Originally told. Well have a live report from inside iraq. All that, plus secret no longer. I put up with inappropriate behavior that i didnt know at the time was straight up sexual abuse. The wife of president ial candidate, andrew yang, with a disturbing story of sexual abuse by her own doctor. In the drivers seat. New pictures of Meghan Markle at an airport in canada overnight, with the queens decision on their royal future expected soon. And are you ready for some football . The nfls final four get set to battle it out for a trip to the super bowl. Today, friday, january 17th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to today. Nice to have you with us on a friday morning. Its going to be a big weekend in the weather department. A big storm making its way across the country. And a lot of folks are traveling because of the long holiday weekend. Theyll be keeping the
house. this as the georgia da investigating trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election says a decision on charges is imminent. tonight, we ll speak to a former georgia official who testified in the case and says there is enough evidence to charge trump. new video into our show, george santos making new questionable claims including being the victim of a violent mugging. and that he s giving his salary to charity. let s go outfront. good evening. america upping the anti-sending tanks to the ukraine. the united states is finalizing plans to send a significant number of tanks to the m-1 abrams tanks to kyiv. the abrams is the main tank that the united states uses on the battlefield. this could be a game changer in the war. and i want to emphasize this is extremely significant not just for the military importance but because it s a dramatic 180 turn around. last week the pentagon said they had no intention of handing the tank officials to ukraine. in fact, the undersecretary
Prison in tehran. We will also get an update on the civil fraud trial of donald trump. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you have, no is above the law. It is my responsibility and my duty and my job to enforce it. Today in court, we will prove our case. Amy we will also speak to an attorney suing Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals on behalf of some 300 more patients who say they were sexually assaulted by former Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden while they say the university shielded the sexual predator. And we will look at the largest strike of healthcare workers in u. S. History. Were here because we want the world to know kaiser is being unfair to us. We worked to the pandemic and hard times, we are understaffed and underpaid. They are not giving us what we need to take care of our patients properly. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pre
hello. hello. mr. yang: thank you so much. you are incredible. i want to say a special thank you to my wife, evelyn yang, for being such an incredible partner. i love you so much, baby. whoo. what a night here in iowa. thank you all so much for the hard work and dedication you put into making tonight a tremendous night for the yang gang and this campaign. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: and this is a great time to actually pause for reflection on how far we have come. we declared over two years ago. over 30 people ended up jumping into the race. remember that first debate stage, there were 20 candidates? they had to break it up into two nights. i am going right from here to new hampshire, where i will be one of the seven candidates on the debate stage on friday night in new hampshire. [cheers and applause] mr. yang: so many of you dropped everything and came here to iowa to fight for this campaign. raise your hand if you are here from out of state and came here. let s give th
Colombia for a statement. Havent heard back. Evelyn yang, this is not easy for her to do. She got results. Incredible. Such courage. Thank you so much to dana. Thanks to all of you. Anderson starts now. Good evening. Weve reported for months how the president downplayed the coronavirus and said it would disappear and it was under control. Tonight youll hear confirmation and for more. Youll hear the president admitting hed down play the virus and he knew it far earlier than the public. People say lives have been lost but they are dead. 190,000 americans are dead. The president lied to us when it really mattered. When action could have been taken based on the information the president had that would have saved lives. And in case youre wondering how many lives the number is simply heartbreaking. Researchers at Colombia University estimate instituting social distancing just one week sooner could have prevented at least 36,000 deaths. Two weeks sooner could have prevented 84 of fatalities.