With scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. Well, it was not exactly on par with nixons opening to china, but after months of harsh talk about mexico, mexicans, and mexicanamericans, donald trump made a surprise trip south of the border today. He met privately with mexicos president , then stood side by side with him to address the press. Trump looked the same as ever, but his words had a distinctly softer heres Major Garrett. Reporter donald trump arrived in mexico and took a helicopter to want president ial palace. That to avoid mexico city traffic and scattered street protests. After his meeting with mexican president enrique pena nieto, a harsh critic of trumps, the g. O. P. Nominee said this about his push for a wall on the border between the two countries we recognize and respect the right of either country to build any of its borders. Reporter on his promise that mexico would pay for the wall, trump punted. We did discuss the wall. We didnt
That is tracy again staying close to her older brother. As the group was leaving, another family was being torn apart. You brings those kids back here you bring them back one second, one second. Dont you take my kids this mother resisted when others in her family wanted to go. In the end, the family would stay, and all would die. Emotions were starting to just become very tense, and i recognized that we were in a powder keg. This is vern gosney dragging his belongings toward the departing truck. He tried to warn the congressman they were all in danger. He told me i had the congressional shield of protection over me and that i had nothing to worry about. I thought he was totally out of his mind. Congressman leo ryan, carrying the briefcase, had planned to stay the night to help get more families out. Then a Church Member came up behind him. And all of a sudden he puts a knife up to his throat and he says, all right, mf, youre going to die. We all jumped on him. We all got the knife away
The rain stopped. The parks family walked toward a waiting truck. That is tracy again staying close to her older brother. As the group was leaving, another family was being torn apart. You brings those kids back here you bring them back one second, one second. Dont you take my kids this mother resisted when others in her family wanted to go. In the end, the family would stay, and all would die. Emotions were starting to just become very tense, and i recognized that we were in a powder keg. This is vern gosney dragging his belongings toward the departing truck. He tried to warn the congressman they were all in danger. He told me i had the congressional shield of protection over me and that i had nothing to worry about. I thought he was totally out of his mind. Congressman leo ryan, carrying the briefcase, had planned to stay the night to help get more families out. Then a Church Member came up behind him. And all of a sudden he puts a knife up to his throat and he says, all right, mf, y
Tears with that hat. The tears were not anything other than i was scared to death. I was really down deep in my heart thinking were going to die. This is the last shot of the reverend jim jones that day as his grip on people was cracking. The rain stopped. The parks family walked toward a waiting truck. That is tracy again staying close to her older brother. As the group was leaving, another family was being torn apart. You brings those kids back here you bring them back one second, one second. Dont you take my kids this mother resisted when others in her family wanted to go. In the end, the family would stay, and all would die. Emotions were starting to just become very tense, and i recognized that we were in a powder keg. This is vern gosney dragging his belongings toward the departing truck. He tried to warn the congressman they were all in danger. He told me i had the congressional shield of protection over me and that i had nothing to worry about. I thought he was totally out of h
How very much ive loved you. How very much ive tried my best to give you the good life. Who convinced his followers to kill their children and then kill themselves. Let us be done with it. Lets be done with the agony of it. Drinking a koolaidtype fruit punch laced with deadly cyanide. Something to put you to rest. Oh god. 30 years later in a place where words could kill and did, there is silence. An empty field, the people gone. Almost no trace of their lives or dreams. This is the site of jonestowns openair meeting hall where im standing right now, where the reverend jim jones led his followers into the worst mass murder and suicide pact in americas history. Only small golden flowers grow where bodies once lay. On that fateful morning there are more than 940 People Living in jonestown. By nightfall only 33 would still be alive. For most of the few who did survive, it took incredible courage to defy jim jones and step away. This is their story. One of desperation and daring and in the