but robert? robert had a far different experience in the interview room and a different detective. >> they're sitting across from you, randy sneed. >> you knew him. >> i knew him since i was 12 or 13. >> i was on first name basis with him. >> kind of a friend. >> yes, because i'm known him for so long. >> why don't you tell me what took place that night? >> that night? i was at my house. >> at first, robert swore he was innocent. but six hours later, he had confessed to murder. >> you stabbed her, didn't you? >> one or two times. >> everything you told me is true, correct? >> yes. >> everything you've done, it's true, correct? >> true. >> later that day, officer sneed allowed robert to call his mother. >> i said, robert, what did you say? he said, since they wanted to hear that, i told them fine. >> when you heard that from your son -- >> i felt like i was going to have a heart attack and die. >> around the neighborhood, people who had known robert for years couldn't believe it. >> he was always

robert, robert had a far different experience in the interview room. and a different detective. >> they're sitting across -- there sitting across from you was randy snead. >> randy snead. >> you knew him? >> since i was 12 or 13. i was i was on a first name basis with him. >> reporter: kind of a friend. >> yeah. because i've known him for so long. >> why don't you tell me, robert -- what took place that night? you tell me your story of what happened. >> i was at my house, man. >> at first, robert swore that he was innocent but six hours later -- he had confessed to murder. >> i stabbed her. >> you stabbed her, didn't you? >> one, one or two times. >> everything you've told me is true, correct? >> true. >> everything you've done, and been part of is true, correct? >> true. >> later that day, officer snead allowed robert to call his mother. >> i said, "robert, what did you say?" he said, "since they wanted to hear that, i told 'em, 'fine." >> what did it feel like in here when you heard that from your son? >> i felt like i was gonna have a heart attack a

to robert again.s time, about one of the murder weapons. >> there's an item that you touched, right? left particles on it that did some damage to somebody. what was that object? >> it was a bat, a baseball bat. >> some type of clubbing device. >> clubbing device. >> snead knows the weapon was really a metal rod. >> i hit her two times. said if i didn't hit her -- >> i have somebody else clubbing her, robert. >> robert has it wrong. >> jessica already confessed. that rocky clubbed ann charles. >> you know and we know and that's the thing that has your -- something wrong with it that's yours. i'm not going to tell you. >> so again, robert starts guessing. >> i didn't kill the baby. >> i'm not saying that. i'm not saying that you raped anybody. >> i didn't cut nobody. >> didn't say -- >> didn't say you shot nobody. >> let me tell you, since you're not going to tell me. you stabbed that woman. >> i stabbed her. >> you stabbed her, didn't you? huh huh, one or two times. >> snead asks robert where. >> it wa

robert meeropol: the f.b.i. agents who've written memoirs in which they said, "we didn't want them to die, we wanted them to talk." >> cooper: after your father had then... >> michael meeropol: absolutely. >> cooper: ...last minute... >> michael meeropol: exac... >> cooper: ...said, "you know what? i'll tell you everything i know"? >> michael meeropol: absolutely. in fact, we know that the rabbi came to her cell after witnessing our father's execution and said, "julius is gone, and, you know, you have two children. and if there's anything you can say-- a name, even a false name, just anything, you know, to save yourself." and allegedly, she said to the >> robert meeropol: ultimately, they couldn't betray each other. they couldn't and they would not betray each other. and that would've been the ultimate betrayal. >> cooper: do you feel she betrayed you? >> robert meeropol: not at all. >> cooper: the judge said, "your parents loved their cause more than their own children," which is certainly a very cruel thing to

while he is there, george decides to ask robert e. lee if he can get married. robert e. lee refuses. george doesn't care and he goes off to petersburg to get married. unfortunately for him, there is nothing going on in petersburg. robert e. lee reason a lot of newspaper so he reads about his insubordinate general. take it goes to north carolina -- pickett goes to north carolina, making his way to virginia, but he is going to miss this battle. the outbreak of the 1864 campaign is an army that is similar to what you would have seen a gettysburg. the first corps has longstreet, a veteran commander. he is also going to be that sounding board. very important, a sounding board for robert e. lee. they are going to work well together. when stonewall jackson was alive, robert e. lee cap his headquarters with longstreet. one of the reasons why is i think because jackson and his staff were sticks in the mud but longstreet -- those guys had personality. robert e. lee seemed to be entertained by the characters around him. he is going to give longstreet his nickname, my old war horse.

robert: i'm robert burton. coming up in sports wizards kick off the season in atlanta. what john wall is telling the critics. good news for the redskins when they head to london to ?? stand by me ?? vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. our energyshare program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energy-saving upgrades. it's more than helping customers, it's helping neighbors. maureen: says better coordination is needed and as brianne carter tells us this comes amidst an investigation how a train almost struck track inspectors. brianne: metro chief safety officers says new safety inspectors and training are going in place after a train operator violated speed restrictions for the federal inspectors on the track. the metro chief safety officer says it happened at a blind spot on the track but added breakdown. projections were lacking. today we learn it wasn't the only incident that day on that stretch. >> prior to the event another train and operator were removed from servic

chief justice roberts: okay. so on the merits -- on the merits then, you just want us to say, oh, reasonable jurists could disagree about whether or not he was unconstitutionally sentenced? ms. swarns: or that the -- that the reasonable jurists would conclude that the district court's decision that mr. buck was not prejudiced was incorrect, and, therefore, mr. buck was -- was entitled to a certificate of appealability. justice kagan: but, for example, last year in a case called welch, the question came up on the certificate of appealability, and we just said, well, of course he should have gotten a certificate of appealability because he's right. and similarly, we did the same thing, oddly enough, in one of the cases here. we did the same thing in trevino. yes, he should have gotten a certificate of appealability because he has the merits on his side. that's essentially what you would want us to do? ms. swarns: yes. justice kagan: i mean, that does leave on the table -- maybe this is what the chief justice was sa

moderator: need to get robert marquette in. we're short on time. robert. mr. marquette: i'm not a professional establishment politician, so i don't need to lie to people about these things. the congressional budget. the heritage foundation released a report earlier this year based upon congressional budget numbers. that showed that social security needed an immediate injection of $50 trillion in order to maintain long-term solvency. and we don't have the money. it's just simply not going to happen. c.b.o. numbers also demonstrate that we're projected in 16 years that social security, medicare, medicaid, affordable care act subsidies, and interest on the national debt are going to consume 100% of the revenues. tax revenues taken in by the treasury. leaving nothing left over for anything else including national defense. we have to recognize that the federal government has destroyed all of these programs. and we have to take these programs away from the people who have so severely mismanaged them. we need to turn that money back -- moderator: we're getting very s

robert: i'm robert burton. coming up in sports it's friday. game of the night high school football. some one won't be dressing sunday for the redskins. we will tell you who that is woman: barbara comstock is too right-wing to represent me. man: or me. woman: or me. woman: barbara comstock would overturn roe vs. wade. barbara comstock: i think roe vs. wade should be overturned. woman: barbara comstock voted to defund planned parenthood... man: five times. woman: barbara comstock is against marriage equality. man: she even voted to let federal contractors discriminate against gay employees... man: twice. michelle: new at 6:00, syrian refugees targeted for what they believe was a hate crime. a threatening note left on the door of their dundalk home. among the messages "terrorists leave." and "9/11 was your fault." they spoke on the condition we not show their >> now i only go to because my child goes to school. i learn about my child. my family. michelle: police say they traced the note to a 14-year-old girl and they are calling it a dispute with the child and the family and they and d

roberts: lord watson? >> [inaudible] i wanted to ask you to comment on something, which is a difficult subject. there have been reports that winston wept or damped his eyes when watching the film of the burning of dead bodies after the destruction of dresden. you are probably aware of this, of course. it was followed by churchill's note, in which he basically questions the policy of the destruction of the city at that time. of course, there is a tremendous pushback from marshall harris. i would be very interested to hear your comments about that. mr. roberts: the phrase you are referring to is "are we beasts?" of course, the bombing of dresden, which i go into immense detail in my book, is highlighted as the most outrageous act of the combined bomber offensive. i do not see it in that way at all. i think it was necessary both because the russians had asked us to do this to smash the railway lines connecting east and west, because they were moving men from the west who tried to shore up their position on th

cokie roberts: it is so true. when i was called about this conference and told me what the subject matter was, i said, that is so perfect, because first ladies listen. both mrs. bush's troops to teachers initiative and mrs. obama's program to get states to waive licensing time periods for people, those are direct result of listening to people. presidents go in and make speeches, first ladies go in and listen. that is a way that change can happen that is completely different from the presidential role. i must say that the cartoons of the time we were talking about said the president and mr. harding. [laughter] >> but she had great hats. cokie roberts: she did have great hats. she had reason to keep him down. [laughter] we then saw eleanor roosevelt actually in uniform, right? bill, do you want to talk about that? william seale: only that she became very involved during the -- with the military during the wac uniform that she wore and she made endless trips everywhere, military installations, horrible all night trip

[laughter] robert wilkins: thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: interested in "american history tv?" visit our website c-span.org/history. you can watch a recent program. american artifacts, road to the white house we wind, lectures in history and more at c-span.org/history. announcer: this weekend, former senator bob dole, nancy, and is represented in the 1970's and 1990's represent their careers and state of congress today. here's a preview. >> to tell a story, and i don't know if it was on this issue of someone who is giving a bad time to everybody. you told him to get up and leave. , andere was a republican we had a conference. i was starting to get votes. i can't win without votes. he was very contrary. he thought i was a big [indiscernible] or something. so i said, do you want to be the leader? if you do, let's have a vote right

matt, robert, thank you very much.istie, i'll give it to you. >>> we have to talk about something else. it's been weeks since hurricane matthew hit the east coast and look at what they are still dealing with today. more flooding. areas already that are mostly under water. we'll tell you what they are dealing with and how they will get out of this. also there's a new california start up company. it found a way to deliver healthy find timely manner with the help of an app. this week's start small think big for you now. >> san francisco start up sprig is delivering healthy meals on demand. >> we created an app every day you can scroll through a menu, tap twice on your phone and 20 minutes later a hot nutritious meal is delivered to your door step. >> dhou they deliver the food so fast? they use a math equation to predict how many people will order what food and when which means the company sends out drivers before customers even use the app. >> when you order a meal from sprig your meal is halfway to you. >> he helped get

robert: i agree with that.ay stocks with the yields perceived safety, low vol, that is what everybody wants. bit of acreated a bubble. i steer clear of those source of things. tom: merger mania. qualcomm, dutch conductor. 47 mergers. robert: if i as a ceo can borrow money at essentially zero, why not? most of these transactions to myiately become anti- earnings. we have not seen a rush like this, a bit surprising. perhaps the environment is getting better and ceo's and boards are willing to take a risk. low interest rates. guy: bob, a conservative .uropean view all the u.s. stocks are bond proxies because the way companies have their balance sheets, right or wrong? robert: i agree. higher rates mean a lower price for everything in risk land. the question is, as we get to the higher rates and the lower valuations, do we get better earnings? back to third-quarter earnings, better than most of us thought. tom: this banner is so critical. chart., bring up this this is amazon. robert doll never talks about individua

. >> robert's family wanted him to die in peace at the va va sent him home. the staff admits this situation should have been handled differently. liz ryan believed an inpatient hospice care would have helped her brother robert live comfortably during this final days. but the staff never bothered to reef him for a palliative care consultation. robert was denied care for disruptive behavior. >> they made it sound like he was a horrible disruptive person. but that wasn't it. it was the disease making him so agitated. >> after we started asking questions about would roberts c. investigation. >> how done if i dent are you that something like this will not happen again? >> i'm confident we have the right decision makers in place. >> reporter: two things he says didn't happen the day robert showed up at the va. >> we try to everything we do every day. we like to have perfect outcomes for he veteran. but i can assure you we'll try our best to provide the best quality of care. no one deserves this more than our veterans. they will make sure the problem is addressed an

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robert! robert! >> what happened? the prosecutor said the secrets of the shots told the story. two quick shots. a pause and then one more. >> our theory all along was that rob hall had executed emmett corrigan with two successive shots, turned to face his wife, attempted to commit suicide with the third shot. >> the theory backed up by forensics. the shots were fired from close of gunshot residue on only robert hall's hands and only one man's dna on the trigger guard. >> the dna matched that of mr. hall. >> i think that rob hall went to the walgreens in order to confront emmett corrigan, that he took a loaded gun and rob decided that was his opportunity to get his kandi back by killing emmett. >> why did he talk to emmett for eight minutes before he fired? the store was closing, said the prosecutor. people were going home. >> i think he waited until there were no eyewitnesses and he executed emmett corrigan. >> a neat and tidy theory, agreed the defense, but completely wrong. >> this fight was started by was out of control. emmett who kept amphetamines and steroids in his picku

roberts: what about sexual orientation? somebody gives, you know, a bigoted speech in the jury room about sexual orientation and how particular types of people are more likely to commit crimes like the one before them? is that sufficiently odious? mr. fisher: it's quite odious. but whether it would satisfy the balancing test we're setting forth today would be needed to decide -- justice breyer: you have to have an answer for this reason. no one on the other side thinks anything but this is terrible jury misbehavior. that's a given across the case. it is not a question of the validity of the behavior. it's invalid. the question is the timing of when somebody has to object. and their point is they have to object before the verdict comes in. because if you don't have that rule, you will, in fact, open the door to all kinds of evils which they mention. all right? that's their argument. so what we're really asking for is your reply to that argument. and it doesn't really reply to say maybe you're going to have a bunch of other t

a co-worker recalled being in robert denney's apartment. >> robert pointed down to corey's window and said, i watch that girl down there. >> reporter: they were convinced denney was her killer, but they needed proof. so they waited for tests to compare denney's saliva sample to that strand of hair found at the scene. and wouldn't you know, denney's not just to that hair but also to a tiny speck of blood recovered near her kitchen sink. all the other possible suspects, the next-door neighbor, the dishwasher, and tiffany, were cleared in the case. >> we were jumping up and the down. >> we wanted to go get him then. >> reporter: and prosecutor angela corey said no. >> he can come up with a story to explain that dna away. oh, i carried her groceries in to explain it away. >> reporter: the prosecutor wanted him on the record denying he'd ever set foot in the victim's apartment. then they'd hit him with the dna proof, trapping him. so they sent katie kingston back to maryland to robert denney's house. >> well, i was going to play like i didn't know anything. >> reporter: you were acting. >>

roberts: interesting question. i think you can ask -- you cannot expect him to cry when everyone died. [laughter] mr. roberts: a little harsh on him to expect that, but you are quite right. the burial plot of that field marshal is one of the magnificent -- arlington cemetery is magnificent -- if any of you are going to visit, -- johnd see john bills dill's grave, because it has a full scare up -- it has a full scale equestrian statue of the field marginal. -- of the field marshal. and it is in such extraordinary detail that even on the medals on him, you can tell the individual medals, including the rosettes placed on certain medals to denote mentions and dispatches, and this is the most extraordinary kind of representation. yes, he did call him dillydally because he was not impressed with the way he chaired the chiefs of staff, and that was why in december 1941, he swapped least sent himat off to america and brought in brooke, who he knew he would have lots of problems with and lots of arguments with, and boy, did

((robert lane/inmate firefighter)) "it's it's a big opportunity." robert lane joined california's inmate firefighter program about 5 years ago. he saw it as a chance for redemption. ((robert lane/inmate firefighter)) cm: "what are you in for?" rl: great bodily injury... i'm giving back to the community for what i did." the voluntary program is the largest of its kind in the country. "guerrero, mara, alvarez..." inmates are given basic training... taught to dig fire containment lines, and clear paths so other crews can reach the flames. "we're gonna work on our access road, ok?" they put their lives on the line - for two dollars a day. ((lt. keith guillory/ca voluntary program, so we shouldn't take it for granted just because they're inmates that they have to be out there." ((robert lane/inmate firefighter)) rl: "we're not really convicts on the back of that bus, we're treated as firefighters." cm: "and that's a good feeling." rl: "it is a good feeling!" ((robert lane/inmate firefighter cm: "it seems like this has really changed you." rl: "it has, it

why did that not help curtis roberts, the inmate in your story? >> because his last felonies are considering violent. robbery. problem 36, another reform that dealt with third strikers, same thing. the governor would have liked to go further. a lot of people say there aren't a lot of non-violent felons left in state prison, although that's a debatable thing. i think this is another sort of step in a long road towards reform that the governor has been pushing. >> while it's certainly polling well, 60% of the public supports it. we'll see how it urn turns out. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >>> proposition 57 came up in the only debate between loretta sanchez and kamala harris for california's open senate seat. >> i am against proposition 57. my opponent wrote the summary of it that we are reading as voters, and she said that it was about non-violent felons getting out of jail. that's not true. >> harris did not take a stand on prop 57, but she said this instead. >> we need to make a difference in our minds and in policy between viol

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i thought that was -- we followed robert williams.e said, if you're confronted by a racist who believes himself arms,or, then -- and your yes to consider, does he want to risk his superior life to take your inferior life? if you have a gun, you can put him in that position. nine times out of 10 he doesn't and that is the end of violence. we believed it was a way to put reduction to violence, and i accept that. amy: that is kathleen cleaver. today we focus on an overlooked part of the black panther paparty's legacy, political prisoners. the black panthers were one of the most criminalized movements in u.s. history, with many off its members arrested and sentenced to decades in prison. in some caseses, court documumes show they were punished, essentially, for being in the black liberation struggle. in others, it was later revealed that torture was used to extract their confessions. over the years, democracy now! has interviewed many black panthers who eventually won their release from prison such , as a group of men arrested in for alle

new york needs robert kennedy.d video clip] larry: can i paraphrase what he was really saying there? i think what he was really saying is that i need robert kennedy out of washington, let's get him off in the senate. and out of my administration. brian: he was gone at that time. larry: he had retired as attorney general he was still being speculated as the guy who could challenge lbj. having him in the senate was precisely where johnson wanted him rather than hovering around washington and around his administration. i think what johnson expected, and he had a right to expect, in return for what he did -- johnson carried new york by more than one million votes and most people who look at the election think that the reason that bobby kennedy one was because of the anonymously long coattails. when he thanked everybody on election night, the person he left out was lyndon johnson, who was watching it live from texas. one of the people he was watching it with with later right -- write a memoir and said that it destroyed

twice robert drescher's life when an injury left him unable to walk. then again tonight when he flew. sot robert drescher: "for me being in a chair and stuff like that, i never thought i'd be able to do such a thing" "after my injury i was thinking i wouldn't be able to keep up with everyone else" ly skydiving facility in ashburn, hosted an all abilities night. for about two dozen people with special needs. for a special experience. sot robert drescher: "to have the wind coming through your hair, across your face, to absorb that sot daniela shirmer: "it was very freeing to get out of my chair" daniela shirmer came to ifly tonight just to watch. sot daniela shirmer: "i was scared at first, i wasn't going to do it. i was just going to watch my boyfriend do it." "somehow i ended up in a suit with goggles on at thnt better just do it." and what they feared might be difficult has actually made life a little bit easier. sot robert drescher: "if you do skydiving your next obstacle is that much up next... eating by the seashore.. in the desert. we'll show you

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