robert e. caro is no one to our students, class later that returned in a class act. they see or we have wonderful opportunity to also see something we've never seen before and theory will talk about a repeat of the paper in this year is a wordy. we also had the opportunity before the ceremony to surprise bob with our greatest honor for the academic to one of our favorite academics, bob studied history with the robert h. caro and what an honor it is to add his name alongside ours forever. so if i may, i'd like to invite dairy bienstock into the table. very work of bob to give us this which has become our most respected academic award and an award we are quite proud of involving the alum in so many thoughtful ways. again to you coming to your wife in the family, welcome back. berry, thank you. come on out. [applause] >> if i could just echo tom's greetings to all of you and thank everyone for attending this now sixth annual robert caro prize event. every year gets bigger. last year we had an ap r

is it to discredit robert mueller's investigation? is it to possibly lay the groundwork to fire robert mueller? >> well, i can't speak to reasons other than it's standard procedure. if you find an investigator or have a judge or have somebody on the other side that had significant conflicts of interest, you would want them removed, because there's a bias or other conflict, and i don't think this is all that unusual to -- certainly the president's got some real pros surrounding him. >> but what if you find that somebody on robert mueller's legal team gave money to a democratic candidate. does that disqualify them? >> no. >> it doesn't? >> no. i think -- there's lines you cross. i think you're looking for different kinds of conflicts -- >> like what? give me an example. >> a lot of this is supposition, as well. we have four investigations going on with the house and senate plus bob mueller's investigation. but clearly, if somebody had an axe to grind, you know, that they had a family member -- you know, the president's been involved in

he has to find somebody to be his robert bork. he should have said to richard nixon, no, fire me i won't fire arch bald cox. >> i think you see republicans who in private are uncomfortable with trump begin to move to being publically uncomfortable with donald trump. >> we shall see. thank you both for being here. appreciate it. >>> coming up donald trump turns on his own cabinet, disparaging his attorney general. tonight jeff sessions is responding and we'll go inside a white house in crisis in two short minutes. the best way to hit the beach? with neutrogena® beach defense® sunscreen. helioplex™ powered, uva uvb strong. beach strength protection for the whole family. for the best day in the sun. neutrogena®. yeah, and i can watch thee bgame with directv now.? oh, sorry, most broadcast and sports channels aren't included. and you can only stream on two devices at once. this is fun, we're having fun. yeah, we are. no, you're not jimmy. don't let directv now limit your entertainment. xfinity gives you more to stream to more screens.

how is he looking to discredit robert mueller? "new day" starts right now. >>> it's inappropriate for the president to try to dictate the boundaries of the investigation. >> the wall street journal saying trump's legal team is working to discredit the investigation. >> bob mueller should look at anything within the scope of the special counsel's mandate. >> if the president fired bob mueller, i think he'll pay a heavy price. >> you can feel tension and anxiety. >>> i've done my time. i have basically spent a conflict-free life. >> his statements were self-justified. showing no remorse. >> the you take a look at what they're supposed to consider, it's a slam dunk. >> thank you. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it's friday. july 21st. 6:00 in washington, d.c. chris is off. and john berman joins me from new york. great to see you. >> nice to see you. >>> the new york times and washington post is reporting that the

by the time robert e. lee rived here on this ridge called sum fair ridge, the staff already selected this facility as the headquarters of his army. the headquarters location was already selected. what a headquarters is, is a very difficult question to answer. is the heart attack headquarter where the jgeneral is, is it where the general is conducted most of his work. it's stuff to answer. we know general robert e. lee used this house, we also know he was a man who wen about the field and would have conducted numerous pact and things like that. so incredibly we don't have a great detailed account about what he did where other than we know he used the house, we know his tent was somewhere outside the house and we know the decisions in the field. the battle of gettysburg lasted three days. the first day the confederates win. as they buckled the union planks, the union army -- off this ridge, seminary ridge. there are 25 cannons along this ridge. the union line in this particular area, just west of the house w

he has to find somebody to be his robert bork. he should have said to richard nixon, no, fire me i won't fire arch bald cox. >> i think you see republicans who in private are uncomfortable with trump begin to move to being publically uncomfortable with donald trump. >> we shall see. thank you both for being here. appreciate it. >>> coming up donald trump turns on his own cabinet, disparaging his attorney general. tonight jeff sessions is responding and we'll go inside a white house in crisis in two short minutes. that's a marathon. because he chooses to walk whenever he can. and he does it with support from dr. scholl's. only dr. scholl's has massaging gel insoles that provide all-day comfort to keep him feeling more energized. so he even has the energy to take the long way home. keep it up, steve! dr. scholl's. born to move. or a little internet machine? [ phone ringing ] hi mom. it makes you wonder... shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the same company? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to

robert: yes, they have weapons. yes, they have explosives.eporter: many residents would rather it stay up. things have been quiet for some time now, but that may well be due to the wall. the wiggins live right next to it in a comfortable shankill-area house with a tidy garden and a porch swing. if the wall came down, they'd leave immediately. albert: we feel very secure living here. isabel: we're safe here. we feel secure because of the wall. albert: if the wall wasn't there, there'd be murder along here. isabel: i wouldn't be living here. reporter: people in belfast keep the stories of their heroic fighters alive. the city is burdened with its if you want reconciliation, it's a different ball game, because they were never like that in the first place. so, to do that now would be a tremendous upheaval of people. it's probably going to take future generations to begin this process of intermingling. reporter: it appears that it wouldn't take much to upset the fragile balance of peace in northern ireland. and now, the british conservatives are d

>> this is a dramatic expansion of robert mueller's work.isn looking notion of whether the trump campaign colluded with russian agents, russian officials, russian government on the 2016 election. ist our story is reporting that robert mueller has expanded his investigation into a variety of business dealings, many going back years before he was the president, the miss america pageant held in moscow, and impart and in florida he sold to a russian oligarch am of the soho project in lower manhattan, so this is a dramatic expansion and creates great new legal jeopardy for the president of the united states. >> how should he respond to this or how is he responding? are we getting anything official from the white house yet? >> if you read the presidents interview with the new york times, particularly the ending portion in which he was asked repeatedly by those reporters whether he would fire special counsel robert mueller should he expand into the business transactions. the president of the questions that he did not believe he would do it. we know

and the man that replaces him is of course, robert e. lee. it is not robert e. lee the legend, it is the failed general of the western virginia in 1861. it is robert e lee who is not fit carry stonewall jackson's riding boots. it is the personal lackey for jefferson davis in richmond, who has not shown success on the battlefield. so there is no guarantee robert e. lee will be successful. the richmond newspapers are not very excited about lee. they actually complain, why can't we get jackson? we need an officer as daring as jackson. at the moment jackson is doing his thing and impressing everybody. lee has other nicknames, evacuating lee is one of them. granny lee is another one i guess because he is cautious. was givenng of spades to him because the first thing he does is the orders troops to start digging trenches. and they resent it. manual labor, it is slave work, not work fit for independent southern soldiers. i have a rifle for a reason, i want to fight. but robert e. lee was a smart guy. he was a former west point graduate and he realizes we are outnumbere

that's another robert hill. there's a lot of robert hills in the system. >> robert hill has a puzzling session with the jail psychiatrist. and -- >> socks, boxers, bras, panties, all underwear is dyed. >> the reason tulsa inmates have their underwear dyed orange. >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> tulsa is the second largest city in oklahoma. but the tulsa county jail is a city within the city. along with numerous security concerns that come with temporarily housing some 1800 men and women, facing a huge array of criminal charges, it contains its own versions of the local post office, a hospital, and busier restaurant than just about any other in the city. it also contains a gigantic laundry facility. >> we usually do anywhere from 10 to 12 loads. each load, each washer, the big washers are 125 pounds. the small washers are 75 pounds. if that can kind of give you an idea. >> the various colored uniforms coincide with each inmate's classification. >> all county clothing is generall

robert is actually an old friends and very few people ian can say this about -- robert and i have known each other for over five years. that gives me great pleasure and it also depresses me greatly that i can say i've known someone for 55 years. we were both sons of college professors and we grew up on the same college campus, running around in our superman and batman costumes and it wasn't halloween, let me tell you.fi anyway, robert has grown up to be a fine young man, he's an editor of poet, teacher, writer who lives near raleigh, north carolina. his five books include a memoir of hiking the entire length of the appalachian trail, to anthologies of poetry to be read out loud and most recently, going to hell in a hand basket, and illustrated dictionary. he is a longtime pastor and an aficionado of wordplay who likes to raise a ruckus and is delighted to share his perils of wisdom with us today. so, with no further ado, i like to introduce and start the program off with robert rubin. carmac[applause]sored >> is honored to be involved with freedom of speech. although my book is about pe

so it appears that would be in the scope of robert mueller. >> i -- well, it's robert mueller's decision as to whether it's within the scope of the investigation or not, and as we know, rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is the person who oversees the special counsel and if someone thought that the special counsel or his team were accessing or attempting to access evidence or documents that were beyond the scope, they could say something about it. i should the flip side is true, too, which is that if the special counsel during the course of his investigation discovered additional areas that he thought were worthy of investigation, the regulations in place deal with that scenario and that possible and the special counsel then have to go back to the attorney general and in this case it's the acting attorney general for this matter, rod rosenstein, and ask for permission and additional grant of authority to broaden the scope of his investigation. but i don't think he would need to do that to seek tax returns assuming, again, that his view is that the tax returns are relevant to th

do you think he would fire robert mueller? >> he might fire robert mueller. he's going to have difficulty reaching down to find somebody to do it, who will be his robert bork. it's entirely possible he may decide to preemptively pardon himself and others. that, of course, covers criminal matters. it would not protect him from the issue of impeachment and removal from office which is a political act. but at the end of the day, you can always count on donald will look out for donald, and the person to watch here now is jared kushner. jared kushner is the member of the family most subject to pressure from mueller's office and to leverage, and jared kushner is going to face some difficult choices down the road as this investigation goes forward. >> i would imagine manafort would as well, in deep debt to the russians. >> the other two people who are most subject to leverage by saying, you know, cooperate or face the music, are paul manafort, longtime representative of many dictatorial regimes, and close connections here with the russians and the ukrainian -- the p

but in the 1960s, business was slow, and robert was forced to sell it.ooked at the bare spot on the wall where the map had hung, he wished he had it back. it took him years and quite a few dollars, but robert davis restored that map to its place on his wall. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thank you so much for watching. and remember -- you can't take it with you. do you have a "strange inheritance" story you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail or go to our website -- strangeinheritance.com ♪ >> at the edge of death valley... >> it's weird and unusual and unique. >> ...a man puts a dusty weigh station on the map. but the town and his legacy fall on hard times. >> i was hearing from the residents that it was an eyesore. >> has he left his family a money pit... >> we want you to keep this in the family at all costs. >> ...or a monument? >> sometimes in life, we don't appreciate things until they're gone. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] ♪ [ horn honks ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'

robert mueller or clearly this is an attempt to discredit robert mueller and his team or intimidate them. but the this isn't new. we've seen bill clinton do this, richard nixon do it. nip does it. when i'm getting attacked by someone, i assure you i'm dumping on who they are. is that what the president is doing here? >> of course. when i was a prosecutor, it was the same thing, whether it was a white collar criminal prosecution i was doing, a mob prosecution. one tactic is for the putative defendant, to the person under investigation to go after the prosecutor. i mean, it's just a simple thing to do. unfortunately, when you're prosecutor, there really isn't much you can do to counterattack. what you really have to be careful about is that you conduct your investigation in a proper and concise way, that you do everything by the book, and that's what we did many the watergate prosecution. we have this same attack being leveled against the attorneys that were working on that case. and we were very careful about is what our public perception was and what we're doing and how we did it and eve

huk by standards noticed and he came john roberts poord today stepping out airport robert on the way out says if it was not on camera i 3450eug9 not be >> this different take he was stand and some people said t he was like me. and if you work in tv this mraikz total cents he left briefing to do a slot. 155 to 20. he wept out to make slots. after the preeling was continued. they just took the live. which means you hear on f federror. so there you have it prob erts wife weighed in trying to down play the pour things. i mepinged in newsroom. kiera phillips s she wrote on twitter trust me the only time john roberts storms out of ib is when i'm with the mood. other than that he's a hag angel. roger retweeted ating going into that personal detail, omg. >> in the meantime security has to be stepped up whenever the president goes. precautions they want to take have some in loudoun a bit of surprise. they want to kick voters in the area off the potomac and others. in materialing, what they would do is shut down access and that maingz it impossible for pad letters to get through and that inclu

battle going on with robert mueller. robert mueller doesn't speak to the press, and neither do his investigators. and everybody who says they know what's going on in that investigation is guessing about what's going on in that investigation or getting very specific squibbs of reporting that mostly, as far as we can surmise, are obtained by finding out who they've been obtaining evidence from. i mean they're not -- robert mueller is not out there campaigning for office. you can't run negative ads against him and make his investigation go away. the only reason you'd cook up an effort to undermine him is to either retroactively or contemporaneously explain why you're moving to get rid of him. it's going to be a steep climb if they want to do that. you can see in the conservative media they've been trying to help the white house with that already. >> according to the statute, the president does not have the direct legal authority to fire this special prosecutor. the attorney general does, but this attorney general, jeff sess

he worked with robert mueller in the bush justice department when robert mueller was the fbi directorhe believes strongly that robert mueller is a person of integrity and professionalism and they ought not to be trying to undercut his credibility. other people on the legal team have advised the president the same thing. they say, look, this is a person who is seen as a straight arrow. it's to your advantage that he is the special counsel. if he doesn't find anything, he's going to have more credibility in making that conclusion than some prosecutor that you would have picked. so there's a real divide inside trump's own team about this. >> peter, you were one of three reporters in the headline-making interview with "the times" this week and there's one moment in particular that generated a lot of heat. i'm going to replay it for you quickly now. here it is. >> sessions gets the job. right after he gets the job, he recuses himself. >> was that a mistake? >> well, sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the