Political benefits. He also frequently attended comedies at fords theater and he was known for telling jokes, for his witty stories and selfdeprecation. The ability for a leader or politician to laugh at oneself and at politics more broadly is a hallmark of our democracy. In humor we not only have a to callvalve but a way attention to ideological differences while still maintaining the balance of democratic discourse. Today in these polarized times and as we head toward a president ial election we bring together a panel known for their ability to laugh about the business of leadership and politics. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished guest today. Log before Stephen Colbert and jon stewart mark russell dared to joke and sing about the often absurd political process. Though he actually knew little about politics when he first began performing russells ability to find humor in anything made him an immediate hit. His career spanned from a piano is mark0 years working russell comedy s
Were back with this terrifying video of a driver going the wrong way on a major interstate in charlotte. Driver drove for at least 10 miles causing others to swerve out of the way. Police threw stop sticks in front of the speeding car. Eventually she crashed into a tractor trailer and hit an suv headon. She died at the scene. Police have no idea why that driver was going the wrong way. Outrage is mounting over an incident of bullying at a middle school in Southern California that turned deadly. A 13yearold boy who had been the target of bullies died just days after being beaten in the schoolyard. Here is abcs matt gutman. Reporter parents protesting after that Deadly School beating in Southern California. A throng of them swarming the schools superintendent and jeering. He had to be escorted by sheriffs deputies to a schoolboard hearing after a 13yearold boy identified only as d i ego was pronounced clinically dead tuesday. The parents say not enough is being done to protect children.
the west coast, 3 am in the, east i m ali velshi you re watching msnbc s indictment of donald trump, in just a few, hours americans will be waking up to this front page for th new york times, the head lin reads quote, the first e president to face criminal charges. trump indictment going acros the top manner on thursday, an unprecedente move and grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president donald trump, part o manhattan district attorne alvin bragg s investigatio into a hush money payment, mad to the adult film star storm daniels back in 2016 as of right, now we do not kno what specific crime or crime the vice president s bee charged with, but we shoul know more on tuesday, when i going to one of trump s lawyers, he s expected to be arraigned. and we do know that alvin bragg, i ve been focusing on a felony charge of falsifying busines records which carries a maximu prison sentence of four year we will forget the possibl prison sentence, here s what w can come e
Thanks clarke and the Aspen Institute have having me back. Lucky to have the Homeland Security jeh johnson. Not going through his bio. You have it in your pamphlet. The two things that struck me as the most interesting preparing for this. It is difficult to know where to start in an interview with the secretary. He has Legal Council at the pentagon was involved in the most important issues that the Obama Administration inherited from the Bush Administration and many of you know he was responsible for helping resend dont ask dont tell he was the last legal word on every drone strike outside of the main seeders of war at the pentagon, he was in charge of the fraught issue of figuring out how to shutdown guantanamo bay, and the list goes on and on. With that background, it does make you realize why you were the guy for dhs which is another institution with a lot of problems when you inherited it. I want to ask you given that background you went from the pentagon and offense on the war on
That would be a substitute for nuclear testing. They have not allowed us to go there. In the agreement, it says very little except there will be a separate arrangement tween the iaea and iran on park in. There is a lot of negotiation left to discuss. The iran issues may shift a bit in a good direction. As you all know what we think of those capabilities and intentions, at least on a softer human side of covering iran, there are now at least some relationships. We have now been able to establish some kind of human contact with at least some of the key players in iran. We are not getting anywhere close to the leader and we dont really know what happens in the inner sanctions in iran but at least now there are channels that will be aggressive relief after so many decades where we were following iran remotely and new we could follow large movements of military forces but we really felt very handicap at not knowing enough of the internal politics. We all know this agreement was negotiated b