November 6, 2017


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WATCH TODAY’S PRESS CONFERENCE WITH ATF, FBI, AND OTHERS. IT’S AN EXCELLENT INTERVIEW. WELLS FARGO AND OTHERS HAVE SET UP ACCOUNTS FOR GIFTS TO HELP THE FAMILIES. FOR THE VIDEO, GO TO HTTP://NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL.COM/VIDEO/3757814-SPECIAL-REPORT-UPDATE-ON-TEXAS-CHURCH-SHOOTING/.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS KILLING WILL HELP MOVE US ANOTHER INCH OR SO TOWARD THAT NECESSARY GOAL OF EFFECTIVE, REASONABLE AND INTELLIGENT GUN CONTROL. TO HELL WITH THE CONSTITUTION. IT NEEDS CHANGES ANYWAY, ESPECIALLY IN SEVERAL OF THE UNFORTUNATELY UNLIMITED RIGHTS THAT ARE IN THERE. AS MY FATHER USED TO SAY, “YOUR RIGHTS BEGIN WHERE MY NOSE ENDS.” HE WAS FULL OF PITHY SAYINGS. THEY WERE WISE, BUT FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME.

“KELLEY WAS SEEN BEFORE THE SHOOTING AT A VALERO GAS STATION ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE CHURCH, AND WAS "OBVIOUSLY SUSPICIOUS TO OTHERS" BECAUSE HE WAS WEARING “A BLACK MASK WITH A SKULL ON IT.” THIS READS LIKE AN ALFRED HITCHCOCK OR DEAN KOONTZ MYSTERY. JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING, HE WAS HEARD OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE SHOOTING HIS TRUSTY AUTOMATIC WEAPON, AND A NEIGHBOR WAS ALARMED. THIS IS ONE CASE IN WHICH, IF OUR GUN LAWS WERE RATIONAL, THIS MAN WOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON ALREADY. BEATING HIS WIFE SHOULD NOT DRAW A MINOR SHORT-TERM PUNISHMENT, EITHER, AS IT DID A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN 2014.

OUR SOCIETY IS WEIGHTED TOWARD THE CRIMINAL, IF THE OFFENSE IS A “MASCULINE” ONE. “REAL MEN” HAVE A RIGHT TO THEIR GUNS! BOTH OF THESE EXAMPLES OF HIS PAST BEHAVIOR ARE OVERLY AGGRESSIVE, AND SHOULD BE GROUNDS FOR HOSPITALIZATION AT LEAST. OUR POPULATION IS IGNORANT IN SO MANY WAYS. IT ALL GOES BACK TO A MAN’S GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO BEAT HIS WIFE, KIDS AND DOG, AND SHOOT UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN HE’S FEELING ANGRY.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/devin-patrick-kelley-texas-shooting-suspect-sutherland-springs-first-baptist-church-latest/
By JUSTIN CARISSIMO, PETER MARTINEZ CBS/AP November 6, 2017, 11:58 AM
Devin Patrick Kelley: What we know about the Texas church shooting suspect

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[NOTE: This CBS video with ex-policeman Randy Sutton is extremely good. Sutton is seasoned and very savvy. He deals with the issue of the mentally ill who escape notice until their day to kill. There’s too much “not my problem” thinking going on. ]

The suspect who opened fire inside a South Texas church has been identified as 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, officials say.

Authorities on Sunday only identified the suspect as a young white male. They said he was dressed in all black and tactical gear when he opened fire with an assault rifle at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 35 miles southeast of San Antonio. The shooting left at least 26 people dead and 20 others injured in what Texas Gov. Greg Abbott described as the worst mass shooting in his state's history.

As the gunman left the church, an unidentified area resident confronted him with his own rifle and shot the suspect, officials said. Kelley fled in his vehicle, and the resident flagged down a driver and they pursued him. The driver described chasing down the suspect until he crashed his car.

When police arrived, the shooter was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor in an interview Monday morning. Officials said Monday Kelley called his father before killing himself and told him he had been shot didn't think he was going to make it.

"Domestic situation" before shooting

Officials Monday wouldn't describe a motive but said there had been a "domestic situation" between the shooter and his mother-in-law before the massacre in which the suspect had sent the woman threatening texts.

"We know that he expressed anger towards his mother-in-law who was in this church," Texas Department of Public Safety regional director Freeman Martin said.

Martin wouldn't detail the texts but said the shooting wasn't related to race or religion. Officials have previously said Kelley had no apparent links to terrorist groups.

Kelley has a residence in New Braunfels, Texas, which is about a 35 mile drive from where the attack took place in Sutherland Springs. CBS affiliate KENS reports he graduated in 2009 from New Branfuels High School. Public records cited by the San Antonio News Express show Kelley, then 20, married in 2011 and was divorced the next year.

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Devin Patrick Kelley

In 2014, Kelley, then 23, married again, the paper reports. The sheriff confirmed that Kelley's former in-laws and ex-wife attended the First Baptist Church from time to time, although they were not present during the attack.

A law enforcement source told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that Kelley did some work as a bible teacher, but it's not known what church he worked at or whether he worked at the Sutherland Springs church.

Investigators will look at his social media posts made in the days prior to Sunday's attack -- including one that appeared to display an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon.

Officials say Kelley did not have a license to carry firearms. He purchased four weapons in total, in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 --two were bought in Colorado, two in Texas, ATF officials said. Three weapons were recovered at the scene -- a Ruger 556 rifle found at the church, and two handguns, a Glock 9mm and a Ruger 22, found in his car, according to Fred Milanowski, special agent in charge of the ATF Houston.

Martin said Kelley was seen before the shooting at a Valero gas station across the street from the church, and was "obviously suspicious to others" because he was wearing a black mask with a skull on it. He was also wearing a ballistic vest with a plate on the front, Martin said.

Former U.S. Air Force member, court-martialed in 2012

Kelley is a former U.S. Air Force member who served from 2010 to 2014. Records confirm Kelley previously served in logistics readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico until his discharge in 2014, Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek said in a statement. He was responsible for moving passengers, cargo and personal property in military transportation.

Kelley was court-martialed in 2012 for two counts of assault on his then-wife and assault on their child, Stefanek said. He received a bad conduct discharge, and reduction in rank and confinement for 12 months.

The Air Force tells CBS News Kelley's case was a general court martial, the most serious level of military trial proceedings. It is reserved for more serious criminal allegations, those substantially similar to felonies in civilian jurisdictions.

Reportedly terminated from security guard position

The San Antonio Express-News reports Kelley had previously worked as a security guard at Schlitterbahn, a New Braunfels water park and resort, a job that required him to pass a criminal background check. A spokeswoman for the park told the paper Kelley spent five and a half weeks working as a nighttime security guard there beginning in June.

He was reportedly terminated from his position.

The spokeswoman, Winter Prosapio, said Kelley was unarmed during his brief employment and his duties included checking gate locks at night. Prosapio did not say why he was terminated.

Acquaintances describe gunman as unstable

Former classmates at New Branfuels High School described Kelley to KENS as disturbed, judgmental, unfriendly, and unstable. They said his most recent social media posts were dark and indicated he was going through relationship problems and possibly a break-up.

Local records shoe Kelley was ticketed in August in New Branfuels for an expired registration and not having auto insurance.

At the address listed for Kelley in New Braunfels on Sunday, two sheriff's vans were parked outside and police officers stood at the gate of a cattle fence surrounding the property. Law enforcement officials gathered at the property declined to comment on why they were there. Several messages left for his relatives went unreturned.

Neighbors said that they heard intense gunfire coming from the direction of the address listed for Kelley in recent days.

"It's really loud. At first I thought someone was blasting," said Ryan Albers, 16, who lives across the road. "It had to be coming from somewhere pretty close. It was definitely not just a shotgun or someone hunting. It was someone using automatic weapon fire."

A person matching Kelley's name and date of birth also registered in 2014 to vote in Colorado, with an address listed in Colorado Springs, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy. The Colorado Secretary of State's office lists his registration now as inactive.

Court records in El Paso County indicate Devin Patrick Kelley was cited on Aug. 1, 2014, when he lived in a mobile home park near Colorado Springs. He was given a deferred probationary sentence and was ordered to pay $368 in restitution. The charge was dismissed in March 2016 after Kelley completed his sentence.

The Denver Post reports court records indicate someone was granted a protection order against Kelley on Jan. 15, 2015, also in El Paso County.

Kelley also ran a billing software company called Dilloware Inc. at his Comal County residence, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

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Deadly church shooting in Texas

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A HERO STEPS IN, THANK GOODNESS. THE CAPTION UNDER THE KILLER’S PHOTO OF HIS GUN WAS “JUST LAST WEEK KELLEY POSTED A PHOTO TO FACEBOOK OF A SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE WITH THE QUOTE "SHE'S A BAD B****." LOVE ME, LOVE MY AR-15! THE PURSUIT AND DEATH OF KELLY IS DESCRIBED BY THE NEIGHBOR WHO CHASED HIM DOWN.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-church-shooting-witness-describes-chasing-down-suspect-devin-patrick-kelley/
CBS NEWS November 6, 2017, 7:08 AM
Witness describes chasing down Texas shooting suspect

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It's unclear what motivated 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley to allegedly open fire on churchgoers at the First Baptist Church, in the small community of Sutherland Springs, about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio. Investigators don't know if the suspect has any connection to terrorism.

But on Sunday he came to the house of worship dressed in all-black tactical gear and a ballistic vest, apparently prepared to inflict mass casualties.

Texas church shooting suspect had self-inflicted gun wound, sheriff says
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Texas church shooting suspect had self-inflicted gun wound, sheriff says

Twenty six people were killed; about 20 other people were injured.

Following a chase, police found the suspect dead from a gunshot wound inside his vehicle. Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told correspondent Jeff Glor that the fatal wound was self-inflicted.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott described the massacre in Sutherland Springs -- the deadliest in a house of worship in U.S. history -- as an act of "pure evil."

Texas church shooting victims: Details emerge about the lives lost

"I saw the guy, and to know that's what he was doing, it just -- your mind doesn't want to process it," said one witness.

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Devin Patrick Kelley CBS NEWS

Investigators say the suspect was first spotted at a Valero gas station across the street around 11:20 a.m. Sunday.

"The suspect crossed the street to the church, exited his vehicle and began firing at the church," said Freeman Martin, regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. "The suspect then moved to the right side of the church and continued to fire."

Kelley went inside and kept firing his AR-15-type rifle. Soon after, he returned outside where a neighbor engaged him in a gun battle.

"I just pulled up to an intersection and saw gunfire," said Johnnie Langendorff. He and the neighbor chased after the gunman as he fled the scene.

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Johnnie Langendorff and another man engaged in a high-speed pursuit of the suspect in the First Baptist Church shooting. CBS NEWS

"The gentleman with the rifle came to my truck as the shooter took off, and he briefed me quickly on what had just happened and said that we have to get him," Langendorff said. "We just take pursuit. And like I said, we hit about 95 trying to catch this guy until he eventually lost control on his own and went off in the ditch.

"He just hurt so many people. And he just affected so many people's lives. Why wouldn't you want to take him down?"

When police arrived a few minutes later, they found the suspect dead in the driver's seat.

CBS News has learned Kelley served at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 to 2014. He was court-martialed in 2012 on charges he assaulted his spouse and child. Kelley was sentenced to 12 months confinement, and received a bad conduct discharge.

Related: Devin Patrick Kelley: What we know about the Texas church shooting suspect
Texas church shooting: Resident shot back and pursued gunman

Just last week Kelley posted a photo to Facebook of a semi-automatic rifle with the quote "she's a bad b****."

Investigators have not said how Kelley obtained his weapons, or whether he was known to the community. The FBI crisis response team is on scene to offer assistance to local police.

Deadly church shooting in Texas

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STALKER, APPARENTLY. I’M GLAD HE DID NOT ASSAULT HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW. I’M ALSO GLAD THAT HE IS DEAD. WITHOUT MALICE, SOMETIMES IT IS MUCH BETTER FOR A VERY DANGEROUS PERSON TO BE SIMPLY “STOPPED.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-officials-cite-domestic-situation-church-shooting-threatening-texts-170055447.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=2885bef6-b4ba-11e5-9c22-fa163e6f4a7e&.tsrc=notification-brknews
Texas officials cite domestic situation in church shooting: 'There were threatening texts'
Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News • November 6, 2017

Photograph -- Investigators work the scene of the mass shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman vía AP)

Two women believed to be the wife and mother-in-law of the gunman who opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday sometimes attended the church and appear to have been close to the pastor’s family, online records and social media profiles reviewed by Yahoo News show.

Officials say the gunman, Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, of New Braunfels, Texas, killed 26 people and wounded 20 others in what authorities say was the worst mass shooting in state history and the deadliest at any house of worship in U.S. history. Kelley was found dead following a high-speed chase which began after he was confronted by armed neighbors and fled the scene.

According her Facebook and Linked In accounts, Danielle Kelley (nee Danielle Lee Shields), Devin’s wife of three years (her profile status lists her as married in April 2014), served as a vacation bible school teacher at First Baptist Church from 2008 until 2013. Her mother, Michelle Shields, is listed as a member of the church and is seen in several Facebook photos with Sherri Pomeroy, wife of the church pastor Frank Pomeroy, and a in photos and a Facebook video with Annabelle Pomeroy, the pastor’s 14-year-old daughter who was killed in Sunday’s massacre.

Sherri and Frank Pomeroy were out of town in different states at the time of the shooting and the service was led by a guest pastor.

At a press conference Monday morning, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Freeman Martin confirmed that the mother-in-law was a member of the church, and revealed that the gunman had “expressed anger towards his mother in law.”

“This was not racially motivated. It wasn’t over religious beliefs,” Martin said.

“We can tell you there was a domestic situation going on within this family,” he continued. “The suspect’s mother-in-law attended this church. We know that there were threatening texts from him.”

Martin said it’s not clear whether she had previously disclosed the threatening texts to law enforcement.

The connections between the suspected gunman’s in-laws and the the First Baptist Church, and the suspect’s angry texts, offer the first clues of a motive for the shooting.

Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt Jr. provides an update to the media at the scene of the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs early Monday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

In television interviews earlier Monday, Wilson County Sheriff Joe D. Tackitt Jr. said that Kelley’s in-laws weren’t at the church when the shooting occurred, but that they attended services there “from time to time.”

Tackitt said that while it’s clear the small-town congregation was the gunman’s target, authorities have yet to establish a concrete motive.

The Associated Press reported on Monday that Devin Kelley was discharged from the Air Force in 2014 for allegedly assaulting his spouse and child two years before.

On ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott acknowledged there may have been a link between the gunman and the church, saying the public would likely be informed of such a connection “in a few days.”

“I don’t think this was just a random act of violence,” Abbott said. “Law enforcement is looking very aggressively into this.”

Read more from Yahoo News:
Mass shooting at church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, leaves 26 dead
Sen. Murphy: ‘The time is now for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something’
Online sermons give glimpse into close community of Sutherland Springs church
Texas resort manager says church gunman was security guard
Photos: Deadly mass shooting at Texas church


MADDOW VIDEOS

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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/3/17
Trump frustrated by notion of independent justice
Rachel Maddow shows how Donald Trump's ignorance about the bounds of presidential propriety is interfering with the U.S. justice system and his desire to replace Jeff Sessions with a more sympathetic attorney general. Duration: 23:33


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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/3/17
Officials slow with info on severity of disease in Puerto Rico
Rachel Maddow shows how difficult it is to get clear information from authorities on the severity of the leptospirosis cases in Puerto Rico as Americans there struggle to find clean drinking water.


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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/3/17
House Intel committee speeds up on Trump Russia investigation
Kyle Cheney, Congress reporter for Politico, talks with Rachel Maddow about the sudden flurry of interviews by the House Intelligence Committee in the Trump Russia investigation. Duration: 2:39


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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/2/17
Schumer on Sessions Russia testimony: Perjury would be looked at
Senator Chuck Schumer talks with Rachel Maddow about Jeff Sessions' ever-evolving story about contacts with Russia, and protecting Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation from Trump supporters who would derail it. Duration: 8:04


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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/2/17
Carter Page says he told Jeff Sessions about Russia trip
Rachel Maddow reports late breaking news that Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page says he told Jeff Sessions about his trip to Russia, exposing Sessions for having told the Senate he wasn't aware of any such contacts. Duration: 1:37


THE PLUCK OF THE IRISH!! THIS WASN'T "LUCK." I DON’T USUALLY COMMENT ON SPORTS, BUT THIS IS SPECIAL. I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE A TRACK MEET AT UNC-CH YEARS (MANY OF THEM) AGO, AND IT WAS REALLY EXCITING. INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION TURNS ME ON MUCH MORE THAN FOOTBALL. THIS IS ONE THAT I WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN. SHE SHOULD HAVE A TICKERTAPE PARADE IN NYC IN HER HONOR. 60 MINUTES SHOULD INTERVIEW HER.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shalane-flanagan-wins-womens-new-york-city-marathon/
CBS/AP November 5, 2017, 12:06 PM
Shalane Flanagan wins women's New York City Marathon

Photograph -- Nov 5, 2017; New York, NY, USA; Shalane Flanagan celebrates after winning the professional women's division at the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon. Mandatory Credit: Derik Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports DERIK HAMILTON

NEW YORK -- Shalane Flanagan pulled away from Mary Keitany on Sunday to become the first American to win the women's New York City Marathon since 1977.

Keitany had won three straight New York marathons, but Flanagan pulled away from the Kenyan great with about three miles to go. Flanagan finished with an unofficial time of 2 hours, 26 minutes, 53 seconds -- about a minute faster than Keitany.

The American cried and yelled as she approached the finish line alone.

The last American woman to win New York was Miki Gorman, who won consecutive titles in 1976-77.

Flanagan finished second in New York in her first marathon in 2010 but hadn't run this race since. After a fracture in her lower back kept her out of the Boston Marathon, Flanagan trained hard for New York with an eye on Keitany.

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Shalane Flanagan crosses the finish line first in the women's division of the New York City Marathon in New York, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. SETH WENIG / AP
Flanagan called Keitany "the alpha racer" and said she was ready to "suffer dearly" while keeping up with the unpredictable Kenyan. Flanagan had said she may retire if she won New York.

More than 50,000 runners from across the globe pushed themselves to the limit to traverse each of the five boroughs over a whopping 26 miles and change, CBS New York reports.

The day was dedicated to spirit and pride, and was marked by an unprecedented police presence to protect both the runners and the expected 2.5 million spectators cheering them on along the city-spanning route.

The enhanced security was in response to the truck attack in lower Manhattan on Halloween. Eight people were killed when terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov sped down the popular bike path near the West Side Highway, mowing down innocent cyclists and pedestrians.

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For The Record: Art Garfunkel
NOVEMBER 5, 2017, 9:54 AM| A grade-school friendship between two Queens, N.Y., teenagers would lead to one of the most popular partnerships in American musical history - and one of the most complicated. Singer Art Garfunkel talks with Rita Braver about stepping out of the shadow of Paul Simon, and his new memoir, "What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man."



THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURE OF A WOMAN FULL SIZE ON A PEDESTAL IN A LIBRARY WHERE I WORKED. IT IS NOT A WEALTHY TOWN. I ASKED THE LIBRARIAN WHERE IT CAME FROM AND SHE SAID, “I WAS TOLD NOT TO TELL ANYONE WHERE THIS CAME FROM.” SOLDIERS CAME HOME FROM WWII WITH EVERYTHING FROM ART TO WEAPONS. MY UNCLE HAD A HANDGUN FROM THERE. THAT WAR CAME CLOSE TO DESTROYING WESTERN CIVILIZATION, AS WAS HITLER’S GOAL. I HOPE WE DON’T SEE ANOTHER SUCH REGIME.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nazi-era-art-dealers-treasure-trove-debuts-in-europe/
CBS NEWS November 4, 2017, 12:51 PM
Nazi-era art dealer's treasure trove debuts in Europe

It's an art collection like no other because it was collected like no other.

Hundreds of pieces of art are now on display from a spectacular stash that was once hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era dealer. The artworks, including masterpieces by Monet and Rodin, are being shown for the first time since World War II this week as part of parallel exhibitions in Switzerland and Germany.

All of the exhibits were seized by the Nazis during World War II in a methodical program of hoarding directed by German dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt. He led the task of poaching art from Jewish families and selling art defamed as "degenerate" overseas.

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It's a display that now sheds light on the darkest chapters of Nazi Germany, says art director Nina Zimmer.

"How they persecuted artists and art they didn't like and how they did this systematically," Zimmer says.

The works might never have seen the light of day had it not been stumbled upon during a routine tax investigation at a nondescript address in Munich.

Hildebrand's reclusive son, Cornelius Gurlitt, had hidden away a trove. The priceless Rodin sitting near a potted plant and the Monet hanging on a wall.

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The Rodin found in Munich

The exhibition has raised moral and ethical issues over the art's true provenance and whether a collection including pieces likely looted from Jewish owners ought to be on display at all.

Project director Andrea Baresel-Brand says that the shows can act as something of a lost and found.

"Through the broad media coverage of the exhibitions of course a wider public is reached and maybe somebody recognizes something," Baresel-Brand says.

Even conservative estimates of the collection run into the hundreds of millions of dollars and less than half the pieces discovered have been reunited with their rightful owners.

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ONE LITTLE PIECE AT A TIME IS THE WAY THIS PUZZLE IS BEING SOLVED. IT GETS A LITTLE TEDIOUS TO ME TO TRY TO FOLLOW IT ALL, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT. UNTIL MUELLER GETS TO THE END, THOUGH, WE’LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT. I DO MY DUTY AND READ SOME, DIG FOR OTHER INFORMATION, AND WATCH RACHEL MADDOW TO TELL ME THE IMPORTANCE OF SOME OF THE BITS OF INFORMATION THAT I MAY HAVE MISSED TO MAKE IT ALL INTO A PICTURE. I LIKE HER BECAUSE IN HER UNPRETENTIOUS WAY SHE FOCUSES ON REALITY OVER THEORY.

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NEWS NOV 3 2017, 8:39 PM ET
Papadopoulos Repeatedly Represented Trump Campaign, Record Shows
by LEIGH ANN CALDWELL and FRANK THORP V

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has downplayed the role of foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential campaign. But the public record shows that Papadopoulos, who attempted to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, was a more prominent figure than previously understood.

Papadopoulos was in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention where he was invited by the American Jewish Committee to speak on a panel about U.S. foreign policy, organizers said.

"Papadopolous was only one among the many contacts AJC established and maintained among advisers to both parties’ 2016 presidential candidates and in the two parties’ national committees," AJC spokesperson Ken Bandler said in a statement.

"Among the panelists in our 2016 Republican National Convention program — in a session titled 'Defining America's Role in Global Affairs' — was George Papadopolous, then a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser," the statement continued.

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The AJC forum, occurred on the third day of the RNC in downtown Cleveland. Papadopolous sat on a panel with Reps. Tom Marino, R-Pa., and Ted Yoho, R-Fla., both members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee while Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave opening remarks.

"Senator Corker delivered brief welcome remarks at an event hosted by AJC in Cleveland last summer," a spokesman for the senator told NBC News. "Due to his busy schedule, he left before the panel discussion began and does not recall having a substantive conversation with Mr. Papadopoulos or any of the other panelists."

Yoho said in a statement that he “was there for less than an hour and left for another event.” He said that the only interaction he had with Papadopoulos was on what was asked during the panel discussion.

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From left, George Papadopoulos, U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, Michael Scharf, dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law; David O'Sullivan, head of the European Union delegation to the United States; U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and Jason Isaacson listen as Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., makes a statement during an AJC panel discussion July 20, 2016. Courtesy Michael C. Butz / Cleveland Jewish News

Papadopoulos’ public role for the Trump campaign continued. In late September, just six weeks before Election Day, he gave an interview as a Trump campaign official to the Russian Interfax News Agency, where he said that Trump will “restore the trust” between the U.S. and Russia.

And he met with Israeli leaders during the inauguration in January as a foreign policy adviser for the newly-sworn in president. "We are looking forward to ushering in a new relationship with all of Israel, including the historic Judea and Samaria," Papadopoulos told the Jerusalem Post the following day.

Papadopoulos’ role in the campaign has come under scrutiny after he pled guilty on Monday for giving false statements to the FBI as part of a Grand Jury investigation into the Trump campaign and their ties to Russia.

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The administration has distanced itself from Papadopoulos. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called him a "volunteer" with an "extremely limited" role in the campaign.

He took part in a meeting Trump and his national Security team on March 31 that Trump highlighted at the time with a picture on social media. And in an editorial board meeting with the Washington Post, Trump called him an "excellent guy."

At that meeting, another participant, JD Gordon, who was sitting next to Papadopoulos, told NBC News that Papadopoulos told Trump that he could set up a meeting with Putin. Gordon said then-Sen. Jeff Sessions rejected the idea but that Trump was intrigued.

Related: Sessions Rejected Russian Proposal

Trump has said that he doesn’t remember “much about the meeting.”

"It was a very unimportant meeting — took place a long time — I don’t remember much about it," Trump said Friday before he left for Asia.

Papadopoulos entered politics from the Hudson Institute. He worked for the Ben Carson presidential campaign for about six weeks until mid-January of 2016 before he found his way to the Trump campaign.

Papadopoulos is cooperating with Robert Mueller’s investigation as part of a plea deal. Court documents say that the Papadopoulos told the FBI that a Russian professor he was communicating with was “a nothing,” but he later admitted that the professor, identified as Joseph Mifsud of the London Academy of Diplomacy, said he had thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

CORRECTION (Nov. 3, 2017, 8:30 p.m.): An earlier version of this article misstated the name of a U.S. representative. His last name is Marino, not Marina.

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THIS IS SAD. AS THE DIVIDE BETWEEN DEMS AND REPS/INDEPENDENTS GROWS, AND THE NATION GRIEVES ITS’ FOOLISH SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP, WE ARE HAVING SOME IRRATIONAL MOMENTS. I DON’T BELIEVE THIS WILL BE A PERMANENT SITUATION. I’D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT, SPECIFICALLY, BUT IT’S NONE OF MY BUSINESS. I’M GLAD TO SEE THAT THE LIBERAL ANESTHESIOLOGIST WILL HAVE SOME LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS. IT SEEMS, SO OFTEN, THAT WHEN WEALTHY PEOPLE GET INTO TROUBLE THEY JUST PAY THEIR WAY OUT. THIS LOOKS MORE LIKE JUSTICE.

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CBS/AP November 6, 2017, 3:06 PM
Rand Paul tackled by neighbor over "trivial" dispute

Photograph -- In this Aug. 11, 2017 photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters in Hebron, Ky. A man has been arrested and charged with assaulting and injuring Rand Paul. AP

There is a little more information about the attack on Sen. Rand Paul, who is recovering Sunday from five broken ribs after he was tackled from behind by neighbor, Rene Boucher at the senator's Kentucky home.

Boucher's attorney told CBS News in a statement that the "unfortunate occurrence of November 3rd has absolutely nothing to do with either's politics or political agendas. It was a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial."

The statement did not further describe what precipitated the attack, however. It did note that Boucher and Paul have been next-door neighbors for 17 years, and said that the two, both physicians, had worked together when they were both practicing. "We sincerely hope that Senator Paul is doing well and that these two gentlemen can get back to being neighbors as quickly as possible."

It isn't clear when Paul will return to work since he is in considerable pain and is having difficulty getting around. Flying is also off limits for the time being. Senior Adviser Doug Stafford said this type of injury is marked by severe pain that can last for weeks to months.

According to the arrest warrant, Boucher "unlawfully and intentionally caused physical injury and pain to the victim." Paul told police that his neighbor, Boucher, came onto his property and "tackled him from behind, forcing him to the ground and causing pain." Paul had injuries to his face, "including small cuts to the nose and mouth area," and he was having trouble breathing "due to a potential rib injury." (At the time of the report, the extent of the injury was not yet known)

Released on $7,500 in bail, Boucher, who was charged with misdemeanor fourth-degree assault, was ordered not to contact Paul or his family, and he is to stay 1,000 feet away, unless he's in his home (200 feet away). He's also banned from possessing firearms or weapons of any kind.

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Stafford said Paul had three displaced fractures, which can lead to life-threatening injuries, as well as lung contusions. Paul and his wife, Kelley, "appreciate everyone's thoughts and well wishes and he will be back fighting for liberty in the Senate soon," Stafford said.

The attack was a shock for the community in Bowling Green, where a neighbor says he would often see Paul and Boucher out walking their dogs on the normally quiet streets. Jim Skaggs, a member of the state Republican Party executive committee, lives in the neighborhood and has known both men for years. He said they disagreed politically, but was shocked to hear of the incident.

"They were as far left and right as you can be," Skaggs said. "We had heard of no friction whatsoever other than they just were difference of political opinion. Both of them walked their little dogs at about a mile and a half circle, a nice little dog trot. I'd see them out walking, maybe they might stop and speak with each other."

Boucher is an anesthesiologist and a pain specialist. He invented the "Therm-A-Vest," a cloth vest partially filled with rice that when heated can be worn to relieve back pain, according to a 2005 article from the Bowling Green Daily News.

CBS News' Carrie Rabin contributed to this report.

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SESSIONS IS AN OLD WHITE-SUPREMACIST FROM YEARS BACK. HE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING ELSE. HE IS FIGHTING FOR TRUMP’S ARMY, AND DOING IT WITH COMMITMENT; SO, I EXPECT NOTHING ELSE FROM HIM THAN LIES.

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By KATHRYN WATSON CBS NEWS November 4, 2017, 10:37 AM
Did Sessions mislead Congress on Russia?

Court documents unsealed this week have renewed interest in whether Attorney General Jeff Session misled Congress when he testified recently that neither he nor anyone else was in contact with Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign, CBS News' Jeff Pegues reports.

Last month, Sessions testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that neither he nor anyone else was in contact with Russian operatives during the election cycle. But Pegues reports the court documents unsealed this week claim George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign aide who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with foreign nationals, offered to set up a meeting with then-candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Papadopoulos made the offer during a meeting that both Sessions and Mr. Trump attended in March 2016.

Reported testimony from former campaign policy adviser Carter Page only adds to questions about what Sessions knew. CNN on Thursday reported Page testified in closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that he told Sessions he was traveling to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The New York Times reported Friday night that Page testified that he had met with Russian government officials during the trip, contradicting multiple denials he has made in the press.

Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, who is in charge of the committee's Russia investigation, confirmed to CNN that Page gave such testimony, but minimized its meaning.

"I don't make anything sinister out of it," Conaway told CNN. "He said Sessions did not react or comment one way or the other," Conaway told CNN. "If I were Sessions, I wouldn't have recalled it either. It was just in passing. He was walking out of the room. A guy he had never met before, grabs him, 'Hey, I'm out on the team. I changed my travel plans to go to Russia.'"

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, told CBS News there is "no question" Sessions needs to appear before Congress again in an open session to "reconcile" his testimony.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling and any ties to the Trump campaign does not appear to be slowing down. Mueller's team is set to interview White House communications director Hope Hicks once the president's team returns from a trip to Asia.

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THIS ARTICLE BRINGS UP THINGS THAT WERE IN THE NEWS YEARS AGO AS ALLEGATIONS, AND THEY CERTAINLY ARE “DISAPPOINTING” TO ME. THE ARTICLE GOES ON TO STATE: “IT'S UNCLEAR WHETHER THE FBI VERIFIED ANY OF THE ALLEGATIONS CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENT, WHICH IS DATED MARCH 12, 1968.”

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CBS/AP November 4, 2017, 9:03 AM
Explosive FBI report on Martin Luther King Jr. among documents in JFK files

Photograph -- Martin Luther King addresses in Paris on March 29, 1966. AFP / AFP/GETTY IMAGES

WASHINGTON -- The FBI prepared a secret 20-page analysis of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. containing explosive allegations about King's political ties and sexual activity, just a month before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

One section of the document, which was among files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released on Friday, alleges that King was attracted to former member of the Communist Party in America. It notes that two previous aides were party members and eight others, who helped shape King's organization in its early stages, had communist affiliations.

It's unclear whether the FBI verified any of the allegations contained in the document, which is dated March 12, 1968.

The analysis said that in the early 1960s, the Communist Party was trying to get a black labor coalition to further its goals in the United States. It referenced a May 1961 issue of a communist newspaper that stated, "Communists will do their utmost to strengthen and unite the Negro movement and ring it to the backing of the working people."

The FBI said King and his organization were "made-to-order" to achieve these objectives.

The FBI's surveillance of King is well-known and the analysis includes several pages about his sexual life. One document said a black minister who attended a workshop to train ministers in February 1968 in Miami "expressed his disgust with the behind-the-scene drinking, fornication and homosexuality that went on at the conference."

"Throughout the ensuing years and until this date, King has continued to carry on his sexual aberrations secretly while holding himself out to public view as a moral leader of religious conviction," the FBI report said. The report alleges King had extramarital affairs with a number of women and was suspected of fathering a daughter out of wedlock.

A total of 676 records were released on Friday by the National Archives, the latest batch of never-before-seen files that are expected to be rolled out over the coming weeks.

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EVERY REMINDER OF THE EVILS OF THE PAST IS A SEED FOR REPRODUCING THAT EVIL. SO, SORRY NORTHERNERS, IT’S TIME TO FACE YOUR HISTORY AS WELL, AND REMOVE YOUR DISCREDITED STATUARY.

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CBS/AP November 4, 2017, 11:48 AM
Philadelphia statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo to be relocated

Photograph -- In this Sept. 14, 2017, file photo, police officers guard a statue of former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo on Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Municipal Services Building in Philadelphia. MATT ROURKE / AP

PHILADELPHIA -- The city of Philadelphia announced Friday that the statue of former mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo will be moved to a different location, CBS Philadelphia reports.

People who want to see it come down say Rizzo treated the African-American community unfairly, even brutally, at times.

"Earlier this year we initiated a call for ideas on the future of the Rizzo statue. We carefully reviewed and considered everyone's viewpoints and we have come to the decision that the Rizzo statue will be moved to a different location," said Michael DiBerardinis, the city's managing director.

Councilwoman Helen Gym started the calls for the statue to come down from the Thomas Paine Plaza in Center City over the summer. The statue was vandalized and protests were held for the city to remove the statue.

"I was always for relocation," Gym said. "I think it's fine to have statues. I think it is different when it is in the center of the city."

The city did not announce where the statue will be moved to. The city received nearly 4,000 submissions about what should be done with the Rizzo statue.

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Shown is a statue of the late Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo outside the Municipal Services Building in Philadelphia, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. MATT ROURKE / AP

"The response was very helpful for us to identify a host of potential new locations. We plan to do our due diligence on these locations before announcing the new site, but the input helped shaped some of the options we'll review," said Kelly Lee, the city's chief cultural officer. "Our goal moving forward is to seamlessly relocate the statue to a new, more appropriate public location in the city."

Philadelphia will conduct feasibility studies on potential new locations. Once a new site has been determined, the city will submit a proposal to the Art Commission that requests removal and relocation approval.

"He was a very consequential mayor... His importance to the city is not a complete positive, but we have to look at his significance in its entirety," Philadelphia attorney Christine Flowers told The Associated Press. "I'm not happy at all. There are communities of color who have very, very bad memories of Mayor Rizzo, but what we need is transparency, not to hide this away in the corner."

Officials believe it will take at least six months to prepare a complete proposal.

Black Lives Matter activist Asa Khalif said the city's decision represents "the will of the people, especially those who are black and brown for whom the statue represents generational oppression and violence."

"It sends the message that there is very little tolerance for white supremacy and racism and celebrating those in the past who have oppressed black and brown people," Khalif told the AP. She said Rizzo's actions and demeanor preceded the country's current racial climate around issues of community policing and outspoken rhetoric.


Meanwhile, the former mayor's son, Frank, said the decision has disappointed his family.

"I don't think this drastic a step was necessary," he said, adding that the family had gotten no warning about the decision. "My mom's 101 years old and this isn't how she should hear about it."

Councilman Mark Squilla also disagrees with Mayor Jim Kenney's decision.

"Once you start moving things around, you're always going to get somebody that doesn't like something, and then do we have to consider removing everything around there," he said.

Tom Hine was an architecture critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer and is quite familiar with the statue.

"I actually said good things about the statue, but I said this was the wrong place for it to be," Hine said.

Philadelphia has long tried to reconcile the complicated legacy of Rizzo, who served as mayor from 1972 to 1980 and who died of a heart attack in 1991. His friends, family and fans remember him as a devoted public servant unafraid to speak his mind. His detractors saw his police force as corrupt and brutal and said Rizzo alienated minorities both as police commissioner and mayor.

The statue has been standing in front of the Municipal Services building since 1999.

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