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schmidt. jill, about that 18-acre complex you cover, also known as the white house, we have been amazed not to tempt the gods here, but we've been amazed the president has not been on twitter on this subject. what do you know about how it was received and who did the back briefing, say, inside the white house? >> yeah, i think it's very notable the fact that the president has not weighed in on this since he was briefed by rod rosenstein earlier today. rod came to the white house. he was there for about two hours today. we understand first he briefed the president. then he gave a separate briefing to the vice president. but it was only before that visit that the president was tweeting. now, the response from the white house from the republican national committee, from republicans who are close to the president, has been trying to take as much as they can from this and try to spin it as beneficially as they can. so there's a lot of reference to comey here. everything from the way he handled the

schmidt now joins the 45% of us who don't id as "r" or "d."sented in closed primary states, on debate stages and in the media. joining me now is kansas gubernatorial candidate, greg orman. he left the republican party to become an independent and ran a close race for the senate in 2014, lost to pat roberts. you didn't beat, you didn't lose to the evangelical leader, greg, i stumble on that. your back reacted to the news of steve schmidt. >> we have seen a lot of high profile defections from the republican party, but, frankly, they are lagging indicators, not leading indicators. you mentioned you left the party in 2010. the fact is, americans have been leaving both parties in droves, really since 1998. they are doing it for a range of reasons. most notably, because this system of government just isn't working for them. you know, the average american household hasn't seen a pay increase since 1999. think about that. the amount of time it takes a child to go from being born to graduating from high school, that's how long it's been sinls the avera

heidi przybyla, michael schmidt. great group to start off the week and so much to get to. >> well, there's so much to get to. and you listen to what rudy giuliani said over the weekend. there's so many things that are disturbing. team that with the letter they wrote that actually the president and his lawyers believe that the bedrock american principle that no man is above the law, no woman is above the law, no person is above the law, they actually believe for the first time in u.s. history for a president it does not apply to them. and by the way, they are kidding themselves and will be let down horribly if they ever decide to try this on, take this, put wheels on this and take it out for a spin to the supreme court. they will be slaed down every bit as much as richard nixon in 1973 and 1974 and if you don't believe me, go to the supreme court. you may get one. you may get two votes. that's it. you will be run over because this supreme court does not believe that any person is above the law. >> well, i think someon

steve schmidt, he is the one that chose sarah palin as the running meat and columnist george will isdvocating everyone vote democratic to y r quarantine trump. i will ask rob reiner. first, there is no doubt the images are upsetting as is the policy. immigrant children housed in shelters our transported around the country. i will not defend separating children from parents. i am pleased that the president yielded to public opinion. that is a good thing. people that despise donald trump ought to note he listened to reason and changed his mind. people that don't like what the president is doing on other issues should focus on how it happened and try to replicate it. but the border crisis is not of trump's creation. we cannot allow people's feelings towards the president and the images and sounds of kids to overshadow the reality that we have a crisis that requires resolution, how to control the borders and make immigration an orderly, legal process. as pointed out in national review there is a significant morale cost to not enforcing the border. there is obviously a morale cost separat

joining us now from "the new york times" mike schmidt who just broke this story, nbc news intelligence national security reporter ken dilanian and frank figliuzzi, fbi assistant director for counter intelligence. mike schmidt, take us through what your reporting about unknown and emotional reaction from the deputy attorney general. >> this was an incredibly important time. this is between the comey firing and when mueller is appointed. a little more than a week. what was going on in rosenstein's head, he was very concerned about how he had been used by the white house as the person to explain the firing. they had used this memo that he had written about comey's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation as the basis for the firing, what they put out to explain it. and he thought that that was wrong, and that he was the fall guy, the scapegoat for this. he had only been the deputy attorney general for two weeks. now, from trump's point of view, what he doesn't understand is why is it that rosenstein played along with the comey firing, wrote the memo, but then went ahead and appointed

from "the new york times" mike schmidt. joyce vance former u.s. attorney now law professor at the university of alabama. david chris, assistant attorney general for national security. and with us at the desk washington lemire for the associated press. joyce, let me start with you you and i talked about this witness tampering investigation or allegations against paul manafort. what does it mean? what are today apartmen's indic against paul manafort and constantine mean for those men and the investigation itself? joyce? joyce, can you hear us? joyce can't hear us. let me ask you to pick up the same question, david chris. what do these charges from -- i'm sorry, against paul manafort mean for the special counsel investigation? >> well, the first thing they mean is that paul manafort is in deep trouble and it's only getting deeper. these two new charges that have been added, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, are as you

steve schmidt, what's your view on what the president might be willing to do here or not?o bob's point, he hasn't fired rosenstein. he hasn't fired bob mueller. pardoning himself it seems like would be the next kind of iteration of that. but again, you know, i still -- i still feel like the whims of this president go back and forth so wildly, i'm not convinced his staff can keep him on track. >> his behavior will be increasingly erratic. i think he'll burn everything down to save himself. i think that his desperation has become more clear as this investigation has moved closer to the oval office. fundamentally, this letter is deserving of a response from every elected official in this country who has taken an oath of fidelity to the constitution of the united states. the legal argument is an assault on the concepts of the american republic and on the concepts of liberal democr it is that serious. and what we know for sure is there won't be a single republican member of congress who lays out an argument tomorrow morning that says, this is too far. this is a dangerous argume

it is all in rod rosenstein's hands. >> michael schmidt, our thanks for joining us by telephone this friday night following your story on this subject for "the new york times" today. we want to turn now to our leadoff panel on a friday evening. the aforementioned josh gerstein, senior white house reporter for politico. jill wine-banks, attorney and former assistant watergate special counsel. and guy lewis is back with us, a former u.s. attorney who has worked with mueller, comey, and rosenstein among others while at doj. guy, i'd actually like to begin with you, and will do so after we replay kind of a collection of the not so great hits from that house hearing yesterday and the various ways they came after rod rosenstein. >> you -- they talk about the mueller investigation. it's really the rosenstein investigation. you appointed mueller. you're supervising mueller. >> i don't know why you won't give us what we've asked for. >> sir, i certainly hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir. >> it is accurate. we have caught you hiding information. >> m

there's steve schmidt. there's nicolle wallace. there's charlie sykes, people that exist in the world and bret stephens. are there voters who at what's happening and say i'm a republican and can't abide this. i don't know if they exist. >> i think there are acts of kindness and decency that take place every day in this country. i think about the las vegas 33-yr-old african-american , runs into a hail of gunfire. he saves 33 people's lives. he's running towards a group of school kids to save them and he's shot twice in the neck. and then a white cop runs into the gunfire to save johnny smith's life. that is also america. the author alex haley had a saying, he said find the good and praise it. nobody can compete with donald trump in a vileness contest. he's the most vial. nobody can compete with donald trump in a dishonesty contest. because he's the most dishonesty honest. we have to find the good and praise it in this country. free market american capitalism is worth defending in my view. liberal democracy is worth defending. the u.

he worked on successful efforts behalf of bush 43 with and we say steve schmidt is sound asleep. >> beater fond awhen they talk about hollywood liberalsof touch and in this case out of their dam mind. ere was a letter with handling of the border crisis and one was forcefully being taken from his mother. it's internet. nothing goes away. damage done and by e way the whitehouse is refeing to the cret service. >> we're back tat again tomorrow night. mar each amarracol wil that make it a good night and we'll mar each amarracol wil that make it a good night and we'll see you then vpbz z16fz16fy y2vpby y16 ♪ ♪ >>> he's vital. >> yeah. >> welcome to "world cup tonight,i'm fernando what a day here in rfrussia. big moment for t

what could paul manafort give mueller, and mike schmidt rightly answered we don't know. but informed speculation suggests he could be a crucial witness in this question of whether the trump campaign coordinated with the russian election interference because he came to the campaign with significant russian ties. he earned tens of millions of dollars from a ukrainian politician who was essentially a russian stooge. and during the campaign, he was trying to monetize his service by offering private briefings to a russian oligarch, oleg deripaska. we know he was in contact with george papadopoulos, that young aide who was told by a russian agent that the russians had hacked the democratic e-mails before that became public. so one of the questions is did manafort learn about that? did he discuss that with donald trump? did he discuss the trump tower meeting with donald trump? was there ever any other kinds of discussions about what the russians, what help the russians were offering to the campaign. don't forget, donald trump didn't use e-mail. so for mueller to get the evidenc

joining us by the phone to weigh in on that, our friend steve schmidt. steve, your thoughts. >> well, nicolle, i think there is a very unfortunate -- where strength is an important policy in a democracy, particularly in a country where the politics are closely divided. and the reality is you have donald trump lost the popular vote by 3 million. he won by 78,000 votes across three states. and the rub cans control all three branches of government. the legislative and by republican nominees on the supreme court. so, we have a minority that is ruling the majority of the country who are opposed to this president, and that is extremely unhealthy in a democracy. as you know in the white house, i ran the robertson/alito confirmations. i was supportive of president obama -- with kagan and sotomayor. because i believe presidents -- with regard to the supreme court nominations. but mitch mcconnell has as much as anyone done great damage to the united states senate as a institution that was once known as the world's greatest deliberative body. they stole a supreme c

from the "new york times," mike schmidt, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, now law professor at the university of alabama. david chris, former assistant attorney general for national security and with us at the desk, jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. joyce vance, let me start with you. i believe we talked about this witness tampering investigation or allegations against paul manafort. what do today's indictments against paul manafort and konstantin kilimnik mean? joyce can you hear us? joyce can't hear us. let me ask you to pick up the same question, david chris. what are these charges from -- against paul manafort mean for the special counsel investigation? >> well, the first thing they mean is that paul manafort is in deep trouble and it's getting deeper. these two new charges that have been added -- obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice are as you said based on the same facts that were used by mueller to try to revoke his bail so to put him in jail pending trial and that's because he and kilimnik

another schmidt might come to mind, senator jack schmidt, former apollo 1astronaut. 1astronaut. he is last man on the moon. we have a capsule moving fast and furious to mars, dig into mars and dig into life or at least life compound inside the soil of mars. isn't thatmazing? we're kicking butt, right, when it comes to manned missions not so much. we might get idea where all this is going, where the money is coming from private enterprise, coordinated by the government. those are details. the president will spell out some of the details. meanwhile issues closer to home, concern immigration dust-up, kids, illegals who enter this country. president says it is democrats a fault. the president says it is democrats fault. one person compared it to the nazis, really? what is going on. we're looking at crosscurrents with hillary vaughn at white house. hey, hillary. reporter: both republicans and democrats agree tearing families apart at border is a bad idea but both sides are trying to figure out the blame game trying to figure out whose fault it is. republicans point out to a law went

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i'm joined by the author of this "new york times" report, michael schmidt of the "times" who is also an msnbc contributor. democrat i didn't think congr s democratic congressman eric swalwell and barbara mcquaid is former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst. i want to start with michael. this is a h,ell of a story. it talks about rosenstein was doing what the president wanted them to do but not what he thought was the whole story. >> rosenstein had been deputy attorney general for a week and a half when this happens. the president wanted to do send this letter to james comey that said why he wanted to get rid of him. the white house counsel, don mcgahn, he said this is not a good idea. we need to come up with a cleaner reason for this. the president's letter was rambling, it went on and on. so rooipsenstein offers to writ the memo, the memo is the reason the white house uses to explain the comey firing. they stand on the white house lawn the night of the firing and read from the letter and explain that comey had too go because he was too harsh on hillary clinto clinton. >> if you'v

mike schmidt answered we don't know. informed speculation suggests he could be a crucial witness in this question of whether the trump campaign coordinated with the russian election interference. he came into the campaign with significant russian ties. he earned money from a russian stooge and during the campaign, evers trying to monetize his service by offering private briefings to a russian oligarch, deripaska and he was in contact with george papadopoulos that young aide who was told that the russianss had hacked democratic e-mails before that became public. one of the questions is did manafort discuss the trump tower meeting with donald trump. >> was there any discussion what the russians did to help campaign? donald trump didn't use e-mail. for mueller to get the evidence what trump knew when he needs witness testimony. i think that's one of the reasons he's pressing so hard, he wants his testimony about meetings with donald trump. >> caroline, as a defense attorney, from a strategic standpoint, if you're paul manaf

prison for helping to design cheats all three are this man here on the right whose name is a liver schmidt he's a manager he got seven years in jail for fraud around the same time other carmakers including already poor she came under scrutiny that this year just three years into the job. mathias miller on the left and harbor days the man on the right was given the job no official reason was given and did already boss superstars are now in custody in germany one thing is clear it's far from the ends of the road for these ok. and onto a different story google is set to invest five hundred fifty million dollars in chinese. dot com making it the latest us company to dive into asia's growing e-commerce tool to deal the c.j.d. dot com products displaced and google's shopping service and could help the chinese company spread beyond southeast asia the region is rapidly becoming a battleground for key industry players hoping to cash in on asia's record the growing middle class. all right let's bring in school to here standing by for us in new york was much more on this mess if first of all google t

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what steve schmidt said and what we saw today really does underscore in many ways the crisis in this country right now is no longer simply political. it's moral. and i think, you know, you really see that individuals matter. the people who are in certain roles matter. i mean the drama we saw play out today in that hearing, this is all amongst republicans. >> rosenstein would normally be a towering hero. >> that's right. >> career prosecutor, a career public servant. >> but he's also a republican. >> yeah. >> and so is chris wray. and so i guess my point is here this is not about partisanship. it's about what's right and wrong. ow... make the call now. i must have said "call now" hundreds of times. millions of people have already called. but what about those who haven't? (announcer) isn't it time for you to call about the number one most popular whole life insurance plan available from colonial penn? recently, a friend of mine died, and although his funeral was a modest one, it cost more than the national average, (announcer) the average cost of a funeral today is over $8,500. life in

stefan schmidt. have you six minutes. >> good evening. president fung and fellow commissioner. i think the prior decision obviously in my opinion should stand. there's been no showing of any injustice here. there's no showing of any extraordinary instance here. all the evidence that they've even spoken to were evidence or argument that could have been made and should have been made at a prior hearing and frankly even if it had been made, none of it addresses the central issue this board voted on and correctly voted on and that is simple application of law. i think that's what -- going back to the last hearing -- and i think commissioner honda addressed that. but, you guys are acting as judges. you're not up here to make the law. there's lots of people here that disagree with my position. they have representatives, they can go change the law. i'm only here to see that the law's enforced. and i want to see the law enforced. i believe in the law and i also believe fundamentally that art should not be destroyed. and that's ultimately the issue here. and there is art that's going to

what's interesting about this is that eric schmidt, he is on the defense intelligence advisory board.e is very concerned about, especially with china and technological innovations and what it could do to our future. if you want to be safe and protected america, then you probably should help our military. >> greg: schmidt is no longer there. they are selling stuff to china. they are working with china, google. >> jesse: i am afraid to criticize google because they may leak my search history and then i am toast. >> kimberly: why did you say that out loud? >> jesse: it is a weasel move. your help in the country because you reduce civilian casualties. defensively, terrorists are getting access to drawn technologies. you want to defend them against that. america, in a sick way, is almost too safe. world war i, world war ii, threats were everywhere. domestic attacks, people are getting shipped overseas to fight for a country. we are so far removed from that, we don't have the sense of patriotism and nationalism that we used to. we can afford to let these things lie do not protect the nation

he replacesjohnny sexton as coach joe schmidt rests a number of players from their six nations grandnt, it is the papers. see you soon. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me is the co—owner of the website westmonster, michael heaver, along with journalist and broadcaster rachel shabi. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times leads with the trouble on the high street — with job losses threatened at house of fraser and poundland. the i also carries the story, blaming the rise of internet shopping. the mirror also looks at high street closures, warning of the creation of ‘ghost towns'. the metro reports that firefighters could be prosecuted for advising the residents of grenfell tower to stay in theirflats. the telegraph goes with a secret recording in which foreign secretary borisjohnson attacks the government's handling of brexit. the times also reports on the secret recording, saying mrjohnson thinks the treasury is the "heart of remain". the express claims "brexit is back on track" after a days wranglin

john mccain's 2008 presidential campaign manager, steve schmidt, leaving, as well. these are dramatic departures. do will and schmidt sway voters? what's the significance? >> i'm thinking that's two votes. if they can get 20 million more, they might get a head of steam together and maybe change the party. the reality is there's a deep split within the party. some of the more prominent voices are not in power. when they're leaving, what they're doing is showing they don't have a place and the mainstream has movered beyond them. where the mainstream goes, you can look at the polls, and every appalling act that we've seen over the last week, that cnn documented, the malice and infighting in the white house, is deep root in a vast majority of the republican party. what is the party is today and tomorrow is not what it was when george will joined it and supported it over the years. there's an argument that he could have foreseen this and helped it get going. but with a revolution, it's hard to put the brakes on it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> next, a car th

with me now is michael schmidt from the "new york times," on the investigative team there. help us distill this 20-page memo. the up shot is these lawyers believe president trump cannot be compelled to testify, he cannot be subpoenaed. >> it's a strong view of presidential power that essentially says that because the president is the head of the executive branch, he controls everything that goes on inside of it. he can end an investigation, he can pardon whom ever, his powers are essentially absolute. and this is made in the context of whether he should sit for an interview. the lawyers are arguing that mueller had no need to talk to the president because this investigation, there is nothing to it and he had already been provided with the answers to the questions he wanted to talk to the president about. >> michael, help me stand here how much this conversation has changed. we've heard from the president's legal team. rudy giuliani wielding an upper hand, talking about leverage, especially when it comes to the role of this informant. how much has that conversation changed?

along with legendary astronauts buzz aldrin and jack schmidt.as been a friend of mine for a long time. thank you. great. i also have a list of some of the ceos and chairman and president's. -- thank you of very much. thank you. one short well. stand up. gwen shortwell. blue origin. i hear you ar edoing a great job. the combination of boeing get a and lockheed. i don't like when they get together, because the price only goes up. but that is ok. i don't know. i don't love this stuff. we're going to have to talk about that. oh boy. look at dennis. dennis is so happy. i don't like that stuff, mike. maryland has done a fantastic job with lockheed. what do you think of that merger? what do you think? look, they are sitting together. oh! no wonder we don't get the pricing we want, huh? and a good friend of mine, what a great job you have done. both of you. don'tpart, stay apart, get together. stay apart. [applause] -- ident trump: and you're there are just a great group of other executives. t's people like you that america was first in flight, and why

the lack of humility from donald trump is -- well, it's breathtaking but steve schmidt, i'm hoping someamily members who still think donald trump is worthy of their vote will understand he's lying to them non-stop. he says he inherited a bad hand on immigration when, in fact, immigration went down eight years of the obama administrati administration. you look at the fact that we have reverse immigration going into mexico. the economy growing every year under barack obama. i ask people, google gdp. world gdp compare other countries to our's. not a close call. not a close call. this country is small and it's been moving upward. make america great again. no. america had seven straight years of an exploding economy, of illegal immigration going down. donald trump actually inherited the best of all hands in those areas that he's now trying to screw up. >> there will be no small number of soybean farmers who lose their farms generationally because of the trade war donald trump has precipitated because when the markets dissipate, when they dry up, they're gone, the chinese been lying their soy

as we appreciate michael schmidt and phillip rucker and guy lewis. terrific starting conversation tonight. thank you all so much. >>> coming up next for us, stormy daniels and michael avenatti back with a new lawsuit and revealing text messags from michael cohen. and later, it's hard to anger our neighbors to the north but we have appeared to succeeded. the latest is, our president reportedly accusing them of having some involvement of fire in the white house 206 years ago. we'll get to all of it. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a wednesday evening. my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over. now, i take metamucil every day. it naturally traps and removes the waste that weighs me down. so i feel... lighter. try metamucil and begin to feel what lighter feels like. and try new metamucil fiber thins, made with 100% natural psyllium fiber. a great-tasting and easy way to start your day. >>> the attorney for stormy daniels claims her former war was working with president trump's self-proclaimed fixer, michael cohen.

i think steve schmidt makes very good points. i don't have a party to go to that i believe in more than the republican party. i'm part of the stay and fight faction. i mean, november elections are upon us. and let's see which republicans are rewarded in november. those who blindly follow a self-described strong man leader who won't be president forever or those who served like dior remember at least president reagan and george herbert walker bush and president bush 43 and some of the principals that made this grand old party the grand old party. >> this president. >> we have to grow. >> this president helps them look all the better in history. joe straus of texas. a democrat who has no problem with a partisan issue, terry mcauliffe who may play a role in keeping trump to one term. you're a politics, as well. why did trump wait till the day, play his cards to the end, say he couldn't change this policy, denied it was his policy and then flip late this afternoon? what's it all about? >> first, he created the mess and actually he th

as we appreciate michael schmidt and phillip rucker and guy lewis. terrific starting conversation tonight. thank you all so much. >>> coming up next for us, stormy daniels and michael avenatti back with a new lawsuit and revealing text message s frm michael cohen. and later, it's hard to anger our neighbors to the north but we have appeared to succeeded. the latest is, our president reportedly accusing them of having some involvement of fire in the white house 206 years ago. we'll get to all of it. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a wednesday evening. find the remote yet? nah. honey look, your old portable cd player. my high school rethainer. oh don't... it's early 90s sitcom star dave coulier... cut...it...out! [laughing] what year is it? as long as stuff gets lost in the couch, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mother...nature!n accou. even in accounts receivable. gain botanicals laundry detergent. bring the smell of nature wherever you are. with tripadvisor, f

also with us, retired immigration judge paul schmidt. diana and paul, thank you for being with us. diana, you research the affect that separation from their children have, and you have personal experience about when those are children of migrants. we really do have to think about this. what is the affect this has on children? >> hi. thank you so much for having me on. i actually do not research family separation. but on my own, i decided to go out to the protest because this affects me personally, on a personal level. the childhood development that we're studying is on many different things, like brain development and childhood experiences affecting positive or negative outcomes. so, for me, i went to the protest on my own because this means a lot to me. >> tell me about development of these traumatic experiences on these children. what does your research tell you? >> well, we're starting. it is at the beginning of the study. it is a ten-year study. we're just starting. we don't know too much about the childhood development. as a protester, going there on my own, i went there becau

schmidt, too. remember, they live out here in the d.c. bubble.go talk to those voters who put president trump in place. and his goal to make a republican party and a republican house more of a governing house would actually be the antithesis of what he's asking for if he says, go vote against republicans, because most republicans who could lose are the ones who want to govern. >> if anything, it could make it -- i do take your point on that. kevin mclaughlin, final words. >> i'm with the congressman. between washington, d.c., new york conservatives and everyone else out there, fly over country. it's a huge disconnect, problem for folks in d.c. >> congressman rodney davis, thank you so much for your time. john meacham, thanks so you as well. let you get back to your cigar. >>> coming up, a look at president trump's habit of praising strong men around the world, including one who is claiming victory in an election today. "kasie d.c." back after this. >>> it was fantastic. i took control of egypt. >> it's great to be with the president of egypt. we

what steve schmidt said and what we saw today really does underscore in many ways the crisis in thisountry right now is no longer simply political. it's moral. and i think, you know, you really see that individuals matter. the people who are in certain roles matter. i mean the drama we saw play out today in that hearing, this is all amongst republicans. >> rosenstein would normally be a towering hero. >> that's right. >> career prosecutor, a career public servant. >> but he's also a republican. >> yeah. >> and so is chris wray. and so i guess my point is here this is not about partisanship. it's about what's right and wrong. and it's about upholding democratic traditions and those who are attacking them. and essentially jordan is a lap dog at this point for the trump administration. and how embarrassing, not just for his constituents or for him personally, but for the country. how sad and how embarrassing. >> david jolly, i mentioned lbj earlier for a reason. you can go get his recorded phone calls in austin, texas, and hear him, as president's do, giving marching orders to his lieut

first lieutenant robert schmidt pushed through injuries to fight in one of the bloodiest battles of theand was killed in action. john henry zimmerli is an air force captain who went out on a mission in korea in 1952 in his plane with four others and never returned. joan morris is the niece of first robert schmidt, who she knows as uncle bobby and the son of john henry zimmerli. thank you so much both of you for being with us today. i know this has been such a huge part of your life, committed to home. your uncle bobby. what would this mean to you if you could do that? >> it would mean closure for our family, in particular it would mean that we have completed that something our grdmother always o do, that was to bring our uncle bobby home to north dakota. so we are very encouraged by what's happening with president trump and it would mean the world to us to have him home. >> martha: there was a headline in ap after the summit, and this is what it red. "trump retreats from u.s. moral leadership stance." given from where you are coming from in all of this, do you think that's true? >> yes,

come down, schmidt. >> i don't think the process is that easy, in my experience. >> supervisor cohen: that's right. can you explain to me the distinction between the training -- between the specialized traing that the ffico oeceive versus those that are just on our streets? >> sure. so there's federal mandates that control all airports, and when officers arrive from the city, we put them through a 40-hour training to familiarize them with the federal regulas conolling air field, the security versus the nonsecure side, movement between the two. they go through a badging process, and then, we -- once they finish that week-long training, then we dloy them with other officers so they can work through the different assignments, then after that, they work pretty much on their own. it's pretty much unit -- suo environment. >> supervisor cohen: what? >> suo, solo unit officer environment. >> supervisor cohen: okay. i don't have anymore questions. i think supervisor yee has one. >> supervisor yee: thank you, chair cohen. my question is in regards to the employment opportunities. and this, trio

along with legendary apollo astronauts, jack schmidt and buzz aldrin.uzz has been a friend of mine for a long time. thank you. great. i also have a list of some of the ceos and chairman and presidents of these incredible companies. wes, thank you. thank you very much. thank you, wes. gwen shortwell. stand up, when. -- gwen. bob smith ceo of blue origin. ,thank you, bob, i hear you are doing a great job. president and ceo of united launch alliance. that is a combination of boeing and lockheed. on the space launch system. i don't like when they get together, because the price only goes up. but that is ok. in this case. i don't know. i don't love this stuff. we're going to have to talk about that. you joining those two companies. oh boy. look at dennis. dennis is so happy. i don't like that stuff, mike. marilyn, who has done a fantastic job with lockheed. you have done. what do you think of that merger? what do you think? look, they are sitting together. oh! no wonder we don't get the pricing we want, huh? dennis, a good friend of mine, what a great job yo

as we appreciate michael schmidt and phillip rucker and guy lewis. terrific starting conversation tonight. thank you all so much. >>> coming up next for us, stormy daniels and michael avenatti back with a new lawsuit and revealing text messages from michael cohen. and later, it's hard to anger our neighbors to the north but we appear to have succeeded. the latest is our president reportedly accusing them of having some involvement of a fire in the white house 206 years ago. we'll get to all of it. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a wednesday evening. , unabashed freak, mark. not the kind of freak who wears a suit of armor to a renaissance fair. nay, noth mark! mark is a jimmy john's kickin' ranch freak. look at him, pureeing hot cherry peppers into fresh buttermilk with the fervor of a kid at the gates of an amusement park. yes, mark's a glorious kickin' ranch freak. and we totally love him for it. let the dippins beginins. freaky fresh. freaky fast. jimmy john's. freak yeah. >>> a you? lawsuit filed by the adult film actress stormy daniels cl

robert schmidt. john zimmerly is the son of captain zimmerly.ve so much feedback from your stories, and i think people want so much for you to have the circle closed on what this situation has brought to your families. joan, let me start with you, remind us, about your uncle bobby's service. >> well, uncle bobby served in world war ii for over three years. then he came back to north dakota and graduated with an rotc degree and became an army officer. and he was stationed in japan, then he went to korea. and he was killed at the reservoir on december 1, 1950. >> martha: john, your dad? >> yes, my father was an air force navigator, went out on a small plane on a night mission in march of 1952, radio communication around 9:00 p.m. and that's the last we heard from him. no one knows whether they crashed into a mountain, shot down, whether they were taken captive. no one really knows. there are some documents that give us hints that some of them may have been in captivity. but even that is not positive evidence. >> martha: joan, you know, obviously t