The trust and a strengthening of the accountability that exists between our communities and our law enforcement. When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, thats a problem. And its my job as president to help solve it. Welcome to the journal editorial report. That was president obama wednesday promising changes to policing in america in the wake of the Staten Island grand jury decision not to indict a Police Officer in the july death of a black man restrained in a chokehold. That decision, of course, followed last weeks unrest in ferguson, missouri, after a grand jury there declined to charge Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of another black suspect, Michael Brown. The president announced monday the creation of a task force to come up with steps for, quote, Building Public trust in Police Forces nationwide. It called on congress to fund a 263 Million Community policing initiative including 75 million to equip Police Officers with body cam
White house tapes was to influence jim comey to tell the truth in testimony. But did the president s deception backfire . And dennis diplomacy. Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman says the president should follow his example and go meet with kim jongun. Rodney did not see the dictator on this trip but in the past they rode horses and sang ca karioke. Breaking news, the white house says the president has no intention of firing special Counsel Robert Mueller even though the president is once again criticizing mueller, calling his friendship with the fired fbi director james comey bothersome. Saying his staffers are Hillary Clinton supporters and suggesting his future is up in the air. The day after finally admitting he has no tapes of his talks with fired fbi director james comey, President Trump now says his whole sixweek deception was an effort to influence comey to tell the truth. The white house denies that the president sought to intimidate comey. There are stunning new details about russia
He believes the special counsel has, quote, something on the president. Whats the fallout from nunbergs rather bizarre live tv interviews . And what is he saying right now . And north korea signals a willingness to talk to the United States about giving up its nuclear weapons. In the words of President Trump, and im quoting now, the world is watching. Lets begin over at the white house where President Trump says chaos, what chaos . But he also says there will probably be more staff shakeups and changes. Lets go to our White House Reporter Kaitlan Collins. Shes joining us from the white house. Kaitlan, fill us in on the president s pushback. Theres more pushback. The narratives are that theres chaos at the white house. He says thats wrong, people will always come and go, and he wants strong dialogue before making a final decision. He says i still have people i want to change, always seeking perfection. There is no chaos, only great energy. Wolf, as you know, that is a sentiment from peo
The former u. S. Am basketball to ambassador to russia as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 445 of this at minute station. We are up to our necks in russians and russian influence in this country right now. It was another one of those days and tonight, it just got more serious with a bold story in the past hour from the New York Times which if true, makes suspect everything the president has said about the russians since being president. The times reporting it this way, quote, two weeks before his inauguration, donald j. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating vladimir p. Putin of russia ordered complex to sway the election and a top secret source close to mr. Putin who decided how the kremlin decided to execute the hacking and disinformation. Mr. Trump sounded convince aid cording to several people who attended but ever since, mr. Trump tried to cloud the clear findings. Today the presi
the united states government and the canadian government for years and years and years now. but tonight all of a sudden after all of these years of fighting over it, tonight it seems like it s all over. keystone is dead. we have just learned late tonight that the company trying to build that oil pipeline has essentially thrown in the towel. the company, who s going to build keystone xl, is called transcanada and transcanada has just asked the u.s. government to suspend their permit application to build keystone. the u.s. government all these years has not made a decision on whether or not to approve that application or not, but transcanada tonight has pulled the plug on it themselves. this was an unexpected result in what has been just a years-long process to try to get this pipeline built, something that has led to very acute domestic political pressure in this country. the reason this project needed the approval of the u.s. government in the first place is because this pipe