Gets more lifethreatening and expensive. A lot of good things are going to happen. We are the last industrialized nation in the world to have National Healthcare policy. What i have preferred a public option . Yes. But the system we have got is the best that we have ever devised. Started it iny massachusetts. It will help america, it and for many americans, we have got great health for people who can afford it. For or people, they do not have access to doctors living in the innercity. That needs to change. On twitter from jack who writes do you think the Founding Fathers back in 1776 envisioned a secret fisa as key to a thriving democracy . Dont know what they were thinking, and certainly they did not think about the fisa court. 1776really did not see in the first 10 amendments, the bill of rights did not come until later. The Founding Fathers were great. But they were not infallible. They were certainly wrong about women, who did not have the right to vote, and they were certainly wro
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. At the end of another week, day 1,093 of the Trump Administration, which means we are now 293 days away from the 2020 president ial election. Tonight we are just over 72 hours away from the opening arguments in the Senate Impeachment trial, and another new trove of evidence has been released by House Democrats courtesy of lev parnas, the indicted Rudy Giuliani associate who spoke to Rachel Maddow for a twopart interview here this week. Before we bring in our first guests to talk about this day, once again tonight we have asked our own National Political reporter, Josh Lederman, to dive into this new lev parnas evidence and tell us what the headlines are from tonight. And, josh, i heard you a little bit earlier on this network. It seems like its yet another mountain of material to go through. A lot of new documents that weve been digging through in the last couple hours since this unexpectedly was posted onto
Time magazines charlotte alter says yes, who is waiting in the wings . She will tell us. And is your cell phone ringing up too high a bill. Are plane ticket prices sky high . If youre american your answer is yes, and youre paying more than europeans. The french economist Thomas Phillippon explains why. But first heres my take. President trumps most consistent case for his own reelection is simple, its the economy, stupid. He points to an American Economy that is in reasonably good shape. Nowhere near the best ever that he claims. Growth has averaged about 2. 5 , a bit higher than under president s obama and bush and a good bit lower than under president s clinton and reagan. Trump promised 4 growth, which never materialized, but that hasnt stopped the great salesman from repeating the refrain promises made, promises kept. Actually, the one area where trump has most clearly failed to keep his promise is central to his ideology and appeal, the trade deficit. Trump campaigned on the notio
Same. We are also seeing a rare cooperation between Kurdish Peshmerga and iraqi forces, two historic adversaries. They are now united against isis, a common enemy. Coordinating attacks and sharing bases. France and the cia are helping arm the kurds but they are still outgunned against isis, which is armed with our heavy weaponry captured from the iraqi army. We start again today inside the kurdish capital of erbil, iraq, with nbcs duncan golestani. Duncan, what is the latest . Reporter hey, abby. Theres 130 u. S. Military advisers. They arrived in erbil. They will be helping with the coordination of the humanitarian efforts of the yezidi people and from that briefing you just showed, we understand they will be looking at options for how to get them down from the mountains around sinjar. There are still around 20,000 to 30,000 yezidis on the mountain. They are up there with no food, no water, in scorching temperatures, exposed to the elements. So what are the options for getting them do