welcome to hardtalk. i am stephen sackur. a massive cloud hasjust evaporated from donald trump s political horizon. special counsel robert mueller found no evidence that the president colluded with the russians during the 2016 presidential election, even though mueller left open the question of obstruction of justice, mueller left open the question of obstruction ofjustice, the president is claiming exoneration. my president is claiming exoneration. my guest has a unique perspective on all of this. george papadopoulos was the first campaign member to be convicted as a result of them mueller probe. are we any closer to the truth? george papadopoulos in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you have had a few hours now to digests the news of the headlines that come out of the special counsel s report, as reported by the us attorney general. you have a unique perspective on this. give me your initial response. my your initial response. my initial response is that i f
next big solar eclipse which is in april of 2024. yeah, and the crossroads, mark strassman, will be here again in carbondale, illinois. we had a total eclipse today, there will be another one in seven years. tens of thousands came here to southern illinois university in carbondale to watch the total eclipse. some came for fun, some for the science. here is adriana diaz. reporter: totality was a golden opportunity for nasa scientists like lou gallo. this is game day, like the superbowl of eclipses. reporter: they gave superbowl worthy words as the u.s. caught its first glimpse in oregon. it is amazing, fantastic. reporter: because of the potential for data collection, nasa covered it like the big game. they aimed 14 satellites, flew ten airplanes, launched upwards of 70 data-collecting balloons and deployed telescopes along the path of totality. why is it important to study the sun s corona? the most simple answer is we re explores. it is in our genes so we explo
its path. whatever it was that went through was strong, you know. broke all the trees down. reporter: dave, was upstairs in his west coply home yesterday afternoon when the wild weather blew through. he says it sounded like a freight train coming. just like a howl and when i stood up i couldn t then see even the trees and all of a sudden all of them came down in one shot like one second, boom. reporter: the wind so strong large trees just snapped in half along willow street. to see the power of the destruction that it did. reporter: do you think it was tornado. i think so because of the noise. the noise that it made. like that humming that loud humming sound. reporter: next door neighbor dorothy thinks it was tornado as well. her side and backyard taking a beating. we in very scary wind, you know, very hard wind. it was zzzing and very dark cloud coming down. first time i saw something like that. reporter: across the street other neighbors cleaning up the
this morning he is playing just for us, ten year-old daniel will rock our studio, this morning, on good day. i m ready to rock out with daniel. yes. hit it, bob. good morning, everybody. yes. are you any good. no. can you tell daniel is very good. yes. at ten years old that is amazing. yes. we visited him a couple months ago, went down in the basement, full drum set, i said what is this? is this a cry for help. no, we have never been a musical family. maybe it is a bucket list things. he wanted to learn the drums. now i m worried. yes. so maybe that is a thing. a little will bit, i haven t seen him pick it up in a long time, christmas gift to you good great to have you with us, how is everyone doing. do i have coffee breath. i don t know. more than i do. bob kelly toss. we all have it, that is fine good do you remember that commercial, morning, morning. everybody is like morning, morning. are you eating meat balls. yes, these