white guy completely strikes the author from the event, canceling it because some of his books contained racist imagery. fair enough but do you cancel the whole guy because of back? the dude sold 600 million books. sure he s not a real doctor but who is? of the road cat in the hat. it s the only one of his books that i read so i decided to do some investigating and just how bad could these books be? it turns out pretty bad. first a great lecture on white supremacy i had no idea, no idea, what about green eggs and hit where? how did this get published? one more please. if i ran the zoo we d only have polar bears because they are white? that is offensive. to everyone. i kid. to any cnn media reporters watching this much like your stories those weren t real but times are bad. we are turning into a police state that we are now the police. it s not the government and in books removing movies from streaming services are getting people fired for old tweets it s us, private citizen
quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from ohio we re in a quorum call. the senator will suspend. without objection. mr. brown: tomorrow i will do something i ve never down. i will vote for a trade agreement, the first time in my career. i m voting for that trade agreement because of the work that my colleague from oregon, senator wyden and i did to fix president trump s deal and secure new protections for american workers for the first time ever in spite of the president s intransigence, in spite of the president s lining up as he always does with corporate interests because our trade agreement for the first time ever, ever put workers at the center of this agreement. every trade agreement that i ve seen in my time in congress, north american free trade agreement, central america free trade agreement, the trade agreement with colombia and south korea, one after another, every one of these trade agreements, every one of these trade actions were written fundamen
woodruff: and it s friday, mark shields and ramesh ponnuru analyze a full week of news. all that and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: president obama strongly suggested today that russian president vladimir putin was at the heart of the computer hacks on the democratic party. and he defended his administration s restrained response in his year-end news conference. as expected, the issue of alleged russian hacking of the u.s. election domi
week? good evening. it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with president obama, making it clear who he believes was behind the russian hacking. he said not much happens in russia without vladimir putin. and abc news confirming the fbi agrees with the cia, putin directed it. and now, we learn what happened during this moment right here. what president obama says he told vladimir putin well before the election about the hacking. martha raddatz and her questions for the president. reporter: tonight, president obama revealing he confronted vladimir putin about the russian hacking face to face in september, warning him not to tamper with the vote on election day. i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out, and there were going to be some serious consequences if he didn t. reporter: the cia and now the fbi both believe putin himself ordered the hacking of the democratic nat
good evening. it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we begin with president obama, making it clear who he believes was behind the russian hacking. he said not much happens in russia without vladimir putin. and abc news confirming the fbi agrees with the cia, putin directed it. and now, we learn what happened during this moment right here. what president obama says he told vladimir putin well before the election about the hacking. martha raddatz and her questions for the president. reporter: tonight, president obama revealing he confronted vladimir putin about the russian hacking face to face in september, warning him not to tamper with the vote on election day. i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out, and there were going to be some serious consequences if he didn t. reporter: the cia and now the fbi both believe putin himself ordered the hacking of the democratic national co