the marine in this photograph is jim walsh. he was shot through both legs. years later, staff sergeant thoms got a phone call and the person said this is jim walsh, do you remember me? he said yeah, of course i remember, how are you? he said not good. he said i just came back from the v.a. he said i have terminal cancer, i have three months to live, go home. bob thoms said awful, what can i do to help? jim walsh said i have no family, i'm estranged, we don't talk to one another. you led me through the battle of hue. i want to go to heaven. i need you to lead me through this. over the course of many weeks, bob got together a number of men from delta company, they sent him a bible, they arranged for hospice and then one day, there was no longer any communication. they reached out to hospice and they said he just passed. they donated, they arranged for a plot, they arranged for a ceremony. the hospice person reached out after the funeral and said the funeral was beautiful, and i was the only person there. so at "stars and stripes" i had a wonderful sergeant and

jim walsh said i have no family. i'm estranged. we don't talk to one another. you led me through the battle. i want to go to heaven. i need you to lead me through this. over the course of many weeks bob got together a number of men from delta company. they sent him a bible. they arranged for hospice. and then one day there was no longer any communication. they reached out to hospice and they said he just passed. they donated. they arranged for a plot. they arranged for a ceremony. the hospice person reached out after the funeral and said that the funeral was beautiful. and i was the only person there. so at stars and stripes i had a wonderful sergeant and wonderful colonel who were my bosses. and i said to them we're making some really powerful images. and some of them are published and others aren't. what do you think about offering them to other media? and taking the credit? and they thought it was a great idea. so when i would go out i would photograph both black and white and color. so in this case, it was covered by me in black and white and color. the bla

let's bring back jim walsh and eliza collins.hat was a very optimistic tweet we just read there. >> it was. you'll have to ask some members of congress and economists if they feel quite as optimistic as the president on this. >> rick: wall street did not react well to the u.s./china trade tensions. there was a big drop on friday. stock gains were a point of pride for this administration. the president doesn't seem to be backing down. a lot of you think this could hurt republican lawmakers across the country. >> i think so. i think it depends on the district or state. certainly there are certain areas where this will help but in a lot of these agriculture-heavy areas, which have voted for the president and do tend to be republican, it's a real issue. we're seeing iowa, senator chuck grassley has been very vocal about this, saying this is going to be really problematic and it could really help some of these house members who are really vulnerable going into the 2018 election. >> rick: what about that, jim? do you think this positio

i want to bring in jim walsh, an international security analyst, he's been to both north korea and iranlks in the past. jim, always good to see you. what does this mean in your view? this announcement for talks with south korea, and then the planned meeting between kim jong-un and the president to say that there will be this freeze? >> well, i think it's pretty good news. now, this is the first step in a long process. they haven't even sat down and talked. the negotiation has not begun, and the north koreans have made or offers several changes in their position. so that tells me they're probably serious about this thing. and trying to lay the ground work for it to be a success. now, will it ultimately be successful? we won't know until we get into it. as far as things go, this is a pretty good beginning. >> north korea has made joantures but reniged on just about everything. do you think this time it's different? >> well, first, when you look at the history of past negotiationings, it's a little more complex than that. you could argue the u.s. was the one who took actions that led to th

. >> peter baker and jim walsh, thanks to all of you. enjoy the weekend. >>> again, we xbheexpect to see president trump and angela merkel, german chancellor in a press conference at the white house. we expect that in the next 30 minutes or so from the east room. what it happens we'll take you there. >>> and just releasing a final russia report from the house senate committee and according to a new democratic memo, russia trying to use the national rifle association to make a first contact with the trump campaign. >>> also, teachers walking out. thousands of arizona teachers now are demanding more money for themselves and their students. >> happened about $7.50 a week take-home pay. of course, you can't live on that. your heart doesn't only belong to you. so if you have heart failure, ask your doctor about entresto. it helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an a

them out of there because we're coming after that base thanks for sharing your expertise with us jim walsh as we touched on a little any of the f.b.i. has raided the home and office of donald trump's personal attorney michael cohen has been at the center of a control the scene valving the president and a porn star f.b.i. agents seized documents relating to one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment cohen said he made to stormy daniels she claims she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she had with trump twelve years ago trump says he has no knowledge of the payment let's speak to dine he spoke in washington d.c. for more on this raid what happened talk us through a time. well jane you know it is a bombshell tonight in washington this is not only the president's personal attorney he's an advisor he's been at the president's side for more than a decade he is the attorney who says that he paid stormy daniels one hundred thirty thousand dollars she says to keep quiet about an affair that she had with the president more than a decade ago now president trump said he didn't know anyt

division some members could contemplate unilateral and forceful action mike zero united nations jim walsh is a senior associate at the mit security studies program he says the u.s. president is likely to follow through on his threats. i think the chance of a military strike is probably pretty high certainly given his most recent words that you quoted today and even if he hadn't said anything today given that a year ago i mean almost exactly to the day a year ago we had a use of chemical weapons the president took out what i would say took what i would say was a fairly limited strike against air bases and that we're back to back here year later i got to believe that the president wants something bigger and more robust will that really solve the problem no but the u.s. will be taking a stance against the use of weapons of mass destruction the president has shown over this past year that he tends to react very strongly to photographs of children that's what drove the last intervention and we've had chemical weapon attack since then and he hasn't done anything but now again we have these dram

for more now on the international response to the syria crisis we're joined by jim walsh he's a senior associate in security studies program at the massachusetts institute of technology jim of a woman welcome to the program what's your view currently on the path that might take well i expect him to follow through on his first tweet which is i expect that we're going to get an attack on syria the only question is when and how big and what the targets are i don't think they'll go after the chemical stockpiles because that risk creating a plume of talks a gas that might float over syria so i presume believe there are go after military targets or political targets possibly the chemical production plant since they can't be moved the syrians can hide the chemical weapons but they can't hide the plants but again there are some risks there but i expect you know we had this happen a year ago and he responded with a very modest attack on airstrips it's hard to imagine that when it happens year later he will not respond so i expect an attack and jim why not wait until the o.p.c. w. has carried ou

i want to get to jim sciutto and pamela brown at the white house and nick payton walsh in northern syria. 'we heard them talk about the targets and what the goals are. tell us about that. >> don, we learned a lot in that briefing from mattis and dunford, first of all. mattis made very clear, he said this is a one-time shot, a limited one night strike purely on chemical weapons facilities and that is not what the president said moments before mattis went to the podium and described a sustained u.s. response to the assad regime use of chemical weapons. how do you reconcile those two statements? it is possible that you do because mattis did say that if these weapons were to be used again there would be a response, but terms of this strike, it is a one-time shot and that appears to be different than the way the president characterized it earlier. when you look at the targets struck, it was purely about chemical weapons an not going after the regime and trying to weaken the regime. mattis made clear this is directed at syria and the syrian regime and not russia. that is key because mattis as