reed?> rose was thrown in jail and notesly, rose would take when people would die or be tortured in prison. she would try to smuggle out the notes so the outside world knew what was going on. she was denounced and she was taken out of her cell and interrogated. 15 years later, we found in the files of the political police that i talked about before, we found her last interrogation reports. as she was being interrogated, as she was clearly going to be executed, she told her torturers who wrote it down to said, "i don't care what happens to me. i'm doing this for my country. chad will remember me and history will talk about me." really record we have of this is what her torturers wrote on a piece of paper that we found in the files of the political police 15 your's ago. today, history is talking about rose and people are talking about what happened in the chadian prisons under hissene habre. convicted for sexual crimes. he was actually convicted for personally having raped a woman who i have

>> florence signa: 1941. >> julia reed: '41. start selling hot tamales to go. in the beginning, the place catered to the black community. but after word got out how good the food was, white people started coming. which led to a kind of weird accommodation to the segregation of the day. blacks came in the front, white people snuck in the back. the menu expanded with the clientele. what human qualities are unique or marked in the native of mississippi? >> julia reed: i cannot address mississippi 'cause like i said, the delta is a whole 'nother planet. >> anthony: wow. okay, better question then. how does the lifelong delta resident differ from the other -- >> julia reed: you had to be a little crazy to wanna come in the first place, 'cause it was like the swamps, buddy. it was under water. i mean, you had to be crazy to come, and you had to have enough money to make it work. so you had some sort of gamblers. i mean, that -- that spirit still infuses the place. it's a little reckless. it's sophisticated 'cause they'd all come from

. >> be careful. >> 7-4. >> a body cam mounted on his chest shows reed running to his patrol car. >> the call comes in that a shooting had occurred at 11th and lakeside and someone had been shot in the chest. >> reed tries to track a suspect who is reportedly driving a white ford focus. his car's dash cam is also recording. >> i first tried to predict where the suspect vehicle might be traveling. so i overshot the route by a few blocks just to see if i could pick up the suspect, when i realized that the suspect was not going to be in that area, i decided to go to the scene of the shooting. there is a person standing in the intersection. >> ford focus, four-door. >> they are just pointing eastbound and telling me, hey, he went that way, that way. >> and sure enough, he spots a white focus a few blocks ahead. >> it is 23rd and lakeside now turning south. >> as soon as he turned, that is when i activated my siren. >> the suspect does not stop. as he turns on the cortelaine drive, bells go off in reed's head. >> and after about five miles, we had been briefed that morning that there was

annette gordon-reed is a professor at harvard. received 2008 national book award and 2009 pulitzer prize in history, her other honors include the national humanities medal. guggenheim fellowship in humanities and macarthur genius fellowship. peter onuf is one of america's leading jefferson scholars serving as thomas jefferson memorial foundation at the university of virginia and senior research historian at the robert smith institutional center for jefferson studies. his books include the mind of thomas jefferson and jefferson's empire. in their new book "most blessed of the patriarchs: thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination" annette gordon-reed and peter onuf present a character study of the man from monticello who we thought we knew. presidential historian john makem phrases with characteristic insight and intellectual rigor annette gordon-reed and peter onuf have produced a powerful and lasting portrait of the mind of thomas jefferson. this is an essential and brilliant book by two of the nation's for most scholars,

. >> september 29th, 2012, officer brady reed of the idaho police department is responding to a report of a shooting a few blocks from his location. >> there's a shooting just occurred -- >> be careful. you've got it. >> a body cam mounted on his chest captures reed running to his patrol car. >> the call comes in that a shooting occurred 11th and la lakeside and someone was shot in the chest. >> reed tries to track a suspect who is reportedly driving a white ford focus, his car's dash cam is also recording. >> i first tried to predict where the suspect vehicle might be traveling. i overshot the route by a few blocks just to see if i could pick up the suspect. when i realized the suspect was not going to be in that area, i decided to go to the scene of the shooting. there's a person standing in the intersection. >> ford focus. >> and pointing eastbound telling me, hey, he went that way. he went that way. >> sure enough he spots a white focus a few blocks ahead. >> it's 23rd and lakeside turning south. >> as soon as he turned that's when i activated my siren. >> the suspect doesn't stop

senator reed expressed his low opinion of grayson to his face.he incredible details about what went down in that clearly crazy meeting coming up in 60 seconds. >>> harry reid and allen grayson do not like each other. he called on the democratic congressman to drop out of the race. grayson apparently he wasn't happy with that and today he used a caucus meeting to let reed know how he feels. according to reports when it was grayson's turn to speak he asked if the navy senator knows who he is. after reed answered in the affirmative grayson went on the attack saying say my name. grayson started waiving a printout of reed's quote that called on grayson to drop out of the primary race. reed called the allegations of ethics violations deeply troubling and disgraceful to the democratic party. grayson reportedly confronted reed about that quote saying why did he say that insisting the statement was false. reed said i want you to lose. it's true. other members shut down the back and forth. after the meeting they seemed unfazed. calling out the establishmen

reed: mr. president, the pending amendment is offered by my colleague from maine and i and makes very clear that local officials will continue to remain in charge of the zoning decision and will still have the power to decide how they choose to need their obligations under the fair housing act of 1968. and those obligations are fundamental to our american fabric, of our lives and our aspirations in this country because they protect americans' housing choice no matter their physical ability, their race, their family status or their religion. and that's fundamental to who we are. but without effective information and transparency so that local communities can make wise decisions, these aspirations are never realized or seldom realized or not realized to the extent that we americans feel they must be realized. so senator collins and i have worked very hard to come up with clear language that again makes it clear that local communities have wide flexibility to meet their requirements under the law.

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reed. associate director of a.c.t., app association. thank you for holding this important hearing. the app association represents more than 5,000 small business app makers. our member companies have ena e enabled the rise of the sharing economy by leveraging the connectivity of smart devices. sharing economy companies have grown rapidly over the past decade. they allow instantaneous communication, secure transactions and personalized relevance to consumers. moreover, the same factors allow small businesses and tens of millions of americans to earn more for their families with fwlex b flexibility and autonomy, powered by the smartphone in your pocket. these opportunities will cease to exist if federal regulations hi hinder the growth of the sharing economy. i want to highlight three things that affect our members. first congress and the internal revenue service should take great care to ensure federal tax code enables rather than stifles the sharing economy. specifically the treatment of all

reed? mr.eed: having been a small business owner, on both sides of this, i am sure i would completely agree with the concept that everybody would love independent contractors. as someone who owned a small business, one of the reasons i hired employees was that i could count on them to be there. as i pointed out, lots of drivers drive for both uber and poor -- and for lyft. you have employees in a state of competition with you, right? you are constantly having to offer incentives, find new ways to entice them to stay, not jump ship. when of the advantages you have when you own the business, is that you have the opportunity cost of having them there, but it allows you to -- i think we are making that decision on an ongoing basis. taskrabbit, has employees, don't you? >> thank god, i am one of them. [laughter] >> i agree with you. i have had hundreds of employees myself. i am new to this job, right? i get it. but we have to find a way to disincentivize the companies from doing that appropriately,

and reed brody who wrote the pinochet papers with michael ratner.n: i would like to bring in jules lobel from pittsburgh. jules, you replace michael as the head of the center for constitutional rights. could you talk about his impact on social activism in the law and his model of lawyering? >> yeah, michael was a role model and inspiration for many lawyers and activists around the world, including myself. i never would have been involved with the center and i never would've had the career that i did if it wasn't for michael who got me involved, urged me to stay involved, and gave me the model of learning that i subsequently use -- lawyering that a subsequently use. his model, which i think is used by many people now, but which he pioneered him in her respects, is threefold. one is, he never back down from a fight against oppression, against injustice, no matter how difficult the odds or how hopeless the casing to be, no matter how much there was a lack of president. he took cases that nobody else would take for clients that nobody else would represe

also facebook, pay-pal, linkedin, reed hoffman has been crucial in each. the ultimate entrepreneur and investor will tell me what the future of technology looks like and how he networks. >> i'll be a janitor. i just want to start here and work my way up. >> finally, they are burning the barricades in france again. can you hear the people sing? well, surely you can hear them shout about what the french are being forced to do to actually improve their economy. but first, here's my take. donald trump's positions on public policy have shifted over the years, months even days, but on one issue, he has been utterly consistent. >> this country is a hellhole. we are going down fast. >> his message is to make america great again. but in fact, it is increasingly clear that the united states has in recent years reinforced its position as the leading technological and economic power. the country dominates virtually all leading industries from social networks to mobile telephony. it has transformed itself into an energy superpower, while also moving to the cutting edge

york historical society hosted the event, it is about an hour. >> we are so pleased to welcome akhil reed amar back to the new york historical society. before joining yale law school, professor amar clerked for george -- for judge stephen breyer. he is also the recipient of the award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books, including his latest, the law of the land, granted to her

reed? mr. reed: having been a small business owner, on both sides of this, i am sure i would completely agree with the concept that everybody would love independent contractors. as someone who owned a small business, one of the reasons i hired employees was that i could count on them to be there. as i pointed out, lots of drivers drive for both uber and lyft. you have employees in a state of competition with you, right? constantly offering incentives, find new ways to entice them to stay, not jump ship. one of the event of his you have when you own the business, is that you have the opportunity cost of having them there, but it allows you to -- i think we are making that decision on an ongoing basis. taskrabbit, has employees, don't you? >> thank god, i am one of them. [laughter] >> i agree with you. i am new to this job, right? i get it. but we have to find a way to this incentivize the companies from doing that appropriately, and at the same time find a way to help people pay what they are ow

the director joe montelo and reed birney and jayne houdyshell.my about taking about this and what you wanted to do. stephen: i wanted to write about the things that were keeping me up at night and i started by thing about how we all of us cope with our basement fears. the first impulse in terms of story was constructing a family that in which each family member was born out of an existential human fear like fear of poverty, ill health, failure, criticism, death, that was -- the whole point is that these are things that we all at some point or another are grappling with. charlie: you take this one family and they go in for thanks giving dinner in manhattan. stefan: it is a real-time play. charlie: when you get this guy who is as good as director as there is anywhere around, it is true, tell me how you approached it. what was it that you knew, you know you have a family and it is part comedy and part tragedy and part said and part funny. it is part about who we are as human beings. joe: i do not think you can have that kind of pressure weighing on

please join me in welcoming annette gordon-reed and peter to the library. plus the [applause] >> thank you. it's wonderful to be here with one of my very best friends, annette gordon-reed. we would like to start by talking a little bit about our friendship. the secret is i wouldn't have done this but if it hadn't been for inviting me and the opportunity to spend time with her so that is a serious scholar i am. [laughter] i need to make a better argument. >> people ask us how we ca cameo do this and went to the began i would say that it began sometime at the end of the 1990s when i had written a manuscript about thomas jefferson and the controversy. it looks at the way that historians had treated the story of jefferson and hemmings and i wanted to find people that have been skeptical of people that i thought would be skeptical of the story because it is always better to have people that are going to tell you what you do wrong as opposed to people that will just agree about whatever it is you're saying. so i -- >> i really let her down. >> i called up and i s

larry reed heads the foundation for economic education. of countries to spread subversive literature? >> that's true. back in the 80s before the fault of berlin wall and the evil empire as president reagan termed it, i visited a number of the countries and made contact with people who were active in the underground, anti-communist resistance elements in places like poland. john: tell the blinking light story. >> okay. in 1986, the marshal law declared in december of 81 was still in effect. every night i stayed in a different home trying to stay ahead of the regime. every home belonged to somebody active in the resistance. john: in any home, they were taking a big risk? >> yeah, they were required by law to report a visiting foreigner. none of them had done so. i was told a couple was very special who was going to host my visit. they had run underground radio for solidarity in the first six months of martial law. they were detected and arrested after six months of that activity. he was given four years in prison. she was given three. there

so many people have told me that theirand reed are parents.ple from every single kind of religion. i think that is the best gift because in creating one mom and to hearis overwhelming the people that identify with this family. you are writing the adaptation of "the seagull." aephen: you are starting with masterwork. every second.ng it was my first time working and having a film made. and that bening was the star -- star.e benning was the it is fun to turn on your puzzle brain. screenplays are more like puzzles, i think. ems.s are like homes -- po planes -- - in scree screenplays you think visually. charlie: it is a great honor. everybody that i know is saying wonderful things about it. i want to make sure that all the things are right here. it is at the helen hayes theatre at a has -- and it has no closing date and a town nomination for all of today's guests. ."u see -- go see "the humans back in a minute. stay with us. ♪ steyer is here. of common sense media. it has waited over 25,000 films, television so -- shows, and rio games on their suit

it's wonderful to be your ended the year with one of my very best friends, annette gordon-reed. we were just like to start by talking a lot about our for your friendship. the secrets i wouldn't have done this book if it had not been for an inviting me and then an opportunity to spend time with her. that's what a serious scholar id am. >> people ask us how we can to do this, and when this book began, the idea for doing it, and i say that it began sometime at the end of the 1990s when i had written a manuscript about thomas jefferson and sally hemings in american controversial.mi it looke looked looked at the we and have treated the story of jefferson and hemings, and i wanted to find people who' who h been skeptical of the people by thought to be skeptical of the store because i think it's always better to have people who are quick to tell you what you do wrong as opposed to people going to just agree with you about whatever it is you are saying. so i -- >> i really let her down. >> i called him up and it said i had this major script that i've worked on. i called in because he wa

one team from reed temple a.m.e.hurch in silver sp impot ith in their breast cancer community -- roz platere therate in their breast cancer community. >> prayers going up at the reed temple a.m.e. church gearing up for the annual susan g. komen race for the cure. dozens of members from all three church campuses are taking part as they have for more than a dozen years. shirley harrison set it in motion. she lost her daughter nicky to breast cancer. >> my church is like my second family. i couldn't have made it through that without my church. roz: reed temple is a growing number of faith-based communities making a difference in fight against breast cancer. reverend camille johnson heads up the ministry. >> our faith keeps us and strengthens us and keeps us pushing forward. >> on the t >> we are wounded healers. myself. a wounded healer. roz: survivors delivering powerful message about the importance of screening. >> women who didn't think about their breast health or forgot to get their mammogram. in hearing my story n

i am a jack reed student. that is an inside joke for people who studied with my professor at johns hopkins. i am an idea guy. i had to say some things about jefferson over the course of my career because i am as carlos accused me of being the jefferson professor, now emeritus. the idea of doing a biography is the last thing i could imagine doing because it is all about a person. i was a bit taken aback when annette gordon reed invited me to do this and it is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. because i care about people, real people today, but dead people are not terribly interesting to me as people. >> i'm exactly the opposite. i care about you. >> took me a while to pick up on that. that was really hurtful. we would like to start off talking a little bit about the project and we will spend the first 20 minutes on the title and 5 minutes for the rest of the book but you might wonder about the title "most blessed of the patriarchs" because we could take a jeffersonian vote to find out how man

but >>> jordan reed selected in the third round in 2013. in his first three years in washington, the florida 28or dealt with numerous injuries. but as we saw last season, we he is a force to be reckoned with, when he is out there and healthy. reed put up career numbers in 2015, becoming the go-to target for 87 catches, 11 touchdowns. and now he's been awarded with a five-year, $50 ll jimmy graham, as the top paid tight ends in the league. >>> finding themselves on the brink of elimination is not what the capitals had expected. it's a steep climb. but not an impossible one. 2018 can come back. before the caps have done it twice. trying to put last night's heartbreaking, overtime loss behind them. look ahead to overtime ice advantage. and look to concern themselves with the positive. >> we're going to stress the positive in a couple of ways, i guess. you just have to worry about winning the next game. we are now in a reverse situation than last year. where, you know, we, game 5. we had a team that basically pretty well down and out. and they

net gordon reed and jefferson scholar who discusses the intellectual maturation of thomas jefferson. after that charles kessler talks about the conservative publication, the claremont review of books basically amount college. at 9:00 p.m., former economic hitman john perkins uncovers corrupt practices. at 10:00 p.m. peter marks reports on a strategy to revive aig after the 2008 financial crisis. we finish. we finish up primetime programming at 11:00 p.m. with deana hoffman to provide a history of jerusalem with its contemporary architecture. that happens tonight on c-span twos book tv. first up, here's a look at thomas jefferson. >> welcome to the free library of philadelphia. i am representative jim roebuck. i'm happy to be here this evening. i am native philadelphia and graduated from central high school but my particular -- [applause]. my particular focus is on the fact that i went to first college at virginia university in richmond from which i received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters and phd in virginia at charlottesville. i am a wahoo as they say. subsequen

the playwright stephen karam, director joe mantello and tony nominated stars reed birney and jane houdyshell. >> i started talking about how it's from the fear-based place. but ultimately the plan ends up being the way this particular family vanquishes their fears or comes together through this imperfect but really deep love. you sort of see the way that they have this astonishing resilience. >> rose: we conclude with jim steyer. his life-long effort has been about children's education. we talk about common sense media and all the efforts he makes to make childhood education more available. >> politicians love to kiss babies and say all the platitudes about how they care about children and then at the end of the day they cut the budget for early childhood and schools and kids are the poorest americans. truthfully, i kids don't have power. the reasons we built the media platform was to give stuff away for free to parents to they would join an organization and advocate for kids. >> rose: football, broadway and children's education, when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been

reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that jewel will tyranny and jane bigham, detailees with the health and pensions committee and carr shaeffer, a military fellow in senator murray's personal office be granted floor privileges for the duration of the 114th congress. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. a senator: mr. president, are we stale in quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not in a quorum call. mr. kaine: thank you, mr. president, i rise to speak on an amendment that is going to be offered, lee amendment 3897 that deals with the federal fair housing act. i want to describe why i and many of my colleagues are opposed to the amendment. the amendment would eliminate the current affirmative furthering fair housing enforcement regulations promulgated by the department of housing and urban development. i want to go into that. mr. president, i'll start with a perso

john reed is still on the loose. they are suspects in the disappearance and presumed murder of their former neighbors whose bodies still have not been found. >> president obama has honored a group of the nation's law enforcement heros at the white house. mr. obama presented them with the medal of valor which is the highest honor given to law enforcement. among those receiving the medal was l.a. officer donald thompson who while on duty suffered serious burns while pulling an unconscious man out of a burning car. oklahoma officer david huff received his medal for confronting a knife wielding hostage taker at a walmart, saving the life of a 2-year-old girl. >> the public safety officers we recognize today with the medal of valor found courage not in search of recognition, they did it instinctively. >> and the grandmother of philadelphia officer robert wilson accepted his medal for him. the staff and customers as the a store when gunmen opened fire. >>> a prep school graduate convicted of sex assault could be freed from

. >>> a breakout season for jordan reed.e'll be entering his fourth season for the redskins armed with a multiyear contract extension. worth $50 million, 22 million guarantee. that ties him with the seahawks jimmy graham has the highest paid tight end in the league. receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, his 11 tds tied him with gronkowski. reed is set to make a million more a gronkowski. >>> over to the wizards. john walls in recovery mode after undergoing surgery on both knees this morning. soreness. team expects wall to be available the start of next season. three-time all-star. we hope that he's healthy and ready to go. again, congratulations to dean. he is our newest coach of the arena football team. 50 yards. you can play that. >> no, i don't think so. good for jordan reed. >> happy for him. >> prince george county police are holding a press conference right now on that shooting in beltsville. one person killed there. another person wounded. >> we're streaming it live on the nbc washington app. we're going to want t

the guy on the right tony clyde reed, he along with his brother john on the left who by the way is still on the run were previously charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of patrick shun and monique. the couple reportedly told friends before that reed had threatened to shoot them over and ongoing property dispute. investigators still have not found the couple. >>> a d.c. community activist is suing the justice department over crime in the capitol hill neighborhood. denise krepp was told the doj does not keep data on crimes prosecuted in d.c. >> if anymore of my residents become victims because of your incompetenc incompetence, and i use the word incompetence because about you don't know how man p don't know how to measure success. >> krepp believes increase in violence can be traced back to what she call as revolving door system. >>> d.c. council chairman phil mendelson set to propose legislation that dramatically changes mayor muriel bowser's homeless plan. the bill proposes shelters on public land to save tens of millions of dollars. bowser wants to build accept she will seven

mayor fired general manager of city airport hartsville jackson the busiest in the world and kas i'm reedons after long lines were feet furd on a national broadcast. >> they led with photo of atlanta airport lines that's not something that can stand because our airport is the most significant economic economicer in the state. >> reed called on partners to solve the problem quickly. >> if it's tsa or homeland security this partner together and come forward with most aggressive approach we can have. >> homeland security chief is working on the situation as well. >> we are aggressively bringing on expediting hiring of more tsos. >> officials worry ft. problems are not solved soon passengers could start avoiding air travel especially for shorter trips. kim hutchen son. cbs3 eyewitness news. >> let's get the latest on the forecast. >> we'll start to heat things up in the days ahead. as we do that we'll really start to feel more like summertime here in the days ahead as well. which is i would say actually pretty good timing since we have unofficial start to the season coming one memorial day. t

to welcomehrilled akhil reed amar professor of law and political science at yale university. clerked for then judge stephen breyer. yale'slso a recipient of highest award for teaching the author of is several books including "the law of the land: a grand tour of our constitutional republic." i akhil was voted most popular professor at yale. at least he is my most popular professor. and you are all here because he is your most popular professor. before we welcome the popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or electronic devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. thank you. [applause] dr. amar: good evening. welcome. thank you so much for coming. york historical society. we're going to be talking about the supreme court and we will be talking about these supreme court history, but also talking about the new york angle on all of this, because this is the new york historical society. and, yes, why is this night different from all others? is one thought. it is really only this week -- it has become, i think, pretty apparent that the upcoming presidenti

society of the walter reed hospital, how much?esn't remember the precise figure, but told cnn that the donation wasn't much. ashleigh, we went back to the walter reed society and asked them. the not much was a few hundred dollars from all that trump vodka sales. we do expect a full accounting from the january fundraiser we are told, although we've been told this many times, it's going to happen on memorial day. right now, cnn can only firm about half of that $6 million total has been taken in and given out to veterans charities. ash leelleigh ashleigh? >> and we're still working on the million dollars. drew griffin, thank you for that. do appreciate it. and thank you, everyone, for watching "legal view." it's been nice to have you with us. wolf starts and you can tweet me at cnn ashleigh anytime. see you tomorrow. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 10:00 a.m. in anaheim, california, 1:00 p.m. here in washington and 8:00 p.m. in raqqa, syria. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. up firs

his brother john blaine reed remains at large. they were charged with first-degree murder in the presumed killing of monique patenaude and her husband patrick shunn. >>> owen labrie, the prep school garage whereat convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl is about to be set free. labrie has been in jail since march. now a judge has ruled he can be released with electronic monitoring. labrie was arrested in 2014. he admitted he and the girl had consensual sexual contact as part of a game of sexual conquest, but she says she was raped. >>> today federal safety inspectors are expected to detail the probable cause of last may's amtrak derailment in philadelphia. one official says the engineer was distracted by the radio. eight people were killed in the derailment. the train was going twice the speed limit when it jumped the tracks. >>> don't tell the folks in new england that summer is just about a month away. they've got snow in vermont. nearly six inches fell in some spots. in northern maine, want town of caribou got more

>> next on american history tv, yale university professor akhil reed amar discusses the complex relationship between supreme court justices and american presidents. he looks back at the first appointed chief justice. he argues that historically judges were geographically balanced and there has been a more recent orientation toward demographics and political affiliation. >> we are thrilled to welcome akhil reed amar professor of law and political science at yale university. professor amar clerked for then judge stephen breyer. he is also a recipient of yale's highest award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books including "the law of the land: a grand tour of our constitutional republic." i think that akhil was voted most popular professor at yale. at least he is my most popular professor. and you are all here because he is your most popular professor. before we welcome the popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or electronic devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. thank you. [applause] dr. amar: good evening. welcome. thank you so much for

reed was a third round pick in 2013. and many questioned his ability to stay healthy. he had a breakout year in 2013. finishing with almost 1,000 yards and 11 touchdowns. now, he says he's ready to e provhe is worth his big payday. >> makes me feel great, man. just to know that my hard work has been paying off and things like that. and you know, it makes me honestly feel like i want to run through a brick wall for these guys. and you know, they trust me with all of this money and things like that. and you know, i'm going to go out there and play as hard as i can for them. >> reed is now tied for highest paid tight end for the league. >> that earned him for the mvp award. harper has been playing like one. recent slump in all. and not even 24 years d the year in tonight's inside pitch. >> made his major league debut for the nationals. against the l.a. dodgers in 2012. time line. pretty impressive ever since for the 23-year-old. winning the rookie of the year. then the 2015 mvp award last season. plus, a silver slugger last season. however, harper has never won a golden g

. >> those that may come in it i have joey reed here. talk about the democratic race. it doesn't seem as sealed as the republican race. there is here we are. >> it is a fight. bernie is still fighting. >> he is still fighting. i think that math told us what is going to happen for some time, since march. you have a part that wants to play this out further. and bernie standers voters are persistent. and hillary clinton is deciding not to fight them. they are deciding not to fight them. they don't want to alienate the voters. >> all the polling shows that bernie is a winner, dramatically so. many think hillary is a better candidate. who is the stronger candidate? is there a metric? >> i think hillary is the stronger candidate. we are not taking into account the individual stat. there are republicans don't want to vote for trump, bernie, a lot of policies are left, insight them to vote for him not for hillary. i think that at the end of the day, people talk about the coalition and people of color with bernie, they under value the wave of individuals, that are going to wake

we've been crossing paths at walter reed for many, many years.d of spending a lot of time there around the same time back in '03. and to be able to kind of come together and sell his story to a national audience, representative of so many vietnam veterans and their stories is a real privilege. it's just -- that's going to be one of the highlights for me. but we have joe doing a story about anzio and alten who was a gold medal winner. trace adkins, alfie, the national symphony orchestra. just another fantastic concert. >> thank you for your decade's long commitment to our troops. jack, thank you for your service. we thank you both. >> you can catch the full event tonight on pbs at 8:00 eastern. for more information on how you can help the men and women in uniform, go to the website at the bottom of your screen. >>> still to come, you're looking live now at rolling thunder, the stage where donald trump is expected to speak just a little while from now. we'll bring you his address live when he takes the stage. ♪ thank you. imagine if the things you

reporting in san francisco, alicia reed. >>> here at nevado high school, school counselors are expected to be in class tuesday. this after the arrest of two students for the shooting of two other students. a third shooting suspect remains on the lose. on saturday a 20-year-old san rafael man was arrested. he's now believed to be involved directly with the shooting but has been arrested for being an accessory after the fact. in nevado, john cronley. >>> dive teams are back outlooking for two teenagers today. the teens were last seen saturday. it appears the teens were not wearing life jackets. >>> to sacramento where the body of a child believed to be missing 1-year-old caley jackson has been found. the father and his baby were thought to be missing. the boater found the body of a baby near tyler island bridge. it's likely the father and daughter duo took highway 160 which runs along the sacramento river. >>> we've been talking about how the warriors kept their season alive tonight to advance to the nba finals. the sharks are already in the stanley cup final playing in the finals for the

reed: thank you, mr. president. i rise to support the position of my colleague, the chairman of the committee, senator collins of maine, in opposition to the amendment offered by the senator from utah, which would inhibit, indeed prohibit h.u.d. from implementing or enforcing the affirmatively furthering fair housing regulations. i think it's important to remind everyone why these regulations were proposed in the first place. the fair housing act of 1968 was enacted because banks, landlords and developers were excluding people from buying or renting in certain neighborhoods based on race. under that law, communities are qierd to take steps to further fair housing to prevent discrimination and segregation. i think we have come a long way from 1968 and i don't think anyone is arguing with the premise and the purpose and the beneficial aspects of that legislation. it's based on trying to ensure that americans have fair access to housing, no matter their race in 1968, but we have added legislatively physical ability, fa

joey reed, eugene is back with us. we're joined by hughes hewit. maybe explain why you're so popular and in some demand which you are, so, let me ask you how the crumbling of the wall around jericho is doing right now with donald trump going around with his trump. it seems like he is making his way through the gate. that he is now going to be the accepted nominee of your party. of the republican party. >> it does seem that way, i was never a trump guy and i'm not on the trump band wagon yet but it does seem after he locked it up in indiana, increased his lead in nebraska it is opposite of hillary clinton who is staggering to philadelphia. remember gabriella anderson who had to crawl across the line? this is hillary clinton and it is not going to be inspiring to democrats. now, trump has real problems including a 28% favorability rating amolatinos according to poll this morning. wow, she is a terrible candidate. >> let's talk about the issues that keep coming up in appe appalachia. it gets over looked. it is a fact. that is where we get the coal. th