marias, you know. and she had the outfit and she had the baby. i still remember her. and she had that "limosna por favor," and put her hand out. and my aunt kicked her. she said, "largate perra!" "get the hell out of here, dog!" and kicked her and went inside. and i was so shocked because, you know, this was my auntie, right? what's this violence? and i was embarrassed and i was mortified and horrified -- i didn't know what was going on. and we went inside to eat and it was very clear to me that here we were, the white -- this is where i started understand