Debut of the serious film, rosewater. Theres sometimes a misperception, i think, of satire, that it is clownish in the sense no disrespect to clowns but that its baggy pants. Its not. Its a way of expressing ideas and synthesize information that you truly believe in, just using the tools of satire. Mark sheds and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the long delayed and much fought over keystone xl pipeline is back on Congress Todo list. It won a new vote of support today in the u. S. House, and headed for the senate, pro
Couple of weeks to build buckleys anti communism as a principal and philosophical position. Bill buckley once told me late in his wife that his most important book may have been odyssey of a friend, a book in which buckley and characteristically barely says or write anything, but in which he creates a sort of literary and philosophical interview with whitaker chambers. In odyssey, we see chambers again bare his soul, this time directly to young admirers, friends and colleagues. Revisiting parts of these books in preparation for this conference i was struck most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows out of so many of these pages. A man is trying to account to himself and to the world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered but also the very no going back, how doing the right thing can mean everything and not just for his own soul but for his family, country and generation. Bill buckley as some of you know was a dramatic and emotional ma
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Coast. New yorkers got quite a scare when iraqs Prime Minister warned of an imminent attack on the subway system here and in paris. And it only got more complicated with u. S. Officials saying it is not true. We have big news in washington. Attorney general eric holder resigning his post. The latest on that for you. Experts to weigh in on a dramatic scene in south carolina. Caught on dashboard camera. An unarmed man, getting shot by a state trooper. What happens next . Well show you. And lisa ling is here to talk about her, her exiting her exciting, should say, excuse me, new series. Not exiting the series. Its sunday night here on cnn. Dishing about changes at her old haunt. Cant wait to hear that. Take time to enjoy the view this hour. Right. Begin with warning that scared americans. Senior white house correspondent, jim acosta joins us, now, what happened, jim . [ no audio ] we are obviously having audio problem with jim acostas microphone. He is going to update us about the subway
Sanctions. Now, thats important because the white house has portrayed mike flynn contacting the russians about sanctions as some kind of betrayal, right . Remember, their line was that they had to fire mike flynn, they had to obtain his resignation because he lied about his contacts with the russians to Vice President mike pence. Yeah. Who could have known what mike flynn was really up to . It was such a betrayal. He lied. Well, that all fell apart last month when the New York Times published direct quotes from emails that had reportedly been sent among top transition staff discussing just exactly what mike flynn was doing with the russians, quote, on december 29th, a transition advisor k. T. Mcfarland wrote sanctions announced hours before by the Obama Administration were aimed at discrediting mr. Trumps victory and could make it hard to ease tengsions with russia that has thrown the u. S. Election to him. After learning president barack obama would excel 35 russian diplomats, the tea