thank you so much nicholas paul for joining us. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> and we turn to u.s. politics now. and the attorney general is set to release a redacted version of the mueller report thursday, and that appears to have the white house on edge. jim acosta reports. president donald trump is lashing out at the special counsel. >> reporter: traveling to minnesota to tout his tax cut president trump appeared to have the 2020 campaign on his mind. >> we may have the best economy wave ever had. everything we've done can be undone and bad bad things can happen. >> but the president seem tuesday have more immediate concerns, mainly the trump administration's plan to redact mueller's findings to the public on thursday. even before all of the facts are in, mr. trump is alleging he's the victim, tweeting they spied on my campaign, we will never forget. the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani who's expected to release a rebuttal of the mueller report piled it on. >> i think it was the product of you want to call it a

. >> nicholas paul leads the center for midevil studies and joins me now. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> people in france and across the world are shocked, saddened by this news notre dame was ablaze for so many hours. those flames are contained and the good news is it was saved from total destruction. so much has been lost. how difficult do you think it will be to rebuild as the french president vowed to do? >> it could be very challenging. i don't actually know since we don't know what happened exactly inside the building. it's tough to tell what structural work needs to be done to reenforce what's remaining. it will be a very significant challenge. but one that i think a lot of us hope will be under taken. >> and notre dame took centuries to build. it stand as a remarkable architectural symbol. talk about the significance. to france and throughout the world. >> as the cathedral church of the city of the paris, it witnessed the rise of first the city and then the midevil kingdom of france to great prominence. because o

. >>> nicholas paul knows how woven this cathedral is into france's history. really within the world. he leads the center for medieval studies. professor, thank you. no reason for us to avoid the obvious, there was some what of a feeling of reminiscence of seeing the two big towers at the front of the cathedral. fire ingulfing them, the fire falling into the flames. the gasp. there is a reminder of what we lived through here on 9/11. thank god we're not measuring this tragedy on human costs. but it's real and we should deal with it. it's part of what resinates. >> you're talking about two iconic buildings. completely symbolic of the cities they're in. really woven into the cities. it's hard to avoid that kind of comparison i think for americans watching it. especially on tv. >> our lady of paris is meaningful to the entire world. why? is it just architecture or through time has there been an accrued significance? >> well, there's so much to say there. in some ways we have to talk about the symbolism of notre dame. it's symbolic of france and paris but symbolic

. >> paul leon. nicholas abbott and laura serma. >> hi. i'm. steven buss with u.n. b action. i guess i want to say i'm here to say i'm sorry, not necessarily to you or anyone in the room, but to our homeless neighbours. who threw ou through our sheer n to take bold steps suffer every night on the streets. we have so much money in this city. we're one of the wealthiest cities in the wealthiest countries on earth and we can't bring outs t ourselves to builda shelter for 200 people who sleep every night outside. what's wrong with us? please vote in favour. >> nicholas abbott and laura serma. i'll keep going. looks like emily green, dan swislow and then louis, riviera. >> i'm a 20-year resident of san francisco andee of a video game company that spent most of the last 13 years in district 6. so very much a part of this neighborhood and community. and i'm here to support the building of the navigation centre. i think we should be honest about two things. one is that this navigation centre is not going to solve the homeless crisis. it is far bigger than that, 1300 people waiting fo