Desert are going to be important parts of that. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill a federal Oversight Board is recommending the National Security agency stop collecting bulk phone records entirely. It was widely reported today that the board made its proposals to president obama earlier this month. Last week, the president said the Data Collection should continue. Well explore the oversight report in detail, right after the news summary. Wall street earnings were down sharply today on worries about corporate earnings and a slowdown in china. The Dow Jones Industria
With killing three people at two Jewish Community sites in kansas. He served three years in prison on weapons charges and plotting the murder of the thousand founder of the southern poverty center. We will speak with mark potok as well as a broadcaster interviewed miller. Then banning the program of spying on muslims. Whats not only were they acting as clients is a organizations, they were actually would have someone who would be the deciding figure on my board to have access to donors and information and financial information. I think we keep learning the program is just more outrageous. It creates psychological warfare. And deadly environment. Nearly 1000 karmiel activist and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. The death rate has risen in recent years to an average of two activist a week. Among the dead, a brazilian conservationist who campaigned against clearcutting trees in the amazon rain forest. That is when the logging industry started to arrive. And that is when
Good morning, its thursday, march 3, welcome to morning joe. We have a lot to get to this morning. Some breaking news developing late last night. With us we have veteran columnist in and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. President and ceo of politico jim vandehei. Pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham. You won a pew litzer . He loves everyone knowing about that. He took a picture. And in washington, michael steele. Managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin also with us. Mike, you obtained a copy of the speech that mitt romney is going to be giving later today. He is going to be slamming donald trump, calling him and i got this, willie, mark got a little bit of exactly what hes going to say. Calling him let me see if this is seringly clear enough. Calling him a phony, a fraud and playing the American People for suckers. So i guess hes not going to mince words today. And a stark contrast from four years ago when he stood with donald trump and saw his support when he was r
Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
The president continued to do again today concerning his friend and convicted felon roger stone. He appeared to suggest that any connection between the president s tweeting and his own decisions, well, that would be just a coincidence. You know, the fact that the tweets are out there and correspond to things were doing at the department sort of give grift to the mill, and thats why i think its time to stop the tweeting about department of justice criminal cases. He says it makes it impossible to do his job, which of course raises the question what job and for whom . Is he really staking out his independence here or merely begging the president not to say the quiet part out loud . Or is this just a Public Relations attempt to appear independent after a number of actions have certainly put into question barrs handling of the role. Well talk more in a bit and the veracity of his claim that he is not, as critics accuse acting as more of a personal attorney than the countrys attorney genera