stephen williams: is that appropriate? vicky: the day he asked this long-time rider to turn down the volume on his phone. stephen williams: "i love sex. i love it by the pound." do you hear what he's saying? it's not appropriate. and this is a conversation that we've had before. vicky: a conversation they've had because williams says he's tried to be a mentor to this rider, even giving him his phone number. stephen williams: just human nature. you see somebody like that, you wanna kinda help him. vicky: how long had you been friendly with him? stephen williams: off and on, probably about two, three years. vicky: when the rider refused to turn down his phone, williams asked him to leave. stephen williams: i have a passenger who's refusing to get off the bus... vicky: but it didn't end there. williams says 30 minutes later, and over the weekend, the man texted him: "i'd love to be able to kick your-- myself for the bull you just pulled." and: "watch your back. i've been looking for you." stephen williams: i had been threaten

tonight, you'll hear from stephen williams, an ac transit bus driver facing criminal charges for bringing a gun to work. he told us he regrets his decision, but felt he had no other choice. he says he faced serious threats from a rider and felt the agency

but while players like the williams siste sloane stephens have dominated american women's tennis for the last 20 years, american men ha fared nearly as well. een 15-years since andy roddick played in the u.s. open finals, the last grand slam championship won by an american male. newshour weekend's christopher booker recently talked with u.s.t.a. president katrina adams about america's inability to field top-tier male players, and how efforts to diversify the game may changthat. this story is part of our ongoing series about povty and portunity in america: chasing the dream. >> reporter: even though it has been nearly 20 years since katrina adams last played professionally, fans s clamor to have their picture taken with her. as the first former professional player to serve as chairmanf the board and president of the u.s. tennis association and chair of the uha. open, adams one of the broadest resumes in tennis. from her earliest days learning to play in chicago, her 12 years on the world tennis tour, hee has lived and breathed game for most of her life. >> its live its happening, its

>> stephen: because i loved the way william f. buckley, who created "firing line," and was the host for 33 years, longest host ever of any show on television-- >> so few people point that out! >> stephen: he was so passionate about his argument and about conservatism, and the way he thought the world should be. he was actually the father of the modern conservative movement. my first question to you is, young lady, now that you are taking over "firing line," when he created the "national review," his mission statement was: "it stands athwart history, yelling stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." margaret hoover, what do you stand a thwart, and what are you yelling? >> to the wonder and enjoyment of many, i will not be william f. buckley. i am not trying to be william f. buckley. i am not william f. buckley. and, that legacy is such a heralded legacy. he is important to so many people, and i approach this with a real respect for his legacy and what he brought to the ta

in the women's singles, serena williams, who's seeded 17, begin her quest for a record—equalling 24th grand slam title against poland's madga linette. sloane stephens begins the defence of her title against the russian evgeniya rodina, and world number one simona halep, who finally broke her major duck by winning the french open, plays kaia kanepi. world number two caroline wozniacki plays the 2011 champion samantha stosur, and the wimbledon champion angelique kerber, who won the us open two years ago, plays margarita gasparyan of russia. you can the draws in full on the bbc sport website. petra kvitova is facing a battle to keep fit following leaving the connecticut open when she had to withdraw with a shoulder injury. she had a shock victory over caroline garcia. she won the olympic gold medal two years ago and came through 75-16, 6-2. -- 7-5,1-6, 6-2. the connecticut open is the final warmup event of the us open and in the other half of the draw russia's katarina makarova went down in straight sets, the five seat from germany won 6—4, 6—2. on to football and the scottish champi

next guest has been an original voice in comedy for decades, he's also directed the likes of robin williams, patton oswalt, and dave chapelle. please welcome bobcat goldthwait! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: all right, i realized saying this backstage quickly, it's really a pleasure to meet you. >> i'll crush that right out of ya. ( laughter ) it's like i kind of like the guy but now that i met him he's a real ( bleep ). >> stephen: comedy in the '80s is when you exploded on the scene. you were a totally new thing. >> yeah, i was huge in the '80s. a lot of your audience probably wasn't born when i was relevant. >> stephen: this is cbs. yeah, i owed like to remind the viewers, don't stand next to the microwave. >> stephen: oh, because to have the pacemakers? >> that's a pacemaker joke. that's not my target demo. how's the rascal? sorry. i'm really nervous. thanks for having me on the show. >> stephen: why are you nervous? you're bob goldthwait! >> i'm waiting to go on, i'm, like, it would be so much easier to just run out and go aaahhh! >> stephen: you don't do that any

fbi.rick whitehurst, [applause] kenneth williams, law enforcement whistleblower. stephen zanowick, u.s. marshals service whistleblower. [applause] and i do believe that is it. is there anyone i missed? please stand up. do not be embarrassed. do not be embarrassed to be a whistleblower. if i missed your name, stand up and announce yourself. [applause] [inaudible] [applause] >> hold on. let's get a microphone out there. >> dan martin, v.a. [applause] v.a. whistleblower. is there anyone else? we want to honor you. [applause] audience member: we wanted the supreme court. jane: congratulations. [inaudible] jane thank you. : thank you. you are all in the arena. you may not have won, but you are unbowed. thank you. [applause] right now, we're going to have dave calipinto introduce the grandfather of the fbi whistleblower. dave, who is a whistleblower attorney, please introduce fred. dave: it is an honor to introduce fred whitehurst who , blew the whistle on the fbi crime lab. he told me when he came up last night that we started representing him 26 years ago. and fred ha

. >> stephen: you guys had the cancellation at the last minute and mason williams had to go out there and play gigar. right, because he did classical gas. >> classical gas, he used to rehearse it in the the writers' room. and i thought gee this is astound ago. >> stephen: do you guys-- does anybody out there know classical gas? >> it's very hard to do. >> stephen: matty? >> i don't. >> stephen: i've never been more disappointed. >> yeah. that's a real tough place piece to play. >> stephen: he stopped being a comedian, right? he went on and became a pop star after that. >> he did that. he had a great album with it, a big hit and all that. it's a great-- if you haven't heard tyou should listen to it. it's a great, great piece of music. >> stephen: as a matter of fact, turn off the television right now and go listen. >> don't listen to him, don't listen! >> stephen: when you were younger and when you were first starting out as anabtor, you used to improvise your lines. like, they would have the script, but you would impovise. >> oh, yeah. >> stephen: a lot of people do now. it has become

face her sister venus and current number one simona halep defending champion american sloane stephens has welcomed the return of serena i think her being that is very special the matter of what she's ranked no matter what she says it is she's always obviously going to be the best so i think that her i think that is that it was special and it's great in american tennis it's really flourishing at the moment so i'm especially women on the men's side defending champion roughen adult talk favorites and his potential competition i think is not the clear. favorite and. even when somebody think that somebody is a clear favorite you know from inside there's a look like this so of course you know like roger. specially they like to have course that's it that's what's going to be action starts on monday fans will be keen to see if the champions can retain their titles. all right now you're watching the news we still have a lot more to tell you about including the head of the u.s. federal reserve says he'll continue to raise interest rates of the economy remains robots robust as despite pressure f

. >> stephen colbert gets tonight's last word and that word is guilty. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight the president calls for an end to the mueller investigation. a trump confidante telling the ap he's in a dark place. those around the president fear he just made a possible obstruction case worse. >>> also, the attorney general jeff sessions back in the hot seat with trump, quote, constantly bashing him for his russia recusal. the washington post on the board with the new terms for mueller for a proposed interview with trump and "the new york times" reporting trump wants to do it and thinks he can make a deal with china. >>> and the lightning speed of the paul manafort trial. already several witnesses in on just day two. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. this was one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. because this was what we woke up to from the president of the united states. quote, attorney general jeff sessions should sto

. >> mark dwight. >> here. >> william ortiz-cartagena is not here. iran riley. >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> next item. >> item 2, general public comments. public comment for items that are not on today's agenda. discussion item. >> do we have any members of the public who would like to make a comment on items not on today's agenda? seeing none. public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item 3, presentation. update on the cannabis equity program and possible recommendations to the planning commission to include the cannabis equity program in the community, business priority processing program. discussion and action item. the presenter is nicole elliott director opposite cannabis. >> one moment. commissioner dooley. >> i'm going to need to recuse myself from this item. i am involved with the cannabis industry. >> do we have a motion to recuse commissioner dooley. >> >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> you are recused. >> motion passes 5-0. >> ok. so it was 5-0. >> 5-0. ok. >> and we're including commissioner dooley. >> she can vote

. >> stephen colbert gets tonight's last word. and that word is "guilty." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight, the president calls for an an end to the mueller investigation. a trump confidant telling the ap that he's in a dark case. those around him fear he's made a possible obstruction case worse. jeff sessions in the hot seat with trump, quote, constantly bashing him. "the washington post" reporting

. >> stephen colbert gets tonight's last word and that word is guilty. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight the president calls for an end to the mueller investigation. a trump confidante telling the ap he's in a dark place. those around the president fear he just made a possible obstruction case worse. >>> also, the attorney general jeff sessions back in the hot seat with trump, quote, constantly bashing him for his russia recusal. the washington post on the board with the new terms for mueller for a proposed interview with trump and "the new york times" reporting trump wants to do it and thinks he can make a deal with china. >>> and the

face her sister venus and current number one simona halep defending champion american sloane stephens has welcomed the return of serena i think her being that is very special the matter of what she's ranked no matter what she says it is always obviously going to be the best so i think that her being that is that it was special and it's great in there that tennis is really flourishing at the moment so i'm especially women on the men's side defending champion roughen adult talk favorites and his potential competition i think is not the clear. favorite and. even when somebody think that somebody is a clear favorite you know from inside there's a look like this so of course you know like a larger. specially that like the head waters let's see if that's what's going to be action starts on monday fans will be keen to see if the champions can retain their titles. and king former guitarist for the u.s. rock band lennon skin a co-writer of the hit song sweet home alabama has died he passed away in nashville tennessee aged sixty eight and been battling cancer can help create lynas skin it's pow

. >> stephen colbert gets tonight's last word. and that word is "guilty." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight, the president calls for an an end to the mueller investigation. a trump confidant telling the ap that he's in a dark case. those around him fear he's made a possible obstruction case worse. jeff sessions in the hot seat with trump, quote, constantly bashing him. "the washington post" reporting trump wants to meet with mueller and school investigators that their work is a witch hunt. and the lightning speed of the paul manafort trial. already several witnesses in on just day two, as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. >>> good evening, once again, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 559 of the trump administration. and this was just one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. because this was what we woke up to from the president of the united states. quote, attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country even

meets in the third round in new york a little later on telling champion sloane stephens already through to around four. the american number three seed beating former world number one it soar as a ranking here in straight sets six three six for the farmers. the former n.f.l. quarterback cullen catholic will be allowed to take his legal case against team owners to trial the thirty year old claims teams are conspiring and one simply because of his protests against racial injustice or quest by the league to dismiss his complaint has been rejected capek has been without a team since opting out of his san francisco fourteen on his contract last year ok that is how your sport is looking for now c'mon thank you mr richardson that is your news are all done thank you for joining us on the team here and heard of your opponent is back in just a couple minutes time in our london news center with more of the day's news i'm tamara santamaria joining. optimism has faded. blue khan's elected leader has undivided attention as fia's that a crackdown is imminent the targets the activists who fought for dem

we apologize for the inconvenience. [ speaking french ] i now invite secretary william m. matz and secretary of the american battle monuments commission. to provide the welcome message. [ speaking french ] >> good morning. what a wonderful beautiful day in this french countryside. in this beautiful american cemetery. ladies and gentlemen, from the french parliament and senate, the regional and departmental councils, madame mayor,, and that miller and distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen. on behalf of the american people and president trump, good morning and welcome to the aisne-marne memorial day and world war i commemoration. the american battle monuments commission was established in 1923 by congress. that was established to commemorate and memorialize the service and the achievements and the sacrifice of u.s. armed forces. today we commemorate memorial day in 26 of our american military cemeteries located in 10 countries across four continents. i am honored to be here with you at this cemetery to pay tribute to the sacrifice these americans made in the cause of

treaty in 1842, but the prelude to all of that was winfield scott and john wool with officers like william worth talking with the british counterparts and cooperating with the british to keep american citizens from invading canada. >> stephen w carney here would lead the first dragoons to california about a decade after he became their commander. historians or textbooks may better remember john c fremont. there is fremont in 1856 as a republican party candidate and antislavery and abolitionist in some ways. >> in the 1840s he is the pathfinder trying to find ways to invade mexican territory. fremont was married to a senator's daughter, and he helped lead americans and what they call the bear flag rebellion against mexican authority in california. i'm not showing you a picture of him, because carney got fremont kicked out of the army for insubordination. >> basically clashing over who would command in california. carney had rank. fremont said hey, i got here first and i'm a real jacksonian guy. i will do what i'm going to do. >> carney was able to get fremont court-martialed. he sent fremon

face or sister venus and current number one simona halep defending champion american sloane stephens has welcomed the return of serena i think her being that is very special no matter what she's ranked no matter what she says it is she's always obviously going to be the best so i think that her being that is incredibly special and that's great in america tennis is really flourishing at the moment so i'm especially women on the men's side defending champion roughen adult talk favorites and his potential competition i think is not the clear. favorite. even when somebody think that somebody is a clear favorite you know from inside there's a look like this so of course. specially like the headquarters let's see that's what. the action starts on monday fans will be keen to see if the champions can retain their titles. you're watching the news we still have a lot more to tell you about here's what's ahead. how safe it is this bridge it's one of the busiest routes in nigeria and officials have closed it down for three days to find out. plus the weird and wonderful movie maker who brought th

the defending women's champion sloan stephens has just won her second round match. her match lasting almost 3—hours, andy murray is up next. he's played verdasco 14—times and lost only once. williams, seeded 17th, faces german carina witthoeft at midnight and will be followed by nadal‘s match. the wta has criticised us open rules which saw french world number 31 alize cornet given a code violation for taking her shirt off on court. cornet changed her shirt during the break between the second and third sets during her first—round defeat by johanna larsson, but realised it was back—to—front and switched it on court. the chair umpire gave her a warning, a decision the wta called "unfair". a wta statement said "alize did nothing wrong. the scottish football association have delayed a decision on whether or not to leave hampden park after over 100 years of international football and cup finals there, they have an option to move to the home of scottish rugby murrayfield in edinburgh. hampden's owners are queens park, the amateur club who also play there, and t

defending us open champion sloane stephens had to overcome a scare to reach the third round and he. took the first set six for the world number three battled back to the second seven fine and was back to her old self in the third racing through six two. she's obviously playing well so i just kind of weather the storm and with her my opportunities obviously i wish i could have been playing a little bit better that would help the situation but i just found a way to and sometimes it's not going to be the best but. going to battle through england's decision to bat first in the fourth test against india has backfired early on try just. keaton jennings l.b.w. for undocking just the second over of the match very nearly had joe root the next ball the english captain surviving another five overs before he went for four england struggling at twenty one for two as they look to wrap up the series. aaron rogers of the green bay packers has become highest paid player in n.f.l. history the thirty four year old quarterback has signed a four year deal worth more than one hundred thirty million dolla