Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill there was a flurry of activity around the world today on what happens next in syria. At the united nations, britain submitted a resolution to the Security Council condemning syria for an alleged chemical attack, and authorizing the use of force in response. The u. N. Envoy to syria, lakhdar brahimi, warned any military action must have the world bodys approval. But russia and china appeared likely to use their vetoes, as they have on previous syria resolutions. In turn, u. S. Officials made clear that
This. The interrogation methods used in the Bush Administration in the wake of the september 11th attacks questions the value of the information obtained but many said the u. S. Gained intelligence through torture. The cia often mislead the American Public in detailing their operations. Dick cheney characterized it as just a crock. Redacting it by 15 and pressuring Intel Committee chair Diane Feinstein for months. Secretary of state john kerry phoned feinstein friday seeking a delay of the reports release, which only deepened democrats resolve. Even the president s most loyal lieutenants have their questions. There was no question that he was going to make a clean break with past policies. When it comes to reporting on what occurred, though, its been different. Its hard for me to explain this administrations position. Our twitter question this morning, how do you feel about the reports release . Do you think there is value added in making this information public. Twa tweet us your answ
The president is watching cartoons in the morning instead of something else. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day. Chris is off. John berman joins me. No bleeping. Value tkpwr racially charged comments made by the president are sending shock waves around the world. A source tells cnn in a meeting with a handful of senators, President Trump slammed senators from blank hole countries, referring to people from africa, haiti, el salvador. And suggesting we should bring in more people from countries like norway. The white house has not denied that he made the countries. They are proud. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast and nothing from paul ryan or mitch mcconnell. Or will they smile and say the president just says salty things. Its a heck of a time to be silent about racist things. This is how the president s hometown paper is handling the comments this morning. This is the new york daily news. Let that sink in for just a moment r
A towering figure in the Auto Industry is noncash the former head of the wu has died at 82. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us brazilian president hire a balsa naro has rejected an offer of aid from g 7 countries to fight the wildfires in the amazon the group said it would give brazil 20 1000000. 00 to help contain those blazes but also narrow question their motivation earlier he accused the g 7 host president of manual mccrone of treating brazil like a colony more than 80000. 00 fires are burning right now in the amazon in brazil many out of control. The air is thick with smoke and its hard to bring them in a tree and now on the ground in the states are brown tony and which has been hardest hit by the blazes as soon as one fires under control the next one breaks out huge areas now resemble the landscape. Will fall if there are as one or 2 big fires we could deal with them better than all the small ones. Money shot since there have been widespread protests since the fires su
Biden. Earlier today, the president suggested he did mention former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter biden to the leader of ukraine in a phone call in july. The president insisted he did nothing wrong there and defended the behavior of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, as well. The conversation i had was largely congratulatory and largely the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we dont want our people like Vice President biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. Pi would have no problem. Rudy is a very straight shooter. Rudy wants to see the same thing as a lot of other people. Ukraine has had a tremendous corruption problem. Democrats took to the morning shows to voice their alarm as well as the need for congress to take action. I think if an american president is asking another foreign leader to interfere in an american election, then there has to be consequences. If the president of the United States is brown beating a foreign l