Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been 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 at Lincoln Center in new york, william brangham. Brangham good evening and thanks for joining us. Voters in New Hampshire are getting their last looks at the candidates on the ballot in the firstinthenation president ial primary. Candidates still running have spent a total 444 days on the ground in New Hampshire, according to manchester t. V. Station wmur, while the candidates and superpacs supporting them have spent a combined 84 million in the state alone, according to the new york times. Thats a lot of time and money to win over the roughly 500,000 primary voters whore likely to vote. And last night, seven republican candidates shared the deb
Additional support has been 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 at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. A key region in afghanistan could be on the verge of falling to the taliban. The Deputy Governor of helmand province, an area that u. S. Troops once fought to secure, says urgent action is needed to prevent its collapse. The official posted an unusual public plea to afghan president ashraf ghani on facebook saying, quote helmand is standing on the brink, and there is a serious need for you to come. The helmand official said he had lost 90 soldiers in the past two days and hundreds more during six months of taliban attacks. A spokesman for president ghani said the president is aware of the Facebook Post and met with his National Security council about the situation. An afghan Army Spokesman said helm
Fact that yesterday during a jam packed day at the white house, during which the president was making good on several Campaign Promises as you mentioned, he still took the time to complain to members of congress about losing the popular vote. President trump again falsely claiming he lost the popular vote because of voter fraud. Sources tell cnn during a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders at the white house, the president reiterated the unsubstantiated claim that 3 to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote. Its a claim mr. Trump has made before on twitter. Its been repeatedly debunked. The president also using the meeting to dwell on the size of his inauguration crowds. It was from his perspective a very, very large crowd, and we didnt push it beyond that, but it was clear that this was still in his mind. In his First Official briefing as White House Press secretary, sean spicer defending the president. Its about sitting here every time and being told no. The cr
Climate accord. Today, a dramatic response from around the globe. We all share the same responsibility. Make our planet great again. Good friday, everyone. Craig melvin here in new york. We start with that breaking news. Russian president putin speaking out in the last hour. His most candid comments yet over the meddling in the u. S. Election, sanctions, Hillary Clinton and President Trump. Pressed at a forum in st. Petersburg by nbcs megyn kelly. Keir simmons is in st. Petersburg and Kristen Welker is at the white house. Keir, what did president putin have to say when megyn pressed him about the meddling in the 2016 election, specifically . Look, he said that even a child could have carried out the kind of hacking of the dnc that caused such controversy. He accused the United States of interfering in russian do metme affairs, while also saying russia never interferes in the u. S. Election. At times, craig, you know, he appeared to seem to attempt to belittle nbcs megyn kelly, try to p