george h thomas. we talk about him because he is the rock of this battle. >> he is an interesting guy. the rock of chickamauga. he is interesting in a couple of ways. he is a virginian by earth, he stays loyal to the union. that also creates a certain amount of suspicion to those who are willing to be suspicious that his heart is made up fully in it. atsaves the union army chickamauga. when everybody else was fleeing, he holds firm, it is his stand that allows the rest of the army to get away and fortify themselves in chattanooga. if it was not for that stand, they would have fled to chicago. that's was very much to his credit. he was loyal to rosecrans. he dubbed the way rosecrans was cast aside and grant coming in was disgraceful. when grant arrived, leg wounded, cold, he comes into the headquarters and because he is temporarily in command and he is -- and thomas is kind of abrupt. he does not say general you need a blanket. none of that. right away there was a tension that emerged between the two o

i'm a big fan of george thomas. i think that only was he very almost and dan take in terms of ourpedantic, but he had a duel demeanor. he was not a general that soldiers through their hats for. mcclellan was, but he had something about his personality that led soldiers to cheer for him and thomas did not have that. >> as much as he was restrained in his emotions or whatever because of virginia and antecedents, he had loyalty coming out of virginia. >> thank you again, gentlemen. i have a rather simplistic question about general grant. what was there about him that he could get it done? >> how could grant get it done? >> that is an excellent question because when most people met grant who had not met him before, this is the guy that is done all these things? lincoln certainly never met him before. the thing about grant, i think more than anything else that made him a success was he was not flashy. rowdiers did not th hats in the air for him either, but he was an incredibly determined individual. one of my favorite st

fromne obvious example, time to time people complain george washington, thomas jefferson condoned slaverythere for centuries before george washington and thomas jefferson were ever born. neither of them thought the office of the presidency had any power to do anything about it. lincoln was able to do something about it because he did so not simply as president but as the commander in chief in a war. what he did apply only to people who were in rebellion against the united states. there was no basis otherwise. ofyou can't think in terms the things confronting the people who made the decisions, nothing is easier than to sit there today and say this should have been done, that should have been done. that is not taking the past as it was. it is the seeing the past as if is just the present taking place at an earlier time and that is not the case. brian: when yale university took the name john calhoun off of one of their buildings, what was your reaction? thomas: oh my gosh. by this time, i had given up all hope for the academic world. practically nothing surprises me anymore. if we are again

to give one example, from time to time, people complain, you know, that george washington, thomas jeffersoncondoned slavery. slavery was there for centuries before george washington and thomas jefferson was born and many people thought the office of the presidency had any power to do something about it. lincoln was able to do something about it. he did so not only as president but as commander in chief in a war and did it in war to people who were in rebellion against the united states. if you can't think in terms of the things confronting people who made decisions, nothing easier than this in a day to say oh, this should have been done, that should have have been done and that's not taking the past as it was. it's treating the past as if it's just a present, taking place in earlier times, and that is not the case. mr. lamb: when yale university took the name john calhoun off one of their buildings, what was your reaction? mr. sowell: oh, my gosh, by this time, i had given up all hope for the academic world, and so practically nothing surprised me anymore. if we're going to, again, look ret

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after george h. thomas destroyed john bell hood and his army of tennessee at nashville in december, 1864, there is no confederate general left to attle sherman except for joseph e. johnson. so johnston takes over what is left of the confederate army in the carolinas, and he gives sherman, as we heard, a momentary scare at bentonville. hen he had to fall back before the surging yankees. well, sherman felt that he had done the right thing. he believed that his destructive war was a more direct way to get to the desired end of ending this civil war, defeating the confederacy, restoring the union. he certainly did not want to get back into the meat grinder of war. but what's going to happen now? he's in carolina. joe johnston is back again. well, craig's already told us. sherman receives a letter from joe johnston requesting a meating between the two of them. nd just before he leaves for that -- getting ready to leave for that meeting, is sherman, a subordinate hands him a telegraph that is just arrived from wa

george w. bush. >> mike thomas, tell us the warmth is coming this weekend. >> it is coming and it will be comingt in time for the weekend. we have to get through today and then early tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon things will be on the improvement but the warmth will come with clouds and maybe some shower chances as well. we'll talk more about the this evening about 10 minutes. let's start with today. satellite and radar very clear to start the day. stars are bright and beautiful as is the moon early this morning. bad news with all the clear skies and the calm winds is that temperatures have been able to drop overnight. we're down to the freezing mark here in d.c. at 32 degrees. up towards gaithersburg 25. 23 towards frederick. 25 in westminster. down south of to fredericksburg. heavier coats this morning. back to that winter like feel. only 37 trees by 11 o'clock today but lots and lots of sunshine, up to 45 by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. a few clouds later on this evening as you head home from work. 48 degrees but all in all, not a terrible day. we have some warmer weather on the way.

economics and economic policy these little children's books about presidents like me to thomas jefferson, george washington and ben franklin and i would read them over and over i would be off to the side and reading the books i went to my parents one night and said i agree i enjoyable at school i an notwh participating possibly parents we to the teacher in she said niobe are thrilled please have him continue so it was probably signaling something ahead so for college and went to university of texas but not for any good reason ridges because that seem like the most interesting major at the time i cannot say i learned a whole lot i think most kids that is generally what they do as their focus is elsewhere. after college and working in sales and went to printer built to get my mba. was o while there i decided that any to get into equities like everyone else and it took a job at goldman sachs. and that is where my future career took shape while other people were on the trading floor passionate about equities, i was look around to watch cnbc and my focus is on the economistought a talking about the e

slavery was there for centuries george washington and thomas jefferson was born and many people thought the office presidency had any power to do something about it. lincoln was able to do something it. he did so not only as president but as commander in and did it in war rebellion ho were in against the united states. terms of 't think in the things confronting people who made decisions, nothing this in a day to say oh, this should have been done, hat should have have been done and that's not taking the past as it was. it's treating the past as if present, taking place in earlier times, and that is not the case. when yale university ook the name john calhoun off one of their buildings, what was your reaction? my gosh, by this time, i had given up all hope or the academic world, and so practically nothing surprised me anymore. again, look g to, retrospectively, whatever reason it name was put on there, was there and i don't know anything that has happened since any that's made calhoun better or worse than he was when that decision was made. go back, going to first, you're so desperate f

there were the little children's books in grade school about presidents called meet thomas jefferson meet george washington i would be off to the side in class reading these books i went to my parents one night and i said i think i'm in trouble at school i'm not participating in the other things so my parents went to the teacher we are thrilled that he's interested in these books. it was probably signaled something ahead. for college i went to the university of texas and majored in political science but not for any good reason. i just seemed like the most interesting major at the time. i can't say i learned a whole lot one way or the other. after college i worked in sales for four years and then went to vanderbilt school of graduate to get my mba. while i was there i decided to go the normal route. i thought okay i will get into equities just like everybody else and i took a job at goldman sachs. that is where what began as were my future career took shape while other people were on the trading floor passionate about equities i would look around and watch cnbc on the different screens. my focus

to be the type of the gay post your picture to george us amina's. >> mike thomas wrap this hour up with good news. >> unfortunately i cannot do that wisdom. mild air in place is vacanting chilly air moving in ill chilly temperatures the next couple days 40s and lower 50s during the afternoon hours. be prepared for that at the bus stop. lots of sunshine. after school, only 40 to 52 and rather wendy today. take that into account. "fox5" accuweather 7-day forecast a couple days of winter like chill and then we start going right back up. friday may be a few showers and 60 and yes 75 awaits on saturday. that's the warm. erin como is back for a check of traffic. >> 5:56 now we don't have crashes to report which is good news. we have congestion picking up as usual, 66 eastbound by sutly centerville and ten minute delay with heavier volume. tom side of beltway queue heet and starting to see things pick up past new hampshire outer loop. any questions fox d.c. on twitter. snrvr straight ahead at 6 concerned permanent speaking out with frustrated officials this comes after a week after a tem age g

george county opening 11 a.m. and montgomery country government is closed. >> michael thomas. what's >> i'm hearing prince george county county schools are closed in my ear and calvert county double check with me but two hour lay it for calvert county they're telling me. there with he go. prince george county county schools closed and 3 out in d.c. right now. it's looking looking winter wonder loond in the background more messy. we have sleet, snow mixing in here and there and winds gusting north 20 to 18 and here in washington temperatures matter often north and west gaithersburg 7 and frederick 8 and west min ter 27 and a this is where it is snowing more and b if it sleet a bit once you hit the surface you can get freezing issues when temperatures tip down to mid 20s you can get icing issues. we'll watch those south leonardtown 32. warm air above your head it's coming down rain through it looks like they're starting to see mixing issues through prince george county. even an arepublican dull county there and pink, purple. big mix around the met rope and out towards leesburg bo

george. >> okay, pierre thomas, thanks very much. >>> for more now on how the trump administration isnding to all of in this morning, let's go to our senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: amy, good morning to you. strong pushback from the white house this morning. they are calling this a political attack on them this, of course, comes as the trump administration is still riding very high following that joint session speech and the glowing reviews, but this is not the story line that they were hoping to wake up to this morning, more questions about contacts with russia. this is the statement that they sent overnight as the story broke. take a look. this is the latest attack against the trump administration by partisan democrats. attorney general sessions met with the ambassador in an official capacity. now, it was just a couple of weeks ago right here at the white house that the president himself said that nobody i know of, amy, had contacts with the russians leading up to the election. >> and, yet, cecilia, we are learning this morning that

>> c-span's program on sitting supreme court justices continues with clarence thomas, nominated in 1991 by president george h.w. bush. justice thomas won confirmation by a narrow margin following hearings that included allegations of sexual harassment by a former colleague, anita hill. justice thomas replaced thurgood marshall on the court. he previously served for less than two years on the district of columbia circuit court of appeals, and before that as head of the equal employment opportunity commission. at his confirmation hearing, justice thomas was introduced by missouri republican senator john danforth. senator danforth: just as clarence thomas will not impinge on his independence by seeking commitments on how he will decide cases before the court so he will never become a sure vote for any group of justices on the court. for two months, i have noted with wonder the certainty of various interest groups as they have predicted how the nominee would vote on an array of issues. they don't know clarence thomas. i do. i cannot predict how he would vote on any issue. he's his own person. that is my first

prince william and duchess kate made a surprising choice where prince george will go to school. thomas's's top private schools. it's a break from tradition. many thought he would attend an all-boys' school like dad and grandpa. but this way, charlotte can eventually join him in school. the school's motto is be kind. pretty good lesson to teach the future king. >>> and finally, time to start filling up those easter baskets. for anyone making one for me, i'm putting in my request now. reese's new peanut butter cream egg. it's like a reese's peanut butter cup and a cadbury cream egg had a baby. these are egg-stra good. if you know what i'm saying. egg-stra. >> that's my complaint. there's never enough peanut butter. that's so much peanut butter in there. >> that's protein. so this is healthy, right? >> keep telling yourself that rob. >> people are like, the peanut butter eggs. i know those. no. these are new. 3-d, legit, huge peanut butter eggs. >> they're really good. >> dan's actually eating them. >> as rob said, superhealthy. >> they're available at walmart. >> there's milk. peanut butte

duchess of cambridge have announced that prince george will start at a private school in september in south—west london. he will become a pupil at thomas george were they happy and successful start to his education. the headmaster said he was greatly looking forward to welcoming the soon—to—be four—year—old prince in september. and now to another couple of four—year—olds. this time, a set of twins from london, who have helped to save their mother's life. when she collapsed at their home, one of them managed to get into her mobile phone and call the emergency services. duncan kennedy has been speaking to the twins and their mum when it comes to ingenuity, this boisterous pair don't do things by halves. four—year—old twins roman and samuel sharma saw their mum, claudia, faint onto the floor. but what did they do? panic? cry? oh, no... first, samuel picked up his mum's hand to place her thumb on her iphone to unlock it. and then, they did this... hey, siri, call daddy. they used siri, the phone's voice—recognition system, to call not dad, but 999... the boys knew about siri by watching their mum and dad. isaid, "siri, 999." and what happe

of cambridge have announced that their son prince george will start at a private school in september in south west london. he'll become a pupil at thomas'ssuccessful start to his education". the headmaster said he was greatly looking forward to welcoming the prince in september. ed sheeran, kylie minogue, eddie redmayne, simon cowell, just some of the celebrities taking part in this year's comic relief. and there's a mini—sequel to the film, love actually, which will premiere on bbc one tonight. lizo mzimba's live at the 02. yes, this is the stage where some of the biggest names in comedy will be stepping out very soon. since it began, comic relief has raised more than £1 billion for people in need here in the uk and overseas. when tonight's money raising efforts kick off injust over tonight's money raising efforts kick off in just over half an hour, tonight's money raising efforts kick off injust over half an hour, one off injust over half an hour, one of the highlights will almost certainly be the on—screen reunion of some very familiar characters from a very special movie. # some things that happen for the first time...# 14 years on f

. >> kensington palace said privilege george will attend a private prep school in the fall. he will attend thomasprep school. the palace says the royal couple is delighted to have found a school where they are confident george will have a happy and successful start to his education. it's a private school with more than 500 children ages 4-13. george will be four in july. >>> still ahead on nbc 10 news at 5:00, wawa comes to town. the price war creating quite the stir in one state. also ahead at 5:30, a youth hockey coach now behind bars. tonight, why police in delaware, new jersey, and pennsylvania want to talk to him. >>> i'm lauren mayk for nbc 10 at issue. why it matters if russia meddles in the u.s. this weekend find out why a local expert says it's like nothing he's seen before. >> it's a brazen attack on our system. >> work has begun on a pipeline pumping gas liquids through neighborhoods in our area. we'll discuss both sides, sunday morning after "meet the press." >>> the jersey is back. >> the fbi delivered tom brady's stolen super bowl jersey last night. of course, as you can see here th

george is already ready for school. the duke and duchess of cambridge has selected thomas' battersea prep school, a school that places emphasis on kindness. the little prince will turn four in july. >>> when we come back, the incredible story of a retired marine, overcoming a tragedy to realize his dream. "inspiring america" is next. ==ss/ke ve= >>> finally tonight, the retired marine making history in his community. overcoming the odds after suffering major injuries on the battlefield, to take on a new mission to protect and serve. nbc's kristen dahlgren has his story in our inspiring america report. >> for mattias ferreira, becoming a police officer is a dream come true. >> since i was little i was always out playing cops and robbers. >> reporter: he was always one of the good guys. after 9/11 the immigrant became a u.s. citizen so he could join the marines. it was in afghanistan that all of his dreams almost ended. >> i landed on a 30-pound ied, which amputated my legs below the knees. >> reporter: he lost his legs but never his spirit. >> before you know it it was a year later and i was running a half-marathon. >> reporte

. >> the program and sitting supreme court justices continues with clarence thomas nominated 1991 by president george h. w. bush bush, he won confirmation by a narrow margin following hearings that included allegations of sexual harassment by a former colleague in need of hill. justice thomas replaced thurgood marshall of the court and previously served for less than two years on the d.c. court of appeals and before that as the opportunity employment commission for credits confirmation hearing he was introduced by representative republican senator from missouri. >> i have no doubt would never to give the committee this assurance that justice clarence thomas will resist any effort to have to impinge on his independence to seek commitments have to decide cases before the court, so he will never become a sure vote for any group of justices on the court. for two months have noted with wonder the certainty of interest groups as they have predicted how the nominee would vote on the array of issues. did not know clarence thomas i do. i cannot predict how he would vote on any issue. he is his own person and

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we'll see, george. >> we will see about that. pierre thomasanks very much. >> devastating winds across the midwest and northeast topping 80 miles an hour here in new york. and abc's alex perez is in chicago where those gusts blew out skyscraper windows. good morning, alex. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. the wind was no joke picking up a piece of outdoor furniture and slamming it across the street and shattering that window up there. overnight vicious winds wreaking havoc across the nation. in michigan gusts up to 68 miles per hour. >> it's scary to think winds are that strong. it can lift a carport up. >> reporter: the ntsb investigating after this plane carrying the university of michigan men's basketball team slid off the runway after trying to take off in high winds. >> we have a few people banged up a little bit but other than that everybody is healthy. >> reporter: brutal winds ripping off school roofs. in detroit alone, more than 800,000 homes without power. five dying in this apartment complex. the powerful winds fueling the fla

completely contrary to the design of the founders, many of them virginians like thomas jefferson and james madison and george may season who wanned the state courts to be the central arena for the resolution of civil conflict in tort disputes. simply put, h.r. 725 tramples state sovereignty and our basic constitutional structure. for these reasons and for the fact that nobody has demonstrated there's a real problem, i urge the house to resist this unnecessary and flawed legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to fill in for mr. goodlatte. the chair: without objection the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you so much. since this bill was marked up in the last congress, the very same plausibility standards used in this bill was adopted by the federal circuit court of appeals in which fraudulent joinder cases arise with the greatest frequency. mr. farenthold: last congress, ranking member conyers said of the bill, it should pick one of the stan tcheefereds joinder standard

george. >> we will see about that. pierre thomasanks very much. >>> devastating wind as cross the midwest and northeast topping 80 miles an hour here in new york. and abc's alex perez is in chicago where those gusts blew out skyscraper windows. good morning, alex. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. the wind was no joke picking up a piece of outdoor furniture and slamming it across the street and slamming that window. vicious winds wreaking havoc across the nation. in michigan gusts up to 68 miles per hour. >> it's scary to think winds are that strong. >> reporter: the ntsb investigating after this plane carrying the university of michigan men's basketball team slid off theto take off in high. >> we have up a little bit butffth school . in detroit we powerful winds wi tractor trailers aos o york, gusts blowing up 130,000 customers power knockin th rails. and here in chic o glass flying f skyscraper. andonditions big suvs and being pushed or flipped over bf >> makes a lot plains they are dozens tear through the region. good mornin

thomas beckett. i remember being on their plane was george w. bush and i said to him it i was going to do this and this. it wasn't illegal. he grunted and moaned. i took that to mean okay, that is what he wants me to do. it turned out afterwards he was happy but i thought back on it many times. he never said yes, that's it, that's what i want you to do. so heads of networks, heads of bookstores, heads of magazines, mafia leaders on the street, presidents of the united states, they don't direct to come i want you to bug donald trump's artment. but you quickly figure o wha they want. a lot of times there silent and they tell you what they want. >> there's also this notion of a possible reliability where you don't want the president to know certain things so the president wants to have a way of denying that he ever knew about it. you don't open your mouth in front of him. an example was a good one. there is also this whole fisa, the foreign intelligent court system which operates independent of the president's orders. so that could happen to. i sus

one rid me of this medicine priest and they raised up and said, richard thomas beckett, i remember being on an airplane with george w. bush. >> where i said to him i'm going to do this, this, this what i was going to do. it wasn't illegal and he kind of grunted and moaned. and i took that to mean okay, that's what he wants me to do and i did and it turned out afterwards he was happy, that's what he wanted me to do but i thought back many times he never said yes, that's what i want you to do so heads of network, heads of magazines, of mafia leaders on the street, presidents of the united states, they don't directly want you to bog donald trump apartment but you quickly figure out what they want. >> and their tell you what they want. >> there's also this notion of plausible deniability, i remember that phrase from nixon. you don't want the president to know certain things but the president wants to have a way of denying that he ever knew about it but. >> you don't open your mouth in front of me. >> your example is a good one but there is also this whole foreign intelligence court system which operates independent of

day surrounded by portraits of people who built this country, like george washington who is right over there. we've got portraits of thomas jefferson, we've got portrait os frederick douglass, we've got portraits of abraham lincoln who actually served in this body, and when he was here, spent a lot of time railing about a war hat was concocted with lies by president jaymes polk, the mexican war. but lincoln knew how delicate and precious an precarious and enterprise democracy is. in the gettysburg address he posed this equestion how long the government of the people, by the people and for the people can last? will it perish from the earth? he put the question to the people because he said it's up to us. democracy is a rarity in human history. democracy is not the norm. that's why america is amy rack louse experiment on earth. if you don't do anything, you're going to end up with dictators fing spots and kleptocrat kheptocrats rom -- who steal from their own people. the first three words of our constitution are we the people we flipped the whole design. before that, the whole theory was that the king had the power and the

celtics hosting the pacers, paul george with a nice fake gives indiana the early lead. he ends up with 37 points. third quarter thomasbble, recovers it and hits the 3. celtics up 11. fourth quarter, finding brown. there you have it. boston wins 109 to 100. one game behind cleveland for the first in the east. russell westbrook chasing oscar robinson for more trimle doubles in the season. thunder playing 76ers and this time westbrook did not miss a shot. he runs right pass the 76ers defense for the nice driving lay-up. 16 points at the half. we go to third quarter, sweep behind the pass. later westbrook gets the rebound. gibson for the dunk, 18 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds for westbrook. perfect triple double as he goes 6 for 6 on the field. 122 to 97. to baseball now, team usa and puerto rico both looking for their first world baseball classic title. top third, no score, ian kins kinsler. u.s. takes a 2-0 lead. rbi single to right. kinsler comes in to score. 3-0 united states. the bottom of the 7. Ángel pagon. first hit from puerto rico. trying to pump up the team. that was the end of the night for u.s. pitcher.

but mike thomas, hi, mike, i know you've been up for 36 hours, i want you to go to go to sleep. you might be seeing a little bit towards prince george's county. it's light. this stuff will not stick this evening, down towards waldorf, there's a mix of rain and snow and maybe even spotsylvania. that's it's beginning. you can see that moisture is two-part system. part coming from the midwest is eventually going to help to develop a new storm off the coast. it will be the nor'easter. and that thing will be a big storm. but we are going to see parts of our area getting nothing but rain to parts of our area seeing ten, 12 inches of snow, light snow and rain has been arriving from south to north. we'll continue to see that fill in. i'm not expecting problems this evening and the road crews just killed it. everybody is having a lot of notice and people will get home on time. one thing that is another big headline. every single time we run another model run, we're seeing this rain snow line cutting down some accumulations. so especially along the 95 corridor and pushing now into parts of montgomery county. and that means it's going to be toug

thomas back to you. >> two of the former aids will be sentenced today for their roles in the george washington bridge scandal. >> could face to up 46 months behind bars, let's get right taught to steve keeley at the federal courthouse in newark with the story, me? >> well, after all of the years, it all comes down to this. if you are wondering whethe or not the old bridgegate case still makes big news around the area look at the coverage on all of the corners of the courthouse here in newark, five hours before the sentencing even starts case long detoured, governor christie career, too as polls show voters think he should be among those getting sentencedment strange coincidence, not at this courthouse but at the white house morning two former top appointees face judge and try to plead to stay out of prison. the president's naming christie to lead national, to somehow do something to slow heroin and opiat pill abuse, so as bill and bridget kelly wonder what their next jobs are in prison, laundry or jen tore work or whether they'll also be lucky as christie's long friends and another appointees, david samson,

george h.w. bush nominated judge clarence thomas as associate justice of the united states supreme court. the debate was bitter. the senate confirmed judge thomas narrowly, 52-48. although the senate rules allowed any senator to cause a filibuster of a nomination and filibuster it to death, none did. in fact, senate rules have always allowed senators the option to filibuster to death a presidential nomination, yet it has almost never happened. according to the former senate historian, with one possible exception, which i will mention in a minute, the number of supreme court justices in our country's history who have been denied their seat by filibuster is zero. the number of cabinet members in our country's history who have been denied their seats by a filibuster is zero. the number of federal district judges in our country's history who have been denied their seats by filibuster is zero. and until 2003, the number of federal circuit judges who have been denied their seats by filibuster was zero. senator everett dirksen did not filibuster president johnson's appointments, president -- sen

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asked during his confirmation hearing and pierre thomas tracking this breaking story from washington. good morning pierre. >> reporter: good morning, george right. some democrats are calling on sessions to resign after reports that he met with the russian ambassador before the election and did not tell congress during his confirmation hearings. this morning, the attorney general under fire over this exchange with senator al franken regarding allegations of russian ties to trump associates. >> if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that spain and i didn't have -- did not have communications with the russians. and i'm unable to comment on it. >> reporter: but sessions according to his own records met with russia's ambassador to the united states twice during the 2016 presidential election season once in his senate office in september and once following an event with the heritage foundation in july. justice de

but mike thomas, hi, mike, i know you've been up for 36 hours, i want you to go to go to sleep. you might be seeing a little bit towards prince george'sff will not stick this evening, down towards waldorf, there's a mix of rain and snow and maybe even spotsylvania. that's it's beginning. you can see that moisture is two-part system. part coming from the midwest is eventually going to help to develop a new storm off the coast. it will be the nor'easter. and that thing will be a big

george w. bush administrations did replace u.s. attorneys but did so gradually. but in 1993, the justice department demanded the resignation of all of them shortly after bill clinton took office, thomash. a wild wake-up call for a lot of folks that thought they were staying on board. pete, thank you. >>> many of the nation's health organizations are opposing the republican plan to replace pam care. what they don't like about it and what it means for their patients. when you've been making delicious natural cheese for over 100 years like kraft has, you learn a lot about what people want. honey, do we have like a super creamy cheese with taco spice already in it? oh, thanks. bon appe-cheese! okay... i'm on it.ar does weathertech go to protect your vehicle? ♪ ♪ ♪ weathertech. made right, in america termites. we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh ya, we're good! we're good. terminix. defenders of home. >>> earlier this hour we saw is vice president mike pence at andrews air force base departing for kentucky. he'll touch down in louisville just over two hours from now. this is the sales pitch, the one that the white house wants to see from pence and other republicans who believe in th

george osborne. i'm sure that all will be lots of people with lots of things to say later on. slightly later than usual here is thomas you the head not too >udy, breezy and some this weekend. let me show you the head not too great. ireezy and some this weekend. let me show you the head not too great. there and some this weekend. let me show you the head not too great. there will some this weekend. let me show you the head not too great. there will be he rain. not too great. there will be some sunshine. fine weather in southern areas of the uk and here temperatures might nudge into the further north of the mid—teens. further north of the weather story is in the clouds are rolling in from the atlantic j..[ . bringing rain on two wheels, north—west england, quite soggy and northzwest england. guite soggy and = northern ireland and scotland. the winds will strengthen tonight and certain whimsy across the southern areas as - and more clouds rolled areas as well and more clouds rolled in through tonight and into tomorrow. mild overnight because of these atlantic winds and the cloud and the rain. the weekend, here it is, be

thomas back over to you. >> thank you, bob, 7:32, convictions in court for the controversial case that became known as bridgegate. >> prosecutors successfully argue that the gridlock on the george washington bridge in 2013 was part of a plot to punish the mayor of fort lee new jersey for failing to endorse governor chris christie. >> new jersey governor christie's former deputy chief of staff, bridget kill i, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and committed clearing her name. >> i want to a sure my kids and everyone else that this fight is far from over. i will not allow myself to be the scapegoat in this case. i look very much forward to the appeal, so thank you. >> far from over. her co-defendant, former port authority of new york and new jersey, executive, bill baroni sentenced to two years in prison, he, too, plans to appeal. >> at the same time governor christie was sitting beside president trump to discuss the opioid epidemic. christie was tapped to head new commission on addiction. >> so we have attorney chaka johnson to help break down the case. good morning. >> good morning. >> so for the first thing you said basically you thought this was light for their sentencing

thomas. >> okay, certainly was an interesting press conference, thanks very much, doug. >>> it may seem like an unlikely friendship but former president george w. bush says he feels a real fondness for former first laid i michelle owe bam. >>> he tells people magazine that they hit it off right away. >> he nets that he was regularly seated besides michelle at official events and many of those photos went viral. in the interview, bush says that she kind of likes my sense of humor anybody who likes my sense of humor i immediately like. >> that is what michelle said as like when she met the former president, right away his sense of humor, she didn't expect it. she felt a connection. it goodies to see that. doesn't matter what political affiliation but when you can have two sides come together and form a bond like that. >> two personalities that seemed to match. great he is saying that publicly. so people can know that. >> yes. >> 7:15. well, we do have an interesting thing to note about today, on this day, three years ago, steve keeley made news around the world, do you want to know why? it has to do with snow. >> summer with the phillies. ther