charles howard, who was on general oliver otis howard's staff. he is the one who says, or one of several people who says they split command, saying howard replied now was no time for talking, that he would be glad of hancock's cooperation, and suggested that he locate the troops south of the pike, and that is the baltimore pike, and that howard would attend to the north side. ok? so there is your three versions. hancock assumes command is one. howard stubbornly maintains command is another, and they split command is the third. now abner doubleday, present there, later wrote several books, and in one of the books he wrote -- we have copy, we have the copy of hancock's handwriting in the margins of doubleday's book, in the passage where doubleday says howard refused to accept hancock's assumption of authority and quite a scene occurred. hancock scribbles in the margins, general howard made no objection whatever. no scene occurred. you see how these two different opinions or three really are not going to relent. we do know that howard wrote a note t

der betty: howard, good to see you. last time you were here we 40ked about your book, " chances." why focus on this issue? over the years, i have worked to the gates as a philanthropist and countries like on a mullah, honduras, and other countries. involved in law enforcement for six years and that isn't cochise county, it borders in arizona. betty: you have seen immigration and illegal immigrants coming across firsthand? say, certainly weekly, but not daily. transshipped, that the kinds we see very frequently of people crossing our borders are sometimes carrying drugs are sometimes it is immigrants. that has been a pretty regular thing. betty: what is the message we are missing when we talk about the border crisis? howard: the biggest thing i focused on in the book is we have 65,000 u.s. citizens died from drug overdoses. maeth, and heroin, cocaine, those are being reduced from mexico, at least 90% of them. if we don't secure the border will deal with this opioid crisis. is not just opioids, cocaine and meth are impact

welcome back howard and vivian. >> great. thank you. >> we have been talking so much about the power of reading and trends in reading and the diversity of the books that actually are both certainly in the library itself but also in the context of pj library and the books that a child from 6 months to 8 years and beyond can receive every month. i am wondering if you can talk about what trends you see in children's literature in the kinds of books being written and the kinds of books being read, the kinds of books people are interested in. maybe howard we can start with you and vivian, you can chime in. maybe also we can talk about the actual diversity of the books available through pj library. >> absolutely. >> it is an important question. we just had a survey of the bay area jewish community that found about a quarter of bay area jews live in households with people of color who may be jewish themselves, may not be. but it is very important that we realize and act on the knowledge that we are a very diverse community. i know j

i heard very briefly representative donna howard, blake's mom, image and her daughter's experience. i kind of -- my ear perked up. this isn't a law yet, what happened here? after meeting with lake and representative howard, got basically blake's experience is in it was my job to kind of fit that into what was going on here. discovered that it is ac family policy, which means that all of the seton hospitals in the .ustin area have this policy amy: and it is a catholic hospital? >> it is. it is part of the world's largest catholic hospital system. so i discovered this is a policy that many, many women are experiencing and in fact it actually goes back at least 10 years that seton has been doing

texas state representative donna howard, who is also a nurse, spoke out against the measure on the texas house floor. >> i want you to know that my daughter was retraumatized -- she was already devastated by the miscarriage, and then had to be retraumatized by this coercion of how the provider chose -- not how my daughter chose -- but how the provider chose to dispose of the fetal remains. amy: in january, u.s. district judge david alan ezra temporarily halted the fetal remains law, but texas attorney general ken paxton has vowed to continue fighting for it. meanwhile in indiana, the u.s. seventh circuit court of appeals struck down a similar fetal burial rule signed into law by then governor, now vice president, mike pence. for more, we go to austin, texas, where we're joined by the woman who is the daughter who representative howard just referred to in her speech opposing a law requiring fetal burial.

elections he want it howard up as mid—term elections he want it howard up as soon as mid—term elections possible. the head of jp morgan chase coming out and saying that reserve bank had to raise interest rates little bit faster than housing markets have expected if the tax plans start to really filter through into the us economy a little bit quicker. inflation running higher, growth running high and therefore interest rates possibly running higher, maybe stamping down on growth. he is not saying that there will be another crisis because banks have money in the bank and are in a better position. the banking sector in the uk, the us and in europe are a lot that had capitalised and better regulated as well. a much better position. who is the talking to? president trump or the central banks? central banks and also people within markets to make sure this is understood by most people within wall street. also talking to the us consumer as well, to sit there and say in —— sit there and say if you are not oral and four cars and mortgages, they are going to go at. this is something you would expe

howard coble of net is the first time a member of the illinois delegation -- howard: that is the firstime a member of the illinois delegation -- >> >> could you repeat that? >> yes, votes for hubert humphrey. >> three votes were senator mccarthy. three votes for senator mcgovern. >> thank you. the illinois vote, 112 votes for humphrey, three for senator mccarthy, three for senator mcgovern. indiana. >> indiana casts for reverend channing a phillips one vote. mcgovern, two votes. senator eugene mccarthy, 11 votes. vice president humphrey, 49 votes. [applause] >> the indiana vote. 49 votes for vice president humphrey, 11 for mccarthy, 24 mcgovern, then for reverend phillips. iowa, 46. drags i passes -- iowa passes. -- foransas casts three votes -- presidents for vice humphrey, three for senator mcgovern. kentucky. >> the bluegrass state of kentucky casts five votes for senator mccarthy. 41 votes for vice president humphrey. [cheers] >> kentucky. >> 41 votes for vice president humphrey, five for senator mccarthy. louisiana, 36. >> madam chairman, louisiana 35 votes for vice president hump

the other guy was named howard hughes. the similar interests howard was secretly working against kirk. howard said and told his people las vegas is it big enough. kirk had the opposite view. the best thing that could happen was for everybody to compete again here is this competitive boxer and tennis player and businessman who want to competition. he wanted the best hotel next to his to be built across the street so that they would both be driving people. they relish competition and they relished a good fight. anyone having dealings with anyone who have good ideas and big ideas. and he never changed. in his business advisors in lawyers all wanted him to include a new competition clause in the deal with steve wynn. he said the best thing that could happen is steve when would build a hotel across the street from us. which of course he did. las vegas is a success because of big ideas and big ideas from kirk and steve and howard hughes i think in the case of kirk he was the real mastermind. he also talked a bit about the mgm gr

starbucks chairman howard schultz talks about training all its workers to avoid bias. >> but we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> you are one of the most beloved ladies in america. >> i'm the mother of wonderful children and the wife of the world's greatest man. >>> former first lady barbara bush dies at 92. >> it's the end of a beautiful life. >> we have had direct talks at very high levels, extremely high levels, with north korea. >> word that cia director mike pompeo secretly met with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> starbucks trains its employees on racial discrimination in response to the arrest of two black men. >> one woman is dead after a southwest airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in philadelphia due to engine failure. >> we can't let this happen again. >> evacuations are under way as wildfires burn out of control. >> raging flames. >> scary video shows the moment snow and ice flew off the top of a truck in vermont. >>> and all that matters -- >> he has called you a slime ball. >> he tweeted at me probably 50 t

annual tuition at howard runs over 40-thousand dollars. sydnee jenkins / howard university student: "how somebody was able to embezzle so much money from financial aid, why we don't have sufficient housing for the amount of undergraduate students here and why the administration building has no relationship with the students on campus"six people were fired after the audit -- but students say that's not enough and are asking the university's president to resign.voice of dr. wayne frederick / howard university president: "i think that's a fair question to ask. i feel that i directed my team to take the appropriate action" i'm kim hutcherson reporting. (jrstone)a private funeral service was held in cambridge today for world-renowned scientist stephen hawking . hundreds of people lined the streets to honor hawking outside st. mary the great church.hawking suffered from als, a neuro-de-gener-ative disease also known as lou gehrig's disease, which is usually fatal within a few years. he was diagnosed in 1963, when he was just 21. doctors initiall

he attended drew university and taught at howard and american universities. the band is playing "we shall overcome," presumably on the request of the phillips people. channing phillips put before the convention on the decision of the black caucus, of some 212 negro delegates. john hart has more on the possibility of a liberal walk -out tonight. john? john: walter, the chairman of the the wisconsin delegation has left that caucus, and he has just had a conversation with with dickwhen, -- and the substance of that conversation was relayed to me, which he is trying to stop any walkout here tonight. there was a walkout at least planned at the time of the nomination of hubert humphrey, when a unity call was made. at that time, some 40 to 50 members of the new york delegation were to stand up and say nay. california, vermont, new mexico, new jersey, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. they hoped to get about 100 people walking out. now, this move and this caucus, they changed that and in large -- and enlarged their plan. the earlier walkout, i should explain, was to go to

and howard, we have a very short amount of time.gree to disagree in this case, or could this have long-term effects for kanye? >> i think a lot like president trump, kanye makes a pronouncement, it could be grandiose, can could be unconnected to the truth, and he'll move on. i think beyond just being divisive, i think he's a provocateur. people who have gotten to know him, who listen to his music know that's who he is and we can move on. >> all right. thank you so much. thanks for bringing the dragon energy. very much appreciate it. enjoy the rest of your saturday. and thank you so much for joining me this afternoon. i'm ryan nobles. we appreciate you tuning in. we have much more ahead in the next hour of the newsroom with ana cabrera after this short break. have a great day. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remembe

let's bring in former dnc chairman howard dean, and msnbc strategist susan po. with you. could putting the president on the campaign trail end up back firing for republicans? do you see the risk factor? >> absolutely. very much so. here's the thing. while the president's poll numbers are important, the president is not up for re-election himself. so this is not about him. donald trump likes to think it is about him. in this particular case it shouldn't be about him. we are talking about districts that came within a few points for hillary clinton or donald trump. so if republicans want to hold onto some of the seats, they need to get more independents and maybe a few democrats on their side. right now with all of the talk about impeachment, that may help republican turnout, boost it, but this can't be about donald trump in swing districts or we're going to fail. republicans will fail miserably. >> the president was fully in agreement, howard, with susan. at the rally, he raised threats of impeachment, trying to use it to energize republican voter turnout. listen

the owner of howard steel, james howard, joins us live from charlotte. welcome, sir.e when you're the one writing the checks, right? tell us exactly what you have felt almost immediately or in the few weeks after the president announced there would be steel tariffs. >> well, it starts out with as soon as they talked about a tariff we were getting price increases and they were rapidly going up and whatever you have one day, three days later even that price had gone up because there was nothing consistent and we still haven't reached the apex. i don't nowhere the apex is at. liz: you don't import your steel from china or south korea right? you buy u.s. steel. >> we buy mostly domestic steel we do. liz: well so how was this supposed to work if you were to channel president trump that the united states would start not forcing but keep the cheap dumping of steel from other countries out of our country and that we would have to start using companies like you would have to start using u.s. steel, steel dynamic steel, right? did you expect that they, american companies, would

so then howard, i want to jump on the heels of that to the stormy daniels saga.oint. making this claim to my colleague joy reid about where he thinks the legal battles linked to the president are heading. here it is. >> i think the amount of heat and the evidence that is going to come to light in the coming months, joy, is going to make it absolutely impossible for him to serve out the balance of his term, without a doubt, and i think resignation is going to be his only option. that's my prediction. >> okay. that's a pretty bold prediction, howard. i mean, that's a stretch to put it mildly. or are you in agreement? >> no, i think it is a stretch. look, again, this is trying it in the press. i have a lot of respect for avenatti, because i think he's right about himself. he doesn't bluff. i would not want to be on the other side from him. but again, you can't talk like this. nobody knows what the facts are. the jury hasn't heard the facts. the judge hasn't heard the facts. so i mean, i know this is great -- this mix of sex, politics, and money is unavoidable for an

now it's jim howard of howard steele. he manufactures pipe and scaffolding. the guy that promote invited the scaffolding right there on the screen. there are more links to the chain than just buyers like mister howard and that manufacturers who sell him the seal he then moves it -- uses to make his product. they are called wholesale distributors. joining us now because we promised mr. howard and we promise you guys find out what's going on with driving prices of steel. thank you for joining us lisa. you purchase from the big guys the new quarries. they use seal and their products. we are buying every day from the domestic producers and then reselling that even in the original form or a value enhanced form to manufacturing. mister howard told us that they started jacking up their prices five minutes after present trump slapped tariffs on foreign steel. what is going on here. he and maybe some other companies or can have to start laying off people because the costs have gone so high. i can understand the dilemma. let's take it away from gouging. prices started

howard is really giving the successor a chance to breathe and live the job as he said he would. announced goals. >> jeff, i was hoping to turn you to nike because there is more news that we can confirm the journal is reporting three more executives have left this company, including head of diversity, a manager in basketball and a vp in digital marketing. this comes a month after the president, the number two at nike had to leave as well as his lieutenant they're going through some cultural investigations, looking into this bro culture and host of hr complaints but the exodus continues what happens inside a company when this is going on. >> this is sort of really a shame. and there is a bit of a succession root to this. the former ceo of sc johnson was brought in to take over after phil knight, the founder, stepped down a bit early because of a tragic death in his family. perez did everything right corrected the ship on the job one year. developed the women's line and instead of seeing china for sourcing he also saw china as a great market for michael jordan and air jordans. and

wait until you >>> stunlts at howard university in washington, d.c. have taken control of the school's administration building. they're upset after the university determine reports that financial aid employees have been embezzling funds for years. reporter kim hutchison have details. >> what is a true black university eye who does it serve does it serve the administration exploiting the students or does it serve all the black students on this campus. >> spurred by refrmgss of financial misconduct protesters took control of howard university's administration building late last week. the group's leaders issued a list of wide ranging demands and say they won't stand down until the administration addresses them. on tuesday, a blog post-that has since been deleted detailed allegations of financial misconduct at the historically black university. a day later, university president dr. wayne frederick confirmed the scandal. in 2017, an audit found that some employees received more money than their education cost. and pocketed the difference. between 2007 and

president of the howard g.tt foundation. >>> up next, live to oklahoma where tens of thousands of teachers are joining a grou groundswell nationwide movement calling for higher pay and increase in funding for students. you're watching msnbc. so that's the idea. what do you think? i don't like it. oh. nuh uh. yeah. ahhhhh. mm-mm. oh. yeah. ah. agh. d-d-d... no. hmmm. uh... huh. yeah. uh... huh. in business, there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you. so we're doing it. yes. start saying yes to your company's best ideas. we help all types of businesses with money, tools and know-how to get business done. american express open. >>> classes are already canceled again tomorrow in oklahoma city, as teachers take over the state capitol for another day. in just the last hour, one lawmaker came out to address the teachers and to tell them not to give up. >> this is your house. don't let anybody tell you you can't be here. >> thank you. >> but what i need you to stay strong, i need you to understand

here is if we mine only under howard street. you see that in the shaded red. the post-shaded gray on second street, that would still be cut and cover, but it would be with the temporary decking, again, the top-down configuration. that version has a $208 million premium. we looked at extending the mining down on second street, as far as to hama street. you would have a small portion of deckover cut and cover. that comes with a $343 million cost cover. you see the baseline there, 54 months. moving down, the tbm plus sm option, the yellow bar is if we mine only a portion of the throat section. you can see we're actually saving about three months in the overall schedule, even though we are getting a significantly longer tunnel. now, the red is if you mine the entire throat section. that is less room to work, so it kicks it up eleven months beyond the baseline. if you move to the sem option, the numbers are true. they're bigger. that makes sense because you're using the same mining technique as the baseline, but you have a longer tunnel there. now, for recommendati

ram herb and howard.riend at pugh did a study of what should be the ideal of the american democracy and what's the reality. should rights and freedoms -- should the united states be a place where rights and freedoms are respected. very important to the united states. 84%. actually describes the united states, 47%. on the issue of politicians facing serious consequence force misconduct. 83% said it should be very important for the u.s. only 30% believe it actually describes the u.s. and then confidence in the political wisdom of americans. this is not so much. 1997, you had nearly two third of the country feeling as if they trusted each other on their votes. now it's down to 56%. 35% up to 42%, not much. maybe that has to do with the current situation. but howard it did paint a picture of what the country wants america to be politically and it's sort of on its rules it's sort of the game of how politics is practices, not left or right and where we are. radially different places. >> let me be optimistic and

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amy: that was lisa howard interviewingng fidel castroo in 1963.efore that she had interviewed christian. she was a soap star the 1950's. she was on "the edge of night and put itng light" all down and said "i care more about the world." ultimately, would commit suicide. is that right? >> yes, she died on independence day 1965 from an overdose of orbit to its in the hamptons -- barbiturates in the hamptons. flamed out., she she had some personal setbacks. she had a miscarriage. she had been fired from abc news for kind of openly posing robert kennedy's run for the senate from new york because he was a carpetbagger and she and the other liberal democrats in new york thought that this was crazy that he should come into their state and decide he could represent them. and she did that somewhat openly. as a tv news anchor, abc tried to restrain her from being so overly political. when she would not cooperatete, they terminated her address on the show. amy: you only found about her personal intimate relationship with fidel castro because of the documents

for showing up on this snowy evening to join me in celebrating the launch of my new book on william howard taft. [applause] >> here's a snow anecdote that is relevant for this evening. on the morning of past inauguration he met with peter roosevelt and it was so snowy that they couldn't get through the streets, and roosevelt said well, the storm will soon be over as soon as i'm out where i can do no further harm to the constitution, it will cease. and taft replied, you're wrong, it's my store. i always said would be a cold day when i got to be president of the united states. [laughing] and i was going to say both predictions that roosevelt would pose in his efforts to impose his program by executive orders and the political cost of tragic efforts to correct them would prove to be correct. we're here tonight to discuss taft's legacy as our most judicial president and presidential chief justice. i can't think of a better interlocutor and colleague and friend to talk about that legacy than judge douglas ginsburg of the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. chief judge ginsburg is one of

can you give me your thoughts on this tweet, howard?ok, there's some sympathy, i think, among americans about the chinese abusive trade practices specifically in international -- in intellectual property. the problem sheer thhere is tha has no idea what he's doing. he basically is disrupting the biggest trade relationship that we have which is essentially, as a conservative put to me, a tax on everybody. the chinese know as much if not american about american politics as trump does. who will pay, the soybean farmers in the states that elected trump. this makes no sense at all. if he's going to do something like this, he ought to get people who know what they're doing and listen to their advice. >> let me leave you with the last word. i've worked weekends for a long time. used to be at 2:00 on a saturday, you know, nothing happens. now we're getting new tweets by the moment. this one, we're talking about a huge topic. what's your take on it, evan? >> sorry, what -- what are -- >> what's your take on the tweet? i mean, donald trump tweete

amy: that was lisa howard interviewing fidel castro in 1963.efore that she had interviewed christian. she was a soap star the 1950's. she was on "the edge of night and put itng light" all down and said "i care more about the world." ultimately, would commit suicide. is that right? >> yes, she died on independence day 1965 from an overdose of orbit to its in the hamptons -- barbiturates in the hamptons. flamed out., she she had some personal setbacks. she had a miscarriage. she had been fired from abc news for kind of openly posing robert kennedy's run for the senate from new york because he was a carpetbagger and she and the other liberal democrats in new york thought that this was crazy that he should come into their state and decide he could represent them. and she did that somewhat openly. as a tv news anchor, abc tried to restrain her from being so overly political. when she would not cooperate, they terminated her address on the show. amy: you only found about her personal intimate relationship with fidel castro because of the documents th

opponents say they are concerned the stadium at howard terminal could eliminate jobs. oakland mayor libby schaaf released this statement, today through these negotiations i'll remain focused on keeping the a's in oakland. >>> we're joined by oakland a's president, dave kaval in studio. exclusive negotiations there, isn't that kind of cheating a little bit, it seems like. >> we're parallel passing. we want to make sure we have multiple options in oakland. we have an ema here at the port, which is great. we had a unanimous vote yesterday, and we're pursuing the same type type -- same type of agreement with the city council. >> why not putting your chips in one. >> we tried that with the situation last year, and i think development in california can be challenging and it's just important to have options to make sure we pursue these things in parallel so we can get to an opening in 2023. >> it's hard to get done without opposition. i thought there wouldn't be any. is there any opposition to your coliseum. i guess there would be since you're already there. how do you deal w

. >> ron howard working on his new "star wars" movie in the bay area.y something he saw at the oakland airport put a big smile on his face. that story is next. >> and tomorrow on "good morning america," actor ames mcnamara talks about his gender created character on the roseanne >>> director ron howard traveling through oakland airport today saw something that brought a smile to his face. he tweeted, wow, look what happened to me on the airport tube as i was waiting to grab a flight back to l.a. coincidence? glimpse of a "star wars" picture on the tv above. howard spent the last few weeks at sky walker ranch in marin putting the final touches on the movie he's co-directing solo a "star wars" story. >> interesting. >> interesting. just like sports today, just like villanova. give it away? >> see right there? you had your chance. >> i'm sorry. >> march madness is over. villanova won. eric said we'll have the highlights. why the stomper streaking b&p >>> abc sports brought to you by river rock casino. >> march madness came to a close tonight with a champio

. >>> stunlts at howard university in washington, d.c.e taken control of the school's administration building. they're upset after the university determine reports that financial aid employees have been embezzling funds for years. reporter kim hutchison have details. >> what is a true black university eye who does it serve does it serve the administration exploiting the students or does it serve all the black students on this campus. >> spurred by refrmgss of financial misconduct protesters took control of howard university's administration building late last week. the group's leaders issued a list of wide ranging demands and say they won't stand down until the administration addresses them. on tuesday, a blog post-that has since been deleted detailed allegations of financial misconduct at the historically black university. a day later, university president dr. wayne frederick confirmed the scandal. in 2017, an audit found that some employees received more money than their education cost. and pocketed the difference. between 2007 and 2016

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judge ginsberg said and i quote him in the book that william howard taft is our most underappreciated constitutional figure since george mason who refuseed to sign the bill of the constitution because it contained no bill of rights so that's an extraordinary claim i tried to support it in the book. so let's begin by -- thanking judge ginsberg. [applause] now miami in position of turning over to you. >> thank you jeff and all of the letter carriers who came through the snow to be with us tonight. [laughter] well i think -- the book is -- has a fair chance readdressing underappreciation that taft has suffered. i commend it to you i've read are now two times and gone through this again today and more abbreviated basis i think it's a really first rate treatment. not ponderous -- what is it 200 pages? including the index, i think. as the extense of foot notes but i think it was a welfare job of capturing and -- giving portrayal of a whole person. a person with extraordinary career in the course of our history really. now, when i started reading the book i didn't know a lot about taft. pers

i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." we begin with president trump expelling a record-breaking 60 russian diplomats. but the "new york times" based on three unnamed sources reported his former lawyer john dowd broached the subject of pardons for paul manafort and mike flynn. the white house is denying the story and dowd gave a flat discussion. as far as i know, no discussions. joining us, gail troasht. mara liasson, and jessica tarlov. so the "new york times" story would be significant if pardons were potentially being dangled in front of witnesses. how does it stack up against the

host: got your point, howard. howard bringing up morality and whether it is being talked about enough. what is your view? siraj: in many ways i agree that the moral fabric of our society has faltered, at least while i have been around. i can't speak to arias in the past where we have gotten better. we have gotten better, with civil rights, with how we atone for our ancestor's sins of slavery and oppression of women. we have definitely got better. we have a long way to go. with respect to gun control, evil is a big proponent in someone wanting to carry out violence in a particular way. guns, maybe we should have stricter gun laws in some respect. i don't think any of those will fully address preventing someone who has evil intentions, wanting to harm other people. there are an infinite amount of waste someone can obtain a particular weapon, a gun, a knife, what have you. big components we have to focus on. but not everyone is good, there is no way you are going to -- you are only going to reduce the number of incid

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diane howard said the sheriffs department initially made it difficult to see her cltd even though she had a court order. >> he disrd rayed the court order. >> howard says there are thousands of pages of evidence to wade through and it could take months before they're ready for trial. deangelo is officially charged with two counts of murdering brian and katy in rancho cordova while walking their dog in 1978. he is suspected of ten more murders as the golden state killer and 50 rapes as the east area rapist. it expand a decade and went unsolved 40 years. dine hill of rancho kor dova and daughter kelly came to the courthouse in hopes of getting a look at the suspect. >> he is a horrific man and needed to be caught. we didn't ever imagine that we would see this happen. >> but attorney howard is asking people not to rush to judgmen. >> we have the law that suggests that he is innocent. until they prove him guilty. >> joseph deangelo is scheduled to be back in court on may 14th. it's not known if he will enter a plea at that time. in sacramento, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> now, new informa

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i don't think he would have been. >> howard?> well, he got the benefit of calling himself a successful businessman without enough research and exposure of what he'd done in the past. that's partly our fault. it's partly the nature of campaign journalism. by the way, i'm not convinced if people had known more, they necessarily would have rejected him, but it would have been closer than even the 72,000 votes that elected him. >> 72k. that's the number to keep in mind. thank you both. wishing you very good fridays and weekends. >>> up ahead, michael cohen taking the fifth, but he actually might still have to talk. i have a special breakdown for you why that is. >>> next, friday night on the beat with you're looking at a very special set of fallback friday guests. that's next. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. fthere's flonase sensimist.f up around pets. it relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which mos

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let's bring in former dnc governor howard dean and contributor, susan dell persio, so glad to see you both on easter sunday. thank you for your time. susan with you first, what do you make of the president reaching out to these former aids. do you think it's a sign of things to come? will there be a circling back of all familiar names? >> i think we see none of these aids go away, corey lewandowski was fired from the campaign back in 2016. he's never really left trump's orbit. what's concerning is what do you experience, what do these people prove to him that is worthwhile and can help him. from what i can tell, not much. not much have a background in governing. >> i have to wonder, how does that work? i will speculate here. if you fire someone and say are you not good enough to be working with me, you pick up the phone and have dinner with them, because you want their advice. it defies reason, don't you, susan? >> again part of the reason he fires people he doesn't like the way they come across on television or they've had bad stories written about them. he thinks of everything as ra

. >> deangelo is represented by attorney diane howard with the county public defender office. she is asking people not to rush to judgment. >> we have the law that suggests that he is innocent until theyproof him guilty. that's what i was going to ask everybody to remember. because i feel like he has been tried in the press here already. >> reporter: miss howard is already complaining about the access she had to her client in an improfrpt u news conference. she said on several visits to the jail she was denied access, had to get a court order and even then she had trouble getting in to see her client to interrupt the questioning he was undergoing by the sheriffs department. she says there is thousands of pages of evidence she must go through. and she is not sure when a plea will be entered. and it could be many months before a trial would begin. live in sacramento, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> the mother of brian majuri says she stunned that a suspect in her son's murder more than four decades ago is now in custody. >> after all these years i was thinking, my god

howard hughes had a similar interest as aviators and the owners got howard was working against him and said to his people las vegas isn't big enough for the two of us. kirk had the opposite view. the best thing that could happen is for everyone to compete again. here is his competitive he wanted the best hotel to be built next to his. he relished the competition and the good fight and anyone having dealings with anyone that had good ideas. his business at writers wanted hithe bikerswanted to include ao competition called and he wouldn't do it. he said the best thing that could have been which of course he did and everybody benefited. las vegas is a success because of good ideas but he was the real mastermind. >> you've also talked about the fire and say that was originally his baby. 87 people died and was the first hotel fire. maybe talk about his reaction to that. what were th are the business es like in this story? >> he didn't want to have the insurance adjustments take forever, he wanted to move quickly to help them recover as best they could and so he ended up being in patients wi

howard? >> i would say this is not in the -- i think people are interested as kevin mentioned in putting this behind us. i don't take any issue with that sentiment. i think we'd still need to safeguard the american democracy. if we don't know how russians or other foreign actors impacted our election cycle, we don't have a way to guard against it. >> isn't that the job of robert mueller? this is a side show the dnc is putting on. >> let's switch gears. there's a variation of investigations ongoing. we'll talk about robert muler in a moment. first, an off chute of that is the michael cohen investigation in new york. the president is exhibiting that he seems to be far more concerned about that investigation, where it's going, the loyalty of his attorney, et cetera. so is it your feeling that perhaps the president is particularly concerned or anyone in the president's orbit is particularly concerned that michael cohen has reason to flip, to become the prosecuter's witness? >> yeah. i want to div