Laura white house correspondent, thank you, thank you very much. Youre welcome. For context, there were 130 dead, again, tonight, the official death toll that weve gotten is 77 as laura said, a number of people are critically injured beyond that, including, many many kids who are in the hospital tonight. A terrible and ongoing story tonight in france. Obviously theres a lot going on in American News that we thought we were going to be talking about this evening, news does prevail regardless what you think youre going to be covering at the beginning of the day. The continuing coverage continues now into the night starting with my colleague lawrence odonnel. In the News Conference moments ago french president confirmed 80 well he said 77, but the count is now up to 80 people, including several children are dead after tonights attack. They say at least 50 people were injured, 20 of those injuries are set to be serious. The attacker drove this truck for more than a mile through crowds of p
Were onle rolling coverage here on the Terrorists Attack. What appears to be a Terrorists Attack and were following the breaking news where its now just after midnight. An early reports are panting aa horrific scene. According to officials ten are dead and 20 wounded taz a result of a Terrorists Attack at the turish airport. We have two possibly three explosions happening outside of the International Arrivals. Now a witness say that is she saw a first explosion and then saw a Police Officer dive on a suicide bomber and then that exploded and then a third explosion outside. Now, an attack er opened fire with a rifle and no claims of responsibility yet. Multiple sources saying that it fits an isis profile. The long summer of discontent has just begun. President obama has been briefed on this and the flights in turkey are on a stop. Lucy, we have plenty of being a target of isis. Well, theres also a far left militant group thats attempted to carry out the attacks and theres no shortage of
Downstairs twice today after his meetings. That second time, thats when he talked about the fact that this company, this very wealthy japanese businessman is going to invest in the u. S. Let me read you the tweets and then lets play the sound from the president elect. He first tweeted out, Masa Softbank of japan has agreed to invest 50 billion in u. S. Toward businesses and 50,000 jobs. In a second tweet he said, masa said he would never do this had we, trump, not won the election. Take a listen to what he had to say to reporters. One of the truly great men. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Reporter and apparently we dont have that sound. Bottom line, he reiterated what i just read in those tweets. This is basically donald trump trying to put the art of the deal into practice and to show that he is going to be a president elect who governs like a Business Leader as well. Of course, we saw that last week when he struck that deal with carrier corporation, convinced that company to keep 1
Country. Winter is coming as they say we got a live report from americas snowiest city coming up. Lets start with the president elect trump. Katy tur is going to join me here onset to give us all the latest, katy tur, why are these questions being raised right now on monday afternoon . We have just heard a while ago that donald trump may have brought up his business dealings and a building he was building in argentina with the first phone call, he had the congratutory phone call. The president denying that issue was not part of the conversation. The president elect trump, the subject both leaders talked about was the institutional relationship and they mentioned the personal relationship they have had for years. So this is coming to light, this conflict of interest questions are something that is dogging donald trump. Partly because they have not proven at least so far to show they are spraitieparating the fs business and Donald Trumps dedication to governing this country. At least not
The president s announcer at inaugural parades dating back to harry truman. Hes one of my favorite people, this guy. Youre going to love him. This year the thing is the Trump Inaugural Committee went in a different direction, surprising charlie and all of his fans. More on that coming up. Lets get to business with the the business to attend on capitol hill at this hour. A pair of important hearings for trumps cabinet picks. Were talking about Steve Mnuchin for treasury secretary, rick perry up for top position in the department of energy. A department he once said he would eliminate. Heres how he explained that today. If confirmed, my desire is to lead this agency in a thoughtful manner, surrounding myself with the expertise on the Core Functions of the department. My past statements made over five years ago about abolishing the department of energy do not reflect my current thinking. In fact, after being briefed on so many of the vital functions at the department of energy, i regret r