melvin andennett rifle are from california. three other victims have ties to this area. max edkins was a communication for the group's collect r climate program. cedric asiavugwa was a third-year law student at georgeto. he mentored younger students and

this evening we will hear from professor melvin. he is professor of history at virginia commonwealth. he directed vcu's administration and chaired the history department. you should know that history was my major in college. before that he received his ba and phd from columbia university and today since he semi retired in 2003 i'm sure his lovely wife will probably take umbrage with using the word retired he keeps himself nimmable by teaching history at american university in dc. he is a prolific historian and scholar and has written on many topics on history and has served for the past 25 years as the chairman of the board of editors of the journal of supreme court history. over the years he has held many fellowships and grants from the endowment for humanities and the american historical association and many others. i want to highlight two of his works, his biography of justin brandice won many accolades including the jewish book counsel's award as the book of the year and ambassador's award given by the english speaking union of

bob melvin says he will not be in the starting lineup but come off the bench. our opening day coverage is not over yet. vern is in san diego and join us later in the show. but for now back to you, kenny. >> sounds good, andrea, thank you. >>> basketball watch today ncaa tournament picking up once again this afternoon as a sweet 16 gets under way at 4:00. it's florida state taking on top seeded gonzaga in a rematch from last year's sweet 16. texas tech faces michigan for a spot in the elite 8, catch all the action on kpix 5 starting at 4:00. >>> new at noon, tragedy for a north bay family a 25-year-old man dies in a stabbing and the suspect is his younger brother last night outside the canyon run apartments that is near parkland farms boulevard. police taped off part of the apartments today as they continue to investigate. we've learned this began over a family dispute between the two brothers and then it turned violent. >> it start as a physical fight and then it led to one brother pulling out a knife and stabbing the other one multiple times. unnatly it happen

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. he managed to get me to care about him. he had my whole life wrapped up. >> she's at the center of a riveting courtroom drama. the wife whose entrepreneur husband was found murdered one cold autumn morning. >> our whole family has lost its brightest light, and we don't know why. >> he's the one accused of the crime. so why is she under the microscope? >> she's gotten caught in the middle of this crossfire, and it's really unfortunate. it goes against everything that i know about andrea. >> was she cheating with her executive boss? >> "be with me forever." would that be normal communication between your boss and you? >> scheming widow or suffering victim? >> who kills someone else's husband? there was no affair. >> hello and welcome to "dateline." he was a young entrepreneur who wanted to change the world, but someone wanted him dead. first, no one knew what to make of this case, but

melvin riffle and his wife were expecting their first child, traveling around the world with his brother, bennett. supposed to be his last big adventure before coming a father. had a tightknit group of friends and they gathered to reminisce, sure videos and pictures and talk about what he meant to them. >> the most loving, most joyful, most positive person i have ever had the pleasure of knowing. >> his daughter he was so excited. he could not wait to meet her. he couldn't wait to take her to do everything he loved student the brothers had been traveling with melvin's wife, brittany who had already returned home. holding up the best she can. >>> i want to update you on the situation in san leandro. a command post has been set up. an officer involved shooting involving an alameda county sheriff's deputy. what we are being told is little sketchy but this happened around 4:40. the officer encountering two suspects one of which we are told fired a weapon at the officer. the officer was not hit. we are not sure if the suspect was hit. they are assessing injuries right now, that is all we are

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melvin and bennett were on vacation expressed to friends as an overseas adventure. that travel to australia and mogadishu before boarding the doom to jet in ethiopia. they attended st. joseph's catholic school in redding when they were children. >> i did visit susan and i can this morning together with some other priests. there place faith is really strong. >> flowers and candles have been placed outside of st. joseph's church as it tribute to melvin and bennett. >>> another crash victim was a woman working for san francisco nonprofit organization and was scheduled to fly to the bay area next week for a conference. >> as jenna reports, it has left her coworker shot shocked. >> reporter: at so monday evening, several flights using the 737 max eight aircraft taxied into the gate. passengers on one air canada flight said they have been thinking about the ethiopian airlines crash when they saw their plane was the same model. >> it was pretty terrifying once i sat in my seat and saw the little card that said the 737 8. i was pretty terrified for a little bit. >> reporter

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. gelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products.w that we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good eveningthnd k you for joining us. u.s. investigators will head to the scene of a plane crash in t ethiopt killed all 157 teople on board this morning. search and rescus found no survivors at the scene of the crash, 40 miles south of ethiopia's capital of addis ababa. the ethiopian airlines plane was a four-month-old boeing 737 maxs eight, the nmodel of the popular commercial airliner. and the same model as anio indonesianair flight that crashed in october. kenya's transport ministerhe confirmed thatargest numbe

melvin and bennett riffel will were traveling through africa and graduated from shasta high school. >> they went through a lot of things this past year. it is a very supportive community. just this morning after mass, people are, you know, offering prayer, offering their help. >> friends say melvin and his wife were expecting their first child this may. anne musyoki worked for tech soup in san francisco. she was a regional lead in africa. she was a wife and mother returning home from a work event. >>> the u. s. state department is ordering all remaining americans out of venezuela as the country's political crisis intensifies. lauren podesta reports that the country is still trying to restore electricity after days of blackouts. >> reporter: venezuelans are using buckets and trash bins to gather water. shops are being looted and hospitals are turning away patients as the country experiences its sixth day of rolling blackouts. >> with respect to the powder power outages, those are a direct result of years and years in the blacked to the venezuelan energy system. >> reporter: in battle p

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seton melvin. the cherylnd philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos a diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provid by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retiremepany. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the united sta cutting off direct aid to el salvador, guatemala, and honduras. the state department announced today that it will suspend 2017 and 2018 payments to the three countries. ve comes one day after president trump threatened to mmut down the u.s.-mexico border overration and said that the cuts were already in place. >> i've enents to guatemala, to honduras and el salvador. ymore.ey goes there an we were giving them $500 million. e giving them tremendous aid. we stopped p

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundndion. rosa. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your rerement company. additional support has been prided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. a class action lawsuit challenging the trump administration's zero tolerance policy just got bigge it was the policy which separated more than 2,700 migrant children from their families at the u.s.-mexico border last spring. the federal judge overseeing the case said the government must add what may be thousands more children and families to the case. in a ruling late yesterday, judge dana sabted a ly-released report from the office of the inspector ral at health and human servi

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been ovided by: and by the corporation for toublic broadcasting, and by contributionour pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at li ohari sreenivasan.rk, >> sreenivasan: good evening and apank you for joining us. in his first publiarance since returning from vietnam, president dona trump spoke today at the annual conservative political action conference in maryland. in a wide ranging, at times rambling speech that began with the president hugging a u.s. flag, mr. trump once aga s railed againcial counsel robert mueller's investigation of russian interference in t- 2016 electioing an expletive to describe it. >> they'rerying to take you out with ( bleep ) okay? with ( bleep ). >> sreenivasan: over more tha

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip mitein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. rbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided l by mut america-- designing customized individual rand grourement products. that's why we're your retirement company. radditional supas been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs thank you.om viewers like you. from t tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. the coents are still secret, the attorney general is still iaviewing, and the demands to see spcounsel robert mueller's report on the almost two-year investigation into president trump and russian election interference are growing. photographers tracked the movements of attorney general william barr as he left home this morning. yesterday, in a letter to congreional leaders, barr said he anticipated he might be "in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal lusions as soon as this w

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional supportas been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcastin and by contributions to your pbs yotation from viewers like you. gohan >> sreenivasan evening and thanks for joining us this sunday, march 17th. i'm hari sreenivasan. we're bringing you tonight's broadcast from the lamont- doherty earth observatory overloing the hudson river north of new york city. the observatory is part of columbia university's earth institute, where researchers and students work on complicated environmental issues facing the planet. we'll hear more about the research being done here and how it is helping advance our nding of climate change. but first, here are today's headlines. new zealanime minister jacinda ardern consoled community members at a mosque and p

seton melvin. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. salind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. drporate funding is provi by mutual of america-- designing customized individua and group retirement products. that's why we're your .retirement compa additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening,oi and thanks forng us. new zealand is in mourning after the deadliest terror attack in the country's history. at least 49 people were shot ana killtwo mosques in new zealand's third-largest city of christchurch during friday prayer services. hundreds of mourners paid their respects at the site of the first shooting, the al noor mosque. others laid flowers at a msmorial site near the hospital where many victire being treated for injuries. several are still in critical erndition. today, family meidentified s

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. "lockup" producers and crews as they go behind the walls of america's prisons and jails, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >>> in the heart of downtown cleveland is the cuyahoga county correction center. >> this is how it go in the county joint. >> ain't no talking. >> like virtually all jails,

. >> melvin and bennett riffle were on vacation. one redding official says it was supposed to be the brothers' last adventure together before melvin became a father. >> the crash is rattling traveler here is and around the world. that's because six months ago the same model of plane, a boeing 737 max 8 crashed in indonesia. >> southwest has 34 of these planes, more than any other airline in the world. air canada and american airlines are next with 24. each the airlines are still flying the boeing 737 max 8s, saying they are safe. >> however, airlines overseas have grounded these plans for the time being. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. the faa today said the plane is airworthy, but senator dianne feinstein is now asking them to take a second look. >> she says, quote, continuing to fly an airplane that has been involved in two fatal crashes within just six months presents an unnecessary potentially life-threatening risk to the traveling public. >> abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is liv

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> good morning.p mena at msnbc world headquarters in new york. it is 6:00 in the east, 3 out west and here's what's happening. >>> new polls show two new democrats topping the 2020 field. why so many voters say they'd take either one. >>> president trump reigniting fears of a government shutdown with big plans to slash the budget. why he's reserving $100 million for his daughter. >>> plus -- >> here's how bad trump's presidency is going. his campaign manager this year was sentenced to four years in

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> one woman, two men. her husband, the air force captain, and the staff sergeant, her rendezvous man. >> he was a playboy himself. >> one man too many. then, suddenly, there was one man less. >> it wasn't like, bang, bang, bang, bang. it was bang, pause, bang, pause. >> which sounds like what? execution? >> you can put it that way, yes. >> a cold-blooded killing. did someone drive her to murder? or did she? >> she was a cunning, ruthless woman. >>> hello. and welcome to "dateline." the story you're about to see, centers on the death of a military man thousands of miles from a battlefield. a dedicated officer who survived war zones, only to be caught in the crossfire of a lover's triangle. here's keith morrison. >>> what was she thinking? when she went to the computer? when she typed in those five, little words? did she not understand where those little words might lead. >> where are you at? >> reporter: michelle was, no doubt about i

. >>> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra," i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ♪ >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline". >> he's a good dad. he loves us so much. no one wants to have both their parents taken away from them. >> it's a tale with so many dramatic turns. the story of a young family facing heart ache beyond measure. a mom who suddenly vanished. a dad suddenly under suspicion. >> you just hear the awful things they say. >> i knew they were focussing on me. >> there was no body, no weapon, no eyewitness. >> there's not one doubt in my mind that he's guilty. >> now after four trials the final verdict is in. >> i'm not guilty. i didn't do this. ♪ >> hello and welcome to "dateline." cal harris seemed to have it all, a beautiful family, a successful business and a big house on a lake. but all was not as it seemed. it was september 11, 2001, as the world witnessed the tragedies unfolding in new york, washington, d.c. and pennsylvania, the harris family was struck by heart break much closer to home. ca

now back to "dateline." >>> welcome back, i'm craig melvin.harlie tan told police he shot his father to save his mother. but investigators were finding flaws in that story. the ivy league student had been arrested and was facing second degree murder charges. was this an intentional killing or justifiable homicide? here again is dennis murphy with "house of secrets." >> anna valentine was in a state of disbelief when she learned that her close friend charlie tan had been arrested. >> did you have a chance to talk to charlie himself in that period? >> he called me on the phone a couple times from jail. >> anna didn't sit around. she was going to do whatever she could to defend her friend, because she knew there was no way charlie did anything wrong. >> you did something remarkable. you sort of pulled together a whole community behind charlie. >> yeah. >> anna started a defense fund support page for charlie. >> and it just like spread crazy. i had no clue what was going to happen. >> you threw out there on the net. >> i put out the page and told

bennett and melvin riffle lived in redding.y had been on vacation and had been in australia before going to ethiopia. the plane crashed just before takeoff in addis ababa, bound for nairobi, kenya. the plane hitting the ground, crashing and exploding. this crash comes five months after a boeing 737 max-8 belonging to lion air crashed in indonesia, killing 189 people. today several countries including china and indonesia ordered their airlines to ground those jets, the newest and most popular made by boeing. the faa has not followed suit, but one former safety inspector with the agency says it should. >> i have never, ever done this before. i've never said hey, it's unsafe to fly a particular model of aircraft. but in this case, i'm going to have to go there. i just looked a the flight data off of that aircraft. it's strikingly similar, same issues that lion air had with the max air. >> authorities say the pilot sent out a distress call moments before the plane went down. eight americans were on board. investigators have located

i'm craig melvin.helle young had a smile that would light up a room. she was the last person anyone who knew her would expect to be murdered. but it happened. she was at home with her toddler, cassidy, pregnant with her second child, when tragedy struck. the investigation quickly revealed a troubled marriage, but her husband was away on business and untraveling this complicated case would take years. here's keith morrison. >> i think i paused for a second and had to take a deep breath. and just the reality of what was going on would sink in. >> reporter: those who saw the footprints will not forget them. they were tiny and they were bloody. >> i had to get my composure to finish searching this house to make sure there was nobody else in the house. >> reporter: it was the third of november 2006, early afternoon. scott earp was the wait county sheriff's deputy dispatched to a quiet leafy neighborhood called enchanted oaks on the outskirts of raleigh, north carolina. here because of the 911 call from this

melvin -- chafta county. melvin and bennett riffle, two brothers from redding, were embarking upon an adventure that had already taken them through australia, mogadishu, before they arrived in ethiopia. it has been said that this is their last trip together before melvin was set to become a father, together with his wife, brittany, who had only recently returned home. our friends and neighbors in northern california share in the sadness and grief that we all feel for their families and for all the families who lost loved ones that day on that plane. as we await more information on exactly what went wrong, please join me in praying for melvin, bennett, their families and all the others who boarded that fateful flight that day. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there any further requests for one-minute speeches? under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from illinois, mr. shimkus, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. shimkus: thank you, m

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> we were like sisters. we had shared so much. they told me that they had found her body. i just collapsed. she's dead because she was my friend. >> first, melissa disappeared. >> where's melissa? >> that's the million dollar question. >> i knew right then that she absolutely never made it into her house. >> left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist. >> we didn't know what it was. >> then, her boss went missing, too. >> who was he afraid of? >> he might of been afraid that he was next. >> he said, "if i don't get this taken care of, these people are gonna put a bullet in my head." >> he left behind a bigger mess. >> we three kings be stealing the gold. >> a missing fortune. >> ballpark? $1 billion, $1.5 billion. >> a missing woman. >> we have no clues, no leads. >> some wondered, was there a link? >> this had a twist to it. >> two crimes. one for money. one supposedly for love. and behind both, a lingeri

i'll turn it over to craig melvin. >> fantastic hour.uarters of the new york city. we're going to dive into team coverage of the mueller report, starting with what's next. the attorney general says there are no plans to prosecute president trump. democrats though drilling down on the big issue mueller apparently did not offer a conclusion on. on instruction obstruction of justice. >>> also, victory lap. president trump calling mueller's findings a, quote, complete and total exoneration. i'll talk to former white house insider omarosa manigault-newman about how he'll use this to his political advantage. >>> and political fallout. democrats and republicans drawing new battle lines in the wake of the mueller probe with laser focus on 2020. buckle up. the ride is not over. robert el

craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. party of healthcare.ump promising the gop will be the party of healthcare after scrapping the affordable care act. has he just handed democrats a gift for 2020? >>> blaming trump, a new biography of former first lady barbara bush, details her fierce dislike of the president with quite a few bombshells. >>> and the contenders joe biden apologizing again for his handling of the anita hill sexual harassment allegations. will he be able to put that chapter behind him? >>> we start with trump's new healthcare fight in the wake of the doj throwing its weight behind a major obamacare lawsuits, democrats are thrilled. the top republican in the house, kevin mckarktycarthy declined t his position, telling reporters to talk to his office. healthcare cost republicans their house majority. nevermind says preside

melvin mccain. >> i'm the president of local 10 in san francisco. i oppose the wall. number one, the property can be used for maritime. what we are doing now sending out our mire -- maritime land. we started with port 80 and then built a cruise terminal and went from 32 vessel calls to 89 vessel calls. if you up a wall it will restrict and that's one thing i'm opposed to. we had conversations time after time with the maritime use in san francisco. for instance was built on maritime. this is how we start the out. turn of the century, when i was 10 years old i used to catch the ferry from oakland to san francisco. i remember the bridge was 25 cents top and 10 cents bought pom we're -- bottom. this is the same thing that was done and everything's gone. everything's high rises. they have to go to new jersey to get their goods. they export everything out. this is the last deep water we have. what happens if we have an act of war. where will military vessels go? what we do to help our own. i oppose it. we can help or hinder. thank you. >> thank you. is there any other publi

melvin and bennett ripple were on that plane. the two brothers attended st. joseph's cat click school in redding as children. >> i did visit susan and ike this morning together with some of the priests. and their faith really strong. >> flowers and candles have been placed outside of st. joseph church as a tribute to melvin and bennett ripple. >>> the alameda county board of supervisors will vote on the program shown as urban shield created after 911 to help first responders to help. but the program has been criticized making the police department more as a military agency. the program will be changed to prepare to help with natural disasters. >>> and they are about to walk off the job at o'connor hospital in san jose and read hospital in gilroy. this is tied to a contract dispute that followed the recent sale of those two hospitals. administrators say that they are ready to treat patients despite the walkout. >>> and the at the san jose cen says that workers will walk out to protest the owner. >>> a man who was shot and paralyzed in his home as two men broke

craig melvin here. msnbc headquarters in new york city. stonewalled as democrats zero in on the president and his inner circle, president trump suggests his administration won't cooperate with request for documents and testimony. the president erroneously using his prescessor as a reason why. >>> breaking point. the number of migrant families crossing the border is now at an 11 year high, even after the trump administration's aggressive immigration crackdown. did the president's policies actually contribute or fuel the influx? >>> fighting for my life. that's just part of what r. kelly said as he broke his silence on the sexual abuse charges that landed him in jail. he's emotional, combative. we'll get to that. >>> the one wall president trump can build without approval, a stone wall. trump's former lawyer and fixer michael cohen is on capitol hill at this very moment. this is his fourth appearance in a week. his testimony, a road map for investigators. his credibility? better than the president's. the president's best defense, delay, dodg

the common thread, bob melvin getting his third manager of the year award.u might expect, melvin says his award is due to those guys. >> it's all about the players. i'll enjoy being out there with them, and hopefully i get to present a couple of them with the awards. those are the type of guys that make a manager look good. should be fun. >> heard nothing but really good things about him. i get text messages about him all the time. did you see him yesterday? he looks exactly like you. i said, frankly, i doubt that, i know he's got a better arm than i do. i had to bounce the ball to first base at times. >>> one game into the season and bruce bocce is shaking up the starting lineup. buster posey will play first. selarte goes to start at second base. kratz will get the start. giants take on the padres tonight in san diego. five hits and zero runs, manager bocce just looking to spark some offense. one ncaa tournament note, how the mighty have fallen. number one seed north carolina loses to heir buauburn, the fir number 1 seed to lose in this tournament. a lot of

friends say melvin and his wife are expecting their first child this may. anne musyoki worked for tech soup based in san francisco. she was a regional lead in africa and a wife and mother returning home from a work event. >>> developing this morning, the u. s. state department is ordering all remaining americans out of venezuela as the country's political crisis intensified. venezuelans are using buckets and trash bins to gather water. shops are being looted and hospitals are turning away patients as the country experiences its sixth day of rolling blackouts. >> with regard to the blackouts, that is a direct result of years and years of neglectledentnicolas ro said th result of a cyber attack by the u. s. but provided no evidence. opposition groups say about 17 people have medical care, like dialysis. >>> let's take a live look at the white house this morning. president trump's lingering public feud with california is heating up this morning. governor gavin newsom had some words to say about the president in an interview with cnn's anderson cooper. newsom c

bob melvin on the power hour. >> we've been known to hit some homers. and i can't remember the last time i saw one go in the upper deck in left field. he's been here for a few years and i don't think he's even hit one up there. >> it happened so fast. one of those things that you travel that far and there's other nice things that come with it. we can take care of business and play baseball. >>> in san diego, bruce bochy starting his final season as giants skipper. a 1-0 padres lead. 9th inning, last chance for the g-men. brandon belt goes down. buster posey, struck him out. and the giants had just five hits. san diego a 2-0 winner. >> felt really good today. command was good. the biggest thing. stuff was good. command of stuff was pretty much there the whole game. >> we're all healthy. we didn't think we were gonna go 162 and >>> florida state beat gonzaga in last year's sweet 16. they didn't have brandon clark last season. tonight they saw what the san jose transfer can actually do. hatcher mara messed the layup. brandon clark flies in for the slam. 15

i'm craig melvin.fassbender denied police framed steven avery for the murder of teresa halbach. after all his nephew admitted to helping commit the crime, a story captured on camera. but the teenager recanted his statements, and a closer look at that taped confession would put the interrogation at the heart of the controversy surrounding this case. >> all the renewed attention had shed light on the other defendant in the case, brendan dassey. the teenager had been convicted of rape and murder but to his family it never made any sense. is brendan someone capable of rape? >> no, no. i don't even know he knew what that was at the time. >> reporter: they took him dassey's case for appeal. they saw amen tale challenged teen with a low iq. what did you think of brenld an dassey when you were finally able to meet him in person? >> brendan is a simple soul. i was struck by his humanity. this is not someone i can see committing a crime like this. that the psychological power of interrogation. >> reporter: they'

i'm craig melvin.covered in blood and suspicious scratches, tom insisted he did not harm his wife, that she was the one who pulled the trigger. ashl ashley's parents weren't buying it but would the police? here again is keith morris with "after the party." >> 28-year-olds old, wife and mother of three was dead. the gunshot wound in her head unsurvivable. it was suicide said her husband, tom. >> i didn't shoot my wife. i didn't -- i didn't do this. >> i had three grand kids that i dearly loved that i knew in my heart that tom had just killed their mother. >> the news of ashley's death sbr spread quickly. >> everything was find that night. >> confusing. >> she was happy. she didn't seem suicidal. >> andrea, new friend, drinking buddy at the party couldn't shake a feeling. >> i don't feel like she would have taken her life. tom was the only other person that was there. >> so if it wasn't there it had to be him. >> right. >> for all the questions, police did not arrest tom nor charge him with anything. >>

pregnant jessica joined our family for a beautiful wedding in brooklyn, and a few days later, no of melvin schumer -- schapiro waschumer born. he turned for yesterday. he smiled, he turned over. he's already a genius. he's an einstein. a little bit about my dad and my parents. , they are noah's great-grandparents -- god willing on flag day, june 19, my dad will turn 96. god willing on d-day, june 6, my mom will turn 91 and in two weeks, god willing, we will celebrate with their new great grandchild their 70th anniversary together. [applause] my family, it is just a great part of the american dream. my father was an exterminator. he struggled his whole life. once sent him a father's day card that said we are the only family that associates this mill of ddt with came home from work smelling of all the chemicals, but the ddt did not do him too bad. he's going to be 96. only in america could an exterminator's son grow up to be the first jewish leader in the senate of the united states of america. [applause] so, my friends, as i reflect on my growing family, i cannot help but think of what kind

i'm craig melvin. the case sat cold for more than a decade, and then rookie detective donna velasquez got the file and turned up the heat. she'd been given the basics. 24-year-old divorced dad david jackson had vanished without a trace. digging into david's past, she uncovered a twisted tale of love gone bad and a chilling family secret. but to learn the full truth behind david's disappearance, the detective would have to sort the players from those getting played. here's keith morrison. >> it's a strange thing that happens among the bogs and marshes, the soft soil here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past, or both. it was july 2003, beaches quiet, snowbirds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland, a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where donna velasquez, just three months a detective, a rookie, really, had just been assigned to a brand-new cold case unit. >> the sergeant came into the office and dropped a box of

right now, more news with my colleague, craig melvin in new york. hello there. >> you're fantastic.ic. >> well, thank you. so are you. >> have a great week, kristen. >> you, too. >> craig melvin, msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> deadly tornadoes. powerful twisters ripped through the south, killing at least 23 and leaving a trail of destruction behind. the death toll expected to rise as search and rescue teams search for survivors. >>> under scrutiny. house democrats ramp up multiple investigations of president trump today, demanding documents from the president's family, inner circle, organizations connected to him. are they marching toward impeachment? >>> and counselled by the clintons. another democrat dives into the 2020 fray. among those advising former colorado governor john

craig melvin here. power pitch. president trump heading to battleground michigan for his first rally since the end of the special counsel's investigation. can it help win back republican defections in the suburbs? >>> also the mueller report, some new reporting gives better insight into just how long mueller's final report is, and it comes with new calls from every republican member of the house intelligence committee for chairman adam schiff to resign. >>> facebook taking major steps to block white nationalists from using the social media giant to spread their message. but will it work? we'll dig into that in a bit. >>> we start with president trump's opening day pitch to michigan voters. expectations are for another rousing campaign style speech. it's his first since the mueller investigation, yet this visit is also a canary in the coal mine for his reelection. the president barely won michigan. fewer than 12,000 votes separated him from hillary clinton. more importantly, the grand rapids area should be an easy pi

melvin and bennett from california. three other victims have ties to this area. max edkins was a communication for theou s collect for climate program. cedric cedric. >>> the steph executive said the pilot a hexcellent record and logged 8,000 hours in the air. the family relooeased a stateme saying they are proud of his achievements. >>> this morning, we're learning about a mother of two that was killed in a fiery cramo on sunday ing. her car crashed into three other cars and caught fi. we brought you the breaking news over the weekend. she was a physician's assistant. she committed from rockville work. while the cause of that crash is under investigation. her husband does not believe she was driving the wrong way. >> somebody hit her from behind and she startedspinning. she is survived by her two autism. who have >>> developing this morning, "the new york times" is reporting that the new yorer attorney g has opened an investigation into trump projects. cory smith is at the live desk with the l >> all this was prompted by michael cohen's congressional stimony las

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> good morning.est, and here's what's happening. >> i see a man with an army uniform, and i said, who the hell are you? >> a hero's story from the new zealand terror attack. today, two different versions emerge about the police response to the massacre. >>> students suing schools amid the college admissions scandal. today's take on the latest legal arguments. >>> the president turning to

melvin and his wife were expecting a first child. antoine lewis was a member of the u.s. military.doctor who was a doctor at east tennessee state university who was flying to kenya to see her sister who had just given birth to triplets. let me bring in tom costello who has been all over this. tom, i have to start on the president's tweet. it's just come out. he says i don't want albert einstein to be my pilot. i want great flying professionals that are allowed to quickly and easily take control of the plane. it seems the president is alluding to the auto pilot plans. >> he seems to be suggesting planes are too complex and we should go back to the days of the stick, of the yolk only an a pilot going simply flying a plane by the seat of his pants. listen, the truth of the matter is more people in the united states over the last ten years have died in hot air balloon crashes than commercial air travel. air commercial travel has never been safer. part of the reason is because of automation and the computer technology and fantastic avionics and fantastic training. right now the world is

craig melvin here, msnbc headquarters in new york city. we start with the breaking news. the first apology from paul manafort. at this very moment president trump's former campaign chairman inside that federal courtroom in d.c. on the left side of your screen. court now in recess. manafort inside for about 90 minutes. he spoke a few moments ago. he and his defense attorneys trying to lowerther amount of time he'll spend in prison. last week, manafort got what a lot of folks thought was a sweetheart deal in a separate federal case. just four years with one year already served. today, manafort facing up to ten additional years. paul manafort, less than three weeks shy of his 70th birthday. he could walk out of prison in a few years or not until he's in his 80s. that is assuming that president trump doesn't have anything to say about all of it. ken delaney has been covering this from the very beginning. he's outside the federal courthouse. ken, let us start with what paul manafort said to the judge. >> reporter: craig, he said he was sorry. in contrast to his failure to say

melvin and bennett ripple were on vacation together. melvin was to become a father next month. families in ethiopia and kenya where the flight was headed are just recovering information from the loss. >> people are recovering stuff and one is partially damaged. >> reporter: teams digging through the dirt by hand. investigators racing to analyze the flight recorders from ethiopian airlines flight 302, hoping they provide insight into why the plane carrying 157 people fell out of the sky. >> reporter: they are analyzing the flight recorders from flight 302, hoping they provide insight into why the plane carrying 157 people fell out of the sky. >> the only thing we know for sure about this airplane is right after takeoff, the airplane was porpoising going up and down. >> reporter: the weather was clear sunday morning when it took off. but from takeoff, there were signs of trouble. the pilot wanting to return to the airport, calling the tower saying they were having trouble controlling the plane. then six minutes into its journey to nairobi, the jet disappeared from radar. >> it's

craig melvin msnbc headquarters in new york.n's investigation. >>> one of the democratic contenders wants to dump the c electoral college. >>> and family feud, how would you react if your boss called your spouse a loser? the attacks escalate between president trump and the husband of kellyanne conway. >>> we start with the brreaking news, michael cohen, a short time ago a federal court released the warrant and affidavit investigators used today search the former trump fixer's home, office and hotel room last

i'll turn it over to craig melvin. >> fantastic hour. craig melvin here at the headquarters of the new york city. we're going to dive into team coverage of the mueller report, starting with what's next. the attorney general says there are no plans to prosecute president trump. democrats though drilling down on the big issue mueller apparently did not offer a conclusion on. on instruction obstruction of justice. >>> also, victory lap. president trump calling mueller's findings a, quote, complete and total exoneration. i'll talk to former white house insider omarosa manigault-newman about how he'll use this to his political advantage. >>> and political fallout. democrats and republicans drawing new battle lines in the wake of the mueller probe with laser focus on 2020. buckle up. the ride is not over. robert mueller's investigation is done, and now the focus shifts to two key questions. how much of the report will we see? what will congress do with the report? attorney general william barr says the investigation found no evidence that the