according to the lord chiefjustice, richard roberts.according to the lord chiefjustice, they should never have been jailed. today's decision affirms that when people peacefully break the law out of a moral obligation to prevent the expansion of fossil fuel industries they should not be sent to prison. in london to hear the appeal verdict, more family and friends. what are you going to tell them to do in the future? to carry on doing what he believes in. he's right. this is where it started. what's the police officer was when she is not looking, simon blevins seizes the opportunity. richard roberts was already on top of another truck. all in all, seven heavy goods vehicles heading for the cuadrilla site were stopped by the men and they stayed up stopped by the men and they stayed up there for three days. they were found guilty of causing a public nuisance and sentenced to 15 and 16 months in prison. today the court of appeal said this was wrong. in our judgment, the appropriate sentence which should have been imposed on the 26th of septe

richard roberts is one of three campaigners charged last september with public nuisance offenses he was sentenced to sixteen months in jail for blocking access to a fracking site now the trio where they first environmental activists to be jailed in the u.k. and almost ninety years on appeal judge slam the ruling as excessive extraordinary and replace the prison terms with conditional discharge is indeed the judge behind the original sentencing may also face disciplinary action a recent relevation shows that he may have a close connection to the energy industry several members of his family reportedly work for an oil and gas corporation that has prompted calls for the u.k. justice secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again says the energy lobby goes well beyond this one case. this. is clearly infighting in the industry but nobody wants. communities around the u.k. every running up or cation that was pro-choice every local council around this country was rejected and sometimes you know always by a large majority now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outr

justice secretary to launch into an investigation into potentially what happened here richard roberts again says the energy lobby's reach goes well beyond this one case to. this state. is clearly facing an industry that nobody wants on communities around the u.k. every planning application that was pretty every local council around this country was rejected sometimes you know honestly always by a large majority and now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outright rejected the trucking industry and yet westminster's overturn that decision and impose industry on them bill and that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeping in sopore they were waving out their window they sow to. keep it out me stay up there people stay out there for service you can ride with fifty x. or currently oil and gas executives in u.k. government and they have financial interests it's your gas will be the one it's. no where do we start with this next story well graveyard soil coffin nails in some revenge oil it seems to start with that's what a coven of wit

yeah who you just heard from there richard roberts he's one of three come painters charged last september with public nuisance offenses he was sentenced to sixteen months in jail for blocking access to a fracking site now the three of those people they were the first environmental activists to be jailed in the u.k. in over eighty five years an appeals judge slammed the ruling as excessive and extraordinary and replace the prison terms with conditional discharges. another aspect to this story the judge behind the original sentencing could also be facing disciplinary action a recent revelation shows he may have a close connection to the energy industry several members of his family reportedly work for an oil gas but he has prompted calls for the u.k. just the secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again sais the energy lobby goes well beyond this one case this state. is clearly facing an industry that nobody wants. on communities around the u.k. every finding out the case and it was protests every local council around this country was rejected sometimes you not in the city but

justice secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again sees the energy lobby goes well beyond this one case this. is clearly an industry that nobody wants. communities around the u.k. every finding out the case and it was protests every local council around this country was rejected sometimes you know in the city but always by a large majority and now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outright rejected the trucking industry and yet west says i've returned to the station employees in the street and that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeping in suppose they were waving out there when they sow to keep it up may stay up people stay out there for as long as you can there are just fifty x. all current oil and gas executives in u.k. government and they have financial interests and got snow be the one. to worshippers in southern india are defying a court order to allow women into a major shrine on sunday a group of women tried to enter a temple encouraged but were blocked by religious conservatives in the midst of the chao

rich loizou, simon blevins and richard roberts.iled. later on, in the pub, they spoke to the bbc. when we were sent down, the scariest thing was thinking, this is happening in the uk in the 21st—century? peaceful protesters are being sent to prison? it's scary to think that if this is happening to us, we're probably not going to be the last time because the issues haven't gone away. this is where it all started. watch the police officer. when she's not looking, simon blevins, a soil scientist, seizes the opportunity. the others were already on the other trucks, stopping seven of them altogether for three days. they were found guilty of causing a public nuisance and sentenced to 15 and 16 months in prison. celebrations outside court when the judges said this was wrong. an immediate custodial sentence in the case of these appellants was manifestly excessive. in ourjudgement, the appropriate sentence, which should have been imposed on the 26th of september, was a community order with a significant requirement of unpaid work. this wasn

justice secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again says the energy lobbies reach goes well beyond this one case. this state. is clearly in facing an industry that nobody wants. communities around the u.k. every funding upper case and it was pro-choice every local council around this country was rejected sometimes unanimously but always by a large majority and now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outright rejected the trucking industry and yet west it says overturn the decision implies industry on the bill and that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeking in support they were waving out their window south saying keep it up may stay up there keep it stay out there for some as you can there are just fifty x. all currently oil and gas executives in the fake government and they have financial interests and gusto be don't want this and that's the way it looks from moscow this hour thanks for checking in with the international next the inside track on how the route between the united states and iran could impact the

rich loizou, simon blevins and richard roberts.on, in the pub, they spoke to the bbc. when we were sent down, the scariest thing was thinking, this is happening in the uk in the 21st—century? peaceful protesters are being sent to prison? it's scary to think that if this is happening to us, we're probably not going to be the last time because the issues haven't gone away. this is where it all started. watch the police officer. when she's not looking, simon blevins, a soil scientist, seizes the opportunity. the others were already on the other trucks, stopping seven of them altogether for three days. they were found guilty of causing a public nuisance and sentenced to 15 and 16 months in prison. celebrations outside court when the judges said this was wrong. an immediate custodial sentence in the case of these appellants was manifestly excessive. in ourjudgment, the appropriate sentence, which should have been imposed on the 26th of september, was a community order with a significant requirement of unpaid work. this wasn't a case abo

justice secretary to launch an investigation richard roberts again says that the energy lobby's reach goes well beyond this one case. this state. is clearly facing an industry that nobody wants on communities around the u.k. every finding out the case and it was counseled around this country was rejected sometimes you know there was always by a large majority and now we have county councils such as lancashire. who have outright rejected the trucking industry and the west says overturned the station employees in the street that's why when i was standing on top of a lonely so many cars were going past peeping in support they were waving out there when they sow to keep it out me stay up people stay out there for them as you can there are just fifteen x. or car in the oil and gas executives in u.k. government and they have financial interests it's the oil and gas will be the one it's. the us midterm elections near at hand the state of texas has found itself in the political epicenter of the crucial poll examining how encouraging voters has landed the state's democratic party and water is

richard roberts was already on top of another truck.of causing a public nuisance and sentenced to 15 and 16 months in prison. today the court of appeal said this was wrong. in ourjudgment, the appropriate sentence which should have been imposed on the 26th of september was a community order with a significant requirement of unpaid work. this was not a case about fracking and that was said in court but in effect a case about the right to protest. if you disagree with the government or a law or a company, how far can you go? political protest takes many forms. without the suffragettes, women would not have the vote. twyford down delayed the extension of the m3. in court the judge referred to the need to take into account the motives of those protesting. this is the judge that originally sent the men to prison. questions have since been raised aboutjudge 0lton's close family links to the offshore oil and gas industry and his sister's vocal support forfracking. there is a real concern with this that those connections should have been disclo

simon blevins and richard roberts had both beenjailed for 16 months, while rich loizou was sentencedin central london. what has happened today? this is a significant victory for the three men. they had beenjailed, this is highly unusual for a sentence to be passed in this case and their lawyers argued but they had shown no violence and no damage in the protest which lasted for four days. there was widespread disruption but they said the sentence was excessive. giving their verdict today the lawyers agreed, the judge said the sentence had been ma nifestly said the sentence had been manifestly excessive. he said that the more appropriate sentence would have been a community order. the significant amount of paid work and a conditional discharge for two yea rs. a conditional discharge for two years. it is unusual for people to be jailed in this case, the last time was almost 90 years ago and that was during the gender scout master trust bass. we understand arrangements are now being made for the men to be released. they appeared on video link during the hearing and we understand that arr

rich loizou, richard robert and simon roscoe blevins — seen here outside preston crown court last monthafter stopping lorries entering a fracking site near blackpool. their lawyers told the court that the right to protest was fundamental to democracy. our correspondentjenny kumah is at the court of appeal for us now. telecinco what happened. this is a significant victory for the men. there were cheers and even singing from those at court today. they were angry the men had been imprisoned and they felt their right to peaceful protest had been infringed. they were jailed last month for a protest that lasted four days last july. they climbed onto the cabs of some lorries that were carrying equipment to the gaslight near blackpool in lancashire. this led to four days of destruction, road closures and traffic delays. the judgejailed for the closures and traffic delays. the judge jailed for the impact this had but today their lawyers successfully argued this was excessive. they argued this was excessive. they argued that it was also highly unusual, that people hadn't been jailed in this way f

simon blevins and richard roberts had both beenjailed for 16 months, while rich loizou was sentencedat the right to protest was fundamental to democracy. a short while ago, they gave their reaction on being released. the fracking industry threatens to industrialize our beautiful countryside. it will force famine, flooding, and many other disasters on the world's most vulnerable communities by exacerbating climate change. fracking is beginning right now, so there has never been a more critical time to take action. your planet needs you. we encourage everyone who is able to join us to take action this saturday at the mass demo at preston euro. that was one of the three anti—fracking protesters released from prison today. time for a look at the weather, with louise lear. quite a quiet day at weather across the country. some sunny spells for many. as you can see, this weather front is pushing its way through the south coast into that south—east corner, still producing some cloud and rainfrom corner, still producing some cloud and rain from it. that will linger through much of the night.

>> reporter: one happening right now, tyler richard -- robert kaplan, sorry, the dallas federal reserveht now in galveston, texas he says he expects growth to slow a little bit in 2019 and in 2020 but sees the consumer in pretty good shape and gdp this year will be around 3% unemployment down to 3.7 will probably keep going down but he sees the rate of that decline probably slowing now, he is aware of and mentioned turmoil in emerging markets, including argentina, turkey, and china. he said china should increase leverage in government spending to increase growth trade is affecting that. and generally he says his measure is what's happening outside when it gets weaker, spilling over into the u.s., hasn't seen that just yet. i'll remind you that on the 19th of this month kaplan says he sees two or three rate hikes until the fed is at neutral. atlanta fed president raphael bostic saying that he is raising his 2018-2019 growth forecast. he says the economy is strong enough without accommodative policy and the gradual movement of accommodation is appropriate he says. >> this is something int

richard roberts, simon berghan 's, richard rees you are on the right side of history.ratitude. you are environmental rights defenders and today we say that fracking must be banned and you must be set free. throwing people in prison is a dying industry's desperate death rattle. but they can't arrest the whole of lancashire. they can try. it was a pleasure to see so many come for the green week of action. we are winning the fight against fossil fuels. and a victory is inevitable. police may have dragged us away from this, but it was third energy that left with its tail between its legs. we evicted europa oil, we booted the banks group out and we will kick quadrilateral of lancashire. —— could quadrilla out of leticia. and i have a message to all of the people who are involved in fracking. we will not stop until your industry is thrown into the dustbin of history. conference, it is four months since the leadership elections began. i wa nt to the leadership elections began. i want to say thank you to everyone who stood and spoke so positively about their passion for our pa

the people he pushed was the 91—year—old former boss of eurotunnel, sir robert malpas, who was left with a fractured pelvis. richards some shocking images. watch the man in the mac, sir robert malpas, aged 90, and he never saw this coming. sir robert is badly hurt. commuters try to raise the alarm. eventually one of them pulls him to safety. a little earlier, another attack at another station. tobias french just avoids the train pulling in, but his assailant escapes. when passengers finally grabbed paul crossley, he said he knew what he had done was wrong. he told the court he'd had an allergic reaction to his schizophrenia medication. this was a most shocking incident and the victims in this case were extremely lucky to have survived. this could easily have been a double murder investigation. and more victims. crossley said the attacks here and at tottenham court road station were not planned and he didn't intend to kill anyone. the jury disagreed, but the judge says crossley‘s mental state will be considered before he passes sentence. the police stress this kind of attack is extremely rare, but for these two men

the people he pushed was the 91—year—old former boss of eurotunnel, sir robert malpas, who was left with a fractured pelvis. richardr‘s report contains some shocking images. watch the man in the mac, sir robert malpas, aged 90, and he never saw this coming. sir robert is badly hurt. commuters try to raise the alarm. eventually one of them pulls him to safety. a little earlier, another attack at another station. tobias french just avoids the train pulling in, but his assailant escapes. when passengers finally grabbed paul crossley, he said he knew what he had done was wrong. he told the court he'd had an allergic reaction to his schizophrenia medication. this was a most shocking incident and the victims in this case were extremely lucky to have survived. this could easily have been a double murder investigation. and more victims. crossley said the attacks here and at tottenham court road station were not planned and he didn't intend to kill anyone. the jury disagreed, but the judge says crossley‘s mental state will be considered before he passes sentence. the police stress this kind of attack is extremely rare, but

the people he pushed was the 91—year—old former boss of eurotunnel, sir robert malpas, who was left with a fractured pelvis. richardsir robert malpas, aged 90, and he never saw this coming. sir robert is badly hurt. commuters try to raise the alarm. eventually one of them pulls him to safety. a little earlier, another attack at another station. tobias french just avoids the train pulling in, but his assailant escapes. when passengers finally grabbed paul crossley, he said he knew what he had done was wrong. he told the court he'd had an allergic reaction to his schizophrenia medication. this was a most shocking incident and the victims in this case were extremely lucky to have survived. this could easily have been a double murder investigation. and more victims. crossley said the attacks here and at tottenham court road station were not planned and he didn't intend to kill anyone. the jury disagreed, but the judge says crossley‘s mental state will be considered before he passes sentence. the police stress this kind of attack is extremely rare, but for these two men it could easily have been far worse. richard liste

of those he pushed was the 91—year—old former boss of eurotunnel, sir robert malpas, who was left with a fractured pelvis. richardsome shocking images. watch the man in the macintosh coat, sir robert malpass, aged 90, and he never saw this coming. sir robert is badly hurt. commuters tried to raise the alarm. eventually one of them pulls him to safety. little earlier, another attack at another station. tobias french just avoids the train pulling in, but his assailant escaped. when passengers finally grabbed paul crossley, he said he knew what he had done was wrong. he told the court he'd had an allergic reaction to his schizophrenia medication. this was a most shocking incident and the victims in this case were extremely lucky to have survived. this could easily have been a double murder investigation. paul crossley showed no emotion during the proceedings. thejudge has delayed sentencing until a psychiatric report on him has been completed. the police stress this kind of attack is extremely rare, but for these two men it could easily have been far worse. richard lister, bbc news, at the old bailey. the consumer g

james "booyah" richards gonna be there, and so it's gonna be a lot of fun, and we're inviting all the community to come and jam with us and get to know us. robertit's not just for the students, for everybody, right? john and james: yes. robert: alright, well, good luck with that. okay, well, that open jam session will take place on november 14 at 7 p.m. at the dandan performing arts center at 676 bockman road in san lorenzo. to learn more about the organization as well as the open jam session, we've posted their contact information on nbcbayarea.com. and stay with us here on "asian pacific america" as we catch up on the world of self-defense and martial arts with a return visit with the eskabo daan filipino martial arts, a talk and demonstration coming up next, so don't miss it. martial arts is a foundation in virtually every asian-american h batista, born and raised in the east bay, whs for ten years and got into martial arts to learn more about filipino culture. welcome back to the show. joseph bautista: thank you for having me. robert: give people sort of a quick review of eskabo daan. joseph: so, eskabo is an acronym, it stands for eskrima,

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robert bowers. he surrendered to police after a tense stand—off. richard lister begins our coverage.rmed police converging on squirrel hill, after reports that a man had opened fire in a synagogue. a peaceful suburban neighbourhood transformed in moments by a gunman. tactical weapon units were brought in from across the city. other officers sealed the area and began moving towards the building and its congregation as the attack continued. it is a suburb with a large jewish population. local media said the gunman shouted, "alljews must die," as he began his attack. residents, still unsure of what was happening, were escorted home. right now, we have multiple casualties. we're working on the situation. it is imperative that the neighbours in the community surrounding the tree of life synagogue stay in their houses and shelter in place. do not come out of your home right now, it is not safe. we will give you an update as soon as we get one. police say they found a number of people sheltering in the synagogue basement, who they were led to safety. as the area was made safe, emergency tea

robert h. bork and in 1971, it opposed president richard nixon's nomination of justice william rehnquist.elcome a for more, we are joined by louise melling, deputy legal director at the aclu and director of its center for liberty which encompasses the aclu's work on reproductive freedom, women's rights, lesbian and gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, freedom of welcome to democracy now! nyc: religion. welcome to democracy now! nyc: >> i would say in brief extruder times call for external measures, as he talked about before, we did not oppose judge kavanaugh when he was first nominated. we did not oppose as the proceedings went forward. we issued a report talking about his record. we raised concerns, but we adhere to our long-standing policy will stop but now in light of the sexual assault allegations, we have come out to oppose judge kavanaugh, believing those raised serious questions that are fundamentally different. they r raised serious ququestios ababout the integrity of the course should he be on the court. amy: what are those concerns? >> i will point to the code of judicial cond

richard lister‘s report contains some cctv footage that may shock you watch the man in the macintosh coat, sir robertng. sir robert is badly hurt. commuters tried to raise the alarm. eventually one of them pulls him to safety. little earlier, another attack at another station. tobias french just avoids the train pulling in, but his assailant escapes. when passengers finally grabbed paul crossley, he said he knew what he had done was wrong. he told the court he'd had an allergic reaction to his schizophrenia medication. this was a most shocking incident and the victims in this case were extremely lucky to have survived. this could easily have been a double murder investigation. paul crossley showed no emotion during the proceedings. the judge has delayed sentencing until a psychiatric report on him has been completed. the police stress this kind of attack is extremely rare, but for these two men it could easily have been far worse. richard lister, bbc news, at the old bailey. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: rising sea levels and life—threatening heatwaves — we'll take you to vietnam, on

richard nkson comes in and replaces him with warren berger. then we flash forward to 1987, robert the senate had just flipped to democratic majority. so democrats control. robert bork had a very, very deep record of extreme conservatism and democrats were able to oppose him. he ends up being defeated on a 58-42 vote. coincidentally, he was sitting on the d.c. circuit at the time, the circuit where brett kavanaugh now sits. robert bork goes back to the d.c. circuit but within a year he decides i don't even want to be a judge anymore. he steps down so he can talk about liberal activism and the process. then up to 1991 to a comparison that we've been making a lot during this current ordeal, clarence thomas, he goes through one set of senate hearings, and then suddenly we find out about anita hill's allegations of sexual harassment. there's a second set of hearings. he end up being confirmed on a very close vote, 52-48. but just to let you know what's so different from 1991 to now, 11 democrats switch over and vote for this republican appointee. so we weren't as polarized then. then w

richard spencer. [applause] thank you.: chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford. [applause] pres. trump: hi, joseph. general mark staff millie. [applause] pres. trump: commandant of the marine corps, general robertler. [applause] pres. trump: commandant of the coast guard, admiral karl schulz. [applause] and sergeant major of the marine corps ronald green. ronald. [applause] pres. trump: as well as my chief ,f staff and a beloved marine he loves the marines, john kelly. john. [applause] pres. trump: and much more important, a great wife and a great mother -- karen, please stand up. [applause] pres. trump: great woman. great man, great woman. i just spoke to president mccrum. he is well. he sends his regards. recognize two very special retired marines. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [indiscernible] we are alsoump: truly thankful to have the veterans of beirut. this is an incredible group. i will ask you to stand. you courageously survived that terrible october day, and you have maybe your first duty to remember. please stand. [applause] [cheering] president trump: such incredible spirit. i see hugging and kissing. i think it is fantastic. [laughter] that is real love. it is beautiful. thank you

richard wolf covers supreme court, both the constitutional and judicial oath will be administered today in a private court ceremony roberts does one and kennedy does the other, same for gorsuch. latter in the rose garden. watch for white house ceremony likely on monday for judge kavanaugh and then the judge will be sitting on the court as early as tuesday, the court not in session on monday, he could be sitting -- hearing oral arguments as early as tuesday, jeff who covers the wall street journal tweeting out, justice kavanaugh will be sworn in today allowing him in his four law clerks all women to begin work at once. john who covers, who writes for the pew research centers fact blog tweeted this out, the narrowest confirmation to supreme court senate expanded to 100 members, since senate expand today 100 members. 50-48, clarence thomas 52-48. nile sorry guch, -- neil gorsuch while 62 senators voted in favor of elena kagan. we are will go to michael what is in springfield, new jersey, michael, good afternoon, what's your reaction to this vote, michael? >> i couldn't be any happier. >> host: tell us why? >> caller: democra

>>> roger stone, who represents a direct line to richard nixon, roy cohn, and nowadays donald trump, is back in the crosshairs of special counsel robertller's investigation. new reporting from the washington post today shows special counsel robert mueller has been aggressively pursuing leads, whether president trump's long-time advisor -- that would be roger stone -- had advance knowledge of hacked democratic e-mails ahead of the 2016 election. in particular, on august 21st of 2016, stone tweeted a warning to hillary clinton's campaign chairman john podesta that it would soon be, quote, podesta's time in the barrel. then on october 5th, stone tweeted, libz thinking assange will stand down are wishful thinking. pay load coming. lock them up. two days after that, wikileaks began publishing the stone e-mails hacked from podesta's account. stone has repeatedly denied he had any involvement with the watergate-style hacking. he repeated those denials again today to nbc news, saying, i never received anything including allegedly hacked e-mails from gucifer 2.0, the russians, which can i leagues, assange or anyone else and never passed anythi

robert mueller and the special counsel's office. the guy who is going to be sentenced tomorrow is named richard pinedo. we know next to nothing about him in personal terms. i believe this is his photo. but we know that he was charged in conjunction with the indictment of the internet research agency, that strange sort of kremlin-adjacent social media propaganda farm that was operated by an oligarch close to putin who was targeted personally in that indictment and also personally sanctioned by the u.s. government. richard pinedo was named by prosecutors in the special counsel's office as essentially being an american helper for that internet research agency, russian influence operation that targeted our presidential election in 2016 to try to elect trump. mr. pinedo, according to prosecutors, didn't help the russians directly with their actual propaganda and these sort of psychological operations they were running on behalf of trump, but he did help them indirectly. according to prosecutors, he helped them indirectly through his profitable little criminal hobby, which was basically online identity theft

richard hendrics, the ceo of pied piper in the hbo show "silicon valley." brilliant but entirely inexperienced in leadership. an engineer who found himself an administrator for the very first time. this morning, the opposite scenario. robert, ceo of start-up message bird, the fellow in the beard, has never not been a ceo. he founded a string of start-ups and took leadership roles in each of them, meaning the leader of message bird's employees has never himself been an employee. i thought it was so interesting, robert might want to expound on that. robert, the ceo of message bird, a company that splits its employees between silicon valley and amsterdam. i have your resume, ceo of message bird, ceo of zeipay, and then you ran a television show, and before that, you ran a car wash. do i have that right? >> that's about correct. >> tell me about the car wash. >> um, it was a very simple business. i was about 12 or 13. so it was a long time ago. and i, you know, used the soap and car wash stuff from my mom, so i didn't have a lot of cogs, which was good, and i actually split the money i made with the kids in the neighborhood. so all i really did was the marketing. >> see, that's what i'm getting at. that's what i'm getting at.

richard norton smith. jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center. koki roberts, journalist at pbs. please join me in welcoming our guests here today. [ applause ] susan, i'll turn oifver to you. it's delightful to be with you. welcome to my panel of shrinking violets. we're going to talk about presidential myth making and disruptions to the factual history that all of us in this room and whatever capacity we are in strive to tell. we had a really lively organizing conference call and some wonderful back and forth e-mails. my job was to try to organize that for the next hour and a half. what i've done for this morning is to think about the techage. we always hear about disrupters. what i've done is organize our discussion and their thoughts into six disrupters of presidential history. popular culture, current events, research, constituent groups, digital technology and funding. bring in so many scholars but this most successful had nothing to do with that. >> yes. it's called hamilton. signers of the constitution. 39 super bowligned and three re. in the front of

say, because richard pinedo gave them information that could be used to prosecute people, people that have crimes on their -- crimes on their conscience, that have nothing to do with what roberteller and the special counsel are investigating, the special counsel can't prosecute those things. and so, yeah, they might have handed off those potential prosecutions to other u.s. attorneys, even though they can't totally spell that out. but these are prosecutions they can't undertake themselves because they're just supposed to be investigating russian interference in the election. "the special counsel's office did not pursue those, because they did not relate to our core mission." this is interesting, in terms of the fate of richard pinedo today and the question whether more prosecutions are going to come that derive from his help. they can't say overtly, but that was the big hint in court today and the big worry for richard pinedo and his lawyers realizing if he had been prosecuted in the normal course of events, we might be in a better place. and then the judge says this -- >> in other words, i didn't think i was doing anything that wrong. i realize it could have been used by fra

robert mueller's investigation. for the latest, i'm joined now by nbc news's peter alexander at the white house and nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel in istanbul, turkey. peter, you put that question to secretary pompeo that you just watched and he was focused quite a bit on saudi arabia's leaders, it seemed, and what they wanted to do it. did he talk at all about his conversation with turkish officials and what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, he did, not just with turkish officials, but with turkey's president, president erdogan. he said he met with him during his travel there. said that the president assured him that they are conducting their own investigation right now. he said he met with some of that team of investigators, as well. and he said that the turks told him, told the secretary of state that they would share their results with saudi arabia, as well. he said he believed, according to pompeo, that between those two efforts that they ultimately would have a better, more complete picture, as he described it, of what took place. he said he was looking forward to wrapping that up quickly. but i asked the secretary of s

roberts called and asked, would this cause you a problem? have you been talking to -- >> they never would do that. protocol wouldn't call for that. >> really? >> richard nixon picked up the phone all the time to talk to warren burger. >> you don't think barack obama might have called -- to get a read on this? >> no. no. merrick garland, who -- you mean like donald trump called merrick garland to say -- >> no, no, i mean democrats calling merrick garland. >> you mean like senators and people? >> oh, yeah, but all of them were predisposed against brett kavanaugh. you wouldn't called george bush calling these people. >> kavanaugh has deep ties to this bench. when he was in the white house he helped chief roberts get a nomination. elena kagan hired him to teach at harvard. he went to the same high school as gorsuch, and thomas has had a similar experience for his confirmation. you can expect he will be embraced by is there, and he hayes sent many clerks to work for them all. >>> we're waiting for a press conference from the he leadership. as we do, i want to circle back to the election 4 1/2 weeks away, which is kind of amazing. the republicans committee

richard norton smith, presidential historian and author, jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center, cokie roberts, journalist at pbs , national public radio. mark updegrove, the ceo and president of the linden johnson foundation. please join me in welcoming our guests today. susan, i will turn it over to you. >> good morning, everyone. delightful to be with you and welcome to my panel of shrinking violets. we have been given a task to talk about presidential -- disruptions to the factual history that all of us in this room in whatever capacity we are in, strive to tell. we had a lively organizing conference call and some wonderful back-and-forth emails and my job was to try to organize that so what i have done for this morning is to think about the tech age and how we hear about disruption, disruptors, i have organized the discussion and thoughts into six disruptors of presidential history and we will to spend -- will spend the time on popular culture, current events and societal trends, research, constituent groups, digital technology and funding. we will start up with popular culture and on the

richard nixon in '68, running on this law and order message. >> right. >> against the trump resistance movement. >> we're looking at ruth bader ginsburg there, the justice of the supreme court. john roberts, of course, there and a couple of other justices. they're all coming in now to join in the celebration. they look very happy, gene. >> yeah. they do look happy. >> clarence is wall-to-wall happiness. >> everyone should pay attention to this. this is what power looks like. this is what power looks like. republicans have the power to do this and they did it. they didn't care -- >> not that you're -- you are on the progressive side, i think, i'm just wondering how democrats -- this is what losing looks like to them? just chuckling here. >> this is a terrible moment i think for the country. whatever you think of brett kavanaugh, a majority of the country still opposes him, and i think just -- >> in the polling. >> just to respond to what robert said, you know, i think the challenge for the republicans is that they'd like to call those women on the mall and the supreme court the mob. >> here comes the president. >> they may well be the majority of the country. >> there is the president com