Woodruff and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the f. B. I. , the c. I. A. And National Security agency are out tonight with a final report on russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election. They say theyre confident that russias president Vladimir Putin personally ordered it, with a clear preference for president elect trump. Before he was briefed on the findings today, mr.
Woodruff and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the f. B. I. , the c. I. A. And National Security agency are out tonight with a final report on russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election. They say theyre confident that russias president Vladimir Putin personally ordered it, with a clear preference for president elect trump. Before he was briefed on the findings today, mr.
This viral video. If that was me, i would change my name to jennifer like yesterday. Well reveal the story behind jennifer and make a minor tweak from one of our own. Im rocking out to charity and no one knows this little boy has a lot on his mind, and its not that thing around his neck. Oh, man. Oh, i think it is. I think it is around his neck. Dude. It was at this moment he started to question his life decisions. He did start to question his life decisions. He was a school aged boy, they were out at recess playing at the park. Him and his friends wondered if he could get his head through there. Sure he could. But how do you get it out . You call the firefighters. And they come rescue him. And you see them having to drill the concrete down so that they can get him out of there. Thats not a drill, my friends. Yeah, its like a jackhammer. Like a handheld jackhammer. Again, this is not his primary concern. One of his friends went and got the teacher. He was panicking he was going to get
Our failure to do this over the recent decades has diminished our standing and encouraged bad actors around the world to break their word. To ignoreafford violations of international accords, as we have done with iran. We cannot continue to accept empty promises, like the ones china has made to pressure north korea to reform, only to shy away from enforcement. Looking the other way when trust is broken only encourages more bad behavior, and it must end. We cannot be accountable, though, if we are not truthful and honest in our dealings. As you are aware, my longstanding involvement with the boy scouts of america, one of our bedrock ideals is honesty. The phrase on my honor begins the boy scout oath, and it must undergird our Foreign Policy. In particular, we need to be honest about radical islam. Reason that our fellow citizens have a growing concern about radical islam and the murderous acts committed in its name against americans and our friends. Poses a grave risk to the stability o
Claims this morning that the russians have damaging information on mr. Trump and that his lawyer met with russian officials and said Cash Payments to them. The lawyer says totally untrue. Trump angrily calls it a political witch hunt and fake news. The russians say they have no compromising material, but its all over the media. It will come up at the tillerson hearing and it wil be center stage at the News Conference. So, here is the state of political play. The left continues its full court press to discredit and undermine the trump presidency. They are in attack mode. You will see how trump responds. Varney company is about to begin. Exxonmobil chief Rex Tillersons confirmation is about to be gavelled to order. Youll expect questions, hostile questions from democrats on russia and Climate Change. We have liz peek. Judge andrew napolitano, spokesman rick grinell, Ashley Webster and liz macdonald. Well quote him on a couple tweets. Russia said the unverified report by political opponen