A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Later we learned exactly the opposite. President trumps legal team wrote in a memo to the special Counsel Robert Mueller and i quote have you received all the notes, communications and testimony indicating that the president dictate add short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son donald trump jr. He dictated it sanders did not answer questions about how that could be that districted her original statement, which it did. Instead she referred reporters to outside counsel. President trumps admission on twitter comes as legal team and special Counsel Robert Mueller negotiate the terms of a possible sitdown between mueller and President Trump our chief house correspondent john roberts is live this afternoon on the north lawn. Hi, john. Good afternoon to you. The president and white house staff keeps saying they like this Mueller Investigation to wrap up as quickly as possible preside
then trayvon martin is killed. w.e.b. dubois, in one of the classics of the black tradition called the souls of black folk defined the double consciousness of every african american. and debois said one ever feels his two-ness, an american, a negro, two warring ideals in one dark body. there never has been a more classic example of du bois dilemma than barack obama in the white house. bit by bit, he allows himself more sense of grief and outrage in the parameters of what he can see as possible as president. he is president of the united states. he is not a community activist. he s not the leader of a social movement to the frustration of many. he s the president of the united
families that know unspeakable grief summoned the courage to petition their elected leaders. a few minutes ago, a minority in the united states senate decided it wasn t worth it. they blocked common sense gun reforms, even while these families looked on from the senate gallery. there were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn t do this. it came down to politics. so all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for washington. in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit in and for seminole county, florida, state of florida versus george zimmerman verdict. we, the jury, find george zimmerman not guilty. the shooting death of trayvon
raised by the recent shooting of a 17-year-old teenager in florida by a member of a neighborhood watch group. police got here within a minute and found trayvon martin shot dead. the shooter, george zimmerman, was questioned, but has not been arrested. he holds a license to carry a concealed weapon and claims he fired in self-defense. but the teen s family disputes that claim. if your son had been white, do you think he would have been shot and killed that day? no. arrest zimmerman now! outrage over the fatal shooting of trayvon martin is spreading now around the country. late last night, the department of justice announced that their civil rights division and the fbi are opening a thorough and independent investigation. our son is your son. i want you guys to stand up for justice and stand up for what s right. yes! mr. president, can you comment on the trayvon martin case? well, i m the head of the
something. it s raining. he s just walking around looking about. okay, this guy, he looks black or hispanic? he looks black. man, trayvon martin was trayvon martin was such a sad situation simply because when you hear that 911 call he s got his hand in his waistband. that s everything that we as black people, especially black men, that s everything we tell you we experience. but you hear it from the person who s actually doing it to us. he s running. he s running? which way is he running? the racial profiling, the stereotyping, seeing us in the neighborhood, thinking we don t belong. are you following him? yeah. okay, we don t need you to do that. that s what we tell people we re experiencing. but nobody believes it until they see it. was it self-defense or an unjustified overreaction? that s the central question