reducing poverty: what have we done? with the help of economic analyst richard gill we ll investigate that question on this edition of economics u$a. i m david schoumacher. there have always been people left out of the american dream the young, the old the ill, the untrained. and those who ve just lost out in a competitive economy which has losers as well as winners. today we take it for granted that the government has a role to play in reducing poverty and we argue only about how and how much. but before food stamps and public housing before government aid to the elderly what happened when the elderly faced the great depression? i see 1/3 of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad ill-nourished. schoumacher: the great depression cut too wide and too deep for business-as-usual. the depression demanded new answers to poverty. no group suffered more than the elderly. savings accounts were wiped out, pensions were rare family resources, gone. the needs of the elderly have always car
lobbyists and washington insiders? we are going to drain the swamp. that was then, this is now. and saving buzz aldrin. efforts under way to save the second man who walked on the moon from one of the farthest corners of the earth. good day. i m andrea mitchell in massachusetts today, where in a few hours i ll be taking a deeper dive into election results with campaign managers and senior strategists for donald trump and hillary clinton at the harvard institute of politics. trump is about to depart for indianapolis, celebrating what he is touting as a political victory, closing a deal with union technologies to prevent 1,000 carrier jobs from moving to mexico. joining me, peter alexander in new york and nbc s kevin tibbles in indiana. peter, first to you, let s take a quick look at what is happening today. he s touting this carrier deal. let s talk about how much, how little and we ll bring up more with kevin, but what about all of the wall street executives who are be
we begin this hour with live pictures of the scene outside the u.s. embassy in london. this is where people have gathered to protest president trump s travel ban. and it comes just hours after a federal judge in washington state put this nationwide temporary stop to virtually every aspect of president trump s eo on travel to the united states. the judge who was a george w. bush appointee sided with the attorneys general of washington and minnesota on a lawsuit seeking to overturn the order. the ruling temporarily shutting down the 90-day ban on citizens from mostly muslim countries. the indefinite ban on seyrian refugees as well as the 120-day suspension of the refugee program. the white house vowed legal action will be soon. at the earliest possible time the department of justice intends to file an emergency stay and defend the executive order of the president which we believe is lawful and appropriate. so as a result of this ruling, at least one airport or one report, excus
projectile that was fired? that is something that officials will all look into, trying to see what else they can learn about the projectile that was fired, see what they can gather about that firing, and about the ballistic missile program. you have heard north korea say they will continue the launches, one official saying you will see this happen on a weekly basis, and prior to what happened this morning you had already seen nine ballistic missiles launched at least over six different days since just the start of the year and just the beginning of the trump administration. now, this latest projectile seems to have happened in the first week of the newly elected south korean president. so surely this will be a test to see how the newly elected president moon will handle it. you can t imagine there witting much will be much of a did epartu from s from the procedures, bit of background is that president moon is the first democratic party president here in south korea in t
sunday morning. thanks for joining us. this is cnn newsroom. a warm welcome. a political transition is underway this hour in france. these are live pictures. dignitaries have gathered there in the french capitol for the inauguration of macron. he is set to arrive shortly at his new home where he will then take over from the current french president hollande. melissa is in the french capitol and joins us with the latest. we can expect all the pomp and ceremony that you might expect from the french when it comes to these inauguration events. talk us through the protocol. what can we expect? there s a great deal of protocol on these occasions. it s a hand over of a lot of power from one man to another and every time these things are very carefully calibrated who has been invited today. how he will make his way up the red carpet. how he will enter and be received by hollande all of these things are perfectly calibrated, timed, organized, orchestrated. what is different is the