Award winning journalist and former tv news executive. She spent 23 years at nbc where she produced Network Political coverage and served as the longtime executive of meet the press with tim russert. She also was the managing editor of nbc news political program. Currently, she is executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in their School Public affairs. She also has provided on air analysis to several television networks, including cbs news, msnbc, nbc news and cnn. And shes been included in washingtons best and most influential journalist sites. And gq is powerful people in washington. Thank you all. Its so nice to be in jackson, mississippi. Not too far from my hometown in new orleans, i see an lsu shirt here. Go, tigers, go tigers. And i feel since were the Supreme Court, i feel like these guys are under oath now. So be ready for a really interesting discussion with our. I have no recollection of that. We were here to talk insi
Dew point is 69 so it feels somewhat warmer. It feels like midtoupper 90s across the entire area right now. Because of the extreme heat, look at the numbers. Low 90s across the board. 97 in college park. I dont think so. Every now and then a sensor will be crazy. What is not changing are the temperatures for the next few hours. If you combine with humidity, its uncomfortably to oppressive hot and humid. Nats have a game coming up in a few minutes against the brewers. Steve rudin is next door at yards park. People dealing with the heat and humidity . Steve doug, there is no better place to be when its hot outside than here at the yards. With our brand new stormtrack7, a phenomenal machine that can do a lot of things. People are enjoying the heat and the humidity and trying to keep cool in the fountains. The heat index values are in the upper 90s to 100 degrees now, it will only get hotter as we move to the end of the weekend to the first half of the upcoming weekend. A lot of enjoyment
Now convinces us that the dynamics in the National Unity government significantly improve. The taliban are probably not going to comment to the negotiating table. The Afghan Security forces will not be the miracle we had hoped and to some degree convinced ourselves it would be. And elections will probably not happen in 2016. That leaves us with no real way out of what was supposed to be the beginning of an emergence of a slightly abnormal constitutional situation that we are in now. That is why we are looking at alternatives. We have run out of the optimistic scenarios we once had. That is what is sinking in and making 2016 a particularly challenging and different year, even though the fundamentals may not change that much. Mr. Kugelman i imagine we will discuss how things are going to be getting worse, etc. , which is true. But to start with context, things are bad, but it is not all bad. There are plenty of people that did not expect the National Unity government to get as far as far
Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions 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 the many thousands on a desperate journey into europes heartland hit the wall today, literally. A barrier fence sealed off the length of hungarys southern frontier, the main land route for the migrants. James mates of independent Television News reports from the scene. Reporter open, open, they cry. 2,000 or more refugees pressing against hungarys newly fortified border with its southern neighbor serbia. There has been a human river flowing northward for weeks. This is what happens when you try to top stop that flow. The crowd have been growing since Early Morning as the first arrivals confronted the new, threemeter high, razor wire fence, one obstacle too many in their bid to g
Ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions 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 the many thousands on a desperate journey into europes heartland hit the wall today, literally. A barrier fence sealed off the length of hungarys southern frontier, the main land route for the migrants. James mates of independent Television News reports from the scene. Reporter open, open, they cry. 2,000 or more refugees pressing against hungarys newly fortified border with its southern neighbor serbia. There has been a human river flowing northward for weeks. This is what happens when you try to top stop that flow. The crowd have been growing since Early Morning as the first arrivals confronted the new, threemeter high, razor wire fence, one obstacle too many in their bid to g