o'brien: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." as kids get ready to begin a new school year, it might surprise you to learn that america's public schools are facing a segregation crisis. according to the national center on education statistics, the number of segregated schools in america doubled between 1996 and 2016. the statistics are not a surprise to nikole hannah-jones, an investigative reporter for the "new york times magazine," who's spent much of her career putting a spotlight on school segregation. she's also a macarthur "genius" award winner, and we recently spoke about persistent racial segregation in american schools. hey, genius, nic h do people call you that all the time? hannah-jones: not enough. o'brien: really? [laughter] i am happy to call you genius throughout our interview ifhool? hannah-jones: i mean, the simple answer is american schools are segregated because they were created to be segregated from the founding of public schools in this country and because large numbers of white americans choose it to be tha

we are going to leave the statiobecause it is now unsafe to be here. >> o'brien: one big blaze, known as the carr re, crossed over the sacramento river into redding, a city of 91,000 residents. two firefighters were killed. it wiped out at least 65 homes chris anthony is a division chief with cal fire. >> we're going to contue to see these large and very damaging fires that travel extremely fast and have huge impacts on communities throughout the state. the trends are clear that fires are increasing in size andse verity, as well as with the destructive nature of the fires as well. >> o'brien: mandatory evacuations expanded as high temperatures andry conditions made it easier for wildfires to spread across the central and sorn sections of the state. poor air quality and visibility have limited the ability of helicopters toelp fight the flames in valleys and low-lying areas. earlier this week, the ferguson fire even shut down yosemite na >> this is a full suppression fire and we are fully engaged. we have even authorized dozer line inside yosemite, ich is hardly ever done. d o'brien: it

david frum and tim o'brien, thank you both for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> when i come back, i've had many discussions and i'll have another one on this program with jill wine-banks about how to serve a subpoena on the president of the united states. qi question has always been, wouldn't the secret service just block the service of that subpoena, make it impossible for you to actually serve a subpoena on the president? well, it turns out that is exactly what the secret service has been doing for months for jared kushner. jill wine-banks and i will cover this when we come back. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezl

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tim o'brien, kurt anderson, jennifer rubin. and i want to reset the table here on the cohen-trump tape by replaying the key portion of this conversation between michael cohen acting as donald trump's personal lawyer in trump tower in donald trump's office in trump tower two months before the presidential election. let's listen to michael cohen describing to donald trump what he believes he had to do to create a company to pay substantial amounts of money for the silence of a woman who claims she had a one-year sexual relationship with donald trump. let's listen to that tape. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of of all of that info regarding our friend david. i'm going to do that right away. i've spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with -- >> so what do we got to pay for this? 150? >> funding -- yes. and it's all the stuff. >> yeah, i was thinking about that. >> all the stuff. because here you never know where that company -- >> maybe he gets hit by a truck. >> correct. and i'm all over

with me now is tim o'brien. i should mention he's also interviewed allen weissleberg for his biography. and he testified in the lawsuit that donald trump filed against you, tim, over your book and your reporting on his finances which apparently he did not like. so you are literally one of the best people in the world for the story. i'm very happy you're here on "the beat" tonight. what does this all mean? >> well, to the extent that the money trail surrounding president trump becomes problematic for him in the course of the mueller investigation or in the course of the cohen investigation, or in the court of the new york state attorney general's investigation of the trump foundation, someone like allen weissleberg becomes very pivotal. because he knows a lot. not only about donald trump's personal finances, but about the trump organization's comings and goings. as you've noted and as i reported, he first came into the trump family business back in the 1970s. he was fred trump's accountant. then he graduated over

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reporting from washington, i'm jane o'brien. damage ctrol in the u.k. as president trump tries to make up for his criticism of the prime minister. he praises the rhythm between the two countries. president trump: i give our relationship in terms of grade e highest level of special. jane: back in the u.s.st the e department has charged 12 russian intelligence officers for hacking the democratic party and interfering in the presidential elections and student debt meets reality tv. why some graduates are turning to a game show toay off their loans. jane: where can to our viewersl on public sion in america and around the globe. it's been a day of mixed mengets for pres trump on his visit to the u.k. first the explosive ierview criticizing the prime minister theresa may, telling the sun newspaper her brexit stage might end any chance a vital trailed deal with the u.s. hours later it s smiles and denials for the cameras then tea with the queen. t the pageantry contrasted sharply with the record crowds in london who turned out to protest mr. trump's visit. rep

jane o'brien, bbc news, jamestown. e doingrather jane than m that spit test. there are at least 1000 other bodi at jamestown. remember about the day's news on our website, incding the latest on our top story, the deadly wildfires in greece that have killed 74 people. to see what we're working on it any time, make sure to theck us out tter. i am laura trevelyan. thanks so much for watching "bbc world news america." >> with the bbc news app, our vertical videos are designed to work around your lifestyle, so you can swipe your way to the news of the day and stayup -to-date with the latest headlines you can trust. download now from selected app stores. >> funding of this presentation is made possible byun the freeman tion, kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs, and purepoint financial. >> how do we shape our tomorrow? it starts with a vision. we see its ideal form in our mind, and then we begin to chisel. we strip away everything that stands in the way to reveal new possibilities. at purepoint financial, we have designed our modern ap

reporting from washington, i'm jane o'brien. reunited after weeks apart, this mother and son are together again after being separated at the border. others are not so lucky. imran khan declares victory in panstan, but can he deliver his prome of cracking down on corruption? and summ blockbusters have some competition this year. becumentaries are becoming a box office force to reckoned with. jane: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. today marks a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the border by the trump administration'sce zero-tolerolicy aimed at discouraging illegal immigration. while nearly 900 reunions have taken place, to remain more than -- there remain more than 450 children whose parents have been derted. the bbc's aleem maqbool has been speaking tfamilies on the u.s.-mexico border and was there as one mother saw her son agrsn for the fitime. aleem: she has had to wait in what has been the worst time of her life. earlier this year, u.s. immigration officials to

jane o'brien, bbc news, pennsylvania.aura: here in the u.s., we are celebrating the fourth of juen, and no docis more crucial to this date than the declaration of independence -- from england, of course. did you know that one of only two parchment menace groups is in chichester? -- parchment manuscripts is in chichester? take a look. reporter: in the archives of one of our smallest cities, the t cornerstone of most powerful nation on earth. >> what you are look is one of only two known parchment manuscripts of the declaration of independence. reporter: handwritten ceremonial copies were displayed for all to see after the birth of the usa. since its discovery in chichester a year o, the declaration has been through extensive tests and research. >> you cannot see it to the naked eye, but the scientificat testhe british library revealed that there is an early date underneath -- 1-7-8, 1-7-9. 1780, 1790. reporter: authentication has been a joint effort, the council working with the library of edngress and harvard university.

reporting from washington, i am jane o'brien. reports of a tape of donald trump speaking to his lawyer toring the election campaign about a payment ilence a former playboy modelses more questions. 17 people are killed as their toist boat sinks during a storm in missouri. investigators are trying to piece gether what went wrong. and he was the youngest pilot at the battle of britain. tonight we look back at the life and highflying heroics of geoffrey wellum. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. reports of a secret recording between donald trump and his then-personal lawyer are raisi fresh questions about the president's involvement inal keeping quieged affairs in the run-up to the presidential election.ti "the new york mes" says atat michael cohen secretly recorded a conven with mr. trump two months before americans cast their ballots. the pair discussed payments to silence a former playboy model whicin the end were never made. the fbi seized the recording during a raid on cohen's office ear

jane o'brien, bbc news, washington. laura: the enduring power of a goodgh lwhich is why satire never goes out of style. you can find much more of all the day's news on our website. to see what we are working on at any me, check us out on twitter. i would love to hear from you. i am laura trevelyan.so thank youch for watching "bbc world news america." >> with the bbc news app, our vertic videos are designed to work around your lifestyle, so you can swipe your way to the news of the day and stay up-to-date with the latest headlines you can trust. download now from selected app stores. >> funding of this presepoation is madible by the freeman foundation, vler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs, and purepoint financial. ur how do we shape our tomorrow? >> how do we shapeomorrow? it starts with a vision. we see its ideal form in our mind, and then we begin to chisel. we sip away everything that stands in the way to reveal new possibilies. at purepoint financial, we have designed our modern approach

breaking this down is our news desk editor m o'brien. emma o'brien.d mar is there any chance the carmakers will be heated and the tariffs will be avoided? toyota has gone up by $1800. hyundai is talking about it. is trump going to listen? hitting atare really his core argument. thisu go back to the next and what the start of this whole trade war was based on, it was that he was concerned that u.s. manufacturers were getting a raw deal, that it was in decline. they are trying to pitch to that. they have a lot of manufacturing, so bmw, tesla, and hyundai coming out with their own warnings. and the world's biggest car market at the moment is china. but china does slapped with 25% tariff on car imports, it will hit their business. it may see them as having to reassess their operations in the u.s. we have one week to go before these tariffs come into force, and it does not look like there are any talks going on between the u.s. and china that we can see. as far as we understand it, donald trump would have to reverses decision to put these on

a pilot study has finished at the chris o'brien lifehouse, a dedicated cancer treatment and researchave been speaking with one of the tea m i have been speaking with one of the team members about what type of exercise they are suggesting. at the moment we have increasing evidence, quite high—level evidence, that exercise from the time of diagnosis with cancer, all the way through the cancer journey, diagnosis with cancer, all the way through the cancerjourney, is beneficial to patients, particularly for managing their symptoms, such as fatigue, improving their sense of well—being, and improving their ability to get through chemo therapy and treatments. what is study was showing, a collaborative study between chris o'brien lifehouse and the university of sydney, and the chief investigator was the exercise physiologist michael maastricht and this looked at the feasibility and the safety of exercising during chemotherapy. and we found that it is safe and feasible and that people enjoy it. the clinical oncology society of australia and the american exercise society have recognised 150 mi

jane o'brien reports. the best way to check a bat for the syndrome is to catch it.ing, especially if we hold it up to the light, you can see lots of wind damage where she has had lots of infection from the disease. so you can actually see the damage she? right. that hole. yes. greg turner has witnessed the population in pennsylvania alone plunge from 20 to 30 million a few years ago to about 10,000 today. it will probably take about 500 to 8000 years in order for the bats to get anywhere closer to where they were before white nose syndrome. and that is if scientists can find syndrome. and that is if scientists canfind a syndrome. and that is if scientists can find a way to stop white nose spreading. —— 1000. what about looking at where bats hibernate to slow the growth of the fungus. it is much colder. yes. just to this point. white nose syndrome cannot flourish in cold temperatures so scientists created a single to cool it down. before you altered this cave, how many bats were? seven. seven? and after we manipulated this down here, we went one year after 28 bats. t

then, mapping out rnia's methane-- miles o'brien takes us inside the state'sonattle againsof the most potent greenhouse gases. and, eight micths after hue maria, puerto rico's elderly population remains unprotected as hurricane season gets underway. >> one of the main things that developed from the hurricane is that everyone confronted reality of our elderly population. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. m >>ajor funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an p, or online more information on babbel.com. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions tohe world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. >> supported by the joand catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more

vonnie: tim o'brien, bloomberg opinion executive editor.tim has a wonderful story related to this weekend's events donald trump is going to play on his course at turnberry. have a read of it. coming up, bank earnings begin. we break down the results. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: live from london, i am mark barton. vonnie: from new york, i am vonnie quinn. jpmorgan kicking off bank earnings this morning along with .ells fargo and citi sales and trading revenue beating estimates but shares are down now from the last few minutes. let's get some more analysis from laura keller. you are covering some of the banks for us. all of the banks are down in the first hour of trading or so, but we have flat markets. this is just one contributor. laura: maybe what you are seeing , jpmorgan came out with strong results. the analyst results almost say nothing missed, with the exception of one or two small items. you are starting to see the investors parse through the commentary we had, jpmorgan earlier talking about the economy, not seeing any problems with t

reporting from washington, i'm jane o'brien. the trade war is on. the u.s.nd china slap on tariffs, a move that could have a big impact in amtlica's hed. >> it is very possible it could hurt our business. ditends on how long it lasts and how long it takes for them to negotiate them out. jane: a diver dies in the rescue effort to get 12 boys and their football coach out of a flooded cave in thailand. and one semifinal in the world cup is set. france advances after beating uruguay, and belgium comes out victorious against brazil. jane: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. today beijing accused the united stat of triggering a rge-scale trade war as the countries went forth in slapping tit-for-tat duties on more than $30 billion worth of imports. president trump is not backing down, warning that the u.s. may be ready to go even further. it is a bitter pill to swallow for farmers, especially those who grow soybeans and senior -- and have seen their fortunes drop. for more on impact, nick bryant travel to alabama fo

was the shaming of moms who who even considered formula one pregnant mom from the midwest alison o'brien actually told me about she said quote i've been pushed out of breastfeeding facebook groups for simply asking questions or offering that there are other options to be pro breastfeeding moms opinions here then shame to because you don't agree to what they believe one hundred percent and are ostracized and she's a nurse so she's going to group this is somebody who do that how do we repair the conversation around breastfeeding and formula to make it more productive and more inclusive for everybody and for all moms. it's very important and certainly it does all come down to individual choices but we know that moms and dads to rely very heavily on their physicians and their health care providers and therefore those people are the most important contact to be educated and i think mothers will feel a lot better when they know they're getting the right information and that in the end it's their choice and that's what is very very important to us and if you look at third world countries you me

. -- peter o'brien has the story. reporter: a warning from ryanair to its pilots on strike.lor quarter of their -- they ared deep planning two/the dublin fleets -- planning to slash the dublin fleets. the process is being backed by french unions. >> three quarters of these pilots are self-employed, not knowing if they are working the next they are not. it to be -- 600 flights are expected to be canceled in total. further weweakening of a a compy already y having to deal with te increased prprice of fuel. repealed morenair than its core dropped in a fifth earlier. some economists say ryanair is far from the brink. >> the company has always made money. i'm convinced it can treat his low-cost model better. reporter: it remains the most profitable in europe. reporter: back in france, more delays have been announced. the next generation nuclear reactor being built with flannel fusion. now it is going to operation into another 400 million euros. the project now runs to eight yearars, and the final cost will be three times the original budget. the government is now forced to keep i

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hundreds lined up at the build a bear workshop including michael o'brien and his son he's 7 years old. so you're going to pay $7 for a bear? >> yep. >> reporter: that sounds like a good deal. >> yep. >> reporter: normally the dolls can cost anywhere from $25 to $100 each. she's been for $30 for four. >> 14, 10, 5, and 1. >> reporter: hundreds were in line by the time build a bear opened. many stopped accepting guests due to crowds and safety concerns. the store manager at oak ridge said they'd stay open as long as they had bears to >> dinosaur. >> i think i want to get the unicorn one. >> reporter: at the end of the day there are some things you can't put a price on. since the story began i've been walking from where i was in line. now here we are getting to the entrance of the build a bear workshop. you can take away some of the sting for not getting your bear today. they're handing out $15 off vouchers for anyone in line today. >> that is something. thank you, matt. >>> fresh off an intense nato summit president trump is now in the u.k. but not before a few more feathers. >>> and st

woodruff: last fall, science correspondent miles o'brien traveled to cuba, a crion jewel ofversity in the caribbean. there, he found scientists andts conservationorking to protect the island's wildlife, some of it found nowhere else on earth, from growing outside pressures. tonight a reprise of that story, our weekly series on the leading edge of science. >> reporr: toby ramos is cuba's croc whisperer. for more than four decades, he has lid in cuba's zapata swamp, hoping to bring the reptiles back fromhe brink of extinction. they are feisty, ferocious, and able to jump-- as we saw at a arby breeding center. >> ( translated ): the cuban croc is very bold and unafraid of humans. they come right up to investigate any disturbance in the water. they stand their ground even if you try to capture them. this makes them easier to catch than their arican counterpart. >> reporter: which is one big reason they are in such trouble. the crocs were huntednt relessly in the first half of the 20th century. 13,000 were killed in one year alone, for their skins and meat. today, the poaching continuesle

any cameras,e because francis o'brien got the idea. want people to think they were -- he wanted the people to be right in there with the committee. to the mighty brass of the network, you want to cover it? you're gonna do it through a wall.n the you're not gonna be in the room. mosts like that that people, you know, don't think of. mainly it was the character that came out. knew the gravity. the book will show you -- i was of theseo a lot members, who truly couldn't make up their mind. but they talked to me because going towas i wasn't write about it, until afterwards. and they were very serious. crime? a what is a high crime? what is a misdemeanor? what does that mean? it just -- you know, they have to have burglarized that?ing, or is it beyond what is accountability? this is very, very serious set questions. and it was sort of a model impeachment. goes on now, and of course it got ruined when impeachment that against bill clinton for ostensibly lying under oath. we all know what it was. and it's really too bad that this thing has got

in cuba's zapatawamp, i'm miles o'brien for the pbs newshour. op>> woodruff: 47 million are expected to travel for fourth of july this year and many of them are spending the holiday at national parks. but the parks do not have a history of attracting a broad cross section of ame population. as tyler fingert from the cronkite school of journalism reports as part of our race matters series, some parks officials are trying to change that. >> reporter: thousands of feet above the canyon floor, it's a view you can feel. >> no picture could ever do it justice, it's everything i expected and then some. >> reporter: lisa brokenbrough and doug griffin drove three days from delaware just to get to the grand canyon and a chance to see what more than six million visitors saw last yearon >> when you are here you get to experience more the, just a pictou know the pictures are beautiful, but being hereac you get the al full exrience and just the wow factor of everything. >> reporter: the park boasts some of the best views of this beautiful canyon, that stretch

miles o'brien reports on how california is zeing in on that very issue, part of our weekly segment on the "leading edge" of science, medicine and technology. >> this is honor rancho. this is about ten clicks north or so. >> reporter: it's time for a preflight briefing at burbank airport. >> we're going to get plenty of data over the, over the sites. >> reporter: i'm flyinwith a team from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory, a place that specializes in exploring distant planets, today is focused on our own. f they're takight over southern california, hunting one of the most potent greenhouse gases of all; methane. it accounts for one fifth of the global warming we are experiencing now. >> you can't manage what you don't measure. >> reporter: riley duren is the chief systems engineer for j.p.l.'s earth scienc directorate. he and technologist andrew thorpe are using a state of the art infrared imaging spectrometer to find plumes of methane invisible to the human eye. nationally the e.p.a. estimatesu one third of methane emissions come from oil and gas production, another third from the meth

it's a perfect fit for our miles o'brien and our weekly segmented on the "leadin" of science. amna nawaz caught up with him. >> nawaz: they may have long suspected it, but scientists have finally found for the first time a large watery reservoir, ibly a lake, beneath the southern ice cap of mars. radar suggests the reservoir i12 more thailes wide and similar in some ways to lakes found beneath the greenland and antarctic ice sheets on earth. it's salty and buried nearly a mile below thehree-billion- year-old ice cap. for many, it's a huge moment. that includes miles, long been covering the latest on the red planetnd he joins me now. miles, for those of us who haven't been following the red planet all these years, why is this su a big deal? >> well, amna, i guesscs ntists, myself, and anyone who watches this closely, would have been surprised if th didn't find liquid water beneath the surface. but it's not an easy thing to do. you know, really, when you think about this,his is th culmination benefit 150 years of work that began with an italian astronomer by the name of chiparly

>> exactly. >> rebecca davis o'brien with another big scoop today. rebecca, we appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >>> new developments in the trial of the president's former campaign chairman, paul manafort. robert mueller's prosecutors have requested 50 new subpoenas. a federal judge delays the start date of manafort's trial to next week. he faces charges for money laundering, tax evasion as well. his trial will mark the first of special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. let's bring in nbc news investigations reporter tom winter and nbc news intelligence and national security reporter, ken dilanian here. i'm going to start with you, tom, if i can. give us a sense, what is the latest on the mueller investigation, these subpoenas and how they relate specifically to paul manafort? >> sure, peter. we've seen this a couple of times leading up to the trial. it's basically federal prosecutors assigned to robert mueller's team asking the judge for blank subpoena sheets so they can compel pe

by msnbc contributor emily jane fox, senior reporter at "vanity fair," and msnbc contributor tim o'brien, author of "trump nation." okay. again, i'm a little confused. he doubles back. he talked to kristen welker afterwards, our own nbc kristen welker, and he did a little more circumlocution. but let's start with this idea of a premeeting. he's saying that lanny davis or maybe a reporter that's calling for comments, it's unclear, is saying there was a meeting two days before the trump tower meeting. what do you know about that? >> he said both that lanny davis is saying this and michael cohen was saying this. i don't know if this meeting happened. i don't know if lan write davis had said this. i can tell you from my reporting today that michael cohen has no knowledge of a premeeting. so he is not going around saying that there was a premeeting because he did not know about that until rudy giuliani was on air today. >> i just want to be clear. if there was a premeeting two days before the meeting, which would be a big deal i think because it would blow up this idea of it's all casual, com

timothy o'brien, thanks for being here. >>> and breaking news. looking live right now at the senate floor where a vote is underway on a resolution, non-binding resolution to take a firm stand of handing over america's diplomats officials and members of the armed forces to be question ds ed by russia. this is a purely symbolic non-binding vote. we also want to remind you within the hour we are going to hear directly from the director of national intelligence, dan coats, for the first time since the helsinki summit. you remember he issued that strongly worded statement in response to the president where he said once again that russia is still meddling and that it is pervasive. he will speak with andrea mitchell 3:30 eastern here on msnbc. tune in. and facebook's ceo mark zwluk s zuckerberg is facing backlash, this time for defending the rights of holocaust deniers on his billion billion dollar social media platform. here is what he told kara swisher. >> i'm jewish. and there's a set of people who deny that the holocaust happened. >> yes, there's a

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reporting from washington, i am jane o'brien.cott pruitt, presidt trump's embattled head of the epa, steps down after a series of controversies. a couple in the u.k. rem critical condition after they came in contact with an item ntaminated with a nerve agent. netflix is making moves ina. in can original content with local stars capture the new market against stiff competition? welcome to our viewers in america and around the globe. it is the daafter the fourth of july, but there are still fireworks coming out of the white house. the head of the epa, scott pruitt, stepdown. his resignation follows a serieh of scandals the dogged his tenure. president trump announced it in his usual fashion, by tweet, saying "i have acceptethe resignation of scott pruitt. within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this." he has been the subject of numerous stories c which haled into question his conduct. for more on this most recentin shakeup, i am by the north america reporter. starting with you,