robert kennedy was set to be president. he had won the california primary which was delegate rich. , he was a senator in new york and he had that one in the bag. he would have won. so what did sirhan fire? it sounded like a cap gun. these are a few of many witness statements. gloria mulligan, thought it might have been a cap gun. richard, like cap pistols or firecrackers. there is a laundry list of people who said similar things. ralph elmore said the gun looked like it was spitting flame. a cap is basically a wad of paper, and when you fire it flash-burns. that is why hollywood loves to use cap guns. it creates a nice, visible flame. it is less dramatic if you fire a real gun. there's no flames, for the most part, because bullets, it is just gunpowder that kind of explodes. but paper really flash-burns, and sometimes there is a little shower of paper afterwards. and that is what rafer johnson, an olympic decathlon champion who had seen starting guns all his time, said it looked like a cap gun throwing off residue. you coul

and attorney general who would protect him the way he perceived robert kennedy and eric holder to have protected their presidents. the president said he wanted to tell his attorney general who to investigate. in addition, the president had a motive to put the russia investigation behind him. the evidence did not establish that the termination of comey was designed to cover up a conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. as described in volume 1, the evidence uncovered in the investigation did not establish that the president or those close to him were involved in the charged russian computer hacking or conspiracies or that the president had an unlawful relationship with any russian official. but the evidence does indicate that a thorough fbi investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the presidents personally that the president could have understood to be crimes that would give rise to personal and political concerns. although the president publicly stated during and after the election that he had

and ted kennedy in the senate he find robert kennedy in 1968 becoming even more liberal and running johnson for president and then you find ted kennedy in 1979 challenging the more conservative jimmy carter and going on to become the great liberal lion of the sudden passing legislation on healthcare, on civil rights, on aids, on women's rights on a host of issues that matter to families trying to get through the day. this is an example of where the kennedys began, ted kennedy's career is where the kennedy influence headed up and it's a far different place, time kennedy was much more of a nationalist. you never hear him say something like this about say an underdog group in the united states. he was a champion of the underdog ... 600 pages. a lot of standard stuck have to get in there. when he was born, he would to school, what he sponsored in congress. just the basic chronology of that part of the book. what you're looking for are intriguing, revealing anecdotes like this one that casts light in a new way on the figures in the book. if you can only find one or two day and you do res

three members of the kennedy clan are going after robert f. kennedy jr.se, quote, he has helped to spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines from a piece they wrote in politico. and we're not talking distant relatives, we're talking about his brother and sister and niece. they say they love him and admire his work on the environment. but that his spreading misinformation on vaccines makes him, quote, an outlier in the kennedy family. rfk leads the children's health defense. also the nephew of jfk and the son of the attorney general just two months ago. >> you've got to learn to mistrust cdc. you can't keep trusting and writing down what they say. raise your hand if you have a child or family member that was injured by a vaccine? >> [ inaudible question ]. >> this isn't people's imagination. it is happening. >> professor robert perry has written several books on the kennedy family and is the kennedy biography at university of virginia miller center and leads director of presidential

. >> reporter: robert kennedy's three oldest children have stood together in joy and loss but now a disagreement over the measles vaccine strains family ties in a column for politico magazine former congressman joseph kennedy ii, kathleen kenn daughter crize jr.'s long time anti-vaccer writing he has helped spread dangerous misinformation over social media. here is rfk jr. in texas just last week on the measles. >> the thing that cured was nutrition and clean water, not the vaccine. >> reporter: we love bobby, they write, praising his efforts to protect the environment. but they say on vaccines he is wrong and his opposition is having heartbreaking consequences they point to their family's long history of promoting immunization campaigns president john f. kennedy enforcing the polio vaccine. >> with this miraculous drug i hope everyone takes advantage of it >> bobby is an outlier in the kennedy family, they write tonight robert f. kennedy jr. says i don't think we should be forcing pharmaceutical products on unwilling american citizens without understanding the downside risks, risks the cdc and

president john kennedy, senator robert kennedy, and the youngest of the boys in the family was senator edward kennedy, also known as ted or teddy. and there is a collection here, left to the hoover institution 's biographer.r their father was joseph kennedy and he was at one time one of the richest men in the united states. and a journalist and biographer and sometime republican speechwriter named richard whalen wrote a biography of joe kennedy called "the founding father." and richard whalen's papers were left to the hoover institution. i came across them when i was working on a book on richard nixon, he also wrote two books about richard nixon so i'm familiar with what is here but i don't know what is actually in the joseph kennedy boxes. finding is a chance of bunch of media clips that won't help me much at all. host: tell me about richard whalen and what items you hope to find? john: richard whalen was a new york journalist who spent time working for "fortune" magazine, and he was also a liberal republican. nixon caught up in the campaign, richard nixon's presidential campaign in 1

bobby is an outlier in the kennedy family, they write. tonight robert f. kennedy jr.ays i don't think we should be forcing pharmaceutical products on unwilling amerin citizens without understanding the downside risks, risks the cdc and other medical organizations say are well understood and do u not eigh the benefits of vaccination. anne thompson nbc ne. >>> now to your money, your life and the crushing burden of prescription drugs on so many families tonight. there's news about a new plan to bring the cost down by forcing companies to reveal the prices in all those prescription drug ads.kr ten dahlgren explains. >> reporter: soon when you see a drug company ad on tv, there will be something new, the cost. new regulations will require drug companies disclose list prices for any medications that cost more than month. xarelto, the first to include its price at this end of this ad, $448 a month. health and human services secretary azar saying -- i >>f they're afraid that people will be scared off by their extortionate drug prices, lower your price. it's that simple. >> r

robert kennedy. robert kennedy agreed and agreed to order wiretaps of martin luther king.yndon johnson wiretapped hubert humphrey, the vice president. here's what i want to get at. this is important. there's been abuses of the irs of the fbi to go after political opponents, to go after newspapers, to go after newspaper men. our president has done none of that. yet you would think he's a dictat dictator. you listen to msnbc and scar borough, i don't know how many times they compare him to a nazi or to hitler or the words come up describing the president of the united states. you have to be unhinged. speaking of that, remember that period they were bringing the professor in from yale and she and 26 others wrote a book about how the president of the united states -- they never met the president of the united states. how he was mentally unhinged. he pulled the same thing on barry goldwater in 1964. >> sean: you write about that in the book. >> i give all of the history. this wasn't news. these people made news. they pushed them out there. "the new york times" runs an anonymous

robert kennedy did not like lyndon johnson as vice president. he had triggered an investigation into bobby baker. that is why the department of justice was covering down on bobby baker. that was a slash on lyndon johnson. bobby could take a new veep. robert kennedy is no longer attorney general. they still have to prosecute bobby baker. bill bittman does it with such skill that lyndon johnson's name never comes up. that is talent. johnson was his boss. this whole time, he was taking bribes and giving orders and everything else. dirty as candy. leon jaworski is a johnson protege. he does not want bittman to get slashed. this is the third bullet, there is an indictment meeting. there are two people taking notes. there is the recorder taking notes. then there is the james the set to write the report. the task force, the watergate task force comes in and does their presentation. they are line attorneys. there are five or six of them. staff attorneys decide and review about whether they will agree with that indictment. they ask this man on the cnn pa

robert kennedy. robert kennedy agreed and agreed to order wiretaps of martin luther king.wiretapped hubert humphrey, the vice president. here's what i want to get at. this is important. there's been abuses of the irs of the fbi to go after political opponents, to go after newspapers, to go after newspaper men. our president has done none of that. yet you would think he's a dictat dictator. you listen to msnbc and scar borough, i don't know how many times they compare him to a nazi or to hitler or the words come up describing the president of the united states. you have to be unhinged. speaking of that, remember that period they were bringing the professor in from yale and she and 26 others wrote a book about how the president of the united states -- they never met the president of the united states. how he was mentally unhinged. he pulled the same thing on barry goldwater in 1964. >> sean: you write about that in the book. >> i give all of the history. this wasn't news. these people made news. they pushed them out there. "the new york times" runs an anonymous op-ed. a fake

robert kennedy was there to protect john kennedy. and, you know, barr's the attorney general, might want to speak up and say, you know, mr. president, that's not how this works. i doubt that will happen, but he fired at democrats the other day when they said something like this and the president has a much longer track record of thinking that the justice department should be his political tool. >> yeah. thank you, all. see you fex time. >> thanks, don. >> thank you so much. >>> president laughed the other day when someone in his rally crowd yelled out that migrants should be shot. that's right. he laughed. the thing is, this isn't the first time he's made light of violence against other people. and is there really ever any defense of any president joking about violence? morning. what are you doing? isn't it obvious? nah. we're delivering live market coverage and offering expert analysis completely free. we're helping you make sense of the markets without cable or a subscription from anywhere you are. i get that. but what are you doin

robert mueller warned us about. kennedy: i'll get to russian element later, i, agree. d robert mueller layout a case for impeachment today? >> i think robert mueller laid out a case in which we've seens house continue to investigate and ask questions about second volume. kennedy: nothing has changed, ned, what happened? >> we saw a political hack try to tell us an uncharged person was not innocent, turning entire premise of our legal system, on its head, now we say you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent, that is absurd, mueller could have said we found evidence to charge, we just didn't have the authority to change or he could have said our investigation led to us believe that president obstructed our investigation, he did not say either one. >> he could have been within his right. >> right. kennedy: i would have been much more satisfied if he had done that, ifs implication is a that president behaved in a way that almost rises to threshold of impeachment. >> his equivocation telling us all we need to know, this was a political hit job, with one of two pur

three of robert f. kennedybers penned a piece yesterday chastising him for spreading misinformation in his role as the chairman of children's board of health defense which ties the childhood conditions such as autism to a range of factors cluing vane. in the piece three members wrote in part, we love bobby. he's one of the great champions of the environment. however on vaccines, he is wrong. they addlis and others work against vaccine have heartbreaking consequences. more people are afraid of vaccines than diseases because they are lucky enough never to see the disease and their devastating impact. we don't need measles outbreak to remind us the valve vaccines. robert kennedy wrote this, i am not anti-vaccine, i want safe vaccines with robust safety testing. >> prince harry and meghan markle revealed the name of their baby boy. it's archie harrison. they announced the name a few hours after giving the world a glimpse of their newborn at windsor castle. >> it's pretty amazing. i have the two best guys in the wor

president john kennedy, senator robert kennedy, and the youngest of the boys in the family was senator edward kennedy, also known as ted or teddy. and there is a collection here left to the hoover institution by their father, biographer. their fathers name was joseph p kennedy and he was at one time one of the richest man in the united states. and a journalist and biographer and sometime republican speechwriter named richard whelan wrote a biography of joe kennedy called the founding father. richard papers were left to the hoover institution. i came across them when i was working on a book on richard nixon here. he also wrote to macbooks about richard nixon, so i'm sort of familiar with what's here but i don't know what's actually in the joseph kennedy boxes. so there's a chance that we will be finding excellent gold or just a bunch of media clips that will not help me very much at all. >> can you tell me all the bit about richard waited and what kind of items you hope to find in these boxes? >> richard whelan was in new york journalist, a magazine journalist. he's been sometime public

she was also there the night robert kennedy was shot in 1978. she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom, the highest award in the united states. she told me the struggle towards equality and justice has never ended. >> young people are the forefront and people of color and we are going to see a change in our society and it is happening right now as we speak. >> reporter: at 89, huerta is still a motivating force. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: in san francisco, leeann melendez, abc7 news. >> wow! >> she could still fire up the people. >> that is great. >>> will the rain impact your plans for the weekend? >> that is the question. >>> and i'll have the answer. and yes is the answer. basically i'll let you know when you need the umbrellas. it is not a washout for the weekend. details are coming up. >>> and a stunning scene on a sacramento freeway. it started as a theft and quickly turned into a life-changing moment. >>> a sweeping piece of anti-abortion legislation passes in missouri. will the governor criminalize abortion at eight weeks.

weighed in on his decision to recuse and the president then brought up former attorney general robert kennedy and eric holder and said they had protected their president. the president also pushed back on the doj contact policy and said words to the effect of you are telling me talk about investigations or obama didn't tell eric holder who to investigate? bannon recalls the president was as mad as he had ever seen him and swore to him about how weak sessions was peer he recalled telling the president the recusal was not a surprise and that before the inauguration they discussed sessions would have to recuse from campaign related investigations because of his work on the trump campaign. that weekend sessions and don mcgahn flew to mar a lago to meet with the president. sessions said the president pulled him aside to meet with him alone and suggested the session sessions should recuse from the russian investigation. the president contracted don mcgahn who had developed a strategy to help the president where sessions did not. sessions said he had the impression the investigation could spin out o

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robert kennedy agreed to wiretaps to mlk. uneven is vice president. the abuses of the irs or the fbi to go after political opponents our president has done none of that but yet you would think he is a dictator. know how many times they compare him to a nazi or hitler when those words come up to describe the president , you have to be unhinged. speaking of that remember that. they brought in the professor from yale and she and 26 others wrote a book about how the president of united states? they never met him he was mentally unhinged they did the same thing on goldwater in the sixties. i give all the history. this is not news. may push them out there. it is a fake event and then a week worth of news. sean: this is important because over two years they have peddled lies in conspiracy theories when they rigged the primary where the evidence is overwhelming. then trieded to use the phony russian dossier as a means to spy on the trump campaign and then to rigged that election. and then ironically a phony russian dossier bought and paid for by clinton even

. >> reporter: some of the more established names at today's rally included robert f. kennedy jr. recently some of his family members disavowed his views about vaccines. and del bigtree, a leading voice questioning vaccines. back in march he used holocaust imagery to align himself with vaccine skeptics in the orthodox you're you're community. >> for all the hasidic jews in new york right now that never thought this moment will come, i am saying i stand with you. >> reporter: bigtree's funding has grown. where do you get your funding? what's the largest donation? >> i would say we are being donated to by lawyers, by doctors, by scientists, by entertainers, that all believe that this is a discussion that needs to be discussed. >> reporter: we took a look at the most recent tax filings available for his organization. in one year contributions went from a little over $100,000 to more than $1.4 million. as these groups gain steam and funding, medical professionals tell us a quiet, non-judgmental approach and a willingness to listen to parents' concerns are the best ways to engage peopl

they were removed by robert kennedy the day jack kennedy was assassinated. he went in and took the system and the tapes. they stayed in private hands until after the government seized nixon's. they approached the archives and said, you know, we may have some tapes, but we are not turning them over until we know what is on them, so maybe you can help us decipher. ultimately, they have donated some to the archives. but we have no idea whether there are others that have been held back, if they have been doctored. there were clearly tapes. johnson took a different approach. remember, linden -- lyndon was senate majority leader. he loved to tape telephone conversations when he was negotiating for votes. he would call the staff in and say, see, i got the vote. there's a two-volume set on the johnson tapes. but he reused them. they were played after and he would tape over them. it was not done as a record. you get two stories about what happened to nixon. one story, which is nixon's, is that john campbell, who was the head of pepsico, was talking to lbj and asked h

he thinks that the kennedy -- john kennedy-robert kennedy model was a good model to emula emulate, thatect kennedy was there to protect. barr was there to speak up and say you know, mr. president, that's not how this works. i doubt that happened. but he fired at democrats the other day when they said something like this, and the president has a much longer track record of thinking that the justice department should be his political tool. >> thank you, all. see you next time. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> the president laughed the other day when someone in his rally crowd yelled out that migrants should be shot. that's right. he laughed. the thing is, this isn't the first time he has made light of violence against other people. and is there really ever any defense of any president joking about violence? audible members know listening has the power to change us make us better parents, better leaders, better people. and there's no better place to listen than audible. with audible you get a credit good for any audiobook and exclusive fitness and wellness programs. and now, you'll als

they were removed by robert kennedy the day jack kennedy was assassinated. he took the system and the tapes. they stayed in private hands until after the government seized nexen's- -- nixon's. they approached the archives and said they wouldn't turn them over until they know what is on them, so maybe you could help us. ultimately, they have donated some to the archives. we have no idea whether there are others that have been held back or doctored. there were clearly tapes. johnson took a different approach. lyndon was senate majority leader. he loved to take -- tape telephone conversations when he was negotiating votes. there's a two-volume set on the johnson tapes. the reused them. they would take over them. it wasn't done as a record. the near two stories about what happened with next and. one story, which is next in's, which is that don campbell, 0 lbjimble, was talking to and asked him if there were something he would do differently. johnson said he wished he'd taped more. he is to write a biography and he could not remember. kimble came back and said, w

. >>> robert f. kennedy jr. being called out for his an anti vaccination campaign.n kennedy townsend, brother ask former congressman joseph kennedy, and his niece maeve kennedy mckeen writing in a "politico" op-ed, they say his outspoken stance on vaccines is tragically wrong. they add he has helped to spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines. the son of robert f. kennedy has been one of the more notable anti-vaxx activists. the spike is blamed in large part on anti-vaxx parents who don't believe science. >>> newly released video shows southern california police officers firing 76 shots killing a suspect. authorities say the officers won't be charged. we do want to warn you, some of the video is disturbing. anaheim officers shot and killed 50-year-old eluth penonova. he was armed under the influence of an unknown drug and hallucinating. when the officers arrived, nava sat up in his truck and drove away. the orange county prosecutor says the officer saw nava what appeared to be a black semiau

told advisers that he wanted an attorney general who would protect him, the way he perceived robert kennedyc holder to have protected their presidents. the president also made statements about directing the course of criminal investigations saying words to the effect of, you're telling me bobby and jack didn't talk about investigations or obama didn't tell eric holder who to investigate? meanwhile, it is so important to remember this uncomfortable exchange between the current attorney general and democratic california senator kamala harris from earlier this month. >> has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone, yes or no, please, sir? >> the president or anybody else -- >> seems you'd remember something like that and be able to tell us. >> yeah, but i'm trying to grapple with the word suggest. i mean, there had been discussions of matters out there that they've not asked me to open an investigation but -- >> perhaps they suggested. >> i don't know. i wouldn't say suggest. >> hinted? >> i don't know. >> inferred? you don't k

he received the robert f. kennedy human rights award in 1991. he was also twice namemed an amnesty international prisoner of conscience. i know there willll be a delalay between my questions and raji sourani's response, so bear with us as he speaks to us from gaza city where cease-fire has just gone into effect which allowed raji sourani to even make it to the studio. raji sourani, welcome to democracy now! can you describe this latest escalation of violence, what you understand took place? thank you. gaza are rather mission impossible to move anywhere inn gaza. no singular place is safe here in gaza. bombed everywhere from south to north. s storm, were e the civilian targets.. ththat is why the sisituation ws very tensese. retaliated with hundreds of rockets agagainst israel. when israel explain says it hit 350 military targets, what those targets are? that is nonsense because a bubunch of hamas and jihad activist have been killed by the israelis. beingerwhelming majority killed or injured are civilians, p pregnant t women, children, and many o

robert kennedy said in 1968 the gdp measures everything except what makes us proud to be an american. when you have job growth up and people in silicon valley and the banks that fund them doing well, but it's been five years and people in flint still can't drink their water, people in west virginia waiting on their coal jobs to come back. >> neil: and the college has 270 electoral votes to become president. you think reaching out to groups disaffected in those areas where every major demographic is seeing record low unemployment is going to win you the white house? >> yeah, there's a coalition here. there's woman still making less than men. young people at 13 -- >> neil: you think running on that will offset this bigger picture? >> yeah. look at people in michigan, pennsylvania -- >> neil: if you were my campaign adviser and saying i need something bigger to hang on to. that's not enough for me to clinch it. >> and a family working two or three jobs, seeing their hours cut, prices going up for things, seeing their earning power -- >> neil: most families are not in that predicament. ar

this is fascinating. >> reporter: a kennedy family feud. robert f. kennedy's jr.'against certain vaccinations injecting conflict into a high profile family. >> we're right now in the midst of orchestrating hysteria, measles wiping out the population. >> reporter: in a newly published op-ed, several of his own family members speaking out against his controversial stance. he has helped to spread danger wrus misinformation and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines they write, adding we love bobby, however on vaccines, he is wrong. the family members behind the op-ed, his sister, kathleen kennedy townsentownsend, his br joseph p. kennedy ii, and his niece, the executive director of georgetown university's global health initiatives. in the column they also say anti-vaccine campaigns like kennedy's have created a challenge for public officials because now many people are more afraid of the vaccines than the diseases. their opposition coming as the united states experiences the worst measles outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 20

robert kennedy's first contested primary was writer in the state of indiana.ennedy crisscross our state and later the nation often in his speeches with a quote, some men see things as they are and ask why. i dream things that never were and ask why not? my father attempted to bring those words to life. why not a society in which our mothers and wives, our sisters and daughters have equal opportunity in the great institutions, learning institutions of indiana and america, and on the playing fields? and so there was title ix. why not a nation in which the 18, 19, and 20-year-olds who wear our nation's uniform and art of fighting to defend us in the jungles of vietnam and the other conflicts who are nation have sent them, why not allow those young men and women to participate in the democracy that they were fighting to defend? and so the was the 26th amendment to the constitution that gave those soldiers and the other 18, 19, 20-year-olds the right the right to vote in our nation. why not a country, as mitch mentioned, in which the cutting edge of science, new cu

city at the democratic and they bugged martin luther king's hotel room and scared to death of robert kennedyorts once or twice a day and what was going on in his own democrat convention for the fbi. i point these things out because if you are a young person where apparently if your journalist and don't know history and you report on the president of the united states and what someone like joe scarborough or something like that that we've lost balance of power the president is out of control and a dictator and abusing power i think to myself -- how? the media covered up for these other people and they are manufacturing the pseudo- event about trump even look at the investigation that took place with bob mueller. all documents, no privilege, separation of powers battle between trump and the congress and you must fight it to protect the office of the president and the executive branch. it's a legitimate battle. they refuse obstruction because he's doing that. pete: why were they coming up for previous presidents was it patriotic duty -. mark: they like their agenda and covered up for franklin a

robert kennedy was not an elected official, he was counsel to the committee.ions witnesses, including the former attorney general of the united states. ironically it was the republicans who insisted on outside counsel querying christine ford rather than doing it themselves. so this is just a fight he's not going to win. it's an excuse for not appearing before the house where he would face even tougher questioning i think tomorrow. >> given your spidey sense that he's looking for an excuse after today, after basically admitting that the president is asking him constantly about various investigations, should the democrats basically say fine, we're not going to let staff tomorrow, your subpoena still holds. should they back down for tomorrow or do you think they should go and win the technical legal argument here? >> at this point given the context, chuck, which is that the president has directed none of his staff to cooperate with house subpoenas across the board, whether it's about the mueller affair or not, i don't think we can back down. i think he's going to

as senator robert f kennedy said, some men see things as they are at esquire. and dream of things that never were and ask why not. as the graduates of udc next generation prepared to take on the world, you are not restricted to the world you have been handed, you are not confined to the power structures and system. instead, this is the start of moretime to craft a perfect union. it is up to you to build upon the progress that your predecessors achieved. each of you are at liberty to evaluate what it is, determine what it should be built on new strategies and solutions to get there. you have more links to the world of 2050. youcan impact the law, and should do so. you also should learn from the past, you are not required to abide by it. take from the past what is good andright, what is justice equitable. each time a new generation takes on the world, a duel between paradigms begins. it culminates in the evolution of law. , rules,it paradigms laws and allocations of power that exists when our time begins, paradigms are challenge enlightenment.-- limitswas establi

a senator robert f kennedy said, some then see things as they are and asked why. i too have things that never were and ask why not. , as the graduates of udc the next generation to take on the world, you are not restricted to the world you have been handed. you are not tethered to the status quo. you are not consigned to perpetuate the system and power structures, the rules and methods that developed under your parents and grandparents. instead, this is the start of your time to craft a more perfect union. it is up to you to build up to you to build upon the progress your predecessors achieved. each of you are at liberty to evaluate what it is. determine what it should be. built on the strategies. links to the world of 2050 then the world of 1950. as long-term stakeholders, you can impact the law, and you should. you should learn from the past. you're not required to abide by it. take from the past and present what is good and right, what is just and equitable, and correct what is toxic and bio, what is unfair and unsustainable. each time, a new generation takes o

. >> reporter: some of the more established names at today's rally included robert f. kennedy jr.ently, some of his family members disavowed his views about vaccines. and del bigtree, a leading voice questioning vaccines. back in march, he used holocaust imagery to align himself with vaccine skeptics in the orthodox jewish community. >> for all the hasidic jews in new york right now that never thought this moment will come, i am saying, i stand with you. onation?ter: bigtree's dos, by scientists, by entertainers that all believe that this needs to be discussed. >> reporter: we took a look at the most recent tax filings available for his organization. in one year, contributions went from a little over $100,000, to more than $1.4 million. as these groups gain steam and funding, medical professionals tell us a quiet, nonjudgmental approach and a willingness to listen to parents' concerns are the best ways to engage people hesitant to vaccines. >> dickerson: dr. jon lapook, all over this story. thank you, jon. tonight, the alabama senate is expected to approve a bill that would outlaw

robert kennedy is no longer attorney general. they still have to prosecute bobby baker. bill bittman does it with such johnson's nameon never comes up. that is talent. johnson was his boss. this whole time, he was taking bribes and giving orders and everything else. dirty as candy. leon jaworski is a johnson protege. want bittman to get slashed. this is the third bullet, there is an indictment meeting. there are two people taking notes. there is the recorder taking notes. is the james von set. -- the james the task force, the watergate task force comes in and does their presentation. they are line attorneys. there are five or six of them. staff attorneys decide and review about whether they will agree with that indictment. they ask this man on the cnn panel from last night. is the deputy of the watergate task force. they ask him what the chances of convicting are. --50-50.at the 50 ae prosecutors have to have high degree of confidence that the jury would convict what they would. if you flip a coin, it is 50-50. you don't have a degree= -- high degree of confidence either

gotten shot, and now lyndon is president and robert kennedy is no longer attorney general. and they still have to prosecute bobby baker, but bill bittman does it with such skill that lyndon johnson's name never comes up. that is talent, because johnson was his boss. his whole time he was taking bribes and giving orders, ready as can be. jaworski is a johnson protege. he does not want bittman to be splashed, he is one of his favorite guys. there is an indictment meeting, this is the third bullet. there are two people taking notes, there is the recorder taking the notes who is going to be indicted, and then there is set that they are going to use to write the report. up comes colson. there are others, but the task force comes in and does their presentation. they are lying attorneys, five or six of them, and then the staff attorneys review and decide whether they are going to agree with that indictment. ask rick, who is on the cnn panel, apparently last night. he was the deputy head of the watergate task force. they ask what are the chances for conviction? he says 50-50. he is

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the 25th amendment which was adopted in 1957, the nuclear age precisely because of robert f. kennedycy is way too serious. we have 35 members of congress and if one of them is in come pass tated, we can absorb that. we have one president in the nuclear age. that's very serious. several of them have been invoked before. >> we are out of time -- >> i have to come back to talk about the 25th amendment. >> would that necessitate some kind of conversation with fibar? >> barr is acting like a personal defense lawyer for the president. there were people there apparently, rosenstein raised the question of the 25th amendment. people need to understand that the vice president and the cabinet can determine that the president is unable to successfully discharge the power of office. the vice president and the majority of the body set up by congress can do the same thing. congress in more than 50 kbreye have never send the body out. when in case of an emergency, break class and you got to act. >> we'll have to have you come back and have a longer conversation. thank you very much congressman jim j

robert mueller get last laugh like a tickle party? we meet the panel on trump 2020 advisory board jason meister, fox news kris contributor less e marshall. and steve smith is here, welcome to you. >> hello. kennedy thursday, holy cow. president just taking aim at robert mueller. i understand that president's frustration, i believe he is behaving like someone who was wronged. and accused of something he did not do, but he has to lock it up slowdown. >> kennedy, he -- mueller proved yesterday he is conflicted. by punting on obstruction of justice, he basically put in front of american people, attorney general barr making conclusion there was no obstruction of justice. kennedy: he knew that would happen. >> he knew that . now peep will says he within prosecute crime. kennedy: with presumption of innocence. >> but that did not happen. >> people will say, democrat, he can't prosecute crimes but he can find crimes, talk about crimes that were committed, he does not have to prosecute them, he did not do that, he had attorney general barr do it for him for that reason. kennedy: i can't fly but i like to walk around wearing a pair of wings, that makes no sense this whole thing is crazy, now president, se