Served as the special assistant for human rights and began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, kosovo and zimbabwe and was the director for the human rights policy at the kennedy s school. Her book a problem from hell was the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 also the author of the bestselling book the fight to save the world and o the most recent book we wl bebeec discussing today the education of an idealist is was published by harpercollins in september of this year and ive just learned it is shortlisted for the irish book prize. Congratulations. [applause] and one more time please join me in welcoming samantha power. [applause] theres a reason this is my first trip to austin. We are going to start off the session with a brief reading. I want to set the stage for the conversation and i thought the reading i would do today is one that speaks to the challenges that we are facing figuring out how to engage with people that we disagree with vehemently so this is the sc
Headquarters. Heres whapping. Timeout . How President Trump thought he was going to be named Time Magazines person off the year. Looking for a deal. The indications flynn is really to talk like never before. Robert mueller is going to read the russian tea leaves. New numbers for roy moore a. New poll providing a fascinating snapshot. We begin with the lets a in the russia investigation. New reaction from a member of the House Intel Committee on why Jared Kushner will likely have to return to speak with them. Heres what democratic congressman mike quickly told us. I suspect theres 40 more people we need to interview before the process is over. Were talking now about mr. Kushner coming back to testify in front of our committee. That was rushed in the first place at his request over our objection. If with we dont have all the documents, his interviews arent going to go well. Those comments come on the heels of Michael Flynns legal team cutting its ties to President Trumps laushz. Its a po
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 876 of the trump administration. This happened to be the president s 73rd birthday. While the cleanup effort continued stemming from the damage done when the president said of course hed accept dirt on political opponents from a foreign power, todays news was more dominated by an attack by the president on a very high value target. Don mcgahn, who has returned to private practice after serving as trumps what House Counsel. He knows a thing or two because he saw a thing or two in that job. His testimony to mueller was so valuable he was quoted in the Mueller Report more than any other witness and emerged really as one of the reports defacto narrators after testifying for over 30 hours about what he witnessed inside the trump white house. Mcgahn described how trump urged him to pressure doj to get rid of mueller by insisting that he raise the what trump insisted were muellers socalled conflicts of interest. He e
Howard donald trump and nancy pelosi in a war of words as the media ramp up impeachment coverage and side with the speaker who accuses the president of losing his composure. Trumps meltdown, democrats walking out of a meeting after the president rails against it. I think he is losing it. I mean, i think he is feeling the pressure of this impeachment. I think that the Democratic Leaders actually look like petulant children. He called her a third rate politician. Of course, the president s right, her partys derangeed, psychotic, the hate trump agenda is all that matters in her world. Howard and as more diplomats testify about trump and Rudy Giuliani on ukraine, is the press downplaying republican charges of unfairness . Hunter biden sits down with abc to try to neutralize the allegations against him, airing hours before the democratic debate. Do you regret being on the board to begin with . What i regret is not taking into account that there would be a Rudy Giuliani and a president of th
New york. Day 876 of the trump administration. This happened to be the president s 73rd birthday. While the cleanup effort continued stemming from the damage done when the president said of course hed accept dirt on political opponents from a foreign power, todays news was more dominated by an attack by the president on a very high value target. Don mcgahn, who has returned to private practice after serving as Trumps White House counsel. He knows a thing or two because he saw a thing or two in that job. His testimony to mueller was so valuable he was quoted in the Mueller Report more than any other witness and emerged really as one of the reports defacto narrators after testifying for over 30 hours about what he witnessed inside the trump white house. Mcgahn described how trump urged him to pressure doj to get rid of mueller by insisting that he raise the what trump insisted were muellers socalled conflicts of interest. Today he heard him denying mcgahns account. He essentially accused