mayor david holt of oa oklahoma city and mayor passero of new london, connecticut. gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: the supreme court declines to hear the case of veterans claiming they were exposed to toxic smoke. we speak with a turkish n.b.a. player who refuses to travel to london, fearing that agents of president erdogan might be waiting for him. and a unique court in boston gives homeless people a second chance. the congressional freshman class of 2019 is the largest in m cades. with themes a change in party leadship, as well as nerational and demographic shifts. imngressional correspondent lisa desjardins spentwith two newly-elected members as they navigated their first n office, during the longest government shutdown in u.s. histy. >> desjardins: in a back hallway of a congressional office building, change has come, in a wave of people and hugs. former c.i.a. officer and democrat abigailnupanberger is s from becoming a new member of congress. desks and shelves inside are empty, computers not all set up.

to get a local perspective, i'm joined by two mayors, from oklahoma city, mayor david holt, and from new london, connecticut, mayor michael passero. gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. mayor holt, i'm going to turn to you first. oklahoma city population about what, 645,000. how is it being affected by this shut down? >> yeah, i mean we've got 6450,000 in our city proper. we've got 1.3 million in theo. me so we've got a lot of federal employees.bo of course eve knows the federal building in oklahoma city because of what happened in 1995. so yes, they are affected. we as a city government are affected. we havera transitts that are not getting paid. we care most i think about our citizens that are not getting paid and we're also, you know, worried just like every city where an airport is what's going happen with t the weeks plead and if that's going to impact traves. we have a unique thing or in oklahoma city we're the home of the training centers. all of the traffic controllers are trained and educated right here in ondklahoma city they've shut that school dow. 've got studes

david corn, as glenn said, some of this happened in plain sight, right? the conversation with lester holt. that weird meeting at the white house with the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states in which americans were not allowed in. that press conference in helsinki next to vladimir putin, which no one could understand. but some of it didn't happen in plain sight. like the trump tower meeting. like the idea that donald trump warned america that e-mails were going to be released and then suddenly e-mails were released. put this all in context for us. >> let's take it to the campaign itself. during the campaign, after it came out, it was publicly reported that russia was attacking the dnc and that it was clear that the hacked material was being released at the democratic convention and afterwards hurt the dnc, donald trump and paul manafort and donald trump jr. and others related to the campaign again and again reiterated, they repeated, they echoed the russian propaganda, the russian disinformation that they had nothing to do with this. this is where the r

holt. why can't he stop himself? >> i think, actually, as davidn said before, while he may be adapting a little more, he was not able to adapt to this position early on. he did not understand that you are not going to be sitting on the 26th floor at trump tower and if you have a problem with a municipality, if you have a problem with a city council, even have a problem with a state ag, that can be taken care of. that the fbi is an independent body. it's interesting, whether i like james comey or not, comey said he had never spoken to barack obama more than twice during his entire tenure. as presidents of the united states, you are supposed to leave the fbi alone. leet leave them alone, right. >> exactly. i want to play a little bit of the interview i did with congressman jim heinz that sits on the house intelligence committee last night and i have a quick question for you on the other side of that. >> do you trust donald trump with the national security of the united states? >> i absolutely do not. this president, of course, over the last two year

david, thank you very much. nobody knows the venezuelan government like our next guest. freed last may after nearly two years and with a country's most notorious prisons, american joshua holtmerican country to marry a venezuelan woman he met online. police accused of a couple of stockpiled and they were held without a trial for nearly two years after tense negotiations. they were finally free. they joined me now. joshua and tammy holtz. welcome to you guys. >> thank you so much. >> shannon: joshua, i know that tammy grew up in venezuela, i'm not sure if he wants >> or she will speak spanish. i want to hear from one or both of you or what it's like to see what's happening to her country now on the people, what they are risking. >> yeah, it's very, very difficult. every night, she's showing me different news articles, different things that she's hearing from families, friends, it's very difficult there. many people are dying. while we were there, the corruption is so great that you don't know what to do. you don't know what is the right way, you don't know if you are going to be safe, just like us, sleeping in your own room. >> shannon: and who can you trust. i remember sena

david mcnaughton, tomorrow night. please rsvp if you plan to attend. have a great conference. [ applause ] >> i want to thank mayor bowser. i would like to introduce our sponsor rachel holt. rachel leads uber's new modalities organization which includes jump and the ramp up and the onboarding of additional mobility services such as public transit integration, scooters, car rentals and bikes. she joined uber as a general manager of washington, d.c. growing the city into one of uber's largest and fastest growing markets at the time. she is ranked number 9 on fortune's 40 under 40 in 2016 and was named by fast company has one of the most creative people in business. please join me in welcoming rachel holt and thanking uber for sponsoring this lunch. >> thank you, mayor benjamin, for that kind introduction. on behalf of uber it's migrate pleasure to welcome all of you to the city i call home. it was also my pleasure to share this stage with mayor muriel bowser. as the first general manager of ub uber's washington, d.c. business i'm especially grateful to mayor bowser for her leadership in welcoming ride sharing to the d.c. metro area where we're proud to now provide flexible