special forces that i asked after a four month siege the liberation of rocca marked a turning point in the war against islamic state today only a few patches of land in syria are still under the group's control they no longer rule an extensive territory but rocca remains in ruins we have this report from the former honest capital. was once the capital city of the so-called islamic state. now it's a wasteland. seventy percent of the buildings are in ruins all severely damaged despite that the united nations says one hundred thousand people have returned to live in the city. this resident fled the fighting she's lost everything she had. all the money but i don't know what happened when i came back everything i owned was burnt there's nothing left it. was subject to the full force of the so-called islamic state which ruled an area the size of britain from the city. you know the islamist fighters were ousted afternoon tense aerial bombing campaign by an international coalition and a ground assault by kurdish and out of militias and now there's the constant danger of booby traps there are s

and joining our discussion now, nick akerman, assistant watergate prosecutor and mimi rocca, a former prosecutor and former u.s. assistant attorney in the southern district of new york and a fellow at pace university law school now. and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and he is also an msnbc political analyst. and nick, i want to go to the first -- i want to go in reverse order. the president's last tweet there about how strange it would be to have an obstruction of justice case about a case at the beginning of which there was no crime. >> well, first of all, i don't know where he gets the idea that there was no crime. there certainly are crimes that are being investigated. there is the hacking into the democratic national committee, the theft of those e-mails to be used to help get trump elected. there is probably a quid pro quo involved in that deal where the russians agreed to help trump in the campaign, and the campaign agreed that if elected. that would drop the sanctions that were imposed for ukraine and by obama. secondly, there is the whole conspiracy rela

in mushroom rocca a two hours drive from the capital robert e. canada has a research facility. which is mainly funded by the wealthy industrial nations presides over the international mandate for research and improvement of drying region crops including the lentil let's. hear a new gene bank is being developed. this is the. discovered. and he had discovered and they had they are deployed in the building. this court here in the pride there before we go for go thing before they were you under their plea their plea get to drive through that we understand that they did is they will uniform and this is this very important for me due to my beating life. but how can scientists introduce new traits into old lentil strains. in the past from a simply used to pick the seeds of their strongest plants and use them for their next harvest furthermore only the plants most able to adapt would survive long enough to be chosen. this natural and human process of selection lead to local varieties. lentil plants originally were unfit for cross breeding. like all lentil flowers those on the field of

reporter: and step into the spotlight alongside the moderator and "cbs sunday morning" correspondent mo rocca capital of brunei is -- one, two, three -- >> reporter: these junior gee og rafrs faced the cameras like celebrities. >> i want to be cool and calm. >> i'm going to cram a lot. >> reporter: the group reassembled wednesday at national geographic headquarters to put their knowledge to the ultimate test. >> this state capital on the pearl river was named after a president of the united states. >> reporter: after more than 10 rounds of questions the top two finalists faced off head to head. >> lebanon has a population most similar to which south american country? >> reporter: and venkat ramjan edged out anoushka budakut. >> the correct answer is paraguay. >> reporter: to become this year's champion. >> the answer to the last question, paraguay, did you know that was the right answer? >> no. >> reporter: you guessed? >> i eliminated a few and then guessed. >> reporter: that guess even impressed roca, a self-confessed geographrd. >> they should each run their own think tank. they are their

mo rocca has the surprising answer. >> now that meghan markle has married prince harry, she has as theed the man, she has married the whole namely. but just who is this family? >> if i were to procure a saliva sample from the member of the royal family for a dna test what would i find? >> what would you find? >> after you have been released from prison. well you would find a -- a sort of family history that would be european. not purely english. >> professor allistair bellamy teaches at rutgers university in new jersey. he says if you look at the progression of royal houses, or, family names, you'll see that british monarchy isn't all that british. take the army house of denmark. >> people would be surprised to know there was a king kanute of england. >> yes, king of england, a norse speaker. >> basically a strike snk. >> viking king. >> wear a viking hat? >> not entirely sure if vikings wore viking hats. >> house of normandy in year 1066 when william the conquerer sails from france and takes the throne. he doesn't speak english. >> if we were having a royal wedding during the house of

thanks, francis rocca, the vatican correspondent for the "wall street journal." >> the love of money's get to the cme group. rick santelli with the santelli exchange >> thanks, jon i would like to welcome dr. carmen reinhardt thank you for joining my piece today. greatly appreciated. >> thank you for having me >> you know, in 2017, the united states had a pretty good year. the global economy had a very good year. the big phrase was synchronized global growth. i personally think the u.s. turned the global market and then all the analysts, as smart as they are, saw other opportunities with better metrics, whether it was in euro europe, whether it was in japan, and maybe more specifically, in emerging markets the dollar strength has taken some of the goodness out of the emerging market sector, but you think that maybe there are more cracks in that sector than many are aware of could you explain? >> well, the recent era for emerging markets up to 2013 wasn't just that china was growing at double digits, demand for their commodities was very high commodity prices were high u.s. interest r

and forces and the people they targeted and then this square in central rocca the ultimate symbol of islamic state power and the place of execution abu ahmed said he stays joining i ass rule you know there were no squares called nine square paradise square but everyone called it the square of hell. the i.s. people were always hear about they hung around in restaurants drinking for jews or they went to the internet. you know. and over there they stuck heads on spikes and crucified people. the world watched as rockefeller now half a year later the city seems forgotten there's no running water and the electricity supply is ready on but there are places of hope i guess tortured people in this stadium now people are playing soccer here again and there's music being played deafening loud. everyone can hear it after it was banned for so long i. went out to a story of some justice for south africa's miners helena has won thank you sara yes that's right justice for some of them thousands of south africa minus of being compensated for lung disease now the settlement is the results of years of

with us here in new york, mimi roc rocca, a former u.s.southern district of norng. now a distinguished fellow and criminal justice at the pace university school of law. and peter zeidenberg is back with us. counselors, welcome to you both. mimi, you're sitting here in our studio. you get to go first. what just happened tonight? >> so many things. and it's hard to know which one to start with. but let's start with what michael avenatti is doing a dance about right now, which is by acknowledging that trump paid cohen back in a way that -- first of all, it just shows that trump has been lying, but it also really will damage their civil case, the defendant's civil case. it will be -- i mean, avenatti has a much better case now than he did an hour ago. but it's bigger than that, i think. it's not just about this civil case with stormy daniels. there's a couple of things. first of all, i think the purpose of what giuliani is say -- i think he was trying to do away with the idea of a campaign finance violation. i'm not sure why he's focused on th

what's actually going on in the grounds of windsor castle mauthausen mecca maku and mum i'm doria roccaarrived at st george's said chuck you know speaking as a one of three brits around this table i mean we receive a bunch of livings of these is in congress for me even leaves days is that the sergeant of police officers events such as if you will catch sights of machine guns every so often which is just. it's a sign of the times so most of these people have been camping out overnight. temps who were removed from people right there it's a little bit of a scam how do you think it was for security reasons but of course people who wanted to catch it to get the prime spots for catching the world cup were just sleeping out in open air in sleeping bags. and quite some of the some of the a guest that have been invited they have very strict instructions about what they are allowed to bring for security reasons no big bags no cameras even the you know the some of the the celebrities have been banned from bringing all that sort of stuff and they've they've they had a leaflet that they were given w