and 18-year-old rachel colarutis. it looked as if the victims were watching tv and were caught off-guard by the attack. >> they were leaned back in the couch, feet up, like anyone would if they were watching a show or relaxing. they did not seem to be alarmed at all. >> these people had no idea they were about to be shot. >> it appeared as if rachel was killed while trying to call for help. >> she just dialed the 9 and the 1 key. the assailant came back to her and beat her to death. >> rachel was shot six times. and pistol-whipped.

and 18-year-old rachel colarutis. it looked as if the victims were watching tv and were caught off-guard by the attack. >> they were leaned back in the couch, feet up, like anyone would if they were watching a show or relaxing. they did not seem to be alarmed at all. >> these people had no idea they were about to be shot. >> it appeared as if rachel was killed while trying to call for help. >> she just dialed the 9 and the 1 key. the assailant came back to her and beat her to death. >> rachel was shot six times. and pistol-whipped. shell casings found at the scene indicated two guns were used. one was a 9 millimeter. the other a .38 caliber. >> we were looking for at least two perpetrators. you don't see people going and carrying a 9 millimeter in one hand, a .38 in the other. >> and there was no forced entry. >> we allow scenes to talk to us. it confirms to us as detectives that they know their assailants. >> rachel's father heard the news on television. >> i pulled up on the scene, saw my wife standing out there, an

rachel and chris chapman!r: a ceremony and honeymoon followed by "today" viewers as they became a family. a family they're now hoping to grow. >> he wants a fishing buddy. i said, girls fish. >> rachel friedman chapman and chris chapman are in the studio with us. nice to have you both with us. >> thank you. >> you're taking this next step. very exciting. >> scary and exciting. >> a little overwhelming. it was really interesting to me to learn that one of the first things you asked the emts when they came that night of the accident, rachel, was whether or not you would be able to have children. >> yes. i always wanted to be a mother. as soon as the accident happened, i don't know. it was the first question in my mind. i looked at the emt, and i asked, will i be able to have kids? and they said yes. and so i physically can actually hold a child. it's not the paralysis but i'm on a lot of medication that would make it difficult. >> that would make it difficult for you to go through the pregnancy. so you're going

i'll bring rachel back into this. one of the points that they are making in this document is that nba membership may be terminated upon the failure of a membership or owner to pay any indebtedness owing to the league. and then they say, this provision has been violated because the los angeles clippers has refused to pay the fine imposed back on april 29th, 2014. so they say they can get rid of him because he hasn't paid the fine. >> you've read my mind. it appears, in him trying to keep his team and him trying to do damage control, that from this that he actually has done himself more harm by the damage control that he's trying to do. he did not pay that fine and then send a letter to the nba saying why he didn't pay it because he thought -- his attorney at least did. now, according to this, as you read, they can get rid of him just because he did not pay that fine. it seems it would have helped him to pay the fine and then fight it because it would have given them one more solid reason to get rid of him. >> rachel, w

and after that trial, rachel kept that promise.ith the help of the tom joyner foundation, she began working with a tutor for nine months, three hours a day, five to six days a week, rachel worked on her education, and today, it paid off. because today, rachel jeantel received her high school diploma. and in the audience was sybrina fulton, trayvon martin's mother. so congratulations, rachel. you kept your promise to trayvon and to yourself. but he never cleans up. always leaves a trail of crumbs behind. you're going to have a problem with getting a wife. uh, yeah, i guess. [ laughs ] this is ridiculous. christopher glenn! [ doorbell rings ] what is that? swiffer sweep & trap. i think i can use this. it picks up everything. i like this. that's a lot of dirt. it's that easy! good job chris! i think a woman will probably come your way. [ both laugh ] [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains tha

i couldn't really hear after that. >> were you there, rachel, during that?> i walked in, and my dad said that somebody -- somebody shot nickel baby and i went outside and i sat in the snow. i just buried my head into my hands and i started to cry. and then he tapped me on the shoulder and told me, haile's gone, too. >> that's your brother and your best friend. do you remember what was racing through your head, rachel? >> basically why? i guess we all just couldn't believe it was both at one time so suddenly. >> even harder to absorb, how and where nick and haile were shot. they were the intruders byron smith killed. >> it was all very unbelievable. >> so what happened in that basement on elm street? the answer to that would lead to a heated debate. how far is too far when it comes to depending your home. when do you cross the line between victim and criminal? >> coming up, what had nick and haile been up to? a grainy image captures a clue. is that nick? >> you see him on different cameras, different angles walking around the house. >> is that haile? deputies

rachel, let me get your take on shelly sterling.e going to emerge as the owner of the clippers even as he's kicked out? >> well, it's unlikely that we would see shelly sterling not be allowed to own the team. the question is, what is her role in the interim period? is she around the team? the answer is yes. she's been at the game. is she allowed to make any management decisions? doc rivers has been complementary of shelly sterling. i don't know how much of the previous allegations doc has heard. it's a big mess over there. the nba wants to appoint a ceo to clear things up. we're waiting for them to do that in the interim period. >> bruce, there's a new cnn poll. should nba owners force them to sell the los angeles clippers? 40% say yes and 50% say no. i take it you are stunned by that. >> i was. i think as this process plays out, wolf, people's views on that will change. >> why do you say that? >> well, first of all, they need to understand that this isn't a litigation, a legal matter. we're partners together and as such i was voted

steve guttenberg, rachel sklar, michael medved, nina burleigh and arthur chu.ant to read another part and get your reaction. we are not guaranteed to get laid by the hot chick of our dreams as long as we work hard enough at it. there isn't a team of writers or a studio audience pulling for us to triumph by getting the girl in the end. first, steve, isn't hollywood's biggest part of hollywood's job is to sell a fantasy? >> but it's fiction. that's what movies are for the most part. unless it's "lincoln" and a true story or "dallas buyers club" they're fiction and it's fun and that's why you go to the movies. and arthur, that's what being a guy is all about. no matter if you look like brad pitt or you're supposedly whatever a nerd is, you always want the beautiful girl, the popular girl. you want to be the football star. >> so do girls. there are lady nerds. hasn't anyone seen "she's all that." she transforms into the beautiful swan from the nerd -- this is a great movie, by the way. i think that this is missing the point. great movies are great. i watch more tv

i'm phil torres here with kyle and rachelle.ll me what can i do with bamboo to get around town? >> turns out you can build a bike. we were using bamboo for well over a century. but down in greensboro, alabama, you can build a bike with an innovative new design. why don't we check it out? deep in the heart of rowe, alabama, the once thriving town of greensboro is struggling. a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. the catfish capital is struggling to keep its head above water. >> what happened when you came here? >> about 75% of the shops shut down. >> there was one thing they had plenty of. >> we have a lot of bamboo. you have to have something you're making out of it. >> pandor became somewhat of a one woman stimulus plan for governor'sboro, running the hero foundation, she tapped into the town's most unwanted resource to do it. bamboo bicycles aren't exactly a new idea. they have been around since the first one was introduced back in 1894. and now they are gaining popularity in small bike shops like this one.

i'm rachel nichols.ime when athletes joked about getting their bell rung and hardly anyone seemed to notice. that time is long gone. the nfl is battling multiple lawsuits from former player, scared parents are pulling their kids from youth sports and yesterday the issue reached the white house. as president obama demanded change. >> we need more athletes to understand how important it is to do what we can to prevent injuries and to admit them when they do happen. right? we have to change a culture that says, you suck it up. >> well, i want to welcome in our guest, chris nuinski and chris may win for most unusual career path. football at harvard then became a pro wwe wrestler and became instrumental in the examination of the brain of several high-profile athletes after suffering a concussion himself and welcome in ted johnson, three-time super bowl champion and has become a leading voice for change. welco welcome, guys. >> good to be here. >> chris, when you look back at where you started, just trying to

in january of two thousand and three twenty three year old rachel corrie left the u.s. to work with the international solidarity movement in rough a palestine her work was centered on protesting israeli policies in the palestinian territories their nonviolent resistance on march sixteenth only two months after her arrival rachel's selfless quest and did when an armored bulldozer manned by i.d.f. soldiers plowed over her body as she attended to stop the demolition of a palestinian home now anyone who's followed rachel's story closely knows that she was an exceptional individual who clearly had an awareness of injustice from an incredibly incredibly young age check out a clip from a speech she gave in the fifth grade i'm here for another challenging i'm here because i can't i'm here because children everywhere are saturated and because flight a thousand people die each day from hunger i'm here because those people i'm mostly children we have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them we have got to understand that these tasks are preventabl

killing palestinians and internationals and rachel. i think. it's going on here i hope that the high court bring this behavior back from the that islam because one thing when you break the law when you just destroy the law that's a much worse. israel itself and the idea will be much better off if the normal. law and want to. thank you so much craig. corrie parents of rachel corrie really appreciate you fighting for justice there in jerusalem thanks for coming on. coming up i'll talk about simple noise complaint turn into a full on the polies raid stay tuned. for the switch on washington well it's a missile that is being suggested to the latest numbers of the media candidates for office even more in addition to that actually back to you and doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer based in india fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race there and for so long it's just a comedy of the world it's also the largest deb

go ahead steve and then rachel i'll let you finish. >> movies has nothing to do with this.ther does television. this has to do with a deranged mind and whether he does this or something else completely inappropriate, it happens all the time. but it has nothing to do with art or a male point of view or where hollywood is coming from. >> okay. quickly, rachel, respond. >> distinction between the small category of art and the larger category of culture and how women are portrayed in culture. he got his perception of what women known him. he didn't just invent that concept. >> i think -- >> you know, what we're missing, rachel, it's the culture. the culture is it's not just hollywood. it's the sense of male entitl entitledmeentitle entitlement that what they're calling epidemic of campus rapes. they are getting raped because young men are thought to think that female flesh is their entitlemen entitlement. whose fantasy are we talking about? >> where in any motion picture or tv show is there a plot where a guy rapes a woman and loves him for it? why the way elliot rodger did bef

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, man. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is one way, famously, that political ads can be really, truly terrible. this is iconic classic of a terrible, almost evil ad. >> you needed that job. and you were the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says it is. your vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, harvey gann. against racial quotas, jesse helms. >> the white hands ad. that was an ad conservative republican senator jesse helms ran in his 1990 senate re-election bid against harvey gantt. and that is very famously one way that political ads can be terrible. that is the classic racist variety of offensive political ad. it's sort of a variant on the same kind of terrible that was this ad against multiple amputee vietnam war veteran senator max cleland. this ad run against him by republican saxby chambliss morphed senator cleland into osama bin laden. yes. sometimes terr

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. big show tonight. there's lots to report including the unanimous decision by a subset of nba owners tonight to move forward with forcing the owner of the l.a. clippers to sell his basketball team after he got a lifetime ban from the sport earlier this week when racist remarks of his turned up on the internet machine. also on the show tonight, it turns out there has been a very unexpected ending to the old cliven bundy militia standoff thing in nevada. if you thought that story was over, congratulations, you're right. it is. but what got left behind there physically after the story turns out is truly weird. and we've got the details on that coming up. we've also got news tonight out of oregon that i have to tell you, we'll peek behind the scenes. we spent three days fact-checking this story out of oregon because i personally did not believe it. i thought we were being punked. but after three days of checking i am now satisfied that this i

joining us, rachel nichols. she's the host of cnn's "unguarded," and cnn's legal analyst sunny hostin. you know, what jumped out at me, rachel, you know magic johnson. i know magic johnson. one of the most decent guys out there. he does a lot for minorities. he has a lot of businesses. he hires a lot of people in the urban areas of the country. what is sterling talking about? >> it's unbelievable. i'm not sure how in one breath he can say that he deserves to remain a part of the nba community, and deserves to be partners with the rest of the nba and the ownership, and then in the next breath, takes a shot at magic johnson, another shot at magic john son. i don't know how you can be so oblivious to the climate that you're in. and it just shows that he just doesn't really have a place in this league. >> what do you think, sunny? i don't know if you know magic. rachel and i have met him on many occasions. he's such a wonderful -- he's a role model for so many people out there. >> he's an icon. you're right, he has

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> that was a great feature on that buffalo site that was incredible, chris, well done. thanks a lot. thank you at home for joining us this hour. happy friday. all right this at first glance looks like a really awesome paint job. and sort of detailing job on this car, right? and this look is kind of a trend in cars now, if you've noticed. the blackout package. where you get a black car, with black trim, and black wheels, no chrome at all, everything's blacked out. it's very stuffy looking. but you know what? that is not what is going on in this picture. and we know that in part because this picture was taken in 2007, and that's before the blackout look was popular in cars. but it's also because what this picture is, is part of the documentation of an oil spill that happened in the vancouver area in 2007. here's another couple angles on that same poor car. yeah that's not point. it's crude oil. the pictures of that oil spill that happened in 2007 up near vancouver

lindsey, that was a life inspiring story, and rachelle, now i'm excited. want to go see a condor, and there's enough of them maybeky see one. check back with us next week on tech know. we will bring you more amazing invasions. i'm phil torres here to talk about innovations that can change lives. we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. let's check out our team of hard core nerds. dr. shini somara, life and death in the or, one woman in desperate need of a transplant. will the donor lung arrive

did you hear that, rachel, or jeffliry? the same thing i heard? >> go ahead, rachel.ainly as i said, jeffrey, you would know how long it takes to untangle a marriage in california. i believe you when you say it's long and not a quickie trip to mexico. i have to say timing is an issue here. because the fact that the nba has not officially moved on this yet has to be significant. they came out and talked about how, woet, quote, expeditiously

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this is two years too late for rachel chambers of morgan hill to save her dog, cally. >> good girl. can you sit? >> rachel chambers love hes her family's four dogs, just as she loved cally, a shepherd mix that died a painful death after eating chinese made dog jerky two years ago this month. >> important that more lives are saved. but incredibly sad the lives that are lost during the two years they should have done something. >> the fda hasn't identified the exact ingredient that has sickened and sometimes killed animals but petco decided now is the time to act. >> we decided at this point we want to good ahead and make this move even though the evidence is tlnt. because it is the best thing for our pests. >> i asked why the company is waiting until december to remove items from petco's 1300 stores. >> to move through an entire chain and dramatically change in assortment, it is a big job. >> pet food express operates dozens of stores in california an pulled the same treats in question a year ago. >> petco is a very large company and large companies tend to act slowly. we have the lu

. >> you, too, thanks, rachel. >> not just as a member of congress but as chair of the committee, do you think democrats should participate in what the republicans are doing with this select committee? >> you know, the more we spend time on this today, the more we discussed it, the more i've had a chance to see that the republicans' proposal us for us to have no consultation on subpoena power, not even to be guaranteed to be able to be in the room when witnesses are interviewed. i mean, that's how imbalanced and farcical this will be. i'm really leaning more towards that we should not legitimize or lend our credibility to a committee or a process that is really as transparent as they come when it comes to what it really is trying to do is gin up their base and use it as a turnout machine. because reality is, rachel, they lost the aca as a white hot issue that gets their base fired up because the affordable care act is working. you have 8 million people that signed up. they've dropped about 20 points among their own partisans now, as far as that being an issue that really drives them.

let's dig deeper, joining us, rachel nichols, the host of "unguarded with rachel nichols."g us, don lemon. this first meeting is preliminary. only nine of the owners participating with adam silver and others on this call that apparently is still ongoing right now. i can't imagine, just me personally, i'm anxious to hear what you think, any of these owners eventually voting to allow sterling to keep the team. but go ahead and weigh in. >> yes, i mean, make a comparison to the political process. this is like something in congress, getting it out of committee. we know it's easier to do that than to get approval of the vote on the floor. as suzanne mention, sterling has five days to respond. this is where it's going to get interesting. because he may be talking to some of his fellow owners, guys that he's known for decade at this point. trying to sway people the other way. as you point out, wolf, in the court of public opinion, there's no question. fans, players, they want the owners of these teams to vote to oust sterling. there had been significant legal questions raised in t

did you hear that, rachel, or jeffliry? the same thing i heard? >> go ahead, rachel. i'm sorry. >> certainly as i said, jeffrey, you would know how long it takes to untangle a marriage in california. i believe you when you say it's long and not a quickie trip to mexico. i have to say timing is an issue here. because the fact that the nba has not officially moved on this yet has to be significant. they came out and talked about how, woet, quote, expeditiously were going to move. it's been almost two weeks and no official notification. this leads me to believe there's a lot of maneuvering and the divorce or potential divorce could be a factor here. there's so much to untangle in terms of this ownership issue. yet there's a rowdy crowd of players out there, fans, of other people and organizations who want this done. >> pierce o'donnell told me something interesting yesterday. he said as far as he's aware, don sterling doesn't even have a lawyer yet which is an additional level of complexity that no one has agreed to represent him which could slow the process down in ever

the fantastic rachel maddow starts right now. >> thank you, i like that very much. every night, please. >> every night it is. >> thank you, chris, appreciate it. and thank you for you at home for staying with us on this fantastic night. in the year 2008, the great state of missouri got rid of its limits t s on campaign contributions. they said anyone could give any amount for candidates and election issues in that state. and when missouri made that issue in twaig2008, they got, drumroll please, they got their own missouri version of the koch brothers or their own sheldon adelson, their own art pope. once missouri said, anybody could spend anything they wanted on missouri politics, think got their own homegrown missouri zillion zilli zillionaire who thought the rules should be remade in their image. we have these zillionaire guys, some of them operatie ining nat politics, some operating in their home state, but the one that missouri got, he turns out to be a doozy. >> you know what, there was a column written, and i hope i don't offend anyone, but a published column

rachel maddow was on the show -- she an i geeked out over it.. >> so are you telling me that's my in with rachel maddow? [ laughter ] >> seth: you've got an in with rachel maddow. i think that you -- i call her. i'm like, "i have this really cool person i want to you talk to." >> anyway, sorry, yeah. you distracted me. >> seth: no, i get same way around rachel maddow. yeah. >> seth: yeah. >> who does not? >> seth: who does not? >> okay, what were we talking about? >> seth: oh my gosh, "queen and country." >> i couldn't be more excited or feel absolutely more grateful. the script's awesome and the character's amazing. so, i just can't wait to do it. >> seth: that's great. and then you have done, we talked about tennis balls -- sorry to bring it up again. but that's the only way you're gonna learn is if people keep bringing it up. >> yeah, i know. i know. are you maury povich all of a sudden? [ laughter ] >> someone's going to come out with a big box of tennis balls. >> seth: yeah. roger federer is here. >> yeah, okay. [ laughter ] >> seth: now, d

, the host of "unguarded with rachel nichols" and cnn anchor, don lemon.w much sway it actually has? >> all right. here's the situation with the letter. the letter gave shelly sterling some currency, some authority. it allowed her to go to the bank of america and have them set up the bid process which, by the way, is complicated and not something they would have done just on her say so. it also allowed all these billionaires floating around who want the clippers to say, hey, she has some authority to vet these bids and take some offers on the team. here's what it does do. it doesn't give her the authority to sell the team. we've been saying on the show over and over again the clippers are not private property. the clippers are a membership in an association. it is the nba who grants anybody the authority to say who are going to be members in that association. it also grants the nba the authority to say who is the controlling owner? donald sterling is the controlling owner. and that is not something he can just sign away in a letter. no matter how valid tha

he gave incentives to the auto companies to stay in the state, rachel. that's kind of a traditional country club banker republican mentality. give big incentives to big business to create jobs. that's his approach. again, he gets a bit of a pass, because missouri is just that kind of a state. it's hard to believe that an out-and-out progressive liberal has any chance at the statewide level, and i think jay nixon senses that. now, he's not really popular among some democrats. for example, he's had a sort of a low-level feud with mccaskill for years about who rae control s the party in the state. and jay nixon, like mccaskill really looks out for himself. his own re-election is more important than electing more democrats to the legislature so you wouldn't have to go through what he just went through. that's a criticism you'll hear of jay nixon. but, again, there may be a lot of self-preservation in that. missouri, as i suggested, and as you suggested as well, is much more southern in its approach to politics than it is industrial midwest or in north of the

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, man. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the coliseum, the ancient coliseum in rome. famous for gladiator combat, famous for staged combat between wild beasts, brought in from the far corners of the world to fight for the entertainment of the romans. famous, of course, for public executions, also staged for the entertainment of rome's leaders and rome's citizens. the roman coliseum, at least most of it, is still standing today, in rome, 2,000 years after it was built. it's a unesca world heritage site. one of the most visited tourist destinations on earth. and in the year 2007, they lit up the coliseum specially. they turned on this very theatrical beautiful lighting that showed off the arches of the coliseum and its surviving tiers is and its overall height. and they did that in 2007 in honor of new jersey. new jersey in december of 2007, abolished the death penalty. and 4,000 miles away from trenton, at the ancient coliseum in rome, the romans celebrated what new

the chp says she's 22-year-old rachel garris of corning. investigators say she suffered moderate injuries -- treated and released from the hospital. drugs and alcohol have been ruled out as factors in the crash, and it doesn't appear she was speeding. the chp says she was headed home from the graton resort and casino in rohnert park before the incident. sot- "they came slowly out of the car, kind of stunned too and um they said that they fell asleep at the wheel, so i don't even know if they tried slamming the breaks or what." rachel garris was not arrested, but this case is still under invesitgation. meanwhile, the chp says the officer will remain in the hospital for the next few days. in santa rosa, philippe djegal, kron four news. some drivers who decided to stay in town for the long holiday weekend faced a traffic nightmare in downtown san francisco. the 280 freeway was closed southbound, leaving a number of people confused. as kron 4's alecia reid reports, the area surrounding the ballpark was more hectic than usual. nats - harrison, m

-- >> i take that bet. >> rachel, donald sterling could be rattling the saber. he in the interview back and forth on it and didn't want to be in a fight with the league. >> people want me to hire a wall of lawyers and them to hire a wall of lawyers and to go to war. i don't think that's the answer. the league is a good league. all honest people. and i think that whatever they decide that has to be done i think i should work with them. i don't want to fight with my partners. you know? we all do what we have to do in life. i love them and i respect them and whatever their decision is, with regard to the disposition of my terrible words, then i have to do it i think. i mean, i love my league. i love my partners. am i entitled to one mistake? it's a terrible mistake. and i'll never do it again. the league won't stand for that. they won't stand for racism. i'm telling you. and i did it. is it harsh? of course it's harsh. but it's not like i don't deserve -- i they were going to do more. >> rachel, that's clearly the message to the owners hoping to influence them on h

and i think part of the reason, rachel, is this.concern about the select committee is this is where i think they're headed. they are going to subpoena everything under the sun, subpoena something having no relation whatsoever to benghazi, subpoena things clearly protected by privilege, and they're going to keep asking, because they want to provoke a fight with the administration. they're not interested in the facts, which we really already have. they're interested in the fight with the administration. and ultimately, our leadership concluded that it was important to have people in the room to contest the abuse of that kind of power and process. and i think that's a sensible decision, no matter how divided our caucus was initially, we have come together and we're going to deal with this professionally and responsibly and try to prevent the select committee from degenerating into simply one about talking points. >> are you convinced that you will have the access to information and the tools that you need, as minority members of that c

in fact, you are right, rachel. an im incumbent governor in pennsylvania has advantages including fund-raising. we are a wild west state meaning there are no limits to how much they can give. only thing that can't happen is corporate contributions but private pacs can give a half million without a problem. tom wolf will probably raise 15 or 16 but enough to be competitive. the governor has the advantage of incouple banscy. he can go around the state doing things, promoting economic development plans, giving out grants. we have never had an incumbent governor lose in pennsylvania. interestingly the corbett campaign put a lot of ads out in the spring about corbett. it didn't move the numbers one bit. the only thing they have going is a very good media consultant that will go negative. but as allison schwartz learned, tom is a difficult guy to run negative ads against. when they came at him with $2 million of negatives all it did is go through the roof. he's such a good guy it's hard for people to believe anything bad

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >>> thanks, man. thanks for joining us this hour. in 2005, a "washington post" reporter named dana priest broke this story about how the u.s. government, specifically the cia, was helping conduct the bush administration's war on terror by holding and interrogating prisoners at secret facilities around the world. secret facilities called black sites. at the time back in 2005, those revelations from "the washington post" were pretty astonishing. we knew about guantanamo, we knew about places like abu ghraib. but on top of all of that, it turns out the american government had secret prisons all around the world where we held anonymous prisoners, totally off the books. we didn't admit to anybody that we were there, let alone that they were there. we interrogated those prisoners using methods that nobody knew anything about. that story changed the way the world saw the united states, probably permanently. it changed the fundamentals of what we know about this war on terror idea. and the fact that the story was published frankly changed th

and also i think lebron said something very important to rachel.e said, look, we're looking for good faith from the nba. so we will see in the next few weeks, i am confident, based on my own reporting, they are moving the pieces forward to try to remove the franchise from the sterling's. now, it is true if it goes into court, it will not be under the control of the nba, especially the timing. but they will make the effort. they will make a full fledged effort and i don't think there's any chance the players are going to be able to say, well, you're making kind of a half-baked effort so we're going to boycott. the key issue is good faith and as far as i can tell, the nba has shown that. >> rachel, what are you hearing from players -- and i know you've been talking to a lot of them -- that if shelly sterling has some continuous relationship with the l.a. clippers, how will they react to that? >> well, that's the other thing that lebron told me. he said in no way are the players going to be happy if shelly sterling, any of the sterling children, any o

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is that correct the army can decide to do this rachel, or did somebody, the royal family for example,sk the army to get involved? >> well of course it's possible both those things are true. as i understand it, the military does have this right. although there's a question mark as to whether it's allowed to impose martial law in the entire country whether than portions. i don't think anybody is going to call them out on that. whether or not they were asked to do it by something, that's a point we may never moe. i think however it's almost impossible to imagine the situation where the general made this kind of move without at least the approval of senior figures in the palace. he's such a royalist himself. the military in thailand swears allegiance to king and country. not the government people. i can't imagine he would do this if he thought the palace would days prove. >> how serious is this in the scheme of things. there have been several attempted unsuccessful coups? >> there are persistent rumors of coups and speculation about coups in thailand. it's been a constant background refra