thank you, brian. >> thanks, hardin. steve, i want to turn to you, first, hardin said, the strategy is fundamentally okay, we just need to recalibrate it. we heard general john allen earlier, your assessment whether you agree or disagree and how you see the snapshot right now. >> first of all, i think the strategy you heard here sounded very familiar to me. we have a coalition that's going to wage this particular conflict, it's going to do it by military training of local troops, it's going to do it with some elements of air power and some elaborate, political engineering in societies that we do not understand very well. i think we have seen this movie a couple of times in a couple of different places over the last 20 years. and it's yet to work out particularly well. it's going to take years. i think i heard that message before. so, i would love to believe that this effort is going to succeed in ways that this previous effort had not. i second point is i think we thought about this problem in somewhat of a wrong way and

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he absolutely loved benjamin hardin hell.e dies, the lincolns invite him to the white house -- invites emily to the white house and she's there and for weeks raises quite a furor in the city of washington until she finally left. this has to be one of the most evocative plots of all i can think of in america. the family of the first lady of the united states and yet all the memorials are to her half siblings who are confederate soldiers or married to confederate soldiers. >> we are in one of several different plots of the breckenridge family. curb -- colonel robert preston marries leticia preston and consequently, they are related to the humphreys. mary todd lincoln park stepmother was elizabeth humphreys. these two families are allied by blood. these are of the family of john cabell breckenridge. he was the states rights democrat who ran against abraham lincoln. stephen a douglas during the election of 18 60. john breckenridge cast and immense shadow over the early and mid 19th century, became a congressman from henry clay's

thank you, brian. >> thanks, hardin. steve, i want to turn to you, first, hardin said, the strategy is fundamentally okay, we just need to recalibrate it. we heard general john allen earlier, your assessment whether you agree or disagree and how you see the snapshot right now where we are. >> first of all, i think the strategy you heard here sounded very familiar to me.a coalition that's going to wage this conflict. sorry. >> battery just died. >> to wage this particular conflict, it's going to do it by military training of local troops, it's going to do it with some elements of air power and some elaborate, political engineering in societies that we do not understand very well. i think we have seen this movie a couple of times in a couple of different places over the last 20 years. and it's yet to work out particularly well. also we're getting told it's going to take years. i think i heard that message before. so, i would love to believe that this effort is going to succeed in ways that previous efforts had not. i didn'

, then i will die right here in this prison, probably in this cage. >> when he is not exercising, hardinnds his time writing poetry. >> poetry is one of the things that helps me cope with my confinement. it's like you can escape through your words, maybe no one hears them but you have them. i used to be a banger but now i talk to the enemy in isolation, where walls become memories, memories become pain. pain becomes thunder soaked in the grief let it rain. life is death yet livable and continual. i was resenting, photographic reflections of lost times and psyche and imagination, ejaculating with passions of all kind. bound by concrete and steel. totally detached, i lost my -- that's called "concrete and steel." >> in an effort to give inmates a chance to restore faith in themselves, and atone for their crimes, the prison started a unique program called s.a.v.e., seriously acknowledging victims' emotions. >> not enough attention is paid towards the victim. >> this group here, you know, it gives guys chance enough to come and sit down and understand and find out why they have the behaviors

. >> jeff hardin an associate of the shooter, john russel houser. thank you so much for your time mr. hardin. i do appreciate it. >> thank you, craig. >> jalen joins me now by phone. jalen was inside the theater at the time the shots rang out shortly after 7:30 thursday evening. first of all, how are you doing? >> i'm doing good. just still a little shaken but i'm good. >> talk to me about what happened last evening, what did you see? what did you hear? >> well, me and my friend decided to go see a movie last night. after credits and everything around 7:20 7:25 the movie started with opening credits. during -- it was a fight scene. during that fight scene i hear two loud bangs. it was like a bang-bang. so immediately i look around. did anybody hear that? it was very faint because the movie, the movie was loud. but you could definitely tell it was a gunshot. so i look around to see if anyone else saw it. everyone is like into the movie. like i said it was a fight scene. so apparently no one else heard it. maybe i'm just hearing things. after about 10

we watched it with houston defense attorney rusty hardin, who's a former prosecutor. he said it's legal for the trooper to ask bland to get out of the car or put out her cigarette but he should have tried to calm her down. >> a lot of things law enforcement will tell you they could have done. ma'am, i'm just going to give you a warning, put out the cigarette, please, just put your hands where i can see them, i'm going to write you a warning and you are on your way. >> you were getting a warning. until now. you're going to jail. >> reporter: another piece of this puzzle we have just gotten the form that bland filled out when she was booked here at the jail. in it she acknowledges she tried to take her own life in 2014 after losing a baby. but she also says she did not think about killing herself the day she was arrested. her family today said that was all news to them. lester? >> john yang in texas tonight starting us off. thank you. >>> a major announcement late this afternoon from the attorney general. federal hate crime charges against dylann roof. he's the man accu

. >> both working hardin side of the clinch here. i'm surprised that dillashaw is looking i'm not sure if he's looking to take him down or just clinch with him but i would be surprise fd he tried to take him to the ground. that's a dangerous proposition. barao is a very high level black belt. nice move by barao. barao's trainer ufc veteran peneras. joe henan the 100th black belt under him. >> another hard knee to the body by barao. getting off good shots inside. >> let us not forget you don't put together 35 fights unbeaten if you're not truly one of the greatest in the world. >> another one. a good one to the solar complex by barao. no question he's one of the best in the world. the question is whether or not he's recovered psychologically and physically from the first fight. he took a physical beating in that fight as well. >> little slip by dillashaw. don't forget after the main event right here on fox tun into fox sports 1 for the post fight show. big flurry here just under 2 on the clock. >> tj scoring and scoring early in this

. >> we walked it with rusting hardin, a former prosecutor. >> she's not entitled to physically resist he has got certain responsibilities to make the situation not escalate out of control. >> i will light you up. get out! now! >> wow, wow, for failure to signal. >> she feels she's being treated unfairly, but he knows that traffic encounters end unpossibly bad. >>> a mother convicted of murdering her two young children is now speaking out from behind bars. >> nbc's stephanie gosk has details of seussen smith's handwritten letter from prison. >> susan smith is finally getting her side of the story. in a letter to written to harrison cahill from her south carolina jail cell. 20 years after she was sentenced to life, for killing her two sons. >> i am not a monster society thinks i am. i am far from it. something went very wrong that night. i was not myself. >> reporter: the last time she spoke publicly was in 1994, a distraught mother begging the public for help in finding her boys 14-month-old alex and 3-year-old michael, claiming they had been kidnapped by a black man during a carjackin

. >> reporter: we watched the too with houston defense attorney rusty hardin who is a farmer prosecutorlly resist him but he has got certain responsibilities to make this situation not escalate out of control. >> i will light you up. get out. >> wow. >> now. >> wow. >> get out of the car. >> wow. for failure for signal. >> he knows traffic encounters in-depth something bad. >> they're not asking for the body to be returned to texas, they're not asking for a second autopsy. they say that with the family's cooperation, this is something that could be done quickly in the chicago area and need not delay sandra bland's funeral which is asked fouled for saturday. the bland family attorney says it does not give him confidence in this investigation. andrea? >> john yang, thanks so much. and the naacp legal defense and education fund is among many groups demanding a full investigation into just how sandra bland died. joining me now is nomonique dickson. thank you very much. it's good to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> how do you even start to figure out what happened in this case?

their lives often whereas hardin baronet rock formations on the west coast of ireland. had that been the fate of my grandparents and their parents. i'm a recent flight across the atlantic i saw the sun rising in dublin as the plane touched down. i was drowsy but my mind was awake with thoughts dreams fantasies about those whose blood is now mine. and then i thought of stories familiar stories that always make me smile when they come to my mind. i was at a reception in my honor at a resort hotel just below the border between northern ireland and ireland. a bridge had been destroyed during the troubles. it had been rebuilt and was now called the peace bridge and named after me. the large part of well-wishers peppered me with questions about my father and his family. most reacted with surprise and disbelief when they answered that it really did know much about his family history because of them history is a living part of the president. a couple of them in the crowd suggested that i retain them both in the business that specializes in genealogy, mostly for wealthy irish-am

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. >> we watched the video with houston defense attorney ruston hardin -- rusty hardin. >> he has certainponsibilities to make the situation not escalade out of control. [ yelling ] >> she feels she's being treated unfairly. he knows of traffic encounters end up to be something bad. >> texas officials say the request should not delay bland's funeral, which is scheduled for saturday. the family attorney said it does not give them confidence in this investigation. matt? >> all right john yang on this story. john thank you very much. >>> turning to natalie following two dangerous wild fires out west. >> that's right. good morning. the fast moving brush fire forcing evacuations in napa county california. it scorched about 4,000 acres. it's threatening about 150 structures. three hikers have been rescued from a popular trail nearby. strong winds are slowing efforts to contain a 4,000 acre wild fire in montana. >>> ash carter arrived in baghdad this morning for an unannounced visit. carter is meeting with iraqi leaders and u.s. military commanders. he's expected to focus on political reconcilia

thanks, sarah and hardin and please join me in thanking our panelists for a great discussion. >> thank you. >>> federal reserve chair janet yellen is on capitol hill today for the second day in a row to deliver the fed's semiannual monetary report to congress. today she goes before the senate banking committee as 2:30 p.m. eastern. you can see it live here on c-span3. >>> this weekend on c-span's road to the white house, two major political events from iowa and we're the only place you can watch or listen to these events in their entirety. friday night at 8 qulok p.m. eastern we'll be live in cedar rapids for the iowa democratic party fame of dinner. it will be the first time all five democratic presidential candidates share the stage. saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern we'll be live in ames where nine leading republican presidential candidates scheduled to speak. on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. c-span's road to the white house 2016, we take you there. >> early next month, a forum with republican presidential candidates, c-span is partnering with new hampshire union leader for the