joining me now from dallas with the latest is mitch mitchell, reporter from the ft. so far in the trial. >> thank you for having me, reverend sharpton. yesterday was really interesting. the judge tammy kemp had scheduled a day that started 9:00 and ended 4:00. the session yesterday ended around -- ended before lunch. there was one witness. and it was a witness that people had heard from, the jury had heard from before. who is a lead investigator. he said earlier during the week that he believed that ms. guyger was reasonable in her actions of shooting bothham jean, but she, the judge has limited that testimony. the jury did not hear that testimony. as a matter of fact, there was a -- >> the jury did not hear that, but let me ask you something. what is the rationale guyger is using? she's a police officer. she went in the wrong house, she said she felt she saw something and she was in danger, but she's a police woman. shouldn't she know her own house? shouldn't she know the makeup of the complex she lived in? >> that will be one of the things for the jury to consider.

[applause] andrea mitch 'em. mitchell. [applause] dr.amy gutmann is president of the university of pennsylvania and -- [applause] [laughter] and has been since 2004. when her current contract expires in 202 the2 -- 2022, she will be the longest is serving president in penn's 280-year history. [applause] now again, a master resumÉ, and they can get into it, but here's one stat that i really particularly like. under her tenure with at penn, she has more than doubled the number of students from low income, middle income and first generation college students. [applause] and she's only the author of 17 books. [laughter] dr. jonathan moreno, philosopher, historian, bioethicist, he has written seminal works on sociology and the politics of biology and medicine. he is officially a professor of medical ethics and the history and sociology of science at penn. he has served on numerous presidential commission -- advisory commissions, and he has published more than 20 books, monographs, anthologies, textbooks, etc. we're honored and lucky to have th

i think the answer is mitch mcconnell. why does mitchell mitchell. not want that to happen? why doesn't he want federal aid? why doesn't he want federal standards? i think because he realizes that the people who are doing this manipulation are supporting his side. >> richmond clarke's new book is call the fifth domain to watch the rest of his interview and see more programming visit our website, booktv.org and click then "after words" tab. ... [applause]

. >> desjardins: minnesota senator amy klobuchar, singled out senate republican leader mitchel mccoon guns. >> mitchonnell is going to have to decide what side he's on. so he's going to have to explain to the people of this country why he wouldn't let that bill that just passed t house come up for a vote. >> desjardins: and all this follows the comments from former texas congressman beto o'rourke, who used an explete on cnn, nosunday while reacting toer mass shooting in his home state. >> so, yes, this is ( bleep ) up and if we don't call it out for what it is, if we're not able to speak clearly, if we're not able to act decisively, then we will continue to have this kind of bloodshein america. and i cannot accept that. >> desjardins: in los angeles, california senator kamala harris hit severanotes, vowing executive action on guns if congress doesn't act, while commemorating the hoday.e >> i think of it as a moment where we are celebrating the leadership of organized labo that brought all of us, whethero member of or not, better conditions, wages, benefits. >> desjardins: massachusetts senator eliza

mitch mcconnell. is that okay? anyone going to protest? mitchell mitchell when he criticizes socialism, he is doing what hayak warns against. it sounds like easiest defending the status quo, the wall street bailouts, offering you sunny washington, dc that you find repugnant if the critic of socialism and washington identify what they're against, they're against aoc. are the actually for free market and the peaceful bottom-up cooperation? i'm not sure they are but all of us, if we want to win the next generation, we have to imagine something utopian, something beautiful, something bigger and better than we have seen in the past, which brings me to beer. look at that. that's an ipa. snakedog ipa from our friends as flying dog brewing, jim a caruso amies his libertarian principles to his production of beer but if you go to any grocery store almost anywhere ins and the and go to the beer section, it's shrine to free market capitalism. a holy place, things get quiet there as you try to figure out which double dry hop you're going choose there. you can't

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mitchell. congratulations to you for the award. tonight here in new york city, he was thinking about his height, i of course was thinking about you. >> and fortunately andrea mitchtrue. congratulations, you have yourself an excellent rest of

mitchell. congratulations to you for the award. tonight here in new york city, he was thinking about his height, i of course was thinking about you. >> and fortunately andrea mitch emknows that is not true. congratulations, you have yourself an excellent rest of your day. >> appreciate that. >> good afternoon, everyone. see when you took a breath? it said stephanie. it is september 24th. 1:00. you know what you are watching. president trump, that is who we're talking about, he is meeting with world leaders here in new york city today, but that is merely the backdrop for what is the true focus of the afternoon. we're learning more and more about president trump's controversial phone call with his ukranian counterpart. and just how it played out. according to the "washington post," president trump ordered acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid to ukraine a week before the late july phone call. the associated press, "wall street journal" and "new york times" have since confirmed different aspects of this story. >> the "post" reports officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an i