Sun afternoon at work k with our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. This week on q a robert strauss, he talks about his book worst president ever. The legacy of the lesser president s. Robert strauss author of worst. President. Ever. To my family, who made me read every historical marker, for my mother edna especially for teaching me to laugh at myself. Explain your dads connection . Well, my dad he saw when i was little and picked up the sports page that i would read every little statistic on it so he bought me a book, it would have every last line however long they lived to the day after their inauguration or how long their mothers lived where they came from, any way so it became this sort of thing for me that i was the money ball guy for president s as a little kid and they would show me off at parties but then my father wherever they would drive there would
Information from the gunmans wife. We have more on the days developments. Reporter at the center of the investigation, did omar mateens wife noor salman know he was planning mass murder . Law enforcement Officials Say she allegedly went to buy ammo with mateen, visited pulse nightclub with him once and she may have tried to talk him out of committing an act of violence. Now the f. B. I. Is asking for help. Regardless of how small the information may be, i still want to hear about it. Reporter details emerging including a threatening facebook message mateen posted the same morning of the attacks. Taste the vengeance he wrote. And signs that mateen possible pli struggled with an inner conflict. Professing to hate homosexuals but a former classmate with this. If you were gay, you would be my type of guy. Reporter mateens victims speaking out about coming face to face with the killer. He looked deranged. He looked like something was mentally wrong with him. Reporter she spent hours who wou
There needs to be records so people with Mental Illness cant get guns. Im glad you asked that. I want you to think about something. Were focusing on the guns. Lets talk about the people. This person, this guy who committed the mass murder in oregon, it was his mother. He and his mother. Where was dad . Where was brother or sister . Where was neighbor . An, folks, are marriages our marriages, too many of them have eroded. The relationship with our neighbors. Whats happened todd neighborhood . You see, we are all really our neighbors keeper. And we all have a responsibility to live a life bigger than ourselves. Its about justice and healing and who is helping this woman down in virginia . This is something the government could have done. There was not an emergency bed for his son, he took his son home and the next day, a tragedy occurred where he was stabbed and his son is gone. Why didnt we have the beds . Was it because we run over eople who we dont understand . What are we doing to he
On the difference in how it impacts our lowerincome neighbors as opposed to our middle ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Bnsf. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york. A foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill tragedy struck the muslim world today, marring the end of the annual pilgrimage to mecca, in saudi arabia. At least 719 people were killed when worshippers panicked and stampeded. More than 860 others were hurt. Ifill it was a scene of horror in a place of holiness. Cell phone video captured the gruesome a
Jesse hartnett in west philadelphia. The suspect moving closer and closer firing multiple shots until he reaches point blank range. Reporter his car riddled with bullets, his left arm punctured by 39 mill neither rounds officer hartnett gets out of his police unit and gives chase injuring 30yearold Edward Archer who is then quickly captured. The bravery he demonstrated was absolutely remarkable. His will to live undoubtedly saved his life. And were ever so thankful to god that hes here today. Reporter police questioned the suspect as to the motive behind the unprovoked attack. They say he confessed and continued to utter these words. He stated that he pledges his allegiance to islamic state. He follows allah and that is the reason he was called upon to do this. According to him he believes that the Police Defend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the quran. Reporter sources tell cbs news archer traveled to the middle east including trips to cairo and saudi arabia in 2011 and 20