Years, and in exchange the sanctions that have crippled irans economy will be lifted. The president said rejecting the deal could lead to an arms race and Major Garrett begins our coverage. I can say with confidence but more importantly nuke her experts can say with confidence, that iran will not be in a position to develop a nuclear bomb. We will have met our numberone priority. Reporter the president tried to instill that confidence in Congressional Democrats whose backing he will need to protect the iran deal from republican attempts to block it. The president even asked the press for more questions. Topics that may not have been touched upon criticisms that youve heard that i did not answer. Go ahead. Reporter the president responded to the main criticisms of the deal, including that iran will be able to hide its nuclear activities. Under the agreement, iran could deny United Nations inspectors access to suspected Nuclear Sites for up to 24 day, a period critics say is too long. Th
Under his cell. Also coming up this hour, french air pollution is not only bad for your health, it costs a fortune estimated 100 billion euros each year. A racist Atticus Finch . Fans get a portrayal in the second book from harper lee. More on our top stories. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing a result in his own leftwing syriza party. The Greek Parliament will vote later today on the bailout deal reached over the weekend with leaders of the eurozone. Tsipras was forced to accept harsh terms after greece defaulted on debt and closed banks. The bailout what provide 86 billion euros of financing for greece over three years. The conditions are so strict many of the Prime Ministers own mps say they will vote against it. For more from athens, the political fallout has already begun. We have heard one official who has released. The deputy finance ministers Resignation Letter has just become public. She could no longer accept the bailout, which she calls a tombstone for the greek
The u. S. Has 5 of the worlds population but 25 of its prisoners. Speaking before the naacp, president obama calls for overhauling the nations criminal Justice System saying too many people have been locked up for nonviolent offenses. This is a cause ringing people in both houses of congress together, created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and Newt Gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu, the naacp and the Koch Brothers. Amy today we will be joined by two of those unlikely bed bedfellows criminal activist van jones and mark holden, general counsel of Koch Industries. Plus, we will speak to a Prison Reform activist who spent 19 years locked up. Then to a story about corporate espionage and activism. An employee of the animal theme park seaworld has been exposed for infiltrating peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congressio
Heavy crowding on the systems busiest line. Chopper four is en route to the red line to give images of this for now, we can tell you, if metro says if you need to reach the begin brook or white flynn stations you have to use an outbound train from d. C. Toward Montgomery County. The inbound trains will be passing the stations to reduce delays. This appears to be connected to a track problem outside grover in metro has been working on since this morning. Two men are facing charges for shooting a man inside a metro garage. Douglas chase and Brent Sanderson are accused of killing a man by the name of eric melgar inside the Wheaton Metro station garage. It happened yesterday evening before the sun set. No word yet on a possible motive in that shooting. Another development in the birthday cake beating. The mother and uncle are held without bail. The uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the moms boyfriend could beat him unconscious. Jack garcia was only 9 years old and died from that be
New york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. An hourlong press conference with president obama today over an issue no less weighty than iran and the nuclear bomb was suddenly overshadowed by a single question about another serious topic and an answer no one expected the president would publicly utter. The question wasrape accusation thats surround bill cosby. It was not the issue top of mind as the president went before reporters to pitch the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran, but its what a lot of people are talking about tonight. We of course are covering it all. But we want to start with Nbc News National Correspondent Peter Alexander and that question. Ill say this. Reporter it was a stunningly powerful statement, especially for a president whos made it his policy not to comment about ongoing legal matters. If you give a woman man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape. Reporter the presi