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Midterms having raised taxes on parts of the middle class . Ill ask republican senator rob portman of ohio. And did former National Security adviser Michael Flynn just cut a deal to cooperate with the Mueller Probe and what could that mean for the russia investigation . Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent katy tur, hugh houston, host on the salem radio network, Heather Mcgee and Washington Post columnist michael gerson. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc n...

Our way towards the 1960s and the cultural revolution. Since historians have recently paid more attention to the ways in which whats often recorded as the 60s cultural revolution really had its seeds planted in the 1950s. So i wanted to describe what the old culture was like. Sometimes referred to as victorian, sort of the shared Anglo American culture of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. The little piece that i gave you from william oneills book on america 1945, sort of describes some of th...

Is going to be voting on neil gorsuch at any moment. Youre looking at ted cruz speaking there about the need to confirm him. Its unlikely that thats going to happen. We are anticipating that this is going to be a party line vote. There is expected to be a big showdown on capitol hill later this week when the full senate votes on gorsuch, and that means only one option remains for senator Mitch Mcconnell, and that is to execute what is known as the Nuclear Option so that they could get this judge...

Make America Great again. Good evening and welcome to our special pbs news hour of the Republican National convention. T im gwen ifill. Im Judy Woodruff. Joining us all week from the other side of the arena next to the podium the host of nprs Weekend Edition sunday Rachel Martin. Rachel, great to have you with us and here in the anchor boothh as always syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times ifill also with us, Nprs National political correspondent, mara liasson. Later on in the eve...

Those Traffic Cameras here across the region. Watching f anything that might morning commute. If youre coming in from lake 65milesperhour. 77 looking good right now, catawba avenue, down to gilead running in the green. Develop. Here across the charlotte area, most of our highways and roads are continuing to run in the green. Northbound 77 coming out of rock hill this morning, curb drive ti for you is 21 minutes with an average speed of milesperhour. And that is a check of traffic, john, over to ...

Flyers fans came together to watch the flyers and caps open this playoff series. In game one, two things happened, Sean Couturier got injured and holtby dominated. Game one went to washington, 20. Penalties were a big factor. That ended the momentum we were trying to gain. Reporter in game two the flyers hoped to win for their chairman, but alex owe vivechki propelled the caps to a 20 series lead. We will go home, take the next two games. We have great confidence in each other. Reporter emotions...

United nations. How many times in the past, and you of all know it best, people came out and said the israelipalestinian conflict is the major conflict in the middle east. You solve that, you solve everything else. My point here, that we are basically fighting, you know. Its not between israeli and palestinians or between arabs and jews. Itbetween people who sank fie life and people who celebrate death. Rose an analysis of the biden decision, seth meyers and ron proser prosor when we continue. F...

United nations. How many times in the past, and you of all know it best, people came out and said the israelipalestinian conflict is the major conflict in the middle east. You solve that, you solve everything else. My point here, that we are basically fighting, you know. Its not between israeli and palestinians or between arabs and jews. Itbetween people who sank fie life and people who celebrate death. Rose an analysis of the biden decision, seth meyers and ron proser prosor when we continue. F...

Morning but i am worried about getting our people out in the an and making sure they can get to Public Transportation in order to get home. Reporter she says her company will likely have its employees telecommute or work flex hours. With all the street closures, crowds and security perimeters downtown, getting around will be challenging and most certainly slow. The main closure to remember includes Market Street between beal and steuart street. Southbound embarcadero from washington to don chi w...

Rebels to syria. And given our track record, is that the right move for america . And people all over the planet with one thing in common, theyre not from these parts. Im ali velshi, and this is real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, so tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me at ali velshi or hit me up on facebook. Like it or not, the United States is involved in another war in the middle east. But this one is a lot more murky. We do know that u. S. Pl...