ahead of their nonmusical peers when it came to testing and math science and english on average around a full academic year and demographic factors like gender ethnicity or socioeconomic background didn t play a role in whether or not the surge in performance occurred the researchers believe the benefits came from a variety of factors playing in an orchestra a band or ensemble encourages the development of skills like hand eye coordination listening and teamwork and those in turn apparently have a major effect on cognition and where the kids were more dedicated the effects were stronger in an era where resources for the arts are often cut in schools to promote more activities in math and the science says the study indicates it s high time for a rethink the best investment in those subjects could well be an investment in a good musical education. you re watching t.w. news just reminder one of the top stories we re following for you today iran has
praise manner. we have seen numerous reports as you have. any specifics, i can tell you, none of this decision was made by the white house. i would refer you to the fbi who i believe will make a statement later today. you say the white house wasn t involved in the decision, but clearly the president seemed to be involved in public relations campaign against mccabe. look, the president stands by his previous comments. but in terms of the situation today, as i said, we have seen reports as all of you have. we don t have any specific comments. i would refer you to the fbi for specifics on the things that are taking place today. jill? you said you have seen reports. does that mean the president wasn t involved by anyone at the fbi this was happening? is there conversation there? no, he hasn t. can you say that the president didn t play a role in andrew mccabe stepping down? yes. the president wasn t a part of
does he think of him stepping down? we received reports as you have. any specifics, none of this decision was made by the white house and any specifics i refer you to the fbi who will be making a statement later. clearly the president seemed to be involved in a public relations campaign against mccabe. oh, look, the president stands by his previous comments, but in terms of the situation today as i just said we ve seen the reports just as all of you v. we don t have any specific comments, and i would refer you to the fbi for any specifics on the things that are taking place today. when you say you ve seen the reports, does that mean the president wasn t informed by the fbi? no, he hasn t. the president didn t play a role in andrew mccabe stepping down? he was not part of this process and we would refer you
manafort had no idea how to control a candidate who was so unconventional like trump. bannon came in there. he knew to let trump be trump. he knew how to connect trump to his base. when he was in the white house, bannon served as probably trump s stronger tie to his own base. and building off of that trump looks really bad right now. i agree with that. building off your point, this is par for the course for donald trump in disowning key members of his team. he says paul manafort didn t manner. george papadopoulos was the coffee boy. now steve bannon didn t play a role. i doubt this will come to kellyanne conway as the day is young. it goes back to the heat and the pressure coming off of the mueller probe. we saw attacks about the grand jury over the weekend, the past couple days, that the composition of it was unfair to the trump team because it s too high percentage of african americans. and we know the comments from steve bannon about it being treasonist. that don jr. and jar
low down to the water. is it clear, i mean, whether the conditions were very foggy, do we know if that in any way contributed to the crash? reporter: they haven t said what they think caused the crash. it s hard to believe though that the fog wasn t a part of it. it was heavy last night. it continues to be heavy. you can see it here today. we had difficulty flying down here today because of the fog. it s hard to believe that it didn t play a role. just horrible for their families and friends. tonight, an exclusive new look at osama bin laden and the months leading up to his death by seal team six. paint a picture of a man in fear in stark contrast to never before seen photos of bin laden from 1996 which have been exclusively obtained by cnn. here s our justice correspondent, pamela brown. reporter: these remarkable pictures have never been seen until now, obtained by cnn, show