matthew hill reports.es call him "smiley riley" — and he has a lot to smile about, after being given the world's most expensive drug. he has spinal muscular atrophy, or sma, a condition which causes progressive muscle weakness. without treatment, those affected rarely reach beyond the age of two. this is when he was really poorly. we had to intubate him and put them on life support for three days. in those three days, we had them christened and registered because we was all preparing for the worst. this single infusion should prevent further loss of nerve cells. the list price of this drug is about £1.8 million, about the nhs has negotiated a confidential discount that will enable dozens of infected infants to be treated each year. but doctors still needed to be sure it would help riley. he had to be able to come off a ventilator for eight hours a day at least, otherwise there was no quality—of—life there, so we managed to do that. he is been improving with his movement and his breathing, so they decided t

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matthew hill reports. on life support for three days. in those three days, we had them christened and registered because we was all preparing for the worst. this single infusion should prevent further loss of nerve cells. the list price of this drug is about £1.8 million, about the nhs has negotiated a confidential discount that will enable dozens of infected infants to be treated each year. but doctors still needed to be sure it would help riley. he had to be able to come off a ventilatorfor eight hours a day at least, otherwise there was no quality—of—life there, so we managed to do that. he is been improving with his movement and his breathing, so they decided to have a big meeting about it and he got approved for it, which was the best feeling in the world, obviously. so how does the drug were? ——so how does the drug work? it contains a healthy copy of a missing or faulty gene called smn1. this is inserted into a harmless virus. in the body, the virus delivers the replacement gene into the nucleus of m

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. >> the evidence will show that on that fateful day of may 19th, 1999, hannah hill -- >> anna faraglia, matthewer where the prosecutors were laid out the theory of a crime. that hannah hill was lured over to denny ross's bachelet pride for what would be a -- >> nearly 70 witnesses were called. some of them testified off camera two things had denny told them over the years about hannah's death. >> then he had made a comment to me that he was going to -- hannah. >> he said we were all having sex and i was having sex with this girl and ended up choking her. excuse my language. and she died. >> this woman, was a stripper back then and irregular at denny's place. for 12 years, she denied being there the night hannah died. but just months before the second trial, she changed her story. saying now she was there that night and hadn't spoken up earlier because she had been afraid. >> while you were there, what did you observe? what did you hear? what did you see? >> denny and hannah in the bedroom. >> did you know what was going on in that bedroom? >> i had kind of a good idea. i knew they were -- aroun

over talking about today the big controversy hired by unc chapel hill, based on a project of 1619 that is completely different, matthew from what you are describing about american history that is chronicled in the 1776 commission report, to let seems to be diametrically opposed vets of information about our founding. so what is a person supposed to do and believe is accurate? >> whether the 1776 was done to respond to the project, the answer was it wasn't. it makes a note of it in one footnotes. but otherwise is not the intention at all. what it was, was to make an argument for the principles behind -- the driving principles of american history and point us toward developing an understanding american history we are teaching civics and preparing for the anniversary the declaration of independence that is fair, accurate, honest, and teaches that warts and all so that despite all of its flaws because of the principles behind it. and it's very important we don't look at it as the 1619 versus 1776. that is not what we're talking about here. what we are talking about is an accurate and fair history. it is pretty impossible

hill. they're basically doing a giant u turn. super complicated for veteran troops. overly complicated for these guys. they're literally in the middle of that maneuver when the british assault starts. under brigadier edward matthew, they'll slam into sullivan's division before they can get into position to fight. they're literally wheeling up on the hill when this takes place. a couple quotes on this. this is sir george osborne, the again dear officer of the brigade of guards, we attacked the left flank of the rebel army and reigning upon the brigades of sullivan where it would have been scarcery possible for them to resist. we saved much loss we might otherwise have sustained and certainly made the enemy first give way. this is colonel john stone that i think is commanding one of the brigades. he said i wheeled off but had not reached the ground before we were attacked on all quarters, and by wheeling to the left it doubled our division on the brig grade immediately in the rear of the other. thus, we were in confusion. if you can imagine two brigades trying to wheel up on this hill and the front brigade gets smashed by the guards, they'll retreat through the other brigade, utterly disrupting their formation, pu

under brigadier general edward matthew are going to slam into the division before they can ever get in the position to fight. they're literally wheeling up onto the hill when this takes place. couple quotes on this. this is sir george osbourne. he's the brigadier officer. he says we attacked the left frank of the army and really that it would have been scarcely possible for them to resist. we saved much loss we might otherwise have sustained and certainly made the enemy first give way. this is colonel john stone, who, again, i think is commanding one of the brigades. he says, i wheeled off but had not reached the ground before we were attacked on all quarters. and by wheeling to the left, doubling our division on the brigade immediately in the rear of the other. thus we were in confusion. you can imagine two brigades and trying to wheel up onto this hill and the front brigade gets smashed by the guards. they're going to retreat through the other brigade, utterly disrupting their formations, pushing two off the battlefield before they ever got to the fight. this is what it looked like. this is a water color painted inside the back cover of lord cantalo

matthews. you know him from msnbc, we know him from this "new york times" best-selling book. and you spent time in washington, running for officer, serving as a capitol hillngs have had a front row seat for. and it's great to see you today. thanks for being here. >> thank you, ari. you're great. thank you. >> in our setup, we looked at something you know a lot about, politics has always been rough and had its clashes, but it seems like the truth problems are getting worse today. your view? >> i think it comes down to numbers. you look at 35% who don't believe in science right now. i hold one person responsible, donald trump. i think he's spread the word that chaos is good. don't trust anybody but me. it's a cult. i mean, if the numbers were 17%, we wouldn't be worried. but this is chaotic because of one person. someone who could go either way has been swayed by trump, hannity, and the rest of them. but after 9/11, you could feel it in the streets of new york, we were united. we saw a common enemy, and faced it down as a country. we're still capable of doing it if we have leaders. i hold trump personally responsible. when i was 8 or 9 years old, my brother