the historic heat wave and an obama biden reunion, why the former president and first lady are returning to the white house this afternoon. we begin with new developments in the investigations into donald trump and his allies. people familiar with the matter tell the washington post the documents seized by the fbi during a search of trump s mar-a-lago estate last month included information about a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. the justice department declined to comment. as the post wrote in its piece, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. and that quote, documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis, not just top secret clearance but a trump spokesperson tweeted the washington post continues to serve as the propaganda ar
Narrator how the u. S. Naval base became a Detention Center for haitian refugees. And the legal battle that set the stage for today. This is essentially guantanamo, episode one. Narrator tonight, two stories about guantanamo its past and present. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. And by the frontline journalism fund. With major support from jon and jo ann hagler. Arun rath ive been covering the prison at Guantanamo Bay throughout the obama years. President obama r
Narrator how the u. S. Naval base became a Detention Center for haitian refugees. And the legal battle that set the stage for today. This is essentially guantanamo, episode one. Narrator tonight, two stories about guantanamo its past and present. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontliis provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. And by the frontline journalism fund. With major support from jon and jo ann hagler. Arun rath ive been covering the prison at Guantanamo Bay throughout the obama years. President obama r
Today on the show, the coronavirus and the economy. Is the world headed towards a Great Depression and how do we come out of it . Ill ask the Nobel Prize Winning economist, paul krugman, ian bremer and Zanny Minton Beddoes. And also coronavirus becomes the excuse for dictatorship. In the last few weeks hungarys government used the pandemic to give its leader unchecked power. Is this the end of democracy in a european country . And india, we will take you inside perhaps the greatest gamble yet, the unprecedented lockdown of some 1. 3 billion people to stave off catastrophe. Will it work . But first, heres my take. Even as were just beginning to confront the magnitude of the shock caused by this pandemic, we need to wrap our minds around a painful truth. We are in the early stages of what is going to become a series of cascading crises reverberating throughout the world. And we will not be able to get back to anything resembling normal life unless the major powers in the world can find s