senator lindsey graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the donald trump campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the presidential election. since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. comey according to sheldon whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that they re having tomorrow in this senate judiciary committee subcommittee exploring russia s meddling in the election. eastern yoeuropean elections as
committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing there s no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. one ot
commencements since becoming president. it comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. we have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. let s begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is at the commencement. you see him there on the left. what are you hearing from the crowd there? i understand there s about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. what are they saying? what do they expect? reporter: well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. this is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at liberty university their president jerry falwell jr. a very influential evangelical leader that allowed t
has defended the crackdown calling the vote in mockery of democracy we ll go live to barcelona also coming up in the french city of moore said two women have been stabbed to death in a knife attack officials say the assailant was shot dead by french soldiers investigators are working to determine if the attack was terror related. plus defying truong by taking a need in the us professional football players continue a controversial protest and the spotlight in police brutality this after a string of critical tweets from the u.s. president. i m sara harmon thanks for joining me it s good to have you with us. in spain the catalan regional government says more than four hundred sixty people have been injured in a police crackdown on a banned independence referendum. ballots are being counted after polls closed
early morning trying to get into the polling stations across the region in fact i was at a polling station not too far from where i am and central barcelona and there were long que
take a stand against 76% of what americans think is right. several republicans and democrats including my first guest tonight, california senator harris spent the weekend making statements and tweeting strong opposition to president trump ending daca. but in trump s mind, there was the looming headline that appears in breitbart today if the president did nothing about daca, and then, of course, there was the president himself. the candidate who campaigned on ending daca had only this to say when last asked about it on friday. should d.r.e.a.m.ers be worried? we love the dreamers. the president would delay a final big decision on daca for six months, an immigration hard
liner told the new york times he s being pulled in a bunch of different directions and because he doesn t have any strong anchor or deep knowledge of the issue, he ends up sort of not knowing what to do. i think the fact that they did nothing to it suggests that they had no idea what to do. that was an assumpt
everybody welcome to the show there s lots to look forward to as we kick off another week on your next here s what s coming up today. golden globes in the fade is named best foreign language film in los angeles. holiday on ice the world s best known ice skating show turns seventy five. and canine work is how dogs help boost sales in british shops. the award season is upon us and the first major event for film and t.v. fans was the seventy fifth golden globes which is my personal favorite because the films and series i enjoyed tend to get recognized that and there was plenty of recognition for european artists with winners from france scotland and germany will bring you up to date on how europe s finest did at the awards ceremony but first
a look at how fashion was used to deliver a strong message to. the red carpet was full of. alack at the golden globe awards on sunday the stars wore somber outfits to show solidarity with victims of sexual assault and harassment in the film industr
taunt israeli border guards they retaliate with tear gas it s been like this for the last two weeks the tension is getting to the man stores. in many ways christmas is different this year we can even smell the tear gas and tom as well because donald trump decided to move the american embassy to jerusalem to see if we can say the jerusalem an arabic city where all religions should co-exist in a city to. the more as in calls the faithful to prayer in the center of bethlehem two thirds of the town s thirty thousand residents are muslim one third christian but two faith communities treat each other with respect. and that we celebrate together with our christine presence and day with those there are no differences between us. was.
more and more tourists are coming to bethlehem the palestinian authority has stepped up security measures but a feeling of ease remains. at the grotto of the native of the where jesus is believed to have been born a group of pilgrims starts an informal choir a
begun to arrive and one record has already been broken with ninety two nations competing bouts more than ever before but the games are overshadowed by the problem of doping with the whole russian team banned and china has for many years also been suspected of engaging in systematic doping but people have been reluctant to speak out fearing tough reprisals now those who are in jin once a leading a lympics sports doctor in china has been talking to our reporters the eighty year old has recently been granted refugee status here in germany but still she lives in fear of the chinese authorities. at the age of eighty julian jin has had to begin a whole new life. she fled to germany a few months ago together with her son young way dong and his wife the move from
china to the shores of lake constance has meant a huge change for her but even here she lives in fear of the communist regime in beijing and yet she used to be part of that regime herself. as a sports doctor she was responsible for
in a society that expects them to bear children this is a burden many married childless women in niger suffer from. a wife is only fully accepted upon motherhood. a very personal film about the suffering of childless women in niger. fruitless tree starting january fourteenth on t w. this week on the world stories. the boom another kut-o. farming in uganda. and special tours glorifying china s communist. but we
exporters see they can t meet demand. kika foods one of ugandans largest exporters ships at least thirty tons to europe every month the market there would be ok if we had the. commercial farmlands of a tree and so if we had a chain to maintain its credited for it and i was in the market it would be much better because the people from promise who have resumed their bucket that there is no fish or data to show how much uganda has ever cut a trade is one but exporters point trained south africa already runts among the top exporting countries in the world and farmers elsewhere in
are people who are driven large birth people. sophism a mystical form of islam has a long tradition in pakistan many muslims here identify as syfy they celebrate their faith in places like these singing and praying often until they reach a trance like state. break came here regularly. but this time it s on he has made pakistan great all over the world and we re proud of that and also of the sunni faith. that there is little trace of that positivity these days safety precautions have been stepped up in recent years there have been more than twenty attacks on holy city sites sometimes by the taliban sometimes by the i.r.s. the terrorist group has also declared the cities its enemies it condemns singing
and dancing as an islamic was devout that is said about whoever kills innocent people is not a human being. but you can t tell by looking at someone. but we can increase security but we cannot really protect ourselves from such attacks. occur only ceremony usually takes place here every
so what is the administration s plan to house the children or to reunite the families? my guest this morning republican senator james langford of oklahoma and independent senator angus king of maine who caucuses with the democrats. also, refugee crisis. why are so many people from central america coming to the united states? what are they fleeing? richard engel of nbc news has a report from his trip to el salvador. and political culture wars. white house press secretary sarah sanders is asked to leave a restaurant because she works for president trump. her father, mike huckabee tweets this picture with the caption, nancy pelosi introduces her campaign committee. is all of this the new normal? joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news capital news correspondent kasie hunt, and erick erickson editor of the resurgent. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press . the longest-running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck
families a year that are coming a