virginia s democratic governor ralph northam defies calls to resign. saying a racist yearbook photo is not of him after all. i am not the person in that photo. can he keep his job? former virginia governor terry mcauliffe joins us exclusively. plus deal or no deal? just before his state of the union address, president trump teases he s ready to flex his executive muscle to get his border wall. we will be looking at a national emergency. where does that leave congressional negotiations? have to give and take. i ve told the president that. top senate negotiator senator richard shelby responds, next. and left turn? democratic presidential hopefuls tout progressive policies. we need to have medicare for all. medicare for all. but not all democrats think those plans are realistic. hello.
done whether he s got the support of congress or not. no it doesn t matter about congress now. he s again flexing his executive muscle in doing this. and this is a big part of what he hopes will be his legacy. the problem is for somebody like hillary clinton right now because coal plants are popular for some people in pennsylvania ohio india, west virginia key states that are new battleground states. so i have a feeling that the climate debate is going to take place in the national election. you ll start having republican runsing for president, beating up on the clean power plan of the president. but he cares deeply about this issue. i ve talked to the president before about climate, and every time he he keeps moving the ante up and also the media doesn t cover it but this president s been signing a lot of executive orders creating new national parks, saving parts of the environment. douglas brinkley van jones,
president bartlett talking about. that s a mix of rs and ds next to those names. the smarter sentencing act goes beyond the president s clemency powers to make what the l.a. times has called the most far-reaching changes in years to federal sentencing and parole kbi guidelines. a similar bill is currently in committee in the house, except the warm and fuzzy kumbaya moment with the president ended this week when it came to the politics, because no sooner had the president announced his effort to fix the sentencing system than some members of congress found reason to criticize it. on thursday the washington post reported on some legislators grumping about the president flexing his executive muscle to push sentencing reform. and the day before that, there was a republican house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlate la meanting what he called the president s, quote, blatant disregard for our nation s laws.
this morning on world news now, winter woes. ice on the west coast, heat in the south, and snow about to slam the northeast. it s the latest round of unpredictable weather in this ever changing season. it s wednesday, january 16th. from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m john muller. robb nelson is off today. and i m sunny hostin in for paula faris. we ll have a look at the forecast in a minute. first, some of the other stories we re following for you this half hour. president obama is set to exercise his executive muscle. he ll announce new gun control measures today that don t need the okay from lawmakers. it comes on the heels of sweeping new legislation cracking down on guns in new york state. also this half hour, a little girl lost and found less than 24 hours after being abducted from a school. a 5-year-old is found hiding,
this morning on world news now, winter woes. ice on the west coast, heat in the south, and snow about to slam the northeast. it s the latest round of unpredictable weather in this ever changing season. it s wednesday, january 16th. from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m john muller. rob nelson is off today. and i m sunny hostin in for paula faris. we ll have a look at the forecast in a minute. first, some of the other stories we re following for you this half hour. president obama is set to exercise his executive muscle. he ll announce new gun control measures today that don t need the okay from lawmakers. it comes on the heels of sweeping new legislation cracking down on guns in new york state. also this half hour, a little girl lost and found less than 24 hours after being abducted from a school. a 5-year-old is found hiding,