damian: going back to the bill walsh analogy, george seifert took over and he took a lot of what billpassed on to him, but then george seifert implemented some of his own ideas and it took the team to another super bowl. kind of the same thing, you learned from tamara, you took a few things there, and then implemented your own things. vanessa: absolutely. i think-- tamara: we want super bowl wins. vanessa: absolutely, i would say, you know, it's fantastic to even continue to work with tamara as a colleague. now that she's stepped into a funder role, it doesn't necessarily mean that she is not available to us as a colleague at the school of arts and culture, which is fantastic. and i would also say that the organization recently completed a three-year strategic plan that the board finalized, so i've got a really wonderful guiding document that helps me put in perspective what my priorities should be in this interim period. damian: are you kind of emeritus, kind of advisor on the side here? tamara: yeah, they're like, "okay, so you get to be an advisor." and i think i have an official r

let's bring in bill crystal and joan walsh, national correspondent for the nation. good evening and welcome. we know this president has issues with the truth. >> you think. wow, breaking news here from don lemon. >> breaking news from 1997. is this even prove the point more? >> yeah, of course it does. it does open -- it's pretty astounding to have these tapes. he was donald trump's lawyer and fixer and i guess there's no honor among thieves. it does open up vulnerability >> you think it matters? >> it could because who knows what's on all these tapes. >> i really appreciated that frank and mark in the earlier segment made the point that he retains his popularity but that's partly because the republican party, the number of self-identified republicans are shrinking. however, that said, we got sean spicer. he lied to us for six months. he lied publicly. >> now he's out selling a book. >> i'm not out selling a book now. the consequences for these people right now, i'm not sure there are in. -- there are any rudy giuliani. >> mueller. >> they all sound like mobsters. >

bill to the floor. you guys worked tirelessly along with your teams and also like to give a shoutout to our legislative director, james walsh, who did the yeoman's work for this bill. today, america is confronting instability and growing humanitarian crisis around the world, all of which have direct impact on our national security and economic interests here at home. delivering effective u.s. foreign assistance is crucial, especially in the current fiscal climate in which it is imperative for the u.s. government to use every dollar more efficiently and effectively. the build act will ensure the united states delivers foreign assistance both effectively and efficiently by catalyzing the private sector to developing countries of our top 15 trading partners, 12 of them were once recipients of foreign aid. 43 of our top 50 consumer nations of american agriculture products were once u.s. foreign aid recipients. additionally, 95% of the world consumers live outside of the united states, and the poorest 2/3 of the world now represents about $5 trillion in purchasing power. their markets are growing faster than many of the -- of ou

as cnn reports bill shine's influence is rising in the white house him there are days the former fox executive sees the president much more than the chief of staff john kelly. joan walsh cnn political commentator, steve cortez, mr. trump's 2020, reelect advisory council and okay. thanks to all of you, joan, let me start with you since you are sitting next to me, does the word matter as bill shine obviously is saying it does? >> no the word does not matter. we're all journalists here. let's be honest, bill is a journalist. we shorten thing. we might have the open third. we don't say, she was uninvited, she told she could not come. the message was communicated, she was not welcome there, so she did not go. this is ridiculous this exjournalist is playing word games, it's not working. >> steve, presidents get questions shouted at them all the time. yesterday the president wanted to talk about trade. indicate lip asked questions about the vladimir putin putin summit and the michael cohen tape as it was a question everyone wanted to ask. i wanted to make the point for the viewer this is the way it goes. here's how i'm going to make that.i'm going to show 2000 presidents who

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bill evans said today, we are in a better place now. like the population of boston, the boston police department is about 24% black. and today after commissioner evans announced his retirement, marty walsh mayor of boston a pointed the highest ranking police officer in the history of the department, william gross to be boston's next police commissioner. boston's first african american police commissioner. >> commissioner evans, he came on the job before me. we have things in common. he was a boston police cadet. i was a boston police cadet. it shows that any kid in boston and we were poor and made it, will have the opportunity to be the mayor or chief if we all work together. >> for we all work together. boston's new police commissioner, bill gross gets tonight's last word. t"the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >> donald trump returns to the hoax theory dropping security clearance for six former national security official who is have all publicly criticized him. new audio tapes in the michael cohen case leaving everyone to wonder if trump's voice is on them and developments in the manafort case as the first trial in the mueller effort preparing to get under way. and why was h