any questions for mr. ho? >> clerk: mr. chair there, is no public comment. no member of the public has submitted a speaker card. >> commissioner: we'll close public comment and given you've had your thunder stolen and answered all of you're questions in one fell swoop, i'll entertain a motion on this item. >> motion to approve. >> commissioner: is there a second? >> second. >> commissioner: all in favor please say aye. opposed? thank you very much, albert. >> clerk: item 14 discussion and vote pursuant to administrative code section to move to closed section. >> commissioner: is there a motion? >> second. >> clerk: all right. item 15. item 16 appropriate for motion to disclose or not disclose information discussed. >> not disclose. >> commissioner: is there a second? >> second. >> commissioner: all in favor, please say aye. we will not disclose the contents of that closed session. >> clerk: that concludes the business before us today. >> commissioner: thank you very much, fellow directors. >> i am so excited to be here to stand in this waiting room of this b

mr. preponderatsident, ho you? >> just fine. haven't had any sleep. but i sure do.e you my congratulations and my sympathy. i tell you, isn't that the truth. >> johnson never liked or trusted nixon. goes way back to the time he was in the senate and nixon was in the senate. >> dick, i want to keep in close touch with you. we're both supposed to be great political animals, and i think it is awfully important dealing with these if the next four months being kpleemtcompletely with the same facts. >> to make sure nixon backs the peace talks, the president summons him down to his ranch, lbj's home turf, to talk to nixon face to face. >> he and johnson in some ways share character traits. they had been raised in rural areas, without prestigious educations. they both felt inferior in their own way to these northeastern establishment elites that they felt like they were battling both in the press and in government. so they carried those kind of, sort of chip on their shoulders. >> since march, johnson had been struggling to coax north vietnam into talks with south vietnam.

introduce to welcome you here and i want to introduce our guest from ohio, senator brown, ho will say a few words. [applause] mr. brown: -- mr. brown: first time in new hampshire since i was at if i believe i was in manchester and preliminary mouth state university first with senator shaheen, campaigned with her in 2014 and then with her husband. we went on to a couple of other sites. i would like to introduce my wife, connie schultz. [applause] mr. brown: i will not say much. i want to hear from the panelists of course. we are in the midst of something we call our dignity to work tour. since election day 2018, i was re-elected to my third term in the senate. i have continually noticing that democrats seem to think you either choose to talk to the progressive base or you talk to working families and listen to issues that matter to them and i don't think it's a choice. we have to do both. we don't win states like new hampshire or ohio unless we talk to workers and to progressives and i'm a long time progressive. but i won in a state like ohio because of who i am and what i fight for, which is the dignity of work

mr. werful, who was the acting commissioner -- >> yes or no, please.yore a hos >> reporter: house speakered today her party's investigations will be carefully chosen and carried out. >> how important do you think it is for the public to see the president's tax returns? >> they want to know the truth. they want to know the facts. and he has nothing to hide. >> reporter: tomorrow democrats are hauling the acting attorney general matthew whitaker before congress for the first time, and they were threatening to issue a subpoena if he didn't answer all their questions. today he threatened not to show up. >> the tsa says it confiscated a record number of firearms at airport security checkpoints last year. in all, more than 4,200 guns were found at 249 airports nationwide and more than 86% of them were loaded. kris van cleave has the story. >> rep cay-on at dallas-fort woa discovery that happened 219 times last year at dfw checkpoints. nationally it happened nearly 12 times a day and more than 4,200 times in the year. that number was a 7% increase over 2017 and 86% of the guns were loaded. just

mr. maduro has also threatened military action against the united states. both sides pushing hard here. ho things playing out in the days and weeks ahead? >> i think for a while the idea of military intervention from the u.s. seemed slightly far fetched, but i don't really see that it is anymore. if you look at some of the statements from trump, we saw in the recently leased book of mccabe, the former deputy director of the fbi that trump was saying basically why are we not going to war with venezuela, it has all this oil and it is on our doorstep and then the people involved in this on the u.s. side, extreme hawks like john bolton and mike pence, and especially maybe elliott abrams who was involved in some of the worse atrocities in central america in the 1990s, these people will be pushing for that option and i really hope that the opposition doesn't play along with that. >> esa cusack from our london bureau, thank you for the insight. >>> in just a few weeks time, robert kraft went from super bowl-winning high to a scandalous low. kraft is the owner of the new england patriot and one of

ho. >> the sheer number and force of the weapons that we recovered from mr. hasson's residence in this case, coupled with the disturbing nature of his writings appear to reflect a very significant threat to the safety of our community, particularly given the position of trust that mr. hasson held with the united states government. >> woodruff: for now, hasson faces guns and drug charges. 'll take a deeper look at this story and the jussie smollett case, after the news summary. a federal judge in washington imposed a fu gag order today on roger stone, president trump's longtime confidant. could go to jail if he violates the order. stone had posted a photo of judge amy berman jackson with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun, in the corner. jackson is presiding over stone's case in the russia investigation. hecus d of lying to congress, obstruction and witness tpering. pope francis opened a landmark vatican summit today on the catholic church's crisis of clergyll sexabusing children. some 190 bishops and other leaders listened, as the pope offered 21 proposa