in los angeles, fred francis, a former nbc news senior correspondent now with the firm 15 seconds.com. >>> that said, they're not totally wrong. it is chaotic. people were floored, even mccarthy's biggest foes, members of the freedom caucus, so the fact that the media sees this as something crazy, wild and unprecedented makes sense, because in a little way, it sort of is. >> fred francis, great story, great political intrigue, we don't know who will run or be the speaker, but for the media to treat a beltway leadership fight as some kind of gop civil war? >> it's stunning to me that so many reporters covering this stories, hundreds of reporters. this is the best of times if you're a hill reporter, and then to miss it, to get waylaid by it? it was so startling, i saw one report grabbing someone from the gop, dana bash unfortunate cnn, coming out of a caucus, and she didn't know who the congressman was, that's how stunned people were, so this is a stunning development, it is political civil war, and i think it's just the first battle. >> i can count on the former pentagon correspondent

i have said i made a mistake. >> fred francis in los angeles when you think the media could be stretchingthe story comes the feds are seizing four computers at the state department as part of their investigation, three foreign countries tried to hack into her private e-mails and someone at the server company warns this seemed shady all fueling it is a big problem for the former first lady. >> it has been a problem for several months and it will be worse. compounded by the fact with the upcoming september 21 benghazi hearing where she will have to come in this with a flak jacket. she had a pretty good week. on the "today show," that was a one hour commercial, a big fat sloppy wet kiss for hillary clinton and with that and "saturday my live," she actually had a good week considering they are still incoming with the mail server. >> there were a lot of softball questions from the audience and no one else has got an townhall from nbc but now they say they will do donald trump next. at the same time, there was a question where the reporter said, what would be your reaction, hillary clinton, if

." >> in place of fred francis nbc sends correspondent don harris, cameraman bob brown, producer bob flick and sound man steve sung to san francisco to cover the story. >> we were at the san francisco airport in a room and it was don harris, bob brown -- you will never meet up with another man like jim jones. i'm telling you the truth. and you know, you -- i'm just saying -- >> are you ready for us to roll. we're going to go ahead and roll. i'm asking her. are you aware we're rolling? >> no. i just want to tell you right now. i'm telling you, you say there's a lot of this and you can't believe that. i'm telling you, you have never met up with a man like jim jones. in the middle of the interview i said i want you to know, there's a possibility you could get killed down there. the next thing i know is the cameras were shut down and they said we don't want to talk about that. and i said, okay, whatever. you know. >> five days later, congressman ryan heads off to guyana, with the nbc crew, his assistant jackie speier, print reporters time ryderman and charles krause, photographer greg ro

fred francis, nbc news, jonestown, guyana. >> and it was stunning. i was stunned. there can't be. can't be that many dead. >> and then the real numbers started to come out. 700, 800, 900 dead. >> i had reported on the air that there was some 400 dead and all of a sudden, there were 800, 900 dead. and i couldn't believe i made that kind of mistake. then the army colonel showed me where we made our mistake, that the bodies were five deep in the ravine behind the pavilion and we couldn't possibly have counted them. >> i mean it was just unbelievable. i mean here the world was looking at this group of americans who in the middle of guyana in a country no one had ever heard of before killing a congressman and taking cyanide because a congressman of the united states had come down there to see what was going on. it was just more than i think anyone could have ever imagined. >> it was ruled from the start by a very sick man. ♪ >> a sweet man on some level. an incredibly charismatic man. a man that could get inside your head in an instant and find out exactly what was most important to yo

fred, it's important to note that pope francis can do whatever he wants with this. now time to put together his own document. his only consultative and we'll see if he takes it further and leaves it as it is. we know he's a pope of surprises so we don't know where he may yet take this. >> under his direction, however, do you consider this, you know, quite the victory i suppose, that either has been his message conveyed, there has been sort of an acknowledgement or a willingness to discuss further evolution? >> you know, fred, it's a compromise victory, because the more liberal bishops would have wanted the document to actually say if someone is divorced and remarried without an annulment they can still receive communion and we'll work toward getting them fully regulated in the church. this document doesn't say that. it says an individual case-by-case, come to talk to your pastor or priest and see what your situation is, acknowledging that each situation is different. so note, though, the document from the synod does not communication communion at all. interestingly,