barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. stewart: good evening, and thanks for joining us. on his first trip abroad as president of the united states, donald trump received a royal welcome in saudi arabia today. the president and first lady melania trump were greeted by saudi king salman, after they arrived on air force one in the saudi capital of riyadh. topping the official agenda, saudi agreements to purchase $110 billion of american-made military equipment and weapons, and to spend a total of $350 billion on arms and other goods over ten years. mr. trump described the deal as tremendous investmen
reported that president trump had disclosed highly classified intelligence information to russian envoys during a white house meeting last week. then on tuesday came the explosive news that president trump had urged the fbi director james comey to end the federal investigation of michael flynn before he fired comey last week. on wednesday the justice department names former fbi director robert mueller as special counsel to lead the probe into russian meddling into the 2016 presidential race. joining me now with analysis are uc berkeley political professor steven fish, and cory shocky joining us from stamford university campus. he left today for his foreign trip for nine days. he recently wrote an article entitled the bombshell of donald trump s liabilities. can you explain that? yeah, i think the domestic turmoil of how the president is choosing to do his job creates three kinds of problems for him internationally. the first is the allies are nervous. they don t know what t
corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. stewart: good evening and thanks for joining us. president trump is calling on the arab world to show unity and partner with the united states to combat extremism and terrorism. today, in the capital of saudi arabia, the president addressed a summit of leaders from 50 arab and muslim-majority countries, completing his two-day visit to the kingdom. in his 35-minute speech, mr. trump said the u.s. will seek gradual reforms over intervention and middle east leaders must decide for themselves what kind of future they want. it is a choice between two futures, and it is a choice that ameri
designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. on the last day of his first foreign trip as president, donald trump declined to endorse the historic climate change accord signed by the u.s. and 194 other nations two years ago in paris. his silence came as the other six leaders of the world s leading industrial democracies reaffirmed their commitments to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions responsible for global warming. instead, mr. trump says he ll announce next week whether he ll stick with the paris pact or abandon it. german chancellor angela merkel said the climate discussion wa very difficult, if not very unsatisfying.
people in the bai. first we start in the world of science. one of four bay area people to win a prestigious genius grant from the mcarthur foundation. he was recognized for creating a microscope out of paper that cost less than a dollar to make. it is being used in 130 countries. he is developing tools to track how diseases are spread in the tropics and u.s. physical biologist demonstrated one of his famous inventions here in our studio. nice to have you here. thanks for having me. congratulations to you. do you feel any different? are you doing anything differently now that you are officially a mcarthur genius? i don t know about the genius, but i m really humbled to be recognized this way in my scientific career. i m very thrilled and excited and i think there is a lot more work to be done. i m just putting my head down and getting stuff done. well, your research falls into the field of physical biology . what is that exactly? so i m a physicist by training but i