i was a rung -- young reporter and petite in topeka kansas.ing that you continuously think about every anniversary here?>> absolutely. happen to be a reporter in new york at that time, and i was working at the new york post, but i covered it extensively. it was obviously incredibly a difficult time but in credibly important work. it wasn't until days later that i found out that two people that i knew were killed in the attack because i was so busy working and there was so much confusion. i think about the example that my friends set in their lives. not necessarily on the day that they die, but that also. that is what worth -- that is what was worth remembering.>> we appreciate the time. >>> china is sending signals that is bracing for long trade war against the united states. today china announced it is exempting some items but still keeping penalties in place for soybean which is some of the biggest exports to china. beijing is looking to help its farmers and factories who were struggling during china's slowing economy while at the same time

a few years later, topeka wanted to erect a pioneer mother on the state house lawn. they initially chose a sculptures similar to a much more famous when in ponca city, oklahoma which showed a young, attractive woman walking west, a young, attractive woman walking west, carrying a bible leading her young son by the topeka intended to erect the hand. same one by the same sculpture. but the image featured up in woman holding a scythe. the people in topeka did not like this because to hold a scythe implied women were doing field labor. if you know any thing about pioneer history, women were doing fieldwork. in earlier spirit but the goal of the frontier peoples had been to maintain separate gender spheres. men work in the fields and women worked in the home. they crossed those lines a lot in the early years on the frontier, but they do not like anyone to really talk about that. we want to erase that from our memory. so they replaced the bryant baker design with this one, by merrell gage, the same sculpture as the old westport relief from 15 years earlier, which again, sh

topeka intended to erect the same one by the same sculpture. but the image featured up in woman holding a scythe. the people in topeka did not like this because to hold a scythe implied women were doing field labor. if you know any thing about pioneer history, women were doing fieldwork. in earlier spirit but the goal of the frontier peoples had been to maintain separate gender spheres. men working the fields and women worked in the home spirit they crossed the lines a lot in the early years on the frontier, but they do not like anyone to really talk about that. we want to erase that from our memory. so they replaced the bryant baker design with this one, by meryl gage, the same sculpture as the old westport relief from 15 years earlier, which again, shows woman with a rifle instead not scythe. oddly, you do want women shooting guns anymore than you want them wielding a scythe. but it did not even cross her mind that you can perceive this as a woman going out to fight humans or even wild animals. at his and entirely defensive tool for her. righ

and its founder topeka k. sams turned her own story of incarceration into action.out your story of incarceration and what you've tried to do to help on the other side. >> right. for sure. growing up in new york, born and raised in long island, two parent home, franchise business owners, had every opportunity in the world. decided to do to college in baltimore and end up getting caught up. you get away from the sheltered life into a different life. and ended updating guys selling drugs, selling drugs myself which eventually landed me in prison on a federal charge. when i was there, even having visits every week, access to phone calls, being able to call friends and family and realizing most of the women there did not. and when they came home they wouldn't have resources to come home to. the conditions of confinement were unhumane. people were getting beaten, raped, didn't have access to proper hygiene products. children were being ripped away from their parents. mothers are being kidnapped off the street for charges being criminalized for poverty and addiction. god

it's a vicious circle. >> and topeka, back on the issue of the impact of women, just in general, womeni know you believe, at least for non-violent offenders, they should be treated differently. >> i believe women and girls should not be in prison at all. i feel like there are alternative incarceration we need to reinvest money back into our communities that women are the most vulnerable population that there is. outside of mother, there's sexual trauma and violence, addiction, substance issues and people are being criminalized for poverty. >> so what does that do to famili families? >> if women are being separated, where do the children go? they end up in foster care or with different family members and broken up from their parents. it's trickle iing over into our communities and then what happens is the children end up with no one. >> consider the inhumanity we're perpetuating in the system. we're having women baring children in prisons with handcuffs and leg cuffs on. we're having women who some programs we visited in washington state, there was a women's prison where they were doing

. >> lynch will soon transfer to a state prison about 150 miles north in topeka, kansas., leah greenfield, plans to follow her there after giving birth, which is now only days away. >> are you tired of being pregnant? at first she was very upset about the sentencing but she's chose to seek apartments in topeka and move there with solace which is good because it gets her away from wichita. >> she's not giving this child up for adoption. >> no. >> when do you think solace is going to be here? >> lynch says she has recommitted herself to leah and has broken off her budding relationship with jennifer wood. >> it all came down to me choosing to stay with leah, to stay with my family. >> wood was not happy about the conversation between herself and lynch, or the rumors going around the housing unit. >> she told lindsey it was because she needed to save her relationship. then she went down there talking a bunch of [ bleep ] about how i was the one that was pursuing her and i was the one that was ruining her relationship and all this [ bleep ]. i was just like oh, my god, dude. >

a brush with prison as a young woman led to alive of activism for topeka sam, sounder of the ladies ofe ministries, focusing on helping women in prisons and helping them get what they need out of it. she created hope house, offering women support and safety as they transition back into society. good to have both of you join the panel. robin, i want to talk to you about this idea of bail. any given night there are almost 500,000 people sitting pretrial, sitting in jail for the only reason, they can't afford 1,000 buck forth their bail. >> that's true and it's the tip of the icebergthere are 500,000 people sleeping in jails who can't pay bail. across the country our state and local jails, we have 3,000 of them. on any given year we churn almost 11 million people in and out of those local jails. >> how does that affect women? we're in a men's prison right now. in terms of women in the system, does the bail issue disproportionately affect them? >> the bail issue disproportionally impacts people of color and women. women are at the bottom of the economic totem pole and don't make the same a

dodge to topeka, pratt to want their wayey of life preserved. they want their representative o fight alongside president trump, reduce washington red trade d advocate for new agreements so we can feed the world. wants a decent wage and a fair shot at the american dream. aside from safety and security to them, most would otherwise be happy to not have our ngton involved in day-to-day lives. espite disagreements on some issues, kansans agree on the importance of faith, community, hard work. after completing this tour of all 105 kansas counties, i have appreciation for the challenges of kansans of all walks of life. was an versation opportunity to hear individual stories about the burden of affordable health care for a loved one, finding good farm or o grow a small business, finding a home to raise their family in and the cting and nurturing communities they love and cherish. i don't have all the answers or uick fixes for our challenges, but i will continue to strive to make kansas a better place to live. blessed with the opportunity to represent k

and topeka? and washington but i mean local in our area. >> i'm not going to lie i did not report on wichita that much. so they are a huge corporate citizen in then there is a chapter in the book and there is a very conservative republican of how he came to support alternative energy sources with the growing industry but of course with senator brownback and then that tax structure that was very involved in that. >>. >> between trump and koch do you feel that would be a schism or a civil war or the religious right will cause a three-way brawl of the republican party? then into the bowels of the republican party. >> so those political chapters office it one - - opposite of the office building and then for control of the republican party steering wheel. it is the intense back and forth. koch wins when certain federal judges are appointed and mitch mcconnell is making sure he is happen 191 - - that is happening. that he imposes massive tariffs. and then the global energy system in global trade. >> an

in los angeles looks like those highs tomorrow in topeka about 3 5 o'clock in the afternoon in san jose we're going to see a plenty of sunshine in the san francisco plan on most temperatures moving up in the 70's and in oakland you've got sunny skies all all day long sneaking up into the 80's right between about 2 3 o'clock in the afternoon. so so beautiful weather to be have for all that all around the bay area these numbers looking very very nice a lot 80's inside the bay getting close to 90's inland. and then you've got the 60's 70's at the coast. and it's going to get a little bit warmer. hardly we're going in the last week in the summer but here we go next we're going to get very interesting. we're starting to look at the possibility of maybe some more rain coming our way we'll have that of coming up the totality but start thanks >>other news now tonight as california is cannabis industry continues to grow businesses across the state for hiring new employees to help grow. process cell and even regulate marijuana reporter olivia de janeiro headed out to a cannabis job fair today to

topeka,bol in kansas. i don't know if you can see the back window of this automobile. you could spend a lot of time when you have these on your own computer. you blow up the images you look at the details. this person in the back looking out the window. you see his or her eyes. it's very sweet. [applause] >> this is a common klan activity to donate american flags to the schools. to all the schools in the township or the city, to rural schools like this one in ohio. gathering in their robes to present to the children. this symbol of their america. robed klanspeople showed up at funerals, weddings, and baptisms. there are a lot of pictures of these events with klan members in robes in our state society collection. these parades and rallies and picnics are more traditional forms of advancing the cause, but the klan was not a traditional organization. in fact, it was very innovative. it was progressive. it was on the cutting-edge of technology in the 1920's. on the cutting edge of salesmanship. this is the decade in which salesmanship became a notable area of expertise. an

and possibly into areas around where iowa meets illinois and also portions of missouri and even topeka to manhattan, kansas, we could see rounds of storm, as we go through the weekend. heaviest rainfall is predicted, kansas city, northward to kirkville, and possibility of two to three inches an maybe isolated four inches. and some flooding going on, on the ms. river, too. so we're concerned with that river level going up. as far as hurricane jerry goes, it may brush the northern leeward islands but we're happy to say it is still a fish storm. the only concern like humberto is bermuda, and it could go over bermuda as a hurricane in the beginning to middle of next week. no concern for the tropics or the lower 48 or anywhere except bermuda. >> thanks, bill. >>> still ahead, facebook's ceo descends on washington, including a meeting with the president amid increasing scrutiny by president. >> plus amazon makes a massive move involving electric vehicles and the bid to combat climate change. details coming up. ♪ - [woman] with my shark, i deep clean messes like this, this, and even this. but

have on local politics in wichita, and how much control -- i hate use that control -- but influence topeka because we're talking local politics and i'm pretty familiar how much influence they have in washington bit i'm more curious local in our area how much influence do they really have. >> i'm not going lie. i did not report on wichita, the city, that much, and i frankly think they're kind of horizon is pretty big, and they're a huge corporate citizen in wichita but i have not looked at the politics there. in kansas, the effect has been enormous, and i mean there's a chapter in the become that looks at the wind power sector in kansas and how koch has fought against that. a very conservative republican state nor from kansas named tom mockery who retired and tells the story of how he came to support alternative energy sources but watched koch's lobbyists dip dismember, take apart the growing industry in kansas, and of course the backing for sam brownback and the sort of vision of the tax structure that sam brownback had, koch was very involved in that. i think their influence on kansas pol

host: this is john, topeka, kansas, republican. caller: good morning, how are you?t: i am doing well. caller: the democrats amaze me. general's, adjutant eric holder stated i am a wing man for barack obama. the reason biden was not investigated, they had all the power. clinton, andlary she was investigated, loretta lynch told them to not call it an investigation, call it a matter. when these democrats come up and ,ay biden wasn't investigated of course he wasn't investigated. but i had the power and were not going to investigate him. that biden tape is the biggest admission of coercion any american can see. if anyone is fair, they cannot let that go by. it of these stations say, has already been investigated. i beg to differ. host: the gathering of the press around the witness table, it is behind those cameras there is one chair buried beneath those cameras and the members of the press. that is where the acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire will sit this morning. the whistleblower complaint, somewhat redacted but released by the intelligence commi

charleston and greenville and columbia with lindsey graham and lexington and louisville, in des moines, in topekao the dance. you're going to lose. and we are finally going to get gun reform in the united states. that's how this is going to go down. 30,000 members of moms demand action just in the last couple of weeks. it's not just the nra standing out there all by itself. there are alternative groups of moms and parents and reasonable people, democrats, republicans, hunters, police officers who are tired of it and now there's a counterbalance and they're going to lose. >> the president seems to be suggesting he's against background checks. let me ask you about this from the other angle, one of your opponents in the democratic presidential race, beto o'rouke, he says today he wants to have a mandatory buyback program for all ak-47s and ar-15s. would you support that? >> i think participating in that is fine, volunteering in that is fine. we're so far away from passing anything that goes along the line of mandatory, we can't even get background checks. we can't get red flag laws. >> do you think