fighting and also with john had to finish his story on his first kidnapping. so i decided to go back to stamboul for that week and they were and it. hurts i go back roads driving here is the absolute for the. running if it's just sort of a cheer force. really slowly around bends in the road to see if there was room for your expected post want to hold. the syrian army checkpoint at that point i think a lot of journalists just shrug their shoulders in terms of well we were really afraid of the bombs and bullets but we started to get worried about the kidnappings because of how many foreign fighters were there. because there hadn't been very many kidnappings at that time there was this false sense of security and just this idea that you know we can still freely travel inside but i think when we started seeing more foreign fighters there and people being threatened and some people being kidnapped but for a few days at a time that's when the i guess fear started to creep ben about about abductions. thinking people. we go it was there waiting for us to grow. it's spe

and get bidding where? >> johnts as auctioneer richard oliver unloads antique toys, dolls, and music boxes for just a few hundred dollars apiece. >> it was a slow start, like, "oh, boy. is this gonna come into it?" >> next on the auction block, that silver cup that bill ralph finally determined was from a yale secret society. even that only fetches 1,000 bucks. they're a long way from the 225,000k john and lisa paid up front to get their strange inheritance ready for auction and a far cry from the minimum of $600,000 the auctioneer predicted. and then, with one surprising bid, everything starts turning green! >> none of us thought it was gonna go for what it went for. >> that's next. what's your strange inheritance story? we'd love to tell it! send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? most pills don't finish the job because they don't relieve nasal congestion. flonase allergy relief is different.

a number of years go by, and john brown arrives at harriet tubman's homestead. immediately, because he was the man she saw in her vision. and so she knows this is somebody she should listen to. and it is to harriet, among the first people, that brown reveals his plan for this armed slave insurrection. >> from the shadows to the spotlight, the issues of slavery dominates the national conversation. in illinois, democratic senator stephen douglas defends his seat against an obscure anti-slavery republican. the campaign hinges on a court ruling that denies equal rights to a freed slave. >> the republicans... assert the dred scott decision to be monstrous, because it denies that the negro is or can be a citizen under the constitution. i do not approve of negro citizenship in any and every form. [ cheers and applause ] >> abraham lincoln has a very complicated relationship to the institution of slavery. we wouldn't call him a radical abolitionist by any stretch of the imagination. we would call him, perhaps, a gradualist. >> i have no purpose to interfere with the ins

and when she died in 2009, she left us a mountain of stuff to sort through. >> oh, what a great house! >> thank you! welcome to kennebunkport! i got a story... >> john and his sister lisa belong to a new england family whose history goes back to mayflower days but whose legacy had been largely forgotten. in 2005, that reclusive aunt i mentioned, julie green, is diagnosed with cancer, and john moves her from the boston area into a condo up here in maine, where the siblings can help care for her. it's a big job to be a caregiver. >> i never thought of it that way. she had nobody else. >> what was she like? >> she was single and independent. >> never married? >> no. >> no children? >> she did not want children. >> nor does aunt julie want anyone to get rid of all her stuff.

roseanne barr and john goodman and music from chloe and halle on the way.for the host of the 700 pat robertson turned 88 so, so old joe biden threatened to beat the crap out of him. pat is a favorite of ours at the show and wanted to celebrate his special day so put together 88 words for the 88 years he's lived on this planet. >> a lace stocking is more sensual than a bear leg. >> they're wonderful cereals. o oatmeal is one. >> do you do body waxing. >> you must be nice to fat people. >> i'm a great fan of beans. >> open your mouth wide and i will fill it. >> pizzas for a gay wedding. >> how come jews have more money than a lot of people. >> anal sex. >> isis. >> happy birthday to you. [ cheers and applause ] >> the towels, the towels have aids. >> jimmy: was a tough day on wall street the dow plunged 744 points fifth biggest drop ever after trump announced $50 billion on tariffs on gooded from china pushing closer to all out trade word. promised to run congress like a business unfortunately run like a byzantine a byzantine business run by donald trump. don

a number of years go by, and john brown arrives at harriet tubman's homestead. him immediately, because he was the man she saw in her vision. and so she knows this is somebody she should listen to. and it is to harriet, among the first people, that brown reveals his plan for this armed slave insurrection. >> from the shadows to the spotlight, the issues of slavery dominates the national conversation. in illinois, democratic senator stephen douglas defends his seat against an obscure anti-slavery republican. the campaign hinges on a court ruling that denies equal rights to a freed slave. >> the republicans... assert the dred scott decision to be monstrous, because it denies that the negro is or can be a citizen under the constitution. i do not approve of negro citizenship in any and every form. [ cheers and applause ] >> abraham lincoln has a very complicated relationship to the institution of slavery. we wouldn't call him a radical abolitionist by any stretch of the imagination. we would call him, perhaps, a gradualist. >> i have no purpose to interfere with the

john is completely there. with his amazing intelligence and superhuman powers of observation, sly humor and great heart, john is fully there. and we are just lucky enough that he lets us come along. and now, it is my honor to present this year's national book critics circle award toll john mcphee. [applause] wow. >> thank you stacey. >> thank you fsc for publishing the book. thank you new yorker magazine for priming the pump. book thank you book critic circle for this once in a lifetime moment. lifetime -- a lifetime of writing. how did that happen? well for starters my father -- my father's field was sports medicine and he was the doctor of princeton football teams. when i was 8 years old a football jersey black with orange tiger stripes on the sleeves and then over o 33 front and back was made for me by the same company that made the big guys uniforms. on saturday as i ran into the stadium with the team sat on sidelines during the game, an after they scored went around behind the goal post and caught the extra point, one november saturday a cold wind driven rain was drenching the stadium and i was miserable.

jill wine-banks, and john hileman. jill wine-banks, i want to go to you first on this issue of what was john dowd up to? the "new york times" reporting on the face of it, indicates a possible obstruction of justice case involving john dowd possibly. >> it absolutely does. now we have to keep in mind that he denies that it happened. they had multiple sources that they that it did. and if he was offering a pardon in exchange for influencing the testimony, that's clearly a part of obstruction. it's exactly what happened during watergate when they talked about pardons. when they offered hush money to keep quiet. now we have hush money paid to porn stars, as you just designated them. so it could be that he is in very deep trouble right now, john dowd. >> harry litman, give me your reading legally where john dowd stands and what this means to the case. >> i agree with jill. he's in the soup and i think he can be questioned by mueller. i think the crime-fraud exception means that it wouldn't be privileged. and i think if not t

this has been going on for months and months. johnill figure out what the president wants and make sure that he gets the information so that the president can make the decision, not john bolton make the decision. it's a major appointment and it's going to be very critical. lou: and the president being well served with his choice. >> absolutely. lou: let's turn to the spending bill, $1.3 billion. it turns fiscal policy in this country upside down. it is -- it's stunning, the irresponsibility of the republican leadership. they huddled with pelosi and schumer. you would think this is obamacare two instead of a spending bill. >> well when nancy pelosi said this was a tremendous victory for the american people, one that gets domestic agencies robustly funded while turning away trump's push for border wall and immigration funding -- lou: that's ryan slapping the president in the face because he refused to fund the wall. money put guard in the spending bill isn't for a wall. >> it's like you want to build a house and they give you enough mon

and mattis pushed him around a lot. johnn is going to sit across the table and look at mattis and say, i don't care about your four-star, this is what we're doing. he's going to be a forceful figure. >> i don't know what you're basing that on in terms of engaging with these people. what are you basing that on? >> well, i would rather not say. >> i'm just saying, we'll wait to see how this plays itself out, but there are some other counter vailing forces to contend with as well. >> kelly is also resistant to bringing bolton on board. and i bring you back to the suicide the suicide pact. two of the three are gone. mattis the one left standing. we're not yed to friday. >> and kelly's not here for long, probably. the roundtable is sticking with us. you're watching "hardball." stay. when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in near real time... stay with me, mr. parker. ...saving time wh

mcmaster and the naming of the next national security advisor john bolton and a report that the president is thinking about firing john kelly and not replacing him. the president is wondering aloud whether he actually needs a white house chief of staff and it's a reasonable question. he has had two white house chiefs of staff and neither one of them managed to get a single day's work done by the trump white house that was not chaotic every minute of the day. so as we saw in the nixon white house as the prosecutor gets closer to the president, the president ges more and more desperate and unhinged. that means in the trump white house we get days like today. the other thing we got today amid the big shakeup of personnel, is the guarantee that things will get worse in the trump white house on april 9th. and that guarantee comes in the person of john bolton, who will be the president's closest adviser on national security issues. the national security advisor has an advantage over the secretary of state, secretary of defense, director of the cia, that is that the national security advisor's o

your reaction to the late breaking news on john bolton coming in, and h.r. tional security adviser. john bolton apparently saying he didn't expect this news to be announced today. do you have any sense as to why it was so sudden? was this because of the leak about the putin call or what? >> here's what i know. h.r. mcmaster is a gentleman, a war hero, and a great individual, who i've gotten to know really well over the past 14 months working on foreign military sales. he's got a great staff. he's a great individual. i know he will be missed. i'm not sure why today was the day to announce this, but he's a great man, and he will be missed. and john bolton, i've gotten to know him over the years, and he'll be a great replacement. so what we are seeing here is a president who has great judge of talent. and we are going to keep moving forward with the president's agenda like we did today with this historic, historic decision to finally address china's intellectual property theft hand force technology transfer. >> i have to ask you a lot about that. first, let me a

but you have a lot of, quote, tv stars calling larry kudlow and john bolton tv personalities. it's kind of weird. they are men of intellectual heft and substantial accomplishments in their field. i have known both of them for decades. that's what happens when you are old around here. we are very pleased. this country should be pleased when people who don't need another chapter in their illustrious careers want to come in and serve the nation. and it also should be very clear to no one what president trump's vision is on in the case of larry kudlow, his economic agenda. what his vision is for national security moving forward. whenever people have shock and surprise, i have shock and surprise. this president could not be more clear of how he has felt about paris for example or china and what he signed yesterday. he has been talking about this for decades. certainly for three years as a candidate, president-elect and now president. it's his agenda. if people support it, they should be here. if you are not with the program, you should get with the program or get out. that doesn't m

and this is it up his alley. john dowd is a fine law and you need someone schooled in how to deal with a special counsel. i want to talk to president trump in a room under oath. >> what do you think? >> don't do it? it is a perjury trap because mueller is it proven he can't be trusted and doesn't care about the process or fairness. i suspect joe would say to mueller, well, the president would be willing to talk to you about crimes but what crime. collusion is nopt a crime and any criminal statute and that is it out. obstruction much jflt, the president is constitutionally authorized to fire the fbi director for a reason or no reason and he was given the reason for malfesance in the hillary clinton case. i will take to you but you don't have a crime for us to talk about. >> lou: why is not there sufficient integrity within robert mueller and his team of attorneys to say we have been at it a year and noef evidence. house intelligence committee found nothing. and the staent intelligence committee simply embarrassed itsel

and i think you ought to go through that process. john dowd is a good man and i think that's why more aggressive attorneys got brought in. now i can president trump is going to war. i think it's very obvious he's going to go to war on this. >>> coming up, michael schmidt will have more on this. >> this could potentially clear a path for trump to meet with robert mueller. people familiar with the process say the move is part of the preparations for a type of interview with the special counsel. joe digenova is expected to play a key role in discussions with mueller's office about a presidential interview. the president, mean wile, reaffirmed his willingness to meet with the special counsel yesterday. >> mr. president, would you still like to testify to special counsel robert mueller, sir? >> thank you. i would like to. >> joining us now from washington, capitol hill reporter for the hill molly hooper. molly, good to have you you with us on this friday morning. so we saw democrats voice their concern that the president might try to have muel

corrosive causes have led to the rise of donald trump and a foreign policy run by john bolton, an economy guided by larry kudlow and a legal team led by conspiracy theorist joseph digenova. called for the pre-emptive bombing of north korea and iran while defending his role in the worst foreign policy disaster since vietnam. this was the predictable outcome of my republican party aligning its interests with the most cynical political on ray toers of our tame. the at waters, manaforts, gri gingrichs, reduced politics to a secularized religion. remarkably order could be pulled from this culturally crisis if just two, just two gop senators had the moral courage to deprive donald trump of a ruling majority until he agreed to bring -- to heal his most destructive instincts. willie, just two republicans we need here. >> yeah, and i'm holding in my hand a copy of john bolton's wall street journal editorial that reads the legal case for striking north korea first. jeremy bash, john bolton in 2015, march of 2015 wrote an op ed in the new york times suggesting that president obama

and let's remember that john bolton in 2016, coming back to and let's remember that john bolton in 2016, coming back to him, was one of the individuals out there casting doubt on whether the russians were actually trying to affect our election. he has been a cheerleader for this idea that there is some question as to whether or not russia was involved. and he will be feeding those instincts of the president when he walks into the oval office. >> that is an excellent point. final question on north korea. obviously, this happens. you have the iran deal, you have north korea, which john bolton is in writing advocating a first strike on, which estimates are there could be 100,000 casualties in first 30 minutes if something like that happened, and then a summit with kim jong-un in a month. what does this mean for that? >> well, maybe a summit. i mean, we're not sure if that's happening. and you know, our worst case fear was always that trump was going to go into this summit with the north korean leader unprepared. he was going to walk out with nothing, and then he was going to wipe his hands

and there is a lot to say about john bolton. we'll get to that in a second and talk with people that know a little bit about what he's been like in government in the past, why his previous government appointments have been controversial and why this current appointment is freaking so many people out tonight but before we start talking about john bolton, consider how generalmcmaster is getting fired. i mentioned that rex tillerson, the fired secretary of state had his last day today. rex tillerson gave the farewell remarks today and walked off into the sunset. today was the last day. it was the day he carried stuff out of the state department but fired last week. he was fired last tuesday morning. it's a matter of record that this was the last thing rex tillerson did as secretary of state before the president fired him. as his last act before he was fired, rex tillerson put out this very strongly worded statement condemning the government of russia for that poisoning attack in the u.k. that statement said in part, quote, we have f

hold high level talks with south korea on thursday it will happen at the border village of panama and john earlier this month north korean leader kim jong un met senior south korean officials for the first time since he came to power in twenty eleven tension between pyongyang and soul of ease in recent months both sides marched under a unified flag during febreze winter olympics federal prosecutors in brazil are investigating with a consultancy firm at the center of a facebook data breach had access to millions of profiles cambridge analytical denies improperly accessing the information of fifty million facebook users brazilian prosecutors want to find out if the company did the same thing. last october. the headlines inside story is up next. is the united states becoming more belligerent john bolton is to take over the u.s. national security adviser after previously talking attacks on iran until korea and forcing a strong america first policy long before. what signal is the thing to the rest of the world now this inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm still robin the legal case fo

we'llor save that next week and welcome, john -- jon, "washington week." great to have you on the program and also to our favorites who are back. shawna, and remarks mark, always a pleasure. on the "washington week" extra, we'll discuss the controversy surrounding a question about citizenship onhis year's sense us. plus president trump's message to the leader of north korea ahead of their planned summit. watch it online tonight and all week long at pbs.org/"washington week."rt i'm roosta and from all of us here, happy pass over ander happy ea >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive.er they undand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. >> my dad once said to me tragedy has a way of defining people. >> what the hell happened, teddy? >> they're treating this like a crime scene. >> we tell the truth or at least our version of it. >> senator, can we -- can we expect some answers? >> thesere theatricsot going to hold up in a court of l

and i felt -- i had known john bolton, had been focused on his positions on north korea for many years. had watched him as he was assistant secretary for international security. and arms control. and just was very familiar with him. i probably knew as much if not more about john bolton than anyone in washington. and i just thought it really was a fragile moment. and the other thing is that just like today, republicans controlled the house, the senate, and the white house. and i felt as if there was an opportunity to split republicans on what a principled american internationalism meant. and john bolton was the antithesis of that. >> you were successful because bolton's views are so extreme. is it fair to call them extreme? >> that's right. there were people like george voinovich, lincoln chafee, lisa murkowski. while they didn't take overt steps, they had real problems with bolton and how he was known to sort of take raw intelligence, not intelligence that had been processed through the system, and try to use it to justify the ends. he was cooperating with dick cheney's office in leadi

so, too are the attorney general and several other cabinet members. john kelly and h.r. mcmaster may have only days or could be like rex tillerson, those days could turn into weeks or longer as the questions of survival potentially deminnish their power and create vacuums of power inside the white house. all of this happening as the administration is trying to focus on steel tariffs. china, russia sanctions, the opioid kroisis and, oh, those congressional midterms creeping closer as well. let's start at the white house with our man jeff. what is the latest that you are hearing about the future of both kelly and h.r. mcmaster? >> craig, let's start with chief of staff john kelly because we know the relationship between president trump and john kelly has been strained at times as kelly has tried to instill discipline on the president's free-ranging approach. kelly saying that god punished him when he left the department of homeland security to go to work in the white house. based on our reporting, it's save to say that john kelly is not going anywhere soon. multiple offici

and i'm running it now. come on. i'll show you. >> as johnrives me around the company, i come to understand the "jekyll and hyde" nature of his strange inheritance. these look like cell towers. >> yeah, these are guide towers for wireless communication. and that's our main business now. >> but his dad built that business while indulging his industrial-strength urge for collecting. big stuff -- iron, scrap metal, machinery... things you can't squirrel away in a closet. take, john says, these assembly-line carts, please. did he really need this many? >> oh, my goodness. no. and he didn't need the ones that are out in the yard. we have dozens and dozens. >> it all starts with this serious little guy, elmer hemphill, born in 1935 on a farm near tryon, oklahoma, to parents elsie and marvel. >> he learned his work ethic from my grandparents because they believed in work. >> the hemphills, like other oklahomans, are hit by drought and dust storms during the great depression. many of their neighbors flee to california. but they stay put. when elmer i

and one thing to remember about john bolton is that he's not that sort of trump company employee. mean, he has extensive experience in the executive branch. i remember talking to him about immigration one time, and he told me that he was working in the justice department in the reagan administration and was dealing with congress on immigration. he has broad experience across the executive branch, and if there's any job that needs it, it's national security advisor, because you're dealing with so many different agencies in the national security apparatus. so this is -- yes, he's going to be a very different person, but this is not a sort of freelancer. this is someone who, i think, really understands the complexity of what they do in the national security council. >>susan: you know why the president had success with a spokesat the wheel in the organization. carter tried it for a while and brought in a chief of staff. running the white house is a very complicated thing and there is not an example of a modern president who has not needed to have a chief of staff and powerful chief of

bolton and kissinger and kerry kissinger and desist where known as foreign policy intellectuals john bolton is certainly not he is a hard line diplomat. who likes. i don't want to judge and i don't know where it is so you see it with a rapidly running out and i strongly disagree. with him but that he is a kind of line military mystically aggressive diplomat who is not an academic the way that a lot of the stones were. when kennedy made khrushchev kennedy's response was negotiate what's mine is mine what's yours is negotiable mark i want to go to you because you brought this up a number of times since the election we have the u.s. state department putting pressure on the europeans pretty germany for the. north stream to pipeline now we have the deal. the europeans were being pressured to change and now it looks like the americans going to walk away from it compare completely why would the europeans want to be involved in the i mean this is the two example i just read still pushing the division is growing and growing the europeans don't like it i mean they don't like his treatment of t

because ty cobb and john dowd, though they differed a little bit, were cooperation, get this over withthere and let's put this behind us. joe digenova brings a whole different mind set to this. if joe now represents the new theory, we're going to fight, we may not submit ourselves to an interview, this is a witch-hunt, and dowd and then ty cobb are out, then there is a whole new paradigm. >> also, i want to -- we just have gotten a statement in from jay sekulow, also a lawyer on the president's team, john dowd is a friend and has been a valuable member of our legal team, we'll continue our ongoing representation of the president and our cooperation with the office of special counsel. the question is what kind of representation, right? and i wonder, for even people who are in the president's team, in his corner, but maybe worry a little bit about some of his freewheeling style when it comes to dealing with taking on robert mueller lately, we have seen him really go after the special counsel on twitter. which was something that was new. i imagine there are people even very much in the pr

and john bolton is in. bolton is a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., well known as a neocon and a hawk on military matters. he's advocating iran and north korea, and then some. john bolton will be trump's national security adviser in 14 months. the president announced this latest move on twitter, his medium of choice, saying the change will be effective april 9, thanking mcmaster for an outstanding job on the way out. we mentioned john bolton's service as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. he was a recess appointee from george w. bush, serving from august of 2005 to december of 2006. he resigned when his recess appointment ended because he was unlikely to win stand alone confirmation on his own merits from a newly elected democratic majority in the senate back then. the job he's being appointed to does not require senate confirmation. as we know, the president heavily favors fox news. that's where bolton has been appearing of late as an analyst and where he appearing on the air just tonight to talk about his latest appointment. >> makin

can see her here it falln the ideological spectrum as much as we would expect with nancy pelosi and john and olympia snowe and john closer to the ideological center. another thing to note is the purple. it is not the case that there are no moderate state legislators that are available to run for congress. barely 30% of the legislators are at least conservative as john tanner and 20% of the republican state legislators are at least as liberal as olympia snowe. so, the problem is not one that there are no moderates and state legislative office who are available to run for congress. now here at the distribution, the state legislators who ran for congressional office we can see first that they are squarely in the center of the distribution of the runners. we can also see that there are virtually no runners who resemble olympia snowe. that overlap the peaceful in the previous slide has all disappeared when we look at those that actually run for congressional office. but somewhat differently, here is the proportion of moderates and those who resemble olympia snowe and john tanner and ideologue

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and so, however you characterize john bolton, he's much more of trump's view. comes with an agenda. he is not going to be the neutral arbitor or honest broker as far as history would indicate in any event. and that has been traditionally one of the vital functions of the national security adviser. >> stay with me, i want to bring in sam cedar at the table with me. on a part of this that really can't be ignored, and i don't say it with any shade or automatic negativity, it's just part of the facts of the current cabinet of the united states. and this is from nbc news tabulation, john bolton is, at this hour, technically still a fox news contributor. so is joe degeneva, ousting someone with a lot of criminal experience. k.t. mcfarland was the nbc contributor. and the press secretary at the state department heather nourt was from fox news. you have studied conservative vehicle co media and politics, what do you have to say about michael bolton? >> he's over at fox news, i'm sure sean hannity wants a lot of his friends over there. you can start to see a lot of sean

host: and john bolton was on a new york city talkshow yesterday. we will have you listen to what he had to say. [video clip] pattern ofthe real chinese behavior is incredibly aggressive and assertive. they are building bases on rocks and reefs in the south china sea that are, on a good day, three feet above water. they want to know where they can put their submarines when they develop an undersea fleet. aggressiveery development. there is a panel tomorrow that will talk more about it. what we require is a comprehensive strategy. the president raised issues of chinese violations and their internationalder trade agreements, piracy of intellectual policy, discrimination against foreign investors and business people in china. that is important, but we need a political military strategy as well. we need what we had in the cold war of linkage, the all of these issues are together. i think the president now has convinced both north korea and china that barack obama is no longer president, which is the single most important thing he could do. [applause] but

bolton has and you know support it you know john if one of the big one thing that is different from two thousand and three is that the progressive left to abandon the anti-war movement i lament that very much and it's a subject for another program let me go to sammy in london i tend to think you probably disagree with much of what you've heard so far in this program go ahead sammy. i think we have to remember we have to look at u.s. foreign policy in a wider context i know it's very easy to point to trump and say that trump has changed in the foreign policy and whatnot but i think if you really really look at transform policy i think you'll see that it's far more calculated than people give him credit for i'm not saying that he's the one who is guiding it but bringing in the military officials into power once more and guiding us foreign policy based on the guidance he's restoring to the u.s. to what it was pretty obama we have to remember why obama decided to negotiate with iran the reason why he did so is because he saw that ten years of being antagonistic to iran didn't help i