(john straley) we are in the archipelago of southeastern alaska, on baranof island in sitka, alaska. i love the fact that we live on a contiguous temperate rainforest. and i believe that it's one of the last great treasures on earth. (sophie fouron) john straley. poet and author, the untamed nature in alaksa have inspired both his poetry and crime novels. having settled on baranof some 35 years ago, this is his island. (john straley) this place on the outside of baranof is the ancestral home of the tlingit people of sitka. in the late 1700's, russians and aleut people came to harvest sea otters, and then the americans, british and spanish came. to this day, there are about 9000 people. the population in sitka, i believe, is still around 25% tlingit people. there is a coast guard base. there is a trouper academy, there are fish plants in sitka with transient workers from all over the world now. it's a relatively diverse community. (sophie fouron) it's hard to imagine, but sitka is actually the largest city in the united states by landmass. hello! (mim mcconnell) hi! - we'll have a lit

neuriva: think bigger. -- >> but i can pack and head to anchorage, alaska. i'm off to alaska!eling every time i travel to alaska. ♪ ♪ ♪ -- i am an anchorage. the traditional homelands of the athabasca and people. well i didn't grow up, here, as a member of the indian tribe, i am proud to be connected to these lands and a diverse alaskan community that lives here. >> it's so good in. here it's nice and warm. that mobile is in the shape of the eye of awareness. >> i am so proud to meet with -- mary portola. a woman who has made history as the first alaska native serving in the united states congress. >> has it feel to be the first alaska native congresswoman? it's >> surprising to realize our state as old as it is. and we haven't had a person and our congressional delegation who's elected basket native. >> is there anything your daughter has said? something that's made you feel extra proud? >> i was in the minneapolis airport a few weeks ago. first nations women from canada approached me. she said, looks good for one drive is good for all tribes. >> a lot of people don't know th

alaska had only been part of the united states for 16 years. they knew nothing about alaska.za was inspired by john muir who had interesting glaciers on 1879-1880, two trips to alaska to study glaciers. in a canoe with the assistance of half a dozen native americans, native alaskans and eliza read about his travels and decides she's going to alaska on our mail steamer, that was the only way to get to alaska in those days, to take a male steamer and go to the thousand mile passage that takes you through puget sound to the alaska panhandle and that journey turned out to be historic. the captain of the ship, decided to take her the tour and that detour was in glacier bay. never carried tourists into glacier bay and she was one of the first people to set sites on the glacier. it was later named for john mueller. other than him, she went back the following summer and turned her dispatches to the first travelogue on alaska. that was in 1885 and she went on to write about alaska for 15 years, a comprehensive book for together, with these books, she and you were the people that reall

did he follow the news when he was up in alaska?you ever meet someone called bonnie or anything like that? it was a pretty high profile case. >> i can't recall. i can't remember. >> hunyor tried to jog dion's memory. >> i took up bonnie's picture and showed it to him. >> and then, something curious happened. the man who insisted he remembered faces insisted he didn't recognize bonnie. >> but trooper hunyor was watching his body language. >> his leg started twitching. >> might have met her even once, the trooper asked? >> 18 years old? >> yes. >> hell no, my wife would've killed me. [laughs] >> then he got right to the point. >> and the sad thing about it, later on that day her body was found at mchugh creek. >> whoa, whoa, whoa what are you trying to say? >> well, like i said, i'm just out here investigating. i hear name has gone up. >> why would my name come up? >> that's what i'm trying to figure out. >> what do you say you think? >> i thought we had our man. >> troopers looked up some of kenneth dion's new hampshire girlfriends.

she went to alaska. in 1883. now, alaska had only been part of the united states for 16 years. people in america knew nothing about alaska. eliza wasn't speier by john muir. he had he had an interest in glaciers. and so in 1879 and 1880, he made two trips to alaska to study glaciers as he traveled around the area in a canoe with the assistance of, you know, half a dozen native americans, native alaskans. and so eliza read about his travels. and so she decides she's going to alaska. so she goes off to alaska on a mail steamer that was the only way to get to alaska in those days was to take a mail steamer and to go up the thousand mile passage that takes you from puget sound all the way up to the alaska panhandle. so she did that and that journey turned out to be historic because her captain of her ship decided to take a detour. and that detour was up into glacier bay, a ship had never carried tourists up into glacier bay before. so she was one of the first people ever to set sight of muir glacier or oh, it was later named for john muir. i mean, other than him. so the point was s

she went to alaska in 1883. alaska had only been part of the united states for 15 years. people in america knew nothing about alaska. eliza was inspired by john muir. he headed interesting -- so in 1879 and 1880 he made two trips to alaska to study glaciers. he traveled around the area in a canoe with the assistance of half a dozen native americans, alaskans and so eliza decides she's going to alaska. she goes off to alaska on a mail. that was the only way to getos o alaska in those days was to take a male and go up 1000 miles through the passage that takes you through puget sound through the alaska panhandle sheso did that in that journey turned out to be -- because her captain of her ship decided to take a detour and that detour was up in the glacier bay. the ship had never carried tourists into glacier bay before so she was one of the first people ever to set sights on the glacier and it was later named for john muir. she went back the following summer and repeated that trip and she turned her dispatches into the first travelogue on alaska so that oak was in 1885 pre-

military bases in alaska in recent months.last several years, we are told, alaska, of course, is home to some of the country's most sensitive military bases, more fifth generation fighter jets are based in alaska than anywhere else in the world and home to america's most sophisticated ground base radar and ballistic missile early warning systems. u.s. troops have encountered chinese visiting as tourists, and a vehicle carrying several chinese citizens blew past a security checkpoint at fort wainwright in fairbanks, alaska, that according to multiple congressional sources after eventually stopping the vehicle a drone was found inside. senator dan sullivan of alaska stressed the importance his home state plays in defending the u.s. mainland and expressed alarm about what he is seeing. >> any spy balloon, russian bombers or the new reporting of suspected chinese spies in alaska, another wake-up call that we are in a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators in china and russia. >> after the chinese spy balloon inci

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installations in alaska, but here is the chief national security correspondent 50 alaska come home toome of the country's most sensitive military bases or fifth-generation fighter jets and anywhere in the world along with america's most sophisticated ground-based rada ballistic missile early systems. they have increased chinese nationals prurient sitting alaska to see the northern lights, and other attractions. and one instance, first reporte by usa today vehicle carrying several chinese citizens blew past the security checkpoint at fort wainwright in fairbanks, alaska. the jason suit and a drone was found inside the vehicle. alaska senator dan senator expressed alarm. >> this is another wake-up call we are in a new era of authoritarian dictatorship led by the internet. >> following this bible in incident the pentagon altered its radar over alaska state is increasingly on the front lines. >> as an alaskan, i am so angry. >> alaska is the first line of defense for america. >> and 2019 chinese student caught taking photos at naval air station key west in florida was sentenced to a year

alito also flew across the country to alaska on this billionaires private jet. we are told that if he had charted the plane itself, it could've exceeded $100,000 one-way. alito did not disclose this. it's been secret until now and experts told us he appears to have violated a federal law passed after watergate the wires justices to disclose most gifts. more noteworthy here, after the trip, the same millionaire had case after case in the supreme court and alito never recused himself. it's quite remarkable. experts told us that they were not aware of any other example of this ever happening, of a supreme court justice sitting on a case after having received an expensive gift paper by one of the parties. host: your investigative work also includes the stories that broke recently about justice clarence thomas. justice clarence thomas has not responded. the washington post this morning says justice alito came out swinging at the publication. he refuted your story in a wall street journal piece that was posted online tuesday. he takes issue with you calling it a luxur

jamie, do we have golf in alaska?> they do -- do we have, there is golf in alaska, like one day you can i pla. >> greg: really? >> it is like summer, but it is beautiful for that one day. actually this story upset me and because of this, i will be boycotting golf for the last 40 years. >> greg: that was good. that's one. >> thank you. that lady is right, money talks. no money also talks, it says don't date a comedian. >> greg: that's true, nobody says no money talks. it does. how about trump, he dead on predicted. how many times has trump predicted something? too bad he took a break from being psychic that night with stormy daniels. >> greg: he didn't see that coming, or maybe me did. a play on words. >> i am shocked golf was televised. i had no idea, i have been researching this story and following it for minutes and i don't know, i'm not a golfer. >> greg: i play golf, yes. >> my friends are like, you should come with us and i drive the cart and take and do something fun. >> greg: all right. be bad like 700 there. k

military bases in alaska in recent months.ts have increased in the last several years, we're told. alaska is home to some of the country's sensitive military bases. more fifth generation fighters jets are wabased in alaska than anywhere else in the world and sophisticated ground base and ballistic missile early warning systems. u.s. troops have encountered chinese citizens, posing as tourists to see the northern lights and attractions. in one incident reported by usa today and confirmed by fox news, a vehicle carrying several chinese citizens blew past a security check post at fort wayne wainwright in fairbanks, alaska, an after eventually stopping the vehicle, a drone was inside. and protecting the u.s. mainlands and alarm about what we're seeing. >> any spy balloons, chinese suspected spies in alaska, this is another wake-up call we are in a new era led by china and russia. >> after the spy balloon which started over alaska, senator lisa murkowski spoke on capitol hill. >> as an alaskan, i am so angry. alaska is the first li

i'm worried about the electoral votes from alaska next year. historically reliable red state. those three electoral votes in my view up for grabs. it's no surprise that mean the used of one republican and one democrat and u.s. house now has two democrats. so look, it's a convoluted way, it's hard enough to get people to vote. one of the things that's happened, a couple things has happened. it takes months, weeks to go through all these rounds and rounds of voting. and in oakland, california, in the school board election last fall somehow there was a programming error and the wrong candidate was elected under ranked-choice voting. and so it's a nightmare and there's been a precipitous drop off in voter participation in alaska, for as reported by people there that reliable voters have just checked out and have not participated because of the complexity and the difficulty of utilizing this ranked-choice voting system. and the supreme court of alaska ruled that the guidance given by the state election officials was incorrect. and that's just been within the last six weeks or so bu

but alaska now has a democrat in the u.s. house of representatives for the first time in 50 years, and red alaska now has a legislature that's basically evenno divided between republicans and democrats. so is it any wonder that that there is massive left-wing funding for rank choice voting, and they're pushing it in every state? i heard a report this morning that there may be a constitution al amendment for the people of oregon. i'm worried about the electoral votes from alaska next year, a historically reliable red state. and it's no, it's no surprise that maine that used to have one republican and one democrat in the u.s. house now has two democrats. so, look, it's a convoluted way -- it's hard enough to get people to to vote. one of the things that's happened, a couple of things have happened. it takes months, weeks to go through all these rounds and rounds of voting. and in oakland, california, in a school board election last fall somehow this was a programming error and the wrong candidate was elected under rank choice v

jamie, do you have golf in alaska? >> there is only like one day you can play in alaska. >> really? >> it is beautiful for that one day. >> uh-huh. >> this story actually upsets me and because of this, i will be boycotting golf for the last 40 years. [laughter] >> okay, that's one. >> thank you. >> money talks. no money also talks. it says don't date a comedian. [laughter] >> that's true. nobody ever says that. how about trump though? for real he's dead on predicted this. how many times trump predicted something, it is too bad that he took from being psychic of that night with stormy daniels. >> he didn't see it coming. >> or, maybe he did. >> i hate golf. i was shocked it was televised. i had no idea - i do actual lino a lot about this. i have been researching this and following it fofr a minute. i don't know - have you played i am not a golfer? >> yes. >> my friends will be like, oh, you should come with us. i always drive the cart and do something fun. [laughter] >> all right, kayleigh, he was right again. >> yes! >> and i think he kind -- there is a weird reality about trump tha

again, the senator from alaska and i are friends. his father is a sullivan, my mother is a sullivan. sul vance are very -- sullivans are very intelligent people my mother always said. so last year senator sullivan brought a bill out on to the floor. we had concerns coming from the massachusetts fishing community, new bedford, gloucester, famous fishing ports still today competing with alaska for the title in the united states for the largest in the country. and there was some concerns, and so i objected. we called time-out on the field, and we worked out all of those issues. that was round one. now yesterday the senator from alaska has a new bill with new provisions in it in addition to the provisions from last year that we will worked out, there's all new provisions. and it's not a rope-a-dope, although obviously anything that uses a muhammad ali-created concept is a great honor to have attached to us, but we don't see this as rope-a-dope. this is more just round two. we finished round one, now we're on round two. a whole new bill,

the vast majority of the alaska native people were supportive. the national media hated to write that story. they kept canceling the voices of the indigenous people of alaska but we finally got it out there. one of the big reasons is because of this. we know it is jobs, pride, things that most communities take for granted like running water, flushed toilets. you get infrastructure, get jobs, get revenues, you can do those things. in parts of my state, people have not had access to for a long time maybe ever. let me talk about a related area but it is all in this area. it is mining. unfortunately the administration i number of mining projects, the ambler mining district in particular we did a 70 or eis $10 million. the same day the president headache what criminals summit at the white house on the importance of cutting our dependence on cortical minerals from china they reversed the yell yes in alaska. that was the department of interior. secretary holland seems hell-bent on reversing everything. despite the chart it is remarkable she would be doi

jacobson would like to know where we read more about the alaska project. that would be in my book, be the best place to do it. yeah, it was. it's been controversial for many reasons. the questions. oh, yeah. yeah. so the question is, where someone read more? the alaska project we have chapter on that and there's a lot of smattering but i think the most comprehensive is in the book. yes. do you anything to say about the marcela nuclear program that people are trying to get established? yeah, i can say a little bit about that. i think a. oh, yeah, thank you. so the question is, what about the modular nuclear program? that's that's picking up momentum and getting more attention and it it will do what it does. so i don't, i recommend not spending much time about it. the people who are working on it. i know quite a few of the people working on it. they're working hard on it. there will be places where that will probably be the right to go though. for example, we we have submarines that use essentially those small modular reactors. technically, that's not correc

alaska is home to some of the country's most military bases. and other attractions. in one instance confirmed by fox news, a vehicle carrying several chinese citizens blew past a security check point at fort waynewright in fairbanks, alaska. after stopping the vehicle a drone was found inside. senator dan sullivans of alaska stressed the importance that his home state plays in defending the u.s. mainland and expressed alarm about what he is seeing. >> any spy balloon, bear bombers or this new report of suspected chinese spies in alaska, this is another wake-up call that we're in a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators in china and russia. >> the fbi director, christopher wray says the fbi opens a new chinese government espionage case in the u.s. every 12 hours. >> neil: it's getting scary. thanks, jennifer griffin. want to go to the former defense secretary under president trump, dr. mark esper. kind enough to join us. secretary, i'm wondering, these incidents, the revelations over them, keep happening. wore grateful if we ge

alaska is the first line of defense for america. right?you're going to have china coming at you, we know exactly how they come. they come up and they go over alaska. >> fbi director chris wray said they opened a new chinese government espionage case in the u.s. every 12 hours. >> goodness gracious. jennifer griffin, thank you for the update. bill? ♪ >> how about that, pretty good sound. that's the zac brown band, one of the best out there. tonight, baseball fans in cincinnati get a special show. that band performs on lou gehrig's day to raise money for research. they say 5,000 new cases every year. one of the band's founders is john driscoll hopkins, diagnosed about a year ago. he is known as hop and joins us now in cincinnati. hop, thanks for your time. >> good morning. >> great to have you here. how are you doing, how's your health, how are you dealing with this? >> i feel pretty good. i'm still playing and singing. i was never a very good dancer, so that's not something we're going to miss but i'm about a year and a half into my diagnos

alaska is the first line of defense for america. >> in 2019, a chinese student caught taking photos atsinesswoman was caught with a purse full of electronics, after making her way unlawfully into mar-a-lago resort, claiming that she was a tourist. a judge sentenced her to a months in -- and deportation. >> a new chinese government espionage case in the u.s. -- after 12 hours. >> jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. next, the presidential race -- the debt deal, winners and losers, and "candidate casino." at least 120 people are dead after the derailment of two passenger trains, and hundreds of other people were trapped inside of the more than dozen damaged coaches, about 800 people were injured. firefighters in canada hopefully, though we can forecast will help to control the largest wildfire ever reported in nova scotia. three others in the providence, air quality warnings in the u.s., as far south as maryland and virginia. italy celebrates the 77th anniversary of the italian republic with a military parade through rome. june 2nd marks the day in 1946 were italians voted to for

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thank you, tom. >> the greasy pole is the worst drip club in alaska. >> greg: kat, story?ow in nebraska, but wait, there is more, set guinness book of world records for most tricks performed in a minute. look at the tricks this cow can do? if you provide entertainment, you are less likely to get eaten. this cow is ghost and four years old. >> greg: tricks don't make the meat taste better. >> kat: they might. >> greg: you served like your fi filet, not only that, this thing could jump through a hoop. shake your hand. jamie, go for it. >> does anybody feel bad this cow won an award and a dog $1500 and they don't know. >> greg: just do your story for god's sake. >> disclaimer, not a lot happens. >> alaska lawmakers introduce bill to make wild seafood label for u.s. harvested products. instead of international, they want it to say wild seafood. it passed with a resounding, who gives a -- wild cod tastes better. it is more expensive, harder to catch, like picking up a girl at a bar, versus getting a prostitute. >> greg: your life is taking a down spin and i like to think i had

specifically, alaska, i was just in alaska couple of weeks ago and spent time in fair backs -- fairbanks, fms. in preparations, they're very much ongoing. afms is ready to go ahead. we've seen a fairly dramatic shift in the outlook in alaska, to your point. a month ago, all of that read was not there. we did talk with prediction services while we're up there. the point they made is with sort of precipitation over the winter, early spring in alaska. at that time, just a couple of weeks ago it was really uncertain how that was going to go. now, fast forward just a couple of weeks and it is pretty clear that as things are starting to dry, now, there is a real likelihood of above normal activity in alaska. >> so, above normal. a little bit later in the season? but is this going to extend us later? you don't necessarily know. it's gonna be above normal is what you're saying. >> the outlook is four months forward, and over that time period we are, at this point, anticipating that there will be a potential for above normal fire activity. >> well, we'll get ready. i'm probably going to have to t