. ♪ wayfair, you've got just what i need ♪ >>> members of the black community in bethesda, maryland,remnants of their ancestry. a multi-million dollar land development deal put a spotlight on what the community believes is a mostly forgotten black cemetery, and now, descendants of the enslaved people who may have been buried there are fighting to preserve the legacy of their ancestors. nbc's trymaine lee has more. >> 78-year-old harvey matthews grew up on a small farm in bethesda, maryland, just outside washington, d.c. >> this is the tree my dad planted, when i was about nine years old. >> back then, most families in the surrounding area were black, descended from newly emancipated african americans who settled here after the civil war, for nearly a century they prospered but in the decks to come, most of it would be a race to the name of progress, just not theirs. >> developers came in, and driving us away from home. and as they did that, the community got smaller and smaller. >> today, the farm where matthew grew up is a strip mall, anchored by whole foods. >> it is hard to believ

very interesting, dave, their rush that speaking to us from bethesda, maryland, always great to get your thoughts and expertise from out there. thanks for joining us again. dave. thank you. well now china is gradually eating some of the walls, toughest clothes, 19 restrictions after a week of unprecedented protests, people in beijing and shanghai have seen reduced testing requirements in quarantine measures. and the government is expected to announce a reduction in mass testing and the coming days nationwide, kind of in 1000 cases, remain near record highs. a routine session in synagogue. parliament has descended into violence fighting started after a male politician. as you can see that walks up to a female collie and slapped her in the face on thursday. she then retaliated, as you can see by throwing a chair. the budget presentation was suspended as members continue to trade punches and insults. tension has been growing there between the government and opposition since the ruling party last 6 majority and july. nicholas hockey was at the national assembly indica in the aftermath of tha

now there is a legal battle going on in bethesda, maryland, over a historically black cemetery.eserve the grounds where their ancestors are believed to be buried. here is nbc's tremayne lee. >> reporter: that tree is one that my mom and dad planted. right there. i was about 9 years old. back then, most families in the surrounding areas were black. descended from newly emancipated african americans who settled here shortly after the civil war. for nearly a century, they prospered. but in the decades to come, most of it would be a race to the name of progress. just not theirs. >> they came in, started stealing the homes and driving them away from their homes. and as they did that, the community got smaller and smaller. >> reporter: today, the farm where matthews grew up is a strip mall. >> hard to believe that this community that you grew up in is now this? >> yes. it is hard. this was home at one time. and now it is everything else but that. >> reporter: down river road, the 102-year-old macedonia baptist church, wedged between a bank and a high rise, is the last visible remnant

. >> a question from andrew in bethesda. based on your historic engagement in latin america in europe's latin american relations what prospects do you see for u.s. leadership on democracy and human rights issues in the current state of the region? and specifically with regard to brazill argentina. that's a lot but what do you see as being the prospect for u.s. role. they have a summit on democracy in los angeles recently. >> latin american countries in my experience under -- undergo more germanic ships than almost any other part of the world and one reason for that is they are are -- of power politics. they never have to pay a direct price from european and domestic american -- and i want to tell your listeners i haven't studied it to the same extent that european-american and so they have the same problem that everybody has in creating a domestic structure in which people believe. experience has been so different in what they feel they can do. beyond what some other countries would do. >> a question from how diplomacy has c

m m in bethesda. but also we have to take into account that donna's condition also varies widely. rather, it depends on how much concentration she can muster to day her concentration is at its limit. the 2 hour visit is over before and in. it's a control out the system herself. oh oh oh on it's time for us to go back now. in the next few weeks and months professor, so could as team will keep on trying. it's a drawn out process, but everyone is hoping that and, and it's and her family will learn to communicate with one another again. in essen university hospital in western germany, lilly lawman has come for an important check. up 4 weeks ago, her son thomas donated half his liver to his mom, saving her life. when out of half shot wanted, i was asked and of course i said yes. because your parents also give you a lot aiden's i'm is all part of being a parent is also about sacrifice. wonder i was asked then i thought, oh yes, just do it. most of us are vermont. fish and i had my naturally for the course along the way start having doubt. zoe. if you ask, am i doing the right thing? whe

. >> host: a question from andrea in bethesda, based on your historic engagement in latin american relations, what prospects do you see for us leadership on democracy and human rights issues in the current state of the region and specifically in regard to brazil, argentina and chile, what do you see as the us role, senator democracy in losos angeles and there was controversy because of the attitudes towards the us..s >> host: latin american countries. >> guest: in my experience, they undergo more dramatic shifts than any other can do and one reason for that is they are insulated from the power politics. they never have to pay a direct price, the domestic politics is different from european and domestic policy for americans. i must tell you, i have studied it with the same extent as i did european american and asian policy. b so they have the same problem everybody has. .. domestic structure in which people believe but the experiences to different that they feel they could do to the to use your own would so what they would did to beyond what they would dare to do. >> here's a question about h

we have a question from andrew in bethesda based on your historic in latin america and u.s. latin american relations what prospects do you for u.s. leadership on democracy and human rights in the current state of the region and specific in regard to brazil and chile? that's a lot, but what do you see as the prospects for u.s. role? the president just had a summit for the democracy in los angeles recently and there was controversy because of the divisions in latin and the attitudes towards the u.s. and it that in american countries it might it undergo more dramatic shift than any other part of the. and one reason for that is that they are interrelated from the power politics. so this would to the to pay it. to their domestic politics to different support through the european and to both. or to what tell your listeners that the those of the study did with the to is it did european american nation but the so they have the same problem that everybody a of a domestic structure in which people believe but the experiences to different that they feel they could do to the to use your

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tension or potential with the lower threshold how much of recourse we spend to function when we have a bethesda to expand the network citywide i don't want to put all our resources to define a street with one hundred streets to go. >> when we say a street is working just to be clear, a street with working well, how do you define how often we're going to re-evaluate those streets to see if- i know it there are large housing developments coming in that will skew the numbers transform how that is utilized in the traffic volume so i'm i'm trying to understand how we're going to be evaluating streets eligible for safe streets. >> i think initially evaluating once a year over time we would have a program and may not be collecting data on every street but at least for the first year collecting data for fy23. >> i think if and again, this would be a metric 1,000 car volume something that is what we're a aspiring to but i think that is opens up did possible built and seek a lower threshold. >> okay. i think director maguire i think if sounds like you're still in agreement the thresholds will be set be a

are on the lookout for this man who stole an electric wheelchair out of an apartment building in bethesda, maryland. he walked in, grabbed the wheelchair from the parking garage, and calmly wheeled it right out. 34 years after a bomb on pan am flight one oh three exploded over scotland and killed 273 people. the libyan man accused of making that bomb is finally in the u.s. custody. he appeared in a d.c. courtroom today, the bombing was the deadliest terror attack ever on british soil. former loudoun county superintendent lost his job over allegations that he mishandled sex assault allegations in the virginia school system that he oversaw now he faces criminal charges for allegedly lying and retaliation. he told "the washington post" the accusations are false and irresponsible. in georgia, shooting at an army base left one soldier dead. the army times reports a soldier shot a noncommissioned officer. the suspect was quickly arrested. shootings on military bases are relatively rare. >> [shouting] >> watch out, watch out, watch out. >> get out of the car! >> trace: atlanta police released fo

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i walk up and there's a fountain in central park called the bethesda fountain and i walk to work almostvery day with two people i'm very close to. lorry who does my make up. one day i said to them i feel a little pressure in my chest, do you? and they said, no. and when i went to the doctor he said, you know, that's a sign. and just to make this story short, i wanted -- i was thinking of doing it in the summer. they tended not to go in the hospital in july because that's when the residents change. so i was going to go in august, and then i was either giving an award or presenting something. and i said to my cardiologist, you know, could i wait until the end of may for this because it didn't seem to look good. and he said you can wait, but there's a small risk that you could drop dead. i said how soon -- and i told no one until i announced it on the air. >> your first show back to work you wanted david letterman to be your guest. you swapped heart stories. let's take a look. >> yours were arteries. >> i had coronary artery disease. you just blew out a valve. you could have gone to tune-u

there's a fountain in new york in central park called the bethesda fountain. i walk to work almost every day with two people i'm very close to. >> they're both here. >> they're both here. we walked to work in the morning, and when we climb the fountain, we're a little out of breath, and so were they. one day i said to them, i feel a little pressure in my chest. do you? and they said no. and when i went to the doctor, he said, you know, that's a sign. and just to make this story short, i wanted -- i was thinking of doing it in the summer. they tell you not to go in the hospital in july because that's when the residents change. "grey's anatomy" it isn't. i was going to go in in august. then i had such a big may. i was either giving an award or presenting something, and i said to my cardiologist, well, you know, could i wait until the end of may for this because, you know, it didn't seem to look good. and he said, you can wait, but there's a small risk that you could drop dead. i said, how soon -- >> tomorrow. >> i told no one until i announced it on the air. >>

they bought another company called bethesda and they're about to launch a highly anticipated game -- i can't remember the name, but it's a space game they're going to put only on xbox everyone is pointing their fingers but no one is adhering to what they want exactly, jon >> right, and it's funny, there's so many mentions of blockbuster, did you notice that i think brad smith mentioned it twice in the op-ed sony is as excited about this deal as blockbuster was about the rise of netflix. anyway, what objections would sony have remaining? is ten years not enough time how would they maybe respond to this >> so the other part of it that they also complained about is just the benefits that this deal does to microsoft's cloud business overall so they're claiming look, we have this unfair -- microsoft has this unfair advantage in cloud already. sony has a kind of similar service, but because microsoft has this chops that sony doesn't, any benefit to microsoft in that space, in that cloud gaming space, is going to be hurtful to sony so that's what they'll continue to focus on. and who knows,

in 2016 my then nine-year-old daughter at bethesda elementary asked if she could work on yourcampaign and she did . she's been there every midterm including. my question is about affirmative action. now just for roe versus wade when the decision comes out its a question, what do you think is possible, what's realistic on affirmative action and the legislative cycle? >> we can all read the writing on the wall. i haven't parsed justice roberts for justice ro kavanaugh's jurisprudence but we can see where they're all going . i don't know where waterford is on it but i can see where they're allgoing . so look, my mind it's a very practical question of how the admissions offices operate. and how they read applications. i have too much faith in the good common sense of the american people in our institutions which don't want a right wing supreme court dictating to everybody there admissions policies. who's going to get to go to georgetown law school andgewho is not . but i haven't worked h specifically on this problem since the new court was formed. so i'd be interested to read some article

we saw that some of the mob turned out to be privileged white kids, the children of lawyers from bethesda. but they said they are rioting on behalf of so-called marginalized communities. they were working for racial justice. >> and because of that, they couldn't be punished for what they did. nor, by the way, were they required to wear covid masks like the rest of us . that's how wholly their mission was. they're exempt from the normal laws of civilization. >> kamala harris raised money for them like they were missional. you probably remember that. but do you recall what happened next in minneapolis? that's the part of the story. the media had no interest in covering, and they never do the iron law of liberal social activism is that you never revisit the scenes of your moral victories. you give a speech declaring yourself a good person and you go home. you don't return to selma or soweto or ferguson, missouri, to see how the people there are doing, because it's not about those people. >> it's about you and your newly enhanced moral authority, which is instantly convertible to political po

a line for democrats becky in bethesda. what makes you a democrat? caller: good morning.makes the end democrat is that i hope -- what makes me a democrat is that i hope they keep to democrat values. i know a lot of corporate democrats do not do that but bernie sanders and a few aggressive -- progressives aoc, they do, i hope in the coming year, progressives have a bigger voice because i see that nancy pelosi and that wing of the government. i think they use a lot of the -- of joe manchin as a voice. there are probably four or five other senators who are just like mention -- joe manchin in cinema. host: where did you learn what democratic values were? caller: ok. basically i got that from fdr the new deal. a lot of the things that republicans rail against our new deals. and lb today programs. i am also 66 just like vicki, and i remember when the first republican i voted for was jacob unit -- jacob janet in new york. i lived in new york city for a time. republicans were reasonable then. they were not just clinging to -- all i want to do is stick it to liberals and own the l

a line for democrats becky in bethesda. what makes you a democrat? caller: good morning.t makes the end democrat is that i hope -- what makes me a democrat is that i hope they keep to democrat values. i know a lot of corporate democrats do not do that but bernie sanders and a few aggressive -- progressives aoc, they do, i hope in the coming year, progressives have a bigger voice because i see that nancy pelosi and that wing of the government. i think they use a lot of the -- of joe manchin as a voice. there are probably four or five other senators who are just like mention -- joe manchin in cinema. host: where did you learn what democratic values were? caller: ok. basically i got that from fdr the new deal. a lot of the things that republicans rail against our new deals. and lb today programs. i am also 66 just like vicki, and i remember when the first republican i voted for was jacob unit -- jacob janet in new york. i lived in new york city for a time. republicans were reasonable then. they were not just clinging to -- all i want to do is stick it to liberals and own the

i think that tarnishes the trust the ec has when the ec cleared microsoft's acquisition to bethesda,y highlighted that microsoft made representations that they would not have any incentive, economically, to withhold games. that was front and center in the ftc complaint. >> is that something the weighed in on? it is another thing for regulators to say you lied to us. >> that is what i'm getting at here the uk and ec reviews are pending. we expect to see a statement of objection from the uk some time in january we might see one from the european commission later. those reviews are set to expire at the end of the first quarter. the ftc and lena is signaling to the other regulators here is potential issues we don't know. we know that they all communicate with each other. we don't know if they are all on the same page. that is a risk factor that investors are talking about. >> your best guess as to the eu? i thought you were in the position where eu regulators were more likely to approve this >> i think the consensus view among investors is that the ten-yearly s licensing agreement will c

notes plus you he was he was actually dictating the journal while he was commuting from our home in bethesda maryland to the capitol and back he had a little handheld tape there was always fussing around with and he'd he'd he'd do his taping and then he'd hand it off you and hand it off to linda to transcribe. but it was very deliberate. i do have some notes i want to use. he's been gone 20 years. it's hard to believe. yeah yeah, it's amazing. and when think back about him, he really was a radical. he really was a radical. he was so old school. well, he was so original. he was so completely down to earth and superbly intellectual at the same time. he was a family man with us as four kids. and my mom, he was a man of the earth and he was hilariously good humored and creative at same time. he was a puritan. he was a patriot. he was extremely hard working. he really worked hard. and he was a man of his word. and we say he was the last of the $50 congressmen because he wouldn't take donations of than $50 from anybody he was mitch mcconnell would like him. this because he could be bought more che

so i out the studio and i'm taking my shirt off as i'm running down the road in bethesda which probably made me look anyway. but that's nothing new. and i hop in the car and, i drive as quickly as i legally can, drive to the direct direction of bowie, maryland and. as i'm heading there, i'm like, you know what? i got to go to better moisture farther east. and i look in the map, the radar map, i have sort of linked to my gps and i see there's a rotating storm off to my south and i drive right there to where i think a tornado touched down. and to my surprise and tornado touches down right front of me, crosses the road, and i'm on the side of the road with my phone out like this. i is a fox i'm meteorologist that spooky here is the suddenly they had room for me and i sent that back there they had it on the air within a couple minutes, but by then i was still driving around. so they have me on the phone doing tornado coverage after this tornado's gone through. so not only do we have the video, which has never happened in dc or really anywhere on the east coast for that matter. have a meteor

so she was going to bethesda. >> yes. >> for -- >> a baby. >> yeah, for in vitro. >> yeah.to 19 charges in a deal that's expected to let him avoid the death penalty. >> loughner is clearly a killer, but the people he hurt are willing to show mercy. >> we will never forget the horror of that day, the loss and wounding of so many good people. i decided that adding anger to the burden will do no good. >> when the prosecutors asked you, do you think they should seek the death penalty? >> no. no. loughner -- jail, jail, jail, jail, jail. mentally ill. mental ill. >> they did find a safe in his bedroom afterwards that showed he was a bit obsessed with gabby. his target without a question was gabrielle giffords. he went there to kill her. >> mark kelly and his wife, gabrielle giffords, confronted her be-be assassin in the tucson courtroom. >> the actual sentence, life without the possibility of parole. congresswoman gabrielle giffords and husband mark kelly came up to the podium, both of them looking jared loughner directly in the eye. kelly said, "you may have put a bullet throug

undiagnosed or rare diseases program, and you can submit an application to be evaluated at the nih in bethesdaa rare disease or something like that, and they just want to know that it's getting the attention as other diseases. >> that's right. that's why the mental component, we talk about it all the time, connecting the dots from the psychological, the emotional, mntal to the physical. that is so important to always have hope, always give the patient hope. >> yeah. >> give them support even when there's not the answer that they might be looking for, and recognize that when you are talking about a chronic condition for which there may be no cure, there's management, and so if your symptoms are at a ten, even getting them to a seven or a five on that symptoms scale is going to be a victory, and that's what we need to remember and celebrate. >> jen, thank you so much. thank you for helping us understand. >> it's hard to watch her message, but by bringing attention to this, it's going to help. >> it will. okay. michael? >>> all right, robin, thank you. we're going to switch gears now for "deals &

host: from bethesda, maryland.ler: my question involves extremism and arms forces. 25% on january 6 were either active service work armed services. host: do you have a view on that? guest: angry. on a lead security i have been pushing them to adopt a short trip -- strategy for weeding out extremism in the part with. we have an obligation to root out stream is him in the ranks of the federal government. anyone who persuaded in the instruction in my mind betrayed their oath. and has no business serving a federal government. host: brian from massachusetts, democratic caller. guest: i wanted to congratulate him on his win and wish him all of his success in his first term. a productive first term. he sounds like a man with a head on his shoulders. all spoken. a lot of problems in this country. one is the courts. and pa is force people to take plea deals and bail. the extremism in the police department and in politicians, it is great to be wealthy and we all want to be wealthy, it is easier to be wealthy. a better educat