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HOW MUCH OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT DO THEY WANT TO LEAVE IN PLACE? EVERY TIME NEGOTIATORS TRIED TO MAKE CONCESSIONS TO THOSE WHO WANT TO TAKE IT OUT ALTOGETHER, WHICH WAS THE PARTY'S LONG- STANDING PROMISE, THEY LOST REPUBLICANS WHO WANTED TO RETAIN SOME PORTIONS FOR THE INSURED, LIKE GUARANTEED COVERAGE OF PREEXISTING CONDITIONS. SO THAT FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM COULDN'T BE FIXED, EITHER THROUGH CAJOLING BY THE PRESIDENT OR SPEAKER PAUL RYAN. VOTERS WERE THE ONES IN THE END WHO MAKING THOSE LAWMAKERS, OR INFLUENCING THOSE LAWMAKERS THE MOST .>> Mason: NOW, JOHN, LET'S HAVE A LISTEN TO WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID YESTERDAY IN AN INTERVIEW WITH REUTERS. IT'S GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION .>> Mason: " I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASIER ." JOHN, YOUR THOUGHTS .>> WELL, ALL PRESIDENTS FEEL THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE OFFICE AND THEY FIND IT MORE DIFFICULT THAN THEY EXPECTED. THEY'RE STYMIED BY THE BUREAUCRACY, THE CONGRESS, THE COURTS. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SUCH A POWERFUL JOB, AND PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS FACED ALL OF THAT AND THERE'S, OF COURSE, THE FAST PACE OF INCOMING EVENTS WHICH CAN MAKE IT FEEL OUT OF CONTROL. IT SOMETIMES EVEN ENCOURAGES THE SAME KIND OF BLUNTNESS THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOWED IN HIS REMARKS. JOHN KENNEDY ONCE SAID, " I WISH I HAD SPENT LESS TIME TRYING TO GET TO BE PRESIDENT AND MORE TIME LEARNING HOW TO BE PRESIDENT .">> Mason: NOT A JOB TO BE UNDERESTIMATED. JOHN'S INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT AIRS SUNDAY ON " FACE THE NATION ," AND MONDAY " CBS THIS MORNING" WILL COME TO YOU LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. THE PENTAGON SAYS IT IS INVESTIGATING WHETHER ARMY RANGERS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED TWO OF THEIR OWN DURING A FIREFIGHT WEDNESDAY IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN. DAVID MARTIN REPORTS THE FALLEN RANGERS WERE FLOWN BACK TO THE U. S. TODAY .>> Reporter: THE BODIES OF 22- YEAR- OLD JOSH RODGERS AND 23- YEAR- OLD CAMERON THOMAS CAME HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN, MOURNED BY THEIR FAMILIES AND HONORED BY VICE PRESIDENT PENCE. THE TWO ARMY RANGERS WERE KILLED WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN A RAID ON AN ISIS HEADQUARTERS, AND THE U. S. MILITARY SAID IT IS POSSIBLE THEY WERE BOTH MORTALLY WOUNDED BY FRIENDLY FIRE IN THE OPENING MINUTES OF A THREE- HOUR GUN BATTLE. IT WAS 10: 30 ON A MOONLESS NIGHT WHEN A SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCE OF 50 ARMY RANGERS AND 40 AFGHAN COMMANDOS CAME IN BY HELICOPTER TO ASSAULT THE COMPOUND WHERE THE LEADER OF ISIS IN AFGHANISTAN HAD HIS HEADQUARTERS. THEIR MISSION WAS TO CAPTURE OR KILL HIM. BUT THEY RAN INTO HEAVY RESISTANCE, WERE TAKING FIRE FROM BUILDINGS ALL AROUND THEM, AND HAD TO CALL IN AIR STRIKES BY AN AC- 130 GUNSHIP, APACHE HELICOPTERS, AND F- 16 JET FIGHTERS. BY THE TIME IT WAS OVER, MORE THAN 35 ISIS FIGHTERS AND SEVERAL OF THEIR LEADERS HAD BEEN KILLED, INCLUDING, IT IS BELIEVED, THE EMIR OF ISIS IN AFGHANISTAN, ALTHOUGH THAT IS NOT YET CONFIRMED. BY THEN, HOWEVER, IT WAS TOO LATE TO SAVE SERGEANTS RODGERS AND THOMAS. SUSPICIONS OF FRIENDLY FIRE FIRST SURFACED DURING POST- MISSION DEBRIEFINGS, AND DEEPENED AFTER REVIEW OF A SURVEILLANCE VIDEO TAKEN BY A DRONE CIRCLING OVERHEAD. A FULL INVESTIGATION, INCLUDING AUTOPSIES, HAS NOW BEGUN. ANTHONY .>> Mason: DAVID MARTIN AT THE PENTAGON. THANK YOU, DAVID. ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS VISITED LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, TODAY, VOWING TO DEVASTATE THE STREET GANG MS13, BLAMED FOR A RECENT SURGE IN MURDERS. BUT IT'S NOT JUST A FEDERAL FIGHT. TONY DOKOUPIL SAYS LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE ALSO DECLARED WAR ON THE GANG .>> THESE ARE THE GIRLS THAT WERE MURDERED RIGHT HERE ON THE POST .>> Reporter: OH, YEAH, LOOK AT THAT. LIEUTENANT THOMAS ZAGAJESKI SAYS SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE FOUND NISA MICKENS ON THIS TREE- LINED STREET LAST SEPTEMBER, MURDERED ON THE EVE OF HER 16th BIRTHDAY. NISA'S MOTHER, ELIZABETH ALVARADO .>> MY DAUGHTER WAS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME .>> Reporter: THE NEXT DAY, THE BODY OF HER BEST FRIEND, KAYLA CUEVAS, WAS FOUND NEARBY. LIKE MICKENS, SHE HAD BEEN BEATEN AND SLASHED TO DEATH WITH A MACHETE. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE GIRLS DIED AT THE HANDS OF MS13, A GANG BLAMED FOR KILLING 17 PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY SINCE THE START OF 2016. THE LATEST, FOUR YOUNG MEN, WHOSE BODIES WERE DISCOVERED IN THIS PARK.

>> MS13 SEEMS TO ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE FOR SPORT, AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEM PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS .>> Reporter: THE GANG FIRST FORMED IN LOS ANGELES IN THE 1980s, BUT A NATIONWIDE CRACKDOWN SAW MORE THAN 7, 000 MEMBERS ARRESTED IN THE PAST DECADE. NOW POLICE REPORT A COMEBACK BUILT ON RECRUITING VULNERABLE CHILDREN WHO CROSS THE BORDER UNACCOMPANIED, LOOKING FOR A SENSE OF FAMILY .>> WE NEED TO BE WEEDING OUT THOSE GANG RECRUITERS. WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE COMMUNITY- BASED PROGRAMS SO THAT WE DETER AND PREVENT THAT GANG RECRUITMENT .>> Reporter: THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS THERE ARE NOW MORE THAN 10, 000 MS13 MEMBERS IN AT LEAST 40 STATES .>> I HAVE ABOUT 15 OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO THE GANG TEAM, TO JUST DEAL WITH MS13 .>> Reporter: LIEUTENANT THOMAS ZAGAJESKI SAYS HIS SUFFOLK COUNTY GANG UNIT HAS ARRESTED MORE THAN 150 MS13 MEMBERS IN THE PAST YEAR, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ALLEGEDLY KILLED NISA MICKENS AND KAYLA CUEVAS. AND THEY'LL MAKE CONTACT WITH THESE GUYS ?>> ABSOLUTELY. THEY'RE IN THEIR FACE EVERY DAY, ANY CHANCE THEY CAN GET .>> Reporter: YOU MAY BE THE ONLY POLICE COMMISSIONER IN THE COUNTRY PROMISING TO ERADICATE MS13. DO YOU THINK THAT'S POSSIBLE ?>> I DO. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TOLERATE CRIME IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND WE'RE ESPECIALLY NOT GOING TO TOLERATE AN ORGANIZATION THAT KILLED TWO YOUNG GIRLS ON OUR STREETS .>> Reporter: COMMISSIONER SINI SAYS ERADICATING MS13 WILL TAKE TIME. HE CALLED IT A WAR THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO LOSE. TONY DOKOUPIL, CBS NEWS, BRENTWOOD, NEW YORK .>> Mason: THE STATE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITED TODAY, GEORGIA, HAS VOTED REPUBLICAN IN THE LAST SIX PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, BUT THERE IS A NEW MOVEMENT TO TURN THE RED STATE BLUE LED BY WOMEN SPEAKING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. MARK STRASSMANN IS THERE .>> I'M REALLY SWEATY, SORRY .>> JEN COX, SO NICE TO MEET YOU .>> Reporter: JEN COX, A 46- YEAR- OLD REALTOR AND MOTHER OF FOUR HAS SUDDENLY FOUND HER POLITICAL VOICE .>> THERE'S A RUNOFF ON JUNE 20 .>> Reporter: THE LIBERAL ONE SHE HAD MUTED FOR YEARS LIVING IN COBB COUNTY, A SUBURB OF ATLANTA .>> I WAS AFRAID THAT IT WOULD AFFECT EVEN, PERHAPS, MY KIDS' RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR FRIENDS. WE WERE ALL MAKING A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS, THAT-- THAT TERRIBLE THINGS WOULD HAPPEN IF WE CAME OUT AS LIBERALS .>> Reporter: AND THE BLUES HAVE OUTED THEMSELVES .>> ABSOLUTELY .>> Reporter: IN COBB COUNTY, GEORGIA. SHE HAD NEVER BEEN POLITICALLY ACTIVE, BUT WHEN WOMEN NATIONWIDE RALLIED LAST JANUARY TO PROTEST PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ELECTION, COX AND HER DAUGHTER JOINED 60, 000 DEMONSTRATORS IN DOWNTOWN ATLANTA. SEVEN WEEKS AGO, ON FACEBOOK, SHE LAUNCHED " PAVE IT BLUE ." IT'S A GRASS- ROOTS ORGANIZATION FOR FRUSTRATED PROGRESSIVE WOMEN LIKE HER .>> NOW, JUST OVER A MONTH LATER, WE'RE AT ALMOST 2, 000 AND, AGAIN, ALL LOCAL WOMEN .>> THIS IS A STORY ABOUT WOMEN IN THIS COMMUNITY .>> Reporter: PAVE IT BLUE'S FIRST GOAL: HELPING ELECT JOHN OSSOFF, A LOCAL DEMOCRAT ON THE BALLOT IN A CONGRESSIONAL RUNOFF ELECTION IN JUNE. WE ALSO MET KARIN AGARD, A BERMUDA NATIVE WHO BECAME A U. S. CITIZEN EARLIER THIS YEAR. HOW MUCH OF THIS IS PRESIDENT TRUMP ?>> ALL OF IT IS PRESIDENT TRUMP. I DON'T THINK THAT THEY REPRESENT ME OR MY FAMILY, AND I NEED SOMEONE IN OFFICE TO CREATE SOME BALANCE AND TO REPRESENT ME .>> THAT'S A HUGE DEAL TO US .>> Reporter: COX SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS HAVE BEEN ANTI- IMMIGRANT, ANTI- WOMEN, AND UNAMERICAN .>> IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO STAND UP TO THAT, TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT. IF NOT US, WHO ?>> Reporter: PAVE IT BLUE'S GOAL IS TO TURN RED DISTRICTS TO BLUE ONES AND TO GET WOMEN RUNNING FOR LOCAL OFFICE. AND NOW THAT THEY'VE FOUND THEIR VOICE, ANTHONY, THESE LIBERAL WOMEN SAY THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT .>> Mason: MARK STRASSMANN ON THE POLITICAL BATTLEFIELDS IN GEORGIA. THANKS, MARK. COMING UP NEXT ON THE CBS EVENING NEWS, 25 YEARS AFTER THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS, A LOOK AT HOW THE CITY HAS CHANGED. AND LATER, STEVE HARTMAN WITH THE EARLY FAVORITE FOR GRANDPA OF THE YEAR .>> Mason: IT WAS 25 YEARS AGO TOMORROW THAT RIOTS BROKE OUT IN LOS ANGELES. THE MOSTLY AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF SOUTH L. A. ERUPTED AFTER A JURY ACQUITTED FOUR WHITE POLICE OFFICERS IN THE VIDEOTAPED BEATING OF RODNEY KING, A BLACK MOTORIST WHO HAD BEEN STOPPED FOR SPEEDING. SIX DAYS OF VIOLENCE LEFT 55 PEOPLE DEAD AND 2, 000 WOUNDED. 11, 000 WERE ARRESTED. MIREYA VILLARREAL SHOWS US HOW THE COMMUNITY HAS HEALED A QUARTER CENTURY LATER .>> Reporter: THIS WAS THE FIRST SIGN 25 YEARS AGO THAT LOS ANGELES WAS IN FOR A VERY LONG NIGHT .>> THESE PEOPLE ARE ANGRY AND THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE .>> TERRIBLE, AND THERE'S NO POLICE PRESENCE DOWN HERE .>> Reporter: POLICE WERE ACCUSED OF STANDING BY AND LETTING IT HAPPEN AND WHILE THE CITY WAS ON FIRE, KJLH RADIO WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. THIS TO YOU WAS A WAR ZONE .>> UH- HUH. YOU'RE SEEING BUILDINGS BEING BURNED DOWN, AND YOU'RE SEEING PEOPLE RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES IN THE STREETS. NOT EVERYBODY WAS LOOTING. PEOPLE WERE RUNNING FOR DEAR LIFE. THAT'S A WAR ZONE .>> Reporter: FOR FOUR DAYS, D. J. s AUNDRAE RUSSELL AND LON McQUE STOPPED PLAYING MUSIC AND LET CALLERS VENT .>> I HEARD, " WE CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE. THIS IS NOT RIGHT .">> THEY WERE FURIOUS, YOU KNOW, AND THEN IT TURNED MORE INTO " DON'T BURN OUR COMMUNITY !">> Reporter: KAREN LANE WAS 12 YEARS OLD WHEN THE RIOTS BROKE OUT. SHE'S NOW A LAWYER WITH COMMUNITY COALITION .>> WHAT ROSE FROM THE ASHES OF 1992 WERE REALLY PEOPLE- DRIVEN, COMMUNITY- DRIVEN SOLUTIONS AND CALLING FOR MORE ACCOUNTABILITY .>> Reporter: MURDER RATES HAVE PLUMMETED IN SOUTH L. A. L. A. P. D. REPORTED OVER 1, 000 HOMICIDES IN 1992. BUT IN 2016, THERE WERE JUST UNDER 300. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW N. F. L. STADIUM AND CONCERT VENUE IN INGLEWOOD HAS BROUGHT JOBS AND INCREASED REAL ESTATE PRICES. ONCE A MEMBER OF THE INFAMOUS L. A. GANG THE CRIPS, AQEELA SHERRILLS NOW OWNS A RESTAURANT WITH CELEBRITY CHEF ROY CHOI CALLED LocoL .>> HIRED 40 PEOPLE, LIVABLE WAGE JOBS, 80 % OF OUR STAFF WALK TO WORK. I'VE BEEN KNOWING THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE KITCHEN ALL MY LIFE .>> Reporter: 25 YEARS LATER, MANY PEOPLE IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES CAN SEE PAST THE PAIN AND VIEW THE RIOTS AS AN UPRISING THAT IGNITED CHANGE. PARTS OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE CHANGED, BUT SOME OF THE HARDEST HIT POCKETS HAVE STAYED THE SAME, LIKE THE VACANT LOTS YOU SEE BEHIND ME BURNED IN 1992. BUT THERE ARE CONSTRUCTION CREWS ON SITE RIGHT NOW RENOVATING. PEOPLE LIVING HERE SAY IT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE THAT NOT ALL IS LOST. REINVESTMENT JUST TAKES TIME .>> Mason: MIREYA, THANK YOU. AN UPDATE ON FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH IS NEXT .>> Mason: FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP OPENED A NEW ROOFTOP GARDEN TODAY AT CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN WASHINGTON. SHE SPENT TIME COLORING WITH PATIENTS. THE GARDEN IS DEDICATED TO FIRST LADIES, EVERY ONE SINCE BESS TRUMAN HAS VISITED THE HOSPITAL. FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH WAS SENT HOME FROM A HOUSTON HOSPITAL TODAY. MR. BUSH, WHO IS 92, WAS IN FOR TWO WEEKS FOR A MILD CASE OF PNEUMONIA AND CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. WE WISH HIM WELL. STEVE HARTMAN VISITS A KIDDIE PARK LIKE NONE YOU'VE EVER SEEN NEXT .>> Mason: FINALLY TONIGHT, STEVE HARTMAN TAKES US TO A PLACE HALFWAY BETWEEN DISNEYLAND AND DISNEY WORLD. FOR ONE LITTLE GIRL, IT'S THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH .>> Reporter: A LOT OF GRANDPARENTS COMPLAIN THAT THEY DON'T SEE THEIR GRANDKIDS ENOUGH, BUT JIMMY WHITE OF DECATUR, TEXAS, DOESN'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM. FOR ONE, HIS GRANDDAUGHTER LIVES RIGHT NEXT DOOR. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE HAS CREATED THE ULTIMATE GRANDCHILD ENTICEMENT. HE THOUGHT OF IT THE DAY HE FOUND OUT HIS DAUGHTER WAS PREGNANT WITH SOPHIA .>> EVERY TIME SHE WANTS SOMETHING I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO HER .>> Reporter: THE SPOILING KIND OF GRANDPA .>> THAT'S WHAT GRANDKIDS ARE FOR YOU SPOIL THEM. AS SOON AS I FOUND OUT I WAS GOING TO BE A GRANDPA, THAT'S WHEN I STARTED .>> Reporter: JIMMY IS A JACK- OF- ALL- TRADES. HE CAN BUILD PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING. SO NOT LONG AFTER THAT FIRST ULTRASOUND, HE BEGAN CONSTRUCTING SIX FLAGS OVER SOPHIA. TODAY, SOPHIA'S OWN PERSONAL ROLLER COASTER CIRCLES AROUND HER OWN PERSONAL CARNIVAL SWING .>> ROUND AND ROUND IN CIRCLE .>> Reporter: AND HER OWN PERSONAL FERRIS WHEEL. EVERYTHING IS BUILT FROM SCRAP PARTS .>> PUT YOUR SEAT BELT ON .>> Reporter: BUT HE SAYS IT'S ALL SAFE AND STURDY ENOUGH FOR AN ADULT TO RIDE, EVEN THE ROLLER COASTER, WHICH IS GRANDPA- POWERED, GRAVITY- FED, AND VERY MUCH SOPHIA APPROVED .>> BYE- BYE .>> BYE !>> Reporter: HOW OFTEN DOES SHE COME HERE ?>> PROBABLY EVERY DAY .>> Reporter: EVERY DAY .>> YEAH .>> Reporter: SO THIS IS WORKING .>> IT'S WORKING .>> Reporter: AS SOPHIA GETS OLDER JIMMY PLANS TO ADD MORE ATTRACTIONS. GO- CARTS WILL BE NEXT, ALL IN AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE THE BOND JIMMY SAYS HE HAD WITH HIS OWN GRANDFATHER .>> THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO WITH MY GRANDDAUGHTER, BECAUSE WHEN GRANDPOP PASSED AWAY OR GONE I WANT HER TO LOOK BACK AT ALL THE TIMES, THE GOOD TIMES WE HAD .>> Reporter: I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY DANGER OF HER FORGETTING YOU .>> I HOPE NOT .>> Reporter: OF COURSE, NO MATTER HOW MANY RIDES HE FABRICATES, EVENTUALLY, SOPHIA WILL OUTGROW THIS PLACE .>> HERE YOU GO !>> Reporter: AND WHEN SHE KEEPS COMING BACK ANYWAY, MAYBE THEN JIMMY WILL REALIZE THE REAL DRAW HERE WAS NEVER THIS AMUSEMENT PARK. IT WAS THE LOVING GRANDPA .>> READY TO GO ROUND AND ROUND .>> Reporter: WHO CARED ENOUGH TO BUILD IT. STEVE HARTMAN " ON THE ROAD" IN DECATUR, TEXAS .>> Mason: AND SHE'LL NEVER OUTGROW THAT LOVE. SOPHIA TURNS THREE ON SUNDAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOPHIA. THAT'S THE CBS EVENING NEWS. SCOTT'S BACK MONDAY. I'M ANTHONY MASON. I'LL SEE YOU TOMORROW ON " CBS THIS MORNING SATURDAY ." 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