new york. on the other hand, you walk in manhattan, these be restaurants, you don't have power and everything else. now you can take it or stay in manhattan. we'll do a lot of different things and act a little different than if there was some danger. i would say i think this is going to work out. jon: we are getting a report from griff jenkins that one of the popular restaurants in manhattan del friscos had to shut down. the restaurant is packed as it usually is on a saturday night. with no power they can't close out a lot of the restaurant's patron's tabs because they can't run the credit card machines. so people inside are becoming a bit alarmed at del frisco's restaurant in mid-town manhattan. the image you see on the screen is a bit misleading. you are looking at the avenue of the americas in the middle of mid-town. it looks peaceful and calm. but that's because the entire avenue was closed down for a street fair a festival. the whole street was lined with food boots and purveyors and so fo

so in the first week, the "new york times" , new york post, new york daily news, did all cover the stonewall riots, but it was buried news, not prominent front-page news. the village voice did major stories on the stonewall riots and had reporters on the scene, even trapped inside the bar during the riots. and those were much more significant stories. but it was really the alternative press and the lgbt press that covered the riots more sympathetically, more comprehensively, and those are the stories that historians rely on, along with oral histories, police reports, and photographs for rounding out the picture of what happened that week. >> and one of those, the documentary which we are featuring on c-span3s american history tv, our guest marc stein is joining us from greenwich village, new york, and he is also the author of "the stonewall riots: a documentary history," as we talk about stonewall, a turning point for the lgbt community. tom is on the phone from flint, michigan. good morning. >> good morning to both of you gentlemen and all the viewers. this will be pretty brief. just a litt

it looks at muslim contributions in new york city. i will talk to you a little bit about the project overview, but i want to focus on three in dances of overlooked, forgotten, of muslimshistories in new york city. i will integrate some of the interviews we did with a few places in new york. er is going to talk about brooklyn, i am going to talk about manhattan. my three stories will come from manhattan. project was first and foremost to fill gaps in knowledge. as everyone here i am sure already knows and will be mentioned throughout this evening, when muslims are spoken about in american society and you, in politics, it is overwhelmingly negative coverage . the goal of the project was essentially to look at new york city. previously, i had people who carried out personal, similar projects in michigan on the contributions of muslim americans in new york city's stem, civicsne, and democracy, philanthropy and nonprofit education, arts, economics, entertainment, and sports. we wanted to combine facts, a lot of statistics, with human faces

the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, is the gentleman from new york, mr. engel. mr. engel: i now yield five minutes to the chairman of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. schiff: i rise in support of resolution 345, recognizing the importance of press freedom in a democratic society and calling attention to press freedom threats around the globe. i'm proud to sponsor this bipartisan legislation which i introduced with my colleague, congressman steve chabot, with whom i chair and co-chair the prets freedom caucus. thank you as well to chairman engel and ranking member mccaul for moving forward with in resolution. every day, journalists around the world bring forward vital information and stories, sometimes from behind the curtain of the world's most repressive regimes and amid war zones. journalists expose corruption, malfeasance and abuse which the wealthy and powerful may seek to conceal. for that, they face harassment, threats, persecution, assault and death. the purpose of this resoluti

he's been in touch with the new york city management crews and the new york police department and fire department as well as con edison and they are working to restore power here to new york city. as the sun has set, it has been fascinating to watch this picture of times square. have you haven't seen this, we're looking north. there is a hotel. it used to be a sheraton times square. there areal many broadway suppose would be playing out just to the left of that screen with people who have come into new york city on this july day to see hamilton and so many other shows. those are in the dark as a result of all of this. there are people dealing with it as far as 21st street including our producer adam reese who is joining us. you're not too far from lincoln center. walk us through it. >> i'm right across the street from lincoln center. i'm going to swing the camera around. we've seen it go from light to dusk to now almost pitch black on the upper west side of manhattan. you see a lot of police vehicles, people walking around. this would typically be a busy upper west side. typically thes

businesses are fleeing new york. they are benefiting from the trump economy when you have these states with high taxes and more regulations, you have problems. people don't want to be there. margaret. reporter: to questions [indiscernible] >> i will get back to you later on the day on that. i will have some information for you. reporter: [indiscernible] ms. conway: honestly how wonderful this country is, our great military, our great democracy, our patriotism, the success of this of ministration and opening up so many jobs for people and what we have done for veterans, america will hear the whole speech. they are not going to wait for people to take one little clause out of it as was your question today. >> what is it going to cost? [indiscernible] it going to cost taxpayers? do you have an answer to that? ms. conway: he would have to ask the dod, i assume. but if you want a list of things taxpayers actually pay a four that are outrageous, i can give you that 20. too. reporter: [indiscernible] the president has looke

james o'neill describing progressivelyism of new york city police department new york's finest hand it to them details something perhaps other towns cities around our country can also take heed of, that they know who is on life support they know who has problems, what residents what buildings, building department fire department they have plans, for egress, exits for all of apartments every single building in the city they are aware when something like this happens, o tonight, how to deal with it how to immediately dispatch 250 police officers to intersections because when streetlights go out they can try to contain an area, and keep it from descending into any chaos perhaps. so clearly, issue a great testament to the progressivelyism of the department here, in dealing with what we went through, annihilate, by the way, leyland we are standing by because new york governor andrew cuomo will have a tour of the facility of the trampranr that caught on fire will bring remarks in studio. >> we understand there is 10,000 customers they say without power a little bit deceiving because that 10,

i'm ana cabrera in new york. the breaking news right now on cnn, much of manhattan is in the dark right now on this saturday night. it's been more than three hours of little lights, no electricity, no air-conditioning across a very large swath of manhattan, the busiest part of new york city. tha the famous electric billboards in times square, many of them are in the dark. theaters closed their doors. con edison estimates 51,000 customers are without power. the numbers are still climbing as they are working to restore service. the police department is poi pointing to a manhole fire as the cause. and according to the mayor, bill de blasio, no foul play is involved. however, it is worth noting, we're just getting word, the mayor is returning to new york city from the campaign trail. he's currently in iowa. so for now, much of manhattan on a hot saturday night in july is in the dark. let's go live to polo sandoval joining us from the streets where the power is out. polo, fill us in on what's happening there now. >> r

businesses are fleeing new york. they are benefiting from the trump economy when you have these states with high taxes and more regulations, the you have got problems. people don't want to be there. margaret. >> it has nothing to do with -- >> [indiscernible] manifest -- translators and were others -- >> i will get back to you later on the day on that. i have some information for you. regardshen also, with get -- e going to ms. conway: we will take those, too. >> are we going to get a briefing or remarks -- [indiscernible] ms. conway: honestly how wonderful this country is, our troops and military, our great democracy, our great call to patriotism, the success of this administration and opening up so individuals what , we have done for veterans, there is no final form yet, but america will hear the whole speech. they are not going to wait for people to take one little clause out of it, as was your question today. >> what is it going to cost? [indiscernible] is it going to cost taxpayers? do you have an answer to that

the road new york. she helps s lead the group's beyond amazon coalition and was -- and joining us from portland, maine, stacy mitchell who testified about amazon on tuesday before a house judiciary subcommittee. she is the co-director of the institute for local self-reliance and author of "big-box swindle: the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for america's independent businesses." last year, stacy mitchell wrote a cover story for the nation titled, "amazon doesn't just want to dominate the market -- it wants to become the market." we welcome you both to democracy now! talk about as prime day is offered all over the world and explain what that is, what people did on the ground. >> prime day is essentially amazon's black friday in the middle of the summer. it is a made up holiday to sesel products that many of us don't need. however,r, our organizing againt prime day started even before the 15th and 16th. on july 1111, amazon had the in oral summit in new york city -- annual summit in new york ci

they teamed up with the "new york times" for this report. what is your reaction to president trump saying quote "the new york times" story is a fabrication? >> well, generally a journalist can't share his opinion but in this reference, i'll just say that we stand by our reporting, and i stand with the "new york times" and "el paso times" in this reporting this story. >> i think you've covered ground we haven't seen before as thoroughly and that is border patrol agents themselves as sources and former border patrol agents as sources and we get a wider frame on the picture of who they are as human beings. they -- many of them seem very, very concerned about what is happening to those kids. >> sure. plenty of border patrol agents are neighbors, many of them joined the agency here in el paso and certainly many people in el paso know a border patrol agent or cbp agent and this reporting, yes, you'll see a little bit of take, if you will, of what a bp agent might tell their family member, what they might talk with their friends after work, simply

there in new york city. you kind of see off in the distance, the lights appear to be out on the buildings in the back of that screen right there. which would not be a normal thing. i believe there is, the manhattan hotel is right there. the times square hotel is located nearby. also located nearby. to the left of the screen. several broadway shows. and i'm just getting this to me right now. canceled. the lion king, aladdin, frozen the musical. i can go on and on and on. and of course, hamilton. just imagine if you finally got tickets to hamilton and it was canceled as a result. as we continue to zoom in, we'll to go hell's kitchen where ryon richardson is joining me on the phone. can you hear me? >> i can. >> what's the situation over there? >> i am at home right now. my apartment looks out over 48th street. sort of dead in the heart of hell's kitchen between tenth and 11th avenue. i can see west to the cruise terminal and then east into the theater district which you were just describing and it is an eerie

from the new york police department received a query from interpol about -- surfacing on new york streets, they investigated and determined that they were stolen by wall street employee who had been blackmailed because of his homosexuality. further investigation pointed to the area around the stonewall as a likely origin of the blackmailing operation. at a time of extensive investigation into police corruption in new york city, seymour pine, a police officer with a reputation for being honest, had been transferred against his wishes to had the first division of the public mall squad. soon thereafter, he was summoned to a meeting with his captain, and ordered to put the stonewall out of business because of its connection with the mafia black male operation. after some more routine rates on the stonewall, pine organized a large raid early in the morning of june 28, 1969. but the real reason for the raid was not made public. by this time, pine had gathered from previous rates he had conducted on the stonewall, that the local sixth precinct was informing the club when a raid was planned. so,

the new york times, i call it the failing new york times for a reason. check out their unfunded liability and see what they are worth. they are already a failed new york times, but when they write a story like that, i went to my people, and they said sir, it is not true. we told them about a crisis. they said it was manufactured. they laughed and they stopped the money, and then it turns out that it wasn't manufactured. there's a crisis. we were right about that. we told them that the detention centers are really full. and they've got to change the loopholes and change asylum. they have to change the immigration laws. we could do it quickly, but we have no votes to do it because the democrats won't vote. we need someone to vote. but the new york times story is a fabrication. now, i saw visually, i have people there that tell me the job they are doing is incredible, and in all cases, if you look, people that came from unbelievable poverty, that had no water, had no anything, where they came from, those are people that are very happy with what's going on b

the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i recognize the gentleman from new york. mr. suozzi: this is what the american people are hungering for. democrats and republicans working together to solve real problems in real people's lives. this victims' compensation fund is so important to so many people. real suffering that is going on n real families and they are now paying the consequences for us. i want to thank my colleagues and i want to thank chairman nadler, congressman king and congresswoman maloney and all the democrats and republicans who co-sponsored this bill. i have so many personal friends that volunteered days, months at the pile that are now suffering the consequences of having done that volunteer work on the pile. this is an important day for those families. i thank the advocates who helped focus our attention and thank everyone who worked together to solve a real problem in real people's lives. this is what the united states congress needs to be doing and i'm happy to be part of it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia. mr. c

headquarters in new york city. we start with that breaking news. we are awaiting a news conference here in new york city on sex trafficking charges against billionaire financier jeffrey epstein, a man politically connected to two presidents and a host ever other wealthy and powerful people. you can see folks assembling there for that news conference set to start any moment now. we will bring it to you when it starts. officials telling nbc news that epstein was arrested saturday after a joint investigation by the fbi and new york police stemming from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005. epstein is charged with two counts of sex trafficking for allegedly sexually abusing three minors. i'm joined now by nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter, msnbc legal analyst former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner also with me. wendy murphy is in massachusetts and here with me in the studio former federal prosecutor ann marie mca voi and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. tom, let me start with you. i knew you are on the phone inside the courthouse a

i'm ana cabrera in new york. our breaking news right now, a large power outage affecting parts of manhattan tonight. look at your screen right now. that is times square. that's where the ball drops on new year's eve. usually you see lights all over the place, flashing lights, billboards. right now it's dark. 42 years to the day since new york city experienced the famous blackout of 1977. look at that shot from times square. con edison right now reporting more than 38,000 customers are without power. we're seeing these numbers grow since the initial power outage was reported. and just moments ago, we got this update from mayor bill de blasio. >> i just want to give an update for people interested in the situation on the west side of manhattan. we have a con edison electrical outage. very preliminary information says about 20,000 people affected, but we're waiting for a lot more information. i spoke to our police commissioner, our emergency management commissioner, my chief of staff at city hall. everyone is coordi

we're still feeling the heat even at this hour jose >> kathy park in new york city. thank you. officials fear the nonstop assault of hot days and hot nights could lead to more heat-related fatalities our medical correspondent dr. jon torres demonstrated on himself just how serious the effects of heat can be and just how quickly they can come on. >> reporter: across the country, deadly heat >> you're out jogging in central park. how do you feel? >> like i'm evaporating. >> we expect to see more this summer >> reporter: in brooklyn, new york, dr. john marshall is seeing more patients with heat-related illness. why is this year in particular so dangerous? >> we've seen rising summer temperatures over the last several years, and as those temperatures get higher the risk of heat injury, the number of people who die of heat-related deaths goes up every single year. >> reporter: while being outdoors and active in high temperatures is dangerous, being inside without air-conditioning is also risky over the next few minutes, i'm going to see what happens to the human body as it starts he

new york governor andrew cuomo. he just tweeted that he just signed pay equity legislation at this parade for new york state. and let me read you what else he wrote. the women's soccer team plays the same game that the men's soccer plays, only better. if anything, the men should get paid less. thank you, u.s. women's national team, for helping lead this movement for change. so there you have it. new legislation signed. that is affecting real change as we keep watching this moment in history, this beautiful moment in history. we'll take a quick break. we'll be back on the other side. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? [what about him? let's do it. [ sniffing ] come on. this summer,

jennifer low pefs is from new york -- jennifer lopez is from new york herself. we've have 19,000 people making their way count escalator which is not work. people are not too alarmed. it looks like most of people are -- we'll make our way out and we'll see what's happening. i looked out the windows and the parking garage lights are still on and the streetlights are on. but it's a warm night, now the streets will be flooded. leland: you made an excellent point of this being a wider spread than we first shot. the empire state building is also black. you are in a confined area, it's dark. it's saturday night, people are drink and getting ready for a great concert. are people scared or annoyed? >> honestly no. there is no party going on. i saw videos on social media where people brought the show outside. some people came out and brought the party to the street. right now inside madison square garden it's quiet. we are dejected. we came here on a saturday night for a huge concert. but there noise panic. people are not running out. people are in an orderly fashion mak

you made it to new york one way or another, right? >> yeah, >> reporter: safe travels back to orange county. alex, one of many examples of people making the best of the situation. they couldn't perform on the famous stage of carnegie hall that was the scene of performances from billy holiday to duke ellington, but they had their moment, even if it was a dark manhattan street. the lights are back on. back to you. >> thanks very much for your reporting throughout this evening. thanks to all of our other correspondents who sprang to during this breaking news. many questions still to be answered. for now, that will do it for me. i'm alex marquardt. up next, the cnn original series "the movies." they take us back to the '80s. have a good night. ♪ stand up to chronic migraine with botox®. what if you had fewer headaches and migraines a month? botox® prevents headaches and migraines before they even start. botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® injections take

prests also took pcece in w york where hundreds gather in uniosqsquareark.k. this i iformer new york citit council member governor rossello called awhore. >> we also have the moral character, the governor, who is appealed to the trust that only from his own party but also from the puerto rican people so he can be an effective leader. rico,e benefit of puerto he ought to resign. amy: after headlines, we will be joined by melissa mark-viverito and go to san juan for the latest on the protests. the house of representatives voted wednesday to hold attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt of congress for refusing to turn over documents related to their work on the 2020 census. democrats are seeking information on how trump administration officials sought to add a citizenship question to upcoming census forms. in may, "the new york times" reported that a senior republican strategist who specialized in gerrymandering wawas secretly behind the effor, arguing privately y that adding the question would benefit republblicans and hurt d

in new york. you see some of the images there from that where millions were put into darkness for more than 24 hours. completely ironic this has taken place some 42 years to the day that took place. we're still not sure exactly what is happening right now in new york city. mta, the transportation system, they're trying to get out there to figure out who may be trapped inside of the subway tunnels at this hour. we are told by the fire department here in new york that there are definitely several people who are stuck in elevators all throughout the city. it is very, very troubling at this hour. >> kendis, we have a picture from times square, which is often a good icon of light, of electricity. and we just wanted to take a look at this picture to show you first of all what kendis is reporting. first of all, traffic at this hour, 7:37 local, typical, but we are seeing more flashing lights,er go, potentially ambulances, potentially police. on the left side, only because we know these spaces here, kendi

marc liverman is here in new york. what is next? >> reporter: good morning, epstein is expected to appear at a bail hearing where prosecutors will argue he's a flight risk. they say the evidence includes hundreds if not thousands of lewd photos of young girls and law enforcement even found a massage room still set up the way the accusers described it. prosecutors want billionaire jeffrey epstein to remain behind bars as he faces charges of sex crimes involving girls as young as 14. >> they carry with them a maximum sentence of 45 years in jail which to someone of epstein's age is basically a life sentence. so we think he has every incentive to try and flee the jurisdiction. >> reporter: on monday, the 66-year-old pleaded not guilty to charges that he enticed, recruited, and molested dozens of young girls at his homes in new york and florida from 2002 through 2005. >> children who provided epstein massages while they were nude or partially nude. children who were asked to engage in direct and indirect sex acts for money. >> reporter:

i read news yesterday that the new york police commissioner apologized for the actions of the new york police department during the storm will uprising, declaring the actions and laws were discriminatory and oppressive. interactions between police officers and the lgbt community has prompted concern from the commission as documented by our report released last year on civil rights implications of police use of force. this reporteys find should high rates of contact between law-enforcement and lgbt individuals with high rates of police misconduct. the commission took in substantial evidence of discrimination persisting in these directions. as much as we regret and call for the end of ongoing discrimination and inequity, i am grateful for this opportunity to mark the progress that we have made since 1969. to that end, we welcome david carter, who served as an advisor on the campaign to make the stonewall fight national monument. he has been working on the history of the lgbt civil rights movement for a quarter of a century. published by was saint martin's press in 2004. carter was the co

of "the new york times." >> what cartoon? >> what cartoon. you've really been working on that book. i'm impressed. you've probably seen this, this image of president trump led around by benjamin net y netany. and there were a lot of people who saw this and thought, this isn't just dog whistle little anti-semitism. this is out and out anti-semiti anti-semitism. what's it been like with you at "the new york times" to be wrestling with this moment? what's the conversation like? >> i was on book leave when the cartoon was published, but i recommend you reading -- brett stevens had an excellent column that summed up my views of the thing. the takeaway, right, is if anti-zionism becomes a normative political view, this is what follows. so it's one thing to believe in a college seminar where you're talking about an arcism or abolishing the nation state. okay. there you can have a conversation about should nation states exist. was this a good idea? should there have been partition in pakistan? it's an intellectual discussion. but in

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the new york case against jeffrey epstein is being handled by the southern district of new york. tom, where did they come up with the number $77 million? >> that is based on the fact that what they're going to do is post a mortgage or essentially for the bond on his home. they value that at $77 million. they'll say, look. we're going to put up the mansion. if he for some reason skips, the mansion is yours. that's essentially what they're doing here. that's why we're calling it about a $77 million bail package. in addition they have 13 other proposals they've put forward. they say he will either deregister or ground his jet. they say he will have gps monitoring, they propose armed guards to be there to make sure that nobody is coming in or out. they have a custodian they propose. there are all sorts of different things they proposed that they say will virtually ensure that epstein doesn't misbehave and doesn't travel outside of his home throughout the course of the pretrial period. >> he lives in a dream home. so is this a matter of whether or not the judge grants him bail? i mean

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the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i recognize the gentleman from new york. mr. suozzi: this is what the american people are hungering for. democrats and republicans working together to solve real problems in real people's lives. this victims' compensation fund is so important to so many people. real suffering that is going on n real families and they are now paying the consequences for us. i want to thank my colleagues and i want to thank chairman nadler, congressman king and congresswoman maloney and all the democrats and republicans who co-sponsored this bill. i have so many personal friends that volunteered days, months at the pile that are now suffering the consequences of having done that volunteer work on the pile. this is an important day for those families. i thank the advocates who helped focus our attention and thank everyone who worked together to solve a real problem in real people's lives. this is what the united states congress needs to be doing and i'm happy to be part of it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia. mr. c

a great mayor of the city of new york. our greatest mayor, in my --nion -- what do i know rudy giuliani. stand up, rudy. [applause] pres. trump: great job, rudy. rudy has got a lot of guts. thank's also to deputy attorney general jeffrey rosen for being here. thank you, jeff. along with senator deb fischer and representatives michael burgess, chris collins, brian fitzpatrick, peter king, john joyce, mark meadows, and then meuser.e -- dan please stand up. thank you very much. thank you, peter. in the wake of the september 11 attacks, courageous americans raced into smoke them a fire and debris in lower manhattan, the pentagon, and a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. the whole world witnessed the might and resilience of our the extraordinary men and women of the new york fire and police departments, selfless pictures of unmatched character and devotion. i grew up with them, so i can tell you it is absolutely true. it is always nice to know your subject. i know that subject. these are great people. we also commemorate the h

the new york times for 25 years. epstein was previously charged with similar crimes during this same time period. a lot of people called it the deal of a lifetime, and part of it was to avoid federal charges. how can we now face it federal charges? >> i call it complete and total injustice. fortunately those kind of nonprosecution agreements are usually specific to the district that gives them to the defendant. epstein got this from the southern district of florida when secretary acosta was the u.s. attorney. that is not binding on other districts including the southern district of new york. i also will know more tomorrow, but i would expect to see this district has built out a bigger case with bigger facts. we'll know more tomorrow. >> it was dogged reporting that this case, the story wide open. talk about the power of journalism. >> it really is an example of incredible local reporting by the miami herald and particularly one julie cay brown who stayed on this and would not accept this ridiculous deal that this guy

what was new york like? what was america like for , lesbian, transgendered citizens before the stonewall rights? what was it like for the lgbtq community >> well, it is, or intuitive because there is a common tendency to assume that the further we go back in history, the worst things will be. but, actually the whole history of, three entirety of u.s. history, the 60s and 50s were probably the very worst time for lgbt people. that is because there have been a period of liberalization in the 1920s. we know the 1920s was a liberal period. but with the great depression coming along, that seemed to begin a clampdown on, i will use the term people , and after the war we entered the what could be called the red scare. and, this i think was the main reason there is so much more depression after world war ii. so, for example, and in new york city, the height of the rest of men occurred in 1966. on average, you had 100 homosexual men being arrested in new york city every week. so, in the 1960s, they were a period of w

fire department, the new york police. we heard from governor cuomo earlier tonight he spoke with us here on msnbc and he said that he was also sending in state police and the national guard. but, jonathan, if you can, the governor said in an earlier press statement the fact that it happened at all is unacceptable. when i asked him about that this evening on the phone, he said that he was going to view those transformers tonight, but that effectively, the system did not work this evening as it was designed to. can you explain to us how was it designed to work? what didn't happen that should have? >> i am not a con ed expert, and that question was asked at the press conference and the ceo of con ed was not able to provide an answer, only to say that an investigation is underway in an attempt to find out the cause and has happened. the governor seemed to suggest it was some sort of cascading effect that this went from one area to the next to the next. i don't know if it happened all at once or if it is as the governor explai

i spoke with dershowitz at his apartment in new york city. did you ever see epstein with underaged girls? >> oh, no. if i had ever seen jeffrey epstein in any inappropriate situation with an underaged girl, i would have terminated my relationship and turned him in. no way. >> so you are obviously surprised by the allegations? >> we were shocked by the allegations. but as a criminal lawyer being shocked by an allegation doesn't mean they won't defend somebody. >> reporter: alan dershowitz helped negotiate what many have criticized as a lenient plea deal for jeffrey epstein in 2008. dershowitz denies the deal was a bargain, instead arguing prosecutors lacked the evidence to indict epstein for federal sex trafficking charges. they thought they would lose. >> for him it was not a bad deal they got him to be a registered sex offender, to pay vast amounts of money to all the women and to get him to plead and go to jail and expose him for the world to see as a sex offender. i think the feds thought it was the best they could do. >> reporter: an in-d

the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. zeldin: i yield do minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith, senior member on the committee of foreign affairs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: i want to applaud mr. schneider and mr. zeldin for sponsoring this important resolution. i thank chairman engel for his comments and i will say this because i associate myself with their strong and persuasive remarks. a former prisoner who testified in a dozen hearings proposed what he called a simple test to help us distinctish legitimate criticism of israel. e called it the 3-2, dehuman ization, double standard. and we know that anti-semitism is the issue. the b.d.s. movement demonizes israel and by extension jews who are cast in the role of oppressor, always in the wrong. in so doing applies a double standard that israel is always wrong and the oppressed palestinians are always in the right regardless of groups such hamas are engaging in terroristic acts. the objective is to delegitimatize the sta

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engel of new york. the chair: the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i always view military policy as a measure -- military action as a measure of last resort in our foreign policy. when the marn military is -- american military is engaged anywhere in the world it comes at the cost of american lives and the lives of innocent civilians. these are the most tragic costs of war. one reason why we can never be reckless in the use of military force. civilian casualties are a tragedy. they also give extremist groups fodder to radicalize and recruit new fighters. we need to do everything in our power to reduce the number of civilian casualties. the pentagon has made progress in this area, thanks in part to new requirements congress put in place. my amendment would build on this progress in a number of ways. first of all, it would help fill in the blanks when it comes to our own planning and reporting a

attorney for the southern district of new york with the new school here in new york and katy justice department reporter for "the new york times." welcome to all of you. maya, let's begin with your old shop. the feds here in new york, the u.s. attorney asked members of the press core not to draw conclusions about several things today including but not limited to the fact this is being argued by the public integrity or public corruption department of the feds here in new york and not those who would normally handle sex trafficking. are we doing the right thing and not reading too much into that? >> well, i think if the u.s. attorney says don't read too much into it, it's important not to jump to conclusions. we never should. certainly what is in the indictment does not have any public corruption in it, right? from what we know so far, it is a sex trafficking case. there could be other reasons why the public integrity unit might be the lawyers themselves. it might be how the staffing is going. there could be other reasons. i think the point of the question and the reason we have the qu

it is a hot july day in new york city as it is elsewhere. that puts an awful lot of strain on the power systems top run all of the air conditioners in the powers and apartment buildings all over this city. and there has been a significant power interruption as a result of what we're fold is a transformer fire somewhere here in manhattan. that has knocked out power to a significant portion of the city. 27,000 home and business still without power as of this moment. i believe you can see in that shot just there, that that particular traffic light had gone dark and that's never a good thing. new york city subway system tweeting out we are getting reports of power outages in station complexes throughout manhattan. we're working to identify causes and keep trains moves more information to come. now the trains themselveses are air-conditioned but if then any of them stalled and we have no confirms that that is the case, they heat up very quickly and you can imagine it can be very uncomfortable to be inside a dark -- and very hot subway train. our

it's 34 minutes past the hour here in new york. democrats are fighting back after president trump attacked four minority democratic lawmakers, telling them to go back to their country. the president's racist tweet, using the oval office to promote bigot bigotry. the president writing, in part, why don't they go back and fix the broken and crime-infested places from which they came. >> trump is wrong. all of them are american citizens. three of the four were born in the united states. ilhan omar moved to the united states when she was 12, became a citizen at 17. that's not the point. not a single member of congress has objected to the racist comments. democrats opposed to the line that trump targeted, and more centrist ones are defending the tweet, saying that democrats use disgusting language. more from boris sanchez. >> dave and jessica, the president exploiting a rift among the democrats and the white house speaker, and the speaker pushing forward a funding bill they didn't accept. all four of the women sending out rebukes of the

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in new york and 9:00 a.m. in london. let's begin here -- a reprieve for labor secretary alex acosta at least for now. he's under scrutiny for a sweetheart plea deal he made with jeffrey epstein when the well-connected financeer faced sex abuse charges in 2008. president trump is saying privately he has confidence in acosta. >> the president is downplaying his role in the plea deal which as u.s. attorney he oversaw. >> for 2.5 years he's been just an excellent secretary of labor. he's done a fantastic job. but you're talking about a long time ago. and again, it was a decision made i think not by him but by a lot of people. >> but cnn has learned that confidence could vanish in a flash depending on the news coverage, of course. the president's longtime confidante chris ruddy told don lemon acosta's future is not so bright. >> i think the plea agreement he did is indefensible. i think that he's not going to stay for long. i haven't spoken to the president about it, but i do think -- and we're reporting tonight, our white ho

the "new york times." can any other paper survive this or be the paper of record, out the news fit to print? they still haven't seriously dealt with it. they keep the mulletser prize. to holocaust and you wouldn't find it in the "new york times." >> sean: that is what makes the book so good. you bring it from the history to modern day. we'll continue with the great one, mark levin on "unfreedom of the press." it's at amazon, and bookstores everywhere and my website. when we come back, study show the anti-trump media bias is real. the bias press never treated obama this way. just the opposite. we'll ask mark i'm alex trebek here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50-85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. the three what? the three p's? what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 54 and i was a sm

new york police detective james, he spent more than 450 hours serving at ground zero. in 2006 he died from a lung disease. to his father joseph, and his daughter tyler, who joined us heroism and then loved the nation forever be forgotten. we will always remember what he did for us. please stand up. please. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. also present in the family a volunteer firefighter ray pfeiffer. i know east meadow. well. great place, great people. he worked causally at ground zero, in 2017 at the age of 59 he died from cancer. here with us today is ray's wife karen, his daughter and his son terrence, a new york city firefighter. please stand up. [applause] thank you. and i know ray must be watching over you, looking down right now from heaven on this beautiful rose garden. i am very, very proud of you. thank you, thank you very much. the third name sake of the bill is new york city detective luis alvarez, last month his powerful testimony in congress touched the heart of our nation. a few days later he passed from this life into eternity, we are privil

i'm poppy harlow in new york. jim sciutto has the day off, and hello to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world and welcome to a very special championship edition of "cnn newsroom." i love saying that. they made history and now it is time to celebrate. the excitement is building and we're minutes away from the start of the ticker-tape parade honoring the u.s. womens soccer team. it's all happening just a few blocks south of where i am here in new york city. the world cup champions will head up broadway through the traditional canyon of heroes all the way to city hall where they will be met and honored by mayor bill de blasio. this will be only the second time that a womens sports team has been given a ticker-tape parade. the first, also to honor the soccer champs in 2015 when the womens team won the world cup. today marks a historic time and a pivotal time for women in sports as this team has made plentdy of headlines off of the field, suing the u.s. soccer federation and demanding equal pay to the mens