Four years after the deepwater horizon drilling platform killed 11 workers, causing more than 200 million gallons of oil to spew into the gulf of mexico, the Environmental Protection agency has lifted a ban that excluded bp from new federal contracts. In a broadcast exclusive, will speak with Elizabeth Birnbaum who was director of the Minerals Management service in the interior department the time of the deepwater horizon blowout. She left soon after. She now says the risk of another blowout is real. Then, rubin hurricane carter has died. He became an International Symbol of Racial Injustice after spending 19 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction. This is unreal. This is what i sat in a cell hoping to happen. This is a dream come true. Ive never had a dream in life that has not been realized. Never yet. Earth limited on this simply by our own imagination. Theres nothing we cant do. Hurricane carters ordeal with publicized was in the film starring denzel washington. We will s
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Before leaving for vacation on Marthas Vineyard today, president obama warned that he could not put a timetable on the latest American Military intervention in Northern Iraq. Islamic extremists there have closed to within about 25 miles of the kurdish capital of erbil, where Many Americans are said to be. The militants advance has also prompted tens of thousands of others to flee the city and take refuge on a mountain, where they are now trapped. And american aircraft are positioned to strike isil terrorists around the mountain, to help forces in iraq brea
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Before leaving for vacation on Marthas Vineyard today, president obama warned that he could not put a timetable on the latest American Military intervention in Northern Iraq. Islamic extremists there have closed to within about 25 miles of the kurdish capital of erbil, where Many Americans are said to be. The militants advance has also prompted tens of thousands of others to flee the city and take refuge on a mountain, where they are now trapped. And american aircraft are positioned to strike isil terrorists around the mountain, to help forces in iraq brea
But just became clear pretty fast that there was no republican appetite in 2016 for what he had to offer. And then, interesting decision, Chris Christie saw the writing on the wall earlier than the rest of the republican president ial contenders did. And as he dropped out of the race, again, early on, he endorsed donald trump and that was at a time when no prominent republicans were fixing their cart to that particular horse. I mean, at the time, Chris Christie plighted his troth with donald trump, he was alone. I mean, the closest trump had to some other high profile endorsement at that time was failed 2008 president ial candidate Rudy Giuliani admitting publicly that, yes, okay, hed admit it, he sometimes spoke to trump by phone. I mean, even Rudy Giuliani was not willing to endorse that guy at that point in 2016, but christie came right out and did. And it was an unusual decision. And everybody assumed that maybe some of the political logic there was that christie was gunning for th
Contender for the republican nomination in 2012, but he decided not to run in 2012. He did make a go for the republican president ial nomination in 2016, but nothing really seemed to come together for him that year. He sputtered out earlier than people thought he would. He got only 2 of the vote in iowa in 2016. He came in sixth place in new hampshire, which is where hed. Really been giving it his all. But just became clear pretty fast that there was no republican appetite in 2016 for what he had to offer. And then, interesting decision, Chris Christie saw the writing on the wall earlier than the rest of the republican president ial contenders did. And as he dropped out of the race, again, early on, he endorsed donald trump and that was at a time when no prominent republicans were fixing their cart to that particular horse. I mean, at the time, Chris Christie plighted his trough with donald trump, he was alone. I mean, the closest trump had to some other high profile endorsement at tha