New survey. Hello, everyone. Its high noon here in the east and 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. The manhunt is over but a big mystery remains which led police from Southern California to the wilderness of idaho. The abductor, James Dimaggio, is dead and Hannah Anderson is alive and well. Joe, what do you know . Anything new that youre learning . Reporter alex, this morning we did get some new information about how they were able to locate dimaggio and Hannah Anderson. Teams were up in helicopters searching the wilderness for any sign of them. Near a campsite near morehead lake, they spotted James Dimaggio and Hannah Anderson. They ended up landing and fbi apths hiked 2 1 2 hours before they were able to get to that campsite before there was a confrontation with dimaggio. All we know is that in the end an fbi agent shot and killed dimaggio. Were told a special fbi team is coming out to idaho to conduct an investigation on that shooting. They will be interviewing
Brown. Peter doescy live for us today at the white house. So, peter, what else are we learning about todays meeting behind closed doors thats happening right now . Gretchen, we are learning that the whole point of todays series of meetings about ferguson are to get the police and the public on the same page. The administration feels there is just too much tension between the two groups right now so that is why they have invited all concerned parties here for these meetings, from young civil rights leaders to Law Enforcement officials and in the last few minutes, the white house explained that they dont think today is just about ferguson. They view it more about Race Relations in general. The president and his administration are very focused on the underlying issues this have been uncovered in a pretty raw way in ferguson. Reporter and we have been promised a full list of whos actually here for these meetings when they are closer to wrapping up. So far, the white house not giving us man
Lead but there is a high expectation he will be the nominee and a belief he has the best shot to win the general election. Well get to that in a moment. First, sara murray is on the campaign trail with trump and joins us now. What has trump been talking about so far . Is it his usual resuscitation of poll numbers and what else is he talking about . Reporter were getting a lot of the usual stuff but the first thing he addressed is joe biden saying the Vice President made the right decision in deciding not to run for a higher office. We had some news today that biden is not running. And i think he did the smart thing because frankly, i dont know that he would have won. He wouldnt have gotten the nomination. I dont think he probably would have and frankly, i really want to run against hillary. Thats the one ive been when youre sort of like if you have a Baseball Team or football team, you get your heart set on something, thats the one we want to go against because you go against that reco
Bring in robots. Isnt the truth the president will meet with manufacturing ceos and the promises to bring those jobs back, 80 is the baseline estimate of jobs lost to innovation. The suggestion is you dont get those jobs back. Is this something people need to get their hands around and not be deceived by any false promise . Theres no question automation and Technological Improvement have changed factories, the way they operate. No question about it. You have fewer workers doing more work. Thats what productivity is. Ive been to a lot of areas in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and those factories i do think can come back. Theyre going to be operated in a different way. Robotics is coming, artificial intelligence. I heard your fascinating discussion a few minutes ago with that woman rose. One of the things when she said trump lies, she says, hes going to bring those coal jobs back. We are going to bring the coal jobs back. Just last week donald trump passed a regulation getting
White House Press Secretary sean spicer just finished briefing reporters and said the administration continues to support the embattled chairman. He is the chairman. Hes conducting an investigation. Its up to the house of representatives and the speaker and the members of the House Republican conference. But theres nothing i see that theres problematic in him conducting an investigation. Lets get right to our Intrepid Team of correspondents. Kristen welker is at the white hou house. Although sean spicer said they were going to be standing by devin nunes, he did admit there was a perception problem when he was talking to april ryan. Reporter thats right, and theyre acknowledging that, no doubt about at, katie. Bottom line is, there are mounting calls for him to recuse himself from this investigation. The white house not willing to go that far yet. But indicating that, yes, clearly this is creating some difficulty. Particularly as they want to be focused on things like tax reform. What i