errol barnett has more from the white house. >> reporter: this weekend rucrats esfoenr breaking utp tilies at the southern border. while pressuring them to work with republicans on an immigration bill. a senior white house official is quoted as saying the new separation policy is designed to "force people to the table." >> that person should have the guts to come forward and put their name to the quote. >> adviser to the president, kelly ann conway denies that children are being used as leverage, to get democrats to negotiate. >> nobody likes the policy. >> using children is not the answer. >> republican senators, susan collins and jeff flake sent this letter to the white house, asking for details on its zero tolerance policy. >> it is inconsistent with our american val use. to separate these children from their parents. unless there is evidence of abuse or another very good >> a policy that is unacceptable, unjust, unamerican, and unconscionable. >> congressional democrats working on legislation to end the practice, visit itted a detention facility in new jersey. we will not rest unt

elaine. >> errol barnett. thank you. >>> the phoenix suburb of scottsdale, population 240,000, is list the as one of the safest cities in arizona. in recent days there have been four murders. as tony dokoupil reports, several killings are connected. dr. steven pitt died much as he lived. wrapped up in a murder mystery. the distinguished forensic psychiatrist advised police on high profile killings including, unsolved murder of jonbenet ramsey. now police are looking for answers after pitt himself was gunned down outside his office thursday. authorities released this sketch of the suspect, described as a white male, in a cap. witnesses heard a loud argument, then gunfire. less than 24 hours later, a second murder victim collapsed near a bus, apparently looking for help. she had been shot in the head. police followed a trail of flood from the street to a third vick tichl vick -- victim inside the law office where the two worked. >> we have been able to tie, or basically determine the shooting on first street is

please welcome professor randy barnett. [applause]. >> thank you, roger, for the introduction. it's a great pleasure as always to be back at cato and its is truly a pleasure to be here to celebrate the publication of helen knowles new book, "the tie goes to freedom". let me begin by saying to helen, helen, this is a marvelous book. you should be very proud of your congressman here i can sum up its virtues as follows: it's exceedingly well researched. it is impressively accurate about the intricate body of the constitutional cases and doctrine that it discusses. it is theoretically sensitive and insightful and it is beautifully and above all clearly written. notice i put the emphasis on clearly even about the booty-- beauty and i think you'll agree or at least i like you to know that the clarity of the book manifested here in the clarity of professor knowles presentation to you. she writes as clearly as she speaks. on the subject of the book is justice kennedy's jurisprudence helen was forced to expand to readers that complexity of constitutional decisions governing such topics

here's errol barnett. >> i did talk to the white house yesterday.hey say the president's still 100% behind us. >> reporter: with support from president trump republican congressman michael mccaul plans to put his so-called consensus immigration bill up for votes in the house soon. in addition to securing $25 billion for a border wall, it ends family separation and puts limits on legal immigration as well as providing a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. its chances of passing, though, are slim. >> our immigration laws are a laughing stock all over the world. >> reporter: before speaking in las vegas saturday, president trump said republicans are wasting their time on immigration and should wait until after midterm elections to enact reform. but he continues to push a hard line, today suggesting deporting those suspected of crossing the border illegally "with no judges or court cases." >> i don't want to enforce laws out of a sense of hate or animosity toward people who want to live a life like i do. >> reporter: republican senator bob corker calle

errol barnett, cbs news, the white house. >>> an air force pilot was rescued after his jet crashed in the sea off the coast of japan. the f-15 was on a training mission when it crashed off okinawa. the pilot ejected. he suffered non-life-threatening injuries. >>> the american soldier killed in somalia, attacked by extremists, has been identified. they came under attack friday about 215 miles southwest of mogadishu. sergeant alexander conrad of chandler, arizona, was killed. four other u.s. servicemembers were weden qamist group has claimed nt rsonild in exosion cleveland. the powerful blast leveled a house yesterday. another person was critically injured. the explosion damaged several nearby homes. so far no word on the cause. >>> this morning a fast-moving wind-driven wildfire in southwest colorado has forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 homes. the so-called 416 fire doubled in size over the weekend. it's burned nearly 17,000 acres in and around the san juan national forest and it's just 10% contained. forecasters say the strong wind pushing the blaze won't die down until tomorr

elaine. >> quijano: all right, errol barnett, thank you.he pentagon has released the name of the special operations soldier killed in an attack in somalia. staff sergeant alexander conrad of chandler, arizona was 26 years old. his unit was attacked on friday by al-shabaab militants. ntur other u.s. service units were wounded. the u.s. military now has about 500 troops in somalia working with local forces in the fight against the terror group. a massive explosion rocked a neighborhood in cleveland today. at least one person was killed. one home was destroyed. neighboring homes caught fire and had windows blown out. the cause of the blast is under investigation. people in the area said they leelled gas. an immigration battle is brewing in washington state over a federal immigration policy being used to deter illegal border crossings. immigration officials confirm more than 650 migrant children have been separated from their parents after entering the u.s. here's mireya villarreal. >> the people united, will never be divided! >> reporter: at a

>> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. we will have more on the immigration showdown tomorrow on "cbs this morning". gayle king will broadcast from the border town of mcallen, texas. a vehicle carrying as many as 14 people, including undocumented immigrants, crashed today in big wells, texas, about 100 miles southwest of san antonio. at least five people were killed. the county sheriff says the vehicle was being chased by border patrol agents when it crashed. there was chaos in trenton, new jersey overnight, when bullets started flying at an all-night arts festival. one of the shooters is dead. more than 20 are wounded. meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: people flooded out of an art festival in trenton, new jersey, after gunfire erupted just before 3:00 a.m. sunday. >> and the next thing you know, we turn around and everybody is running down the street, all hell broke loose. >> reporter: investigators say it started when several rival gang members at the event started shooting at each other. more than 1,000 people were

reena. >> ninan: errol barnett following a lot of news at the white house this saturday evening.hank you, errol. well, cutting-edge science may have solved a decades-long cold case. the so-called golden state killer, wanted for dozens of attacks and at least 13 murders eluded capture for decades. but investigators got his d.n.a. then and now. kenneth craig explains how. >> reporter: suspected serial killer joseph deangelo may have been able to pull off one of the most notorious killing sprees in california history. but for a former police officer, who eluded investigators for decades, his recent capture came down to modern-day forensic technology. d.n.a. evidence he left behind. more than 100 pages of heavily redacted court documents read like a real-life c.s.i., revealing that a d.n.a. sample recovered this april sealed the case against him. retired n.y.p.d. cold case homicide sergeant, joseph giacalone. >> i think this was the last thing that was on deangelo's mind was that the changing of forensics would ever-- they would ever catch up to him. >> reporter: 72-year-old deangelo

elaine. >> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. an investigation is underway, after police shot and killed an african-american man saturday evening in minneapolis. the police say the man was firing a handgun as he walked down the street. dkki batiste has more on this. >> no justice, no peace! >> reporter: these anti-police chants interrupted sunday's pride parade in minneapolis. >> the whole damn system is guilty as hell! >> reporter: the outrage comes after a police officer shot and killed 31 year old thurman blevins saturday evening. >> thurman blevins! thurman blevins! thurman blevins! >> reporter: according to a o cebook post by the minneapolis police department, one 911 caller reported a man "firing a gun into the air and into the ground." another caller said he was shooting a silver nine- millimeter handgun. john elder is with the police eipartment. >> a foot chase ensued, which ended in shots being fired. the armed suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. >> reporter: locals protested peacefully at the scene right after the

. >> truman barnett's retirement dream has been destroyed after a gas-industry truck spilled a small amount of polluted >> my wife ealth problems anis waser recovery area, and we had attley thing you heheard at nighttime here was your hetbit'jt t total, and the water dumped out, down off theiown across my land into my pond, through the pond and into the wetland here alongside me. and wht did, it killed the pond. it killed the fish. it killed everything in the pond...no frogs, no war in our house has higigh concentrations of lead. they've recommended--or they've td us w it's turned into our hell.bn . >> the estimate of the pennsylvania department of onvironmental preservation n is serious environmental concern for eve5050 wells driilled to date. you do the math.hundweds of thousands of wells, were' doing hundreds or thousands of spills--that's called cumulative impact. so it goes to the heart of your question: why are you not seeing all these ts is accumulatico 10 years. as-industry employee whoinex described a spill on a site that he worked on. >> some of the sites are well-regulated

betting is all of a sugal áeverywherei nstead it just opens the door for ástates to decide randy barnettsor of constitutional law, georgetown law center: "up until this point, if the states tried to do that, they might be accused of actually aiding and abetting illegal federal conduct."the ceo of mgm resorts international says "we are already working with regulators to bring legal sports wagering in the states where we operate."and all of the major pro ásports leagues are áopen to the coming possibilitiesbut emphasize a commitment to maintaining the integrity of their respective games.the ncaa...where notably athletes are ánot paid...is still reviewing all of the implications but their chief legal office says "we will adjust sports wagering and championship policies to align with the direction from the court."utah senator hatch was one of the four original authors of the 1992 act struck down by the supreme court.he says there needs to be áfederal standards in place and that áhe plans to introduce legislation on the issue.randy barnett, professor of constitutional law, georgetown law cent

. >> truman barnett's retirement dream has been destroyed after a gas-industry truck spilled a small amount of polluted frac water onto his property. >> my wife had some health problems and this was her recovery area, and we had a little bit of heaven. the only thing you heheard at nighttime here was your heheartbeat. now it's just t totally y devastate, and the water dumped out, down off their pad, down across my land into my pond, through the pond and into the wetland here alongside me. and what it did, it killed the pond. it killed the fish. it killed everything in the pond...no frogs, no turtles--nothing. our drinking water in our house has higigh concentrations of lead. they've recommended--or they've told us not to drink it and d don't bate in it. from our heaven, now it's turned into our hell. >> the estimate of the pennsylvania department of environmental preservation n is one serious environmental concern for every5050 wells driilled to date. you do the math. if we're talking hundreds of thousands of wells, we're doing hundreds or thousands of spills--that's called cumulativ

>> i got the call from bob barnett too. and i grew up -- we both grew up in small towns. and nobody ever came to my small town except when i was 8 or 9, president eisenhower came. and i never got closer than 3 or 400 feet. but i never forget that. never forgot it. and i also tried to never forget where i came from and never get a big head about anything that happened or didn't happen in my life. so the opportunity of writing a book with president clinton was overwhelming to me. and the idea of spending a year with him, which is what we've done. writing this book together. >> but mechanically then, i don't want to --. >> you want to know how it works. are you ready? the. we alternated words. >> did you alternate paragraphs or chapters. so did you sit -- you don't sit across the table from each other, right? >> we did on occasion. mostly just -- i had a lot of questions. and then the president had some questions as we interchanged the pages. but sometimes we got together. sometimes we just sent pages back and forth. the first two chapters i would say we did six drafts on th

emma barnett, who i know who has been a big hit when she stood in the. time for a change.to talk about this. icac is not interested. i made a point of trying to get my cats into it. my cats are saying they are not interested. 0k. all rights. apparently england was that success or failure comes down to whether we all kiss harry kane's boot. if we all kiss the boot which is pictured on the front of the sun then he is more likely to score a hat—trick in night against tunisia. a p pa re ntly hat—trick in night against tunisia. apparently he promised to do, which seems a bit unlikely and unwise. we tried everything else, kissing harry's boot is probablyjust as good a chance. i hope they go far through the tournament. even if not, to the finals of. a great young team and we are behind england, aren't we? come on. definitely. hurray! thank you so much. that is it for the papers.

barnett: justice kennedy was a swing vote.d side with the majorityives, as leader mcconnell said, in some cases, he would side with the many gay rights many gay rights cases. so he has been a swing, and that makes his replacement, the battle to replace him is going to be the mother of all confirmation hearings, as far as i can see. julie: merrick garland comes to mind, as he tends to, when we discussed this process, because is something, the lack of confirmation of merrick garland is something that the democrats have frequently pointed to. are they going to be able to slow this process enough for it to occur after the midterms? garland wast: judge my classmate in law school. i have a very high opinion of merrick. but i do not think the democrats are going to be able to stop or slow this process if the majority does not want it to, and i do not think the majority will. i believe it will be an expeditious evaluation of whoever donald trump picks, and he will choose some buddy his list of judges that we all know about. -- somebod

still where a lot of washington's thinking is directed pentagon led full spectrum dominance as thomas barnett sort of you know laid out during the bush administration but in terms of donald trump i think the united states is at a very interesting crossroads because the first time where it's not expanding in one hundred twenty years internationally it's actually having to reconsolidate its positions not just at home but abroad as well and i think dollar trump is the ideal chapter eleven practitioner maybe for this point you know u.s. history chapter eleven that's really great to have mark here i mean also you know everybody's looking for these kind of short phrases to describe i came across one no friends no enemies that would least work in the case of dealing with the i guess we can use it correct him disastrous g seven meeting in canada and no enemies dealing with north korea at least at the time for the time being as some kind of partner illegitimate partner no friends no enemies yeah. i don't think there is a coherent trump foreign policy and i don't think that surprise us because it's qui

still where a lot of washington's thinking is directed pentagon led full spectrum dominance as thomas barnett sort of you know laid out during the bush administration but in terms of donald trump i think the united states is at a very interesting crossroads because the first time where it's not expanding in one hundred twenty years internationally it's actually having to reconsolidate its positions not just at home but abroad as well and i think dollar trump is the ideal chapter eleven practitioner maybe for this point you know u.s. history chapter eleven that's really great to have mark here i mean also when you everybody is looking for these kind of short phrases to describe i came across one no friends no enemies that would least work in the case of dealing with the i guess we can use it correct and disastrous g. seven meeting in canada and no enemies dealing with north korea at least at the time for the time being as some kind of partner illegitimate partner no friends no enemies yeah. i don't think there is a coherent trump foreign policy and i don't think that surprises us because it's

attorney general robert kennedy had intervened on meredith's behalf with the state's governor ross barnett who had found to keep the university segregated. the kennedys didn't want to alienate the white southern voters that helped put them in the white house but what about the rights of the poor black kendah past. be urged his brother to speak to the nation about the situation the president was concerned about how people in the south would react but finally agree. that john kennedy took a strong stand in favor of racial equality i mean. we've. been direct. approach and what americans are said to be well. we do not as whites only get out of the bottle and show up for every american to enjoy the privileges of being american but that we go out with great always follow . in office nine hundred sixty three at least two hundred thousand people gathered in washington d.c. . to demand civil rights and jobs dr martin luther king stood in front of the lincoln memorial and delivered his historic i have a dream speech bobby kennedy respected king's commitment to civil rights but had concerns about his

. >> quijano: errol barnett, thank you. phoenix suburb of scottsdale, population 240,000, is listed as one of the safest cities in arizona. but in recent days there have been four murders. as tony dokoupil reports, several killings are connected. >> reporter: dr. steven pitt died much as he lived, wrapped up in a murder mystery. the distinguished forensic psychiatrist advised police on high profile killings, including the unsolved murder of child beauty contestant jon benet ramsey. now police are looking for answers after pitt himself was gunned down outside his office thursday. authorities released this sketch of the suspect described as a white male in a cap. witnesses heard a loud argument then gunfire. less than 24 hours later a second murder victim collapsed near a bus apparently looking for help. she had been shot in the head. police followed a trail of blood from the street to a third victim inside the law office where both women worked. >> we have been able to tie the- - or basically determine that the shooting on f

opened fire after thirty five year old rami sabbar now try to run them over with but when assess a barnett didn't hear the soldiers command to stop his vehicle which he'd been using for work at a local construction site that of the soldiers were injured in the incident. pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition are closing in on a major rebel held force in yemen in a battle that could reshape the course of the civil war more than one hundred soldiers and rebels have reportedly been killed in less than a week in fighting near her day that government troops are preparing to launch an all out assault and i've already driven the rebels from dozens of nearby towns and villages out aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster well the data lies two hundred thirty kilometers away from sonar which the who these seized in two thousand and fourteen but it's the city's location on the red sea that makes it a strategic prize if the saudi led coalition takes over it would control yemen's most vital lifeline well twenty two million yemenis need humanitarian aid more than two thirds

west virginia state board of education versus barnett, shannon.ill good law and it says one thing, you cannot force any student to respond or honor any patriotic device. now you have a florida state law that is now saying that kids must stand and they must place their hand over their heart. they created this exception as a loophole to get around existing u.s. supreme court law. >> shannon: this is how the family lawyer responded. this quote is in the tampa bay times. i respectfully suggest this is a bold assertion to made by teachers and a governmental institution vested about teaching about the u.s. constitution. the six-year-old doesn't have this unqualified right to take a knee. >> right. that was a sensational reaction to what was an interrogatory answer. i do understand brian's point. that being said, the statue is law, until it is stricken down, then those kid and the parent have to comply. the bottom line is that there is a balancing test and balances factor that comes into play on school ground. neither side again has full access. these ri

errol barnett has more on the escalating trump trudeau trade tensions. >> he really kind of stabbed usthe back. >> in explaining why the u.s. rejected the g 7 communique it initially agreed to, president trump's economic adviser, larry kudlow said canadian prime minister justin true doe betrayed the administration >> because canadians, we are polite. we are reasonable. but we also will not be pushed around. >> speaking after president trump left the summit early, true doe true doe said canada will respond to u.s. tariffs. >> it would be with absolute firmness that we move forward with retaliatory measures on july 1. >> what's not in good faith when you leave there, you fly out of there, and the host, canadian prime minister starts taking whacks at you. pot shots at you. >> aboard air force one, president trump accused trudeau of making false statements while calling him very dishonest and weak. >> it is a remarkable public rebuke of a long time u.s. ally. punctuating a rocky summit which found president trump facing off with traditionally close counter parts. >> i would rather see russ

we have young attorneys out there, reilike brittany barnett jessica jackson sloan. >> and helped with this. i want to ask you, get back to that. would you encourage other celebrities .s -- you know, this president loves celebrity. do you encourage other celebrities to get things done in this country and work with him even if they don't agree with him? >> for the people at the bottom, we're talking about people who are locked up in prisons, people who are suffering poverty. people who are addicted and can't get free, i think on those common ground issues we have to come together and get something done. just because we get something done on those issues doesn't mean we can't fight tooth and nail on 999 other issues. i think we're talk about people who don't have a voice at all. i think on those issues we've got to be able to come together and get something done. >> nice job, van jones. and kim kardashian. give credit where credit is due. hope she continues to do it. i said this saturday, it's actually next saturday that it airs. thank you, sir. the entire interview, kim kardashian west

young female attorneys like brittany barnett, jessica jackie and others talking on this for a long timeas created by young people wen all over the place and got this on the radar screen. >> is that out kim saw it? >> exactly. the mainstream media wasn't covering it but it went crazy on a viral video. you never know when you post something what's going to happen. jared kushner inside the white house says this was an important issue. his father had been to prison. you can't look at a 63-year-old grandmother who will die in prison, never get parole ever because of a nonviolent drug offense a decade ago. it all came together you got to give credit to these young female attorneys, and these young video activists and you got to give credit to jared kushner. but kim kardashian walked in that white house, very few celebrities and athletes would do that. and she came out with a victory. you got to give her credit. >> why didn't president obama do it? >> president obama did more pardons and more come mutations than anybody. he had a huge operation to try to get that figured out. on this particula

county school district policy, and the us supreme court case, west virginia board of education versus barnett law and you cannot force any student to respond or honor any patriotic device and now you have a florida state law, they must place their hand over their heart and honor the pledge of allegiance, they created this exception as a loophole. shannon: this is how the family lawyer responded in the tampa bay times talking about the case, i respectfully suggest this was a bold assertion to be made by teachers and the governmental institution, the responsibility of teaching children united states history and the u.s. constitution, there is not an unqualified right to take a knee. >> that was a sensationalized reaction to an interrogatory answer. i do understand the point the statute is lot right now and until the district and down as unconstitutional most kids and parents have to comply in the bottom line is there is a balancing factor that comes into play on school grounds, neither side has unfettered access, so in the instances of a 6-year-old child, the school's interest will spur the cou

just got a statement from brittany barnett a member of her legal team, that said "justice has been served today and long overdue. alice paid her debt to society of serving 21 years. life in prison without the possibility of parole screams that a person is beyondhope, beyond redemption." you heard from sarah sanders, she did rehabilitate herself in prison. now for who else the president might b considering immediately, you mentioned blago, martha stewart and matthew charles. i don't think the petition has been delivered yet but should come in the next couple days. he was sentenced in 1996 for 35 years for drug offenses. he sold crack cocaine to an undercover police officer in 2016 under new guidelines, he received a sentence reduction and was let out of prison. in 2017, a federal court ruled the sentence reduction was an error that charles was not eligible for the new guidelines. may 14 of this year, he went back in prison. shep, there's been bipartisan support whether it be conservatives or liberals to let charles out. that's something that the president will likely be considering. >> she

barnett's opinion was that these fractures that you see in this photo were caused by three different >> what conclusion can you draw about how these fractures and these injuries were caused? >> one impact on a very hard, flat surface. that's my opinion. >> reporter: dr. spitz said the science showed russell adkins had been telling the truth. dana had hit her head on the road after falling out of a car. and the original autopsy, which identified three small abrasions on her elbows and shoulder, proved that. >> the abrasions were significant to him, that abrasions to the elbows and the shoulder are indicative of a fall. when you fall back, your arms tend to go back to brace yourself from the fall. >> dr. spitz, if these fractures are a result of being struck with a weapon the size of a pool cue, i believe you said you would expect lacerations on her scalp, is that right? >> yes, let me just say this. if this was a weapon, this whole thing would look different. >> and not to slight your county person, but dr. spitz has got a lot of credentials, a lot of autopsies, a lot of history. >> t

there was a team of talented activism lawyers, top kai sam, jessica jackson sloan, brittney barnette and others who working for years, but no question it was kim who sealed the deal when she met with president trump in the o l value office. i spoke with kim about what case meant to her, how it moved her from being a reality tv star to a social justice activist. take a look. >> well, first of all, congratulations on a big win, but also just thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >> second of f all, how did it feel to make the phone call to let miss alice johnson know that it was over, she was coming home? >> i think she thought it was a routine phone call with her attorneys and she was surprised and excited that i was on the phone. and then i was a little bit shocked because she was very calm. i had assumed she knew so i was like wait, she doesn't know? alice was like, know what? you're going home. like i can like cry thinki inin about it. hearing her scream, just to know we changed one person's life is like we cried maybe on the phone for like three minutes straight. everyone was just c

but we both wanted to do it, and our lawyer/agent/friend bob barnett said yes we should do it. he said i have been trying to get you to write a thriller for years and you will never do it, he said why don't you done with james patterson? i said, he'd never do that, never. so bob talked to him and we just started. i told him he was ing to have to do a little hand holding in the beginning because i have read thousands of thrillers, igu s by now, but i didn't know how to do it. but we started with an outline, and he said, okay, here's 20 questions you've got to answer of how to make this authe iic. idn't tell him it would be another 20 after that. >> and, so, we started working. then every draft we traded back and forth, sometimes several times. >> when bob came to me, we both grew up in small towns, but my small town nobody came. but when i was eight or nine years olddepre eisenhower came to town, and i never forgot that. i also tried to never forget where i came from. i never get a big head because ohatever. i don't think anybody should get big heads about anything, but ie reall

kim carbohydrakardashian heard about that situation and contact add a young attorney named brittany barnettd became this entire movement around getting her home and it worked. >> and so this obviously is something you're so passionate about, criminal justice reform. you've been working with this white house on this very issue. does the outcome in johnson's case give you optimism of actually getting where you see this going? >> look, i do have optimism. it's funny because i always say about the trump white house and jared kushner, we got 99 conflicts but prison ain't one, okay? jared's dad went to prison for a white-collar crime. he understands that prisons are -- it's a disaster right now. too many people in prison for too long for dumb stuff. we can do something about that. let's do something about that and i also think that president trump, when he did pardon alice johnson, you know, some of his pardons are hard to understand, but that one, you have to admit, was a great one. he got positive feedback for it. i think he may do more. we need shorter sentences. we need better treatment when

the planning that goes into an information environments with -- and information barnett with behal adversary's has to baked into the fabric. we are looking forward to opportunities in the fall to .ontinue to build on this work just one small example, the signature management, we will be doing a segment for -- a signature management wargame that is really with it -- worth it. we used to be pretty good as signature management. with the resources we were up -- theyin the cold war were real. i would not say we were lazy, but we have not had to worry about that in recent years. dow signature management is going to be a big deal. relearning or coming up with new s is an important parts of what the expertise will be able to help us with going forward. mr. cancian: maybe just the last parts on -- maybe just thet: last parts on this one. any technology has to be sustainable. we have to make sure that the parts are there, the spares are there, we can maintain it. and it is about the people at the end of the day. it is always about the people who put that technology into action. we know how long it takes

occupied west bank city of hebron soldiers say they opened fire after thirty five year old ronnie said barnett try to run them over with his digger but witnesses say savannah didn't have the soldier's commands to stop his vehicle which he'd been using for work at a local local construction site none of the soldiers were injured in the incident. pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition a closing in on a major rebel held course in yemen in a battle that could reshape the course of the civil war more than one hundred soldiers and rebels have reportedly been killed in less than a week of fighting near the data. government troops are ready to launch an all out assault they've already driven the rebels from dozens of nearby towns and villages aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster will have data lies two hundred thirty kilometers away from sun which the hoofy seized in two thousand and fourteen but it's the city's location on the red sea that makes it a strategic prize if the saudi led coalition takes over it would control yemen's most vital lifeline twenty two million ye

that the person at first but you together to do this project is our mutual friend and lawyer, bob barnett. the greatest lawyer of the rld. kept my self out of prison. how did that work? who made the call first and who set up this collaboration? >> he called me one day and said look, i've been trying for years to get you to write a mystery. you love thrillers, you gorge on them. i don't know you have time to do anything else. but why don't you do one with james patterson? i said, he will never do that. what can i do for him? he is a best-selling author, what does he need for me? so he called patterson and in a moment of abject foolishness, he said he would be interested in doing it. we met and clicked and we agreed that we needed to try to write something that was faithful to the presidency and the way the government actually works or did work. [laughter] the procedures, no, no, no -- procedures are slightly different now. and that dealt with a real security challenge that could actually go haywire. and that we would be authentic, we would make it as exciting as we could without letting th

. >> reporter: brittany barnett is one of johnson's lawyers. >> as you can imagine, alice was overwhelmedith joy and tears. >> reporter: in a statement, the white house said, while this administration will always be very tough on crime, it believes that those who paid their debt to society and worked hard to better themselves while in prison deserve a second chance. >> alice is free to represent much more than freedom for alice johnson. it gives hope to a mass of people that are still incarcerated under these unjustice sentences. >> reporter: under president obama, the justice department had opposed johnson's request for early release. citing the size and impact of the drug trafficking ring. now, her communetation may come as a surprise to some, after trump's recent comments that some drug dealers should get the death penalty. >> alice johnson joins us from memphis along with her daughter, katina scales. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> i know this was your first name home in 21 years. how are you doing this morning? >> i'm doing great. i woke up without a bunk bed over my

errol barnett is at the white house with the latest. errol, good morning. >>> good morning. north korean official kim yong chol was only supposed to deliver a letter from kim jong-un to president trump. but instead the visiting official and mr. trump met for over an hour and it resulted in a reversal. >> after meeting with kim yong chol at the white house on friday, president trump declared the summit between north korea and the u.s. was on again. >> i think it's going to be a process, but the relationship are building and that's a very positive thing. >> last week mr. trump called off the oneen a letter to kim jong-un, citing tremendous anger and open hostility expressed from the north as reasons for calling off the summit. >> really this was a letter presentation. >> trump called the letter from kim interesting but then admitted he had not actually read it before re-establishing the summit. >> i purposely didn't open the letter. >> north korea and the u.s. had been at an impasse over verifiable north korean denuclearization and the reversal of u.s. sanctions on north korea

errol barnett is traveling with the president. errol, good morning. >> good morning. president trump told me he's expected to interview two candidates while at the golf course this weekend and he's sure to highlight two women are on his short list. this will be in addition to interviews that will take place on monday when the president returns to washington. president trump arrived in new jersey expecting to interview potential replacements for retiring supreme court justice anthony kennedy. >> i've got it down to about five. >> cbs news has learned there are two leading contenders, brett kavanaugh, a 53-year-old circuit judge in washington, and 46-year-old amy coney barrett, who the president recently appointed to the 7th circuit in chicago. also up for consideration is amul thapar, a 49-year-old circuit court judge in cincinnati who would be the first indian american to serve on the supreme court. the president has been expressing excitement about nominating a second scream court justice. earlier this week mr. trump highlighted his vision to reshape the high court f