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>> roberts: yeah. i mean, that's what i used to call it. >> marsalis: "take the 'a' train"-- you called it "catch the 'a' train"? >> roberts: that's what i called it back then, yeah. "take the 'a' train." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> marsalis: hearing ellington's band, louis armstrong and other jazz greats, 12-year-old marcus roberts was hooked, compelled to figure out the sounds he heard, taking them apart as he'd done with his toys. >> roberts: it was just swinging. there was a quality to it that made me feel good. like, figuring it out, something about that made me feel better about myself. ♪ ♪ >> marsalis: nearly 40 years later, he's at the top of his game, improvising here on the music of jazz legend chick corea. the way marcus gets around the keyboard even amazes other pianists, including corea himself. >> chick corea: marcus embodies a perfect kind of art, in my mind. you can see that marcus absorbed a lot of the history of music, but then comes with a rendition that is completely marcus roberts. ( pl

as so often happens it was another aspect to robert's story. >> coming up. >> robert had a brother in the jail named bobby. >> it's weird how [ bleep ] happens. >> we encounter not just one but two more wolford's in jail. >>> later, the story of the missing girl named amanda makes national news and stuns millions. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. then boom... what happened? stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what? let's build a new, smarter bed using the dualair chambers to sense your movement, heartbeat, breathing. introducing the sleep number bed with sleepiqtm technology. it tracks your sleep and tells you how to adjust for a good, better and an awesome night. the difference? try adjusting up or down

bob y robert. so, we went off to meet bobby wolford. >> i know where you're going. >> 24-year-old bobby wolford was awaiting trial on charges of aggravated robbery and burglary. to which he had pled not guilty. >> well, my brother robert, he's related because we got the same father. >> bobby was housed in a different unit from bob y but they had recently had a chance encounter in one of the jail's common areas. >> i never seen robert a day in my life. i was getting mop water because i was on clean-up and he just popped up out of nowhere and he was like, you know you're my brother, right? i said, i heard i had a brother named robert. good to meet you. now i got to meet you. it was good to meet my brother but not a good place i met him in. we just said, hi, how you doing, love you, and we had to go back to our pods. not much of a meeting but it was something. >> bobby wolford was quite a bit different than his brother robert. >> yeah! big bob's back! >> he had a much more carefree lackadaisical attit

. >> one saturday morning, the mercks' son, robert, stopped by his parents' home for a visit. he immediately noticed something was wrong. >> he found a door open at the back of the house and entered and immediately detected a foul odor. >> i backed out of the house and told my wife, i said, something is wrong here. go across the street and call the sheriff's department. >> jim christopherson was one of the first to arrive at the scene. >> the entire residence was ransacked, everything turned upside down, chairs turned upside down. anything that was in a drawer was tipped out and spilled out on to the floor. >> when they got to the couple's bedroom, police discovered this was more than a robbery. >> clifford merck had been lying across the bed with his hands and feet bound with some sort of a cord, and he was obviously deceased. it was later determined that he had been shot in the head twice. >> nearby police found a pillow with two bullet holes. the pillow had been used to muffle the sound of the gun shots, but there were no spent shell casings in the home. >> so, whoever comm

robert, bobby. so we went off to meet bobby wolford. >> i know where you're going. >> 24-year-old bobby wolford was awaiting trial on charges of aggravated robbery and burglary. to which he had pled not guilty. >> well, my brother robert, he's related because we got the same father. >> bobby was housed in a different unit from bobby but they had recently had a chance encounter in one of the jail's common areas. >> i never seen robert a day in my life. i was getting mop water because i was on clean-up and he just popped up out of nowhere and he was like, you know you're my brother, right? i said, i heard i had a brother named robert. good to meet you. now i got to meet you. it was good to meet my brother but not a good place i met him in. we just said, hi, how you doing, love you, and we had to go back to our pods. not much of a meeting but it was something. >> bobby wolford was quite a bit different than his brother robert. >> yeah! big bob's back! >> he had a much more carefree lackadaisical attitu

scientists compared robert parker's dna to those dna samples. >> robert parker's dna profile was compared to the profile previously generated from the vaginal swabs. it was a match. >> robert parker had denied ever be being in the victims' apartments. and now the evidence directly contradicted him. two years after the crimes, 23 year old robert parker was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. prosecutors believe parker spent weeks watching his victims. with renee powell, he waited in the woods next to her apartment. when she went to the laundry room in the base. she left her door open. he went inside, grabbed a knife from the kitchen and hid. when rent hay returned, he attacked binds her arms with lamp cords from inside the apartment, then sexually assaulting and stabbing her to death. he grabbed some items of value, a vcr, a coat, dismantled the smoke detecter, then set the fires to destroy evidence. the case of barbara walsh was virtually identical. she, too, was doing her laundry and had left the door open while she went downstairs. like the first it crime, parker used materi

some call it cereal city. 80-year-old robert rogers lived his entire life in battle creek. through some real estate investments and his ownership of a small trucking business, he was a millionaire many times over. >> he was a tough, old bird. he never pulled any punches. he was always a son of a bitch to me. >> rogers was stubborn, too. he always carried large sums of money and didn't care who knew it. >> he would joke that he would have several thousand in this pocket, several thousand in a pants pocket and a couple more thousand in his back pocket, and he generally did. >> not surprisingly, rogers became a target for local drug gangs and petty thieves. >> he was a victim several times of robberies. they would take his money from him, beat him up. his house had been broken into a few times also. so, yeah, it was a problem for him, but he didn't change his pattern, seemed like. he still carried large sums of money. >> sharon zachary lived next door to rogers and acted as his caretaker. >> sharon zachary had become almost like a daughter to him. she could take care of him. s

troops that served under robert e. lee is this acoustical portrait. joseph, professor of history here at the unc chapel hill is the author. >> visit to booktv.org to visit any of the programs online. type the author or the book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also share anything that you see easily by clicking the share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. extremes live on the weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> in the new york epicenter where the book publishing industry is meeting for its annual convention margie of red regnery joins us. >> it is delightful to be here and we have a lot of exciting titles coming this fall. in fact, this spring we have a few coming in the next few months. we have a big book the next one is a book by dinesh d'souza and it's about america, her history, her values and a kind of retort to the mythology as the nation would say that america has a history of oppression and bullying and that americans greatness and strength

is robert o'hare action u.s. news director for a voice for men. one of the largest men's rights organizations. and so skype out of chicago, illinois, david a critic of the men's rights movement. and he is also founder of the blog, we hunted the mammoth. thanks for both of you for being here. so robert, men dominate in american politics, and business, they out earn women by about 20% and have always been afforded rights that women have had to earn along the way. why does america need a men's rights group? >> men make up 85% of all suicides, they make up almost 90% of the homeless, they make up 95% of workplace deaths. men die on average seven years earlier than women do in years past that wasn't necessarily the case, the gap was much less. there is a war being waged upon men and boys in our education system. they are failing miserably. no one is doing anything about it. and there is a terrible, terrible bias in our family courts as well as terrible disparities in criminal sentences and prosecution between minute and women. >> robert, you brought up

is robert o'hare action u.s. news director for a voice for men. one of the largest men's rights organizations. and so skype out of chicago, illinois, david a critic of the men's rights movement. and he is also founder of the blog, we hunted the mammoth. thanks for both of you for being here. so robert, men dominate in american politics, and business, they out earn women by about 20% and have always been afforded rights that women have had to earn along the way. why does america need a men's rights group? >> men make up 85% of all suicides, they make up almost 90% of the homeless, they make up 95% of workplace deaths. men die on average seven years earlier than women do in years past that wasn't necessarily the case, the gap was much less. there is a war being waged upon system. they are failing miserably. no one is doing anything about it. and there is a terrible, terrible bias in our family courts as well as terrible disparities in criminal sentences and prosecution between minute and women. >> robert, you brought up a whole lot of things there.

robert denny went on trial for first-degree murder. the jury deliberated for 45 minutes. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree as charged. we the jury further find the killing was done with premeditation. >> since he was only 17 years old, a minor, when he committed the crime, denny was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> methodical in cleaning up, he was careful and he almost got away with murder but for that one drop of blood and hair that he shed that he didn't ever expect to be discovered. >> this girl was a very likable, very intelligent, very beautiful 25-year-old that had a bright future in front of her. she came from a good family and had a good social network. had everything in the world to live for. and in one instance, this cold-blooded killer takes her life >>> up next.

>> that's what robert believes. he says he's not sure if that's his mom or not because, in the first video he was certain that the mother had not survived the birth. but he does believe that this is actually an adaptive moose mom. robert thinks that maybe the other moose heard the calf as it was roaming around in the area the calf was heard crying and maybe the other moose heard it and came to it. >> it has a happy life there, shorty. >> you've got to be diligent every second you're driving out there on the roads because you can avoid accidents like the one we're about to see. the camera we're riding with is mounted on a big motorcycle riding behind the other motorcycle up ahead. the brake lights came on kind of quickly. geez. the motorcycle's stopped. but the car behind the rider we're with slams right into the back of the motorcycle, pushing that motorcycle into his buddy up ahead. some pretty serious injuries here. one of the guys had a broken back. his female passenger also thrown from the motorcycle swin jured.

robert deniro will be joining us on the program. the big news overseas defense administer abdel fattah el sisi is now former egyptian defense minister and now president abdel fattah el sisi. took the recent election in a squeaker. 100% of the vote counted. he got by with just 91% of it. the most lopsided election since the 11th playing. it was. 98 to 2. get out the vote machine. that's it right ther there. since the military took over from president last july. their revolution or whatever, egypt has been in turmoil. hundreds of thousands have been arrested and killed. maybe this will help el sisi get back on the right track. >> the show was canceled monday. >> canceled because of pressure on the station airing it in a country that no longer accepts satire. >> ya! >> good move. [laughing] >> sisi says i will show my people what a powerful and courageous leader we are making sure this guy doesn't take care of our unemployment and inflated food prices. why get rid of priority when you can get rid of insult. so bassem youssef is done. t

all right, robert. good luck to you. >> mm-hmm. >> and hope it works the way you want it. >> okay. >> all right. good luck to you. >> the parole hearing for robert was interesting in that, robert believed every time he might have a chance. he felt very hopeful. he'd been turned down many times before, so he obviously carried that realism with him. but i think that there was a piece of him that thought maybe this could be the time i get set free. what are your thoughts and feelings about the whole thing? >> well, the way he was talking, he may give a good report. so things may go my way this time. >> what -- >> going back on the street. getting back to work. >> i'm hoping this time that it will go through, because things are going a little bit different than it has in the past times. i've done got everything prepared to where we can have a little time together and everything, whenever he does get out. because we got a lot of time to make up for. >> but the wait would continue. tetter was once again denie

radio. ♪ roberts' album went gold. she was living the dream. and then one night on stage a nightmare. >> i can't even remember the city. but i remember the stage. i can see it in my mind. i was holding the microphone. the band was behind me. they were playing like they always do. and i lost use of my right hand. and i knew that it was giving out, so i switched to my left. and my left hand didn't work. so then i put it in the mike stand. >> reporter: roberts kept on singing but she knew something wasn't right. a few tests led to a quick diagnosis. multiple sclerosis. >> truthfully i didn't want to admit it, that i had it. and i was so afraid that all would be taken away from me if i told the world i had m.s. >> reporter: fortunately that hasn't happened and these days roberts managing her m.s. is three shots a week, plus a healthy diet, and plenty of exercise. >> thank you all so much for coming out today. i'm so proud of you all for raising money for m.s. doing something like this is so important for me because we're raising money for research

robert frazier. >> he had gotten into some trouble. he had committed some robberies. he had spent time in prison. he had committed some very violent assaults in prison and out on the street. >> he was a drifter. may have spent time in the chicago area, in indiana as well, as well as contra costa county in california. >> frazer's co-workers said he looked like the composite sketch. however, they said he'd quit his job around the time of kathy loreck's murder. >> police visited frazier's last known address and found his ex-girlfriend. she said frazier left town and she hadn't seen him since. but frazier's girlfriend had a parting gift for police, frazier's toothbrush. they hoped it would be the forensic answer they were looking for. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clini

robert e lee knows it like the back of his hand, his men do. the army of the potomac do not know the terrain well. their maps are poor. they go to places which do not exist. it is kind of hard to do certain things if there is no hotchkiss. do know the maps are awful. it is not his yard. we have time for two more. >> i am struck with the -- of those union forces that are in theto launch attacks spring of 1864, you have some eds leading those prongs, except for sherman and grant and meade. was there no other choice? was grant stuck with those guys? would it have been possible for a mcpherson or a sheridan to have gone into one of those spots? >> he was stuck with those guys not because they are politicians, because that had seniority, more than anything else. they could command. they could request and demand, in certain places, the man positions. porter writes saying one of the objectives of the spring is that grant can fire people, but that have to show they are incompetent first. specificop look -- his reference is nathaniel banks. grant has to

>> robert jones. >> robert jones? >> uh-huh. am i not supposed to be on the tracks? >> no, that's not the problem right now. what's your address? >> i don't have an address. i'm at the hotel. we're working on houses and stuff like that, roofing. >> the police officer seems to believe the man's story, that he's a roofer staying at a nearby motel. but he's not 100% sure and questions the man further. it turns out the man is mcnair, the exact person the police are looking for. but the smooth-talking criminal is able to fool the cop. the man tells the police officer that he has a brother who can back up his claims. >> call my little brother, man. >> all right. let me just verify. he says his brother is staying at the motel. let me verify that. if so, i'll just cut him loose. all right, thanks. >> but the officer never checks, and instead, seems to take a casual attitude. >> you know the bad thing about it? you're matching up to him. >> that sucks, doesn't it? >> yeah. >> the officer notices the man's legs are scraped. >> did you go through a briar patch or something? >>

everyone. >> i am with ambassador robert ford. when we come back, we will take a crosser look at an area of his resent expertise after years of service in syria, what does he think about what's happening with the civil war there? you are watching "talk to al jazeera." i am with robert ford who ended his time as u.s. ambassador to syria. while retiring from the foreign service, made public your own thoughts about the way things have gone over the last several years. once it was clear that bashar al assad meant to staytiously that when this is all over, he still means to be president of syria. was there any other way this could have gone against the determined opposition? >> it's a question that i ask myself all the time, to be honest. when i was in syria in 2011, and the peaceful protest movement started, they actually did not immediately demand that president assad resign or quit the political scene. they actually, it started over some police mistreatment of some children in a place called darda in southern syria. the local protes

robert? >> cooper: in a storage facility on the outskirts of nashville, outreach worker ingrid mcintyre introduced us to robert mcmurtry. >> mcintyre: hey, good morning. i want to introduce you to my friend anderson. >> cooper: hey, i'm anderson. how are you? she'd come to ask him some questions about his health. >> mcintyre: how many times have you been to the emergency room in the past three months? >> robert mcmurtry: uh, twice. >> cooper: robert told ingrid he had a lot of medical problems-- h.i.v., hepatitis c, and throat cancer. he was getting treatment at vanderbilt university medical center, but living in this storage locker without a toilet or running water. he bathed in a stream by the side of the road. he said he'd been homeless for three years. how old are you? >> mcmurtry: i'm 48. >> cooper: 48? i'm 46, so we're two years apart. >> mcmurtry: uh-huh. >> cooper: it's nice to see someone else with gray hair. ( laughter ) he said he used to work in the construction business, but fell

but robert jackson was extraordinary. when he said that compulsory unanimity produces only the unanimity of the graveyard, he said in a few words what few have been able to say in entire books. >> rose: would we be better off, there's a similarity to the supreme court in terms of their education, ivy league. >> all nine went to harvard or yale. >> rose: yes, exactly. >> i don't have anything against harvard or yale but god that's crazy. >> rose: that's my point. >> right. >> rose: you don't have to be a lawyer to be on the supreme court. >> no, that's right. the only job where you have to be a lawyer is solicitor general. >> rose: exactly. at the same time to be a judge like eleanor kagan. >> right. you look at the court that decided brown v board, there were no prior judges there. it was all governors, attorneys generals, former senators, former douglas, former head of the scc. >> rose: it was a great court. >> it was a great court. when o'connor was on the court the fact she had been a state court judge and a state legi

. >> the man's name was robert huffman, a 49-year-old construction worker. vehicle records indicated huffman drove a red dodge pickup truck made in the year 2000. according to huffman's girlfriend, he disappeared the morning following the accident and she had no idea where he went. >> time is of the essence when you're trying to solve these crimes. and knowing that the truck is your big piece of evidence and knowing that it's out there driving around in the elements, which means you're losing physical evidence. >> making matters worse, huffman didn't have any credit cards or an atm card, so police couldn't track his whereabouts. >> we should never lose hope on these cases, because you just never know what information may come forward, who may call in, what could be found, even years later. female announcer: get on board for better sleep. it's sleep train's interest free for 3 event. get three years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort; even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery, and sleep train's 100-day low price gua

when you talk about people like robert kagan, they believe what they believe. they subscribe to a world view that to my mind is utterly misguided, but they are j genuinely committed to the propositions that are on display in his new republic article. it's just a question of why those propositions continue to be treated seriously when they should not be. >> let us continue this conversation online. thank you for being with me. >> thank you. >> on our website, more with andrew and historian on how pundits use the press to keep pedaling the same propaganda. pundits use the press to keep pedaling the same propaganda. i'll see you here next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> don't wait a week to get more moyers. visit our website for more blogs and essay features. funding is provided by carnegie corporation of new york, supporting innovation in education, democratic engagement and the advancement of international peace and security. the ford foundation working with visionaries on the front lines of social change. the herb albert foundation. the mcarthur

she said look if it isn't what roberts claimed. they are serving for life and an imposing their political preferences on the rest of us. max is a very loyal research assistant and his reply was read larry tribe's book. good for you. the empire and allergy and it did contain a germ of truth namely good judges like good umpires should apply their philosophy is consistently. to bring home the pennant or hurt their political adversaries. that much is true. but of course the empire and allergy is a vast simplification that suggests that personal judgments, personal understanding of what the constitution is about, but it's ambiguous terms mean, what our national history commits us to has nothing to do with it all. ambiguous language like liberty, a quality and what the role of the court should be and how after the roll should play in american life all of those things don't come down. they are not written in stone and we shouldn't expect the justices not to bring their personal philosophies to bear nor should we expect to find their philo

you know, robert was talking about what to do policy wise. i don't think much of anything is going to get done policy wise. gwen: or is anything going to get done policy wise? >> probably not. gwen: there's been a lot of discussion about immigration is dead. well, last i checked, immigration was dead before this. >> well, i have been one of the few holdouts who thought there was a possibility it might happen but that possibility is extinguished. so i don't think much is going to get done. policy wise. but i do think if we get -- i talked to a former republican leadership aide who said the possibility of a government shutdown is on the table for this fall. because we're not going to get our appropriations bills done and members are going to have to decide. that is the kind of event that occurred in 2013. hurt the republicans badly. if that happens again, it could hurt them badly and have an implication for the fall elections. gwen: robert? >> i think there's now a confidence on the right that the leadership can be taken on. and i think part of

one part of the decision by justice roberts was that there was 1,000 feet away. so there was a real buffer zone. is this buffer zone idea an arg um much less relevant or not at all or does it depend on subject matter or does it depend on how you go about the protest? >> it was interesting. a lot of people pointed out the supreme court itself has a buffer zone you can't get close to the building. i think the two cases are quite different from each other. this was a general line drawn around these buildings that you can't even enter them just to enter quiet conversation that wouldn't interfere with the operation of that clinic in any way. that involved protesting. even then upheld the first amendment challenge. i think the two cases are distinguishable. >> all right. please join me in thanking the panel, and thank you all for coming. [ applause ] themxico me or call comments on "washington journal.." then, the white house working families summit. and a conversation with mike rogers of michigan. f on transparency in freedom of information. i think my colleagues in j

john roberts was one of them. so it is very hard to figure out why he doesn't engage in the kind of training and discipline which is important to be able to follow the rule. he's been exposed to the same environmental influences i was. i ran into them and probably did not know it at the time. he was part of a study group. he was part of a community part of the total institution known as harvard law school. so why then, is the question, why couldn't he follow rules? the second question is the internal perspective. internal perspective is to be part of a community and understand its norms. here i think there is a correction i would like to make. i do not think in order to be able to argue and practice law that one has to take the internal perspective in the way that ian and carissima say. i think they need to take the hermeneutic perspective. i have many students who come from other countries. they do not regard american law as being binding on them. they do not understand themselves to be --american law is their pr

i am with robert ford who ended his time as u.s. ambassador to syria. while retiring from the foreign service, made public your own thoughts about the way things have gone over the last several years. once it was clear that bashar al assad meant to staytiously that when this is all over, he still means to be president of syria. was there any other way this could have gone against the determined opposition? >> it's a question that i ask myself all the time, to be honest. when i was in syria in 2011, and the peaceful protest movement started, they actually did not immediately demand that president assad resign or quit the political scene. they actually, it started over some police mistreatment of some children in a place called darda in southern syria. the local protesters wanted the authorities to be held canable. unfortunately, one of those authorities was a cousin of the assad. while he removed him, he didn't punish him in any way. the recommending e-mails then resort to force, escalated to where the opinion stilt, which had started very peacefully, ga

robin roberts in the o.r. with dr. oz. >> i will never forget what i just saw. >> what robin witnessed in the operating room. the moment that stunned her and how the patient is doing. >>> take a look at this, the vintage corvettes, all of them lost. tonight, we have learned something has been gained. then my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. enbrel helps relieve pain and stop joint damage. i've been on the course and on the road. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. you should not start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure,

a great salesman not'k#>> rose:h perri peltz and robert de niro making a film about robert de niro's father the artist. >> i wanted to do something about my father about a documentation, not really a documentary. now it's great. the family, for my kids who didn't know their grandfather. >> robert did he niro there's a story here not only a father and son story but a story about the meaning of fame. >> rose: we conclude then with two entrepreneurs, frank wallman and mike mower, they have created a system for faster reading on smart phones and other devices. >> reading will develop and we just started to read on stone walls. so we put in one character so we have to put the next character for the right side so the mean direction developed. what we do with this is we try to imitate the stone tablet from a thousand years ago. so then you analyze the reading process and we see they are completely new, you need the freedom to do it and the way we did it for four or 5,000 years is not really necessary to do today. >> rose: lloyd blankfein and michael bloomberg on small businesses, robert de

douglas southall freeman should have applied this rule to robert ely -- robert e lee. my argument is very straightforward. i just change the slide to distract you as i give you my argument. it is simply this. by the fall of 1863, lee's expectations how far exceeded what he could actually accomplish. during the preceding 24 months before june 1, 1864, before the fighting at cold harbor, lee had lost roughly 100,000 men. he was aware of his diminished strength but at the start of the wasaign, r. e. lee searching for that victory of annihilation or american waterloo. his thinkings only on the subject after 1863 in no of involved or changed many his peers especially the union side, they have adjusted to the reality of warfare and recognize that civil war or means our virtual that our virtual indestructible. -- are virtual indestructible. lee has these grandiose plans. the expectation that grant would be destroyed in a single battle. what is up rising in is the southern press and people were modest and realistic. this is not the case in the north. brooks simpson has written

when you talk about people like robert kagan, they believe what they believe. they subscribe to a world view that to my mind is utterly misguided, but they are j genuinely committed to the propositions that are on display in his new republic article. it's just a question of why those propositions continue to be treated seriously when they should not be. >> let us continue this conversation online. thank you for being with me. >> thank you. >> on our website, more with andrew and historian on how pundits use the press to keep pedaling t same propaganda. pundits use the press to keep pedaling t same propaganda. i'll see you here next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> don't wait a week to get more moyers. visit our website for more blogs and essay features. funding is provided by carnegie corporation of new york, supporting innovation in education, democratic engagement and the advancement of international peace and security. the ford foundation working with visionaries on the front lines of social change. the herb albert foundation. the mcarthur foun

you know, robert was talking about what to do policy wise. i don't think much of anything is going to get done policy wise. gwen: or is anything going to get done policy wise? >> probably not. gwenthere's been a lot of discussion about immigration is dead. well, last i checked, immigration was dead before this. >> well, i have been one of the few holdouts who thought there was a possibility it might happen but that possibility is extinguished. so i don't think much is going to get done. policy wise. but i do think if we get -- i talked to a former republican leadership aide who said the possibility of a government shutdown is on the table for this fall. because we're not going to get our appropriations bills done and members are going to have to decide. that is the kind of event that occurred in 2013. hurt the republicans badly. if that happens again, it could hurt them badly and have an implication for the fall elections. gwen: robert? >> i think there's now a confidence on the right that the leadership can be taken on. and i think part of c

. >>> and robin roberts is here tonight. inside the operating room with dr. oz. the cameras rolling. what she witnessed, she will never forget. you are about to see it too. >>> good evening. in for diane. great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we begin with team usa, the underdog still holding on tonight after a white knuckle showdown against germany today, a heartbreaking loss and we learn they are still alive tonight. 94 minutes, team usa battling it out on the field. and across the globe, millions watched. in boston, they were also watching in milwaukee, watching from chicago. and the troops in ft. drum in up state new york. look at this tonight. 200 miles up on board the international space station, they have been watching too. look. air force one today, the president tuning in. george stephanopoulos with him. and the president making news today. we will have more in a minute. look at this. the other image from brazil. the fans fighting through to get to the games. this is what they are up against. the massive flooding on the pathway to the stadi