the university of minnesota has a student rule. no white people period. e group tongues untied said it's a safe space targeted at lgbtqia and/or same gender loving people of color. for those of you that speak english, that means the group is for nonwhite gay and trans-gender people and no one else. since the story broke, the group has updated its web page to remove it's warning that whites should stay away. mike melon wrote about the controversy for city pages and his take was that white people should shut up and stop whining. thanks for coming on, mike. you basically think of this as the alt right white as you call them, making a fuss about nothing. >> right. i would say this doesn't really bother me. i'm surprised that it bothers them. if you saw the original message on the website, it said to allies of this group, they would ask that you please give them some privacy to have their meeting alone. i don't think the people at campus reform or the people that have acted like they're outraged at this are the allies that they're refers to. >> mark: you descri

the university of minnesota has a student group with one rule. no white people period. ite, the group, tongo itself as a safe space targeted exclusively ata lgbtq ia and or same gender loving people of color. foreo those of you who speak english instead of progressive, that means the group is for nonwhite,, and transgender people, and no one else. since the story broke, the group has updated its web page to remove its warning that whites should stay away. mike mullen wrote about it for "city pages." his take is that white people should shut up and stop whining. thanks for coming on, mike. you basically think of this as the alt-right white making a fuss about nothing. >> right. i would say that this doesn't bother me. i'm surprised that it bothers them. if you saw the original message on the website, it said to allies of this group, they would ask that you please give them privacy to have their meeting alone. i don't think that the people on campus or form are the people that have acted like they are outraged at this are actually the allies they were referring to. >> mark

. >>> a football player at the university of minnesota, that's another story earned a scholarship even though he hasn't played in a game. so justin judaman has been a backup kicker. off the field he volunteers at a local kid's hospital. one of the kids he hangs out with showed up at his team meeting to give him the good news. check it out. >> it's pretty fun. kyle , we were sitting in my office and he goes what is that? and that's my new toy. i said new toy that just came in. he said can i shoot it? i said no you can't shoot that thing. [indiscernible]. so i'll let you shoot it in here. you can shoot it at justin. come over here. point it at him and get >> oh! >>[screaming] >> look what it says and this popped up. >>[screaming] >> what? ! >> his mom couldn't believe it. justin is a human resources major and he want to continue to give back once he graduates. >> that's pretty awesome. >>> now to a tweet about going to back to school. this tweet has gone viral. >> it's a message with two photos and the first is his dad walking his son on the first day of school and the second is years la

universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. from john edward on your watch and. question. recently professors of boston university and the university of minnesota law school jointly published a paper entitled battlefield casualties and ballot box defeat did the bush obama wars cost clinton the white house the paper starts out with a dramatic statement america has been at war for over fifteen years but few americans seem to notice which seems largely true to me i mean no one i know even realized that the u.s. dropped tens of thousands of bombs on seven countries and obama like they just don't even know that but there are americans who do notice how many wars were and how many bombs we've dropped because they are the people with friends and family members in the military who have died because of us bombs according to the paper over the years voters in communities with higher military casualty rates have become more likely to vote against politicians perceived as orchestrating the conflicts in which their friends and neighbors died in other words they vote against the war mongers and then the paper connects that to president trump's win in pennsyl

pollution increases the lower your income and the darker your skin gets the twenty four thousand university of minnesota study finds us minorities face nearly forty percent more exposure to toxic air pollution louisiana state rep terry brown tried to ban open burns in two thousand and sixteen but the space chemical industry and defense community fired back saying the move would a loony jobs even clean harbors countered with pictures of freshly painted third pads with flowers and cut grass look just because you give something a make over on the outside doesn't mean it's changed only inside the i want face of the trump administration change several times it's still largely run by people whose insides are powered by gov big. actually that makes it sound like they recycle i'm pretty sure scott pruitt just thinks recycling means using his diesel powered engine to also power is industrial to cook an entire baby cow at a time but open burns were made a terrible solution to eliminating the military waste covering toward a million acres of land cleanup costs are only a fraction of the military budget activists n

. >> reporter: university of minnesota's new coach p.j.up to a team meeting this week with a surprise play, and a special guest. kyle tanner, a patient at u.m.'s children's hospital. coach asked him who his favorite player was. >> that was [ applause ] >> reporter: justin juenemann, a walk-on third string kicker who's never played a single down. but, the coach praised him for never giving up, in football and in visiting young people like kyle. the coach then handed kyle a t-shirt cannon, which he promptly aimed at justin. who made a sweet one-handed grab. he read the shirt, then stunned, showed it to the team. he'd just been awarded a full scholarship. he also made it to. >> scott: sportscenter" to show ouf his souvenir. holding on to the 14ir9. and he caught it and read what it saw. >> everybody just jumped on me and went nuts that have. >> congrats to justin and thanks so much more watching. have great evening. good night. z2e2bz z1a2z y2e2by y1a2y [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its c

criner a political scientist at boston university and francis shen a law professor at the university of minnesota and they found a significant and meaningful relationship between a community's rate of military sacrifice and its support for trump you know i wonder if the rachel maddow is lindsey graham's or billy crystal bill kristol will take the time out of their busy busy busy busy days blaming russia to read this report or will they continue marching and cheer leading us into war with north korea russia or maybe at the end of the day even ourselves while they do that let's start watching the hawks. like you that i got.

much bigger role in the election of donald trump than any alleged russian hacking after a new study by researchers from boston university in the university of minnesota law school uncovered that if three states key to victory pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin had suffered even a modestly lower casualty rate all three could have flipped from red to blue and sent hillary clinton to the white house but hey you know tell our grads let's just you know keep on keeping on when it comes to that neo liberal foreign policy of bombing for peace but while the democrats were in shambles this week that didn't prevent the republicans from starting their own dumpster fire inside their party over the h.r. mcmasters pink slip spree in the national security council meanwhile and what i'm sure will bring even more animosity between c.n.n. and the republicans the cable news network recently unveiled a brand new poll revealing that sixty eight percent of u.s. citizens believe the current congress is an abject failure in fact just twenty four percent of americans approve of the leadership in the republican controlled congress down from thirty nine percent in january so w

much bigger role in the election of donald trump than any alleged russian hacking after a new study by researchers from boston university in the university of minnesota law school uncovered that.

definitely questioning it let's talk about this more with richard painter professor of law at the university of minnesota he was the chief white house at this lawyer from two thousand and five to two thousand and seven and is vice chair of the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington and in washington our old friend lanny davis he served as white house special counsel during the clinton ministration is also a strategic media and crisis management expert co-founder and partner of trident d.m.g. all right rigid was there any lawful problem it went into what the president did with mcconnell well. clearly of asia and the republican party chair of a toy in match mcconnell and that i am the house and the prize that at all i don't think the president clearly violates the law unless the engages in obstruction of justice or other criminal acts hesse mcconnell i heavily to stop the criminal to help prevent criminal investigations into the russian thing. yes and the question as what he asked mcconnell to do is that he asked mitch mcconnell to try to contact the f.b.i. and squelch a criminal investigatio

francis shen a law professor at the university of minnesota they filed a significant and meaningful relationship between a community's rate of military sacrifice and its support for trump you know i wonder if the rachel maddow is lindsey graham's or billy crystal bill kristol will take the time out of their busy busy busy busy days blaming russia to read this report or will they continue marching and cheer leading us into war with north korea russia or maybe at the end of the day even ourselves. while they do that let's start watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you know that i got. this. week so. welcome aboard to watch in the harks i am tyrone benton and i'm top of the other. oh you you know i said it's the entire all the reasons they've given us as to why trump won you know all the excuses that they've made for hillary's core her ability in the elections and losing the donald is this teetering blocks of you know it's like jungle you know you keep pulling these blocks out of benchley it's going to crumble i'm seeing it crumble yeah this new report you know i really

of someone that was just barely scraping by that they grew up in comfort. >> bob dylan is robert zimmerman from a middle-class family inans northern minnesota and he went to the university into the man. there's pictures of him posed exactly the same way. he just wanted to be woody guthrie because that is the was' truth. so, woodrow wilson guthrie was born in oklahoma to a guy that had played a lot of money by helpfully say this politely, trading with the indians is the nicest way to say it, stealing a love of land in the territory before it began in the states and after he became a state.es i'm going to be the biggest of them all. and he created a persona of the ultimate and people kept saying you freely lived a life commented and he would say i can do a good impersonation. people want our heroes to be authentic. >> it seems like he may have said that there was an impression that he was to be authentic and ben dillingham comes along and basically takes the similar and expounds on it. it seems in his earlier days he was more an impersonator. >> i start a chapter in the booe saying he'a booksaying he's a we says that. he says i make things up. it helps me. it creates thes

in june, this past june there is a conference at the university of minnesota school of social work in conjunction with the mental health network. to start to discuss some of these problems, what are some of the things that the first generation, second generation and now the third-generation are facing. somalis, especially those who immigrated in the past years were fleeing their civil war. going from refugee camp to refugee camp, waiting for the day that you get the phone call or the letter from mr. application has been accepted and you and your family annually with a heavy heart knowing the life that she built, the home that she wrote, the degree that you obtain scummy left all that behind in pursuit of a safer life and a better future for your children. so, ptsd is something that is common in the somali communities. but again, it was something that was not addressed. i believe it is the journal of the american medical association that says ptsd and refugees can range anywhere from 4% to 86%. 5% to 31%. so this is a real issue, a true issue. my generation and the somali americans may

this past june, there was a concert at the university of minnesota school of social work in conjunction with the somalia mental health works to start to discuss some of this. first generation, second generation, and now even third generation are facing. fleeing 20,ns were 25 years the war. going from refugee camp to refugee camp. getting the letter the application has been accepted but you and your family are not safe. thelife that you built, life that you built. you left all of that behind in pursuit of a safer life. ptsd is common. notn, it was something addressed. ofelieve it is the journal the american medical association ptsd and refugees remains anywhere from 76%. or five-31%. . but they grow up in a household where these issues are not address. you don't talk about depression or stress or ptsd or any of this. is ane of that, there intergenerational transfer of trauma. now, you as a second generation or third generation somali american may start to take on the trauma of your parents because they never got closure on those issues. they never talked about it, not even with their chi

. >> university of minnesota, kansas state university, they can't find a link in terms of human resistancebased upon food animal use. >> reporter: while the elite east coast schools have. so we asked ellen silbergeld of johns hopkins is it your word against their word? >> no. it is not. and if i may say so, i'm very tired of the press who says on the one hand and on the other hand. >> reporter: but you do understand that somebody in my position who can't possibly assess one study from the next, or one journal from the next, you can understand why i would be trying to be on the one hand, on the other hand. >> you know, at a certain point, this is rocket science. >> reporter: okay, so what am i supposed to do if it is rocket science? fortunately, i had someone else to turn do. you're the guy who covers rocket science! so am i just out of my depth here? >> i'm afraid it is rocket science. and the scientists i speak with are practically apocalyptic about a post antibiotic era. think of the procedures that could not happen: chemotherapy, cesarean sections, hip replacements, all of them absolute

university of minnesota professor steven has studied the rising cost of prescription drugs for decadesad idea to look around for a better deal. but he believes savings on these types of sites are often exaggerated. >> sometimes things are too good to be true. >> always looking around for better deals. >> yes. >> still we gave it a shot with john, remember, he was paying 462.99 for 30 day supply of his, and we found him 414-dollar apply, $50 savings. >> fifty bucks is quite a bit. >> good rx gave the best deal, $382 with a on line coupon, $81 off the regular price. >> yes, that's really good. >> he will now be checking both, before he buys. >> a big help. >> considering it a bit of pain control, for his bottom line. liz collins, for cbs news, minneapolis. >> well, coming up: the dangerous reason why more than 1 million ford explore remembers now under investigation. >> speaking every danger, would you walk on this? tell you where the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world is open. that's next. during our made to move you online research.t, or, you can take advantage of our be

abc ne abc news -- >> reporter: university of minnesota's new coach, p.j fleck showed up with a surprised a special guest. kyle tanner, a patient at u.m.'s children hospital. coach asked him who his favorite player was. >> justin juenemann. >> reporter: justin juenemann, a walk-on third string kicker who has never played a single down. but the coach praised him for never giving up in football and in visiting young people like kyle. the coach then handed kyle a t-shirt cannon, which he promptly aimed at justin. , who made a sweet one-handed grab. he read the shirt, then, stunned, showed it to the team. he had just been awarded a full scholarship. and just to make things even sweeter, justin also made it on "sports center" to share his story and his newest souvenir. >> i brought it with me just in case, and i'm holding on to this for a while. >> reporter: holding on to the shirt and the moment when he caught it and saw what it said. >> once i read that, everybody kind of jumped on me, and it just went nuts after that. >> reporter: abc news, new york. >>> organizers of this year's outside l

he teaches law at the university of minnesota. welcome to you all, michael you're our reality assessments. how big a bombshell is this? >> well it's big, brian. but it's also part of a pattern. i think what's significant is the way this pattern is coming into clearer focus. look, on the underlying substance of whether there was collusion, whether the russians directly influenced the trump campaign. i think the jury is out. some democrats are placing hopes in the idea there is a smoking gun. we don't know that yet. where we see mounting and i think quite damning evidence is without knowing what the underlying infraction may have been we are seeing a pattern of ob fuss accusation, deception, changing and conflicting stories on the part of the president and people at the white house, that sure looks like the behavior of people who are trying to hide something. what doesn't add up about the russia story, even though we haven't proven direct kremlin influence and collusion in the campaign -- and again that investigation is ongoing -- wh

. >>> up next, university of minnesota professor erika lee talks about asian immigration to the west coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of san francisco bay's angel island in the 20th century. she compares the angel island and ellis island experiences, describing how asian immigrants in california had more extensive background checks and longer holding times than european immigrants in new york. the class is about 90 minutes. >> well, hello, guys. welcome back. i'm really excited to talk to you today for our session this afternoon because so many of us as americans, we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island, right? this is what we talked about last week. it is the history of european immigrants coming to t

. >>> up next, university of minnesota professor erika lee talks about asian immigration to the west coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of san francisco bay's angel island in the 20th century. she compares the angel island and ellis island

. >> up next we take to you the university of minnesota where professor erica lee teaches a class on asian grimes to the west coast from 1830 to 1930. she focus z on the prominent rool role of san francisco's angel island. this is about 90 minutes. >> well hello guys welcome back. i'm really excited to talk to you today for our session this afternoon because so many of us as americans we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island. it's the history of european immigrants coming to the new world under the shadow of the statue of liberty. it's told as an uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans. but not mm of us know the history of angel

. >>> up next, we take you to the university of minnesota where professor erika lee teaches a class on asian immigration to the west coast from 1830 to 1930. she focuses on the prominent role of san francisco's angel island. this is about 90 minutes. >> well, hello, guys. welcome back. i'm really excited to talk to you today for our session this afternoon because so many of us as americans, we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island, right? this is what we talked about last week. it's the history of european immigrants coming to t

. >> reporter: university of minnesota's new coach showed up to a team meeting this week with a surpriseest. kyle tanner, a patient at um's children's hospital. coach asked him who his favorite player was. [ applause ] >> reporter: justin juniman, a walk-on, third-string kicker who's never played a single down, but the coach praised him for never giving up in football and in visiting young people like kyle. shirt cannon, which he promptly aimed at justin. he made a sweet, one-handed grab. he rubbed the shirt, then stunned, showed it to the team. he'd just been awarded a full scholarship, and just to make things even sweeter, justin also made it on sports center to share his story and newest souvenir. >> i brought it with me just in case. i'm holding onto this for a while. >> reporter: holding onto the shirt and the moment when he caught it and saw what it said. >> once i read that and everybody jumped on me, and it just went nuts after that. >> reporter: mara schiavocampo. >> i love the team's reaction. everybody's so incredibly pumped for him. >> he apparently face timed with his mother

she graduated from the university of minnesota with a degree with her friend margaret.profile. [ laughter ] if there's anything i can tell you about margaret, it's that she loves to party and she loves her dog. [ laughter ] i started looking at margaret's dog's profile. [ laughter ] and then i accidentally liked one of margaret's dog's photos. and i was like, oh, no. are they going to trace this all the way back to me? [ laughter ] so i unliked it. but then i remembered that if you like something and you unlike it they can see you that liked it and you unliked it. so i decided i'm just going to like it. because if i'm going to go out i'm going to go out like a g. and then i realized i'd been sitting on the toilet for two hours. [ laughter ] [ applause ] that's it for me, guys. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's how gs do it. that was very damon. we did run out of time for him. thanks to our guests. "nightline" is next. thank you very much. that was very funny. good night. thanks for watching. >>> this is "nightline." >> tonight, phone calls from death r