Emails and 95 billion phone calls every month its one thing to say this is an outof control agency, its another thing to see the quantity of what theyre collecting. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering 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. Charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. 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 gusty winds in Southern California died down today, and that gave firefighters a window of opportunity to bring nine wildfires under better control. The fires started tuesday and burned through more than 9;000 acres in san diego county. The fastmovin
Woodruff good evening. Im judy woodruff. Ifill and im gwen ifill. Those are just some of the stories were covering 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. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill our lead story tonight a fuller picture is emerging of the man who opened fire, killing a dozen civilians at the navy yard in washington. Aaron alexis had a history of trouble during his military service, and may have had mental problems in recent months, but it remained unclear what drove him to start shooting. Well have more on his state of mind, and the state of the invest
What sells new . All of those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone. Im larry kudlow. Were live here at 7 00 p. M. Eastern and 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Were going from ukraine to yellen and an actionpacked week. Seema mody is joining me. Good evening. Good evening. Today the s p 500 hit a record high earlier this morning but gains soon evaporated as money was taken off the table. Dow jones industrial off 28 points. The s p 500 and dow were able to eek out a gain for the week. Gold losing ground. Financials one of the best performing sectors this week. The latest Bank Stress Tests were seen as encouraging while Health Care Stocks underperformed. Particularly those biotech names all down today. Traders say this could be the start of a larger sellout after what was a monstrous run for the biotech index now, tiffany reporting sales that came in below estimates and nike topped earnings estimates. Larry, thats why the stock ended down on
[applause]. We wish you all the very best because what an extraordinary family you have. And the pleasures of family were hard earned by this young man. So, all right. Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless america. [applause] forty years ago the watergate scandal led to the only resignation of an american president. American history tv revisits 1974 and the final weeks of the nixon administration. This weekend the House Judiciary Committee as it considers impeachment of the president and the charge of the abuse of power. What you have questions about for what the framers had in mind, questions about whether the activities that had been found out by the committee and by the senate, watergate committee, were, indeed, impeachable and, thirdly, can we p prove that Richard Nixon knew about them and even authorized them . Watergate, 40 years later. Sunday night at eight eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Next, political consultants, pollsters and journalists talk ab
Several developments today in the crisis in iran. The u. S. Military is flying armed drones over baghdad to protect u. S. Troops and diplomats. Human rights say it has evidence fighters of Islamic State in iraq and the levant killed up to 190 men after taking tikrit this month. Mike viqueira is live for us at the white house with more on these developments. Mike, does the president s drones in the iraqi theater, lets call it that, represent a major escalation for the United States . We do know that the United States was flying drones as well as f18 off the aircraft car carrier george h bush. What theyre doing is getting a better idea of those Islamic State in iraq and the levant and trying to identify targets. Today we do learn that some of those drones are armed. The pent makes no apologize for that, and they say that theyre there as private contractors and some of those 300 or so advisers, about half who are in country can be protected if it comes to that. They described the mission