It is sam is tuesday the greatest newsday. It is 8am in singapore and iam in london. Marawi has been under siege for nearly a week by islamist militants. On monday, the government has said it made decisive progress to retake the city but at least 100 civilians have been killed and 2000 people may still be trapped in militant held areas. Our correspondent has more. We do not know how long it will take. They have been hard to evict from the city. I do not think anyone can put a timeline on it. They can 110w can put a timeline on it. They can now control people going in and out of the city. Once this is over, people will want to know how many of the group that got involved in the attack, this hardline militant group, how many of them managed to escape and once that is done, there are bigger question is that the philippines government have tienza and one is how this terrible battle which has caused so much damage was allowed to take place. It was supposed to be a routine operation to detai
The bill over the finish line. David k. Johnson its an worse than you think what the Trump Administration is doing to america. Jennifer, ill start with you. Has the Jones Victory altered the calculations happening right now in regard to the tax about il . Absolutely. They have no margin for error if this drags into january, theyll go to 51 49. Secondly, i think there is a realization that what are they doing sticking with this president . He is not going to help them. If he cant help someone in alabama, hes not going to help them in other more competitive states. I think also a lot of these polls that are out recently, theres a whole batch of them this week showing just how unpopular this bill is. People have figured out its a gift to the rich, its a gift to corporations. Who would have thunk. So i think at this point there are more reasons to vote against it than there are for it. And i would keep a very choice eye on Susan Collins, who is under tremendous pressure. Remember, she was
Kristin fisher zero Foreign Policy news. Fox news media analyzed howard kurtz chronicling a new addition to the New York Times and her vulgar, racist weeds from the past. We begin with Jonathan Hunt on the growing tensions between the Mainstream Media and the Trump Administration. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, shannon. Fake news fight seems to be splitting the president s family tonight. They are disagreeing on the issue. There might be awkward moments of the drum thanksgiving table. If anyone brings up the First Amendment, ivanka trump distinctly uncomfortable when asked at the end of a public forum today she considers reporters in the room to be, as her father has described many in the media, the enemy of the people. She simply said no before being asked to elaborate. I have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they are if you are targeted. But now, i do not feel that the media is the enemy of the peopl
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unrest in sudan as well. cnn s nima elbagir joins us now before we get to the wagner group. how likely is it is a possible new ceasefire in sudan. do you think well, given that most of the proposed cease fires so far have have failed to the soundtrack of aerial bombardment. people are very unwilling to trust. there were brief moments where many of those we were speaking to on the ground say that they risked the bullets outside and being caught in the mortar strikes to try and get to whatever local stores were open. and resupply, but even that is becoming too dangerous. and while that s playing out, there is a growing body of evidence, jake that we have uncovered that those who are seeking to opportunistically further entrench themselves in the region. russia s paramilitary proxy group vagner have begun to try and influence one of the parties, they we