i think that president clinton did a very good job in lifting up the middle class. i think we had the best economic performance for middle class and actually for working people in the 90s through the economic policies. that was a very productive time. i think that the president obama worked very hard to develop a strong middle class and obviously i think the health care bill although wasn't popular really helps people because they know they can have health care even if they lose a job. so i would disagree with the premise in a sense but that's -- might be understandable on my part. it is, the question is, and i think there are going to be a lot of democratic candidates who i think will reach out to different aspects of the democratic party and we'll be able to decide who is going to do the best job of appealing, i hope, to all of us and it's not just a fraction of the party. host: again our question which party has changed the most since 1968. you can follow us @cspan istory. -- you can follow us @cspanhistory. we go back to party. april 1968. vice president humphre

in many ways, she paved the way for obama, hillary clinton, for elizabeth warren, kamala harris. you know, she says it all. she says i'm not the candidate of the people of color. i'm not the candidate of the women's movement. i am a qualified candidate. both encapsulates the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement, but most ultimately, she goes for what is most important, which is people of merit and intellect, and she is all of those things. host: let's go to robert in brooklyn, new york. go ahead, please. caller: hi. good morning. what do you think rosa park, refusing to go to the back of the bus in the women's movement? ae second question i have is hollywood actress said what is going on in israel and palestine is extremely distressing to her? host: rosa parks. guest: i see rosa parks as exclusively a figure of the civil rights movement. i think it happens to be the case that she was a brave woman, but her point was not for women, it was for african-americans. and if she had been a white woman, she would have been allowed to sit at the front of the bus without pr

paved the wayshe for obama, hillary clinton, .lizabeth warren, kamala harris she says it all. i'm not the candidate of the people of color or of the women's movement. ima qualified candidate. she both encapsulates the women's right movements and the civil rights movement, but most importantly, she recognized people of merit and intellect, and she is all of those things. host: let's go to robert in brooklyn, new york. caller: what do you think rosa park would feel about the going to the back of the bus, the women's movement. the second question, how do inresses -- what is going on israel and palestine is extremely distressing to her. host: rosa parks. guest: ic rosa parks as exclusively a figure of the civil rights movement. it happens to be the case that she was a brave woman, but her point was not for women, it was for african-americans. ,f she had been a white woman she would have been allowed to sit at the front of the bus without problems. so i thought this was truly about civil rights for african americans and not the primacy of the women's movement. natalie portman has m

i don't know why former president bill clinton and former president barack obama, i love the brother, okay? why have they not been here. don't tell me somebody sent a video. don't tell me somebody sent a statement. okay? we have got to start being honest about facts. >> yeah. >> okay? now, that is simply a fact. they're not here. >> all right. i want to stop you one second. >> no, listen -- >> what about this president? he's the policymaker. do you put an onus on this president as well? >> hold on. no, no, no, no, no, that's not what i'm saying. >> i get you. but he's the policy maker at this moment. >> no, no, no, no, no. you know. excuse me, that's not what i'm saying. i'm simply saying we can't have amnesia about dealing with the reality of our experience, and the reality of our experience, martin luther king jr., rosa parks, linda brown, the brown versus the board of education, those are powerful things that occurred. what they did over the past 50 years and extraordinary. and the fact that we're here to celebrate the legacy of this particular person that i was honored to work wit

he picked up and bill clinton's baton and ran with it. he did more for africa than bill clinton. the republicans around him, the karl roves and the rest of them felt it wouldn't make a difference because the black community -- come on, that is sad. it is a hard issue and an economic issue, a health issue. >> what did he do about africa? >> he and bill clinton devised a plan to bring generic drugs into africa, from malaria, transfer of aids, that malaria is terrible in africa and trade. it is all about helping boost the economy. it is a holistic piece. this president really worked in sub-saharan africa and bill clinton helped him. it within a limousine ride. these things you don't know, nuances you just don't know. another piece, we had a conversation about race. we always talked about race but when john mccain and sarah palin and barack obama and joe biden were running against one another he let me know he saw subtle and overt racism happening in the country. he made me aware he saw it. he followed through with it in letting me know. the person that i knew in that white house you

then she creates a separate account starts watching clinton videos and that it was recommended left-wing videos that she started watching jogging videos and it started doing stuff about marathons. so is trying to maximize the maritime year spending on youtube for advertising purposes. and people tend to click on more inflammatory types of content. so the goals out so matter. in this case they wanted to sell an ad. some of these are about what we have living in this world with the tools are being built by people that community is not diverse at all work is very white and male the with corporate interests you get a range of other problems. >> thank you we have time for one more. >> this has to deal with social aspects of ai. if mentioned by the 2030s a large percentage of please population one of the jobs they have today. given our federal government has most of its tax revenue from income tax from our labor, how do you see the government earning a large portion of its revenue? to see a robot tax? >> the statistic i gave of 30% unemployment was from a report about the u.k. the 2030s. the u

democratic leadership council, that had essentially all of the biggest stars of the party, al gore, bill clinton, of that era, involved with it, and when i talk about this, i often say, then there's the republican leadership illinois and show an empty slide. there's no one there a think call the main street partnership, run by a wonderful historian who wrote a great op-ed basically saying the party needs to really propose measures that will help working americans,, and there's no truth behind that vision. so it is worth asking, why has there been so little pushback within the party? so i think with regard to policy issue think it's a story about how the -- those who really believe in these conservative policy aims are organized and have been able to shape the primary election, have put a lot of money on the table. there's the koch network is essentially a shadow republican party and in a context in which republican heards an electoral edge which worries me for the fall, they were table do this. what you're asking is why have republicans allied themselves so closely with trump. why is the the onl

he picked up and bill clinton's baton and ran with it. he did more for africa than bill clinton. the republicans around him, the karl roves and the rest of them felt it wouldn't make a difference because the black community -- come on, that is sad. it is a hard issue and an economic issue, a health issue. >> what did he do about africa? >> he and bill clinton devised a plan to bring generic drugs into africa, from malaria, transfer of aids, that malaria is terrible in africa and trade. it is all about helping boost the economy. it is a holistic piece. this president really worked in sub-saharan africa and bill clinton helped him. it within a limousine ride. these things you don't know, nuances you just don't know. another piece, we had a conversation about race. we always talked about race but when john mccain and sarah palin and barack obama and joe biden were running against one another he let me know he saw subtle and overt racism happening in the country. he made me aware he saw it. he followed through with it in letting me know. the person that i knew in that white house you

discuss several of the issues he spaced as fbi director including the russian investigation, hillary clinton's e-mails and his views on present drum. watch james comey live on book tv c-span2 in primetime monday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> author garrett is next from book tvs coverage of the annapolis book festival. he reports on the emergency evacuation plan for high-ranking government officials. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. welcome to the school in the annapolis book festival. the name is steven and my sons went here and i continue to serve here on the board of the schools. it's great to see them sponsoring this event for the community. i am here today with garrett graff is the author of a book called raven rock. the story of the us government secret plans to save itself while the rest of us die. it's a sardonic book and makes amusing and instructive in frightening major issues of the government preparedness for continuity after a war, especially a nuclear war. garrett knows what he's talking about and writing about and he is a

then she creates a separate account starts watching clinton videos and that it was recommended left-wing videos that she started watching jogging videos and it started doing stuff about marathons. so is trying to maximize the maritime year spending on youtube for advertising purposes. and people tend to click on more inflammatory types of content. so the goals out so matter. in this case they wanted to sell an ad. some of these are about what we have living in this world with the tools are being built by people that community is not diverse at all work is very white and male the with corporate interests you get a range of other problems. >> thank you we have time for one more. >> this has to deal with social aspects of ai. if mentioned by the 2030s a large percentage of please population one of the jobs they have today. given our federal government has most of its tax revenue from income tax from our labor, how do you see the government earning a large portion of its revenue? to see a robot tax? >> the statistic i gave of 30% unemployment was from a report about the u.k. the 2030s. the u

i'm also proud former deputy assistant secretary of state working under secretary of state hillary clinton. [applause] >> what do you you say to introduce someone that we know her by her first name? and who is so many of us revere her soars triumph and soul crushing challenges are etched in our minds and hearts as they are in her own. i can't add to the headlines of history books, so i'll speak more personally. i came into her orbit in 2007 when she first ran for president. and it was through richard holbrook a former boss and force of nature who was determined to get her elected. i'll always be grateful that he pulled me into that campaign. fast forward three years later,

now, hillary clinton knows something about that. [laughter] he went on let us have faith and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. let's face it. our faith in this country that right makes might have been shaken over the last 18 months. but as lincoln points out, that belief can not be a static article of faith. it's wrath arer a call to duty. only by fulfilling that duty can his harkening to faith be vindicated. as defenders of the freedom to right we in the america have a duty to stand vigilant to storm the barricades, to mobilize others because the more we rouse, the more robust our defense. at the end lincoln's cooper union address are the crowd exploded into wild cheering wave hats and hank chiefs with that image in mind, and no further adieu i offer our former senator and secretary of state hillary clinton. [cheering and applause] >> thank you. thank you all. thankthank you very, very much. thank you. [cheering and applause] thank you. thank you, thank you, it's such a great honor to be here

clinton, dare to compete. and i felt like all of the of worries i'd been having -- i had to face them, and i'd been somebody who had encouraged women to run for office, i supported a lot of women candidates, i was really proud of them, and now this young woman was telling me that. so, i eventually decided to run. it was a great campaign, and i loved being a senator for eight years. and then something similar started happening around 2006. people began coming to me and saying, you know, you should think about rung for president. you need to think about this. again i was pretty unconvinced. i thought, you know -- i just can't even -- i can't think about this. and, again, though, people kept sort of confronting me and i had to say to myself do you not want to do it or are you afraid of doing it? and i concluded i was kind of afraid of doing it, and so if that were the reason, then i was going to be somewhat hypocritical going around telling everybody, particularly women, get out there and run if i was afraid to d

they are searching for in 2016 hillary clinton education plan, donald trump trade views. they're not necessarily as caught up in kind of the cable cycle of the endless back and forth and what's being tweeted. like, they are actually searching for stuff. and we also see that in the youngest generations that's even more. they're going to direct sources. they are reading, actually, white papers that candidates put out. that's a nice, hopeful symbol there. i'm going to turn back to david who has done such deep reporting over the years over donald trump and his financial dealings. and, you know, you compare him frequently and in the book and on television to the mob, sort of his -- the way that he operates his businesses and now how you believe that translates to the way you believe he's operating the administration. so explain that. >> well, donald is not a businessman. i'm a businessman. i'm the co-founder of a successful little company that manages a hotel. and you start a business to create wealth. donald is a cash extractor. he runs businesses the same way the mob does wh

i'm a trump supporter only in that idea of voting for hillary clinton made me naysuated. so this discussion that we've just heard is one because it has no sense of balance at all. it's a bunch of people who would like trump to it fall off the face of the earth and make us all happy. i don't think that this is the kind of view point that's going to make our country a better place. even if the democrats win in the next election. on the the house -- which they may very well. so i don't support all of trump. but i support some of what he does. and what he's doing -- and you heard nothing, nothing even closely positive from that panel. >> thank you bernie and huntington, new york let's go to brian had in michigan. brian, you're on booktv what it you think about that author panel? >> thank you bernie -- [inaudible conversations] let's go to -- go to -- brian, you know the rule ares, you know what -- we're going to put brian on hold. hold on the line -- okay. peter -- i'm here. >> brian you know better -- you've got to turn down volume on the tv you know that, brian. >> whoop, h

they didn't like clinton or trump. they voted gop or they were pro-life and there's a mitigating factor. in that sense it's not the states he lost. he lost the more disillusioned person. to hear not to worry about is temperament about his writing and his ability and hatefulness and about our economic plight that people blame folks. including our local representatives as well. my day job is a journalist. >> host: for? >> guest: [inaudible] >> host: and this is your first book and it came out on the same day is james cummings book question. [laughter] thing or bad thing? >> guest: i think that conley was wrongly fired and i'm not a big fan of him and the more he talks the less i like him but i don't think he is unpatriotic or unqualified but i do think that he showed poor judgment in his actions. i also disagree with him on stuff like the criminal justice system where he thanks that you shouldn't use the word mass incarceration is a makes people and spat. that's not a sentiment that resonates with me so much. >> host: ma

up and tell the back and to talk about what developed as a grudge match that putin had for hillary clinton when she was secretary of state and we also get into all the warning signs the intelligence community had prior to 2016 that the russians were going to mount this type of cyberinformation war against the west and the united states of there is a lot of backdrop in understanding with trumps relationship with putin and development of the campaign with russians in the overarching geopolitical context of why putin would feel the need to attack you mentioned president trumps back story with the russians and president putin, how significant was that? be make it rather significant for almost 30 years donald trump tried to do business in moscow and russia obviously focused on developing a big trump tower in moscow but all the deals failed he had russian money coming into his investments in the united states funding condo properties his sons talked about how important russian investment money was but he wanted a presence in moscow and in 2013 he was a co-owner of the ms. universe contest and th

everybody was either with trump or clinton. much before the election every single media outlet and all the papers were projecting clinton was going to win. to be honest it had much more impact on the u.s. electorate than russia. how would you like to say otherwise? >> guest: i can't say otherwise and above analysts say otherwise as well. i think what this was a close election. you can identify anywhere from ten to 20 or more that were decisive that if they'd gone a different way that results might have been different. you can look at the i revelation came days before election day and if that hasn't happened, things might have been different.da you can look at hillary clinton and her decision not to campaign as much in wisconsin and michigan if she spent more time there and had a sharper message mighit might have gone a differt way. there are two major points of interference, direct interferencee that we know of. one is the 22,000 dnc e-mails were released right before the convention and that consumed several days of the bernie

[applause] announcer: on sunday, hillary clinton's remarks about the 2016 election, russian influence in the u.s. elections, the current political climate and america's role in the world. that is at 1130 eastern on c-span. ,unday night on afterwards south carolina republican and treyim scott gowdy, discuss their friendship and time in congress. they will be interviewed by south carolina senator jim demint. >> when you have dinner with tray, rarely is the occasion that someone doesn't stop, who is not from here, and thank him for his service. this is just a fun experience, but it is also meaningful and a look intoto take his cranial cavity about the perspective he takes on the really important issues, and you will find very quickly that while he may be branded a partisan at times, the truth of the matter is that his memory object is truth. whatever works for you, good. if it works against you? he is sorry. he wants the truth. i am thankful to have built a great friendship with some of his more -- someone who is more interested in the truth that he is in winning. >> something that compl

tough decisions to make, a story like this about sitting president and whileutes did two president clinton was in office that were similar about relationships and affairs. it is a hard decision to make to do it for us, and it didn't come easily. once we knew it was a possibility, we sent a team out to spend some time, then we spent a lot of time discussing why it matters for us to do this story. at the end, it is important because it is a question of campaign finance laws and were there violations, and that is going to be investigated at some point. but you know, and the question of hush money before the campaign is what creates that issue. so i think that as i thought about this and whether we would do it or not, it is in the paula jones category. and they are not easy stories to do. i think that this one, we literally worked right up until deadline sunday night to make sure our reporting was right and we were telling a story that is accurate, that we had covered. half of it was her telling the story and the other half of it was the larger implications. that is the big issue. that is a bi

>> whitaker: the hacked emails of hillary clinton's campaign chairman john podesta were also leaked the same day. the press and the public paid little attention to the administration statement on russian hacking. so, the national security council did something never done before: contacted russia on the cyber hotline, a communication channel added to the old nuclear hotline in 2013 to prevent cyber war. so what did the message say? >> daniel: it basically said, "we know that you are carrying out these kinds of activities. and, stop. knock it off." >> whitaker: was that tough enough? >> daniel: so, i think, certainly-- >> whitaker: stop? >> daniel: the fact that this was the first time we had ever exercised this channel, which was supposed to be, you know, for very serious cyber incidents and cyber issues-- i think that, in and of itself, sent-- sent a message. >> whitaker: the russians brushed it off. the administration was bracing for the worst. it drew up this election day response plan, which called for war rooms at the white house, the f.b.i., and homeland security, and planned for t

clinton. he seemed not to be responsible for hillary clinton winning. in the process by space so much attention to politics, he may have become partly responsible in, and as the underlying impulse of the book. say, i didn't do this deliberately to make trump president. it is almost as if he wants to blow the whistle on trump that he feels implicated. >> council, your opening statement. >> out to make the point some people don't miss it, comey did not say he didn't want to be responsible. for whoever was president he said i thought hillary was going to be president and i wanted to make sure it was legitimate and people found that about this investigation after was there might be a problem if i hadn't forward.t going back -- this sits in the crawl of comey's personality. bullies are so bad, and what does he do in college? and wents somebody along with the gang and everybody. he says i wanted to be a part of the gang, and he bullied and trashed somebody's room. that to me is the theme of all of w

clinton. was he seemedoint not to be responsible for hillary clinton winning. in the process, i paying so much attention to politics, he may have become partly responsible for a trump win, and as the underlying impulse of the book is to try to kind of exculpate himself and say i didn't do any of this deliberately to make trump president. it is almost as if he wants to blow the whistle on trump that he feels implicated. >> council, your opening statement. >> i just want to make a point to your last statement so that people don't miss it. it was a nuance. comey did not say he didn't want to be responsible. for whoever was president he said i thought hillary was going to be president and i wanted to make sure it was legitimate and if people found that about this investigation afterwards, there might be a problem if i hadn't brought it forward. going back -- this sits in the crawl of comey's personality. he hates bullies, they are so bad, and what does he do in college? he bullies somebody and wen

going because nothing had been found anyway but he thought it was clear hillary clinton was going to become president, he didn't want to be responsible for that and felt he needed to tell the world they were reopening the investigation, there might be more emails the changed the outcome of what he announced earlier, the end of investigation. i have questions about that too. usually when prosecutors decide there is not grounds for prosecution they just say we don't prosecute. they don't launch into an hour-long dissection of the motives of the person and how they showed bad judgment and recklessness and carelessness. that struck me as bizarre, speaking as a constitutional law professor that he would engage such an in-depth dissection of hillary clinton. the basic point was he seems not to once to be responsible for hillary clinton and by paying so much attention to politics he may have become partly responsible for a trump win. and that is the underlying impulse of the book, to exculpate himself and say i didn't do any of this deliberately to make trump president, it is as if he wants

he allowed hillary clinton to come out and say i deleted 30,000 of my e-mails. you never ever do that when you say you want evidence, you get the evidence. if there's a question, you have the person who's getting the documents over, give them all to a court or some neutral party to say we don't think she get them all. she deleted them so nobody could see them or test whether there were verifiably personal stuff. and you say nothing was on the weiner e-mails. there were e-mails on that laptop or what everything was that showed should not turn over everything that was work related. they may not of been classified but she did not turn over everything work related. i cannot recognize this as an investigation. >> when james comey writes about that in "a higher loyalty" does he present a strong argument to you? did you take the apart that paf the book as a lawyer? >> just like a former justice department person, former prosecutor, he doesn't ever come he says this is what i did. i taught english before which a law school so i can say the writing is well done. it is li

so for hillary clinton to say about my e-mails never ever. if you want evidence you get the evidence so then you have the person giving the documents to say these are the things that she gave up. but you don't see if they are tested to be verifiable yes there were e-mails on that laptop or whatever it was that shows that she did not turn over everything i cannot recognize this as an investigation. >> so when james comey writes about that in a higher loyalty did you pick apart that part of the book as a lawyer? >> as a former prosecutor this is what i did. i can say the writing the way it flows i don't know how that all worked out but that is the best thing i can say about the book there really is no compelling reason with the grand jury know look at how the trump people are being treated and paul manafort home was broken into. there is a very different standard. >> james comey would not disagree with that without factual predicate at that point to have all the evidence. >> but the problem of the e-mail server with that to the grand jury. >> i

week before the election. >> hillary clinton's convinced that that letter defeated her. what do you say to her? >> i hope not. i don't know. i honestly don't know. i sure hope not. >> reporter: comey doesn't say he handed the presidency to trump but admits he believed at the time clinton was going to win. >> she's going to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people, she'll be ill-legitimate the moment she's elected. >> reporter: she'll watch the interview but believes comey is no hero. >> and my opinion he has no moral backbone. it's hard to look at anything he's saying and take it as fact. >> reporter: today the president not hodding back his criticism tweeting incredibly james comey states that polls where crooked hillary was leading were a factor in the handling of the clinton probe. >> i think that the tweets that the president has been making are so far beneath the dignity of the office of president. >> reporter: more reaction to come. cornell bernard, abc 7. >>> you can see comey's interview with george stephanopoulos tonight beginning at 10:0

and james comey writes about hillary clinton, as well, and his decision to reopen the investigation into her e-mails, less than two weeks before the election, which many of her supporters believe cost her the election. >> reporter: that's right, david. coal mee expresses some regrets, writes, quote, i'm sorry i couldn't do a better job explaining to her and her supporters why i made the decisions i made. end quote. and david, for comey, it's personal. he writes, this president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. david? >> pierre thomas with us, as well tonight. pierre, thank you. and of course, we should point out that james comey will reveal his own story in about abc news exclusive interview with george stephanopoulos. george, one-on-one with comey, this sunday night, 10:00 p.m./9:00 central, right here. >>> in the meantime, we turn next tonight to the investigation of president trump's personal attorney. and tonight, now a third secret payment to buy season's silence now under the spotlight. after that fbi raid on lawyer michael cohen's home, office and hot

pompeo, who sought advice recently from hillary clinton to prepare, was grilled today about russia and whether he would be willing to stand up to the president if he disagrees with him. >> will you stand up to president trump and say no, you're wrong in that view, mr. president, or will you be a yes man? >> i have no discomfort with directness or confrontation. >> pompeo also acknowledging today that he has spoken to special counsel robert mueller. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" from beirut this evening. and the news back home of the missouri governor under pressure to resign tonight. the former political rising star now fighting off allegations of assault by a former mistress, who we've now learned described being tied up in a basement. >>> also ahead tonight, the 16-year-old boy crushed to death inside his car. and now, the 911 dispatcher who took one of his calls for help, under investigation. was enough done to help him? >>> and of course, the major storm now sweeping across the country tonight. there are already blizzard warnings. this involves states f

all, comey, the president said, is an "untruthful slime ball" whose "handling of the crooked hillary clinton case will go down as one of the worst "botch jobs" of history. his aides jumping in the fray, press secretary sarah sanders had a written statement ready to go. >> reporter: the president came out swinging today calling james comey a liar, a leaker, a slime ball. is he worried about what he's saying? >> not at all. the american people see right through the blatant lies of a self-admitted leaker. >> reporter: in his new book comey calls the trump presidency a forest fire and the president ego driven. he goes after trump writing the president's face appeared slightly orange with bright white half moons under his eyes where i assume he placed small tanning >> he does what a lot of people do these days, which is take unnecessary immature potshots at the president's appearance. >> reporter: but on the very day the president blasted comey as a liar and a leaker, he pardoned scooter libby, the former chief of staff to vice president dick cheney. convicted of lying to the fbi in the investiga

quote, "his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst 'botch jobs' of history." >> comey will be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack that broke his sacred trust with the president of the united states. >> reporter: but comey tells george he's not sure what other choice he had. >> as i say in the book, i -- i think i did it the way that it should have been done. i'm -- i'm not certain of that. other people might have had a different view. i pray to god, no future fbi director ever has to find out. >> reporter: comey's book comes out tuesday, it's the first big memoir from a major player in the trump white house. someone who's been the lightning rod of so much controversy. the book itself and george's interview sparking new debate about trump and about comey, easily the most controversial fbi chief since j. edgar hoover. tom. >> and we all look forward to that interview. david, thanks so much. >>> and george stephanopoulos will have much more of his exclusive interview with james comey and the fierce reaction to

he thought hillary clinton would win. and he thought this would give him some cover. >> reporter: comey fired back on twitter tonight, "three presidents are in my book. two help illustrate the values at the heart of ethical leadership, one serves as a counterpoint." the fired director's interview includes details about dramatic encounters with the president, like the first time the two met and the topic was russian meddling in the election and the most salacious, unverified intelligence. >> as you headed into trump tower that day, were you nervous? >> yes. i'm about to meet with a person who doesn't know me, was just elected president of the united states. by all accounts, and from my watching him during the campaign, could be volatile. and i'm about to talk to him about allegations that he was involved with prostitutes in moscow and that the russians taped it and have leverage over him. >> and pierre joins us from washington. in one of the president's tweets today, he implied that comey should face jail time? >> reporter

and did comey's decision to go public about hillary clinton's e-mails 11 days before the election cost her the presidency? what comey now says. >>> just in tonight, police body cam, dash cam video of an officer involved shooting that prompted a lockdown of several schools for hours. >>> the storm blasting the east, also bringing deadly tornadoes. among the victims, a 2-year-old. heavy rain flooding subways in new york. rescues near philadelphia. and yet another new snowstorm we're tracking tonight. >>> the starbucks controversy. two african-american men arrested. the video here tonight. but why were they arrested in the first place? >>> and what we're now learning about former first lady barbara bush. her family at her side tonight. >>> good evening. and we're back from beirut and back to start another week tonight. and we begin with the courtroom battle playing out here in new york city today. president trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, who was raided by the fbi, he's now trying to protect what was swept up in the raid. also arriving in that courtroom, stormy daniels. it was mic

and the clintons saying barbara bush "was fierce and feisty in support of her family and friends, her country and her causes. she showed us what an honest, vibrant, full life looks like." we're also now learning that in barbara bush's final hours, her husband, the former president george h.w. bush, right there, holding her hand. and late today, he released a statement, say, "we have faith she is in heaven and we know life will go on as she would have it." >> and davn harris back with us tonight. we know the funeral is on saturday, and what are you learning tonight about the current first family and former first families who plan to be in attendance? >> reporter: the current first lady, melania trump, will be in attendance, and both the obamas and the clintons will be there, as well. >> dan, you've learned something really very personal about barbara bush, about where she'll be buried? >> reporter: that's right. after the funeral on saturday, she will be buried at the george h.w. bush presidential library, next to her daughter, robin, who died at age 3 from leukemia. >> dan harris with

. >> i am sick and tired of the defamation of donald trump by the media and by the clinton campaign. i am sick and tired of it. this is a good man. >> reporter: the giuliani hire comes as the president has turned up the heat on special counsel robert mueller, escalating his attacks on an investigation he calls a witch hunt. but today, giuliani told "the washington post" he has "high regard" for mueller, saying, "i hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country." as for what he'll tell the president, julian gnu says, "my advice on mueller has been this. he should be allowed to do his job, he's entitled to do his job." >> so, let's get right to jon karl tonight. and jon, president trump has been searching for a new lawyer. the big question, of course, tonight, is rudy giuliani really someone the president will listen to? >> reporter: well, that is the big question. he certainly hasn't always taken his legal team's advice, especially when it comes to talking or tweeting about robert mueller. but giuliani is somebody who is higher profile and somebody who is known -- ha

when he went to prison in 1993, bill clinton was president, the selfie hadn't been invented. today along with hugs and tears there were plenty of selfies. the reporter asked, how happy? the 68-year-old replied, i am very happy. his lawyer with san

alleging that russia, the trump campaign, and wikileaks conspired to damage hillary clinton and tilt the presidential election to donald trump. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> reporter: calling it "an act of unprecedented treachery," the dnc lawsuit pieces together previously known reports. ranging from contacts between close associates of the trump campaign and russian officials, to wikileaks' hack of the dnc's emails and their leak of damaging information. >> it's been amazing what's coming out on wikileaks. another one came in today. this wikileaks it's like a treasure trove. >> reporter: the multi-million dollar suit does not name president trump, but it does go after his inner circle, including his son and son-in-law. if the case moves forward, the president and his top aides could be forced to answer questions under oath. >> so let's get to mary bruce live in washington tonight. mary, the trump campaign and now the president responding moments ago. >> the trump campaign tonight is calling this a sham lawsuit and the president just tweeting saying this can be good news in he'

the obamas and clintons sitting right alongside current first lady melania trump at funeral services in houston today. among thousands paying last respects to the mother of the 43rd president and the wife of the 41st president. the bushes' long love story taking center stage. here's abc's amy robach. >> reporter: she was the first lady known for her fierce loyalty and quick wit. today, family and friends celebrated the life of barbara bush. among them, former presidents and the first ladies who came after her. >> she was our teacher and role model on how to live a life with purpose and meaning. >> reporter: president george h.w. bush comforted by his daughter as he said good-bye to the love of his life. >> our family has had a front row seat to the most amazing love story. >> reporter: their marriage, the longest in presidential history, 73 years. their famous love letters shared with the more than 1500 gathered at st. martin's episcopal church in houston today. >> i was very happy on that day in 1945, but i'm even happier today. you have given me joy that few men know. >> i love you

bush was joined on saturday by the obamas, the clintons, along with current first lady melania trump. >>> the deadly standoff near an ikea in texas. a driver shot and killed by police in the parking lot. officer says that are were responding to a call when he repeatedly pulled a rifle and eventually began shooting. kus mers and staff huddling in the basement right there for safety. >>> the deadly wrong way crash near dallas. police say a driver was speeding head-on into traffic on i-20, losing control, causing a deadly chain reaction crash. good samaritans rushing to help. the mother of a 9-month-old baby was killed. the driver injured, facing chargers. >>> researchers at the medical college of wisconsin report findings linking art financial sweeteners to obesity and diabetes. they say no calorie sweeteners used in diet drinks, coffee and tea can change the metabolism in mice, and how the body processes fat. they say more study is needed. >>> when we come back, the world waiting for william and kate today, when something very unexpected happened with the world watching. feel the clari

they'll be eating on the clinton china. and the guests here include lud rupert murdoch and apple ceo tim cook, who brought, as his guest, the former obama epa director, lisa jackson. >> jon, one other headline from the white house tonight, the president's personal attorney, as you know, michael cohen, under increasing scrutiny, his home, office, raided by the fbi. "the new york times" speculated that cohen could flip. a source close to cohen telling abc news that would never happen. jon asked, would the president consider a pardon. here's what the president said today. >> reporter: what about michael cohen? are you considering a pardon for michael cohen? no? >> stupid question. >> stupid question, jon. the president clearly not happy with your question there. >> reporter: not happy, david. and not answering. but the question of a possible pardon for michael cohen is a central one here right now. and the white house has not ruled it out. >> just to be clear, he said it was stupid, not me. thank you, jon, as always. >> you go