Trump have staying power, can Hillary Clinton survive her email troubles and a former president s candid talk of cancer. Well get the analysis of mark shields and michael gerson. 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions 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 a Global Financial market selloff overwhelmed wall street today. Investors raced for the exits as chinese stocks crashed again, and oil traded below 40 a barrel at one point. When the closing bell finally sounded, the Dow Jones Industrials
Hillary clinton survive her email troubles and a former president s candid talk of cancer. Well get the analysis of mark shields and michael gerson. 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. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions 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 a Global Financial market selloff overwhelmed wall street today. Investors raced for the exits as chinese stocks crashed again, and oil traded below 40 a barrel at one point. When the closing bell finally sounded, the Dow Jones Industrials had plummeted 530 points to c
Had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Six weeks later, the u. S. Attack. The wmds were never found. Today well speak with media analyst Norman Solomon and colorado Lawrence Wilkerson, with liberty and justice for some how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful. s former chief of staff. I have admitted to this a number of times publicly and privately, was the person who put together Colin Powells presentation on february, five, 2003. Probably the biggest mistake of my life. U. S. Lawmakers are threatening to cut funding to Brooklyn College, this will host a forum to mourn at about the palestinian led campaign to boycott and divest from israel. Extreme radicals, as i said, basically what the state of israel to disappear from the face of the earth. I have a problem with that. They are sponsoring this event. Theyre supporting ms. Event. That is the issue. That is absolutely outrageous. We will be joined by one of the speakers at the Brooklyn College event, o
Headquarters. President trump met with the drug company executives. Late last night the president firing acting attorney general sally yates, her dismissal coming just hours after see defiantly ordered the Justice Department not to defend the president s controversial executive order on immigration. The white house accusing her of betrayal and insubordination. Now, the president naming a new acting nomination, dana boente, until his nominee, jeff signatures sessions, can be confirmed. It was 1973 when president Richard Nixon fired his attorney general and Deputy Attorney general for refusing to dismiss the federal prosecutor in the watergate case. We had a monday night massacre, sally yates, a person of great integrity, who follows the law, was fired by the president. She was fired because she would not enact, pursue the executive order on the belief it was illegal, perhaps unconstitutional. And former president obama also speaking out against trumps travel ban saying it fundamentally
Our top story, the government of the state of virginia is spiraling into chaos. Three top officials are mired in scandal and the Democratic Party wants action to stop the train wreck. The most serious allegations are against this man, lt. Gov. Justin fairfax. Two women now accuse him of Sexual Assault. He denies any wrongdoing. Moneytime, Governor Ralph Northam on the right there vows to keep his job after racist pictures of him showed up in a 1984 yearbook. And attorney general mark herring admits to a blackface and is fighting for the rival of his life. And the second woman accusing Justin Fairfax of rape. Reporter it seems in many ways, this situation in richmond, virginia is getting complicated by the day. Already the attorney general and governor under a cloud of scandal after accusations of racist photos and appear income blackface in their past. Now the tomorrow under fire because of a Sexual Assault allegation is facing allegations from a second accuser. That woman says that Ju