russian president vladamir putin held a record breaking four-hour and 20 minute news conference today. his annual address included 1600 journalists vying for the chance to ask a question. elizabeth palmer was one of them. and she joins us from moscow tonight. liz, president putin seemed to have warm word for just one man. that s right, jeff it may surprise you to know it was president donald trump. president putin spoke almost nonstop with his usual kind of swaggering confidence. he actually had praise for president trump. he said, that he should be credited for significant achievements. he pointed to the booming financial markets. that he restored the confidence of investors. as for the allegations of, russian meddling in the american election, those were said president putin to be blamed on people who oppose donald trump and trying to undermine his legitimacy which as you know is an argument we have heard in the past from president trump himself. and liz, besides pr
women abut the me too movement. alex wagner talks to men who are also speaking up. you watch these stories unfold, every day, there is a new story. where are you guys as this all unfolds? it certainly is a tidal wave that its happening. but i look at it like isn t it amazing that, that, so many people have felt the need to be silent for so long. how tear brrible must the environment be, that right now, as a result of the internet and as a result of just, confluence of events people feel safe speaking up. men are kind of grouped together from a very young age. there becomes a vernacular that its negative towards women. and there becomes an expectation of other men to place ideology on conquering women. leland, that brings to the fore, the question of masculinity and how young men are indoctrinated at an early age? you have written about this. i was 5 years old. and, you know, i talk about this in my book because it is like how can i help other kids get over thi
and from contributions from pbs station. from viewers like you. thank you. snot always a pleasure to catch up with gary younge ed tord alt large for the guardian newspaper. he s been tracking the rise of the far right and the far left, in the recent elections, in europe and in america. and the epidemic in his text, another day in the death of america. good to have you in los angeles. thank you for having me. let me start across the pond and we ll come back to the text here stateside. the french elections, what do you make of the interim outcome? it s not quite over yet. marine le pen comes in second, not first. that s right. first of all, there s the le pen factor. i studied french. i studied in france. when i was 15, and following a school exchange, i went out to visit one of the kids that i was become friends with. second day i was there, he came in with tears in his eyes and he said i couldn t have a black man in my house. it was more traumatic for hi
contributions from your pbs station, from viewers like you. thank you. # pleased to welcome flint s most famous doctor this program. she has become one of the most courageous voices in that city s water crisis, sounding the alarm on a poisonous supply that contained led, e.coli and possibly legion nar s disease. great to be with you. three years later, these criminal cases are just starting to get underway. let me start by asking whether or not three years later you think what happened in your city was in fact criminal. yeah, absolutely criminal. one of the greatest environmental crimes of our century and we have been using the past tense, three years ago, but we are very much still in the middle of this crisis. to this day, the people of fingerprint cannot drink unfilters water. so we are still in the middle of this crime. what is your sense of what are they saying at least the end game is here? how much longer will residents three, four years later still be forced
matt and another escape inmate. they re zeroing in on a wooded area where a bloodhound picked up the scent of one or both of those inmates. nbc s jay gray has more. reporter: after days of questioning, senior government officials now confirm the senior instructor in the tailor shop had planned to be the getaway driver, but apparently on the day of the escape she got cold sheet. she thought it was love. she could be the country girl that got sweet-talked by some city guy. reporter: overnight the search intensified, a tip leading officers to this wooded area, about three miles from the prison, and very close to the manhole that swept matt apparently climbed through during their escape. we won t stop until we have these convicts captured. reporter: investigators expect the area to be locked down for hours as they meticulously search for any signs of the escapees jay gray nbc news platsburg, new york. and details on a rob that included a chase, a trail of blood and