Pbsou newsh major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. T john. And james l. Knightoundation. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. And friends of the newshour. This program w made possible by the corporation for public broadcastingnd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy the final debate is behind them and now it is a sprint to election day for President Trump and former Vice President joe biden. They began today trying to build on debat momentum and to address lingering questions. Amna President Trump today rallied in florida, a lastminute effort to boost the senior vote. Im always here torotect you and love, cherish, defend our nations seniors. We are going to win the state of florida. We are going to win four more years in the white house. Amna Vice President biden focused on t
The 2016 election. Is this the beginning of another watergate . Senate democrats are calling for a special prosecutor. If Deputy Attorney general rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every american will rightly suspect that the decision to fire director comey was part of a coverup. Amy we will spend the hours between two Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Glenn Greenwald of the intercept about the firing off comey, the future of the fbi, and more. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump fired fbi director james comey tuesday , only weeks after comey confirmed the fbi was investigating whether Trumps Campaign collaborated with russia to sway the 2016 election. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial elect
The 2016 election. Is this the beginning of another watergate . Senate democrats are calling for a special prosecutor. If Deputy Attorney general rosenstein does not appoint an independent special prosecutor, every american will rightly suspect that the decision to fire director comey was part of a coverup. Amy we will spend the hours between two Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Glenn Greenwald of the intercept about the firing off comey, the future of the fbi, and more. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump fired fbi director james comey tuesday , only weeks after comey confirmed the fbi was investigating whether Trumps Campaign collaborated with russia to sway the 2016 election. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial elect
What hes saying about that conversation this morning. Hostage standoff. Two staffers held captive by inmates at a delaware prison. Negotiators trying desperately to secure their police right now. Well have the latest from the scene. And destinys children. Beyonce and jay z post this photo. They are expecting twins. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this thursday morning. Hoda again here while savannah continues on maternity leave. When is the last time you googled beyonce. By the way, my head did one of those, too. I was radio when it haen a lot of people excited about that news. Well talk more about that later on but we have a very busy morning. Starting with breaking news overnight. Comes from berkeley campus. Demonstrators causing havoc shutting down a planned speech by an editor at a conservative breitbart and internet troll. Miguel almaguer has the latest
Care tax cut deal because theyre wedded again, and a lot of folks are worried. Now, of course, donald trump has not wasted a nanosecond going after Freedom Caucus members who he says are blocking them. Weve got one of those members joining us just moments from now. And then the st. Louis fedhead, is he saying right now that theyre more inclined to aggressively hike Interest Rates not just three times, maybe more than that . James bullard is here and only here. In the meantime, to nicole pe petallides and Charlie Gasparino growing friction on the right about this whole agenda that could on tintter hooks. What do you make . Stuart had two really interesting guest there is, talking about how the Health Care Bill is being held up, how theres one part of the Health Care Bill, congressman massie talked about the medicaid reform, tax cuts, baseline of the budget paid for tax cuts predicated on and they cant agree on that. So it looks like, if this is a bill, think it out for the markets, if t