investor nichols? >> chairman johnson, ranking member murphy and distinguished members of the committee, it is an honor to appear before you today as the president's nominee to be the next united states ambassador to the republican -- republic of zimbabwe. i am grateful to have the confidence of the president and secretary of state. as i approached 30 years in the foreign service, serving on some of our most challenging missions, it is a humbling distinction to appear before the senate for the second time as a nominee to serve the american people. my professional achievements owed to the wonderful women who join me today, my beautiful wife jerry also a senior foreign service officer and my daughters alex and sylvie. they have pushed me to be a better person, sacrifice for my career, and nurture me with their love and support. i would also like to recognize my older brothers david and keith for the powerful example they have set with me though they could not be here today. i have had the good fortune to

ambassador nichols? chairman johnson, ranking member murphy, and members of the committee, it is an honor to appear before you as the nominee to be the next united states ambassador to the republic of zimbabwe. i am profoundly grateful to have the confidence of the president and the secretary of state. the approach 30 years in foreign service, serving at some of our most challenging missions, it is a homely distinction to appear before the senate for the second time as a nominee to serve the american people. as ambassador. my professional achievements are owed to the wonderful women who beautifulday -- my wife jeri, also a senior foreign service officer, and my daughters alex and sophie. aey have all pushed me to be better person, sacrificed for my career, and nurtured me with love and support. i would also like to recognize my older brothers, david and keith, for the powerful example they set, though they could not be here today. i have had the good fortune to represent the country i love in fascinating

brian nichols. mr. gordon sondland. mr. round getwitz. and miss sheri nolay with a rank of ambassador and alternative u.s. representative to sessions of the united nations general assembly. that's a mouthful. i want to welcome the nominees and their families and in your opening statements i hope you'll introduce your families and friends to this committee and i congratulate all of you on your selection by the president for these positions. and i want to thank you for your willingness to serve. before moving to opening statements i would like to welcome several distinguished colleagues who will help introduce our nominees. senator tillis, sator durbin. senator tillis, if you would like to begin. >> thank you, mr. chair. members, i should say members of the committee, it is my great privilege to introduce mr. gordon sondland who has been nominated to serve as the united states ambassador to the european union. mr. sondland was born in seattle, washington. and as first generation american, his family history is both fascinating and instructi

so we would like to start with the honorable brian nicholls. brian nicholls is ambassador to zimbabwe. he served as u.s. ambassador to peru from 2014 to 2017. his prior postings include principle deputy assistant secretary of state for international narcotic law enforcement affairs from 2011 to 2014 and deputy chief from 2007 to 2010. ambassador nicholls. >> chairman johnson, ranking member murphy and distinguished othe committee. it is an honor to appear before you today as the present nominee to be the next united states ambassador to the republic zimbabwe. i'm profoundly grateful to have the confidence of the president and the secretary of state. as i approach 30 years to foreign service, serving at some of the most challenging missions, it's a humbling experience to appear befor the senate as the second time as a nominee to serve the american people as ambassador. my professional achievements owed to the wonderful women who join me today. my beautiful wife jerry, also senior foreign service officers, and my daughters alex and sophie. they h

the honorable brian nichols to be u.s. ambassador to zimbabwe. mr. gordon sunland derby is represented to european union with the rank of ambassador. mr. ronald gidwitz to be u.s. ambassador to belgium and ms. cherith chalet to be the u.s. representative to the united nations are you in management and reform with the rank of ambassador and alternative u.s. representative to the sessions of united nations general assembly. that's a mouthful. i want to welcome the nominees and the families and in your opening statement to help you will introduce your families and your friends to this committee, and i congratulate all of you on your selection by the president for these positions added want to thank you for your willingness to serve. before moving to opening statements i'd like to welcome several distinguished colleagues who will help introduce our nominees. senator tillis senator wyden who introduce mr. sondland. senator gardner gardner and senator durbin what it is mr. gidwitz. senator tillis, if you would like to begin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and

the pentagon correspondent hans nichols is in singapore with the latest. hans, what did secretary mattis have to say about the road ahead? >> reporter: well, mattis is not that optimistic about the road ahead. his quote was to expect a few bumps, that was just this morning. in general, what mattis is trying to do here is frame the parameters, say what is on limits and off limits. what is clearly off limits for the u.s. secretary of defense is removing and having part of the negotiations removing u.s. troops from south korea. so listen to how mattis said it when he was tempering expectations. >> our objective remains as stated by minister madura, the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization and the removal of all wmd on the korean peninsula. we can anticipate it best and bump by road to the negotiation. >> reporter: now, the idea that there would not be any sort of conversations about removing sanctions, lifting sanctions until there's the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula is something new. we have heard from pres

>> hans nichols in singapore. hans, thank you. >>> now we turn to some hopeful news for women battling breast cancer. there may be a sea of change in the way doctors treat one of the leading causes of cancer death in women. a new international study finds that often debilitating chemotherapy may not be necessary for the most common type of the disease. according to researchers that means up to 70% of patients could survive without harsh chemo. medical experts say the res nbc's anne thompson h debra reese heard the dreaded words i cancer. reese worried about chemotherapy, but a genetic test that reveals the rix of cancer coming back revealed her risk was low. so she didn't need chemo. >> i was relieved because that adds a whole different dimension to your treatment. >> reporter: that test, oncotype dx, was helpful to those with low scores like reese who didn't nooem need chemo and those with high scores who would benefit from chemo. but what about all the women in the middle? now at the annual american society ofli

trainer paul nicholls called denman a "superb" and "magic horse".s called denman a "superb" and "magic horse". that's all the sport for now. i will have more on that in the next art. the prime minister of norway is in london to meet the prime minister and discuss brexit and security. norway is a member of the european economic area. this group includes eu members and non—eu members like norway, iceland and liechtenstein. becoming a member would automatically give the uk full access to the single market but would also bind it to eu rules. erna solberg has been talking to my colleague christian fraser, who started by asking her if she was warming to the idea of britainjoining the european economic area. if britain would want to participate in the eea, i do not think we should say no but i have always said i do not think that is an option that is natural after the principles of why you left or you have brexit. because this is about, to us, the most important part is we will not change the eea agreement to accommodate entry for britain because for us, t

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hans nichols is tracking the breaking developments at the pentagon. what do we know? >> received a request from the department of health and human services to make some sort of space for 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children. these are minors coming in. and to house them. now, there was a start potentially as early as july. next month, and go through to december. here's where the process is right now. hhs has asked the pentagon to look at facilities. they have already looked at four separate military facilities, military installations. i should note there is precedence for this. you will remember back in 2014 during the obama administration some 7,000 unaccompanied minors were held at military installations as a way to keep them safe. trump appears to be drastically increasing that or at least making a possibilities trying to plan for that contingency. here's a what we know about the memo first reported on by colleagues over at the coefficient. it came after trump announced the executive order on wednesday. it looks as if some sort of detention of unaccompanied minors

nichols who runs the largest estate agents in gibraltar and elsewhere of course but particularly gibraltar chesterton's was mainly impact of. the property market here mr broughton well somewhat perversely it's been beneficial we woke up the day after a referendum and thought the end is nigh the border was going to close everybody would leave. the opposite has happened we have forty percent of our workforce commuting in and the immediate reaction was that people started moving in from spain because i thought well one day they can't get to work so there was a rush on rental property so that's some testing so the fact that you couldn't have a god and. then a few months time no but then two years there made people take provision to establish their own properties stay in the rock absolutely thirteen twenty seven thousand jobs thirteen thousand of our employees come across the border every day and so it only takes a few hundred of those to want to live here and all of a sudden we're full up so we are actually full up developers have responded you've probably been around and seen lots of cranes i

trainer paul nicholls called denman a "superb" and "magic horse". just before we go, with england takingup match in 12 days' time, a pointer towards world cup rewind on the bbc sport website at noon tomorrow where you can see the entire re—run of the last time the countries met at the world cup. that was in france 20 years ago, when a certain match of the day commentator: well taken and it's in. doi commentator: well taken and it's in. do i had to tell you the scorer? alan shearer. who else? 20 years ago, it makes you feel old! that's all from sportsday. you're watching bbc news. as our lives increasingly move online, more and more of our information is held in vast data centres which consume large amounts of electricity. now in an experiment designed to work out how to improve energy efficiency, microsoft has sunk a small data centre in the sea, off the coast of 0rkney. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones explains. ever uploaded a photo, updated your facebook status, or maybe streamed some music? if so, you've probably used a data centre, where vast amounts of our personal in

duration matters, according to hans nichols, our pentagon correspondent through in singapore. jim, bring you back into the conversation as we continue to watch all of this unfold. again, on the right side of the screen there. white house officials including president trump meeting with kim yong-chol. your initial thoughts? >> well, craig, if you and i were having a cup of coffee five years ago and i said to you that donald trump and kim yong un would become pen pals, you would think i was crazy, and you would have made -- if you were a betting man. i don't know if you are or aren't, you would have made a big bet with me and of course i wouldn't have made that bet. because it was crazy. a measure how far we've come. how odd the world is around us. that's the first impression. second, i think as i say, i'm very bullish on this happening and i think a negotiation is the right way to go. i think it will help reduce dangers. dangers of war. reduce the danger of inadvertent war. any freeze we can get would be to our benefit to our national security, but as we've witnessed even in th

that's where we have hans nichols who is traveling with secretary mattis. pick up on that, full, hans. where are they with the preparations? what are you hearing there? what's the reaction to what we just heard from the president a short time ago? >> chris, get used to this shot. it's going object the backdrop for the singapore summit. as the president int hadded perhaps multiple summits. he didn't say they would be in singapore. in terms of arrangements, logistics are taking place. there are a lot of venues here are well secured. there are aert have a of places around town where they can choose to do it. i suspect photoons will be a premium for this president. when we think of the advisors in there with president trump it is notable that john bolton was not in there. it's also notable that the president didn't necessarily consult for that long with mike pompeo. something we hear all across the government, especially at the defense department where a lot of times they have to implement and many times explain the president's foreign policy. this is the presi

hans nichols arrived on the scene in annapolis. we are looking for that press conference in just a couple of minutes. before then, let's find out what hans has. >> we spoke to one witness that said she heard several loud blasts. i asked her could it come from the a shotgun. she didn't quite know but she said the sheriff and the police were there within two minutes and evacuated everyone and had two groups of 50 or 60 people that were inside that building. the witness we spoke to was just above the building. she described the office space where the newspaper is as holding 20, 25 people. that's the top end of how many people potentially could have been inside here. as you can see, as far as the eye can see we are looking at police presence. it is a not just anne arundel county it's the stipulate of annapolis. there are hundreds of police cars. two helicopters overhead. there is a massive police response here. it's indication of how well this part of the country is prepared for it. it also gives you an indication the speed with which

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nbc's hans nichols is at the white house for us. paul king, congressional correspondent with the "washington post" joins us as well. paul, starting with you, running through some of the political possibilities on capitol hill, collins and murkowski. that question of how real is the threat. what do you think of that? >> i think it is possible that you into ed to see hot nominee is and what that nominee has said, written in terms of opinions, briefs, op-eds, anything along the lines of roe v. wade and abortion rights. those would be the basic critical -- the critical stumbling block for trump. phenif he nominates somebody wh pretty clearly pro-life, anti-abortion, that's where you get to a point where collins and murkowski might be willing to break. but if they nominate somebody who takes the very vague position, as neil gorsuch has done, as democratic nominees in the past -- recent past have done, that is where you get into a real grey area where collins and murkowski in the past have basically indicated a willingness to give it a go

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joining me now is nbc news correspondent hans nichols. president trump did not say the troops are willing pu. he did agree to pause the military exercises between the u.s. and south korea. it seems as though we are getting mixed messages now based on what i am hearing on capitol hill. >> president trump did not that term, military exercises, he said they paused war games. they always say training is important and they shy away from the war game explanations. what we heard from senator garter on capitol hill that vice president penceriefed the senators and he says training will continue. take a listen of senator gardner. >> we'll continue to clarify what tdent hav talked and exercises will continue with south korea and look further for comments and clarifications from the president. >> what does corey gardner mean by exercises? if it is day-to-day routine training, that's something here at the pentagon say is necessary to maintaining the strengths of the alliance. in terms of calling off all war games, the next war games that are scheduled

with me is hans nichols. he is in singapore where defense secretary james mattis just covered a security summit. you've been at the wonderfully named shangri-la summit for these last couple of days. have i to a i have to ask you, first of all, what's the reaction to what the president announced, the surprise announcement yesterday? >> reporter: david, this is being received warmly. it's clear everyone here wants the conversations to continue to happen between north and south korea and north korea and the united states. so leading up to this the expectation here had been these talks were on track and they were welcomed today. you didn't really hear secretary mattis when he gave his big speech saturday morning really weigh in on it. he gave us some standard line, namely that the u.s. military is going to make sure that the diplomats are in a position of strength and they want to hold the line, in secretary mattis' term. >> jeff, let me turn to you. we watched as that suv arrived at the white house as the second

and jason nichols, contributor for "the hill," lecturer on african-american studies at the universitymaryland who wrote a piece on this. danny, kaepernick's attorneys reportedly seeking federal subpoenas now. what's the goal here and how likely is it they are going to be able to get the president and/or vice president to sit down? >> it looks like they're trying to get subpoenas for testimony. they want to drag the president and whoever else into a deposition, which is just an interview that's conducted under oath. the reason it's so dangerous, particularly for someone like the president, is that every single answer to every question is a potential perjury opportunity. because every one of your answers -- >> if you tell the truth it's not. >> if you tell the truth, that's correct. as long as it's not a material issue but in general you're right. anything under oath for that extended period of time opens any opponent up to serious liability. the reality is, however, it is very difficult in this kind of case that's governed under the arbitration act to get a federal subpoena of a nonpar

>> hans nichols live from annapolis, maryland, tonight.hank you. >>> again on this story, the basics you know. there is a suspect in custody. believed to be a single shooter. there does appear to have been a history of animosity of this individual toward the paper that included a defamation lawsuit. we've got five journalists dead and others wounded. it is believed to have been a single shooter. this is the kind of story we are still getting additional details on. we expect to get more over the course of the evening, especially as they execute the search warrant tonight at the suspect's house. if we get more information we'll let you know. y, who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in. it's not a question, gary. on march 1, 1810 -- [ ding ] -frédéric chopin. -collapsing in 226 -- [ ding ] -the colossus of rhodes. -[ si

>> hans nichols live from annapolis, maryland, tonight.ain on this story, the basics you know. there is a suspect in custody. believed to be a single shooter. there does appear to have been a history of animosity of this individual toward the paper that included a defamation lawsuit. we've got five journalists dead and others wounded. it is believed to have been a single shooter. this is the kind of story we are still getting additional details on. we expect to get more over the course of the evening, especially as they execute the search warrant tonight at the suspect's house. if we get more information we'll let you know. we'll be right back. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. let with one a day women's. a complete multivitamin specially formulated with key nutrients plus vitamin d for bone health support. your one a day is showing. look for new one a day women's w

peter baker and nbc's hans nichols who joins us from singapore p. 11 days, president trump and kim jong-un are expected to meet face-to-face. peter baker, how much would you pay to read that letter that donald trump hasn't read? >> well, i'd pay a certain amount of money, yeah. it's interesting. he said a very nice letter, haven't opened it but very nice. hard to know what to make of that. the letter itself wasn't the only thing said in that meeting but a little surprising he wouldn't read it before making an announcement to the press like that. >> it seemed like the letter was kind of the point, right? the whole thing was, all of this pomp and circumstance. he's going to bring in the letter. he brings the letter in. they come out and say, trump comes out and says the summit is back on but apparently, the agreement to bring it had nothing to do with what's in the letter since he hasn't read it. i find that incredibly confusing. >> it is a little odd. at the end of the session with the reporters, maybe i should read it. maybe a big surprise in there. you would have thought at the least a st

tom nichols, professor of national security affairs at the u.s. naval war college.ennifer rubin from "the washington post" back with us. evelyn? >> yes, ari. >> it's friday night. i'm trying to make sense of what this is. it was on, it was off. it's on again today. diplomacy is not like dinner plans. but at what point do the plans feel less real if they are on and off again too much? >> well, this is the problem. i'm smiling, even though i really want to be jumping out of my skin because the president is making a charade of diplomacy. he's almost making light -- well, he is making light of our adversaries. he's turned everything upside down. today is the day when he declared by launching these tariffs against our allies, the canadians, the mexicans, the europeans, that they are a national security threat. at the same time that he's praising and practically fawning over the north koreans. and now we hear these rumors about him wanting to meet with putin, which is not surprising, but again, everything is upside down. you're not supposed to be overly flattering, praisi

hans nichols is at the white house.asury secretary is throwing cold water on this one. what's the new development on this? >> among republicans there's confusion and concern about what the president is talking about doing in part because there's a distinction between the u.n. and wto. for the wto, there's been a sense this is a privilege sanctified ground and it helps the u.s. listen to senator toomey talk about the distinction between wto and the u.n. >> i just learned that and i am befuddled because the wto is not the u.n. the u.n. votes against us all the time, we get it. the wto has been an adjudicating body that sided with us routinely, over 80% of our cases i think we win. so i don't know why we would walk away from a body that resolves trade disputes in our favor. >> reporter: the nato summit coming up in a couple of weeks will be crucial. just what's the president's commitment to the international rules base order in the post world war ii era. >> hans nichols, see you at the white house in a few minutes. thank y

i want to start at the white house with nbc's hans nichols.nt to talk about this summit. this is the big news of the day. and the president moments before this thing is announced is casting doubt on that widely accept accepted intelligence. >> he's questioning his own intelligence team. i'll b

hans nichols reporting for us from singapore tonight. with all that, let's bring in our leadoff panel on a friday night. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon, also former counsel to house intel. catherine lucey is back with us, white house reporter for the associated press. and also brian bennett returns to the broadcast, senior white house correspondent for "time" magazine. good evening and welcome to you all. jeremy, i'm going to begin with you. is it still your -- first of all, what's going on here? subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? >> it's become clear today, brian, if it wasn't clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the road to singapore, putt

joining me is nbc news's hans nichols. hans, we are standing by waiting 20 minutes from now for a white house press briefing. >> yes. >> this is obviously going to come up. the president has largely said due process is not important in this front. >> he said due process is not important on the border. he had a different standard had he he is talking about his own cohorts and his allies. in february he was tweeting complains there is no due process referring to the press -- i'll read you the quick tweet. he said people's lives are being shattered and zrid by a mere allegation. some are true and some are false. some are old, and some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely careered life and career are gone. is there no such thing any longer as due process. >> wow. >> there, president trump clearly on the side of due process. when it comes to migrants coming to the border he doesn't want them to have hearings or due process. so we will see here from sarah huckabee sanders just what the president's understanding of t

hans nichols at the white house, thank you, sir. we want to get to the capitol for a hearing with fbi director christopher wray and rod rosenstein. this thing is in recess at the moment. the focus of the hearing is the fbi and doj's actions. you know russia is bound to come up. the president is on an island here. virtually everybody else in his administration says, yes, of course russia did, indeed, attack our election. >> there should be no doubt that russia perceived that its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. >> this is not going to change or stop. >> you share the view of the intelligence community in the conclusion they reached in january 2017? >> yeah. i haven't seen anything that would dissuade me from believing. >> there you go. garrett haake is in the hallway watching this on kcapitol hill. has russia come up yet? do we expect it to? what's your sense? >> not really, but we do expect it to. they just got started. got through opening st

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for more on this that i'm joined by hans nichols live in singapore. why is this an issue, hans?rth koreans might not have the liquid cash to pay for and cover their hotel room. that's according to the "washington post." there have been other people who stepped in and say they are willing to pay. i-can, and the singapore government said they would defray all security costs. whether the hotel room fits into the security costs that's an open question. here's what we her from the singaporians. they are blocking out june 10th to june 12th for what they are calling a special event area. they have drawn a line around downtown singapore saying this area going to have special security precautions. the interesting thing about that, that gives you potentially three days of talks when you twin that time line with what sarah huckabee sanders just said you could have donald trump here in singapore for three days going all the way through the 14th. the other news that happened today on the north korean side namely thaim jong-un has dismissed three of his top military officers. not just dismiss

it hasn't got any easier just because of today. >> hans nichols, my friend, it's good to see you. apparently going to be sending peter baker over to see you. he'll be bringing you a good slice of new york pizza on my behalf. i want to ask you sitting in the region now people, the first blush, is there surprise now in the region this thing is back on, or is this sort of what people expected, this outcome? >> the expectation was that talks were on track and that they were proceeding at a good pace. the idea this is official, is now somewhat set in stone. you never want to say anything set in stone with president trump. but the idea this is proceeding apace was baked into the expectation when we were earlier today, a big defense ministers summit here gathered at the hotel. the expectation was these talks would go forward. i would say to peter's point, we still don't know whether or not the north koreans have signalled that they are committed to denuclearization. and that's always been the threshold question. pompeo suggested that yesterday. he hinted at it. we had no response from pr

hallie. >> hans nichols there at the pentagon. thanks. with is now it william cohen, form ore secretary of state under president clinton. the director for korea and japan at the national security council, she's now at the center of strategic studies. and onset staying up late josh letterman along with asia correspondent for npr elise who. there's some reaction coming in fromlol hil and senators. listen. >> i don't think canceling a war game is going to matter over the arc of time. the one thing i would violently disagree with is removing our troops. i can't imagine i would vote for any agreement that requires us to withdraw our forces because that would destabilize asia. that's what china wants. that doesn't make the world for peaceful, it makes it more dangerous. >> secretary, is lindsey graham right here? do you agree? >> absolutely. and i would take issue with the characterization of war games. these are exercises in order to prevent a war, to deter war. and when we don't exercise and train, then you increase the risk of harm to our in

nbc's hans nichols has the latest. >> reporter: phillip, the five journalists at the capital gazette died when he barged in with a smoke grenade and a shotgun and started taking lives. now, there is a background. there is a history between the suspected individual and this newspaper. it was a dispute about a defamation suit that he eventually ended up losing after years of litigation. now, what's happening now is they are talking law enforcement is talking and interrogating the suspected individual. at the same time there is a search warrant. it's been taken out on the location that is associated, a residence that is associated with him. now, police have said this area here is no longer under threat. there is no longer an immediate danger. and now the urgent task is to figure out what the motivation was and if there are any warning signs that could have potentially prevented this tragedy. phillip? >> hans, thanks for the update. >> a just released new poll show us where americans stand when it comes to a divisive issue, abortion rights. the kaiser family foundation found that two-thi

have already been getting into gear for the match but partying hard in central moscow is now famous nichols by a street place that's become the beating heart of the world cup here in russia. i. was close. the. thousands of fans taking pictures and videos during the world cup in russia started to compile the best of them to allow you to share their experiences you can check out off view project on our website dot com. the world cup is one massive party thousands from all over the globe all here to help enjoy it to the maximum seventeen thousand people from many different countries are taking part in russia's program during the world cup we had some of the stories. daniel has waited to long for the state to come born in spain into a truly football match family to move to russia four years ago that his childhood dream was to witness the world cup daniel to purge in last year's confederations cup in the city of crescent r. and work there as a volunteer as well how being two point visitors and the right direction. primarily it's about language support when football fans come here and they have p

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everybody was out football fans or not and most of the celebrations were taking place on a street called nichol skies right behind me right in the center of moscow by the kremlin everybody wants to be on that street at night time now and it was a live. singing chanting so loud we could hear it all very clearly peter schmeichel and i up here on the top of the four seasons hotel now some saudi found some good making noise of their own. families and then rushed off on dawn on two wheels notice to make their entrance they've been seen cruising around the city with their flags proudly on display fortunately they're having a great time despite the performance of the team so far and the locals have paid plenty of attention and enjoying the spectacle. as i mentioned the right of noise here in moscow stopped a lot of people getting a good night's sleep among them former fee for president sepp blatter he shared his impressions of the tournament with us. as you arrived last night did you manage to get much sleep with all the revelers action the streets of moscow. after the victory and demanded the big sto

>> brian nichol is, that's kind of -- he was unbelievable at his promotion.e had great promotions, by the way. i don't know if you ever -- they're all very funny genius but it was something that chipotle thought it got right and fell back on this man is a technologist who is also a marketer there are a lot of very positive notes out there. i felt that once we had gotten to the 15, 18-month period where we forgot about whether there was something dirty or wrong it would start coming back. and it's been coming back. >> anybody who wants to offer more chocolate milk shakes to the world. >> shake shack has a good shake. >> brian nichol talked to us recently about some new flavors. here's what he said. >> definitely opportunities to bring in some new flavors as well, but i think one of the things that's great is we've got carnitas and chicken that people just absolutely crave. and i think there's ways for us to present them in, you know, formats that you'd expect chipotle to offer that currently we don't >> you'd long said it took 18 months for consumers to forget

we are scrambling to get -- i think we have hans nichols standing by. anthony kennedy has been on the court since 1988. remember, it was ronald reagan who appointed him. it sounds like we have pete williams now standing by. pete williams, this is a seismic announcement. >> so i'm having a little trouble hearing you, but i'll just tell you justice kennedy of the supreme court today just handed us this letter dated today from justice kennedy. i'll read it to you. it says, my dear mr. president, this letter is a respectful and formal notification of my decision, effective july 31st of this year, to end my regular active service as associate justice of the supreme court, while continuing to serve in senior status. so that means he is stepping down at the end of next month. now this is a bit of a surprise because supreme court justices normally say when they're going to announce their retirements, that their retirement will become effective upon the nomination and confirmation of a successor so that we know for sure that when the supreme court starts in the

looking for alternatives he came up with the idea of using post-mortem bone and cartilage donations nichol lloyds had a motorbike accident after five operations on the knee she was still in pain a possible solution a cartilage and bone transplant. the treatment is still very much in the development stage and this is the only clinic in germany that offers it. in the operating theatre the donated knee is first cut exactly to size only a slim section of bone with cartilage on top will ultimately replace the damaged area of nicole lloyd says joint. and the tricky thing is trying to ensure that it's not too thick and that would mean that it wouldn't be said. nourished or not nourished quickly enough but it also shouldn't be too thin otherwise it will break and cause complications complicate. the surgeons base in hanover a still perfecting this highly complex operation. the light colored cartilage is the donated tissue and on the left the damaged cartilage the crucial thing is that the transplanted cells are alive gradually they're replaced by the patient's own cells. because lloyd's is now reco

they did in two thousand and one in this very city that they are prepared to deal with that indeed nichols live television can always be. expecting the unexpected we're expecting the g. seven meeting to be tense as well. that's right it was a tense meeting you had the crown meeting with emanuel mccrone the french president meeting with justin trudeau the prime minister of canada who is the host here and it was something like a group therapy session. they were getting together getting ready to talk about how they're going to talk to the man who was not entered the room yet and how they might be able to confront him about his business in on trade and in specific the tariffs on steel and aluminum that he has imposed that is what is the upset all of the members of the g. six who are all subject to those tariffs and you can see we are in the middle of the crowd here and i'm standing where the police are walking going to step up just a side. but you can see if you look at the police that they are here in force. so a manual mccrone met with trudeau this morning he was particularly upset about tru