secretary of state john kerry set the stage yesterday, holding the highest level meeting with cuba in over 50 years with the cuban foreign minister as the u.s. considers removing cuba from the state sponsors of terror list. nbc senior white house correspondent kris jansing is on the ground in panama city with more on that. kris what gets accomplished in this anticipated encounter? reporter: well good morning, richard. first of all, it is the photo op right? this is hugely symbolically important. first time since 1958 there s been a planned meeting between the leaders of the two countries. now, they have spoken before. we saw a handshake and brief conversation that they had at nelson mandela s funeral in 2013, and then they have spoken twice. first after the president announced his plan to normalize relations with cuba back in december and you mention that phone call that happened wednesday before the president got on the plane and headed to the region. having said that there s going
video. we know from previous cell phone video released that a short time later slager shot eight times at scott killing him. now we hear from state investigators that say they had suspicions about this deadly shooting from the very beginning. they released a statement late last night. for the first time we are also hearing from the mother of officer slager. she says her family is devastated by all of this that she has not seen the video yet, and has not seen her son since the incident but she s thinking about the scott family and that her son is not a bad person. now, he remains in jail. he is charged with murder and has not entered a plea. one of the questions we don t know, why did scott run from the car. his family previously said he may have been trying to avoid jail time because he had been arrested before for owing child support. richard, at this point we just don t know. back to you. gabe gutierrez, thanks. on that latest dash cam video
shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time thanks to you, it s got about 18 million cracks in it. reporter: the question now, can she break through. and this time around clinton will focus on emphasizing her personal life more including her role as mother and grandmother. a point underscored in a newly released epilogue to her book hard choices. in one portion she details the moment she and former president bill clinton left the hospital room after meeting their granddaughter charlotte for the first time. here s a portion. she wrote after awhile bill and i stepped out into the hallway to let them rest, we sat quietly holding hands trying to process the rush of emotions i looked over and saw a tear in bill s eye. the republican field gets more crowded monday when florida senator marco rubio is expected to announce his campaign from florida. richard, back to you. kristin welker at the white
a lot of folks asking a simple question, richard, after that dashcam video came out especially. why did walter scott run from police? the working here to hi been according to his family he did not want to go back to jail for failure to pay child support. we ve learned that there was, in fact, not a bench warrant here in north charleston or charleston for failure to pay child support so that question remains. the very latest from here. back to you. craig melvin nbc, thank you for that. bring in mark claxton direct herb of the black law enforcement alliance and retired new york city police detective. as we look at that video just released dashcam video a 20-year veteran of the new york police department. what do you make of that video and understanding what happened that day? well the video quite clearly and assuredly offers additional perspective and perhaps some context, but there s nothing dispositive in that video.
los angeles court thursday. the first piece of evidence presented against the 39-year-old joshua corbett was the 911 call from bullock herself. i m in my closet i have a safe door in my bedroom and i ve locked it and i m locked in the closet right now. i hear them. i hear someone banging on the door. in your bedroom? corbett has pleaded not guilty to charges of stalking the actress and breaking into her home last june. as for bullock, she is not expected to testify in the pretrial hearing. a busy friday on wall street. one major company is selling off assets, another is getting americans to buy, buy, buy. dominic chu is here with more on that. richard, yeah ge will shed a lot of real estate and finance business taking money from sales and return to shareholders by buying back $50 billion of its own stock. moft meant to help them focus on industrial business energy transportation, health care. the only finance operation it