About all of his convictions to a major drug trafficker to con artists, swimmers, american mafia, russian mobsters and tunnels that send an email asking if you would like to comment and he called me in essence is is, there are a lot of things i like but if you dont stop what you are going to write i am going to sue you. From working on the city council 50 years ago to today, that is the only politician that has ever threatened to sue writing what he didnt like. I said, donald, you are a public figure. That would mean you have to prove that i deliberately lied into it. He said, i know im a public figure and i will see you anyway. I think this is indicative of his character and authoritarian approach, you do it the way i wanted or i will make life go for you. Brian what was your reaction when he said that . David people have threatened to sue me a lot of times. It goes with the job. Brian 1988 in Atlantic City usage you met up for the first time. David i have left the Los Angeles Times w
Michael pineda is thrown out of the game after being suspected of pine tar on his neck. He is awaiting punishment today, april 24th, 2014. And good morning, welcome to today on a thursday morning, im matt lauer. Im natalie morales, savannah has the morning off. Everybody is talking about this one. Gear, talk about being caught red handed, the pitcher for the new york yankees, Michael Pineda, tarnished. 13 years ago against the red sox, he has this stuff on his hands, take a look at this shot, does he think no one can see that . No cameras . Its right there on the neck. He got ejected. We will have more on the fallout and the reaction in the orange room a little later on. We start with a story, a deadly shooting involving americans in the afghan capital. Nbc foreign koempbt Richard Engel is joining us. Good morning. This is a terrible attack. The surprised many people. This hospital has been operating in kabul a long time. A doctor is working seven years ago an american was there. He wa
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis please to have senator bernie sanders, who last week thought valiantly along with democrats on the floor of the senate against an effort by republicans to not increase the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour. Republicans won that fight, that i suspect the fight will continue. Senator sanders, good to have you back on this program. You guys thought to push this to 10. 10 an hour . The republicans fought against it. You lost. Tell me why and how. Vote, 54 the majority votes. We have to deal with republican filibusters. We need 60. It is very clear to me that the Republican Party has moved toward being an extreme rightwing party. Historically, they supported raising the minimum wage and now they dont. Seven dollars 25 cents an hour, which is what the National Minimum wage today is, is a starvation wage. You have millions of families finding it impossible to provide for their families. In my mind, raising the minim
And the shoe bomber, the blood test Scientists Say can predict who will have alzheimers disease. Im mary ann lamazi in london, jail, after evading 26 million in taxes. The third day of searching for missing malasian passenger plane has come and gone without any sighting of the jet or the 239 passengers on board. The identity of the passengers who were using stolen passports. Scott hydeler reports. Flight 370 with stolen passports. We looked at the video and the photograph, it is confirming now that they are not asianlooking men. And the malasian Police Inspector general say they have identified one of the two men and hes not malasian. While the investigation on the ground continues, so does the search at sea. Entered a third day on monday with dozens of ships and aircraft from investigators from near and far. No idea what happened to the flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. It is mystifying and we are increasing our efforts to do what we have to do. Malaysia airlines is helping us. All
We are working to get more information and well bring it to you as soon as we have it. Now to the race for the white house. A new potential controversy dominating the headlines today. Just as donald trump and Republican Leadership agreed to work towards party unity. Its over an old audio recording that surfaced just this week raising questions about whether trump may have posed as his own pr spokesman during a phone interview with a reporter back in the 90s. Trump denies its his voice on the tape but what do you think . Heres the clip. Ive never seen anybody get so many calls from the press. Where did you come from . I was basically worked for different firms. I worked for a couple of different firms. Somebody that [ muted ] knows. Somebody he didnt like. Im going to do this a little parttime and then get on with my life too. The publicist who goes by the name john miller also discusses very specific details about trumps divorce with ivana trump and his relationship with thengirlfriend