Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories.
many months later, that s after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. by that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. that she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a gun rights group in the u.s. tonight, the same reporter who had the breakthrough scoop about the steele dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a leadership shake up at the nra? the backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president, into russian attempts to i
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories.
they are known as the steele dossier. they allege, among other things, that the trump campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. quote, this is something of huge significance. way above party politics, that intelligence officer told corn, that would be steele. quote, i think trump s own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. the official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the trump campaign s contacts with russia was not confirmed for many more months. it s even easy to forget that, because it s the kind of big information that s the center of american politics, so we all talk about it. people who don t even follow the news know about it. but let s be clear. it was not until march 2017, many months later is, that s after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. by that time, the fb
tonight, a special edition of world news tonight as we fly over ground zero from hurricane michael, the unimaginable destruction, buildings destroyed, homes simply swept away. the category 4 hurricane wiping out much of the town, mexico beach, not far from panama city. as we fly over, homes sitting in streets, hotels and buildings destroyed. winds strong enough to flip a freight train right over. and just 24 hours after ginger zee witnessed a storm surge, lifting a home off the foundation, floating past her. what she witnessed today when the sun came up. also tonight, the scare inside the hospital. the hurricane blew up to the doors to the e.r. using gurneys to barricade themselves from the storm. tonight, the upper floor still
with water in the hall ways. the patients awaiting heart surgery. a pregnant woman in premature labor with twins and doctors working furiously to get the patients to safety. in other news, as it plays out. the scene at the white house. the photo op at
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a lot different there than elsewhere facebook and google are blocked for example what s the internet like behind the chinese firewall our topic today. most of the world uses products from google apple facebook and amazon or. but not china there are 3 homegrown tech giants dominate the industry they re called by do . and handsome also known as b. 80 in china but i do replace as google is for e-commerce and tencent is more popular than facebook is here but that s
and bennetta won the award for the weekend s most valuable player for her house for the rest of africa s basketball lovers the future is looking bright. you re watching the news from berlin up next shift with an in-depth look at how women worldwide are using social media platforms for fight violence and discrimination back at the top the hour with more nukes sit with us. i m secure that my war that s hard and in the end is a me you re not allowed to stay here and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers we re alliance. what s your story. ready on what numbers of women especially in victims of violence. take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture.
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biodiversity a vast range of plants and animals live in the forest habitats in fact 80 percent of the world s terrestrial species inhabit them since time immemorial they also have provided us with animals to hunt for to eat and wood to burn and build but now the world s forests are under massive pressure from logging agriculture and pollution that s our topic today on made the forest let s start in germany where foresters face problems ranging from erosion to drought to storms and flooding and insect pests around the country water tables are falling and the forestry business in some places is on the ropes
this could be the end of communism at the. heart crisis and. the story of an era that defines our lives today. 1979 the big bang created. starts december 23rd d.w. . welcome to you to morrow today the science show on t w. a bust new the 25th un climate change conference kicks off this week so for this special edition 2 of our tomorrow today reporters paid a visit to the clean the house in a huff in germany after the fall of the thing a house or climate house is a museum that allows visitors i ve unique opportunity to experience the world s
climate zones it has exhibitions that feature a number of places on a total of 5 continents along the 8 meridian east in just a few hours our reporters will feel the heat of the tropics and the chill of polar winds. but before they set off here s a look at what s coming up. we ll learn about research being done it africa s 1st climate monitoring station. here how geo engineering could be used to curtail climate change. what happens when permafrost