mr. jones? mr. jones votes no. miss gaberd? miss gaberd? >> mr. chair, how am i recorded? >> how is mr. knight recorded? >> mr. chairman, mr. knight is recorded as voting no. >> mr. night wants to be a yes. >> mr. knight is voting yes. >> the clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman, there were 30 aye votes, 31 no votes. >> the amendment is not agreed to. if there are no further amendments, the chair recognizes the gentleman from colorado, mr. kaufman, for the purposes of offering a motion. >> i move to adopt the subcommittee report on military personnel as amended. >> questions on the motion of the gentleman from colorado? those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the opinion chair, the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. >> the committee will now report t and postpone recorded votes on amendments to this particular subcommittee mark until consideration of all amendments to this subcommittee mark has concluded. the chair recognizes the chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from alabama, mr. rogers. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to first thank cha

. >> during that visit mr. jonest of corrections data base for ricky amos, and here's what they found. that's jones on the right, amos on the left. both men with almost identical skin tone, facial hair, and cornrows. >> that was sort of a jumping off point to try to get mr. jones back into court to challenge his conviction. what would the victim and the other people that identified them say if shown these pictures. >> reporter: but the discovery of this doppelganger came only at the end of a case founded on what many considered to be an imperfect law enforcement tool. >> eyewitness identification testimony is always problematic because it's highly unreliable. memories are not recorded playbacks like most of us think. memories are recalled. it's a recollection, and there's a lot of inaccuracy that goes hand in hand with that. >> reporter: and in fact -- >> about 72% of wrongful convictions come from mistaken eyewitness identifications. >> reporter: the docket at the innocence project reflects the national statistics o

the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. i again am on the floor to talk about a waste of life, a waste of money in afghanistan. we have been there 16 years and nothing has changed. many of my colleagues agree with me that it is time to debate our country's longest war in response i, along with john garamendi from california, introduced h.r. 1666 in hopes of forcing that discussion. i'm not asking for members or leadership to agree with the bill itself or to vote even -- even vote for it, but i am asking that we be able to bring to the floor of the house the bill for the purpose of a debate. we have not debated our role in afghanistan since 2001. members can either vote for or against the bill. just give the house a debate after 16 years. fghanistan is a failed policy. i would like to read a few sentences of an email that i received this week from a great american, my friend and unofficial advisor. the 31st commandant of the united states marine corps chuck grulack, regarding his thoughts on afg

the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: thank you, mr. speaker, very much. sadly, i come to the floor to remind the members of the house as well as the american people that three americans were killed last week in afghanistan . corporal dillon baldrich, sergeant william braze, sergeant eric hoke. they were killed by the afghan they were training. afghanistan is the biggest waste of life and money i have ever seen in my life. i have beside me two little girls who at the time lived in my district. eden and stephanie baldiss. their daddy kevin, was sent from camp lejeune, which is in my district, along with colonel benjamin palmer, who also serves at cherry point, which is in my district. they were sent to afghanistan three years ago to train afghanistans how to be policemen. well, the tragic of this story is that the sergeant baldiss emailed his wife, amy, anded said, amy, i don't trust them. i don't trust any of them. and the very next day he was shot, along with major palmer, and killed. and yet, we in the congress ha

mr. jones, smacks the second homer in two games. tenth of the season. and, orioles take a 4-1 lead.er, jonathan scope, two, two out. scope hammers the ball to left. a three-run shot. orioles go on to beat the red sox. 7-5. >> organizedea continue next week for the redskins. running back, rob kelly showing why he has become the team's number one back. might have something to do with why matt jones is skipping practice. kelly came in last season and worked his way to the top of the depth chart. new number and a new mind set for running back rob kelly. fat kelly as he is known, fat rob, affectionately known, starting ota's number one running back. undrafted rookie won the job from matt jones during the year. finished the season with 704 rushing yards and seven touchdowns. now that he is a top the depth chart, jay gruden excited to see how far, fat rob can go. >> i joked. last year this time you were ninth string running back for good's sakes. now he is the guy. so, it's, exciting to see how far he has come in a short period of time. and with that experience. comes confidence. i with ev

mr. jones's case ia very bad police line-up. they are very closely linked in the issues that they raise. >> reporter: jones and amos had never met until a hearing last wednesday, when witnesses admitted they couldn't tell the two apart and the judge ordered jones released. >> it made a lot of things understandable for me concerning this whole case because i just looked at how much me and this man looked alike and it was -- it was unbelievable. >> reporter: amos has denied any involvement with the crime he was never chargedh or found guilty of the robbery. though most anecdotes aboutally involve crime and psiidentity, mysterious phenomenon in which is fairly common. >> reporter: like matty eckhar. the pair are mistaken for twins but are complete strangers. >> reporter: folklore has it that we each have seven look-alikes out there in the world. dublin native nia gainey is working to prove that theory. she's already met three of her own doppelgangers. >> oh, my nia's become a doppelganger detective of sorts. >> these are all the fi

. >> mr. jones doesn't talk to a lot of reporters.ut we're very glad he made an exception. >> a self-described risk taker, now nbc is taking a huge gamble sunday night maintaining her sit down with controversial conspiracy theorist alex jones and it will air. >> sandy hook. >> well, sandy hook is complex. i've had debates where i said that none of it is true. >> i'm told multiple advertisers have said to nbc we don't want to be anywhere near this story. the network won't say how many. jpmorgan chase is the only advertiser we know avoiding her show. nbc believes it's temporary. they'll come back after the story airs. >> brian stelter host of reliable sources was at the mirror awards attended by megyn and andy lack. they did speak on the record about the fallout. >> to her credit megyn is not hiding from this. she was willing to answer questions about it. i think she's surprised by how much criticism there's been, but believes it's an important interview and should air. >> on twitter, she called it personally revolting added our goal in

once they had mr. jones picked out, that was enough for them. >> reporter: all of his appeals went nowhere, until he contacted the innocence project, which discovered another man, richard amos, who practically looks like jones' twin. that's amos on the left, jones on the right. >> once i saw a picture of this man, i understood why people are saying what they're saying. it made sense to me. >> reporter: the similarities in appearance and lack of hard evidence outside of witness testimony was enough to get a judge to toss out jones' case. >> i never gave up hope. >> reporter: jones told me he's not bitter about the time spent in prison. when he saw the resemblance, he understood it was just a terrible mistake. and not, tom, a matter of the witnesses at trial trying to pin on him a crime he didn't commit. tom? >> that resemblance is incredible. ron, thanks so much. >>> now to the case getting a lot of attention nationwide. members of a penn state fraternity accused of playing a role in the tragic death of a sop

to a situation where you have two sellers who are completely independent of each other, mr. jones and ms. smith have nothing to do with each other, another buyer comes in has no relationship with mr. jones or mrs. smith. and that buyer would be able to make the exact same argument that the murder family is making in this case. mi right that your argument? >> i am not sure what you are talking about. >> you have to standard parcels, somebody comes in and by spoke. that all parties are independent of each other. now the person that has bought these two substandard lots want to build on them. and your argument would be the exact same. >> that's right. they are each independent discrete and separate parcels. and the grandfather clause would protect the development and sale rights of each parcels independence. >> so where does the state regulatory power come in? for this oneetical owner to own two parcels or to different people to own two parcels and they sell it to your one owner and the one owner knows the regulation says if you have to continuous land pieces, you can only develop on

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another buyer comes in and also has no relationship with mr. jones or ms. smith. and that buyer would be able to make these acting argument that the murr family is making. am i right? >> i'm not sure he which parcel -- justice kagan: somebody comes in , buys both, but both parties are independent. now the parties who have bought these two substandard lots wants to build on them, and your argument would be the the same -- would be the same. >> that is right. they are separate parcels. the grandfather clause would protect the development and sale rights of each partial -- parcel. justice sotomayor: and where does the regulatory power come in? a hypothetical, this one owner owns two parcels and they sell it to your one owner, and the one owner knows the regulations say you can only develop on one if they are both an acre or whatever the rule is. your rule would do away with expectations as a buyer. >> no. in that situation, the fact that someone might know there are regulations on properties does not change the time of the taking. the taking occurs in 1975 when the r

once they had mr. joneswas enough for them. >> all of jones' appeals went nowhere, until he contacted the innocence project, which discovered another man who had done time in the same jail, richard amos, who practically loks likes jones' twin. that's amos on the left, jones on the right. >> once i seen a picture of this man, you know, like i understood why people were saying what they were saying. it made sense to me. >> the similarities in appearance and lack of any hard evidence outside of witness testimony was enough to get a judge to toss out jones' case. >> i never gave up hope. jones says he is not bitter because when he saw the resemblance between he and amos, he understood it was all a terrible mistake and not a matter of witnesses at that trial trying to pin on him a crime he did not commit. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >>> a construction worker is in the hospital tonight after dangling from a 17th floor of a high-rise in sarasota, florida. one of the cables on his scaffolding snapped. the wor

tweet that read msn elites don s don' alex jones and info wars reach millions of supporters and helped make the trump revolution. >> would you like to talk to mr. trump? boom. >> while jones has boasted of his access to president trump he said the main stream media or msm exaggerated it. >> i think my influence on trump is lower than what msm said. >> what kind of access? >> he's called and talked politics or thanked me, stuff like that. >> would you describe yourself as friends? >> no. >> friendly? >> sure. >> how many times has he called you? >> i don't want to get into that. >> what do you think about alex jones that president trump finds so amazing? >> that's a scary question. >> charlie sykes is a conservative writer and contributor to nbc news. trump. >> obviously there is a con spir toirl turn in the president's thinking and imagination. those darker impulses are fed into by alex jones. >> jones speaks to his listeners for hours a day, six days a week. his rants can be vulgar and hate filled like this one directed at a member of congress. >> schiff looks like the archetype [ bleep ] and there is something this fairy bossing around tryin

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president trump seemed to channel some of his conspiracy theories on the campaign trail, and mr. jonesers. but we're very glad he made an exception. >> humanity is awakening. the great global battle for the future of our species is being fought right now. >> they call you the most paranoid man in america. is that true? >> absolutely not. a paranoid person would be hiding out in their house, not venturing out in public. i go out there on the street and battle black lives matter, the communists at point blank range. >> we talked controversies and conspiracies. >> 9/11. >> 9/11 was an inside job. when i say inside job, that means criminal elements in our government working with saudi arabia and others wanted to frame iraq for it. just a fact. >> sandy hook. debates where we've said the whole story is true, then i've had debates where i've said that none of it is true. >> when you say parents faked their children's death, people get very angry. >> i know, but they don't get angry about the half million dead iraqis from the sanctions or they don't -- >> that's a dodge. >> it's not a dodge.

president trump seemed to channel some of his conspiracy theories on the campaign trail, and mr. jones but we're very glad he made an exception. >> humanity is awakening. the great global battle for the future of our species is being fought right now. >> they call you the most paranoid man in america. is that true? >> absolutely not. a paranoid person would be hiding out in their house, not venturing out in public. i go out there on the street and battle black lives matter, the communists at point-blank range. >> we talked controversies and conspiracies. >> 9/11. >> 9/11 was an inside job. then i've had debates where i've said that none of it is true. evil wars -- >> that doesn't excuse what you said about newtown, and you know it. >> i looked at all the angles of newtown, and i made my statements before the media picked up on it. we didn't get the important stuff. >> what do you mean? we talked about all the important stuff. >> here's the big one they always make fun of me. 30 years ago, they began creating animal-human hybrids. isn't that the big story megyn kelly should be doing? >>

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once they had mr. jonesugh for them. >> reporter: all of jones' appeals went nowhere until he contacted the innocence project which discovered another man who had done time in the same jail, richard amos who practically looks like jones' twin. amos on the left. jones on the right. >> once i seen the picture of this man, you know, like i understood why people were saying what they were saying. like it made sense to me. >> reporter: the similarities in appearance and lack of any hard evidence outside of witness testimony was enough off to get a judge to toss out jones's any case. >> i never gave up hope. >> reporter: jones is not bitter, when he saw the resemblance, he understood it was all a mistake not a matter of witnesses at the trial trying to pin on him a crime he did not commitment ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> it is unbelievable looking at the two photos. >> insane. so, volunteers set up a gofundme page to help jones get on his feet. been 17 years. raised more than $8,000. the initial goal its

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members of congress have not voted on this matter even though there was an update it is imperative mr. jones has introduced a resolution i am the principal co-author that literally forced of congress and the senate of its constitutional authority because after that the money stops to afghanistan to come to grips with the opposition that has been said by the ranking member it is now what amounts to a wide-ranging war and with africom and other parts of africa is in play and certainly with syria if i am not mistaken to take military action against the government and once in response that somehow the chemical actions taken were horrendous and clearly contrary to the way the wars must we conducted but to be a direct threat and within the power of the president not debating the right to or the wrong it is a leap to suggest was a direct threat to the united states but that was the justification i don't know what it was for the shooting but whenever it might be it appears to be a side of the current war powers resolution. apparently we are at war or are we not with the government of syria the me be

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amendment 29 r 1 by mr. jones, a provision regarding hyperbaric oxygen therapy for certain members of the armed forces. amendment 33 by mr. cook which directs the establishment of a pilot program that provides job placement assistance to employment services to members of the national guard and reserve. amendment 44 r 2, by ms. tsongas, which require as briefing by the office of the secretary of defense on the military services ability to provide child care development services, on military installations. amendment 63 by mr. wilson. which works to stabilize military families in the event of a pcs that is not adventurous to work or school for the family. amendment 66, by mr. scott, which changes the regular update for the regular update for prescription drug pricing standards under tri-care retail pharmacy program. amendment 74 by mr. o'rourke. which require as mental health examination for service members before they transition from military along with existing physical exam. amendment 87 by ms. spear which directs

recognized to explain the amendment. >> in number three it is comprised of the following, amendment 65 by mr. joneshich sets up an advisory board for military commissions and exchanges, amendment 82 by mr. brady which directs the doj to conduct a study which evaluates the different with each military service conducts data on race engine of those convicted of violations of ucmj. amendment 102 by ms. speier which directs the secretary of defense to submit to the committees on armed services of report on dod personne personals regarding members of the armed forces infected with hiv. amendment 149 r-1 which directs the secretary of defense to brief availability of certified financial planners to servicemembers at the onset of the new blended retirement system. amendment 191 by dr. wenstrup which directs residency requirements or pediatrics, pediatricians. amendment 284 by mr. thornbury which creates a defense public service to be awarded by the congress. amendment 287 by mr. carbajal which is a sense of congress regarding the national guard challenge program. that's it, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i ju

. >> the counting crows have 20 million albums worldwide, like "mr. jones go on each other's buses and play video games. >> is that what happens on the bus? >> yeah. >> we meet up in the dressing room, have a glass of wine and talk about the day's events. >> a glass of wine. things have matured, i would say. >> since your charlie days. >> yeah. >> grand theft auto. >> i would think, after all this time, and you're still seeing the huge crowds. i'll bet you're seeing like a multigenerational kind of thing now. >> in our front row, there's people that are 65 years old because they were our age when our record came out. and if there's college kids that are my age now, they're bringing their kids and bringing their grandkids. we're getting literally grandfathered in. >> i want that. i want that. >> you're going to have that, sir. >> we always appealed to small children and the elderly. it's only recently that we filled in the middle. i think a few of the kids grew up and everybody else died. we have a range. >> is it true that, rob, you gave adam a demo tape at

. >> the counting crows have sold more than 20 million albums word wilde like "mr. jones."ng it up again? >> i think we're doing it every summer. >> we did squirrel ourselves -- figure out a way. we didn't figure out a way and then it fell out of the sky. >> we played video games on each other's buses. >> is that what happened, on the bus? >> yeah. we'd meet up in the dressing room. have a glass of wine and talk about the day's events. >> a glass of wine. so things have matured i would say -- >> oh, yeah. >> from your childhood days. he's like -- >> yeah. grand theft auto. >> so i would still seeing the huge crowds but i bet you're seeing like a multigenerational kind of thing. >> sure. you know, there's -- in our front row there's people that are 65 years old because they were our age when our record first came out. then, you know, there are college kids that are my age now and they're bringing their kids. they're bringing their grandk grandkids. we're getting literally grandfathered in. >> wow. >> i want that. i want that. >> you want that. >> you'll have that, sir. >> we

i think both of these appointments, mr. jones i don't know, but i know marvin and randy quite well.me. it's quite revealing about the strategy. , these names have not been nominated yet. i assume they go toward being nominated. it says a lot about the type of fed the administration would like to see. i am very encouraged. i am very encouraged about both people, they are smart and capable. i am taking away good fives from this. -- vibrations from this. there are other directions they could've gone. david: we were talking about the balance sheet. one part of the tea leaves about marvin is he has expressed some skepticism about investing not just in treasuries, but mortgage-backed securities. the fed is really injecting itself into fiscal issues. do you share that concern? steve: i share that concern a lot. the more the fed engages in what policy, thet fiscal more it engages that, the more it's not doing monetary policy. it's doing credit allocation. that should be under the purview of the fiscal authorities. those effects of allocating credit, it has distributional concert -- conseque

mr. quincy jones and, you know, there's reason i'm still here. >> right. >> because it's never for the fameit a blessing good for us fans. there's just something about your sound i mean when you first came out it was nothing we had ever heard. you had the jean suit going on. >> now he has his own -- quincy and karrueche on bet. this is the way to wear denim. >> oh really? >> right. >> i can't even compose myself. >> do you have questions. >> i have teen daughters and they're just like can you telomere al b. sure to telikin see we said hello so it continues. just generational. >> you have this big show tonight at the howard theater. what are fans going to get? >> i am excited first of all d.c. is like a second home to me. >> welcome back. >> the entire >> welcome back. >> locate a second home tonight. tonight we'll go down memory lane this is the type of concert which is fun. where it's a couple they get dressed up, date night, or it could be jessica and six of her girlfriends from high school or college getting together and then the fellas have to show up because it's where the ladies will

rock star van jones who found himself the victim of mr o'keefe kind of sort of not really journalistic endeavors james if you only go after democrats who are not a journalist or an operative it's hard to hear someone del rosario has the latest on this developing story. is. been one public relations crisis after another this week for c.n.n. first the network retracted a story that tried to draw a connection between a donald trump ally and an investigation into russian funds the story had one anonymous source and in the aftermath three reporters resigned and now this on the air host and political commentator van jones caught project veritas undercover camera saying this what do you think's going to happen this week you know richard. didn't. really. deal with. it. and jones you got me i have no idea what is a nothing burger but the video release comes less than two days after project berra tossed founder james o'keefe exposed another c.n.n. employee this one a producer with descriptive words about cnn's russia coverage i can't understand honestly. it's just like. we were. after the first

. >> cnn's athena jones trying to get the president to respond to the obstruction report to no avail. >> mr. president, do you believe that you are under investigation now? mr. president, do you now believe -- do you want to comment on camera? to the "washington post" report, mr. president? >> president trump keeping mum on camera. he had plenty to say, though, on twitter. we get more on that from cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house. >> reporter: christine and dave, there is a policy here at the white house to not comment on the russia investigation, the ongoing russia investigation. that, of course, does not apply to the man in the oval office, president trump. he made his views perfectly clear throughout the day on thursday, from morning until evening, going after the investigation, calling it a witch hunt. he called it a phony investigation. and then he went after hillary clinton herself in a series of messages on social media, saying what about her dealings with russia? it certainly underscores the challenge here and the frustration in the minds of the president going forward as this r

mrs. cosby. >> she sounded mad. >> then megyn kelly's interview with conspiracy theorist alex jones. exclusive.-wife is saying today after the interview. >>

mr. obama, accusing him from everything from negligence. athena joneson the air -- >> i just heard for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and did nothing about it. >> reporter: president trump making it abundantly clear that after five months from replacing president obama, his predecessor remains top of mind. not content with simply undoing parts of obama's legacy, like pulling the u.s. out of the trans-pacific partnership trade deal and the paris climate ard could, trump is increasingly using obama as a political foil, blaming him for not doing enough to stop russian meddling in last year's election, despite calling such meddling a phony story for months. >> the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. >> reporter: president trump even accusing president obama of criminal acts, from collusion and obstruction to spying on him in trump tower, a baseless claim he made in march that was widely refuted. that was also when trump called obama