A major milestone. Meryl streep responding after rose mcgowan slams her over the Harvey Weinstein scandal. What the actress is saying about mcgowans claims she knew about weinsteins behavior and did nothing. Those stories, plus, was a rat responsible for the massive blackout at the Atlanta Airport . Jesus was here. Rare access to some of jerusalems holiest sites, as the world gets ready to celebrate his birth. And you know the grinch is stealing christmas. The little boy who called 911 because he thought the grinch was stealing his christmas. A story that will make your heart grow three sizes today, tuesday, december 19th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Thats a pretty shot. A tuesday morning. Getting close to christmas. Boy, what a scene outside seattle, that train that derailed. Its just horrific. Could have been even worse. Its hard to believe that is the first time it had been on the tracks there and that ha
Democrats in congress have no ability to hold anything hostage. Were the minority here. Were trying to make motions. They will likely be outvoted. Our coverage of the House Rules Committee meeting will continue. We will leave it here for a briefing with House Minority leader nancy pelosi. I have been up at the rules committee pleading with them to give us a vote on the d. R. E. A. M. Act on the cr that will come up today. Its a matter of public record. I dont know that weve had too much success in that regard. But it is an interesting week as we prepare, hopefully, to go home soon. And i dont know when that is. Just in terms of yesterday, republicans took a victory lap because they successfully sold americas childrens future by handing tax breaks to Corporate America and the wealthiest. Its an amazing thing, because they have been talking about it being a bill thats a tax cut for middle class families when 83 of the benefits go to the top 1 . That is an immorality. 86 million middle cl
Abigail were almost at the end of the year. We had a big rally, also for stocks. Not a big rally but solid gains. The dow is on pace for a record close. Right now, we do not have alltime highs. Check out this smallcap russell 2000 leading the charge of about up of. 6. The big topic, the tax overhaul. Smallcap companies are considered to be more sensitive to, considered their more meaningbased, perhaps they are more sensitive to what is happening in the u. S. 3316. Look at g btv these are not the russell 2000 Tax Companies but what we are looking at in blue are low Tax Companies. This purple, goldman sachs. And the wide to it high Tax Companies white, high Tax Companies, up 7. 7 . Deal. Ll but a done pretty interesting. It is also interesting to see the russell 2000 sensitive to taxes overall and what is happening in the u. S. G btv 32, this is a oneyear chart. The white, russell 2000 to the s p 500. It has been trending down as the husband uncertainty and volatility around the possibil
The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to Mitch Daniels for some words, we will look at a video because that is what we do. Look at kind of a fun some of our panelists tonight. Just give you a warning. [video clip] we have a resolution that we put forward. Roses are red. Violets are blue. If we are not home by 7 00, we are in deep we encourage the gentleman to give us some definitive time on tuesday night. I appreciate the sentiment. How would you define your ideology . Is it more liberal, moderate, or conservative . I appreciate that. I am fiscally conservative but on social issues, i am moderate. I guess what you could say what that means is i have great reverence for the past and the sacrifices of many but i also have a piece of liberal in me. What a piece of li
Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am Robert Browning, the director of the archives. It was 30 years ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. [laughter] robert i have to explain what those are. They made a lot of noise as they wound and rewound. It is all digital recording. Today, it is all digital recording. Our original goal was to record everything on cspan, index it and make it available for public use. It is fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met , which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet as we know it today did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision, a vision of what could be if we kept this material, not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy, the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to mitch daniels, were going to look at a little video. That is what we d