Breaking news from north korea. In the last couple of hours, the us military and south korean officials have confirmed north korea has fired a Ballistic Missile which exploded shortly after liftoff. The launch camejust hours shortly after liftoff. The launch came just hours after a special session of the Un Security Council in which the us pushed for tougher sanctions on the pyongyang regime. The us Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, chaired the session. Lets have a look at some of the state to make statements. With each successful missile test, north korea pushes asia and the world closer to instability and conflict. The threat of a north Korean Nuclear attack on seoul or tokyo is real and it is likely only a matter of time before north korea develops the capability to strike the us mainland. Indeed, the dprk has repeatedly claimed it plans to conduct such a strike. Given that rhetoric, the United States cannot stand idly by, nor can other nations which are in striking distance of nor
But let me tell you about something. Im against jews or anybody else who puts the interests of some other place over our own country. Not opposed to all jews. Something said, actually said in a Senate Debate stage in the year 2016. Todays louisiana Senate Debate took place in an empty auditorium at a historically black college called Dillard University in new orleans. Students at dillard protested. There arent arrests. Some people were reportedly pepper sprayed by University Police as they tried to protest outside the debate hall. But inside david duke assured us all he is not against all jews. Happy 2016. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Rachel, the debate was even worse than you presented. Were going to present i was going to use the word highlights. Were going to present excerpts of this debate, this david duke debate coming up. And he attached himself to
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Thats right, katy. You know, the president tweeted sunday in response to our article that he is not worried about don jr. , but people who have been talking to him on the phone say in fact he is worried about his son. He is worried about a lot of aspects related to this russia probe, which is getting closer and closer to him, to his family, to his associates, to his orbit. Its uncomfortable at the moment. There is some concern that he has that his son may be found to have violated the law somehow, you know. One person speculated maybe his son could have perjured himself in interviews at some point. I mean, the president just doesnt know at this point what could be in store for his son. It is a source of concern and its one of many things thats fueling what were seeing, which is a real public lashing by the president of mueller again and again and again, tweeting more than he has before about the wit
Offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. Later, emails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging email on Hillary Clinton. Quote, if its what you say, i love it. To get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton i thought was political Opposition Research. Just after this we heard this from trumps lawyer. The Statement Released was donald trump jr. And his lawyers. The president was not involve in the that. The president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. It came from his son. July 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. Then hater this year it was revealed trumps own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to Robert Mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. This weekend, the president s same lawyer jay