and john campbell is a senior fellow for africa policy studies at the council on foreign relations and former u.s. department of state foreign service officer who joins us from washington d.c. we appreciate it very much so. senator bob corker u.s. senator a very conservative senator from from tennessee when he was asked about the tweet from donald trump and in relation to south africa he said it sounds to me like a base stimulation message was donald trump talking to with that tweet he oh in so far as senator corker is accurate i would suspect that the president was addressing those who feel left out those who find the modern world fusing and difficult and to me there are overtones of racism in the president's tweet as well so steam do you think he was speaking specifically domestically or are there who are the people in south africa that hear this message and it resonates with them the way he clearly means it. i don't think he was speaking to people in south africa at all i think what he did was he took an issue which has had some highly confused and often inaccurate commentary here a

republican real ira, several months after the signing of the good friday agreement. 0ur correspondent john campbellst of the annual commemorations. how important does remain for people to mark those terrible events? we saw today just how important mark those terrible events? we saw todayjust how important it was. the pain is still on duty. relatives we re pain is still on duty. relatives were allaying weeks. —— lane reflex. 0ne were allaying weeks. —— lane reflex. one man has been a figurehead for the families. he said people need to work together. people here paid the ultimate price for a division are not allowed. we also heard from the local council, who is involved in the aftermath. he said thejustice delayed is justice the aftermath. he said thejustice delayed isjustice denied. nobody has been held criminally liable for what happened. no minister from the british government attended today. is there any resentment of that? that they have not shown sufficient respect? given that it was the last graphic terrorist attack to take place. i think there was some disappointment here. there were represen

john campbell is a senior fellow for africa policy studies at the council on foreign relations and a former u.s. department of state foreign service officer who joins us from washington d.c. we appreciate your time very much said they government the ugandan government have anticipated this type of reaction this type of pushback to the treatment of. yes i think it should have been just that the one is very well known. further the history of human rights violations in uganda is also. it strikes me that the regime has handled this whole situation very well and they did issue an apology and he wrote about this and the crying what they called unprofessional conduct but then promising the arrest and punishment of those responsible for what but they as you said they have done this before who are they and are they actually feel accountable to if anybody well that's just it that's the whole problem of the problem is the regime is remarkably unaccountable to anyone except its own interests that's the issue then you have the really quite extraordinary charge of treason i mean it's it's really q

john campbell's report contains some distressing scenes. 15th august, 1998, and a car bomb devastateshoppers and tourists. an unclear warning meant they were directed to the place where the so—called real ira had planted the bomb. among the 29 victims were nine children, three generations of one family, and a woman pregnant with twins. dozens more people suffered serious injuries. it shook a northern ireland public who were hoping that the developing peace process meant that violence was at an end. and the grief of the victims‘ families was compounded by the failure to convict the perpetrators. serious mistakes in the police investigation were exposed during the unsuccessful prosecution of a man accused of making the bomb. the families had to take their own civil legal action. they successfully sued four men — michael mckevitt, liam campbell, colm murphy and seamus daly. they were all found liable for involvement in the bombing. today, their victims will be remembered through music and prayer at the omagh memorial garden. this will be the last regular public commemoration. the familie

john campbell's report contains some distressing scenes. 15th august, 1998, and a car bomb devastatesets had been busy with shoppers and tourists. an unclear warning meant they were directed to the place where the so—called real ira had planted the bomb. among the 29 victims were nine children, three generations of one family, and a woman pregnant with twins. dozens more people suffered serious injuries. it shook a northern ireland public who were hoping that the developing peace process meant that violence was at an end. and the grief of the victims‘ family was compounded by the failure to convict the perpetrators. serious mistakes in the police investigation were exposed during the unsuccessful prosecution of a man accused of making the bomb. the families had to take their own legal action. they successfully sued four men — michael mckevitt, liam campbell, colm murphy and seamus daly. they were all found liable for involvement in the bombing. today, their victims will be remembered through music and prayer at the 0magh memorial garden. this will be the last regular public commemorat

public inquiry and there will be further legal hearings around that in the coming months and years. john campbellund 80 of its train services today, affecting journeys to liverpool, lancashire and greater manchester. to liverpool, lancashire the rail company blamed engineering problems. it follows similar disruption last weekend, and on the day of the world cup final. weekend, and on the day the company said the cancellations would offer passengers "more certainty in planning their journeys. " the rmt union again called for northern to be stripped of its franchise. called for northern to be fighting is continuing today in the afghan city of ghazni where the taliban have attacked police headquarters and government buildings. police headquarters 17 years on from the us—led invasion of afghanistan, british troops who are part of an increased uk military presence have been arriivng in the capital, kabul. the hope is to support afghan troops and diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. and diplomatic efforts 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. back to the dust and heat of helmand. this, t

we also do have a naomi campbell. >> johns and larrys. >> do committee members like to bring anyone up for questions or comments? >> i just want to say mr. mulligan is administering a hearing right now. so he's not here in the chambers. >> okay. thank you for informing us of that. at this time, we're going to begin public comment on this item. i do have a number of speaker cards before me. ly call on the first 10 cards. we have mr. tim paulson, now executive director of the building trades. >>> okay. i apologize. we had a lot of different requests. m supervisor safai would like mr. arsay to speak. >> i apologize for missing timing and things like that. i want to ask about city build and how it relates to things on the table. there's been a lot of question about city build and how it may play with this proposal. i know we're going to be prop e proposing amounts and what that means. i think they're very committed to seeing a pathway for all the different underrepresented communities that you work with. i just want to hear your thoughts on that. >> thank you, supervisor safai. in the offi

campbell, bbc news. the convicted rapist john worboys has been questioned about new allegations of sexual assault. overturned a parole board decision earlier this year to release him. the bbc understands that worboys was interviewed under caution last month. jeremy corbyn has become embroiled in a row on twitter with the israeli prime minister. benjamin netanyahu has accused the labour leader of laying a wreath in memory of the palestinians suspected of being behind the munich olympics massacre in 1972. mr corbyn acknowledged that hewas present when a wreath was laid, but said he didn't think he was involved in it. tonight he hit back calling the israeli prime minister's claims "false". our political correspondent eleanor garnier reports. it was back in 2014 before he became labour leader, but this is a wreath—laying ceremony creating so many questions forjeremy corbyn. he says he was there to remember the victims of the bombing by israel of the palestine liberation organisation headquarters in 1985. but the accusation is whether he also took part in remembering those alleged to have been behind t

john who was named best female player. in the coaching category were tired after leading by munich to the league title. fifty one years ago donal campbell's attempt to break his own water speed record ended in tragedy his hydroplane the bluebird took off from contest on water in england and then somersaulted crashing back into the lake and killing campbell now his daughter gina has breathed new life into the boat and her father's legend. an emotional moment gina campbell. more than fifty years after her father perished in an attempt to set a new water speed record his hard reply blue returns to the water. donald campbell was forty five at the time of his death determines a beach is on record at two hundred seventy six point three mph. insulate coniston in england's like district with devastating effects. now salvaged and restored bluebird has been given a new lease of life for gina it's as if it never left the water. to me walking in here this morning is like complete deja vu you could turn back the clock fifty five years and this is how i remember bluebird with my father still alive and in all her fine glory then following tests in scotl

now let me tell you, nine months lateron, as doug campbell, my client, and uranium on been contacted by johnuber? no. >> sean: that's amazing. >> also upset that neither nellie ohr nor bruce ohr were contacted by huber. how can you -- we used to do investigations when i was a justice department official. they are calling it an evaluation. i don't know what that is. it's like a matter. they were supposed to do a full fledged t evaluation to these members of congress and they haven't even interviewed bruce ohr, nellie ohr, or my client about these two key issues. it's awful. to be one congressman, you are at the forefront of this, subpoenaing documents well befoe you left congress. people don't remember you as a congressman, with all due respect, you are remembered more for filling in for ingraham. i'm kidding. the president has to step in and get this material, unredacted, 302s, phis applications, everything in between, now that we know what happened. >> the president has been going to have to do that because attorney general sessions as they are in name only. d he's not doing anything. he sh

john huber, u.s. attorney for utah has not talked to not only bruce ohr or nellie ohr, but my client doug campbell and uranium one. there's so much coming out. fall of 2017, republican members of congress were demanding special counsel, federal issues and uranium one the fisa wiretap. in november, the assistant attorney general rights to the congressman and says we are in charge, but a senior prosecutors on it and we are going to evaluate your accusation very quickly. not investigate, which is what i used to do at the department of justice. but evaluate in the highest standard of justice. march 2018, jeff sessions comes out and says guess who i have in charge of all of this. i had john huber whose the u.s. attorney. in charge of looking at all of these issues are uranium one and surveillance. and now, nine months later, not only has bruce or nellie ohr been interviewed, but my client says to send his regards has not been introduced. how can you even evaluate those two issues about talking in those three people? how? is a sham. lou: it's a cover-up from start to finish. >> i'm appalled. lou: it is your

cook have sent us the following statement: i spoke to our correspondent sarah campbell a little earlier. the couple, susan and johntion in lancashire and said, as a family we are devastated. mum and dad meant the world to me and we are in utter shock over what has happened. prior to going on holiday mum and dad were fit and healthy with no health problems at all. we have no cause of death. at the moment a postmortem is under way. she gave some details about what happened. dad never went to hospital. he died ina dad never went to hospital. he died in a hotel room in front of me. i went to hospital with mum in the ambulance where she passed away for the terrible events. her priority is finding out what happened with the cause of death and trying to get her and her three children home. unimaginable and incredibly confusing. she said they were healthy beforehand. the borough twos in egypt said there were no suspicious circumstances and they died of natural causes. thomas cook ina died of natural causes. thomas cook in a statement are pulling people out of saying there is a raised level of illness at the hotel. we saw

john augustine, what do you think? do you want to weigh in on the campbells situation in. >> they may be a private equity candidate, that they're buying some things 11 times, and it's a good candidate and maybe it goes behind the private equity curtain, gets fixed up, gets brought back out >> okay, guys, we're going to have to leave it there thank you for joining us for the first block. facebook has been under fire for the past few weeks the stock is down 14%, and nowtle may be taken over as the second largest website in the u.s. google is number one, facebook number two. who might overtake facebook as number two we'll be discussing that coming up here on "the closing bell." you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. thanks, janet. it's welcomemy happy place. store. you can learn how to switch to xfinity mobile, a new wireless network that saves you cash. and you can get 5 lines of talk and text include

john thank you for your perpghtive. >> thank you. >> well to stocks it has been a going down for a while despite to find a biaser campbells has noeno soup for you. tracee carrasco joins us with more on that and other headlines making news. good morning tracee. >> according to new york post campbell soup expected to announce that it doesn't plan to sell itself to a strategic buyer this could upset activist investor and broxy fight against company board of directors and a public filing on august a 9th activist he think fund urge campbell saying the only justifiable outcome is for the company to be sold to a strategic buyer. the results of that strategic review will be announced on thursday. >> all right. buzz feed is reaching out to readers for financial assistance. cheryl: that's right "buzzfeed news" is asking for donations to help offset cost of news gathering company unveiled plans for feature at the bolt bottom f news pages to donating 1 and 500 dollars people who donate will reportedly get some timely updates on big investigations and news programming. from "buzzfeed news," if this works it could mark beginning of a membership

campbells soup >> time now for a cnbc news update with sue herrera. >>> here's what's happening at this hour, more than 30,000 people gathered for john mccain's memorial in phoenix, arizona this afternoon. and shortly mccain's body will be flown via military transport to washington, d.c. where he will lie in state at the u.s. capitol before a celebration of life service at the nation's national cathedral on saturday >>> some california democrats are calling for a boycott of in and out burger after it was revealed that the chain had donated $25,000 to the california republican party. that's according to a public filing on the california secretary of state's website a company spokesperson, though, telling cnbc that in and out has made equal contributions to both democrats and republicans this year >>> some new video coming in from a partial building collapse at a water reclamation plant on the south side of chicago. first responders have been on the scene all day there searching through the rubble right now at least eight people are reported injured >>> and it seems like we just got 4k tvs but now there is 8k no prices released yet, but some 8k tvs cost

. >> john, is the company for sale or not >> we don't think so we think at this point in time you see package food valuations compressed relative to the market campbellory imbedded in a bid they would receive and after cost savings, the amount of synergy isn't all that great so we think to sell the company you are not maximizing the value and we think it's better off to repair the ship internally. >> they seem to agree with you, john just basically two key segments and sell off what they hope is a better '19 john, my question and many investors' questions is, can they pull it off and execute given the track record >> well, we think what we learned this morning in terms of an increased willingness to sell back the company, you are correcting what went wrong as they push for short term margins over longer term revenue growth so we think it's a step in the right direction. the integration of snider's lance is a good decision and we would have liked to see a two or three-year time frame rather than one-year recovery for the business and we think they have given themselves a limited cushion to operate. >> ken, sounds like you don't agree. can they fundame