it's my colleague mckay koppens. if mckay said it happened, it happened. he is a terrific reporter. but the delusion in the republican party. do you remember those old loony tune where the coyote would step off the cliff, assuming that he was all set and in fact it's the cliff that collapses. the central fact that every republican has to cope with is these coups can't work. as unpopular as donald trump, the regular republican party is that much less popular. so there is this idea that if only you could get rid of trump and proceed to take away everybody's health care and cut taxes for the very rich that that's what america wants. but as little as they like trump, they like trump more than that. >> ron klain, the intrigue in this article about the reaction inside the republican party when the "access hollywood" video came out, including a meeting in which the president nominee, donald trump asked everyone in the room what they thought was going on. reince priebus says you can drop out now or you can be wiped out on election night. one of the schemes was a billionaire buyout. and i'm

mckay coppins, staffer at "the atlantic," who wrote that great piece of reporting and writing. ryans priebus says, you never called him or contacted him to talk about this and your characterization of the soft coup is totally, totally wrong. what do you say? >> he can deny it if he wants, my sourcing is solid. as for his claim that i never reached out, i e-mailed him twice and left a message at his office. i don't know what he's talking about there. >> reince priebus. all right. well, there is sort of -- here's the core of this piece. the core of the piece is this kind of literally deal with the devil. not literally, figuratively deal with the devil. genuinely pious and devout man who is now sort of the subordinate to a person who's just manifestly has none of the shared values with him or the movement he represents. how does that work? >> yeah, well that is the fundamental contradiction of mike pence. and it's also frankly a compromise -- it's a compromise that he had to make, but it's also a compromise that millions of conservative christians in this country had to make last

he's the author of the book "the truth about trump" and mckay coppins. mckay, in your piece you write about the first day the president and vice president met as potential running mates. this dynamic seems like it was in place since then, right? >> that's right. they played golf together over 4th of july weekend in 2016. it's funny. i talked to kellyanne conway, who said that while pence was on his way to that game, he called her and asked for advice. she said, she knew they would get along because mike pence is somebody whose faith allows him to subvert his ego to the greater good. those were her words. he ended up -- he spent that game, you know, kind of kissing the ring. he told trump that it would be the privilege of a lifetime to serve him. that he would definitely win. afterward, pence made a point of going to the press and talking about how great trump's golf game was. it was kind of putting on the performance and showing trump that he could be the obedient, loyal deputy that i think trump was looking for. >> michael, people who know the president

mckay, garrett, enjoy the weekend, guys. >> you, too. >>> the attorney for one of matt lauer's accusers speaks out, saying his client is terrified that her identity is going to be revealed. he pens an op-ed calling on men be to do more to change the culture. >>> also, fit to serve. president trump setting records with his judicial confirmations. some of them quite controversial. one of his nominees was grilled on his legal experience by republican senator john kennedy. >> have you ever tried a jury trial? >> i have not. >> civil? >> no. >> criminal? >> no. >> bench? >> no. >> state or federal court? >> i have not. tic nerve pain these feet... liked to style my dog as a kid... and were pumped to open my own salon. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and she prescribed lyrica. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling

sue mckay talk about your wardrobe? sue mckay talk about your wardrobe? my brother had a much different path. in the eighth grade dad sat us down and said you're not college material, my brothers like i want to go to college and started getting straight a's, i had no recollection of this conversation. so he became navy pilot was a test pilot at the same time i was. he got a call to be interviewed but he did not have to pursue. he knew i had one silo to my suit. he goes to houston, interviews,'s back and gives me my soup back in a month later nasa calls me and i tell my brother, i was shocked that i got called. i told my brother and said you have to buy me a new suit because how ridiculous would that look showing up in the same close. he was a cheap lieutenant and then ended up with me wearing the same suit for the interview which was a blessing in disguise because i walked into the room and i'm sure you've been on the board before you can make it to tell your story. i said this looks really familiar. so i have the only suit that was selected twice. >> hos

i'm leo mckay, and you young ladies might be? >> is stories to keep those women apart and in 20 minutes he's got them lined up for a three-way. >> four-way, if anybody's counting. >> no means no, no. >> he's going to find out. >> this is my town. >> are we sure this as much as oscar-worthy? >> how is that not an oscar contender? so definitely not oscar bait, apparently, and the film studio apparently agrees. it hasn't made "just getting started" available for reviewers yet. one critic speculates it sounds a lot like "midnight run" for retirees. and the film's director says it's a love letter to palm springs and it's fun. >> we do see this this movies now where they don't release the movies for the critics where they feel it's more for the people than for the critics. >> we just want to have some fun. >> hopefully you will have a good time. that's the news for this half hour. >> remember us, follow us on facebook. >>> this morning on world ani"w now." new developments on a school shooting. >> a community coming together overnight,

. >> mckay, you have a big piece in "the atlantic." you talk about the aftermath of the "access hollywood" tape. we played billy bush on coe blb. a small group of millionaires is trying to get money together for a buyout. asking how much money a candidate would need to walk away. they were given an answer of $800 million. it's unclear if trump was aware of this discussion or if the offer was made. republican donors and party leaders began about making pence the nominee and drafting condoleezza rice as his running mate. reince priebus told us about this. an it is false. >> i'm comfortable with my sources. the kind of quizzical thing that reince priebus said was that i never reached out to him for comment. that's false. i sent him two e-mails and left a message at his office asking for comment. i don't know why he's saying that. but look, the reality is -- it's amazing how many times we go back and revisit that episode about the "access hollywood" tape. that moment was one of tremendous political upheaval. republicans were calling on tru

mckay, flush that out. we were talking about that knowing head nod that mike pence perfected, a little reaganesque, you ask him about a tweet trump has written or something he said that you would think is offensive, he nods his head, composes himself, delivers some sort of lukewarm or vanilla defense of the president. talk a little if you can about that dance he had to do for what, a year and a half now. >> it is interesting. i think it gets to the core contradiction of mike pence. ever since i joined this ticket, his role is to defend trump, to apologize for him, to rationalize, justify various provocations and antics of the president while at the same time behind the scenes he is one step ahead, thinking of what comes next. people i talk to who have known him a long time say he is a lot more ambitious and calculating than he let's on in public. and that's come through at key moments behind the scenes throughout his time at trump's side. >> echos to one of the great anecdotes in the piece. you write pence

rich mckay, the gm, and i got the job. i'll let you know, i'm a christian first and foremost. i'm not going to curse at you, yell at you or demean you. there are guys that think that's the only way you learn and function. >> you said that? >> i said, anybody who needs that, raise your hand. you know, no one raised their hand. >> wow. >> i said, if you need it, we can trade you to another team where they'll yell at you and scream. here's the way we're going to do it. nobody wanted to do that. >> he is a superbowl-winning coach. he is in the hall of fame. more on coach tony dungy after this. >> 30 floors above upstairs is the oasis [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang! tell you- dang. dang! dang! dang. dang. see zero in a whole new way. get zero down, zero deposit, zero first month's payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. now with the people first warranty. [music] >> portions of the james brown show are brought to you by geico. 15 minutes to save you 15% or more on car insurance. visit us at geico.com to see how much you can save. >> in their seven yea

kenneth mckay is the founder of malawi an environment organization he. like malawi national park is here in escrow world heritage site and it is been threatened with being the listed because the feeling was that perhaps it wasn't being cared for as it should the people are out today national parks is here department of culture and all of them allowing for showing how important this is to them to keep it clean to keep it managed to stop any overfishing. after just a few hours a pile of garbage is collected from the beach and the water it will now be disposed of responsibly. in the evening the fishing fleet of jim pumbaa heads back out on to the lake they'll be out there all night hoping for a good home. but there are just too many fisherman and not enough fish. their hope continues to dwindle along with the unique diversity of lake malawi. africa enjoys plenty of sunlight and many people do not know exactly what to do with the amount of sunlight they get a young one in new south is nigeria is thinking of what to do with the sunlight he gets and thought wh

assistant in wales, the midlands and the south—east of the billy mckay east anglia. starting to fragment and break—up. generally speaking they should be dry interludes developing. across the south and south—west, damaging gusts of wind .70 . 70 miles an hour. further snowfall across wales and the midlands. further disruption through the afternoon. the far north of england, scotla nd afternoon. the far north of england, scotland and northern ireland, plenty of sunshine, dry, but cold. premier league football matches, quite wet and windy for southampton. liverpool, cold and dry, the odd snowflake. the odd schmo show, sleet showers continuing into the overnight period. generally drier. the biggest risk will be the hazard of ice developing quite widely where we have snow. temperatures really plummet. in rural places minus double figures across the snow fields of scotland. there is sunday's low—pressure moving off to the near continent. we see this low pressure pushing through the bay of this game to france. damaging winds to france, also impacting the south and the

mr mckay who was referred to in the e-mails as an andy or what you know i've said this before on this program people on what's. in their social media if they want to say the president the united states or canada or candidate for the united states presidency.

ok well let's talk about this further with me mckay a piece of washington based political journalist and editor it's a big league politics neal good evening welcome to our saying do you agree with what president trump said there that double standards are at play when it comes to general flynn and hillary clinton. well i i i i think it's only a double standard it's it's a question of magnitude where general flynn literally told a fib to some f.b.i. agents who were setting up an obstruction trap whereas hillary clinton had this entire enterprise of secret e-mails and deleting e-mails under subpoena and then lying about the e-mails that are under subpoena and then members of her entourage who are sort of working back and forth between witnesses and and investigators and then there then the f.b.i. somehow gives them all immunity and near this whole sort of enterprise around hillary clinton and then really what did mike flynn do pretty much nothing. in your opinion why did that happen why does the pay that the f.b.i. isn't going to bring charges against hillary clinton given what you just

mr mckay who was referred to in the e-mails as an andy what you know i've said this before on this program people on what. their social media if they want to say the president the united states or canada candidate for the united states presidency trump he's an idiot that's fine with me that's a personal opinion but when you start talking about an insurance policy that's when i start getting concerned because these are an elected officials meddling in the election. and these are these people are supposed to be apolitical it least nominal p. there is a really high time for a new church commission to be instituted to investigate the crimes committed and the we want to remind your viewers what the church commission is all the church commission was a commission existed in the seventy's after the water great their great crisis it was obvious that during watergate and long before that the f.b.i. and other special series a certain kind doctor. on the us territory against us citizens that were eagle that were unlawful and there was widespread. feeling of distrust there were towards. be icy and othe

director and or mckay have testified before the committee they are demanding that peter strock who was the head of the how the intelligence counterintelligence division of the f.b.i. also testified before the committee now they're also asking and demanding essentially that they handler of christopher steele the former british spy who was the author of the infamous dossier that he also appeared before the committee and they're demanding the documents related to the infamous steel dossier now down trump has tweeted out about the situation he's tweeted that the house of representatives seeks contempt citations against the justice department the f.b.i. for withholding key documents he goes on to call it big stuff deep state demanding that they give this information now that's trump's tweet give this information now now the catalyst for this confrontation at all essentially began with the revelation that the head of the f.b.i. is counter-intelligence division peter strock apparently exchanged tweets with his mistress was an f.b.i. lawyer working for f.b.i. director andrew mccabe in which he

mckay have you seen this yet blocking throttling fast and slow lanes if we go back to before the about f.c.c. changes whether any of those things actually happening that you saw what we know or you know for a fact that contrast was found to be you know. found that it was blocking peer to peer technologies that his customers were using over the network you know that the rise in blocked a tweet or excuse me some content from planned parenthood we know these incidents have taken place we know this is new so when people say you know hey this isn't going to happen it's never happened before the fact is it's just a straight up. top. so the internet's a big place with billions of users of course there are going to be problems and growing pains along the way but i think there's a lot more good than bad the internet has been overwhelmingly positive thing for all of society and we should regulate it in some way to protect consumers and entrepreneurs online companies from the biggest and the worst of the harms but there are different ways to go about doing that and i mean i think g.g. is pretty s

some games at energy companies, but then the hang seng dropped back a little, a choppy session for the mckay as well. it finished the session a little higher. the dow is continuing its epic climb, surging above 24,000 for the first time as the us senate move towards proving that massive tax—cut package. 0il prices edged higher as 0pec‘s decision to extend production limits took place. the ftse has opened lover, the dax in frankfurt slightly higher, then pack 40 slightly lower because of a stronger euro and stronger pound. and samira hussain has the details about what's ahead on wall street today. it's finally friday, but it could be a very busy end to the week. the dow jones industrial average crossed a milestone on thursday, 24,000 points for the first time. us markets are just downright euphoric at the prospect of major tax reform, so we'll continue to watch what happens in washington and how us markets react. in other business news, we see that light vehicle sales will have fallen ever so slightly compared to the month before. we're seeing that construction spending is going to be up

the washington post reporting deputy f fbi director andrew mckay will retie. once he becomes eligible for his pension. critics have taken issue growing him for hours on his involvement with a clinton e-mail investigation a lot of his advisors sent anti- trumps messages. mccabe said he had a conflict of interest because clinton's sent money to his wife's campaign. this prompted a growing number of conservatives to accuse the agency a being bias. >> some people out there who are starting to question what happened here. these are fair questions. if america loses faith in the fbi were going to be in a really dark place, a housecleaning has to happen right now. are we will be in a lot of trouble. >> let's dig into this. let's bring get griffin for roll call. does the fbi have a legitimate problem with the bias here or is it simply everybody has an opinion a were just seen them. >> thanks for having me on. >> it's an interesting thing. like we have seen throughout 2017 is a partisan issue. it's an situation that predates the presidents christmasy flurry of tweets. y

. >> i'm jim mckay speaking to you live at this moment from abc headquarters just outside the olympic village in munich, west germany. the olympics of serenity have become the one thing the germans didn't want them to be, the olympics of terror. >> i was in my bed at the hotel. and the phone rang, and they said, you better get in here. some terrorists have taken over the apartments of the israeli team. and i said, they did what? >> at about 5:00 this morning, before dawn, arab guerillas believed now to be five in number got over the fence into the headquarters of the israeli team. >> this was the first olympics that was going to have unprecedented live television coverage. >> this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. arab guerillas are still holding inside the rooms of the israeli olympic team nine people, one of them believed dead. this is a live picture you're looking at right now. there again is the head of one of the guerillas. >> part of terrorism is theater. munich was so shocking because we televised it. >> the terrorists have now tossed a paper out of a window o

. >> shepard: let's go to greg mckay, he was there driving on the freeway when the train derailed. 50 yards away, that must have been quite a sight. >> it was obvious he something impressive to see. i've traveled a stretch of highway every morning, monday through friday, and i think you're just talking about it. i was surprised. the track runs parallel to the freeway going south, it no surprise to see the passenger train, i've never seen one before. it caught my attention. and soon after that, when traffic came to a very sudden and it stopped, and as soon as everybody darted from their lane of travel to the side of the road to avoid one another, i severely slicked up, it was crazy. i had to stare at it for a whil while. to see and understand what is going on in front of me, which 50 yards ahead, you see a train car hanging from the overpass and one behind it that landed on the freeway itself. it is very scary stuff. >> shepard: greg, i presume -- did you keep going? were authority showing up? >> when we got there, i said, i think everybody was staring at it, tried to figure out what w

sources say andrew mckay telling congressional investigatorse eo can back up james comey's claim that president trump asked the former fbi director for his loyalty which the president denies. >>> also tonight, president trump's constant slamming of the russia investigation coming back to haunt him. a brand-new cnn poll shows a clear majority of americans feel his statements about the probe are mostly or completely false. yet nearly half of americans approve of special counsel robert mueller's handling of the investigation. >>> and more breaking news to tell you about,

i think what mckay points out about vice president pence viewing himself as serving president trump would please donald trump very much. he equates himself with the government and then the nation at large so his attitude, as i think he expressed it when he was talking about the comey affair, if i'm asking for loyalty, it might be loyalty to me, but i'm actually standing in for the country. if you're going to be loyal to the country, that means you're loyal to me. >> you say the praise bargain he's made? >> pence may be as impressed by donald trump as he says he is in public. but he knows this is the price of power for him. the closer he is to trump the more able he is to advance an agenda in the way that he cares about, the way he does that is by maintaining the president's ear, and by submitting to him and performing his loyalty to him. >> thanks very much. we'll be right back. ♪ just look at those two. happy. in love. and saving so much money on their car insurance by switching to geico... well, just look at this setting. do you have the ring? oh, helzberg diamonds. another beautiful

mckay. at the center of several controversies around the agency. from the hillary clinton investigation to the surveillance of the trump campaign, and new allegations of anti-trump bias inside the fbi. our investigators breaking new ground or going on a fishing expedition to make real debate. in meeting with robert mueller's team, what does this mean for that investigation? that is ahead. ♪ keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicks, keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicking ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicking ] [ keyboard clacking ] ♪ good questions lead to good answers. our advisors can help you find both. talk to one today and see why we're bullish on the future. yours. speed to less than two hours, deputy fbi director andrew mccabe said to testify behind closed doors with the house intelligence committee. they are expected to ask the fbi number two person about a lot, including strzok, the doj official booted off robert mueller's investigation several months ago. strzok had sent anti-trump text messages to a mistress come fbi lawyer, lisa page. one

nbc's janis mckay friar reports from beijing. >> the drills are slated for two days involving three countries, japan, the u.s. and south korea. they're using computer simulation to track missiles that are hard to detect. namely those launched from north korean sub-marines. the drills involve destroyers from all three countries. they're operating in waters between japan and the korean peninsula and they were triggered by this growing concern that north korea is also trying to make advances in its submarine missile program. these, of course, are hard to detect than missiles launched from land. north korea successfully tested an slbm in august of last year. these drills follow those massive aerial drills last week and come at a time when diplomacy is intensifying. the united nations had its highest level envoy in six years in pyongyang last week. he returned saying that the situation is the most dangerous security issue in the world and that the greatest risk right now is for miscalculation. that there need to be off ramps created or channels open for dialogue in order to reduce the overall risk

our greg mckay was there, we are certainly thankful you were safe and that others got out of their cars. you mentioned some of our servicemen and women coming to the scene because it's nearby, we appreciate those details, thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: jonathan hunt's live in our west coast bureau, he is our correspondent this hour and he has no information, jonathan? >> harris, you mentioned the sprawling military facility very close to where this action happened. on that base is the madigan army medical center, we just got a statement from the center i want to read, part of what it says. "while we anticipate more patients this morning, nine patients are currently in serious but stable condition and 11 are in fair and stable condition. family members of patients are welcome to come to our emergency room, we will assist in finding your family member. we will release our information as we can confirm it." the headline there, nine in a serious but stable condition at madigan army medical center. remember we are only talking about one of the hospital's receiving victims but nine in se

sources say andrew mckay telling congressional investigatorse eo can back up james comey's claim that president trump asked the former fbi director for his loyalty which the president denies. >>> also tonight, president trump's constant slamming of the russia investigation coming back to haunt him. a brand-new cnn poll shows a clear majority of americans feel his statements about the probe are mostly or completely false. yet nearly half of americans approve of special counsel robert mueller's handling of the investigation. >>> and more breaking news to tell you about, congress avoiding a government shutdown tomorrow night. approving short-term spending for federal agencies, but not for long. now a new shutdown deadline looms over washington. we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to bring with our breaking news. the fbi's deputy director's testimony today. i want to bring in cnn's senior congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, good evening to you. i understand you have learned tonight what fbi deputy director andrew mccabe has been telling lawmakers behind closed doors. what can

andy appears to be andrew mckay. strzok continues "i'm afraid we can't take that risk. >> this guy thought he was james bond. >> rod rosenstein deflected questions pointing to an ongoing government watchdog review. speak of the inspector general is doing a thorough review. that's how we found those text messages. >> are you concerned that the comey fbi and the justice department worked with one campaign to go after another campaign. >> if you have those walmart shopping trump voters that peter strzok so derided in his text messages, how do they react? do they have confidence in their fbi and department of justice? >> we have appropriate internal affairs officers who will get to the bottom of it. stick a roast inside emphasize robert miller fired strzok last summer as soon as he learned about the anti-trump texts that included calling candidate trump an idiot and dropping the f-bom f-bomb. on the team and their donations. >> how with a straight face can you say this group of democrat partisans are unbiased and will gi

. >> lucile ball and native american basket weaver mabel mckay received the posthumous awards. the honorees are chosen by the governor and the first lady for accomplishments in everything from arts to sports. >> that's always nice to see. california turns out some good ones here. >>> welcoming up, nearly freezing in some parts of the bay area this morning and kari is telling us those cold temperatures continue. >> yeah, and now is the time to get out there and go for a run, go run some remember rands and get out there and enjoy the sunshine. san jose reaching into the mids 60s. it's going to be cool again today. we'll take a look at those numbers up next. >>> windows are not cheap. so when one man's windows went south under warranty, he wasn't just going to let it slide. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. nbc bay area responds next. nbc bay area responds.. to a los gatos man who says his leaky windows cost him >>> nbc bay area responds to a los gatos man who says his leaky windows cost him thousands of dollars in repairs. >> and he thought the window company should reimbur

deputy director mckay had in hindsight probably should recuse himself in terms of that connection point, in terms of money and politics. i suspect he seems to be stepping down to insulate from the pressure. i think there's a good point, the president of the united states, the exceptionalism of american democracy right back to the founders is the coequal branch of the government. the president is the chief i executive of the united states. as someone who lives in the massage of his own power and confidence does no service to the nation that he should be serving or to his own personal credibility as a leader by being quite so visceral and quite being so broad-based in his criticism of this agency. >> doug: how compromised is thise investigation given this political activism? impeachment, should it come to that, is an innately political thing. is there any records that the courts could have in an impeachment investigation? >> look, the founders of this country never envisioned prosecution in the investigation by thisti kind of organization f the president. they thought that wrongdoing by t

. >> but, i talked to a number of directors, including a friend of yours, adam mckay. >> seth: uh-huh. "the big short." >> "the big short." who was very encouraging. everybody -- i didn't write this movie thinking i was going to direct it. when i write something, i want the very best director to direct it. that's never me. [ light laughter ] but i wrote it and delivered the first draft and the producers encouraged me to direct it. and the thing is -- this is for real. after describing all the glamour and the decadence and the money and the poker, and everything, the movie does have all of that, but it's set against the backdrop of that. it's actually, and this isn't a joke, it's a christmas movie. >> seth: really? >> it is a very -- molly bloom is a very inspirational, aspirational character. and ultimately it's a story about doing the right thing when the wrong thing is a lot easier. more profitable. can keep you out of jail. basically she refused to dish on the players who were playing in the game, which is what the justice department wanted her to do. >> seth: the other amazing thi

and at some point, sean hannity, it goes to mckay's point here. there seems to be a conditioning of the base that this is an oak thing to do. >> correct. everything from, this should be wrapped up at the year's end. where did that come from? they made it up. to phony ethics issues, to this empty rhetoric. yes. i think they are heading that way because there is no escape. mueller has a grand jury. if they try to fire him, those same investigators, it goes on. it never dies. ed just because mueller is out, doesn't mean the fbi is out. three special prosecutors have been fired. two of them had a successor. >> it is interesting to hear he's the most partisan special counsel in history. i was thinking, what does hillary have to say about that? >> i think she would differ. the problem is senate republicans. i think we've heard some senate republicans say this is a line, if you cross, it is a no go, right? so i think there is a process work, do senate republicans hold them accountable? i think the president would fire him in a minute if he thought senate

bottom of the table this time it was the last vegas golden knights who inflicted an overtime defeat on mckay ots reilly smith scored a game winning goal late on to clinch a three two win for vegas. munches city have reestablished that eight point lead at the top of the english premier league they did so by beating west ham having gone behind to equalise through nicolas autumn n.d. and with less than ten minutes left david silva got the winner of the two one victory mean city have equalled arsenal and chelsea his record of thirteen consecutive wins in a single premier league season now this is how the top of the table looks after fifteen games leaders city are undefeated but united can cut the gap next sunday when the two manchester teams play each other next ac milan's new coach gerard to sir has had a nightmare start to his tenure in charge of one of italy's biggest clubs they were up against strugglers been a vento who have lost fourteen straight games in their first season in the top flight but they keep or alberto bring your early was spent and toast savior with the team training two one

scoreboard, it may look like a sporting cathedral, but according to the falcons president and ceo rich mckay, it was built to be more like a community center. >> our thooir was not look at what stadium location, where we might put a stadium for the best economics. let's realize we're going to put the stadium downtown and right in the heart of downtown. >> reporter: the stadium is bordered by a thriving commercial district to the north and a dilapidated neighborhood to the west. over the years everybody has thought or said build a stadium here, it will bring money city. is that true? >> it doesn't work. not true. so what we were saying to people was this stadium can be catalyst for change. we can bring everybody to the table. we can make an impact on the west side. but it won't just be because we built the building. >> reporter: once home to civil rights legends like martin luther king and julian bond atlanta's historic west side has bun one of the poorest neighborhoods. >> you know, probably 30 years ago it had a population of 55,000 people. now it's about 10% of that now. all the things you