Important because it is about more than just handing out dollars and vests. It ensures all vests are compliant with National Institute of justice safety standards. Only the federal government has the resources to do that level of analytical work. Its no more reasonable for us to expect every state to have their own National Institutes of health to do Cancer Research or for every state to have a National Institute of highway traffic safety. Having one coordinated National Program to ensure that these bulletproof vests are as effective as possible as saving the lives of the men and women of Law Enforcement just makes sense. In my view, the denial of a federal role where it is necessary and efficient would take us back to the articles of confederation, a very cramped nairnd roand narrow view of ours government. The truth is plain. Without this program, we leave Police Officers without lifesaving vests in the line of fire, in the line of duty. And for us to fail to stand up for them when t
It is always the most innate conversations. Most people leave really uninteresting lives. Connell may be texting, some kind of compromise. Dagen we have another triple digit loss on our hands against economic numbers pushing the numbers lower. The callower. Nicole petallides at the Dow Jones Industrial pit nicole s p 5001779, losing two tenths of a percent. The nasdaq almost 4010. That hasnt up arrow. Tech heavy nasdaq looking better today. The stocks seemed mixed. Transports are higher. Oil services are looking good, the drug stocks are pulling back, so seems like a mixed bag today. Still pressure on this market. The fed Economic News today was mixed. Jobless claims and retail sales showing some strength. Lets take a look at facebook, facebook going into the s p 500 closing trading on december 20. We will see some names coming out including paradigm on the 500 on the 100, the williams company. Back to you. Dagen thank you so much. Connell a new poll suggesting americas interest in con
Pennsylvania avenue this morning to get ready for the inaugural parade. Vice President Joe Biden took his official oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Sonia sotomayor at the naval observatory. Soon after that he and the president laid a wreath at Arlington National cemetery, and then at noon in the white house president obama received the official oath of office from chief justice john roberts, which the constitution requires on january 20th. We have Team Coverage of this inauguration sunday. Darcy spencer is downtown where metro has seen double the typical sunday ridership. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell tracking the Inauguration Day forecast. We start with chris gordon live on capitol hill. A lot of excitement in the air around d. C. Today, chris. Reporter good evening. You could see at this hour on the mall people are milling about. Its a beautiful evening and the people are very friendly and excited down here. Crowds, traffic growing. Tomorrow the focus of the world wi
With the black boys, you know. The black boys not players so im not going to make it there. I kept playing and playing. I said one day im going to play baseball. Tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight, the president swears he did not know about that Trump Tower Meeting in advance, while someone close to Michael Cohen tells vanity fair cohen is sitting on top of a Treasure Trove of damaging information and theres a lot more to come. For the tenth straight time the president ignored questions from reporters and thats since the trumpcohen tape came out on tuesday. Donald trumps First Ever National Security Council meeting on the topic of election safety was convened today hours after the president was invited to moscow by vladimir putin. All of it as The 11th Hour gets under way on a friday night. On a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 554 of the Trump Administration and the president escalate
Dashcam controversy, the highspeed ramming of an arizona suspect raising new questions about Police Tactics and adding to a debate over police cameras. Do they help or hurt Law Enforcement . And airport groping scandal. Two tsa officers are out of a job for allegedly subjecting attractive male passengers to sensitive patdowns. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news a big security scare leads to chaos at the u. S. Capitol. A man is in custody now after penetrating restricted airspace over the heart of washington and landing a mini aircraft known as a gyrocopter on the Capitol Grounds. This video captured by a bystander shows the landing initially without a Security Officer in sight. And Police Rushed to deal with a possible threat. The pilot, a mailman from florida, is now under investigation. A friend says he planned the flight to send a message about Campaign Finance reform. But the stunt is raising bigger dwe questions about the security of important sites right