Margaret warner recaps todays talks. Brown four out of ten street lights dont work and it takes an hour on average for Detroit Police to respond to 911 calls. Hari sreenivasan looks at the motor citys battle amid bankruptcy. Detroiters are so used to bad news, and they are so used to things not really breaking our way, and theyre used to getting up the next morning and going, well, i cant stop, ive got to keep going, ive got to keep trying. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and yes, those are goats in that graveyard. More than a hundred of them. Kwame holman tells us what theyre doing in this historic washington, d. C. , cemetery. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support o
Stevens, and the great kneel degrass tyson. But first, heres my take. Im glad that donald trump has finally gotten a briefing on the unanimous conclusion of americas intelligence agencies that the russian government was behind the hacking of the Democratic National committee and Hillary Clintons campaign chairman. But, he should also request and receive a political briefing on russia that can shed light on the backdrop to that countrys actions. We need to understand why russia might behave the way it has. It all started, you see, with the arab spring. The sudden mass demonstrations and demands for democracy took most the world by surprise. In particular, they rattled moscow at a precarious moment. The kremlin was in the midst of managing the countrys political future and worried greatly about opposition at home. Parliamentary actions were scheduled in less than a year, to be followed by a president ial election. And Vladimir Putin was not then president having stepped aside and allowed
First, heres my take. Im glad that donald trump has finally gotten a briefing on the unanimous conclusion of americas intelligence agencies that the russian government was behind the hacking of the Democratic National committee and Hillary Clintons campaign, but he should also request and receive a political briefing on russia that can shed light on the backdrop to that countrys actions. We need to understand why russia might behave the way it has. It all started with the arab spring. The sudden mass demonstrations and demands for democracy took most of the world by surprise. In particular they rattled moscow at a precarious moment. The kremlin was in the midst of managing the countrys political future and worried greatly about opposition at home. Elections were scheduled in less than a year to be followed by a president ial election. Vladmir putin was not then president having stepped aside. Roland danrother, a professor notes the crises in libya and syria coincided with the rise of o
Bit early cold temperatures and dangerous windchills to persist east of the rockies into the weekend, lake effect snowfall will continue down wind of the great lakes, reinforcing shots of arctic air will continue across much of the eastern half of the country through this week. Keeping high temperatures as much as 10 to 20 at the kndegre normal. Snow and ice as far down as the carolinas into florida and thats all before it gets really cold. Look at this head lane at the Washington Post tonight. Bomb cyclone to bomb east coast before polar vortex uncorks cold late this week. Happy new year. Happy balm cyclone. Balm and cyclone sound bad. Not only did i not know that was a thing you have to worry about, who knew thats a thing you have to worry about in the weather . Bomb cyclone. In the wake of the east coast storm that were getting, they are saying the cold in the wake of the storm will be 20 to 40 degrees below normal for friday and saturday. So, like i said, long underwear. You and me
Headquarters in new york. Guessing game. President trump threatening an investigation to hunt down the author of that New York Times oped as more seep ynior offici deny their involvement. Now the Vice President is weighing in on what it means for the administration. Plus backing down. Why President Trump says the payment to Stormy Daniels was inval skp inval invalid. Plus the effect of sacrifice 9 11 First Responders are still coping with major Health Problems 17 years after the attacks on the United States. It is something about which comedian john stewart has been outspoken and the former host of the today show will talk about it. We begin with the search for the white house staffer who penned the oped for the New York Times four days after it was published the Trump Administration appears no closer to finding out who the author is. Among the claims made about the administration is that there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th amendment. Vice president mike p