The coronavirus. Stimulus talks. Nights dueling banjos of town halls. One for donald trump, the other for joe biden. To get us started to talk about all of this is the Washington White House reporter ashley parker. Thank you for being here. These dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve this aim scheduling the town hall at the if theas biden . Aim in some ways was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden, i think yes. Anecdotally, more people seemed to be watching the trump town hall in real time than the joe biden town hall. Hindsight how that the, will the trump is Trump Campaign happy so many potentially watched the trump town hall. The day, i sent out a tweet saying, the town hall format is not exactly the best format for the president because he is interacting with demeanor with not, it is not warm and fuzzy, shall we say . I am bringing this up because i president ng from trumps perspective, which is better . A town hall or a Campaign Rally . From trumps pers
The workplace. Reporter the process was quick and swift. And nbc says that the information was brought monday evening and barely one day later and the network has already taken action. Good morning breaking news overnight. Matt lauer has been terminated from nbc news. Matt lauers today show c Samantha Guthrie has released the information on air. Our colleague came forward reporting violation. And according to an nbc spokesperson his accuser is saying inappropriatel behavior since 2014. How do you recollect lauers abrupt departure leaves people sho a friend of 30 years and we are all trying to process is. President trump was quick to tweet about his conduct. And he is facing problems of his own. He calls the women liars. And lauers firing comes one week after charlie rose was fired from cbs after several women came to the Washington Post with allegations of being sexually harassed by the anchor. The mood aro like there has been a death in the family. The announcement came out of nowhere
Than asking that the company do the right thing. They thought there would be a flood of stories after this and they took strong action. President trump was quick to tweet but he has accusations of his own. The president has denied the accusations calling the women liars. Lauers firing coming one an charlie rose was fired from cbs after women came to the Washington Post after saying they were harassed by the anchor. And they say nbc was aware. Channel 6 action news. And matt lauer is not the latest person to lose their job overallgations over inappropriate behavior. Radio host garrison keeler was fired this afternoon and Minnesota Public Radio says they are terminating their contract with him. And mpr says that the claim against the 75yearold came to light last month but did not elaborate further. And keeler retired last year. Best known for creatin the popular sho home man and a fema that goes to the school. Sara bloomquist joins us live and the shooter is in custody and you have the l
Critical police report. The das office questioned the conduct of a former trial prosecutor who left in june after a personal dispute with the da himself, kent thompson. The prosecutor denied any wrongdoing in an exclusive interview with me. I turned over every single document i had. Be clear, sarah. I handled this case the same way ive handled every case in 29 years. The mistakes are major. It is showing that someone else actually did this c than me. Reporter and martin has always maintained his innocence. He will be back here in court on september 7th. It is possible that the District Attorneys Office could decide to retry him, but highly unlikely under the circumstances. Live from downtown brooklyn, sarah wallace. News 4 new york. Thank you, sarah. President obama is cutting more than 200 sentences short for federal inmates. It is the largest batch of 214 prisoners, including 8 from our area, will serve less time. Some of those prisoners had been sentenced to life. The white house sa
Emergency work on metro this morning. A train broke down in between the stadium armor and minnesota avenue stations hours ago. Molette green is live outside the minnesota avenue station where the train is still stopped on the tracks. Molette . Reporter barbara, im actually in the 3300 block of bening road where that disabled train behind me is still disabled. Metro crews are now down below us working on those tracks since this mornings fire. Just after 4 00 a. M. , emergency crews spread across the 3300 block of bening road. Fire trucks, police cars, blocked traffic. Metro says this train on the tracks became disabled and a small fire broke out. This latest fire incident impacted the ride for passengers with single tracking on parts of the blue and orange lines. Making people more crankier in the morning. Reporter and metro passengers i spoke with this singletracking delays make it tougher for them to explain being late to work to their bosses. Yeah, it makes it hard for us to get to w