noah oppenheimer, our president will be meeting with reporters later in the day to answer your questions. i will point out a couple of things about this. the first would be the speed with which this happened, they re saying they received an accusation on monday night, and here we are just two days later and matt has been terminated. we know there are articles in major publications which raise other accusations, we don t know the details of them. what we know about this particular accusation is it took place in 2014 during the sochi olympics and the inappropriate sexual behavior continued beyond the games. we appreciate that, stephanie, let s turn to our panel, and bring in kaitlin burns. and media editor claire atkinson. claire, i ll start with you, this is a story that is about the place where we work here, we know some details now thanks to
and now to an nbc news exclusive. the wife of an american graduate student being held in iran is speaking out this morning calling his detention unjust. the princeton ph.d. student is serving a ten-year sentence for espionage. he was sentenced in april but over the weekend his case took a new turn. stephanie gosk is here with that story. stephan stephanie? hey, steve. well, shia wong went over to iran for his thesis to do research according to his wife. she explained to us what happened to him while he was there and the accusations that the government is now laying against him. this video appeared over the weekend to put pressure on the united states to pull out as it continues whether to pull out of the iran nuclear deal and
trying to get out while they can. stephan stephanie? mariana, this is extraordinary times. look at all those people in that airport. we re going to take a quick break. up next, donald trump jr. expected on capitol hill. right now being interviewed about his meeting with a russian lawyer during the 2016 election. what if anything will we find out? remember, the story about this meeting changed, changed and changed again. later, president trump siding with democrats. that s right. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer agreement on extension of the debt ceiling. could the bipartisan deal widen the rift between the president and his own party? is that what trump wants to d? today president trump announced a new plan to fund the government for the next three months. that s right. trump s going to pay his taxes. (music plays throughout)
october 4th, wikileaks says they will publish the 2016 missing campaign e-mails. october 7th, homeland security and the director of national intelligence say russia is interfering in the 2016 election. october 7th, wikileaks begins releasing clinton campaign chair john podesta s e-mails. on halloween, october 31st, trump says, this wick is like a treasure trove. november 4th, trump says, boy, i love reading those wikileaks. wow. wow. when you put it all together like that, certainly starts looking like something, stephanie. joining us jane harmon director and president of the woodrow wilson center, former nine-term member of congress. good to see you again. thank you for being with us. this business of undisclosed meetings. jared kushner now on his third meeting. the number of people associated with donald trump who took meetings that were previously
stephan stephanie s been hankering to ask you this question all morning. you have to start with this, america no longer a leader, an extraordinary commentary, clearly one that was heard around the world. and you were there, was that clearly the take away at the g-20. it was certainly the way that i saw it and other delegations saw it as we saw what was going on around the g-20. in the leadup, we all knew that america s position on global warming was going to be different from the rest of the world, and angela merkel wasn t going to accept that. and we knew there would be division, i guess what we were looking for was where this president would decide to lead, and the issue that he had which was ready made on the way in was the issue on north korea. the australian delegation said that there was going to be a strong statement on north korea. he would have gotten 18 nations on his side and he would have isolated russia and china in the