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brian todd, cnn, washington. >> brian todd giving us a good explanation of what fake news is. to point out the difference, the distinction between fake news and the dedicated men and women, the people who are really committed to good, quality journalism who got into this profession to give people the news. >> and what's so important is that they say, you know, when people, the citizens are ill-informed or uninformed, you no longer have democracy. it's very, very scary what's going on, and people can't decide what is credible and what is not. >> i know here at cnn, we are all committed and dedicated to pushing forward with news. >> we certainly are. >>> coming up, once the ancestral home of many christians, one iraqi town has basically been abandoned. wait until you see what isis did to their church. that's ahead. >>> plus, pope francis heads to northern italy to bless the rebuilding of a city ravaged by a deadly earthquake. details ahead as cnn "newsroom" continues. ns passions, hopes, and dreams. and maybe, a chance at greatness because shoulders were made for greatness. not

cnn's brian todd looks at the escalation between those two countries. brian. >> ana, the kremlin is out and out furious with the united states. saying this strike put the u.s. and russia on the brink of a military confrontation, right now, there's huge concern over vladimir putin's next move. putin angry over the u.s. strikes in syria. his foreign minister warning of the fallout to come. >> translator: i'm particularly disappointed by the way this damages u.s./russia relationships. >> reporter: what little trust there was is eroded. >> he's saying this could escalate and this could mean conflict between the united states and russia which is something that terrifies all of us. >> reporter: a senior u.s. official said the u.s. military gave their counterparts one-hour notice about the strike. >> if the united states is going after the syrian regime which russia supports the risks go way up, right the united states is taking bases where russians are, it's attacking facilities where russians are, and it's at war with people the russia are backing. >> reporte

>> brian todd you're out following the demonstrations here in washington, and you noticed how they are setting the scene for a lot of anger today, marking this 100 days. what are the protesters major complaints? >> wolf, tons of energy here and their point is really to go against the initiatives that president trump has started in his first 100 days, especially as it pertains to the environment. the initiatives of the executive orders he signed about drilling, about the federally protected land, the possibility of drilling on that. they have made a point in this international hotel, by the way, of placing indigenous people at the front of the line of protesters. i'm with one of them right now, lorna, she is from an indigenous tribe out of manitoba alberta. what brought you out here today? >> what brought me out here was we're fighting line three in minnesota, the sandpiper, also fighting the kxl. i'm here with my family and my sister i believe is out on the with west coast. >> lorna, the administration says that they can drill for resources that they desperately need without hurting th

. >> brian todd has the latest assessments of where its capability currently stands. >> reporter: cnnd kim jong un's nuclear weapon buildup is advancing rapidly, estimated to have appropriation deuce between 13 and 30 nuclear war hea heads. albright stresses north korea's program is so secret i that accurate figures are difficult to get but based on what he's found he has an ominous projection of what he could produce. by the answered of 20 the numbers could go up to 25 or 50 and in the worst case, up to 60. >> reporter: with a stockpile that large, it could make it harder for the u.s. to track his nuclear weapons. >> that means they could disburse them, and most likely underground. that means the u.s. can't be assured of taking out all of their weapons. >> reporter: officials tell cnn kim jong un has been more aggressive with nuke cler aclean the past year and a half than he ever has ever been. they say with each test, they get closer to producing a more powerful nuclear bombs. >> they could break into more thermal nuclear weapons if they continue to test. temperature would give them

brian todd was with the protestors joining us now live from the national mall.was their message? >> one of indignation. this protest is wrapping up with art displays and music on the grounds of the washington monument but tens of thousands of people took to the street here under the belief that president trump has declared all out war on the environment. >> reporter: they're here to mark president trump's 100th day in office and shine a light on what they say constitutes the biggest assault on the environment from any administration in history. >> the administration says that they can drill for resources that they desperately need without hurting the environment. do you believe them? what do you say to that? >> not one bit. they had over 800 spills. it's not going to workout. >> these protestors say the trump administration policy prioritized economic growth ove trump's tweets suggest a balanced approach. i'm committed to keeping our air and water clean but economic growth enhances environmental protection. jobs matter. >> his environmental protection agency mov

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> well, as we mentioned, u.s.rships have been sent to the waters off the korean peninsula. that is making some wonder whether the u.s. is edging closer to conflict with pyongyang. >> but some say this time it feels different. a senior fellow at the university of southern california spoke with cnn earlier and had this to say. >> i think it's different on a number of levels. i think that one very crucial point is that you're getting very, very mixed messages from the trump administration. in the sense that there is a lot of muscle flexing. there is a lot of posturing. there's a lot of threats that have really raised the temperature. and this comes when the north koreans are repeatedly saying if we feel that we are about to be attacked, we are prepared to undertake a preemptive strike and that we will use our nuclear weapons if we have to. >> north korea's arsenal isn't all that is growing. the united nations says that the north korean embassy in moscow is also gaining in sophistication. >> the u.n. says pyongyang ou

brian todd, cnn. >>> in 2016, it was then presidential candidate president trump and russian presidentdimir putin, certainly a relationship that has raised eyebrows about the connection between the two. observers thought the old cold war enemies might set off to be allies. but as cnn's matthew chance reports, relations between russia and the u.s. are rocky since trump took office. >> reporter: at first he was the darling of the kremlin-controlled media. russia state television off and on -- fawning over donald trump and his pro-moscow policies. >> wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with russia? >> reporter: there were even trump election parties in moscow, with some russians literally toasting their good fortune. donald trump shared with this politician, now we can become allies in syria and ukraine, he declared. maybe america can stop funding nato. it was, of course, wishful thinking. talk of partnership ended in a barrage of 59 u.s. cruise missiles, russia's syrian ally. those targeted may have been moderate damage. the putin-trump friendship was blown to smithereens. >> tr

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> up next on "cnn newsroom" as the trump white house marks a milestone, we'll look at the president's foreign policy and ask whether the u.s. is winning the fight against terror in the middle east. >>> plus, trump voters weigh in on his first 100 days in office. are they still happy for their choice for president? all that coming up after this break. lles act like a magnet, to cleanse, remove makeup and refresh. all in one! micellar cleansing water from garnier skinactive. nlike @squirrelgirl52, without thwho writes,ootball... "no football on sundays has left me with a lot of free time, so i've constructed a sanctuary for local squirrels." try watching the nfl draft. maybe watch with a friend. or doctor. ♪ strike a pose ♪ your eyes work as hard as you do. but do they need help making more of their own tears? if you have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation, restasis multidose™ can help... with continued use twice a day, every day, one drop at a time. restasis multidose™ helps increase your eyes' natural ability to produce

krp's brian todd is working the story for us. pect, steve stephens, right here in erie, pennsylvania. >> they did, wolf. after tense moments at a mcdonald's, short car chase and spinout, steve stephens was confronted by police. at that moment the suspect shot and killed himself. tonight, key questions remain about possible accomplices and if there are other victims. >> after manhunt of 48 hours, the final break in the case came with a tip from a citizen in erie, pennsylvania. then a tip on a police scanner. the vehicle used by facebook murder suspect steve stephens, according to police, was spotted in the parking lot of mcdonald's. the owner of the mcdonald's said he went through the drive through, ordered a chicken basket and fries. they tried to stall him. they said it was going to be a minute for the fries. which it wasn't. she just contacted police. he didn't want it wait. he took off. there was a so-called pit maneuver like this one. the vehicle was stopped. as officers approached that vehicle, steve stephens took his own lif

cnn's brian todd joining me now from the starting point of the march. pretty big turnout, brian?: it is. you can really feel the energy building at the foot of the u.s. capitol. tens of thousands of people expected down here today. our photo journalist and i are going to show you sights and sounds and look at the colorful slogans and signs and people gathering here getting ready to march toward the white house. gathering here and then we'll turn you in the direction that they'll march come this way. it's going to be logistical challenge. heat is factor. it will get up to 93 degrees out here. marchers will come this way and march to the white house and try to surround the white house and then do a collective heart pounding to signify the heartbeat of the environmental movement and call attention to trump's initiatives they feel puts them under assault environmentally. we'll bring you sights and sounds all day. this is where it's all starting, fredricka. >> very good. we'll check back with you. brian todd, thank you so much on the national mall. we'll be right back. no one's the sa

>> thanks so much, brian todd. joining me now to talk about this is democratic congress man mark vesey of texas, a member of the armed services committee. thanks so much forecasting your. >> is there a scenario where you would support an increased threat against nock? >> that's been, i would like for there to be some sort of communication obviously to try to deis plate the i think china does hold a lot of influence over north korea and he needs to try and exhaust that and before moving forward one of the things that the president has failed to do is that he needs to brief congress. he needs to present the united states congress, the house and the senate with a clear plan hon how he's going to deal with the situation because he has not done that at all yet, and that's something that needs to take place very quickly. >> does he -- do you believe that that is something the white house is working on and that that is something that you and other lawmakers will learn about, maybe a more cohesive matter when it comes to n

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> as we have been reporting, people in france are voting for their nextdent. melissa bell is outside of a polling station in paris. we are getting some numbers in showing relatively strong turnout today. >> that's right. the only official figure we have so far is the mid-day turnout rate and it is very slightly above what fs it was in 2012. a good sign. a sign of voters of which high numbers in this particular stage or the run-up the last feud, whether they might just decide to stay at home and bewildered by the vast array of political choice on offer here today. in fact, that appears not to be the case and everyone we have spoken to outside this polling station, the 18th district of paris this morning, have spoken of their determination to come and mark their vote. france is really at a crossroads. you have 11 candidates but you can pretty well put them in two categories. those include the populace and many on the left who want a huge change with all that has gone before and retreat within france's border and want a certain dose of economic protection an

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correspondents athena jones, rene marsh and brian todd are joining usbrian. you have been with these protesters all day. what is the mood right now on the president's 100th day in office? >> reporter: ana, the mood is really kind of jubilant. they're very happy with what they've been able to accomplish here today. they got a lot of energy. check out the scene behind me, this is a massive puppet that these people constructed in north carolina around the chapel hill area and brought it all the way up here. they just had to squeeze it through kind of a chain link fence on constitution avenue to get it through here. this is supposed so symbolize mother earth. this was the gentleman who was instrumental in making it. jan berger, can you talk us to for a second? what made you want to bring this all way from north carolina up here? >> well, we thought it was different, important that one of the biggest issues that everybody faces is trying to save the world that we live in for ourselves and for everything else. we wanted to make a beautiful big impact to try and hig

cnn's brian todd is working the story for us. big plans for russia's frozen north. >> wolf, putin has enormous plans for the arctic. he has already built two sprawling military bases there and he is not about to stop. tonight we've got new details and spectacular pictures of a massive new base where putin is deploying troops and warplanes. on a frozen wind swept expanse in the arctic, vladimir putin's military ambition is on grand display. painted like a russian flag, it is named for its three-cornered structure. it can house 150 troops and warplanes. >> this is a lot about the projection of russia's status, right? russia's status is a great power. second, the fact that russia is an arctic power. >> sweeping in on massive military transport, the russian president recently visited the base. he hammered at the ice. russian troops will be living under the harshest of conditions. 18-month deployments where the temperatures can dip well below zero. >> these are bases set up and perhaps some of the most inhospitable, if not the most inh

. >> you heard brian todd report there's indications that the russians are medals in the french presidentialell to try to get their favorite candidate elected. do you buy that? >> yeah, sure. look at president obama with the sanctions. the russians had a choice to make with the nato allies. proceed with this intervention or respond to the sanctions. if you think squeezing the russians by our actions to today is going to lead them to back away in the next elections, they're not going to do it. >> they have to learn lessons to make sure it doesn't happen again, but apparently lessons are not being learned that quickly. >> that's why people say elections have consequences. if democrats controlled one house of congress this might proceed at a faster pace. for russians it worked to them in the.s. ection why not try up end this in the french election too. >> let me get to another issue. anti-deformation league reporting anti-semitic incidents jumped 83% over the first quarter of 2017 and are up by one-third with the election playing a role in this increase. you've been looking into this. what do y

brian todd, cnn, washington. >> we turn to ekuador, but the electoral counsel won't declare a winner for days. left this candidate is declaring victory. he has a narrow leads over his conservative to get more than 95% of the votes counted. but the religious voter fraud took place and he wants a recount. the out come of this election could determine the fate of wiki leaks founder. he vows to remove him in london if he wins. >> the presidential race is tightening with less than a month to go until election day. polls show emanuel and far right leader le pen as frontrunners. french ambassador to the u.s. explained how it would be the end of the euro zone. listen. >> if i were asked before, you know, whether or not would be elected in france, i would have answered never. but after what happened in this country on november 8th, you know, i'm obliged to say, actually she may be elected. she may win the elections and she has said very clearly she wants france out of eu. frankly it's not right. france is out of the eu is the end of the eu and end of the euro zone. a lot of things will depend

brian todd has got he can tails for us. what else does asan j have to say?nge says the trump administration is targeting him to deflect investigation into their ties with russia. i spoke with barry poll okay who says he and assange are prepared to fight him in court. we are are told u.s. authorities prepared charges against him but now wickileaks founder is firin back. >> from confinement in london, julian assange lashes out at the cia. >> cia has been deeply humiliated as a result of the ongoing publications. >> wikileaks founder in an interview with former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul is responding to a recent barrage from cia director mike pompeo. >> assge is a narcissus who uses others to make him famous. >> wikileaks is referring to vault 7. thousands of files among the cia's massive hacking situation. >> time to call out wikileaks for what it is. nonstate hostile intelligence service. >> u.s. officials say russian intelligence used wikileaks to publish stolen damaging e-mails from hillary clinton's campaign. assage denied it to fox news. >> our

cnn's brian todd has new details. what are you learning? new details from investigators on exactly how vladimir putin's attackers targeted macron's campaign. tonight they have given us a roadmap that appears to lead directly to the kremlin. tonight, new details of how vladimir putin's elite hackers may have gone after the campaign of a man who can be a close american ally. french presidential candidate emmanuel macron. researchers with the cybersecurity firm trend micro tell cnn the hackers they exposed likely had to be working at least to pursue the goals of the russian president. >> the interest of the group align very closely with the interest of the russian station and taken as a whole really don't align that closely with anybody else. >> trend micro says it can't definitively linked the cyberattacks to putin but the hackers who targeted macron's campaign a yup they call pond storm had the fingerprint similar to fancy bear, which is who u.s. officials say targeted the democratic party and is believed to be kmapded commande russia's inte

brian todd has been looking into this for us.take. >> reporter: nothing less than the stability of the korean peninsula. just a short time ago on air force 1, he thinks china, quote, will be stepping up on north korea but he's looking across the table tonight at a chinese president who likely doesn't want to pressure kim jong-un and there's serious questions about whether these two leaders can really diffuse this crisis. from his bunker, kim jong-un tonight is posing an enormous challenging to two of the world's most powerful leaders. kim's aggressive hell or high water pursuit of nuclear weapons is a pivotal topic as president trump and chinese president xi jinping look across the table at each other. >> it's growing by the day and president trump and president xi jinping under great pressure to do something. >> what with president trump say to president xi jinping to get china to put more pressure on kim jong-un to scale back his weapons program? a senior white house official says they'll try to get china to assert its massive

brian todd has been looking into this for us. s to be exasperated. >> reporter: they are exasperated, wolf, they are angry and sending strong signals tonight that they are about to get tougher with north korea. there's a real sense that kim jong-un is pushing president trump as far as he can, showing his firepower and testing how the president and his chinese counterpart might respond. >> reporter: tonight kim jong-un's missile prom program is moving at a furious pace. his forces have fired what's believed to be a scum into the sea of japan. a senior u.s. defense official telling cnn the missile spun out of control and had a fiery descent into the sea, but a top u.s. general warns even when he fails in these test-firings, kim gets more dangerous. >> reporter: >> north korea is going fast, test, test, fail, test succeed and they are leng and you can see them learning because that's the way you do the rocket business. >> reporter: what worries america and its allies most tonight is how close kim is getting to having a nuclear-tipped

brian todd reporting. days after parading latest lo long-range missiles.ar could break out at any moment. while mike pence visits the demilitarized zone and troops. and cnn's dana bash. >>> happening now, brink of war. north korea accusing the u.s. toward a nuclear conflict. cnn is live on the korean peninsula with vice president pence who is warning kim jong-un don't test president trump. got to behave. mr. trump sends a message to north korea with its nuclear threats with u.s. warships on the region. is the president drawing a red line for the defiant kidictator? there is an award for the suspect accused of committing cold ksh blooded murder and posting a video of it on-line. we are learning more about a state of mind as he alludes an urgent nationwide manhunt. and the cruising obamas. former president and first lady enjoy a photo op on a yacht during their extended vacation. this hour, a new glimpse of their glamorous life after eight long years in the white house. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitze

as reporter brian todd show us -- this all comes...nsions on the korean peninsula are at their highest levels in years with an ominous warning coming earlier today... from kim jong un. a stunning new look (tonight), at the public facade of the brutal north korean regime... kim jong un-- in newly- released video-- strutting center-stage at a gathering of his hand-picked elites, who dutifully applaud the dictator...on state t-v, a fawning news anchor narrates the gathering; the supreme people's assembly.at the same time kim jong un is conducting this show of political force, kim's regime is warning america-- over the deployment of the u-s aircraft carrier carl vinson and its strike-group to the waters off the korean peninsula.calling it an act of "aggression"-- a regime statement hand-delivered to cnnsays "if the u.s. dares to choose a military option... the d-p-r-k is willing and ready to react to any mode of war desired by the u.s." balbina hwang / georgetown university: "i think it's north korea essentially saying 'look, we are pursui

brian todd is at the starting point of the march and rene marsh is at lafayette park outside of the whitec. brian, begin with you. the marching taking place, what are protesters saying, what's their ambition here? >> well, fredricka their ambition is to call attention to what they believe is an assault on the environment that they think that president trump has undertaken in his first 100 days in office. they're concerned about the president possibly trying to withdraw the united states from the global climate change agreement. they're concerned about the executive orders he has signed exploring the possibility of drilling and protected lands and off america's coast. we are right here at the basically the start of the march where this banner is. this is basically where the mrch will start, third street, lined up way down third street, tens of thousands of people we're told are expected for this and you can see all the colorful signs, banners, slogans all over the place. walter and i will kind of pivot over here and walk this way. i did speak to one of the protest organizers eugene carpins

first, cnn's brian todd has been talking with experts who suspect some of the weapons north korea recentlyal. brian, what have you learned? >> reporter: wolf, tonight we have new information on the very impressive munitions kim jong-un put on display in a massive parade recently. our analysis reveals some of the weapons were outdated, others outright fake. it doesn't stop kim from flaunting fire power in parades and on video. ♪ >> reporter: in a new north korean propaganda video, the white house and an aircraft carrier are in the cross hairs, a carrier and the u.s. capital are shown blowing up. it is the latest installment in intimidating images from the regime. here kim jong-un enters on the red carpet flanked by officers. he beams with pride at the weaponry on display, but tonight a closer look reveals some of these weapons are far less deadly than they seem. >> i think the parade was based more on impressing their leader, kim jong-un, than impressing an adversary. >> reporter: this was the grandpa raid on april 15th, the day of the sun, north korea's most important holiday of the year h

brian todd is taking a closer look for us. om their friendship. >> they have, wolf, certainly. donald trump and bill o'reilly both bit their support on their appeal to the forgotten voter. each seemed to feed off the other's popularity, but tonight o'reilly is gone. trump is being criticized for supporting him, and republican leaders are, again, worried about fallout at the polls. >> bill o'reilly -- i have a lot of respect for bill o'reilly. tough guy, smart guy. >> their success over the past 20 years is almost intertwined, their friendship well-documented. they have gone to sporting events to go, been seen sipping milkshakes. since 2003 trump owe piered on the o'reilly factor more than 20 times by cnn's count. >> a good week for president trump. >> as the interview during this year's super bowl coverage showed, o'reilly didn't always fawn over trump. >> as the president, you say, for example, there are three million illegal aliens who voted and then you don't have the data to back it up, some people are going to say that's i

correspondents athena jones, rene march and brian todd join us. the roll back of obama-era epa regulations as one of his biggest achievements so far. these protesters clearly see it differently, brian. >> reporter: they certainly do, ana, they're very much against that rollback of the epa. they're concerned that the president is going to pull the united states out of the global climate change agreement. they're concerned with his executive orders about possibly drilling in protected areas and drilling off the coast of the united states. check this out, this is just a great shot here. this is a sit-in in front of the white house. they moments ago sat down and are going to be observing a moment of silence in a couple seconds here. we have people here, we told about this earlier, listen to this sound for just a second. this is planned. they were planning on pounding on their chests to signify the heartbeat of this environmental movement and i'll let you listen to it for a couple more seconds. so it's a sit-in. it is a heart-pounding choreographed mome

and as our brian todd explains, he may be gearing up for a literal cold war. >> reporter: on a frozen, windswept expanse in the arctic, vladimir putin's military ambition is on grand display. painted like a russian flag, it's called tre foil for its three-cornered structure. a sprawling new military base that can house 150 troops and warplanes. >> this is a lot about the projection of russia's status. russia's status is a great power, first and foremost. second, the fact that russia's an arctic power. >> reporter: in a massive military transport, the russian president visited the base. putin made a show of traversing a glacier and hammering at the ice. russian troops will be living under the harshest of conditions, 18-month deployments, where temperatures can dip well below zero. >> these are bases set up in perhaps some of the most inhospitable if not the most inhospitable places on earth. they're so cold that short of living on another planet with no oxyg oxygen, this is one of the most dangerous places to operate. >> reporter: russian forces pride themselves on operating in the mos

cnn's brian todd looked into le pen's ties to russia in a report that first aired on march 24th. >> reporterladimir putin's latest attempt to manipulate another country's levers of power. he meets in moscow with marine le pen, a woman who if she wins could turn a key u.s. ally upside down. she'd like to lift sanctions on russia and she makes another bold declaration. >> translator: it's the world of vladimir putin and donald trump in the united states. >> reporter: analysts say it's a stunning image for a western candidate to unabashedly embrace moscow at a time where in america, president trump's campaign is being investigated over whether aides coordinated with russian operatives. >> i think what's unusual is how much russia is now playing into our daily news cycle, our daily consciousness. russia is very much at the center of our attention and that's exactly where president putin would like to be. >> reporter: why is marine le pen a favorite french candidate of putin's? >> because le pen wants to break euro institutions. le pen wants to bring france out of nato, out of the euro, she wants

brian todd reporting. coming up, our breaking news, the pentagon reports major damages of syrian air base, president trump launched a missile strike in response to syria's chemical weapon attacks. ♪ ♪ >>> happening now breaking news attack of syria. administration officials warning president trump is prepared to do more at this hour. new details of the target and the impact. what happens next after the first direct u.s. assault on the syrian regime. message to assad after an attack of his own people of a long, bloody civil war. >> i will ask congresswoman who recently met with bashar al-assad in damascus. russia's role. the pentagon now investigating if the kremlin was complacent in the syrian chemical attack. moscow is fighting back and defending putin's ally bashar al-assad. on the outs at one o f the most crucial moments yet o

i want to bring in kayla who just arrived with a bus full of protestors and brian todd is at the starting from the many people who took the journey to come here to the nation's capital? >> reporter: well, fredricka, hundreds of buses are in the process of unloading right now outside of rfk stadium. as you see this flow of people behind me, they are making their way to the d.c. metro. next stop being the u.s. capitol where this march will begin. folks are making this trip from as far as kansas. even north dakota. i've seen a lot of people from the northeast in the process of this filing behind me. of the folks i was on the bus with coming out of harlem, one man summed up today to say it's an opportunity to show the world that people here can come together. the environment is one issue where gender, race and age don't matter. he warrants that message delivered to president trump as they try to explain to him make him understand how important they believe this issue is. >> brian, you have been talking to people at the march. what are they saying? >> reporter: they're very concerned about pre

brian todd reports. a stunning new look (tonight), at the public facade of the brutal north korean regime... kim jong un-- in newly- released video-- strutting center-stage at a gathering of his hand-picked elites, who dutifully applaud the dictator...on state t-v, a fawning news anchor narrates the gathering; the supreme people's assembly.at the same time kim jong un is conducting this show of political force, kim's regime is warning america-- over the deployment of the u-s aircraft carrier carl vinson and its strike-group to the waters off the korean peninsula.calling it an act of "aggression"-- a regime statement hand-delivered to cnnsays "if the u.s. dares to choose a military option... the d-p-r-k is willing and ready to react to any mode of war desired by the u.s." balbina hwang / georgetown university: "i think it's north korea essentially saying 'look, we are pursuing nuclear weapons for a reason. this is exactly why. you are the world's most powerful nuclear power. if you dare to strike us, we w

poconos stite police barracks in 2014 killing corporal brian dickson and injuring trooper alex douglass dispatcher told jurors that corporal dickson mouth todd her help me. prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. >>> u.n. security council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss a chemical weapons attack in syria. we want to warn you video you will see is graphic. this happened yesterday in the opposition held town of syria 's northern province. video of the victims showed some struggling to breathe, others convulsing and foaming at the mouth. fifty-eight people died including 11 children. world leaders, including president trump blame syrian government for the attack. >>> president trump holds a joint news conference with king abdullah the second and questions could come up about president's suggestion that the former national security advisor susan rice unmasked the names of the trump campaign associates for political purposes. here's hanna daniels. >> this is a seat stolen. >> reporter: democratic senator jeff merckly staged a marathon protest on the senate floor overnight, calling on republicans to delay the vote, on supreme court no

todd canterbury is my co-pilot here. is he doing the handiwork. >> she is doing fantastic job. briansigned up for the air force, in the training do we start doing this immediately. >> first you will start with one full year of pilot training and go through about six months of introduction training and then we will send to you this airplane and you will spend another 8 months learning how to fly this. ainsley: about a year and a half. >> year and a half of intense training. steve: before you are ever in the cockpit of a real airplane. >> no, you would be in the cockpit of a real airplane probably about a month after you started the fly f-35 similarity. brian: is this very similar to flying in do you guys actually train in this? >> absolutely. this is incredibly high fidelity similarity. brian: if i can do this, can i fly? janice: do you want to drive this? brian: i want to see a professional do it. you are making me dizzy. steve: janiceics hop out for a second. take a look at todd. >> how am i going to do this grace 234reu. there is no door. >> how much does something like this cost?

the city and county of san francisco, todd will vote the director of the san francisco office of economic and workforce development, cheryl nasher from sfo, brian-director of planning board of san francisco bob moser, commander sfpd, and peter--design principal at perkins eastman architects. based on the feedback we got from the market our reach as was the feedback we got from the payroll experts, we outlined four goals for private sector partnership for the management of transit center. the first goal was to operate a clean safe and well-maintained transit center the fitting a world-class transit facility. with the idea the selected part or would ensure high standards of operation and maintain maintenance the benefit of the transit center visitors and [inaudible] the second goal is to deliver a visionary program the reflects local caliber character and context. we selected partner would have to have an ambitious vision for retail digital and events program with within the transit center and would be experienced [inaudible] lead a team to execute the concept of death article was to ensure a high-quality user extends in this facility. we believe

the city and county of san francisco, todd will vote the director of the san francisco office of economic and workforce development, cheryl nasher from sfo, brian-director of planning board of san francisco bob moser, commander sfpd, and peter--design principal at perkins eastman architects. based on the feedback we got from the market our reach as was the feedback we got from the payroll experts, we outlined four goals for private sector partnership for the management of transit center. the first goal was to operate a clean safe and well-maintained transit center the fitting a world-class transit facility. with the idea the selected part or would ensure high standards of operation and maintain maintenance the benefit of the transit center visitors and [inaudible] the second goal is to deliver a visionary program the reflects local caliber character and context. we selected partner would have to have an ambitious vision for retail digital and events program with within the transit center and would be experienced [inaudible] lead a team to execute the concept of death article was to ensure a high-quality user extends in this facility. we believe

todd-frank. it just cuts out a lot of cost for banks that could then pass that on to consumers. brianlling back, also approving a law that the senate passed. what this does is level the playing field between internet service providers and the other big tell con companies. it's not popular with consumers and consumer groups, that's for sure. brian: huge impact being felt on the fight against isis. deploying troops. keep that number secret in syria over at iraq. evaluated what's going on in afghanistan. and we let the -- and we let the myrtle know that a lot of money is going to be flowing your way in terms of over $600 billion. >> yeah. that's right. president trump has been making very clear that he wants to increase defense spending. i would also point out that air strikes have been increasing but they have been increasing for the past couple of months. the obama administration did increase those air strikes. so they are going forward and trying to really take the 2350eu9d to isifight to isis. brian: without getting assad's permission which drove him crazy but occupy to his national

brian: is that weakness? steve: apparently this wasn't then but perhaps it is now because it's all about politics. look, i thought chuck toddhorse trading? okay, mr. president, the border wall is going to cost, what, 12, $20 billion? they don't know exactly how much. he only wants 1 billion. meanwhile he goes listen, you want to fund obamacare, you're going to have to do some horse trading. i will give you this if you give me that. look, the president has not gotten a honeymoon from the media, nor the democrats. they were squarely against him from day one. ainsley: no matter what he did. steve: into the surprising. ainsley: no matter what he did they are against it almost like they agreed to come together and have talking points no matter what he does be against it even though they are for it a few years ago. that's why the party is out of touch they are not listening to what the american people want. they just want compromise. steve: when he was running for president he said if i'm elected i will be able to work with the democrats along with the republicans. so far the democrats have not shown any willingness. and then hav