david coates for ex david coates ample, moonlight would never have been a success unless it was a bigerica who really got behind it, and from that it created a snowball movement and a crescendo, and the appreciation of that film grew and grew. idris elba may be hotly tipped as the nextjames bond, but this is his directing debut, yardie. when i was a boy, my brother would always ask me, "which way you gonna go?" it premiered at this year's sundance film festival, and is the fictional story of a young jamaican‘s rise to the top in the drug—dealing london underworld. the original book sold purely on word of mouth, and the film probably needs the same championing from critics. it's a very nuanced world, and the language dictates a lot of the world. so i do think critics that can help other critics into an understanding of things is great. but that's not to say, though, that i can watch a movie that i've got no association with culturally and have some kind of embrace towards it. ultimately, film criticism suffers from the same problem as film direction — there are only a fewjobs at the to

and a coat david duke expressed his support for laura ingram's comments. vice president mike pence spoke at the pentagon thursday about president trump's idea to create a new military space force as the sixth branch of the u.s. armed forces. >> just as in the past when we created the air force, establishing the space force is no idea whose time has come. the space environment is fundamentally changed in the last generation. what was once peaceful and andntested is now crowded adversarial. today, other nations are seeking to disrupt our space bae systems and challenge american supremacy in space as never before. amy: vice preresident pence also called on congress to o allocate $8 billionon for military activities i in space ovover the next five years. president trump tweeted thursday -- "space force all the way!" in yemen, new details are emerging about the u.s.-backed saudi-led bombing massacre of school children in yemen's northern saada province thursday. the united nations says the airstrike hit a bus carrying children from a summer camp, killing and in

coat it. it's heartbreaking. >> david kirkpatrick. thank you. >> pleasure. >> now from the middle east to europe to asia. my next guests have covered it all. james and deborah fallows spent their married life chasing a world in constant motion. james a journalist and deborah a linguist. their careers enable them to dig deep and they tiurn their attention to hope in the united states. flying around in a single engine plane gathering information on fly over state. before the rise of donald trump. they spent five years collecting stories that we seldom hear. their new book, our towns. a 100,000 mile journey into the heart of america. they join me from one of their case studies. west virginia. to talk about what they learned. >> james and deborah fallows welcome to the program. >> thanks so much. >> you have made something like a 100,000 mile journey around the united states. deliberately avoiding the elite coast. and you have been in the what maybe called the fly over states. what made you do it? james i know you have been doing the flyi

outfront, john dean, former nixon white house counsel during watergate hearings, laura coates, and david gergen served as adviser to four presidents. david, you advised four presidents. the president cannot possibly believe nbc doctored that tape. why would he make such an outrageous claim? >> because he thinks he can get away with it. listen, what we have is a fundamental strategy of assaulting the truth and this is a very dangerous road. there's an interesting book out by a woman long associated with "new york times" on the assault on truth, and she points out based on work some 60 years ago that the two big toe tal taearin regimes, naziism and communism both were based, predicated on leaders destroying any sense and despoiling the truth, so people were wary, cynical, no longer knew what to believe. she makes the argument that it is the ideal person of totalitarian society, not a convicted nazi or convinced communist, ideal person to have as citizen was someone who no longer knew what the truth was. that's what the road to totalitarianism is. >> keep repeating the lies. >> yes. >> john

. >> secretary panetta, david just mentioned dan coats. last night the president said he had a great meeting with putin. the director of national intelligence, dan coats said yesterday that he is, quote, not in a position to either understand fully or talk what happened in helsinki. now either he knows and can't talk about it, but the idea that to even say he is not in position to understand what actually occurred behind closed doors is pretty stunning. >> well, you got director of national intelligence who obviously has no idea about what the president said to putin in that room. and i suspect that there isn't anybody in the administration, the national security team that really knows exactly what was said in that room. >> right. because when john bolton. he referred to john bolton right next, and then bolton quoted vladimir putin's statement, not something that the president himself had told him. >> yeah, i know. i think the russians have said things about what was agreed to in that room. but we have heard absolutely nothing from the pre

david: that was national intel director dan coats at yesterday's white house news conference.eat of russian meddling in elections. amid new reports of suspected russian spy after he worked as u.s. embassy in moscow more than a decade. we have former cia scott uhlinger. the fact that the russians never stopped spying, never stopped trying to upset our authority in terms of democracy in the united states since the soviet union. we have putin who is former kgb spy. all of our intel sources from coats to pompeo, to john bolton, they all knew that, there was impression media was spinning after helsinki with putin and trump that trump was a puppet in his administration knows exactly what the score is. >> certainly our policies are again directed for russia are much stronger than they were toward the obama period. it was important to have the press conference as a way of resting assured the american people as well as russia to put them under warning, we will not tolerate this. we must differ and defend against this type of message. david: i think the message was more to americans tha

homes, expensive cars, a $21,000 watch but here's the kicker, he has a $15,000 coat made from an ostrich. >> come on, david gregory has two of those. >> it's not a bad comparison if you've seen his shoes. but that's the kind of thing i assume that gets the jury's attention. >> and apparently they were captivated by the opening statements. the phrasing made from an ostrich -- >> and the judge said lavish spending is not a crime. >> the ultimate conclusion they were trying to say is listen this is somebody who is spending money so frivolously he never thought it was going to run out and if you think it's never going to run out you must have a hoard of cash. and they talk about the golden goose that was yanukovych, they talk about a cash spigot. all of this suggests to a jury looking at this saying hold on if you have this means, that must be reflected in your tax documents and if it's not, it'ser there in black-and-white or it's not. that's why this is a document-heavy case which is an easier case to prove than one about theoretical intent. >> but this is why this case is just so difficult to defend a case l

coates. political commentator and senior columnist at the daily beast, and david swerdlick. gates is scheduled to testify against him. what do you think the focus will be? >> i think the focus will be on what exactly paul manafort knew. a lot of this week has been on the sexier details of his wardrobe and spending, trying to make the jury believe there was never an end to the money. the golden goose and cash spigot they spoke about allowed him to elude uncle sam, unlike anyone else could do. now they're going to focus on in opening statement, the defense says no, this was rick gates. he is the person that knew. he duped his boss, betrayed him. the question is what exactly did manafort know, are you actually a scapegoatable person, did you betray him or were you somebody that was complicit and got a good plea offer. >> this is all an extension of the russia probe. damaging to hear the accountant spell out how she falsified earnings to pay less in taxes. reportedly that's not what most upset the president. instead, manafort's python and ostrich jackets are stealing the show th

david ignatius, let's walk through this just a lgt bittle . what we heard yesterday from dan coatselligence agencies came to in january 2007. they just are stating that it's continuing here in the 2018 elections. why would trump tell them to do that if he's going to undercut them a few hours later? >> what i've sensed since the helsinki summit is the senior officials of this administration are pushing back harder, are more willing to speak frankly in public, to the president. i've noted that from dan coats who, in his famous interview with andrea mitchell, he was stunned by what he didn't know, but he just told the truth question after question. secretary mattis. i was at a dinner where secretary mattis spoke in public. he is going to the federal pentagon. he's more open about what he sees and hears going on. we got that from secretary of state pompeo. kirstjen nielsen said very emphatically, our democracy is in the crosshairs. so they're using strong language to describe to the public what they see. then you have the president. it's almost like -- lawyers talk about jury nullifica

david gregory is back with us now, also joining us is cnn senior political analyst john avlon and also joined by laura coatslaura, let me start with you, can the president get involved and run the mueller investigation of which he is a subject? >> in a word, alisyn, no. he is the head of the executive branch but mueller operating under a special statute where he is account to believe the attorney general. i think if i had to trump splain this morning, he's head to decide who is the attorney general and the deputy attorney general, both of whom serve at his pleasure. if he wanted to be able to control the investigation, he could remove either of those people and assign somebody and point somebody there who may be somebody more willing to go along with his own narrative or his handling of the investigation. the direct authority belongs to robert mueller. it does not belong to president trump. >> leave that asaid you'll get hair on your hands if you decide to investigate. >> good morning. good morning. >> i'll make that joke again later. >> there's the legal argument here is beside the point and the president

coates and douglas brinkley. good evening. >> hey, don. >> i don't think i'm wrong, david. >> no, don, you're not wrong. look, today in the press briefing, white house press briefing room and on the air all day, trump surrogates and supporters ran this line down that, look, the dog insult toward omarosa was just par for the course, that he's an equal opportunity insulter, he said the same thing to mitt romney when he said he choked like a dog, he said that this is just the president counterpunching -- here's the problem. we've reached a point -- we reached this point a long time ago, but especially now that we're a year and a half into his presidency, the president, because of all of his statements about women and people of color, he's no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt. you had him talk about megyn kelly, rosie o'donnell, you had him talk about katrina perry from the irish network rte. you had him talk about representative frederica wilson, starting a fight with her. calling m ining maxine waters l. he came after lebron james. he came after you, don. all of these comments suggest that he re

coating with the special counsel in this case. but he is also key to other matters the special counsel is investigating? >> reporter: yeah, david. he is the highest ranking campaign aid to cooperate with robert mueller. he was a lead organizer of the president's inauguration. he was here today to testify against his old friend, paul manafort, with all of his insider knowledge, he will no doubt be a key source of information in robert mueller's russia investigation. he is back on the stand right here again tomorrow. david? >> scecilia, thank you. >>> the other major headline involving the president tonight. the meeting at trump tower with russians, the president now tweeting the meeting was about getting dirt on hillary clinton. the president's son, donald trump jr., was at that meeting. the president's aides once acknowledged the president he helped his son explain the meeting months later. the president has argued getting opposition research on your opponent is perfectly legal, but this would have involved a foreign adversary, potentially helping in a u.s. election. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl on

in 1982 david chambers asked 4800 elementary school students to draw a picture of the scientists. in each case the scientists wore white lab coatd hair, through thick dark rimmed glasses and was male. this is more than 30 years ago i'd like to think that they didn't draw only males before but that was true then.if you google the term scientist this is often the image that you see. where does this come from? there's an author named christopher framing Ãbhe argues that it comes from the world's most famous scientist, albert einstein, a symbol of genius. although they were many other famous scientist he's universal popular. he argues that the white lab coat is a symbol of neutrality, cleanliness and separation from the rest of the world. and standards usually mail a professionalism. that the coke bottle glasses were often an outward and visible signs that scientists were saved, a shortsightedness that cut him or her off from the mainstream. i think most of all this in the worst case the scientist is seen as someone who creates monsters, either literally like frankenstein are figurative like genetically modified organisms.these ima

the government as dan coats said, the government is the one in russia that is doing this against our country. then maybe we have got ratchet it up. all right, guy benson and david goodfriend thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: a fox news alert. pentagon set to holding a briefing at the top of the hour on how it plans to identify 55 sets of remains believed to be those of american soldiers killed in the korean war. vice president pence was in hawaii for a ceremony marking the return of those remains by north korea to american soil. >> to see those 55 flagged draped cases be carried so solemnly and not just as a vice president but as the son of a combat veteran, from the korean war, it was deeply moving for me. but it's what great nations do. >> dana: i'm joined now by lieutenant colonel michael waltz green beret commander and running for congress as a republican in the florida's sixth district. i wanted to ask you what is it like for families who have their loved ones who have their families and never come home and never get that closure that they so desperately want? >> yeah, dana, when we go into combat, there is a solemn oath with our brothers and sisters that,

david ignatius, the intel community has proven itself time and time again to put america first. you look what donald trump's own appointees are saying, dan coats is saying, the director of national intelligence and also what people like bob gates have been saying and people like general hayden have been saying. general hayden touched on it several months ago that it's not a coincidence that donald trump is attacking the intel community, that he's attacking journalists, that he's attacking people in academia, that he's attacking science. he attacks fact-based operations. people who make their living and who live to gather facts and to put together the reality and of course the intel community has facts about not only the last campaign but about vladimir putin that drive donald trump obviously crazy. he has his war on facts and he has his war on the intel community. >> joe, these are people who pride themselves on being the ultimate, sometimes the last professionals in government. the people who insist on speaking truth no matter what, who will tell presidents the vietnam war isn't going well, sir. who will tell presidents the afghanistan war is