You and ive been on several cnn panels throughout the election but you know i really came from a small town in florida and for those of you who eat strawberries its the world strawberry cat to the capitol it was important to me to write a book that just explored my roots but how i see this election through the prism i grew up in, not through the confines of the cnn news are here in washington where i service rnc spokesperson but this prism of a smalltown girl and the movement that i recognized early on when i endorse President Trump to be the president. Three months after he declared his candidacy eyes im on the horizon with a few others and one of my colleagues recognize the movement as well although he recognized the leftwing party. Host lets talk about van jones who are few people in the book to make appearances and in some ways surprising. Van jones was part of the Obama Administration and let people conservative and at one point thought of him as the bogeyman but what was your exp
. we went to mariupol on the front lines and then we also were in kyiv and talking to musicians and you get a sense of the culture. but there was the you know, the wagner problem that was going on at the time. and so the administration was very slow. we couldn t see him. we came back and then this thing really escalated. so then we went i think we got there roughly a week before the invasion and we met him i met him face to face for the first time the day before the invasion and then spent t time with him in which we document in the film during the invasion on the day of the invasion. and ii don t know that there sn a person on earth who who could know that they were born forld such a day that they could rise to it. i want to make sure i saw when you say invasion, was this him taking the two regions, etc. or whatever they were also rockets coming in . this is also when they this is when they hit the airport fifteen klicks out of right. kids. so it was it was a game on and
things and assad stays in power and you do nothing else, then you ll end up with the iranians being further emboldened. so that s sort of the worst of both positions. i m on the no side, by the way. on the yes side, you know, is the argument against iran. and my feeling on that is, okay, if you really want to make an argument against iran, depose the iranian regime. you don t fight a proxy war with a country that you could take in a heartbeat. the united states would defeat them militarily very, very easily. it would not be a huge bloodbath, it would not be vietnam, and there actually is a viable opposition in iran that is much stronger than whatever opposition there was to saddam hussein in iraq. so i don t believe that we should be fighting a proxy war in syria with a thug like assad. on the other side, you know, it s i don t understand what exactly the exit strategy is even if we get in and take out assad. if al-qaeda is linked with the rebels, which all evidence shows t
bret, how did all of this come to light? well, jon, this was the result of a foia request by the washington times, the specific story you re talking about in regards to when the obama transition team was briefed about the problems at the va. the other scandals that have, the allegations have come up for at least 11 states now. and investigations are ongoing. so this is snowballing as you have lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for more in depth investigations and bringing in the fbi. jon: there is a former member of the va staff, high level staffer, who had this to say to congress a few weeks ago when some of these allegations first came up. i want to play you for this now. to date, we found no evidence of a secret list, and we have found no patient who is have died because they have been on a wait list. that was dr. robert petzel, undersecretary for veterans affairs. he said at the time we haven t found any evidence of secret lists. we haven t found any evi
jackie kennedy now on the market for millions. nightly news begins right now. announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening to our viewers in the west, and that s where we start tonight, with one of those local disputes that usually go unnoticed outside the neighborhood. a homeowner angered at kids crossing his property. when the homeowner is a police officer caught on camera firing his gun with an unarmed 13-year-old, it tends to get lot of attentions. last night sending hundreds in the streets of anaheim, california in an angry and violent protest. tonight a police officer is sidelined, a young teen is shaken and a restless community is demanding an explanation. miguel almaguer has details. let go of me. i m not letting go. let go. reporter: caught on camera. struggle between an off duty lapd officer and a 13-year-old boy. let go of me for the last time. reporter: though we don t know wha