of fort washington. this the way traders at the tower of london were treated. they would be decapitated and their heads would be placed on a pike. well, this is the treatment the revolutionaries gave to thir king. the head was actually taken by londoners and smuggled back to england to show we really need your help. these people are crazy. and it was seen by lady touwnse in her home. if anybody knows about that, we would love to hear about it. it's a tremendous story. >> and that answers 1 of our questions on our facebook page, how you chronicle the loyaltiests during the revolutionary war. let's go to john who's joining us on the phone from west palm beach. go ahead, please. >> yes, good evening. i was born and raised in da danbury, connecticut. i was just up there. i was just curious if there's any exhibit that mentions the burning of danbury, in particular the young girl that road -- paul revere used to call her -- >> thanks for call and the question. especially after paul revere awas captured briefly

breaking news from the "washington post." the first of many friday nights when i would have to work late. basically since then, since december 9th we have been in kind of a sustained period of very distracting, very engrossing political crisis. this has felt like a sustained political crisis. as since then we've learned more and more and more after the extent of russian involvement the election and the investigations into the trump campaign's contacts with russia. but during and after the campaign. watch the date stamps on these as they fly by. just as we're coming on the air we got news the former cia director james woolsey tonight has abruptly quit the trump transition team with no explanation. tonight after saying for weeks that there would be no senate or house investigation of this matter, the senate intelligence committee finally said, yeah, we'll look into this. all of a sudden this is starting to feel like the most important political story certainly in the world. with one week to go before we are supposed to swear in

it's monday july thirty first forty four pm in washington d.c. i'm in touch this week and you're watching our team america and we start with russia's response to a new round of sanctions imposed by the u.s. government russian president vladimir putin has announced that the u.s. embassy will have to cut seven hundred fifty five people as a result of washington's policies artie's roman kozyrev has more on moscow's comeback. new sanctions against russia are expected to be signed by president donald trump the document approved by congress aims to target the country's lucrative energy trade with partners in europe washington claims the measures are in response to alleged election meddling well moscow has already responded to another likely round of restrictions by asking the united states to cut its diplomatic staff in russia by seven hundred fifty five people by september the first just making the number of employees equal to the number of russian embassy staff in the united states but also rochelle ordered the u.s. embassy to stop the use of some re

download our nbc washington app for the latest. we're dealing with the most activity from now until 6:30. i think fireworks should be okay it will be here all evening keeping track of it, susan. >> thank you so much. we'll check bah wick with you a little bit later. this fourth of july are turning in to cannabis products, jim joins us now with more on this story coming up on news 4 at 5. >> this happen today a lot of pet owners. dogs, especially, get spooked by the fireworks and run away, many wind up in our local shelters. well, to help ease the anxiety dog owners are now turning to special dog treats made with marijuana. but is it safe. then at 5:00, a special honor for those two u.s. capitol police officers injured in the shooting at the congressional baseball practice last month. it's a battle of the beaches tonight, which state has the very best beaches, maryland, virginia or delaware. it's a hot debate on nbc i'll see you in just a few with those stories. we're watching these storms right here at 5:00. >>> jim, i'll see you h

reporting live in fort washington, john gonzalez, "good morning washington." adrianna: we told you this other crash in chevy chase. lanes were closed while police investigated. post lanes, we are told, are now open. .arry: stay ahead go to burst.com/wjla -- go to wjla.com/text. sam, what is going on? sam: the story has a lot of people goin talking, "the washington post" think the president asking about the investigation if it were his ability to pardon family members and even himself. the investigation is growg is testifying before a congressional panel next week. donald trump jr. at paul manafort has been invited to testify but have yet to confirm. virginia senator mark warner thing on twitter that even the possibility that the president is considering pardons is disturbing." virginia representative gone viral tweeting this out overnight, "is any family members and trump himself has not done anything wrong, as the trump administration have an pardon."obody needs a will follow this on-air and online at wjla.com. guys, over to you. adrianna: thanks, sam. report

martha washington. so it's entirely possible to imagine that that's a book that spent the winter at valley forge along with the general and his suffering soldiers. a few other objects. again, an object that quite likely was also used at valley forge. the soldier's canteen. seems like a fairly mundane object but there's really probably about half a dozen canteens that have survived from the revolution with this surcharge which tells us that that was the property of the continental army that was actually marked. there was actually an order that came out midway through the war because so much of the material, they were having trouble keeping track. soldiers would be discharged and take all their gear home and of course perennially short on supplies. there was an effort by marking weapons and just things like canteens they could try to get a better handle on keeping all that material. >> one of the great treasures in our collection is a simple modest little flag. blue background that bears 13 stars. and it

"washington journal" is next. ♪ ♪ it's the washington journal for july 17. the house considers a number of bills related to pipeline construction and environmental regulation. the senate is expected to take up a procedural vote for president trump's nominee for deputy defense secretary. voteafter a delay in the to move the gop health care vote forward. lobbying by senate leadership on that bill is expected to continue. a new associated press poll shows three out of four americans expressed that they have two little influence in the workings of washington, d.c. those with money had more influence than those with less money have less impact. we were going to show you the results of these polls and get your thoughts on who has influence in washington and what you think about what it says. democrats.000 (202) 748-8001 republicans. (202) 748-8002 independents. --t on twitter if you wish post on twitter if you wish for our facebook page -- or our facebook page. about 1000ked americans to talk about influence in washington, d.c. three out of four saying they have t

he is currently writing "the archaeology of george washington: a survey of all the washington-related sites in their stories." he has also conducted a reassessment of the 1930's archaeological record at george washington's birthplace. he says this site is one of the most intriguing and misunderstood archaeological sites. he says it is time to fully make sense of the birthplace, archaeologically speaking, the last place of the puzzle. on the be speaking finding of his 2013 reassessment of the site's archaeology and will highlight the things generations have gotten right and wrong. -- since the anniversary of the birth is fast approaching, those of us who are committed to the landscape will want it to be speak loudly and clearly about the momentous event that took place nearly 300 years ago. the world will be watching. without further it do, please welcome dr. philip levy. [applause] thanks, everyone, thanks for coming out here. let's get everything set up. thanks for being here. thank you, scott, for the introduction and to the superintendent for helping pull this together. can you hea

it is about washington, but also about washington in the 1930's, 1860's, 1830's. there are other people working on this but this has become very important to me and it extends from an archaeological beginning. i like to look at the sites and work from the sites and i use them as my framework. the number -- 2032 up. why? what is special about that? this is probably the worst audience to ask that question of because you know. this is coming next. does this clarify? an essential thing we have to keep in mind. , 2032 is 10terms minutes away. it takes a very long time to organize the scale of an event that has to happen. anniversary ofl his birth, was an event that was planned for 20 years before it came into being. at the point where we are in relation to the tri-centenary, it has already bindu -- it has already been decided that there will be a massive celebration. we will want to start to eat the drums on this and all of you can help by being loyal to the landscape and getting the idea out that there has to be something. someone will figure out that 2032 is coming u

you can see areas of defr if sit a washington d.c. snowstorm that lay hows you to be an 18th century snow tomorrow. there is a second painting debate forking valley it is on the it is as you enter rj so the from it will sont condition through kre contract and the family do you know what bit? the with you day i continue to look back as a course so whether that i be clal there are a couple to jekts ton layers so this is a painted silk banner that was commissioned by the butchers to of philadelphia so participate in a parade when the marquee delafayette returns to america on the eve of the 50th on verse ri to recall his service as a close associate of general washington through the war of independence. it would have been car all of the trades one it was very nice of column so almost certainly one of the spectators would have been jacob latch who was local revolutionary war veteran. he had served at least three tours as a malitia man during the time of the philadelphia campai campaign. he died about 1845. also, this descendent in the fami

right now 78 degrees in washington. we're talking about the cloud cover but also rain mostly south of the district. in southern parts of prince george's county, but mainly near quantico, charles county, a little farther to the south, mostly light rain now. this will be moving through quickly, parts of new england, as we go through the afternoon, mainly dry conditions, but a chance for a couple afternoon showers or storms, good day to do so. 90 degrees by 3:00 p.m., chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm. still warm, close to 90 degrees. this is future weather. we go through most of the day, will it be dry. later on 3:00, 4:00. couple showers or thunderstorms flaring up into this evening. not the entire area. so the rain chance is going to be tomorrow, 86 degrees. much nicer wednesday, thursday. dry until friday. that's the next round of thunderstorms. we'll take a look at your weekend forecast. check the roads to start your monday morning. good morning, jack taylor. >> sheena, good morning. we're going to start th

we do washington, d.c. mardi gras and draw thousands of people who come to sample the real stuff, so we got a taste of louisiana here on the hill. >> thanks for your time. rep. johnson: thanks for your time. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, every dayday -- live with news and policy issues that impact you. south carolina republican congressman mark sanford discusses his call for civility on capitol hill. and california democratic congressman jimmy panetta talks about the newly created democratic caucus national security task force. be sure to watch c-span's at 7:00on journal, live a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> sunday night on afterwards, at chirac incident report on how smear tactics are used to influence public opinion in her book "the smear." she is interviewed by washington post media critic eric wimple. >> you hammer the washington post, who you feel has not properly reported on this incident as opposed to saying donald trump, why are you smearing john mccain? >> this was the wash

in a washington post, she's been battled multiple sclerosis. she was diagnosed last year and unnoered. she wrot it and about i haven't had access to insurance. this can happen to anybody. i mean, i was extraordinarily healthy. any one of us can have something happen that we didn't plan care system that understands that. >> she's not letting ms change her plans for the future. she's not rolling out another run for office down the road. >> well, warning about ticks, why this could be the worst season in years and what you can do to protect yourself. >> what can be a big change from the help of this community. on news 4 at 6:00, what's next for a new project get more people drinking water. >> water big factor over the next couple of days, hot and humid, make sure you're drinking plenty of that. we're talking some of the hottest days so far this year, heat index, over 100 degrees. we'll talk muc z2ejcz z16fz y2ejcy y16fy >>> there is an interesting experiment going on. restaurants are teaming improve the health in the community by getting neighbors

we think the washington's want, we think the u.s. is going to remain dull. tide is a general rising that has supported risk assets but we think that is a verb. with china looking to be stable ahead of the congress in november, we can't see anything coming from there either. we think it is as good as it gets economically. david: so risk assets, to use that term, they are really void. they have done extremely well. what assumptions are there underlying about what goes on in washington and those equity situations? >> there is an element>> they have been anticipating something out of washington. at least a corporate tax cut. something tax reform-y. i don't think they have jettisoned it completely. i think there is still, as i said, a better than even chance that something gets done because i think the republicans will say, hey, if we don't get anything done this year at all, that is going to be tough to take back to the voters so i think it will concentrate but it is going to be very pared back. alix: it seems like your call is regardles

from washington, alex len, bloomberg editor. and kevin cirilli, our washington correspondent. kevin, you being here next to me, let's start with you. it is exciting that you are here when all of this is happening. happening, itis really appears to

so then she had a fight with general washington about how to spend the money. he wanted shirts, she wanted to do something more special for the troops. he was the general, after a series of intense and intenser letters, he won. and shirts were made. and esther died. she was just shy of her 34th birthday, but dysentery came raging through philadelphia and she succumb to it. the council and the assembly adjourned for her funeral because she was such a noted personage. the business of the ladies association was taken up by sarah franklin beige. and the women did what the general asked and made shirts, 2,200 of them in one place for the troops just to show that it was something special from the women of america every woman sewed her own name into the shirt so every soldier knew there was a woman who cared about him, a citizen who cared about him out there grateful for the work that he was doing. and it tided them over. it kept them going until the battlefield victories started to come in and the french finally arrived. no one would have criticized esther reed if sh

around 1900, washington, d.c. was celebrate iing the centenni and of course around the country, many of the cities were developing parklands, such as central park and new york. there was an interesting congress in doing something similar here in d.c. and senator james mcmillan was appointed chairman of the senate park commission and the purpose was to really look at the laffont plans and to attempt to implement the laffont plan and really make washington, d.c. a premier nation's capitol and one of the greatest cities in the country. of course, part of that plan involved creation of a national mall with public buildings and monuments and museums along a grassy area ventures south from the capitol building. in order to accomplish the plan, the railroad stations which were located too close to the capitol building, needed to be removed. if you can imagine not only did you have two train stations, but you had a number of tracks and railroad crossings throughout the city in order to get to the stations. >> daniel bernh

welcome to washington. i am bret baier. just before 5:00 eastern time, president trump announced general kelly will be his new chief of staff, he starts monday morning. at first, there is no mention of what happened to reince priebus, who has taken a beating this week, courtesy of incoming communications director anthony scaramucci. the president, priebus and scaramucci returned to washington from long island on air force one. he thanked him for his service and dedication. the shortest tenure, 189 days, of any chief of staff not serving in an interim role in the white house. kevin corke with all the breaking news of a dramatically changing white house. kevin. >> quite a day here at the white house, bret. sarah huckabee sanders says the president thanks reince priebus for his service. they accomplished a lot together. he was loyal and his dedication to the president. he thinks him and his family for his great service to the country. the odd man out in a very interesting tug-of-war, brought on at least in part by anthony scar

it speeds up the purge, it doesn't mean that there's no one with ties to the washington and the washington establishment, kellyanne conway was a washington pollster prior to her time with president trump and vice president mike pence before. john kelly is someone spent a long time around washington. is but he's not a washington establishment political figure that is reince priebus. he was the olive branch. he was the person cast by folks very nervous about the idea of donald trump being president, republicans very nervous about of idea of donald trump being president, as well, he's got reince in enter and reince brings in sean spicer, katie walsh, a couple of long-time political operatives, the thought was he's going to mix insider and outsider. he's gf to have the steve bannons and his family, jared kushner, ivanka trump. but he's also going to have some of the folks who are known commodities in washington. well six months in, i think donald trump decided that he didn't want to do that any more, he viewed reince priebus as ineffective. most recently because of the inability to get the 50t

washington was a big fellow but he would be about 14 feet tall. >> my favorite is of george washington. i mean he probably i think was joe ellis who said it was important that we be worshipful of our great men in the early days of the republic. it's a religious type of -- who did that? >> washington and looking -- >> with a toga. >> yeah. so the attitude of people in these days were important. he no longer had anything to tie his false teeth to. it made his face swollen. whielt gives us a wrong image of him it helps us understand him as a human being. >> so was there one you found to be particularly, you know, it's never easy to write a book but is there one that's easiest. >> probably blue skies, no fences. it was about growing you and having an exclus. you know, to find out what linda was up to. that was the most fun. >> what's the difficulty in writing about yourself? as someone who lived in the public eye -- >> you have to fig your oure ou you don't want to say. >> we are almost out of time. as a long year as a scholar, a teacher, political pous, public figure and author what are s

ellison barber with more details in washington. >> reporter: the russian ambassador to washington with told his bosses he talked about campaign-related matters with the now-attorney general of the united states. that according to a new washington post report. the conversations allegedly took place during the 2016 campaign. sources reportedly told the post ambassador sergey kislyak's conversations with his bosses were intercepted by u.s. spy agencies. if true, it seemingly contradicts a number of statements sessions made. >> i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. >> to the best of your memory, you had no conversation with ambassador kislyak at that meeting? >> i don't recall it, senator warner. >> reporter: a spokesperson with the department of justice told fox news she could not comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources described in the post article but, quote: the attorney general stands by his testimony from just last month. this morning president trump criticized the leak, tweeting: a new intelligence leak from the

reaction from washington next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: a stock we are watching, shares of i.b.m. tumbling 4% in trading hitting a three-month low making it the worst performer on president second-quarter revenue missed estimates, failed his technology services and platform services fell by just over 5%. breaking news out of washington, the congressional budget office estimating tement the obama care repeal the ciliation act saving health bill would reduce 2020cits by $473 billion by and the number of uninsured ould rise to 32 million people by 2026. joining us from washington. we know?telaw, what do kevin: this is an estimate of the straight repeal, the delayed straight repeal bill that at this point senate republicans voting on next week. everything is very in flux after meeting with the white house. some talk of reviving the bill that mcconnell was orking on before that would have resulted in an additional 22 million uninsured. this was a version of bill that both chambers and vetoed by president obama in w

it descended in thek family of general washington's sister, betty washington lewis through her sons, one of whom george lewis was an officer in generae washington's life guard. this was a company of soldiers who provided sort of a securit detail for general washington, but also maintained his field equipment, his field headquarters including washington's tent that is in our collection here on display in the museum. this flag, according to family t tradition, was displayed to mark washington's presence in the field, to mark his headquarters. it is in very delicate condition, of course, being silk it is very light sensitive. it was displayed for many, many years before the deleterious effects of ultraviolet light were understood. it is only displayed on special occasions on the museum, but we certainly use the design.ta we have a replica of the flag on display on the ground floor of theha museum. it is very special because it was commissioned forit a flightn the space shuttle in which john glen accompanied. it has been to space and back, and it is on display on the ground floor of the

chris palome has the latest. >> reporter: prompt back in washington. mitch mcconnell postponing a vote on the latest bill after if arizona senator john mccain had unscheduled surgery over the weekend. republicans need every vote they can get, so mcconnell will wait until he returns to washington. >> yes, i believe as soon as we have a full contingent of senators that we'll have that vote. it's important we do so. >> reporter: so far two republicans say they don't support the senate's current version. three "no" votes would po kill it. >> it could lead to insurance plans that insurance at all it would calls premiums to --. rand paul says the bill doesn't go far enough. we're going to keep most of the taxes, keep the regs, and create a giant bailout superfund for the insurance company, the senate health care big stops the obama care disaster. >> doctors, nurses, health advocates, parents, i don't know any group that thinking this is a good idea. >> president trump touted the latest plan in his weekly address, but so far hasn't commented on the latest del

came to washington with the best of intentions. but jimmy carter failed as president because he didn't ultimately understand washington. but we had the recession and so democrats knew they needed to do something so they were willing to take a chance on reagan-nomics. >> get back to trump. >> let me answer this diplomatically. >> there were a lot of people who thought reagan was going to be president in the '80s. historians were not rating him high. they are going back and looking at the reagan presidency and he is rated, i think the lost poll of american historians had him 13 but he has been going up over the last 30-40 years. i don't have the newspapers of eight years or four years from now to tell you about donald trump. i can tell you reagan approached the presidency differently, reagan was a different man, reagan had different style. there is no comparison except both were out siders and both were stretched through the political system. that is the only thing i would say compare the two men. >> when people inside the republican

company uber washington d.c. to belly to do that because. i. only came there like take the news from behind a pentagon study has declared this week that the american empire may be collapsing the pentagon said that. and here's the thing the natural reaction for an american is no. there are employers collapse you would think me. well my soul cycle classes be cancelled or. i have a group on it isn't fair. but here is all you need to know we shouldn't rule the world to be. happy we don't need to encircled the globe like an evil octopus with a personality disorder. what of course the pentagon report gets it exactly wrong and says the answer to this is to build up our military yes let's build up our military that's like telling a nuclear bomb it needs to be more fiery. and they say we need to expand the use of our awesome surveillance capabilities yeah yeah let's let's get more into people's lives and unrelated news and it was constant company will become the first in the u.s. to microchip their employees installing an already aidid chip in their han

unlike obamacare in which out of washington, d.c., washington bureaucrats dictate the same approaches taken across the nation no matter how different the states are and so the money is given to the state and theyde are asked to provide for their citizens in a way to pick for the needs of the state. the returning power to states and the patient as a ultimately gives the patient more power. i will repeat this does not replace the bill that is beingng offered by senator mcconnell. it is an amendment to that and if it turns out that some senators feel that particular bill is not adequate to fulfill that campaign promises, we think this amendment could take away the bill for the rest of the way. mr. president, i yield the flol floor. we are working on a version of the healthcare bill they've been talking about today and i know my colleagues are going to try to say they are projecting and want to ensure people with pre-existing conditions so they don't have to pay through the nose, but i think the president called the house version of this attempt a very mean there'll, and i think the origi

he was the coolest guy in washington, wasn't he? remember his office upstairs. he had jazz >> how about, rum night? that was before my time. >> taking the fifth. >> oh, no. >> there was a fifth involved, as i recall. >> occasionally fans would moon me. >> that's a great story. >> wait -- -- >> don't skim past that. that's pretty significant story. >> he tried to -- i would be on the green screen and i would see vance walking back in the camera, i knew what was coming next. and he -- >> everybody did. >> and he would pull down his pants and moon me. >> true story. strew story. i saw this. i saw this happen. but -- i didn't see the same angle that bob got to see. >> true >> totally unique person and unique anchor. if i tell him to shave off his mustache, he would grow a beard. they would tell him to cut his hair and he would grow an aftro. and he would do a commentary that ring the phones off the hook. in 1975 the news director said, vance, i want some cool music. vance picked "my mood" and to this day that music still plays on the end of the 6:00 news. >> played

so he knew washington very well. in the early revolutionary period he became involved in the independence movement. he became a british commander, was a general commanding the lead elements of that american force at the battle of princeton. when the british counterattacked, mercer was knocked from his horse. and apparently these british troops thought that they had actually captured general washington. and demanded that he surrender. but mercer defended himself with a sword. and this is actually the original silver-hilted sword that mercer had in his hand, you see in the background the depiction from john trumbel, the painting of the death of mercer, with a bayonet from the british regiment that attacked the americans at princeton. these blades may well have crossed one another as mercer lay on the ground fighting off a circle of british soldiers. he was repeatedly stabbed with bayonets, mortally wounded. he lingered for nine days afterwards and became a kind of martyr for the american cause. when he eventually died,

people in washington get so caught up in personalities. it was an attack on the independence of the justice department. i think one of the most disappointing things jeff sessions has done is when he came out and held that press conference yesterday on an unrelated topic, he didn't stand up for the department. he didn't stand up for the department's independence, for the special counsel. he kind of took a pass and laid down and took it from the president. that is an incredible demoralizing thing to see the supposed leader of the department do when the entire agency is under attack from the head of the executive branch. >> put that in the context of the discussions of pardon because a pardon has one prerequisite, and that is that a crime occurred. >> exactly. so the fact that he's talking about pardons to his aides, for himself, for his family members, i mean it indicates to me that he believes that bob mueller poses a threat. and not that bob mueller is going to write an op-ed column or that he's going to rally the republican base against r

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martha washington. it is a -- see her signature. m. washington. and it's an early edition. printed in england. it was known as a help and guide to christian families. published in london in 1752. so quite likely a book she may well, you can imagine, would have taken along with her to camp to spend that winter at valley forge. now, the top of the page is missing. almost certainly it was clipped by an autograph collector in the 19th century. presumably her name would have been written out there as well. and it was probably clipped by a collector. and if any viewers have that in their collection, we would love to reunite the book and the autograph. but there's her signature. martha washington. so it's entirely possible to imagine that that's a book that spent the winter at valley forge along with the general and his suffering soldiers. a few other objects. again, an object that quite likely was also used at valley forge. the soldier's canteen. seems like a fairly mundane object but there's really probably

when you factor in the moisture on it already feels like one of two washington -- 102 washington, quantico, lexington park, maryland, and 100 degrees in leesburg. air temperatures climb close 98 degrees in the metro washington area with plenty of sunshine. a very low possibility, i will leave it in there with a door cracked open, and possibility of a storm. our futurecast does show as we get to the afternoon a few things popping, but no evidence of that right now. again, anything that would develop will feature slow movement and very heavy rainfall for a while. evening ended the tomorrow, a little better chance with a few thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. the three-day outlook after today, mid and upper 90's, thunderstorm chances friday, saturday, and sunday. we will happily talk more about the relief that is coming in our forecast in a few minutes, if rihanna -- adrianna. adrianna: thank you, doug. the burundi team that impeded in the robotics challenge, today, we understand they might have already been spotted. at least two of them have been spotted according to -- at sources a

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. ♪ >> we are flying over washington, capital of the united states. the beautiful city the pride of every american from the cloud from the ground. up about savannah. we saw over the top of the senate and house of representatives office buildings and the congress and alive. branches of the government. and the law going to land the plane an here's a close up of the house office building. mendo their heavy thank you and this structure eight representatives as an office and which a government official both in. the senate office building is just across the capitol grounds both buildings are constructed of beautiful white model and are connected with the capitol by underground railway we abandon flights to. families who first knew it as a marshy lane. and not a proud nation is great for the dog of the capital. this magnificent structure found on capitol hill from which to radiate twenty one broad avenue on a stone was laid by washington himself but the building was not fully completed until the end of the civil law. at the top of a ground process of progres

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"the washington post." and "the new york times" report that attorneys and aides are scouring the backgrounds of robert mueller looking for ways to undercut the probe. >> "the washington post" reporting the president has asked about his pow or the pardon aides, family members, even himself. one adviser told the post the president wassimply curious agent the reach of his powers. jeff zeleny has more from the white house. >> reporter: christine and miguel, president trump and the white house increasingly focused on the special counsel's investigation. the independent investigation into the russian meddling of the 2016 election. there are indications the election is spreading. president trump made that indication in his interview with "the new york times "earlier this week when he talked about robert mueller. and that he could being look into the trump family's finances. the president said he thought that would be outside of the purdview of that. this is increasingly dominated much of the conversation here at t

emily rau, abc news, washington. as the president continues his european trip-- his administration is releasing more details about the growing threat from north korea. u-s ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, called pyongyang's recent missile test a "clear and sharp military escalation" -- the test prompted the united nations to call an emergency security council meeting. and ambassador haley says u-s military action remains on the table. haley also threatening u-s trade with china and korea's largest trading partners. u-s military officials say the missile tested this week flew 17 hundred miles, meaning could attack alaska if it desired. we are learning more details this morning about the former charles county public school employee accused of sexually assaulting children -- all while he had h-i-v. carlos bell is accused of assaulting ten children. bell has worked at four charles county public schools since 20-13. he's also been employed as contractor that taking care of kids before and after school. and j

sir, you were the elite in washington. if it was so bad, then why didn't you try to do something at the time? you spent the money. you were the good stewart who donated or decided where the money would go and then you spent it. you act like i am the guilty one because now i am at so security age and because the money is that there, i have done something wrong. no sir, you are the desk you were supposed to be the good stewart. you were there with the money. you are the one that is responsible, not us. now it is time to pay the piper. we worked our entire lives, sir. i started working when i was 16 at i lied, i was the oldest of five. i had to go to work. when i got 18 and got out of high school, i got a job at the kroger company in there i stayed .ntil the day i retired i worked, i got married. i raise my family. i bought a home and did all the things that is required. you sir, you did not. 90 spent the money -- my tax dollar and now you are crying because the money is not there for you to spend again. the money needs to be

so washington complied. and he had the artist paint this miniature of him, and a piece that martha treasured for the rest of her life. an 18th inscription said she was wearing it. we even have here an image of martha. the other item we have is a letter. it's one of three surviving documents from george to martha washington. this letter and another letter were actually found in martha washington's desk while peter owned it. and what's so significant of this letter is where george tells martha he's been given command of the continental army. he tells her he must proceed immediately to boston to take command of the army. it's such a significant document especially because mrgta washington burned all of the correspondence between she and her husband after his death because she felt that was one aspect of their very public relationship that could remain private. so this is a very treasured item. one of the other objects i wanted to highlight is this camp stool. it's actually one of two surviving camp stools that

current temperatures 80 degrees in washington, 70s elsewhere. not as muggy a morning as it has been. we're going to warm on up. we're getting cloud cover out there. some areas has sunshine. i do believe the best chance for sunshine would be before noon today. then we have severe weather this afternoon. strong p.m. storms. in fact, some of those could be, as i said, severe. we're looking at maybe just a little bit of cloud cover right now. nothing really happening on storm team 4 radar. these are the areas we're watching. number one coming through ohio and number two right here. really strong wind associated with this one. can you see by the way curves right there. that area of red rig pool. i would say any time before 2:00 p.m. then we're going to have to keep an eye on the sky. delray musicfest. strong. starts and goes to 8:00. prime time, storms out there. evening concerts, chris stapleton, a lot of big fans. i do believe there's lightning out there. maybe they can get it in between these two storms. this is 7:30. as it moves closer to us we'r