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letters have survived, and much has been said about what a prolific personal writer president bush wasas in s own life. the letters have survived that he wrote to barbara during that 1943 time period including a letter that he wrote to her december the 12th, 1943, saying, my darling barb -- this is when they were still engaged. he saided you've made my life fl of everything i could ever dream of. my complete happiness should be a token of my love for you. who writes like that? other than a man who was just a great personal example to the nation. ing they were married january the 6th, 19 45, had six children. they were there longest married presidential couple. married 73 years. ins. 1994 barbara bush described her husband in her memoirs as the two luckiest people in the world. when all the dust is settled and allwd the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family and friends. and we've been inordinately blessed, and we know that. in 1994, that same year, he's still writing her, decades later. he wrote her on their anniversary in 1994 with this note: will you marry me? then h

safely tucked in now and through the ages with god' loving arms around you because our glory, george, wasa to had you as our president and as such a friend. >> after the ceremony the casket was takenin by t to his presidential library in college station, texas. thousands of mourners lined the 70 mile route to wave their final good-byes. he's now buriede along s his wife barbara and daughter, robin. our coverage of his legacy and state funerals here in texas ant wash continues on our nbc washington app. we have a photo gallery of george hw. bush being mourned by the nation he. le just search bush funeral. >> we have an update to a story that you saw first on news 4. he ordered shirts from a jos a. bank. there was something extra in the box. a couple of pages indicate a connection to maryland physicians care. the organization isig inveing what happened and will update us when it has more information. the documents included patients home addresses, date of birth, i.d. numbers and medical history. >> it's crazy to think if it happened here, did this happen multiple times or are oth ople gettin

this wasas after an appeals cout upheld his conviction in 2011, but vacacated his death sentenc. he had been n on death row for decades. what itmumia abu-jamal meant in the longer be on death row. >> well, i could, but i would be lying. i call this slow death throw. life and pennsylvania means life. pennsylvania has one of the largest life populations of any state in the united states. it had the distinction of having the absolute highest number of juvenile lifers, of any state in the united states -- indeed, of any jurisdiction in the world. so that should give you some sense. amy: so that is mumia abu-jamall speaking in 2013. he was moved -- he no longer faces the death penalty. life without pararole is what he faces now. in general population. what abobout his health, profesr fernandez? >> about two or three years ago, mumia collapsed in prison and was rushed to the hospital.l. he was neaear death. ,fter r six months of t tests medical l tests, one o of ourr doctors who randomlyly went in d lookoked at mumia, essentitially established he had hepatitis c. as you know, hepatitis

when i got this colllleague of mine to come back and this with me, the very first box very open up wasashe dow demononstratio. other networks, cigna could get a tax write off if they contributed their video, their film to the historicacal society -- google amounts. all ofof a sudden we had like 10 boxes of zones, , no one knew wt it was about, and we had this deal with the historical society. i'm pretty sure this is the first documentary film ever almost exclusively the visual element that a lot of the archive cocomes from local tvv moves -- news. amy: let's go to anotother clip from "the war at home," which features vietnam vets, like ron and al who we hear from first. and we came back from thehe war the e vironment here w hososti , eecially to .. ople i ithe peacmoveveme were down on u peopop who wererfor ththwar were down on us >> iuess i gvivitatetoward vets for peace a as an organizationn terms of involvement and the a antiwar moveme a at that poin we have some credilility as guys who habeen in vieam coming back and saying, hey, , it is t working, they'reyingng to you, the light ata

wasas born in new -- jazz born in new orleans. at that time, people do not want to see people coming together. that is what to lead to the draconian cannabis laws. the bernard noble case was what we learned about. we decided to go to new orleans and talk to his family. experience, what they talked about. noteamily hit on a sad when his brother passed. provide a vehicle that was promising for him to take part in this funeral. his mother and sister broke down in tears. it was a really sad moment. later, i heard bernard was going to get all. it took him three months to finally let him out. it was a special moment. it is great to see you. [applause] philanthropy is something that has been moving the situation in an aggressive way. people that are going to share some valuable light on that. meek mill, i want to start off with you. you got caught up in the system unjustly. it became a national issue. of the biggest issues in the criminal justice system you witnessed during your time on the inside? meek: i don't know where to start. guys

feverishly tweeting that american troops will be withdrawn and this was a troops will be withdrawn and this wasahis was a campaign promise. i thought that general mattis, who resigned, i thought he would be up to sway him and appeared to do so for a while but now donald trump is welded to a disastrous middle east policy. are much rupee will reserve the make reverse the. netanyahu neta nyahu appealed and netanyahu appealed and he was fobbed off. the region needs a larger contingent and i applaud the french president for keeping troops there with the help of the germans and the british, who also have a large troop presence there to blunt the withdrawal of donald trump. president trump has said the partial shutdown of the federal government is going to last until he gets the funds to build a wall on the mexico border. the shutdown began at midnight friday after opposition democrats resisted the president's demand for 5 billion dollars for his mexico border wall. here's mr trump speaking to reporters earlier. i can't tell you when the government's going to be open. i can tell you it's not going to b

getting them something to drink wasa priority. getting them something to drink was a problem.that is the main thing, so watering animals is a big chore at the moment and just trying to feed and getting to the sheep that are three miles away. fine and games at the moment! in the countryside in cumbria, special vehicles were brought into reach outlying farms, as the snow covered the features of the land. that weekend and saw the situation improved slightly, but by the first monday of spring it was clear that many communities in northern england were completely cut off. drastic measures were needed and this raf helicopter was sent to cumbria, it patrolled the frozen uplands, dropping in on isolated communities. and for some it was just to check all was well, but others were fast running out of fuel and needed help. what is the reaction when you drop in? quite surprised, but we are here to reassure them that help is on their way. we are working with the police and the mountain rescue. what are you giving them 7 and the mountain rescue. what are you giving them? food from one of th

a school bus, full of children, who were coming back from a field trip and fro 41 of them died, it wasa, last i check not made in saudi arabia. >> problem is if you stop immediately right now you just pro long the suffering, what better end it now, resolve it, saudis win, houthi coop from 5 years ago, the rock 'n roll houthi coop. that started whole thing, i worked in that part of the world, this is a long running yemeni issue. that the iranians injected themselves into and saudis don't want it on their border this is on saudi bored sneer bored bo . kennedy: there no way that united states wins any part of this, saudi arabia sells billions and billions and billions of dollars worth of oil, tell them to make their own damn weapons. >> they will fight the war with or without us, they are not dropping american equipment and buying russian, they are beholden to us, that was by dispiedesign 30 years ago, it ia loathesome regime, it just aslowing som loathesome now. but women can now make the bad decisions too, they are more important today than they were 30 years ago because they are the but

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you could see his own political future and to see him travel over time to this day, so emotional, wasasesident bush 43 as he returned home to midland texas. but now to pick up the mantel for his father, it's quite a journey and you could see him really wearing it with a lot of emotion today. >> i thought this was not only moving for the bush family but more importantly for people across the country. this nation is hungdregry for inspiration. i think thought found it today. remember before jeb ran barbara was telling people the country is bushed out. and it seemed that way. i think it was one of the reasons he didn't get the nomination. i think today people are looking at the character and looking at george h.w. bush and the whole family in a different light, a positive light. >> i was with the family last night. they were really looking forward to this being a celebration and not a cry fest, as they would put it and i think they've got to be really pleased with the way it went today. this was a spectacular sendoff. i think they planned it that way and it was beautifully executed. i thin

and they said their policy wasas to prevent escapes at alall cos. and so, we s said, "w"well, if it means thehe deah of one person or 20 persons, does that still hold true?" and he said, "yes." ifif it meant the deathh of one child or 20 chiren?n? he said, "yes." so, anywayay, i was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy because the gu were registered in my name. and -- amy: y you had a major d decisin to make at that time, and you decided to go underground. angela: well, i wasn't going to turn myself in. [laughter] [applause] angela: you know? i mean, we all -- we were alall very much aware of what had happened to lil' bobby hutton, an 18-year-old member ofof the black pantherer party, when he tried to surrender to police and was killed. and it was really y interesting, an interview -- or, rather, a study was done, a poll was taken,, of people in los angeles in black communities. anand the questition was wtherr theyey thought thatat i was doing the right thing by leaving. and it was like 90 percent said yeses, because they knew the los ange

one of the most famous woman to emerge from ken burns is the civil war, which came out in -- wasas the wife of sarah who lost her husband in the battle of bull run. burns it used the motif of her letter to showcase civil war sacrifice. the documentary comments that sarah never remarried. hmm. some of us were not surprised. how likely was remarriage with a generation of men wiped out? the are given the object of the soldiers attachment rather than the subject of her harsh reality . we do not hear from sarah. was it fidelity or fate? burns left too many women's rooms on the cutting floor. burns focused on the experiences of war as a military event, a choice which i appreciate, and it enabled them to exploit the drama of a soldier's life with impending battles, bittersweet victories, defeat. we need to include women's voices and not perpetuate omission. with thousands of widows, trying to raise her children, years later was eligible to claimant -- claim extension. -- a pension. had scarlett o'hara's luck, died -- her first husband died of dysentery. soldiers mortality was a harsh reality.

testify to a conspiracy to commit espionage, and they would've come into courtns and said yes, there wasa conspiracy. here's what i did. here's what president trump did. here was who was in charge of coordinating with the kremlin and so on. that's the way you build a case. you have the accomplice plead guilty to the main scheme that you're trying to prove in the case, then your 90% of the way home. the way you don't build a case is by pleading all of your witnesses to false statements to the fbi so that the one enduring thing the jury will take away from the trial is that yours witnesses can'tth be believed. >> laura: it's classic. thank you so much. could the incoming democrat house leaders actually put our future at risk by spending all their energy trying to take down urtrump? our angle explores what dangerous country will benefit most of all next. ♪ there's no place like home ♪ argh! i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ >> laura: resisting globalism and winning. that's the focus of tonight's angle. it's often lost in the cohen-comey-mueller shuffle, a more important issue, far more i

what is the role of this attorney who wasas advising donald trump? what is your take on what's going on here? >> this man is a scumbag. it's very simple. he's a liar. he's a scumbag. he was caught avoiding taxes on more than $3 million worth of income.. he has to make something up to save his skin. this is what he did. this is a man who doesn't understand, he's trying to paint a picture that if your client tells you to do somethingg illegal, you as a lawyer aren't obliged to tell him i'm not going to do that. he is making things up. let's remind everybody who illegally recorded his phone conversations with his clients. >> jason: sara, i want to give you the last word on what we'vej seen with mr. cohen in that interview. >> mr. cohen is trying to reframe himself he is trying to change the american perception of him. mr. cohen is a liar, he's being convicted and as sebastian said, mueller was trying to compose using cohen. trying to compose some type of argument to find some way to indict president trump. in the end, he cannot be trusted he has proven

the ross perot role ended up being the one that was more paramount, but it wasas clearly the seeds that were planted after breaking that pledge and the challenges of new hampshire, quite frankly. >> right. >> george w. bush, now the family patriarch, leading the family across the tarmac there as the casket is about to be taken from the hearse and put aboardhe this aircraft in the presidential fleet. let's watch. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> president george w. bush leaving as the family boards the member of the presidential fleet. normally we see it as air force one. in this case, special air mission sam 41 in honor of the 41st president. he'll be heading now to texas, about a three hour and forty minute flight. as we prepare for the departure, let's get some final thoughts. chuck? >> as i've said before, i think presidential funerals are a moment in time, and it's a way we mark our time historically. it's a way i've marked my own life. i think people, especially in our business, we do this a lot in the political world, we do this a lot. and we look at it, i think, through the prism of our c

but wasas resigned fired early and we accept that as good constitutional law. the johnson impeachment was absolutely wrong. the clinton impeachment was wrong. the only impeachment that was correct never came to fruition, het is nixon, because engaged in destruction of evidence, paying hush money to .itnesses, a woman and telling his subordinates to lie to the fbi, independent crimes and not within the president's authority under article 2. that was the only appropriate case for impeachment and he would have been impeached had he not resigned. host: is there a concise definition for absorption of justice -- obstruction of justice? guest: no. it is an open-ended statute that can be expanded, a dangerous statute and i would never approve on an object -- statute,on of justice i want them to say what constitutes a crime, namely destroying evidence, etc. there is no definite definition. i go back to the principle i talked about earlier, when you interpret a criminal statute, you have to interpret it as ambiguity in a way that favors the defendant and not expansion of

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how wrong he wasas." all that and more,e, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in wisconsin, protesters took to the state capitol monday evening to oppose republican state is to oppose republican state lawmakers to push through a series of bills to stririp power from incncoming democratic gogovernor tony evers before he takes office. protesters flooded the capitol bubuilding chanting "r"respect r vovotes!" and "shame!" the bills s aim to limit the por of the democratitic governor and attorney general-elect, , restrt the early voting periods. the republic instructed the legislation after republican governor scott walker lost a close race to tony evers in november. in north carolina, election officials are investigating possible fraud in a tight congressional election that remains uncalled nearly one month after the midterm elections. unofficial results have republican mark harris leading democrat dan mccready by just over 900 votes. the investigation centers on a number of absentee ballots, which appea

wasas not a big time but it the first time we had a chance. d a commendablee some careful job dragging him out of kuwait and restoring an order to the government in iraq. later on when we went back in in issue turned into more than weapons of mass destruction. ,rom the time we were sworn in we first began to get the daily brief as the president always gets, we were receiving the very first brief. we were learning about saddam hussein and weapons of mass distraction. ar the next 17 months we got constant fire reporting from the intelligence community. in the follows 2002, there was a thing called the national intelligence prepared by the community of the direction of the cia. heavy as a report as you will get. it warned about saddam hussein and his weapons of mass distraction. the weekend while we were in the planning process, we had a meeting in the oval office. the president, myself, the national security adviser, secretary of state was there and george tenet who was the cia director. ae answer he got was, slamdunk, mr. president, it is a sla

off the bus, when they essentially kicked them off the bus into downtown el paso, one of those kids wasas about sevenr eieight years old, t the same as selena gomez alonzo -- felipe gomez alonzo. thank k god nearby there were and theyire d departments were able e to offer first aid o that childld and we were able to send him to the hospital in an ambulance. but these e childrenen are being held -- these families are b beg held i in terrib conditions s in cbp and border patatrol cells anywhere between four anand eigt dadays before they are released eitherer into ice custody or ino our community. ththe conditions arere not good. we're hearing from migrants there are very cramped conditions. many people in very small cells. people not having the ability to bathe for several days. food is minimal. bathroom ise minimal. we are told they're not even to go to the bathroom with any real privacy. in these conditions, itt is to e expepected that chilen a are goi toto get sick. that is what we saw with jakelin into cymer, that she presented ,ehydration s symptoms, feverish i very high fever. she is

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it was eric.va it wasa. it was melania. it was tiffany. take tiffany. you don't want me. want tiffany. you want tiffany." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and trump did it again last week in an interview with the "new york post" where he confmed again that he's considering pardoning manafort. >> during an ol office interview, president trump told the "new york post" he has not ruled out a pardonor former campaign chairman paul manafort. quote, "it was never discussed. but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table?" the president said.e' >> seth: hmy question. why are you doing interviews with the "new york post"? trump so desperately wishes he was the mayor of new york and not the president. then all he'd have to do is talk to the "post," show up to ribbon cuttings and have sandwiches nameafter him at delis. "make sure you order the donald trump. it a turkey sandwich. but the turkey is ham. because i'm a liar." [ laughter ] [ applause ] trump is already -- trump is already facing possible obstruction of justice charges before. but his comment

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oh, i don't know if i wasas whether or not . >> but you thought it might be the flu and they actually considered your worst fear which is shortening the mission. >> yeah, well, that's another example. you know the damn doctor's what, 100,000 miles away, he doesn't know what's going on. and i got over it very rapidly. and jim and bill both told me that they felt queasy too when they started moving around and i threw up a couple of times and it was over with. it wasn't a big deal. >> well, and now it's so common. i mean it's like half the people -- >> well, move around in the shuttle. >> yeah. >> i gather some people don't get over it but i didn't have any trouble with it. somebody said that glenn puked when he got back too. i don't know. >> he did he admitted that he did. >> did he? i don't why would do it on reentry but you would think maybe in space you might. i don't know but it wasn't a factor. >> was it -- it was certainly uncomfortable. >> well, nobody likes to throw up. >> but it was short term. >> short term. >> um -- >> i thought -- i never take pills if i don't have to and i

it wasa 43% premium as less closing.2030 takeover offer from archer daniels midland being against the national interest. the deutsche bank boss doesn't plan to be personally targeted in the money laundering inquiry. police raided the headquarters and other offices last week. the investigation touches the private wealth unit overseen by the man before he became ceo. the bank conducted its own inquiry and considers the matter closed. vietnam airlines is pushing ahead with plans for an ipo in the new year. the financial times says the carrier aims to offer shares on the ho chi minh stock exchange in the first quarter although the final decision on listing will be made by the government in hanoi. it revises a plan that originally saw the anon air entering to come to the market by 2019. this region of brazil and has been a popular place for wealthy foreigners attracted by the skiing, golf and vineyards. the crackdown has begun to affect the market. average price has fallen. let's go over to the bloomberg charts. what does thi

. >> reporter: it wasas chris eve 1968 and soon there was another task at hand.truction as we have of how to take a picture of th earthrise. >> reporter: commander borman decided the crew would do ain re do you remember what part you read? >> the first part. >> reporter: do you mind reang it? >> in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth. the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. d the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters and god said, let there be light. apparently thated really sho mission control. they weren't expecting that whatsoever. >> reporter: apollo 8 splashed down in the spask onecber 26th. and the photo which came to be known as earthrise was published a few days later. >> it must be the most astonishing photograph anyone has seen. >> reporter: while it would appear on a stamp and in countless magazines, the camera it was taken on all but disappeared until recently. there is a place in kansas called the cosmos sphere? wanted tou see if might be interested in taking a look at that. >> what is

but wasas resigned fired early and we accept that as good constitutional law. johnson impeachment was absolutely wrong. the clinton impeachment was wrong. the only impeachment that was correct never came to fruition, het is nixon, because engaged in destruction of evidence, paying hush money to .itnesses, a woman and telling his subordinates to lie to the fbi, independent crimes and not within the president's authority under article 2. that was the only appropriate case for impeachment and he would have been impeached had he not resigned. host: is there a concise definition for absorption of justice -- obstruction of justice? guest: no. it is an open-ended statute that can be expanded, a dangerous statute and i would never approve on an object -- statute,on of justice i want them to say what constitutes a crime, namely destroying evidence, etc. there is no definite definition. i go back to the principle i talked about earlier, when you interpret a criminal statute, you have to interpret it as ambiguity in a way that favors the defendant and not expansion of the

wasas so funny, pedro, i thinking about this last night. in my generation, i grew up and did not know anything about food stamps or welfare or never saw a homeless person where i lived. all we knew is that we worked and take care of ourselves and our own. ,ost: we will go to evelyn baltimore, maryland, a snap recipient. caller: hello. i have been listening to everyone and it seems like everybody is trying to put food stamps on black people. it is a lot of caucasians that get food stamps. i am on disability. they give me food stamps, $15. i agree that people that are able to work should have to do some type of work or volunteer to get their food stamps. one guy called in and said all he has to do is go and say he is not working. that is not true. in maryland, you have to show your income. that is why i only get $15. they have social security numbers. if they are working, they will not get food stamps. i don't know why people are putting out this misinformation. baltimore arek in the requirements and how aggressive are those who -- how strict