fred: hi. liu: fred? hi. fred: good to meet you. liu: nice to see you. fred: likewise. liu jianqiang is an investigative journalist. his first story about the environment was an exposÉ about illegal dam construction on the upper yangtze river. it made national headlines. his hard-hitting stories eventually got him fired, so he continued his work as the beijing editor of china dialogue, an online international journal. [liu speaking chinese] fred: but after 10 years of reporting, he was feeling burned out. [liu speaking chinese] translator: i think that our environmental activists and those who work for public welfare need more powerful spiritual support. why? every day what we do may be good deeds which give us positive energy, but meanwhile what we are facing is the darkest side of the world. every day what we see is polluted air, polluted rivers, and the slaughter of wild animals. this kind of negative energy attacks us all the time. we've been working on environmental protection for a long time, but the situation in china is getting worse every day. where do we draw

but fred said, ok, i will do it.here were two other japanese-americans led been picked up, later sent to the camps, who were unwilling to do this. they just wanted to get this over with. but fred said, no, i will do this. they held a trial. the interesting thing about the trial is that first of all, it lasted less than one day. there was only one witness against fred and that was the fbi agent who interrogated him after he was arrested. there were only two questions asked at the hearing. are you a japanese-american? which he obviously was. secondly, did you violate the exclusion order? which he obviously did. so, you're guilty. the judge actually in that case instructed the jury that they had to find fred guilty. his defense attorney tried to argue constitutional issues, the judge dismissed all of them. but one interesting thing, susan, is that after the judge declared that fred was guilty, the sentence he imposed was probation, which normally means that you are free to go about as long as you report monthly to a pro

is that true, fred? >> fred: i did. a really angry confrontation.-- i was in las vegas. >> seth: uh-huh. >> fred: and i was just, you know, walking around the casino, just trying to, you know -- i try to go to all of them. [ laughter ] you know what i mean? just try to hit every casino. >> seth: there's so many casinos in las vegas. >> fred: so many but -- >> seth: why do you try to go to all of them? >> fred: because it's one visit. you know what i mean? so i just went from -- and then he -- so i'm about to get on this tram, and then he comes up to me, he is like, "hey man, that's my tram." i'm like, "i don't care, i'll walk." so he's like, "sit down." i'm like, "all right, i'll sit down." "stand up." "why do you want me to --" "turn around." [ laughter ] "go in to the luxor." and i'm like, "that's like a mile away." he's like, "let's just go to the --" he started to become friendly. >> seth: oh my god. >> fred: so he wanted to go in to the luxor. >> seth: so this is really hot and cold. >> fred: hot and cold. hot and cold. finally i asked him like

>> fred: yes. >> seth: okay. >> fred: that's the hard part, we had to have one built upstate. [ light>> seth: you built a cathedral in upstate new york. >> fred: very expensive. >> seth: okay. >> fred: in the millions. [ light laughter ] >> seth: what's the name of the camp again? >> fred: freddie's little camp. [ light laughter ] >> seth: you know our first guest tonight from his role as jim halpert. [ cheers and applause ] on the hit series "the office," as well as such films as "it's complicated" and "13 hours." his new movie "detroit" is in theaters friday, let's take a look. >> and so you say that the man who took one of the victims into the room, that he was a national guardsman. so i presume you know that because he was wearing the uniform of the national guard? >> well, yes. i saw a guy in uniform take him back there. >> did you see anybody else go back into that room? >> no. >> would you have been able to see if anybody else went back in that room? at the time, wasn't your head turned back around by the police officers that were still standing there with you? >> yes. >> seth:

>> fred: yes. yes.to do some kind of a sequel or something, but the book ends there. and it's really beautiful. it ends with, "the end." >> seth: i think a lot of -- >> fred: it just killed me. >> seth: i think a lot of books end that way. >> fred: it kills me every time, just like -- >> seth: i don't think that's unique to that book. >> fred: the way they did it was like -- don't do this to me. [ laughter ] beautiful. >> seth: so it's a book about the history of fingerprints. what's it called, for those of us who want to buy it? >> fred: "the history of fingerprinting." "ing." [ laughter ] >> seth: okay. that's very helpful. give it up for fred armisen, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] our first guest tonight is an emmy-nominated and golden globe-winning actor you know from his work on the tv series "luther" and "the wire" as well as films such as "thor" and "beasts of no nation." his new movie, "the dark tower," will be in theaters this friday. let's take a look. [ growling ] >> jake! >> what are yo

give it up for fred, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] and it's so great to have fred here.een going on. you know, you're working on "portlandia", so you're all of the way across the country and then having you here is so great. i will say, sometimes when we're talking, i feel like you -- i don't know why after all of our years of friendship, you feel it's the case. you feel like you need to impress me, and i sometimes feel like you're saying things that might not be 100% true. [ light laughter ] >> fred: i don't think so. i don't think that's the case. >> seth: all right. well i overheard you saying backstage to people that, you know, it's the summer. there are a lot of barbecues. that you are having a uniquely themed barbecue this weekend that you're hosting. >> fred: that's exactly right. >> seth: so what is your barbecue theme? >> fred: it's a barbecue in the air. which means it's two helicopters i hired. [ laughter ] and so i'm doing one barbecue in the helicopter. that's just me and the pilot, and i'm cooking. my friends are in the other helicopter. >> seth: okay. [ la

fred? >> so, boris, on the flip side, a movement in congress to protect mueller in his investigation. what exactly is happening there? >> reporter: yes, fred. believe it or not, some bipartisan consensus when it comes to the russia investigation. a bill introduced that would limit the president's ability to fire robert mueller without just cause. here two of the senators sponsoring the bill, thom tillis and chris cooms. listen. >> i think we've already heard strong interest from colleagues on both sides of the aisle supporting this legislation. senators graham and booker also introduced a similar piece of legislation before we went out. >> senator tillis, have you seen anything in this investigation so suggesting robert mueller has a conflict? >> i haven't. i sit on the judiciary committee along with chris or senator cooms and have not seen any evidence to suggest that and that's why i want this investigation to just follow through to an expedient conclusion. >> now, fred, kellyanne conway

>> hey there, fred. that "new york times" reporting is that the special counsel led by rob mueller is looking into potential secret payments from turkey to michael flynn for his lobbying efforts in which he was lobbying against an opponent of the turkish president recep erdogan. from what we understand they have requested documents pertaining to michael flynn and questioned witnesses about flynn's relationship with turkey. this coincides with cnn's own reporting that the special counsel was looking into ties between the former national security adviser who is fired for apparently lying to the former -- or rather to the vice president, and that government. we've reached out to attorneys for michael flynn. they have declined to comment. we've reached out to the outside counsel of the white house. they have said they will not discuss any specifics of their communications between them and the special counsel except to say they are complying with all of their requests. we should point out, fred, back in the s

good afternoon, fred. yeah, "the new york times" is reporting that the rob mueller special counsel probe into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia is now zeroing in on these alleged secret payments between the turkish government and the former national security adviser michael flynn. from what we understand, flynn allegedly received payments from the turkish government in exchange for lobbying against a political opponent of the turkish president, resip erdogan. "the times" goes on to report that the special counsel has requested specific documents from the white house pertaining to flynn even going as far as to interview witnesses and question them about ties between the former national security adviser and the turkish government. this actualry coincides with some of cnn's own reporting about the focus of the investigation into michael flynn, zeroing in on his ties to that country. we of reached out the flynn's attorney. they have declined to comment. we've also reached out to the white hous

fred: organic things from the community. emily: give me some examples. fred: absolutely.ally interesting things about where we are in technology today is that technology companies are the most valuable companies in the world if you look at market cap. just whyu look at these companies are so valuable, it is because they have effectively built really big databases around strong networks they have. facebook has a big social network and you cannot take that network effect and pour it over here. you could say the same about other big networks like linkedin, twitter, or whatever it might be. represents a fundamental change there, where now, you don't need a middleman. much like you don't need a middleman to move your money, you don't need a middleman to own your data. do you see bitcoin as a way to disrupt big tech companies? fred: exactly. i think it will be disruptive as much if not even more than big banks. maybe that's what it's worth -- what is worth paying attention to. it means breaking the data technology -- data monopolies that they have. facebook has a big database o

but, again, fred, take a look around me. for the people who know houston, have been to houston, been, perhaps, to this spaghetti warehouse. i'm getting tweets about people that have eaten there. take a look at it now. it is literally in the middle of a raging river. unbelievable pictures here, fred, as we continue to cover this story, and also right now we just got a little lull in the rain. we've been getting pummeled in ebbs and flows throughout the day and we're expecting more rain. >> yes. our meteorologist tom sader says expect more rain until friday. rosa, we'll check back with you. this is a devastating and very dangerous and thus far has proven to be a deadly storm. cnn confirms two death reports saying upwards of five people were killed in what was hurricane harvey now tropical store harvey. the city is trying to send first responders across harris county but at the time can't gets to them because roads of rivers. harris county emergency committee mr. emmitt joins me on the phone. paint a picture for us how difficul

fred savage, who is our next guest, has done it. >> yes.006, you had a co-host. he was a very famous television star at the time. he's now president of the united states. >> yeah, yeah. >> seth: how -- i'm just curious, how was he as a co-host? >> you're welcome, everybody. [ laughter ] he was great as a co-host. you know what's crazy, he was talking about running for president then. >> seth: in -- yeah. >> then. and i remember actively having this conversation with him. i said -- he said, "everybody wants me to run for president." and i said, "who?" [ laughter ] and he was like, "you know, everybody, because i know -- you know i'm good with dealing -- all of my business dealings, i'm whyould you " want to do that? why would you want to give up your life, which is so good. you're not going to be able to go to florida any more." >> seth: yeah. >> you're not going to be able to golf every weekend. and i was wrong. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> like you can do that. >> seth: yeah. you were -- >> yeah. >> seth: in principle, you were right. >>

fred, they will not put an end to the missile or nuke programs. you know, in the past we had the luxury of ineffective resolutions, but now we don't. in about a year the north koreans will be able to reach us with a nuke. so one of three things will happen at that time. we're going to term it either kim jong-un can be deterred, initiate the use of force or kim jong-un could start a chain of events that could end up in history's next great war. we need a much greater sense of urgency, because these resolutions, as stringent as they are, are not going to change the calculus in pyongyang. >> the counselor to the president, kellyanne conway spoke out this morning and said this about the matter. >> a unanimous rebuke of north korea. the greatest economic sanctions package ever levered and will cost them about a billion dollars. even allies in the region like china, japan, south korea, all agrees with the united states that north korea and its nuclear capabilities must be stopped. >> so $1 billion in exports. what specifically are we talking about? >> w

>> reporter: hi, fred.mentioned, the president has just departed camp david expected to touch down here in the next 15 or 20 minutes. we've talked the past couple of days about the president saying he wants to visit texas in the words of one senior administration, as soon as possible. one concern being he doesn't want his visit, the footprint of his visit, the security necessary, to hamper any rescue or recovery or rebuilding efforts there on the ground. now we're learning from several sources familiar with the president's plans that he could visit the state as soon as tuesday. the location or locations he is likely to visit haven't yet been set, but we understand they may be leaning towards the city like san antonio. a city less hard hit. they want to avoid the hard-hit areas as i mentioned so they don't get in the way of any sort of rescue and recovery efforts, but the idea of making this visit very early on would be to show that texas has the support of the federal government. so we're still awaiting an

i knew about fred. fred and i talked. i said, how's the food down there, fred? >> at the white house you mean? >> what about leaking the private stuff? >> i missed fred. i think he was a decent, honorable human being. >> i'm going to jump ahead because we have a second half of -- this is going to be broken in half. how many of you think that if there had been no tapes that nixon would have lived out his term? all of you? >> what's -- >> if there weren't tapes, nixon would have been president until the end of his term. >> i agree with that. >> why do you think he didn't destroy the tapes? anybody have a theory? >> vanity. the man couldn't stand to think, "i'm going to destroy my beautiful, imperialistic words." that's simply an old greek wore, huberus. >> i wanted to do a book. >> i think to a large extent he thought the tapes were not going to harm him. that's what i understand. i can't remember where i got that idea from, and it is just like clinton inviting an investigation of whitewater. 99% or 97% is innocuous, but no one cares about that. so when you invite

fred? >> all right. diane gallagher, thank you so much. >>> all right as the protest in boston get under way. a vacationing president trump in bedminster, new jersey, continues to feel the backlash over his response to the deadly and violent clashes in charlottesville, virginia. a close ally to trump, newt gingrich, weighed in on the impact that the week has had on the president. >> i think he's in a position right now where he is much more isolated than he realizes. on the hill, his he has far more people willing to sit to one side and not help him right now. and i think that he needs to recognize that he's taken a good first step with bringing in the general kelly. but he needs to think about what has not worked. and you don't get down to the 35% range of approval and have people in your own party shooting at you and conclude that everything is going fine. >> so today the president is at his new jersey golf club with no event on schedule. let's go live to cnn white house correspondent athena jones who

fred is our -- fred is our computer. >> steve: yes. >> jimmy: that runs all this. >> steve: well that'sjimmy: no, that, no, that was -- that was -- that was -- that's fred. [ light laughter ] >> steve: family. >> jimmy: fred is like our -- our space -- >> steve: it's like hal. >> jimmy: hal, yeah, that's our fred, yeah. ♪ trump's new lawyer. and for letting me know what it would look like if david crosby's moustache took viagra. well, very interesting. >> steve: whoa! [ applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, pull strings on blinds. when i want the blinds to open or close, i'm always going to pull the wrong one. so thank you very much. [ laughter and applause ] we're down to our last "thank you" note. >> steve: oh. >> thank you, jimmy! >> jimmy: hey, thank you, sir. [ light laughter ] see, that's the type of love that we need. >> steve: that's the type of love you need. >> jimmy: where you sitting, buddy? where are you? [ cheers and applause ] ♪ woo! thank you, i appreciate it. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ light laughter ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, empty ice cube tray.

now, as of last check, fred, about 19,000 people are without power here in houston.ded with water right now. every now and then we get wind gusts that are also of course a concern, but the biggest concern by far as you can see behind and around me is the flooding, the swelling bayous that can swell very quickly and like you mentioned the flashflooding that is now happening all over the city according to the houston office of emergency management. fred. >> have you heard anything from officials about how they're able to get to people who are in greatest need? >> reporter: you know, city officials tell us that they have resources, strategically placed around the city, because, of course, they can predict some of the areas that historically flood here in houston. but with the weather you just never know. with mother nature, you never know. so they have high-water vehicles. they have boats. they of course have fire apparatus and emts working around the clock waiting. i actually was just texting with some of those folks who are waiting. this is actually a very stressful t

my condolences to fred's family. >> reporter: a bulldog named fred was killed after going rabid, andbiting his owner last month. >> very scary for his family, and now it's very scary for everyone else as well. >> reporter: fred stayed at dogma, a doggy daycare between july 14 through 17. the business said he had all of his paperwork at check in, including his rabies vaccine. >> he had no symptoms here. he didn't know symptoms until later, after >> reporter: the health department is working to figure out how the rabies was transmitted in the first place. but some believe it may be a manufacturing defect with the shot. >> there is some precautions that they need to take, just to make sure, and one of those is a quarantine. >> reporter: aside from keeping the pets separated, many of the dogs who may have come in contact with fred, also got booster shots. the bulldog family is also being checked out, but it's not clear how they're doing right now. >> they said as a measure of precaution, come and get a booster shot. so he's here getting a booster shot. >> reporter: while dogma's customer

. >> now in the communicator wes want to introduce you to fred hem fry, the vice president for government afared for the microsoft corporation. mr. humphrey, with that title, what your duty? i'm the ambassador for microsoft when it comes to public policy, innovation and technology. grew up on capitol hill and participated in community activities when it comes to talking about technology. >> what are some of the issues where microsoft was intersecting with public policy. >> guest: we are intersecting when it comes to artificial intelligence, when you think about those policy issues, and think about vehicles or research and development, high-skilled immigration, take note of different individual participating today and part of our microsoft research. a lot of them are high-skilled visa holders who are making a difference and making many contributions to not only the u.s. but to the world when it comes to innovation and technology. >> host: sounds like one of the new issues on the communicators is artificial intelligence, we have not talked about it much yet. where is the public policy. >> g

fred, would you like to kick off this round? well, on the last question, i think the reason that you need to have a pretty horse a labor provision in the renegotiated nafta is exactly what you said, make the whole agreement passable in the congress at the end of the day. i don't know how much those provisions were actually accomplish for the goals of the labor movement or american workers, but their strong insistence that a think from both sides of the aisle in the congress to put that in. i don't think this administration is particularly devoted to the topic themselves, but if they're going to get it through the congress to have to have entered so i think you're right to fly combat and i think the negotiating partners probably understand that as well. >> francisco. >> thank you. regarding the first question, i guess the political agenda, some whole influence in the process, i'm not certain that if really mexico is in hurry. i think that the mexican administration has a strong interest to conclude nafta 2.0 during this administr

fred pleitgen, cnn, quneitra, syria. >> so fortunate to have fred on the ground able to talk to peopleke. thanks for that, fred. >>> president trump calls the russia probe a total fabrication, but the second in command at the justice department says the investigation is expanding, and it won't be limited as the president hopes. >>> that, plus mike pence firing back at reports that he's readying for a white house run. we'll explain all that coming up. what if we could bring you better value by having better values? at blue apron, we work directly with more than a hundred family farms. so instead of spending on costly middlemen and supermarkets, we can invest in the things that matter most: making farmland healthier. cutting down on food waste. and bringing you higher quality, fresher ingredients for less than you pay at the store. because food is better when you start from scratch. get $30 off at blueapron.com/cook jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting... ...and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him