This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. An armed men is holding employees hostage at a federal bank, and lebanons capital by root is demanding his own money and threatening to burn down the bank. Security forces have not entered the building years. St. Hota has more from beirut. That is a 10th situation. An armed men is inside that bill during the federal a bank. He is Holding Hostages employees and citizens, an unknown number. I must say there believe to be at least 6 a short while ago we saw an elderly man leave. The building, the government negotiator is trying to convince him to lay down his arms. In fact, even his brother has been brought in and we saw his brother tried to speak to him through the gates. Now, yes, this man is demanding his own money. Because for the past 3 years, lebanons commercial banks have imposed informal capital controls trapping. People saving sir inside the banks and Israeli Military court has extended the detention of Islamic Jihad later, beside
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. You cant on its face determine whether its unlawful or its within the law. Thats for prosecutors and factgatherers to decide, but, boy, it is something people will be looking at seriously. David . Kelly, very quickly. Youve been in contact with Rudy Guiliani over these last many weeks, talking to him about the grounds by which he might agree to have the president sit down for an interview. And we saw Rudy Guiliani. We saw the president s legal team and the White House Communications team this week talking about the president s tweets. What they signify to them. They talked about them as opinions versus orders when we got that extraordinary tweet earlier this week. It seemed to address the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, directly. Lets take that and apply it to this. I am sure that we will hear from the president s legal team. This is the president spouting off. Its him offering an opinion. Over th
That is our show for today. Hi to the kendrick clan in south carolina. At the family barbecue. Sorry i couldnt be here. Thats it for am joy. Richard lui has the latest. Also, the kendrick clan jonathan. Youll invite me one day. Youd love it down there. Thank you, jonathan. Im richard lui in for alex witt on this saturday. Heres what were watching, charlottesville, one year later, the president tweeting the city under lock down. And new protests planned. What changed since those clashes. Today, the citys mayor weighs in on that. And the white house is firing back over omarosa, her latest book. The moment were living in is grave. The Democratic Party must be a
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Million. Do you think hillary would have asked for 700 million . Oh, boy. I assume you wanted her to win. But you know what, youre going to do great and make more planes. Its going to work out the same or better. Walmart announced plans to create 10,000 jobs and all of those jobs are going to be in the United States. Sprint soft bank is putting in 50 billion because of our election. In the United States over the next four years to create 50,000 jobs. Theyve been terrific, by the way. And we have many of you in the room, we have many, many other companies and were very happy. Today we have 24 ceos from the Largest Manufacturing Companies in the country and even in the they represent nearly 1 trillion in sales and 2 million employees, a large majority of which are in the United States. They share our commitment to bring manufacturing back and to create jobs in this country, which has been the biggest part of my campaign i would say the border, big part. Military strength big part and job
President trump is now leaning toward pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord which, of course, is the landmark deal to combat Climate Change that was reached in 2015. Nearly 200 countries have agreed to. Nbcs White House Correspondent Kristen Welker joins us live. So the president has not made a final decision, but while this news, i might say a covfefe, about his possibly leaving. The term you used, a reference to the garbled tweet the president sent out overnight. Well get to that a little later. In terms of the paris climate agreement, heres what we can report. Two Administration Sources say the president is leaning towardtoward pulling out of the agreement. It was first reported this morning hed made the final decision. If you talk to some sources here who are familiar with the thinking inside the white house, they say thats part of the frustration here. Essentially, the headlines get ahead of the president. That makes it tough for the Communications Team to message, to get surrog