the altmans visited him in jail. >> you know, i asked him how he was doin'.id, "you know, not great." he talked about how he pretty much was gonna do maybe suicide by cop. >> reporter: but bob of course didn't pull that particular trigger and was sent back to texas for trial, where his houston attorney dick deguerin devised the defense that beat the murder charge. >> it was a simple case of a struggle over a gun, and the gun went off. if it truly was self-defense, then what happened after the killing doesn't change that. >> reporter: bob wasn't so confididn't he'd get off. in fact he asked his friends the altmans to help him learn more about what life behind bars would be like for him. >> he thought that if we got to know the ins and outs that maybe it would be easier for him once he was on the inside. >> reporter: he worried about how he'd hear his favorite music, for example. >> he was trying to find out if maybe there was a radio station he could buy so that if he were in jail he could have music that he liked. >> reporter: bob knew his chances of acquitta

altman: be forceful early. sen. duckworth: yes. i think the kurds ended up hurting themselves without referendum. i don't think it was helpful. think itound, i don't was very helpful. they are still having to deal with those issues. i think we have some time to go to the audience of people have questions here. we will have a roving microphone. if i could ask that you identify only ask onet you question, and that you ask your question in the form of a question, which is not to make a and then say what do you think of my speech? sen. duckworth: if you want to make a statement, you have to run for office yourself. mr. altman: and raise the money. >> michael gordon, wall street journal. during the iraq war, shiite militias backed by iran often targeted and killed american forces. beencent years, there has an informal truce between the united states and these militias. foe,focused on a common the islamic state state. now that the administration has designated the irt cs terrorist c aanization -- irt terrorist organization, there is conc

evercore's founder and ceo roger altman is with us.t right >> i wouldn't say nothing to worry about. i think what you're referring to is there will be an agreement, and the question is when, not if very short term i think the united states has the advantage simply because we import so much more than china does from us so in terms of weeks, there can be a tariff war and we have a short-term advantage medium term, let's say months, i don't think that's viable and i don't think it's viable because, one, the u.s. stock market likely weakens trump has shown a lot of sensitivity for the stock market, not likely to tolerate that two, his strongest political advantage is the economy which is doing extraordinarily well, but a series of retaliatory actions from china over months rather than weeks could also undermine that i don't think his toleration or our toleration as a country for that would be great. this could go on for weeks i don't see it going on for a series of months over the very long term china has the advantage because there's so m

(robert altman) any film i've made has been seen by more people on tv than it ever has in cinema. think it makes any difference. eventually, every house will have a 6- to 8-foot screen and you sit 10 feet away from an 8-foot screen, you just as well be in the front at the ziegfield. (music playing) ladies and gentlemen, the break in our motion picture is made out of respect for the tv fans in our audience who are accustomed to constant interruptions in their programs for messages from sponsors. tv is a remarkable invention. where'd you go? oh, there you are. hi. (music playing) (narrator) in 1946, america's romance with the movies peaked. over half of our population, 90 million a week, were filling theatres. (charles champlin) moviegoing was a national habit. you went automatically because, theoretically, all films were, as we would now say, rated "g." there was nothing in any movie that was presumably disturbing to the least sophisticated member of the audience. some might bore part of the audience, but otherwise, we just went all the time. (narrator) though americans didn't know

i'm magic altman and it was my understanding at the last meeting when commissioner dejesus asked abouthe tasers because she heard talk about possible implementations that the chief was requested by president hirsch to speak on this. i did not hear any comments in the chiefs' report. i want to mention the sunshine task force is continuing to prepare the document that will be sent to the board of supervisors to the d.a. and to the ethics' committee and it's about time that the sunshine task force people of the city and state are respected under the brown act. >> these are really off topic items. these are not on the first four items. it's the chief's report and i was following up on the taser issue that was brought up last time and i thought you would want to know the status of what i know about tasers and now i would like to know what you know. >> thank you. any other public comment on items 1a through d? ok, hearing none. public comment is closed. >> is it possible, i forgot under commission announcements, i just want to let the commission know that last week i watched supervisor's han

my name is magic altman. chief scott cites the importance of the public trust. this is ironic since the public trust was completely broken by attacking a long time member of the journalism community who even has the heart to abstain sfpd press pass. taking a sledgehammer to the door of a journalist is shocking and chilling especially since the source of the leak is within the police department itself. this action is appalling, illegal, and frankly, a lazy way to go about an investigation. your problem is within the rank and file of your own department. have you searched your internal e-mails for who leaked it? you might want to ask the members of the police officers association who are the most hateful towards jeff adachi. i've read their journal continuously and there were numerous attacks in that journal against even jeff adachi living in a neighborhood that was too rich for someone in the public trust. i mean, the attacks have been a scene. the entire department needs retraining in the shield law. it was passed by legislatures in 1935. it was affirmed by 70%