Deal brings farc rebels back to the negotiating table. I am absolutely determined to not allow the country to go back to war with farc. The farc doesnt want it, we dont want it. 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. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. Supported by the rockefeller foundation. Promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world by building resilience and inclusive economies. More at rockefellerfoundation. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. 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 for donald trump and Hillary Clinton, its the start of the last full wee
Or fewer than four percent of the president s nominees have worked as lawyers at Public Interest or civil rights organizations. State and federal prosecutorss out number public defenders by more than 3 1. Only 11 has a fulltime academics. Of those who worked in private over seven and 10 were for Corporate Law firms. It is the aggregate, eight nomineese president s have been either Corporate Lawyers or prosecutors and in some cases both. Clearly, president obamas remarkable historic progress in advancing personal diversity has not yet been matched in the area of professional diversity but change may be coming. Before the rules changed, the rampant obstruction of judicial nominations i Senate Republicans had the effect of narrowing the field of potential candidates who could potentially expect to be confirmed. Crosseds hope, fingers that in those days are over. What ever constrains the president as senators and and even potential nominees themselves as a result of the debilitating effort
From s kind of recovered that. It was a lawyer that asked je s tell us what is the greatest commandment. He said love the lord. Second is love one another. On those two things hang all of law. Other everything. In scripture. Me, it made e for , my mother was found to have a brain tumor in the late 1970s. Her it could be back in a year or 20 years. Before it took her. The neurologist at one point six months to ve live. Woman t this brilliant ho put herself through baylor without any help she was reduced to a wheelchair and could not speak without really struggle i struggling. All four siblings would come and spend time. Four ided just the children would spend a weekend with mother. We were getting closer to the end. Great. Was saturday morning we sat around the breakfast table. There we were, good natured but forth, giving each other a hard time but remembering things, discussing times, laughing. We were probably there two or hree hours before mother finally was able to struggle and spe
You can only give them what you know but you best not suggest that that is the total picture. There are always a couple of pieces mixing desk missing. It is like somebody in the military before engagement. You try to get as good a pitcher as you can before you deploy your troops. You never have total situational awareness. Your troops have to prepare to move around what they did not know when they began. Host mike is joining us from new york. Good morning. Democrats line. Caller i worked on a site in pennsylvania, where he is from. They poured gallons of water into the frack site and 3 million, toxic. The state passes frack sites that are wetlands and they build five footpaths above the wetlands. They drill right through. When you are working with president bush, did you ever discuss the clean water drinking at . Did that ever come up . Guest i am quite confident the president with the right secretaries in his cabinet dealt with Environmental Issues but in response to your very specifi
Lordy, theres a lot of breaking news tonight, most stemming from james comeys testimony. Theres the request for any white house tapes of the conversation. Theres the commitment he made, the president , to testify about it under oath. There are the implications of that and all the doors it opens legally and politically. We will talk about that and much more in the hour ahead. First though, the president s pretty remarkable day and jim acosta. Reporter speaking as he tweets in short bursts, President Trump tried to have it both ways, clinging to the testimony of former fbi director james comey as his salvation while slamming the man he fired in the same breath. No collusion. No obstruction. He is a leaker. Reporter during a News Conference with the romanian president , he denied he tried to shut down the russia probe, specifically when it comes to Michael Flynn. I didnt say that. I will tell you, i didnt say that. Reporter the president rejected the notion he asked comey for a pledge of