Tonight:
— Those were lies, plain and simple.
I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting.
— Exit polls indicate that the United Kingdom will likely be stuck with a hung Parliament.
Theresa May had called for the snap election when polls showed her party cruising to victory,
but after a series of mishaps, the race tightened.
While May's Conservatives will be the largest party,
without a majority they'll be forced to form a coalition,
or rule as a stifled minority government.
Hours after a major attack by Boko Haram left 14 people dead,
Nigeria's acting President went ahead with a pre-planned visit to Maiduguri.
The city is at the center of an eight-year fight with the Islamist militants,
who want to establish a caliphate there.
Wednesday night's assault was the largest in 18 months.
North Korea launched four cruise missiles today—
the 10th test this year and the fourth since South Korea elected a new president last month.
— The launch of what are believed to be surface-to-ship missiles
comes a day after South Korea announced
it would suspend the deployment of the U.S.'s missile defense system there.
Iran's Foreign Minister called President Trump's statement
on Wednesday's Islamic State attacks in Tehran
"repugnant."
The White House expressed grief but also said,
quote, "…states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote."
Iran's Intelligence Ministry said five of the assailants were Iranians who joined ISIS.
At least 17 people were killed in the attacks,
the first carried out by the Islamic State inside Iran.
Reality Leigh Winner pled not-guilty
to charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency report
on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
According to a prosecutor,
the government contractor also made comments about burning down the White House
in notebooks the FBI found when they raided her home on Saturday.
Winner is the first person charged with leaking classified information
under the Trump administration.
– So it's 9:30 a.m.,
I'm at a bar in downtown Washington,
and people are really pouring in here to watch the Jim Comey hearings...
— On both sides,
everyone wants to figure out what was going on,
was there collusion in the election,
and I think that a lot of people are energized right now.
— I think it's great that people really care about what's going on
in the political climate right now.
— I like the community aspect of it.
I like feeling involved in something bigger than myself,
and being able to see this historical event play out onscreen.
Not everyone took the morning off to watch the proceedings—
but even in the capital's busiest workplaces,
the Comey testimony bumped everything else from the agenda.
Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono is a member of the Judiciary Committee
and former member of Senate Intel.
She spent the morning watching closely,
flanked by aides pointing out the biggest developments from the hearing.
— I was gonna say, it does sound like he's talking
more about this broader issue of Russian involvement and…
— Yes, let's not lose sight of that.
That's what led us to this point.
But the obstruction part is very much a part of the totality
of what we need to get to the bottom of.
— The hearing was, in some ways, about Comey's own behavior.
He admitted he leaked memos about his unsettling interactions with Trump to the press
to push the investigation towards a special counsel.
For his part, Comey tried to stay elevated and make the hearing about the threat to democracy:
— They're coming after America, which I hope we all love equally.
They want to undermine our credibility in the face the world.
They think that this great experiment of ours is a threat to them,
and so they're gonna try to run it down and dirty it up as much as possible.
That's what this is about and they will be back.
— But inevitably, today was ultimately about President Trump.
And one of the biggest moments Hirono noticed—
along with probably everyone else who was watching—
was Comey calling the President a liar:
— And although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI Director,
the administration then chose to defame me
and, more importantly, the FBI,
by saying that the organization was in disarray,
that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader.
Those were lies, plain and simple.
And I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them,
and I'm so sorry that the American people were told them.
— Those were strong words.
— Yes.
I noted that, because
it's not often that somebody just comes out and says, "That's a lie."
And that it really is a lie.
— What do you make of that?
That's why I said it sounded like a guy that's really angry with President Trump.
— What came across to me was here's a guy who really was doing his best
and he believes in the independence of the FBI
and how important it is for the FBI to be independent
of any pressure from the President or anybody else.
That came across really clear to me.
— I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting,
and so I thought it really important to document.
— A major concern I have with President Trump is, in my view,
his lack of what we would consider values—
the value of truth telling,
the value of understanding that, in our democracy,
a freedom of the press is an important part of our democracy,
the value that the judiciary should be independent.
So those are all, to me, fundamental American values,
and what President Trump does is...
just not pay attention to any of those kinds of values.
And I think that, if we're not a country of values,
what are we?
— Not much surprised her out of the hearing.
But she understood why Comey was careful with his words in interactions like this:
— Now, you told Senator Warner that the President
was looking to, quote, "get something."
Looking back, did that dinner suggest that
your job might be contingent on how you handled the investigation?
— I don't know that I'd go that far.
I—I got the sense my job would be contingent upon... how he felt I—
excuse me—how he felt I conducted myself,
and whether I demonstrated loyalty.
But I don't know whether I'd go so far as to connect it to the investigation.
— Ultimately,
the decision on whether anyone broke the law
isn't really hers or Comey's to make.
But personally?
The former lawyer was convinced:
— You have a law background.
Your evaluation—do you think it's obstruction of justice right now?
— I think there is enough there that one could conclude
that there was an obstruction of justice.
But again, you know, the lawyer in me says
these are not the kind of legal conclusions that you want to be batting around.
But I say there's enough there.
And also, that the idea of abuse of power.
Even if it's short of a legal obstruction of justice.
— Do you think the American people should distrust the President now?
— I think they pretty much get that…
that... he lies, is it.
To put it very bluntly.
— Some senators might be convinced,
but Jim Comey's testimony wasn't exactly a knockout blow.
President Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz,
made it clear the White House was gearing up for a long, protracted fight—
and they weren't afraid to go after Comey's integrity in the process:
— It is overwhelmingly clear that there have been and continue to be
those in government who are actively attempting to undermine this administration
with selective and illegal leaks of classified information and privileged communications.
Mr. Comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers.
— On Capitol Hill,
Republican Senators came prepared for another kind of fight.
They didn't debate the accuracy of Comey's story…
they debated what it meant.
— Do you sense that the President was trying to obstruct justice,
or just seek for a way for Mike Flynn to save face,
given he had already been fired?
— The question is whether Trump obstructed justice.
The answer isn't as simple as a lot of people want it to be.
An obstruction of justice charge would require Trump
to have sought to influence or impede Comey's investigation by either
threatening, forcing, or trying to, quote, "corruptly persuade" him.
That means proving that Trump didn't just casually muse on the idea
of Comey dropping the investigation into Mike Flynn—
but that he effectively ordered him to.
And when Trump fired Comey,
it would've had to be with the clear and specific intent of ending those investigations.
This is where Republicans see some wiggle room.
— This is the President of the United States, with me alone,
saying, "I hope" this.
I took it as, this is what he wants me to do.
Now I—I didn't obey that,
but that's the way I took it.
— You may have taken it as a direction, but that's not what he said.
— Correct. I—that's why...
— He said—he said, "I hope."
— Those are exact words, correct.
— Okay, do you— you don't know of anyone that's ever been charged for hoping something.
Is that a fair statement?
— I don't, as I sit here.
— Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
— It's a pretty thin argument.
But it's enough for supporters of the President to say that Comey didn't seal the deal—
and that the most important takeaway from his testimony is that Trump was right all along:
he hadn't been personally under investigation for collusion with Russia.
But that's old news.
Now there's a different question about Trump—
and a special counsel, Bob Mueller, to look into it.
— Do you believe this arrives to obstruction of justice?
— I don't know.
That's Bob Mueller's job to sort that out.
On April 5, 2010,
the Upper Big Branch coal mine—
known as UBB to locals in Montcoal, West Virginia—
collapsed after an explosion.
29 of the 31 miners on site were killed.
It was the worst mining disaster in 40 years.
In 2015,
Don Blankenship, CEO of the company that owned the mine, Massey Energy,
became the first top executive in history to be sentenced to prison for safety violations.
Just a few weeks ago,
Blankenship walked out of a halfway house after serving his one-year sentence.
He immediately launched a Tweet storm—
blasting regulators, politicians, and the government for his prison time,
and filed an appeal for vindication to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Then, the coal baron sat down with VICE News.
— I'd like you to tell me your favorite nickname given to you—
I'm trying to keep track of them.
— Yes, well, "The Dark Lord of Coal," right?
— That seems to be the one that stuck—
"The Dark Lord of Coal."
Huh.
That's a pretty good one.
When did you get out, by the way?
— May 10th.
— May 10th?
What's it been like?
— Well, it's been an adjustment, you know?
You get a year behind, it's hard to catch up.
— Yeah.
— I've been working on catching up and,
you know, connecting to people that were supportive,
and spending a lot of time doing it.
— Let's start on that day,
on the day of the explosion.
When you find out 29 of your guys died,
what's going through your head at this point?
— It's the worst thing that's happened in my lifetime.
There's no way to really describe it.
— The families are immediately hostile to you, correct?
— Yes, they're hostile to probably all the management at the time.
— We can see you're kind-of shaking right now.
What's going through you?
— It's just too much to say.
I miss my family.
This man has no remorse at all.
He never approached none of us.
He never told us he was sorry for what happened.
And he knows he could've done the right thing—
all he had to do was make one of them
40 phone calls a day he called checking on production
to say shut it down and fix everything.
But he refused to do it.
— Do you think that's fair?
— Well, I mean, I think it's normal.
I don't think you can expect the situation to be fair in regard to families or friends.
You expect fairness out of the media,
or fairness out of those that are observing it,
versus involved in it.
— So the federal government, in their report,
say this is, you know, your fault.
This is because of safety violations.
— If you read the text of the report,
and you get back in the body of it,
you'll see that they say the explosion might have begun with natural gas.
Actually—
— "Might" have begun.
— Yeah. — Yeah.
— But we know it began with natural gas,
because no one's ever seen that much natural gas
come out of a mine following an explosion.
It's actually ignorant,
to say that you can have 3.5-million cubic feet of natural gas
come out of a coal mine after an explosion
and that natural gas wasn't the energy source for the explosion.
— You know, it's funny though, because
the government says that it was not a natural gas explosion.
Is there no scientific evidence at all to support their case,
and how do they manage these reams of documents with no evidence?
— I can't explain to you why they do it,
or how they get by with.
I'm telling you without any doubt whatsoever,
this was a natural gas explosion.
— How many violations did you rack up in your tenure?
— I don't know how many I racked up in my tenure,
but other coal companies racked up more.
— But you racked up a lot.
— Let's be clear about something,
because this is something that y'all like to talk about.
Violations that have been incurred and been corrected don't cause explosions—
this is about the fact that the mine blew up because of natural gas.
— When one looks at this from the outside and you look at thousands of violations,
you look at 29 dead miners and you say,
"Well, that's... something's there," right?
— UBB mine had the average number of violations
that the 30 or so longwall mines in the United States have.
Violation count in the mining business is not indicative of the safety.
You get violations for…
a crack in the roof that occurs for water that gets in the mine during hard rains—
all kinds of reasons you get violations.
— What is it like for you,
being widely disliked, and you said that people accuse you of having blood on your hands?
— I can bear it,
and come on your program,
and go anywhere I want to say and tell the truth because I know I'm innocent.
I know who I am.
Prior to getting into battles with the union,
I was sort-of the local hero.
You know, I was top of the class in high school,
I was a baseball player in the coal field leagues,
I lived in the area.
But when you got into the battle with the union,
they blackened me.
And I think these people that will lie about what happened at UBB,
you know, they're not going to like a truth teller.
In addition to that,
they were able to take a political advocate out of the system.
I was probably the major player
in converting West Virginia from a blue state to a red state.
— You referred to yourself as a political prisoner.
— Yes.
— Why?
— I think when the President of the United States
declares you guilty before an investigation,
and then the former Governor, now Senator from West Virginia says you got blood on your hands,
that's pretty political.
— You're out of the game.
You're out of the coal mining business?
— Yes.
— Why?
— Well, I've been in prison for a year and I'm on probation.
— I think that you probably have enough contacts
and probably have enough money in your back pocket
that you could get back into it if you wanted to.
— Probably could.
But right now, my focus is to bring attention to the truth.
— Did you have any thoughts when you were in prison—
you had a year in prison, did anything change?
— I came out—
went in and came out a lot more knowledgeable of how corrupt the system is.
It's frightening.
I knew it from my personal experience,
as I went through the trial and went to prison.
But the guys I've met in there,
so many of them are the victims of the government charging people
because of a tragedy, so to speak,
you know, whether it's Savings and Loan,
you know, the bank thing,
whether it's an explosion,
whether it's Medicare fraud.
We've immunized prosecutors and we give judges lifetime appointments.
And whatever they do, they're immune.
And human nature is that,
if you're immune from punishment,
you have a tendency to carry out your personal beliefs instead of following the law.
It's a big problem.
At an alt-right rally in Portland on Sunday,
flag-waving Trump supporters were surrounded by counter-protesters,
including hundreds of the masked anti-fascists known as "Antifa."
Antifa is known for its aggression at protests,
and has often been used to justify the rise of violent right-wing demonstrators.
And it turns out that's just one of many parallels between the two opposing extremes.
Jay Caspian Kang spoke with two young anti-fascist activists
about the origins of the group.
— Bob and Tom are friends.
They both like obscure Japanese video games, anime and punk music.
But over the past six months,
they've had something new to bond over:
Bob and Tom are now "Antifa,"
the anti-fascist organization whose work you've probably seen in protests around the country.
Their names have been changed and they wore masks to conceal their identity.
Portland, where Bob and Tom live,
might not be the most obvious setting
for an ongoing battle between white supremacists and militant leftists,
but both Antifa and hate groups have a long history here.
— Oregon in general has a history of being a…
intended to be kind-of a white utopia.
I mean, historically,
black people couldn't even live inside of the city.
— Why does Antifa have such a big presence here?
— Antifa started as a reaction, I think,
during the late '80s to white supremacist violence
and the murder of people of color in Portland.
And so, they formed an organization to be able to identify and basically kick those people out of the city.
— It's hard to boil down Antifa's beliefs to one idea.
But in general, they believe that fascists and white supremacists
will not listen to reason or debate.
To someone in Antifa,
a violent racist can only be dealt with in one way.
— The classic definition of liberalism would say that,
like, we should conduct all debates and settle all disputes through reasoned conversation.
Why is that not an option here?
— These people aren't interested in talking it out,
and then having their really extremist views changed.
Like, some of these people literally want the U.S. to be,
like, a European, like, Aryan homeland.
It's so utterly disgusting and offensive that
people will talk about these things in a way of…
like it's almost a fun debate, like, hobby for them.
When, for other people, that are just alive right now,
they are life or death situations for them.
— Before the election,
American Antifa were mostly radicals from the punk scene or lifelong activists.
— I love Donald Trump!
— But President Trump and the rise of the alt-right,
along with Antifa's starring role in viral protest videos,
has brought in a new, younger crowd,
who want to wear black and mask up.
— Many of the new Antifa come from the same deep internet and video game communities
that birthed the alt-right.
Before he joined Antifa,
Bob was a frequent poster on 4Chan and even got involved in Gamergate,
the online gamer movement that helped launch the alt-right.
— So you were part of these online communities as well,
like 4chan, Gamergate.
Why did you not veer off to the alt-right?
— I think part of it, for me, is I was annoyed
when it went from just trolling to trying to attack people's real life identities.
And I also thought that there was sometimes when
it became less about trolling and more people sincerely voicing sexist views.
After Trump won the election,
people said we needed to have solidarity and do things to protect immigrants
or make sure certain people's rights wouldn't be infringed under Trump.
— How much of this is just an online cosplay?
— You know, I feel like, uh...
there is a pretty strong element of that.
But there's a lot of people there also just to voice their own sincere political views.
— Just nine days after the double murders of two good samaritans in Portland,
an alt-right group led by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman
held a rally downtown.
Hundreds of Antifa in black masks showed up to drive them out.
The first few hours went by uneventfully,
with police forming a barrier between the two groups.
The police began eventually began pushing back,
using tear gas and flashbangs.
— U.S.A.!
U.S.A.!
— As Bob and Tom and their fellow Antifa scattered,
the alt-right rally dispersed.
Fights broke out in nearby blocks,
as some Antifa were able to track down rally goers.
— No cops!
No KKK!
No fascist U.S.A.!
— The remaining Antifa formed into black bloc and tried to march,
but were quickly funneled downtown.
After a couple of blocks,
they were surrounded and peacefully surrendered to Portland police.
— Whose street?!
Our street!
— It's kind of a surreal experience.
Just looking around and seeing many other people who look like you,
but you don't know who they are.
You don't always necessarily know why they're there,
but I have this strong feeling of solidarity when I'm with the black bloc.
It does make me feel empowered.
I feel like my voice is louder
than if I were to just be walking down the street
in my everyday clothes holding a sign.
— Antifa!
Antifa!
Antifa!
— That's VICE News Tonight for Thursday, June 8th.
Tune in tomorrow night for the award-winning documentary series,
"VICE."
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