0 sofia. i m thinking he already has the best-elected official in these united states. so maybe mayor tufts could continue to serve, i don t know, at least until kindergarten starts, anyway. that s it for us. thanks for watching. early start begins now. on the hot seat, the head of the irs faces questions on why military sex scandals, a danger to national security. surreal and extensive damage. people in the areas hardest hit by tornadoes in texas, not allowed back home this morning. and powerful frenzy. will you turn your $2 into more than half a billion dollars. this is the second-biggest pot in powerball history. are we playing? we re playing. good morning, everyone, welcome to early start, i m john bermen. i m zoraida sambolin, it s friday, may 17th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. developing this morning, the man fired from the irs over a scandal targeting conservatives will be on the hot seat today, steven miller, the acting head of the irs was forced out this weekend,
0 that might come later. oh, advice taken, mary, thank you for being with us. no problem, good luck if you are playing. thank you, we appreciate i. thank you for joining me today, cnn newsroom continues right now. [ music playing ] hi, everybody, i m ashleigh banfield. thanks so much for being with us. it s one of those days, a taxing day, especially for the ousted head of the irs. lawmakers want a pound of flesh for what looks to be a partisan bias in handing out tax exempt status and some other treats that go along with it. a dirty little secret in the military is not so secret any more and it is definitely not little. sexual assault is a crisis. now the tap bratop brass vowing go to war and defeat it. and the mayor of toronto, canada, denying he smoked crack cocaine with somali drug traffickers. believe it or not. this is a story i m following. the toronto star reporter says he s seen an explosive interview of that. we will begin in arizona where jodi arias line i life is
good evening from washington. in a few moments, we re going to bring you the entire proceedings in the first day of the senate watergate hearings. we are running it all each day because we think these hearings are important. we are doing this as an experiment to give you the whole story, however many hours it may take. woodruff: 40 years after the scandal that brought down an american president. robert macneil and jim lehrer reflect on watergate s legacy and the gavel-to-gavel coverage that gave rise to the program you re watching tonight. public television was doing something that commercial networks, for all their brilliance in news, wouldn t and couldn t do. that was before there were things like c-span. going gavel-to-gavel, the way we were going, in the daytime and in particular, repeating it at night. this had never happened before. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: i want to make
press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the paper s publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about climate change. mostly, we need people taking action. nobody can really tell you what that action should be. first, we turn to a shocking senate hearing for the pentagon declared the entire world is a battlefield and the president can send troops anywhere without new congressional authorization. i have only been here five months, but this is the most astounding disturbing hearing i have been here. you essentially have rewritten the constitution here today. all of that and more coming up. thi
press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the paper s publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about climate change. mostly, we need people taking action. nobody can really tell you what that action should be. first, we turn to a shocking senate hearing for the pentagon declared the entire world is a battlefield and the president can send troops anywhere without new congressional authorization. i have only been here five months, but this is the most astounding disturbing hearing i have been 2 cents i have been here. you essentially have rewritten the constitution here today. all of that and