we begin with the election of the youngest speaker of the u.s. house of representatives in nearly 150 years. republicans came together to elect paul ryan to succeed john boehner. he still has a tough task in trying to bring a divided chamber together. mike bukera is on capitol hill. >>reporter: it's amazing. consider his voting record. he voted for the bank bailout in twine, no child left behind, a prescription drug benefit for med care. all things conservatives hate and wish they did not have to support him for speaker. but he's taken the gavel after a day of smiles and ceremony. his victory was never in doubt. the band of conservatives who had blocked the rise of his heir apparent backed him with only nine defections. he vowed to restore public trust. but none of that will be easy, within the republican party itself. rep gayed conservatives continue repeal of the affordable care act and roles designed to protect the environment. john baner did clean the bar and as he put it, passed that debt ceiling increase, passed the budgets well into 2017. two obstacles he would have faced well out of the gate. >> he's got a young family. talked about that. how does he plan to adjust to theory gores of this job? >> first of all, he's cutting back on the fund raising trip and everyone has held that gavel knows that every weekend you're on the road talking to people and trying to raise money for the next campaign. paul ryan says he's not going to be out on the fund raising circuit. enthusiasm for the party itself but after that paul ryan may have to rethink that approach. >> we'll see about that. thank you very much. >> more on the election of speaker ryan at the half hour including the rise of the house freedom caucus. the saudi foreign minister says assad must be removed. the danger is far from over. >> for these survivors, a life in europe may become reality but it comes at a high cost. dozens of their fellow passengers may never be found and a further dozen children at the lesbos hospital are still not out of danger. the boat capsized when its upper deck collapsed. their smugglers had already left the boat and they were left to steer by themselves in 60 miles per hour winds. >> more than 70 children have drowned in trying to reach greece in the past two months. child rescue fatalities are sure to rise in the winter. more kids are being brought ashore soaking wet and slivering at risk of hypothermia and refugee camps lack proper shelter and clothing. i asked about what the refugee crisis says about europe and the rest of the world. >> it's a shameful state of affairs for the world that we've not done more to solve this problem. i think the international community, john, will look back on syria the way we look back today on rwanda and feel as though we should have done better. it also means we need to move toward a political, diplomatic settlement in syria because treating the refugees is really just treating the symptoms. you need to do go to the heart of the problem. austria has said it's going to build a fence on the border of slovenia in order to control the refugees. their word. is this the beginning in europe of more control over the borders? >> i think the europeans will have to work through the question of do they continue to have open passage across their border or build walls and fences. in the meantime, there's a humanitarian crisis that the europeans have to and ultimately they will address. >> admiral, he's also the chairman of the board of the u.s. naval institute. after 35 years, china is ending its one child policy. all married couples will now be allowed to have two children. >> it came after the four-day gathering of its leadership mapping out the plan. it sets broad economic goals for china's development but it's the change most eagerly anticipated by many families here. >> it's already partially relaxed allowing families where at least one parents are from a one child home themselves and now can have two. that's being extended to all of them. >> for the second child. their 7-year-old son henry is in no doubt he wants a sibling. >> i want a sister. >> as well as the social and relationship problems associated with the generation of one child families is the longer term demographic imbalance. that's a growing number of elderly people who need to be supported by an ever-shrinking working population. a one-child policy put in place more than 30 years ago to avoid one population crisis has to be abandoned to avoid another one in the future. >> up next, a hacker group anonymous plans to reveal the names of 1,000 kkk members. i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down, and i was home in bed, unaware. but that would never happen. comcast business monitors my company's network 24 hours a day and calls and e-mails me if something, like this scary storm, takes it offline. so i can rest easy. what. you don't have a desk bed? don't be left in the dark. get proactive alerts 24/7. comcast business. built for business. a man who spent 14 years in guantanamo bay, since 2002, as a suspected member of al quaeda. he never faced any criminal charges and was cleared for release back in 2009 but his release was repeatedly delayed. 113 prisoners are still being held there. 6,000 federal inmates get out early starting tomorrow because of a 2014 change in policy by the u.s. sentencing commission. it reduces minimum sentencing guidelines by nonviolence drug offenders. most will be deported. most others are already living in halfway houses or under home confinement. arson and insurance fraud. >> i haven't gotten a penny from insurance but i didn't do either one of them. >> fullers defense lawyers gave her a l detector test. she passeded. but going to trial might risk 30 years behind bars. >> they kept threatening me. >> something she says aggressive prosecutors don't let her forget. >> you would have never left if you went in for 30 years. your life was over. >> it would have been the end of that. across the united states, only a tiny fraction of defendants actually go on trial. in the from system, 97% accept a deal and plead guilty. violent crime with more prosecutions. crime rates in had the u.s. have been dropping since the 1990s, but case loads have not dropped. in this courthouse in atlanta, business is booming. and with that, comes a fundamental power shift. >> what that does is take the power away from the defendants and the judiciary and judges who have ultimate oversight and it gives the power to the prosecutors who ultimately make the charging decisions. >>. >> you don't want to be seen as weak nor do you want your boss to think they hired someone who is weak. we know that there's almost this cost benefit analysis that takes place with defendants where they don't have a trust in getting a fair shake so they make a business decision essentially. >> former prep school student today to a year in jail for assaulting an underaged classmate. he was also ordered to register as a sex offender. in jury a jury acquitted him of rape charges but found him guilty of a lesser sexual assault charge and of using a computer to lure the girl. the hacking group anonymous says they're ready to pull the masks off hundreds of kkk members. >>reporter: they're calling it hackers versus haters round two. the international cyber vigilanty group, a social media movement under the banner hash tag -- part of what they've been branding, operation kkk in a letter posted earlier this week the so-called hactivist group said we feel confident that applying transparency to your organization self-s is the right, just, appropriate, and only course of action. they are well known for attacking groups they disagree with. they released police dispatch audio from the shooting of michael brown last year and targeted kkk members who threatened to use lethal force on the streets of ferguson. in january they also took down a website believed to have ties to isil and has since taken down several twitter and facebook accounts linked to the group. civil liberties are going to be tested the most for -- who could even try to like the kkk but our rights become vulnerable because those who are loathed the most become the targets. first the clan. tomorrow, more movie stars. and then you and i. >> you don't think they deserve to be unmasked? >> i think that people have the right to lawful and private cases. this happened in alabama with the naacp. and as clothe some as they are and i've had litigation against them, i faced them down in various circumstances in until until but the thing is they're ethically wrong putting out a veiled throughout. however, it was legal. and now this group anonymous is going to unmask people who have the right to private, loathsome, hateful associations. >> so you're saying they have the right to say it. >> they're the oldest and longest running terrorist group in the united states but they also have a sociopolitical aspect to them and to the respect people are not committing crimes although they're hateful, vigilanties can't go out there and hurt them. they even had president hofferery trueman before he was president as well as hugo black in the naacp case writing about the right to privacy. >> why do you think they've changed? >> i think in part because of my friends in groups like the southern poverty law center who sue them and also not only litigation but criminal prosecutions. the crap is now more so a mouth piece. what are they doing? talking. for example, gay people, the right to have privacy in our own associations is part of a civil lied society and we cannot let crimes even the most loathe some among us become an imprint. >> it's good to see you pry yon. thank you for being with us. >> up next, the party of ronald reagan. would his policies be acceptable to todays strictist conservat e conservatives? the . >> he accepts the challenge of healing the republican party and today he said voters are unsatisfied se with copping and that it's time for a new way of doing business. >> we need to let every member contribute, not once they've earned their stripes, but now. let's open up the process. let people participate. the fight over the new speaker created deep divisions within the gop .many of their policies put them out of step with the party icon. >> i supported this bill. >> since the days of ronald reagan, the groaned old party has evolved. >> our borders are out of control. >> i believe in the idea of am messty. >> a policy conservativesss conservatives now ridiculed. ronald reagan also signed the alarmest tax cut in history, reduced government regulations in washington and economic growth exploded. the common themes that unite the party remain. antiabortion rights, smaller government, smaller taxes. this would do irreparable harm to this institution and so i will resign at the end of october. >> gop hardliners willing to take out its own leader to reach its goals. a commandment perhaps no longer unbreakable. donald trump is not a serious leader. he's an narcissist >> stop being a jack ass. i'm not sure that's entirely true. ronald reagan was a soar bright individual understanding politics. i used to contrast him with some other conservatives at that time to say that the others added to was, look, i'm right and if you don't agree with me, to hell with you. ronald reagan's approach was i think i'm right. i have thought about this a long time. i'll fight for it. >> what happened to the art of compromise? >> you have 24-hour news cycles and you have a lot of instant analysis and reaction and criticism as soon as you say anything. we spent two weeks on the floor of the house, debated about 170 of them on the floor so everyone got a chance to have their say and it's easier to support a compromise when you've been given a fair shot. he's very clear about returning to that kind of approach and that's extremely important. this party is more divided than in my lifetime. why? >> civility, the democratic party and in the congress has left us in great degree. i think we have a -- need a real effort to try and return to us. i think we ought to understand that when you want to leave the country, it's better to be what ronald -- she's an mantle of jack kemp. i picked paul ryan, he's a jack kemp, ronald reagan type of conservative that doesn't back away from his principals but invites others to engage in the debate and then lines up to see where your boats are. i think that's the mature way of doing things. in when he and in bringing things to the floor. that's what members need and i think that's the essential to begin to change what i see is a dysfunctional congress. >> today jeb bush insisted his campaign is not on life support but his supporters and many donors are starting to wonder. >> i'm 7-0 in my fantasy football league. >> [laughter] >> when that is your most memorable line you know it's been a tough night. and for jeb bush -- >> i'm doing great but we're not gambling. >> even as fantasy football success was eclipsed. >> we have isis and al quaeda attacking us, people in debt and out of work and we're talking about fantasy football. can we stop? >> earlier he tried to tamp down marco rubios surging campaign his campaign is cooked. the heat on the campaign was already intense. the former florida governor has now dropped to fifth. a super pac supporting him has run millions of dollars in television adds. or the state of the race now is not going to decide the republican nominee. there are half a dozen more debates and tens of millions more television ads still ahead before voting begins. but the republican establishment that fears donald trump and ben carson is losing confidence that jeb bush can defeat them. bruce haynes is a republican strategist. bruce, is it slipping away from jeb? >> it's it shall something's happening. i don't know if he's cooked but he's about medium rare right now and he needs to turn down the heat. jeb is not exciting voters out on the trail. he's not connecting with people but he also doesn't have a campaign with a message connecting with people. >> we know that he has a prominent family and it helped him raise money in the beginning but wouldn't people have seen from the beginning some of these cracks in the armor whether or not- really a candidate and ready for prime time? >> i think you're right. there's a lot of afinty for the bush family. their family's given a lot of great contribution to the government and the country. money is not a message. he's failed again to just really connect with voters and last night i think we saw something that was a little more disturbing. it's not jeb bush that was the government of florida or who claimed he'd be the happy warrior in this. >> it's not the real jeb bush. who is that? >> a very successful conserve at this governor of florida. he likes to talk about policy a lot. we had a debate about economic policy -- this fantasy football game is great, that was a real missed opportunity for him to connect with other people which is really his strong suit and he's not bringing those forward in his campaign and just missing the steps that good candidates hit. >> it's still a long time before the nomination but clearly it's been a rough go of it early. bruce, great to see you. thank you very much. the pentagon awarded a contract this week worth tens of millions of dollars. it will build the air forces new fleet of long range strike bombers. they made the b-2 stealth bombers in the 1990's. now they have a multial billion dollars pentagon deal. this bomber will minimize the possibility that my successors are ever put in that position. >> right now not even a rudimentary concept has been made public. it's estimated to be worth 60 and $80 million throughout its life at a cost estimated today at $564 million a plane. it doesn't have these programs. the bigger argument is need. it would replace 50-year-old b-52s and 25-year-old b1s. a strategy that relies on bombers, icbns on land and submarine launched missiles to deter potential adversaries from starting a potential war with the u.s. >> 15 people injured today when a jet caught fire on a runway in fort lauderdale. the engine of a dynamic airways plane was leaking fuel before it departed. 11 people on board headed to venezuela and many escaped on the emergency slides. slides. >> i don't sit down and play a lot of music. i haven't got a big record collection. it's probably about that big. >> really? >> it's really small? >> and even about that, most of it is because somebody has given it to me. >> what's the process of creating song? >> first you need to be inspired to write the song? >> your inspiration? >> that comes from being here. >> the planet. >> just being alive. that's the biggest inspiration you need ♪ >> once you've got that, just seeing people, i could be talking to you just off the cuff. >> you write it down in. >> sometimes. i don't write everything down. i think that sometimes it doesn't happen but i feel as though i remember everything that i think of. but at some point when i'm writing, things do seem to come back so i can -- i feel as if i can get away with not writing everything down. i saw a program about a man who bought out a big box full of all these things he's written down and i was wondering how much of that he's actually used. and maybe take a nine from something but when i write it's -- there's the writing that happens as i'm writing. do you have favorite songs of your own? >> i love love and affection. >> we all do. >> why wouldn't i? >> that's like the song. so i love to sing it. i'm never tired of singing it. >> did you always know it was going to be a hit? >> yes. i didn't know this kind of hit. i didn't know that it would be popular for many years later. and be probably more popular. didn't know that but i did say that's the song that i wanted to be the single. and they said to me, remember, you asked for it. >> what's life like now for you? how many days do you travel and perform? >> probably 215 concerts. how do you make the connection with the people in the audience? >> sometimes people say to me when we saw you earlier on you didn't talk to the audience but that's not true. >> if you want to sing along, feel free. >> i did talk to the audience and make jokes but i didn't talk as much as i'm talking now. this is the last time i'll do a major tour. not the last time i'll tour but the last time i'll tour as extensively. when you're on stage what's it like? >> really? >> yes. you don't know. just because people turn up doesn't mean they're going to enjoy it. they may or may not. >> we've enjoyed it for a long time and i hope we will for many years in the country. it's great to see you. thank you. >> that's our broadcast. thank you for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. the news continues next with randall pinkston. don't go away. don't go away. ♪ vienna conference. >> the question is: are the iranians willing to use ire their influence over the assad regime to compel them to engage in this discussion. >> as peace talks get underway to help solve the syrian conflict, saudi arabia has a strong message: assad must go. future generation