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Pivotal time. A number of critics saying the administration has been slow to respond to a series of crieses abroad. This move is an acknowledgement by president obama that his Foreign Policy to some extent needs a reboot. Ive been talking to white house officials here who say carter was tapped in large part because hes not afraid to deliver bad news. Hes not afraid to challenge the president. Recently, they point to the fact he disagreed with mr. Obamas decision to withdraw most u. S. Troops fro...

Can you give us any indication on who these victims are . Young . Old . Male, female . They are mixed male and female at this point. After varying ages. We want to honor the privacy for the patients. What was the [inaudible]. The age span wed say was on the younger side. Doctor, if you could say again, there were ten patients admitted here. And explain that again what you just went over. Sure. We received ten patients from the ucc. Of those three were transferred to a higher level of care for se...

The church where police were banging away at that door, trying to wedge it open for fight some time. When they finally succeeded in doing that, we saw them filing in there. Its not clear what the source of the threat or the intelligence that led them to this church is. Were about 500 meters or so away from the Apartment Building that was the source of the raids overnight. Police filed into that church, you can see from their posture they appear to be pretty calm now. Certainly this has been a pr...

Of Severe Weather tonight. A massive storm system is dumping snow and hail, spawning powerful winds and possibly tornadoes. The fastmoving storm system unleashed torrential rains along the heartland today. A suspected tornado was spotted this evening in powersville, her twiste another twister was spotted in the southern iowa town of avoca. An 18 wheeler was blown off the road there by 76mileperhour winds. That same severe storm system created blizzard conditions across the Rocky Mountains and we...

Donald trump. Is that a comedy or a horror movie . For me, even if it was the golf course it would be a horror movie. With triumph, it is more complicated. Live from scotland, he will explain to us why he now flies a mexican flag on his property beside the trump golf course. Well done, my friend. I will be riveted. We have just completed the most active week in gun control in 20 years in the senator. And the senate had another vote and this time, the nra lost. The rebellion was the peak of the w...

Forced to. Reporter donald trump ready to turn his back on gop leaders, threatening to go it alone. Im going to remain on this floor until we can get a path forward on addressing this epidemic. And theres a fundamental disconnect with the American People when these tragedies continue to occur and we just move forward with business as usual. Reporter democratic senator chris murphy ending his nearly 15hour filli buster on the senate floor early this morning after saying he has a commitment from R...

Pelley this is our western edition. For the 44th time, the american presidency has passed from one man to another peacefully, but just blocks away today there were violent protests. Donald Trump Took Office at noon eastern time on this 20th of january as the constitution requires on the west front of the capitol, as tradition demands. Like all things trump, his inaugural address was uncompromising, populist, isolationist, a philosophy from the early days of the republic, which found its 21st cen...

Phones during the campaign. In the weeks since, weve barely been able to get through a news cycle without another effort by the white house to make sense of trumps tweets. Sean spicer explaining the president meant wiretapping, not wiretapping. There was then house sbblg Committee Devin Nunes secret nighttime meeting at the white house where his sources handed him documents supposedly backing up claims, which he then ran up to give to the white house before calling a Bizarre Press Conference abo...

Its 1 00 in the east, 10 00 a. M. Out west. Heres whats happening right now. Did he or didnt he . Rex tillerson again today facing the mword question. You still havent denied that you called him a moron, and you know, a lot of people are going to watch this and think, he probably said it. Does america deserve an answer . What does it really matter in these troubling times . And social media backfire. How russia attacks the u. S. Election with the angry arsenal of americans online. First, we go t...

President takes a victory lap on the tax bill, and, make no mistake, its a major achievement for his and his party. David axlerod, no fan of the president , calls it consequential, and theres no disputing that, cutting individual rates, tax cuts for 80 of americans, cutting corporate rates, adding to the deficit and a lot of special interests will no doubt like. It will have an effect, and theres plenty to debate about all of it. Whats not up for debate, at least not at the victory celebration t...