>> rosen: absolutely not. >> cooper: it's too soon. >> rosen: we're all part of this big experiment.teenager? >> rosen: well there's some projects going on where they're actually scanning teenager's brains over a 20-year period, and looking to see what kind of changes they're finding. >> gabe zichermann: here's the reality. corporations and creators of content have, since the beginning of time, wanted to make their content as engaging as possible. >> cooper: gabe zichermann has worked with dozens of companies, including apple and cbs, to make their online products more irresistible. he's best known in silicon valley for his expertise in something called gamification, using techniques from video games to insert fun and competition into almost everything on your smartphone. >> zichermann: so one of the interesting things about gamification and other engaging technologies, is at the same time as we can argue that the neuroscience is being used to create dependent behavior, those same techniques are being used to get people to work out, you know, using their fitbit. so all of these techn

you were writing as well that there's talk that rod rosen stein would possibly recuse minimumself he's talking about that possibility since he's the one assumed to be mentioned in that tweet from last week. where does that go from here and what could happen if he refuses himself in the investigation and what happens next. >> so if rosen stein accuses himself next in plain to takeover oversight of robert muller is rachel brand a career attorney held multiple jobs related to department of justice and she's currently third in command shows associate fern general working under george bush administering and worked in obama administration she has a reputation of conservative lawyer than rod rosen stein. she does not have experience as prosecutor or in criminal law that's not her background and she would be thrust into this roll instantly if rosen stein ever recuseed himself. she was the one that discussing a possible recuseal with. if he decides to take a step back from the whole russian matter like jeff sessions has then rachel will be thrust into the spotlight. >> do you think he's up to t

jeff rosen/district attorney "today the jury decided the fate of a child murderer.... outside the courthouse after antolin garcia torres had just avoided the death penalty, district attorney jeff rosen telling reporters that the less said about garcia torres the betterjeff rosen" the jury made it so he will die in prison and never take another breath as a free man..."garcia torres had no obvious reaction to the verdict. the decision was unanimous. the jury rejected the prosecutions call to show him no mercy because he showed none to sierra lamar. in closing arguments, the defense had urged the jury to spare garcia torres,' life. that justice doesn't have to be an eye for an eye.brian matthews/defense attorney "we're thankful for the jury's verdict, we're still going to fight for him, we're very thankful..."there were some murmurs of disappointment in the courtroom but none of the raw emotion that occurred when he was found guilty last month. legal analyst steven clark suggests that the fact that sierra lamar has never been been found may have stayed the jury's hand. sh

james rosen washington. also today, abc settled with a south dakota meat producer over a two billion-dollar defamation lawsuit lawsuit. the network report on the finely textured beef product lead to critics calling it pink slime. the defamation trial started earlier in the month. no details on the settlement. real-life movie actor claiming responsibility -- and in the end it was the latest bazaar development in the ongoing and deadly political crisis in venezuela. steve harrigan with the picture pictures. >> the government of venezuela's is a rogue police officer launched a terrorist attack tuesday afternoon, dropping four hand grenades from a helicopter around the supreme court. firing 15 shots at the interior ministry. there were no reported injuries. >> the president nicolas maduro called the violence and attempted coup. backed by the united states. >> translator: this is the kind of thing i've been denouncing. i have activated the army. you can be sure sooner rather than later we will capture the helicop

jeff rosen/district attorney fate of a child murderer.... outside the courthouse after antolin garcia torres had just avoided the death penalty, district attorney jeff rosen telling reporters that the less said about garcia torres the betterjeff rosen" the jury made it so he will die in prison and never take another breath as a free man..."garcia torres had no obvious reaction to the verdict. the decision was unanimous. the jury rejected the prosecutions call to show him no mercy because he showed none to sierra lamar. in closing arguments, the defense had urged the jury to spare garcia torres,' life. that justice doesn't have to be an eye for an eye.brian matthews/defense attorney "we're thankful for the jury's verdict, we're still going to fight for him, we're very thankful..."there were some murmurs of disappointment in the courtroom but none of the raw emotion that occurred when he was found guilty last month. legal analyst steven clark suggests that the fact that sierra lamar has never been been found may have stayed the jury's hand. je

rosen stein read americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. the department of justice has policy to neither confirm or deny leaks. >>> this is the final weekend for the state's tax amnesty program. individuals and businesses have until monday to pay delinquent taxes to have all the penalties and liens waved. if this you, get it done. >> lots going on, gary papa run going on. >> reporter: it's going to be sweaty this weekend. storm tracker 6 live showing we're starting out dry. i want you to keep an eye on the showers in lancaster and reading. they are pushing east, but some of you in the western suburbs will get clipped by that. heading outside, there's center city from our temple university camera. kids off for the summer, even the high schools and grade schools getting ready to get on out. some of you going in this morning. here's what you got on the bus stop. 66 degrees in philadelphia. 67 in wilmington. 63 in trenton. 64 in allentown. 68 in cape may. it's not very humid in most spots, farther south you go it's a little bit humid, the humid

. >> it sound like the president is adding rod rosen stein to the enemy's less with bob moehler, james comey and number of people. >> reporter: it was rod rosen stein who wrote a letter laying out reasons for the president to dismiss fbi director james comey but last month, president trump told nbc news that the recommendation was irrelevant. >> he made a recommendation but regardless of recommend daisy was going to fire comey. >> reporter: president went on to say he was thinking of the russian investigation when he was firing comey. president rosen stein talk about the possibility he may have to recues himself from the probe if investigators want to question him, about possible white house interference. california senator dianne fine stein is worried that the president may try to fire rosen stein and special counsel robert muhler. she issued a statement saying the message the president is sending through his tweets is he believes the rule of law does not apply to him and anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired. the president's son in law white house senior advisor jared kushner is

. >> it certainly sound like the president is adding rod rosen stein to the enemy's list to bob muhler, james comey and ever increasing number of people. >> reporter: it was deputy attorney general rod rosen stein who laid out reasons for president to dismiss fbi director james comey but last month president trump told nbc news that the recommendation was irrelevant. >> he made a recommendation but regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey. >> reporter: president went on to say he was thinking of the russian investigation when firing comey. mr. rosen stein talked about the possibility he may have to recues himself from the probe if investigators want to question him about possible white house interference. california senator dianne fine stein said he is worried that the president may try to fire rosen stein and robert muhler. she said message the president is sending through his tweets is he believes the rule of law does ant reply to him and if anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired. the president's son in law white house senior advisor jared kushner is also under scrut

rosen stein, do foreigners have constitutional rights? >> when they're in the united states, senator, different rules apply. that's why i think it's important for people to understand that section 702 applies only in circumstances where it's a foreign national outside the united states. if they're inside the united states, we would need to rely on other provisions of fisa to do the collection. yes, we can do it but need to apply different rules. mr. mccabe as the director indicated is responsible for that. >> mr. mccabe, what happens when an isis terrorist comes from syria to the united states and admiral rogers can no longer use 702 to monitor his electronic communications. >> his folks notify mine and we work together to pursue coverage under different elements of the fisa statute. >> i'm sure you work as hard as you can to make sure it's seamless. it seems like 702 because it's limited to foreigners on foreign soil without targeting u.s. persons anywhere goes the extra mile to protect the constitutional rights of american citizens and

i think what rod rosen tine needs to do is go through congress and say i laid out a budget and i laid out parameters for mueller and i will report weekly the progress of what's going on with special counsel. steve: why didn't they just stop the thing? he hasn't taken a bribe. what's to investigate. all you have going to do dwsh karl rove pointed out when they went after bush and libby, they were going to try to get him. then he pulled up some evidence to show he actually remembered the conversation correctly. they try to find something to hang something on. lou: for libby the ultimate end game for. >> the expansive special counsel that lost its way. the question here becomes why did the republican leadership in the senate and the house accept the special counsel? and why did they not today stand up and defend the president of the united states. the republican party is at a crossroads. and i said that just for karl rove's benefit. the establishment in this country right now. republican and the democratic elites are trying to take down a president. can this president say to hell with it

take sot jeff rosen/fiscal condado sta clara el fiscal del condado de santa clara jeff rosen dice quegracias al jurado, garca torres va a morir en prisin y que no va a poder respirar en libertad nunca ms, ni poner en riesgo las vida de otros menores... sierra lamar tena 15 aÑos cuando desapareci cerca de la casa de su madre en morgan hill en el 2012... tratamos de hablar con el abogado de garca torres ... pero se neg a rendir declaraciones luego de la sentencia... quien s lo hizo fue steve lamar, padre de la vctima.. y declar que para l... la sentencia no alivia en nada el dolor... y agreg... que considera que no se hizo justicia... sot steve lamar/padre de sierra dice que garca torres va a vivir y que sierra no est viva, que el va a poder respirar y que sierra no... que garcia torres va a poder comer y ver a su familia, y que ellos no lo podrn hacer con sierra... pero para el abogado experto en derecho penal... esau herrera y quien no est relacionado con este caso, la pena que recibi garca torres es la ms dura posible... sot esa herrera/abogado es una sentencia an peor de muerte porq

the assistant attorney general rod rosen steen, well, he was -- i was astonished to say he was also up on the hill today. he was supposed to be having a budget hearing. i can tell you this was not just a budget hearing, senators wanted to know what has been going on with the fact that there was this story in the last 24 hours that president trump may be considering firing the special counsel, robert musclier that rod rosen steen only appointed a couple of weeks ago. rosenstein said flat out today under the law he is the only person who could fire robert mueller and right now he says to even entertain that thought going further rosenstein said that he would not follow any orders to do that even if that order came directly from the president of the united states, donald trump. purpose of my appointment of special council mueller was to ensure that there would be public confidence in the outcome of that investigation and he now has responsibility for that and& i think that if there are any questions they should be directed to him and i know he's going to do the right thing, as i would, an

jeff rosen, district attorney:" the jury made it so he will die in prison and never take another breath as a free man..."laurie smith/sheriff: "if garcia torres has once ounce of humanity in that cold murderer's heat of his, i call on him now to tell us where she is so we can bring her home...." (grant) sierra lamar's dad said today's ruling was frustrating. the 15 year old disappeared in march of 20-12...when she left her house and was on her way to the bus stop. her dna was found in garcia torres' car. i'm gl, k4n. ( vicki) summer is quickly approaching...but rain is in the forecast for parts of the bay area.(steve) chief meteorologist brittany shipp is back with how the weather will look.... in your neighborhood. dry and seasonable weather today into tuesday. some cooling starts by wednesday ahead of the next weather system. on thursday a late season cold front will likely bring some light rain to the north bay down to around the golden gate. lingering showers and cool on friday. dry with a warming trend next weekend. >> announcer: next, a paid presentation from perricone md featurin

we have rod rosen steen at fox5 for years now when he was the us attorney for maryland.has been for years at the core of many of the big ers stories in our area, tax fraud cases. the bee and daycare way pedophilia story. he has been the man who has prosecuted a lot of those cases. we've asked him questions for years. clearly now, though, he is in a different position. he is in a different role, clearly a very difficult role right now and we are not getting the kind of access to be able to ask him questions the way we used to when he was the us attorney in maryland. >> all right. we will be watching watching this thursday to watch james comey testify. thank you, fits. on the way on 5@6:30. do you remember this? this right here? h this was seens as the shove seen around the world. here it quoms. both men say no hard feelings. there maybe much more to it. we'll explain when we come back. they also know you need to get your annual check-up. now prepare for your check-up with one touch using the mycigna app, where you can find a doctor in your plan's network to save money, ma

lou: james rosen, for example, knows what it's like to be spied upon and to have his civil libertieslated by a justice department. that of eric holder, we should point out, and president obama. obama himself is now perilously close to being immersed in this scandal. i mean, with the addition of samantha power to the unmasking, if you will, subpoenas as a person of interest -- >> yeah. lou: -- this is getting broader, and it is getting perplexing which suggests that we are a long ways from understanding what really happened in this administration when it comes to surveillance of u.s. citizens. >> you're right. and, quite frankly, president obama is really at the front end of these questions, because in 2011 he changed the rules that made unmaasinging and deminimization much easier for the intelligence community. and it set in motion what we now are seeing play out in public. at some point when you know john brennan, samantha power and susan rice had access to unmasked americans' intelligence, the next obvious question is did they brief the president? did the president benefit from tha

but a lot of people in p the wall street times and james rosen in fox news are digging in and showing are real issues there. and it was good to see the president acknowledge that as well. >> james rosen knows what it is like to be spied on and his civil liberties violated by eric holder and president obama. obama himself is now perilously close to being immersed in the scandal. with the addition of samantha power to the unmasking subpeonas as a person of interest. this is getting broader and perplexing that suggest that we are a long ways from understanding what really happened in this administration when it comes to surveillance of u.s. citizens? >> you are right. quite frankly president obama is in the front end of the questions. 2011 he changed the rules that made unmasking easier for the intelligence committee and set in motion what we are seeing play out. john brennan and susan rice and sais mantha powers have access. did the president benefit from that and i am sure we'll get questions like that and answers. >> lou: upcoming as well is the interrogation and the testimony of the

so far the committee has met nothing but resis stanlt froresistance from the agent, james rose we rosen with our report. reporter: fbi concerned they were served with sou supervisorinas, each named as figures of interest three senior obama era officials, former "house" national security adviser susan rice was dedicated last month. rice at the time denied wrong doing and told us today she is unaware of subpoenas directed at her, and john bron an was also named in the declineys of in the land. brennan declined our request for comment, the soup en' naimi of samantha power, she is a former. >> she served in barack obama senate office before joining his administration. they are now devoting greater scrutiny to power, they don't to see her roll. contacted by fox news, power declined to come, today's disclose use well samantha power may explain a crypt -- cryptic exchange of last week. >> do you recall any u.s. ambassadors expwg tha asking that names be unmasked. >> i don't, i don't know. maybe it is ringing a fake bell, but i could not answer with any confidence. reporter: chairman nunez, sig

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. >> jon: james rosen joins us now from the state department. >> good afternoon. how to handle it exactly? formulating his response to the death of otto warmbier, the trump administration must now navigate the imperatives of u.s. policy toward north korea, not to mention china, but also the growing and specific response to this specific incident from within congress and elsewhere. otto warmbier, an american citizen was murdered by the kim jong-un regime. the final year of his life, he lived the night where in which the north korean people have been trapped for 70 years. forced labor, masturbation, systematic cruelty, torture, and murder. >> we could bring this regime down with chinese cooperation, we need to convince china it's in their interest to end the north korean regime and the nuclear threat that it poses across east asia. the >> president trump appeared visibly moved by the death of warmbier, following a one hour trial on convictions of subversion. he was returned to the united states in a comatose state. one diplomatic recourse that could potentially be p

i think it raises real questions for rod rosen stein as well. >> if session was trying to figure out how he was going to find out the conversation, there was no good answer other than i can't talk about it. i think the man values the outing. this is not something who will sit there and lie. they came up with this. i get it politically. >> right, but it doesn't pass the smell test. the president hasn't had a couple of days to think about whether or not to invoke that privilege. the time to do is before he testifies before congress. i agree with the quote about sessions and i don't think anyone feels he helped hack the ekrpaleks, but did he talk about other things that happened with the obama administration. >> cane was getting at distinguishing between his meetings as a senator and campaign surrogate. it got blurry. >> with your point, this is bad for president trump for this season. sessions is unwilling to discuss with trump. we have james comey and bob muller will see saying that trump suggested he get off and he wanted a loyalty oath from comey. woe have the president's attorney s

bret. >> bret: james rosen, thank you.residential son-in-law jared kushner is in the region to try to jumpstart peace talks there. kushner met with ives israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. west bank city, president trump has passed kushner the ambitious goals of laying down the ultimate deal. there is a new future king in saudi arabia. a major shakeup in the line of success in their has allies such as the u.s. wondering what other changes may be in store for the oil-rich kingdom. the story from our middle east newsroom. >> study of saudi arabia, shocs through the middle east when he reversed decades of tradition and appointed his son, mohammed bin solomon as crown prince. the former air to the throne, mohammed bin solomon pledging his loyalty to the future king. addressing his loyalty should be smooth. 31-year-old crown prince has some internal divisions among saudis ruling families and the conservative sunni arab nation done several controversial paths. bin salman, instigated the move to diplomatically isolate the

let's speak to jason miller and political contributor hilary rosen. we have a lot to get to, guys. start with you. the president is calling james comey a leaker. james comey said he found some interactions with the president some sort of surreal and strange that he felt compelled to write it down and to as he said get it out in the public square so people could see he was asked to take loyalty pledges and pressed to back off the investigation. what's your response? >> well, i don't think this is president trump calling director comey a leaker. i think director comey came out himself. >> he called him that in the tweet. >> he is using the exact -- describing exactly what james comey said he did which was try to manipulate the special counsel investigation by sending this memo to a friend at columbia law to leak it to the media. this is exactly what happened. i don't think this is a game of semantics here. the single biggest take away yesterday is the president, as he mentioned in his tweet, was completely vindicated. director comey backed up three times he told the president he was

. >> in the house of appropriations committee today the deputy aep attorney general rod rosen stein wasted if anyone recommend et following the firing of james comey. he said he wasn't able to talk about that because he couldn't speak about when a described as open investigations. does that satisfy you in. >> that's an echo of what we heard from him time and time again about three weeks ago when we had the declassified briefing that he led i think three or four weeks ago here in congress and he alerted that time and time again. what that subjects to me and i use the word suggest advisely, i suggest -- that suggests to me this is of course to the special counsel, to bob mueller, that bob mueller has taken an interest in the question of the circumstances around that firing. with he have long conversation after jim comey's testimony about whether there's a place to be made and if the firing were part of that you would have the kind of answer that the deputy attorney general gave today and three or four weeks into the congress which is i'm not talking about that because it is part of the in

james rosen will take the helm. thanks for watching.hat's it for "special report." >> it is june 1st and it is t." decision day. donald trump announcing in just hours whether the united states will stay in the paris climate accord. democrats already up in arms over this decision. we are live in washington. heather: hillary clinton hitting the road to blame her collection loss on everyone but herself. >> the use of my email accounts was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. i inherit nothing from the democratic party. heather: she has a brand-new conspiracy.. rob: shocking - cam video showing tiger woods slurring his speech struggling to keep his balance. "fox and friends" first starts right now. ♪ ♪ everybody is working ♪ everybody is working for the weekend ♪ heather: look at the shot of central park on the avenue of the americas in new york city, looks like it will be a beautiful day. you are watching "fox and friends" first on thursday morning, looking forward to the weekend. rob: in a few hours, donald trump will an

. ♪ >>> i'm jim rosen field live in washington tonight after one of the most highly anticipated capitoll hearings in decades. exfbi director james comey testifying for two 1/2 hours today. and the president's top advisor and son in law will meet with staffers of the same committee this month. comey told the senate committee he believes president trump fired him because of the fbi's investigation into russian election hacking. he believed the president directed him to drop an investigation into national skur security advisor, michael flynn. but the white house feels vindicated. >> reporter: president trump on message at an evangelical conference. >> the bible tells us we know that the truth will prevail. >> reporter: but had no further comment. after fired fbi director james comey accused him of lying and defaming him. >> by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that work force had lost confidence in its leader, those were lies plain and simple. it's my judgment i was fired because of the russia investigation. >> reporter: which was a focus. did the presid

i am james rosen sitting in for bret baier.s up to the highest court of the land for the president trump's so-called travel band will be the law of the land. placing a temper -- has lost in the district at the appellate court levels. all this comes out where after the president delivered on another major campaign promise by withdrawing the u.s. from the paris claimant accords. corresponded kevin corke is live with all this and more on the north lawn of the white house. >> -- set to wait whether or not the president -- let's call it "fiery campaign rhetoric" can be used as evidence that the real intention for the travel ban was to discriminate against muslims. after lower coat , court setbacks, the white house is following through on its pledge to take the fight for its temporary travel ban all the way to the highest court in the land. >> we have a supreme court to hear this important case and are confident that the president's executive order is within his lawful authority to keep the nation safe and protect our committees from

state department does not regard those three americans as the "pivotal issue" here. >> bret: james rosen, thank you. up next, tropical storm cindy bears down on the u.s. gulf coast. we look at the long list of things congressional republicans want to do before the end of the year. >> bret: the gulf coast is racing for a pounding tonight from tropical storm cindy. a boy at an alabama beach was struck and killed by a log that washed ashore in storm surge. cindy is spinning bans of weather from the florida panhandle to east texas. louisiana's governor declared a state of emergency earlier tonight. the f.b.i. is treating an attack at a michigan airport at an act of terrorism. investigators say canadian man shouted "allahu akbar," arabic for "allah is the greatest" and said it was about afghanistan when he stabbed an officer at bishop international airport in flint earlier today. the f.b.i. says amor ftouhi entered the u.s. legally from canada last week. they do not believe the suspect was part of a wider terrorist plot. the officer is said to be in stable condition tonight. stocks were mixed

state department does not regard those three americans as the "pivotal issue" here. >> bret: james rosenu. up next, tropical storm cindy bears down on the u.s. gulf coast. we look at the long list of things congressional republicans want to do before the end of the year. >> bret: the gulf coast is racing for a pounding tonight from tropical storm cindy. a boy at an alabama beach was struck and killed by a log that washed ashore in storm surge. cindy is spinning bans of weather from the florida panhandle to east texas. louisiana's governor declared a state of emergency earlier tonight. the f.b.i. is treating an attack at a michigan airport at an act of terrorism. investigators say canadian man shouted "allahu akbar," arabic for "allah is the greatest" and said it was about afghanistan when he stabbed an officer at bishop international airport in flint earlier today. the f.b.i. says amor ftouhi entered the u.s. legally from canada last week. they do not believe the suspect was part of a wider terrorist plot. the officer is said to be in stable condition tonight. stocks were mixed today. do

rod rosen stein telling the a.p. if there is a need for me to reaccuse, i will.ria rivera, abc news, washington. >> comedian bill maher is apologizing for using a racial slur on his program. he joked mar should visit nebraska and work in the fields. the comedian referred to himself as a house slave not a field worker. he waved off the groans saying it was a joke. he issued a statement today saying he was sorry. hbo said it was taste less and the segment wouldn't be reaired. >> it was a battle today in downtown hatfield. this is the skirmish on king's highway marking the british encampment. the red coats were known to loot and pillin pillage their way thh the area. this has become a five year tradition. >> veterans are seeing the war memorial dedicated to their service in world war ii. they boarded busses from williams town high school. this was made possible by an organization dedicated to ensuring veterans visit the memorial at least once in their lives. >> it was a great day for a bike ride and run at the board week. we show you the try athlete competition at t

he would not say when he was told to write the memo and rosen stein would not tell him who told him to write that mempo. >> and a friend of president trump's was back. and chris rudy said the president is considering firing mueller. today he said he never spoke to the president about it. and the attorney was on tv over the weekend. >> i never said the president told me. i ever said i have a conversation. i never implied. as you know i have been on cnn many times and i always speak for myself and not the president. he has his own spokesman, although they're, i think, in need of a it little bit of help from time to time. so the president's spokesman issued a -- -- interestingly enough they never denied my underlying report. >> cnn legal analyst. it is true that he never denied out right that the president was considering it or thinking about it. what they said last night sarah huck aeb sanders put out a statement saying it speaks for itself. and the question was is potus considering whether he'll fire mueller and she answered he has no intention to do so. she never said no he wasn't taki

james rosen is at the state department.ing. >> it was during this afternoon's state department press briefing that president trump tweeted out what could prove to be a major shift in the u.s. approach to the entire complex of problems presented by north korea. "while i greatly appreciate the efforts of president xi and china to help with north korea, it has not worked out. at least i know china tried!" the tweet comes following the death yesterday of otto warmbier, the 22-year-old ohio native held hostage by the regime in pyongyang for 17 months. returned to u.s. soil last week in a comatose state. let us state the facts plainly, said senator john mccain. otto warmbier, an american citizen, was murdered by the kim jong-un regime. in the final year of his life, mccain added, he lived a nightmare in which the north korean people have been trapped for 70 years. forced labor, cruelty, torture, murder. does this administration agreed? >> i am not going to comment on what senator mccain said. i'm not familiar with what he said i'

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district attorney jeff rosen said justice was served. >> he is gone now, but michael tyree's tragedy was worthy of our outrage. his death will never be invisible. >> reporter: michael who was bipolar was beaten to death in his cell in august of 2015. fellow inmates testified they heard tyree screaming for help. >> even though they have long criminal histories, needed to be evaluated individually as to whether or not they were telling the truth and this jury saw that they were. >> reporter: the sister did not want to speak with us on camera, but she issued this statement. michael was a human being. those jurors recognized that. he was loved. he mattered then and he will continue to matter with this verdict. sheriff lauri smith said the death served as a catalyst for jail reform. >> the acts carried out by these three individuals have tarnished the reputation of this profession and of our entire agency. >> reporter: the jury did not reach a verdict on charges the men assaulted another inmate. the guards will be sentenced september 1st. they face 15 years to life. in san jose, katie mar

james rosen is president of the national constitution centre. . thanks for joining us.oining us. from what you've been able to hearfrom comey‘s joining us. from what you've been able to hear from comey‘s testimony, do you think donald trump's words, do you think donald trump's words, do they amount to obstruction of justice? we don't know any more than we did before, the crucial meetings where the president said, i hope you can let this go, is the crucial thing. comey was asked directly and he could not go further than that. the legal standard for obstruction is precise, the person has two intentionally aim to impede an investigation, so a lot depends on president trump's motive, was he trying to shut down the best occasion or was there something else in comey‘s conduct that irritated tim cross jamaat it is complicated further by the fact that some people feel that the director can be fired for the purpose of shutting down an investigation because that is part of his costa juice no authority. it isa of his costa juice no authority. it is a mixture of legaljudgment that

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i'm james rosen sitting in for basketball. in an, expressed doubt whether robert mÜller responsible for investigating ties to russia and related matters can possibly be impartial. president told aimsly air hart he is worried about muller and the man fired as fbi director. all this as the president signs a law giving more power to leaders at the v.a. to tell employees not cutting it, you're fired. john roberts has all of that for us. good evening, john. >> good evening to you. with the democrats licking their wounds from some biggie electrics losses this week, the president found some running room to go back on offense. in the east room today president trump keeping his commitment to the nation's veterans, signing a bill to dramatically increase the v.a.'s ability to hold bad employees accountable. >> our veterans have fulfilled their duty to this nation and now we must fulfill our duty to them. so to every veteran who is here with us today, i just want to say to very simple words. thank you. >> reporter: v.a. reform was a key