justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime
that is your worst nightmar imagining what is happening to your child a note with big demands left by mysterious kidnapper who seemed to know all, se all. they are watching the house and then the victim hersel calls. her mom jumping into work with police, would hand over th ransom herself if i didn t jump the mone properly, that would be the en of her she dropped the cash all right but who picked it up that s where everything went wrong? that s where everything wen wrong. kidnapping case about to go way off script her story did not mak sense. what was really going on? i ve been a cup for 11 year and i blush when i listen to the tape a story with more twists an turns in the florida roads trying to find this missin mom. this case was not going t turn out like a lot of peopl assumed. thanks for joining us i m lester holt. whenever someone is kidnappe it triggers a race against tim as police often joined by th victims family begin a frantic search that s w
have enough police to secure the streets of san francisco. jonathan hunt is live with more. reporter: a brutal and brazen attack, those the words of the san francisco police chief describing another high-profile example of the kind of violent crime that s leaving many people in the city by the bay terrified and angry. the victim on this occasion was the former san francisco fire commissioner attacked by three men as he left his mother s home in the marina neighborhood at 7:00 p.m. wednesday night. he was beaten with a pipe and suffered severe head injuries including a fractured skull. now, the assault happened the day after tech executive bob lee was stabbed to death in another area of san francisco generally considered safe. lee s final moments partly caught on this security camera video. the san francisco police chief says the killer will be caught. as much as i know people want to know, but i don t want to do anything or say anything to compromises what is going on rig
tonight, you wonder how many tru americans even know it s good friday. so after hundreds of years, s this has finally become a nonry christian country. but it s not a secular country. i m sure people call call it tht they are wrong. there are no secular countries .gion every country has a religionrs because every personon has has a religion. f it s even if it s atheist. everybody worships somethingthen born that way, we can t get away from it. so what does america s religio n now? well, as it happens, we haven video. thisnow? is from st. mark s lutheran church in fargo, norths dakota. it was taken is from april 2nd.r that was the first sunday after kill the mass killing in nashville te in which three adults and three children were murdered at a christia n school for being christians in the old america. tian. christian pastors would have preached about this. they would have acknowledged. the evil on display and they would have prayed for those who d been killed, a forled.m oo
tribute tonight to those who died and a show of support to the families of the victims that demonstration of gratitude to the police officers who prevented many more lives being lost. first lady jill first lady jill biden blade flowers and stood alongside officials of the vigils among them the police chief whose officers acted so heroically in confronting the shooter appeared our police officers have cried and i have cried with national and the world beer to from your support, we gather strength and the will to gary on and thef our city. speak of the of 9-year-old have said that she was shocked that she will try to pull a fire alarm. both nine years old were also killed as well as adult staff members cynthia, mike hill, the school head katherine koonce whose officials suggested died trying to protect the children. saying that would have been typical of her. she was an absolute champion for her students. her students knew that she was in their corner. we have learned mor