coming up next here, we want to talk about this tape that has surfaced. michael cohen threatening a reporter back in the summer of 2015. i am warning you, tread lightly [ bleep ], because what i m going to do to you is going to be [ bleep ] disgusting. do you understand me? don t think you are going to hide behind your pen because it not happening. a reporter joins me discuss what was behind this conversation and why this tape is just now coming out.
colleagues that this is the kind of action that could be undertaken by the president. and we want to put him on notice that it is something that we will not tolerate. what was this based on, though? were there any facts to back this up? because i heard from a lot of critics over the last few days that suggest it s reckless for a member of congress to spread rumors about such a sensitive subject if it s not based on something solid. well, i made the point when i was talking to a local reporter back in san francisco that this was a rumor. and i specifically said that. i ll say it again tonight, but rumors have a way of becoming facts in washington, d.c. so if if this has any kind of prophylactic effect of making sure this idea if it was hatched is not pursued, then i feel that it was worth making it known to the public. it s one of these things, though, for the last five days it s been democrats saying that
and finally tonight, our visit to boston today. i spent time here as a reporter back today visiting the team at wcvb. but we don t come for a visit without finding something made in america. so, tonight, the american workers who would be very proud to fit you. our made in america team all across new england, remember l.l. bean and their signature boots? all made in brunswick, maine. and the team behind randolph sunglasses, just outside boston. way to go. we tried them on, realizing we were better off leaving it to them. and tonight, our stop in new bedford, massachusetts. the sign right outside, they re hiring. inside, the factory coming to life, just as it has now for 3 decades, 800 workers cut and sew more than 1,000 men s suits every day for the brand, joseph abboud, and we went to find the man behind it. what a success story after all these years. you know that s a form of survival, isn t it?
endangerment and other with violating passenger restrictions. legal experts say charges like these are very rare. joining me now, michael smerconish, i remember when i was a reporter back in the 90s in dallas and one of the first cases where a bartender in a bar was accused of overserving someone and dragged through the legal system over the question of whether or not a bartender should be responsible and how much drinks and what happens after. we recognize that duty, the duty on the part of a tavern owner not to overserve a particular pat ron. i never heard of a case like this before. you d be interested to know that when i discussed it on the radio today, there were folks pro and con. both said it s a matter of personal responsibility. some saying that this driver, the apparently intoxicated young woman who lost her life, she bore all of the responsibility. others saying no, others who
of six lives but to honor the lives of six people. we re here because that healing effort and those six lives, they deserve attention. we ll be doing that throughout the hour ahead. but we also want to tell you tonight about what we ve learned about their killer, wade page. a man motivated by hate. who officials say took inspiration from the swastika. where precisely that hate came from, where it all came together and when, we don t yet know. we do know that one of his stops on the road to sunday s massacre was the time he spent at the army s fort bragg in north carolina, which of course has a long tradition of producing heroes. drew griffin has been investigating how and when wade page was at fort bragg, what his service entailed. he joins us now. drew, what have you found about page s time in the military? well, it was not stellar, we ll tell you that in a little bit. but we wanted to focus on fort bragg because fort bragg, as you said, produced a lot of heroes, thousands