taken responsibility for the attack. saudi arabia has been leading a campaign to defeat the rebels since 2015, and the u.n. special envoy to yemen says the attacks are quote, extremely worrying, due to quote, serious threat to regional security. a source says they hope to have capacity restored within days. president trump spoke with saudi s crown prince, telling him america is ready to help the kingdom secure the situation. weeks after hurricane dorian, devastated parts of the bahamas, the islands are facing another round of dangerous weather. tropical storm humberto is packing 50 miles per hour winds, bringing new worries for those still struggling to recover and rebuild after dorian. dianne gallagher is in nassau for us. what are you seeing there? reporter: it is funny, you can probably see how beautiful it is behind me right now in nassau. we re still under a tropical storm warning here.
guest, a lawyer who is dedicated his life to making america a more juft nation. arch bishop tutu calls him america s nelson mandela. he has saved dozens from the death penalty. michael b. jordan plays him in a movie next year. he is the subject of a hbo documentary called true justice out the end of june. i could go on and on. he is my mentor, friend, hero, please welcome to the van jones show brian stephenson. oh, man. it s just an honor to have you on the show. thank you. you know, let s just talk really briefly about that 1994 crime bill. how bad was it? what was the impact. yeah, well it was bad. there is no question about it that it subds subdiezed problems we have. but as you know crime justice policy is mostly controlled by states not congress. only 10% of the prison are in
graham says he responded to the president s remarks by telling him america is an idea, not a race. here is a senator yesterday imploring the president to get serious and strike a deal. the discourse right now is pretty low. we re producing some good policy. buts those of us in our business need to up their game. it s pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of the room just to report the news. so the only thing i can do is control me. the only way you re going to fix the problem in washington is to get a bipartisan solution and i urge the president to lead us to that bipartisan solution. mr. president, close the deal. it s going to take you, mr. president, working with republicans and democrats to get this done. it s not going to be done on twitter by tweeting. it s going to be done by talking and understanding.
today that should be about remembering the life of their daughter. there is so much to remember from everything we are just starting to learn about heather heyer. we will be taking some of the key moments from this memorial service as it gets under way. thank you so much. we will get back to charlottesville and that service throughout the show. even for a man who based his entire political career on discarding norms and traditions, the collective shock over the president s latest remarks is both extraordinary as it is deep and wide. americans woke up to these headlines today. the washington post opinion page declaring the nation can only weep. the chicago sun times calling him america s bigot in chief. jeff zeleny is outside trump tower in new york with much more on what s the view from inside the president s circle. what is the word from inside the president s circle today? reporter: well, we have received a tweet just moments ago from the president who is actually focused o
refusing to stop bashing mr. trump much. the comedienne unleashing a twitter tirade against the president-elect writing this, donald trump is mentally unstable. less than three weeks to stop him america. o donnell and the president-elect have been publicly feuding for years now. it just continues on. ed: some in the news talking about the challenges ahead for donald trump as the incoming president we have ambassador john bolton. we appreciate you coming on to give your insights. happy new year. happy new year. ed: we ve been talking particularly about russia. let s start there. you have been saying maybe this is a chance, all the fighting back and forth, all the fingerpointing whether sanctions are strong enough or not, this might be a chance to kind of really reset the russian relationship, not maybe the fake reset we saw a few years ago? well i think it depends almost entirely on russia, whether in fact they are serious about some of the things that