Woodruff 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org 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. Woodruff from north korea today, new defiance. The communist regimes leader, kim jongun, insisted he will never negotiate away his missile and nuclear programs. But, the worlds highest diplomatic body held a
Woodruff 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org 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. Woodruff from north korea today, new defiance. The communist regimes leader, kim jongun, insisted he will never negotiate away his missile and nuclear programs. But, the worlds highest diplomatic body held a
A huge decision for president obama. A huge partisan fight thats been brewing for the past month or so while hes been deliberating this decision since the death of justin Antonin Scalia. Now, this morning, the president finally released an email note, o outlining some of what hes been thinking about. Heres part of what it had to d say. In putting forward a nominee today, im fulfilling my constitutional duty. Im doing my job. I hope our senators will do their jobs and move quickly to consider my nominee. Thats what the constitution dictates and what the American People expect and deserve from their leaders. The white house is also relying on polls including that most americans say they want action on this nominee now. They want the senate to have a hearing and vote on the nominee. Were also hearing now that the two nominees who came down to the finals are judge Merrick Garland and judge Sri Srinivasan. Mar Merrick Garland is the choice for the nominee to the Supreme Court. He is a peren
Friends and their family, it is inspiring. Wish we did not have to be inspired in this way this morning. So many of the students who survived this attack and their parents, they want to try to turn this grief, this anger into action. Theyre calling on the president , on congress, on society to do something. So far there has been nothing. After so many of these shootings, lawmakers advocated no real debate. President trump didnt mention the word gun. No mention of guns as he addressed the nation. All this as we learn how the confessed killer carried out this massacre, alisyn. Hard to talk about gun violence without mentioning the word gun. Im finding it hard to work around the word gun because it makes some politicians uncomfortable. Thats like talking about plane crashes without saying the word plane. Thats how one mother feels here. You probably herd story. Her 14yearold daughter, Alyssa Alhadeff was killed. Shell be buried this morning. Her grieving mother lori has made an emotional
Indeed, 81% of Democrats say the Republican Party will destroy America, and 79% of Republicans say the same of the Democratic Party, according to a recent NBC News poll.