Living with parkinsons disease. Richard lewis was 76 years old and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now with a democracy. Well, the jury i mean the Supreme Court is still out on that one tonight on laura coates why well, its morning in london and they will woke up with the king, will guess what america you could be going to bed with one thats if the Supreme Court hands donald trump a get out of jail free card. After all, what is akin, someone who answers to no one can do what he wants it . Well, whos going to check them . Boo in a democracy . The answer is supposed to be the other two branches of government, right . You coequal branches, the whole checks and balances thing is all coming back to us now, right . I mean, its easy to forget these days when the Supreme Court Just Announced its going to take up the question of whether a president has absolute immunity no theyre not treating that as some kind of rhetorical question. Theyre actually going to he
bargaining are not the appropriate methods to address is the concerns raised by student athletes. if this is not the appropriate way to address it, professor, what would be the appropriate way? i believe this is the appropriate way to do it for a couple reasons. number one, the college system has had many, many years to form itself, to respond to the concerns. these concerns go back to the 1930s, and possibly earlier. so it isn t as if the college sport system hasn t been confronted with thinks issues. typically minor responses have occurred as a result of lawsuits. so i think i think that collective bargaining is absolutely the way to go with this. and when we think about the ncaa rules that limit athletes opportunities to have lawyers and agents representing them at the table, i think that we have a whole sport system that s been
gayle ashley is joining me now, a professor at rutgers. professor thank you so much for your time. obviously the heartbreak, the pain of that is of the most important issue as the search continues for 90 people, but we have the urgent question of how this hand and why. was your initial concern right now? knolls as it relates to why people were living there, but perhaps why the warnings weren t adhered to? well, they ve known about the potential for landslides for a long time. the reports that have come out over a couple decades. but there s a potential for a tornado in tornado valley. yes, but this is a very limited space, a quarter of a mile or so. it wasn t a matter that it was
it s pril well known they were doing logging on the bluff above the area. that leads to the potential of more water being added to the area and sort of raising the water table, increasing the possibility of slides. so i think just having regulations about logging in the area would be a step forward. that s one thing. all right. well, we wish we had more time to speak with you, with your incredible knowledge based on this, and obviously the ongoing search for survivors, if that is possible at this point. we know that may not be the reality, but thank you so much. we re going to continue to follow this. professor, thank you very much. we do want to get you caught up on another story. it is in boston where a community is mourning two firefighters killed in a devastating apartment building fire. in fact a makeshift memorial is growing in honor of lieutenant
questions here today, brooke. and this comes on the heels of finding out that the former athletic director tim pernetti and mike rice will be receiving payouts of more than $1 million as part of their settlement agreements. tough questions for the president there today. pamela brown for us at rutgers. pamela, thank you. coming up, two boys somewhere in the gulf of mexico. police are searching for them. they were kidnapped by their own father. and now authorities think they are somewhere on a boat in this body of water. we ll look at how you search an area that huge.