Earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. Into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. His protests against the romans make him a popular hero. To some, he is the messiah. But to the romans, hes political trouble, so they crucify him. The followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus . Today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. But perhaps its a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. This region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. So throughout history, this has been a critical place. Jerusalem had been the holy city of judaism for more than 1,000 years, a place that the romans had occupied since 63 b. C. At the time the romans
Deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. Into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. His protests against the romans make him a popular hero. To some, he is the messiah. But to the romans, hes political trouble, so they crucify him. The followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive after jesus . Today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. But perhaps its a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. This region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. So throughout history, this has been a critical place. Jerusalem had been the holy city of judaism for more than 1,000 years, a place that the romans had occupied since 63 b. C. At the time the romans killed jesus, around 30 a. D. ,
Could prove that Amelia Erhardt survived that attempt to fly around the world. Is it Proof Positive . Well get to that in a moment. First, we start with President Trumps big Mission Abroad which moments ago we learned will include secretary of state rex tillerson. The two big storylines, north korea and the president s friday facetoface with Vladimir Putin. This morning, President Trump had a Quick Exchange with reporters as he was about to depart for his first stop. What about north korea . Doing very well. Reports and analysis now. We start with our nbc reporter, peter alexander, traveling with the president. He is in warsaw, President Trumps first stop. And peter, let me start with you on the ground there. Lets start with the president s response on north korea. What did he say . Reporter well, you heard him there, or you could barely hear him there, saying were going to do very well in terms of the u. S. Effort to deal with north korea here. In the last 24 hours, hes certainly been
Why a bus filled with africanamerican voters was turned back from a polling place in georgia. It was an intimidation factor, right, but it aint going to stop us. Why the white house just fired the person investigating a trump cabinet secretary. Its music to my ears. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight we have multiple breaking stories on the russia investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein who appointed mueller has given a very rare interview to the wall street journal defending the russia probe as appropriate and independent in the face of the nonstop attacks from the president. Rosenstein giving the interview in his office at the doj, and telling the journal at the end of the day the public will have confidence the cases were brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources. Meanwhile special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be quite busy. Cnn is reporting ton
Fired the person investigating a trump cabinet secretary. Its music to my ears. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight we have multiple breaking stories on the russia investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein who appointed mueller has given a very rare interview to the wall street journal defending the russia probe as appropriate and independent in the face of the nonstop attacks from the president. Rosenstein giving the interview in his office at the doj, and telling the journal at the end of the day the public will have confidence the cases were brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources. Meanwhile special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be quite busy. Cnn is reporting tonight that Paul Manafort, a convicted felon who ran the Trump Campaign, visited muellers office in washington at least nine times in the last four weeks. Abc news cites multiple sources in