i'll talk to a member of the house intelligence committee, democratic congresswoman terry sewall and our correspondents, analysts and guests are standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. let's get right to our breaking news beginning with cnn's jessica schneider. jessica, one intelligence committee bogged down in bickering. the other ready and eager to get going. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the senate intelligence committee wasting no time. chairman burr revealing that a seven-member staff has already been knee deep in documents, that up to this point have only been chaired by the gang of eight and high level staff directors. the chairman saying that access alone is unprecedented in the history of the committee. tonight the top democrat and republican on the senate intelligence committee say they are pouring through thousandses of intelligence documents as part of its bipartisan investigation into russian meddling during the election. >> this is one of the biggest investigations that the hill has seen in my tenure here. >> reporter: standing in stark contrast to t

"q&a" withnext, author and columnist thomas sewall. then theresa may takes questions from the house of commons. then we will show her remarks and those of foreign secretary boris johnson following the terror attack outside parliament. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," author and hoover institution senior fellow thomas sewall. he recently ended his syndicated column and he talks about his life and career, and his love of photography. >> dr. thomas sowell, you wrote this at the end of 2016. age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why i am quitting, but

uniformed division officers caught more sewall earlier this morning when she caught -- caught ahl when she set off an alarm. you might never she got caught by her shoelaces trying to jump the fence. on wednesday, she was issued a stay away order. she was arrested on mafia square on wednesday but was released. it is pretty amazing the difference a day makes. it was gloomy, gray, and chilly, a huge difference from saturday when temperatures neared the 80 degree mark. we all want to know when we will reach that, josh. josh: the good news is, that is not too far off. this evening, temperature 48 degrees, feeling more like 43 at the belle haven country club. that has been the story for a lot of us throughout the day. let me take you to the big board. temperatures are hanging cooler for all of us, and we are going to look for the cloud cover to stick around as well. satellite and radar showing that for the next few days. if you get a look at that, that will give us a good idea of what is moving on throughout our area as we go through the rest of the night. here is the rain moving in from sou

sewall. then theresa may takes questions from the house of commons. then we will show her remarks and those of foreign secretary boris johnson following the terror attack outside parliament. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," author and hoover institution senior fellow thomas sewall. he recently ended his syndicated column and he talks about his life and career, and his love of photography. >> dr. thomas sowell, you wrote this at the end of 2016. age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why i am quitting, but why i kept at it so long. why did you? thomas: why do they keep at it so long? there were a lot of things happening different from the way in most of the media. i enjoyed doing it, i enjoyed hearing back from people. i was sorry i never had a chance to reply to them all. >> i have -- i'm just going to ask you why you put this in the column and you can expand on it if you would like. "my own family did not have electricity or running water in my childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the south in those days." what

heidi heissenbuttell came on board early, bringing a branch of her sewall child development center to the new campus. sewall's been a pioneer in what's known as "inclusive education"-- teaching children with special needs-- that is, kids with autism, or those with emotional or behavioral issues, and putting them in classrooms with their more typically developing peers. heissenbuttel says the evidence is clear that this approach works for all kids >> they learn to expect that every child learns differently, and they go on to their ed-, their elementary classrooms, and they become advocates for kids who learn differently, and they will tell teachers, you need to work with that child, or, why can't he participate on the playground? or, we want him in our group. >> brangham: we observed three classrooms. here the "tigers" have "circle time"... then they moved on to "center time"-- an hour when the children get to pick what they want to do, as teachers float through the classroom facilitating vocabulary building and individual lessons. one-third of the children here have some special need,

for more on all of this, we turn to sarah sewall. served as undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights during the obama administration. she's written extensively about military operations and civilian casualties. she's now at johns hopkins university. first, just walk us through what the changes are that the pentagon announced. >> essentially, president obama had created two categories for thinking about the use of force in the context of the war on terror. one was more like targeted killing with more restricted types overtargets that you could both choose and be forced to identify, and it controlled the effects of those uses of force more closely. the other is more like what americans would understand as war, general hostilities, and what has happened is the current president has now moved, according to reports, moved the somalia engagement of the u.s. forces from the category of more targeted uses of force to more general hostilities. >> sreenivasan: it says the new rules says it's okay to kill civili

. ♪ >> this week on q&a, author and hoover institution senior fellow thomas sewall.recently ended his syndicated column and he talks about his life and career, and his love of photography. >> dr. thomas sowell, you wrote this at the end of 2016. age 86 is well past the usual

. >> i will yield the remaining time to representative sewall. >> thank you. so, with respect to the coordination, director comey, i just want to continue this line of questioning, can you say with any specificity what kinds of coordination or contacts you're looking at in your investigation, generally, when confronted with something like this? >> i can't. >> can you discuss whether or not there was any knowledge by any trump related person and the russians? >> i can't. so with respect to any investigation -- ongoing investigation, whether the specificity of the person, u.s. person or otherwise, you can't comment on any of that? >> correct. >> can you characterize what the nature of your investigation generally -- when you do an investigation of this sort, can you talk late bit about the process generally? >> not a whole lot. i can tell you, we use our great, great people. we coordinate with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the intelligence community to know what they may know and around the world of what might be useful to us, and use all the tools

. >> i will yield the remaining time this period to have representative sewall. >> thank you.tion, director comey, i just wanted to continue this line of questioning, can you say with any specificity what kinds of coordination or contacts you're looking at in your investigation generally when confronted with something like this? >> i can't. >> can you discuss whether or not there was any knowledge by any trump-related person and the russians? >> i can't. >> so with respect to any investigation, ongoing investigation whether the specificity of the person, u.s. person or otherwise, you can't comment on any of that. >> correct. >> okay. can you characterize what the nature of your investigation generally -- when you do an investigation of this sort, can you talk a little wit about the process generally -- a little bit about the process generally? >> not a whole lot. i can tell you we use our great, great people, we coordinate with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the intelligence community to say what they may know from around the world that might be useful to us, and w