good evening we begin tonight with a big development with the u.s. led coalition to fight isil. turkey reese parliament voted to allow military action against the group. the government now has more power to launch operations across it s borders with iraq and syria. but officials say they have no plans to rush into battle. bernard smith has more. the legislation passed we the parliament talks about terrorist groups it make as reference to isil, but that s not the only threat. in fact, much of the debate was about the threat from the asaad regime, in syria, and there was also talk about the threat from the kurdish workers party. so turkey doesn t just see this the turkish government doesn t just see this as a fight against isil, it sees it as a fight against what it described as different groups. and as legislation gives the military an awful lot ovulated it means that the military wouldn t necessarily just have to act against the threat from isil, it could act against an
ages on saturday. make some noise! beyonce! tonight all the highlights. definitely going to file this under coolest things i ve ever done. and the amazing resulting of the global poverty concert. anyone from the bronx? good evening from new york. i m chris hayes, and there are shocking new developments tonight in the white house fence jumper story. the washington post reporting that the intruder, omar gonzalez was able to make it deep into the white house, a fact not previously disclosed through any official or unofficial channels until today. and at one point, the intruder who was carrying a small knife was only steps away from the first family s actual living quarters. this comes on the same day the washington post is reporting just how badly the secret service handled a 2011 incident in which a gunman fired seven shots at the white house exterior with an assault rifle. so omar gonzalez seen in this video scaled the fence on the north side of the white house spr
there s something just deeply wrong here that needs to be fixed. lock the front door? they re going to leave the tv on. yeah, yeah. are things actually going to get fixed? by mid afternoon, julia pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. in an interview, pierson said i think it s the best interest of the secret service and the american public if i stepped down. congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. the media made it clear that this is what they expected. the president s family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. man with gun was feet from obama. that was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by the washington post. this morning s washington post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. the white house press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret service director submitted her resignation. this afternoon, the president had the opportunity t
that s true. that s absolutely true. so with the admission that the iraqis can t do it alone, the u.s. steps in with air strikes. in the past 24 hours, anti-aircraft transport vehicles have been hit and an isis training camp but the question still remains, are these strikes really working? not if you ask people living in the border town here . these firefighters caught on camera by cnn. reporter: they are seeking shelter trying to use that territory to their advantage and protect themselves from incoming fire from the kurdish opponents. as i speak, there s small arms fire being traded. i m sure if you can hear it over the microphones. that s what s going on for the last few hours. in addition to that we ve been hearing a lot of heavy artillery fire as well. mortars, one not far from the position ten minutes ago. also, dusk is falling now. it s getting harder to make out precisely what s going on at that distance. i apologize for that. and the fighting itself appears to
i support him. congressman lewis is doing a great disservice to the people of the 5th district. good afternoon to you, i m richard lui. there you heard it, war of words between donald trump and congressman john lewis. many coming to the congressman s defense, others defending the president-elect. all of this comes as congressman lewis called trump an illegitimate president, then trump saying lewis is all talk, no action. a major ice storm. we re watching that, gripping parts of the central united states. we ll take you to the hardest hit areas in a few minutes. say it isn t so. after nearly a century and a half of the greatest show on earth, ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus are shutting down their tent. lead story, incoming trump administration officials answering for the president-elect today as he continues to come under fire for his response to congressman john lewis who, in an interview with nbc s chuck todd, says he does not see trump as a legitimat