The massacre in newtown, connecticut. Proposing more gun control laws, while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, is not a serious solution to reducing crime. Ifill then, we assess the state of the economic recovery, as key indicators show trends both up and down. Brown from jerusalem, Margaret Warner has the latest on the attack by israeli warplanes inside syria. Ifill Judy Woodruff talks with newly elected senator Tammy Baldwin, a democrat from wisconsin. Brown we examine how some schools are translating lessons into real world applications in an effort to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students. Im actually really excited to be creating this device. It really makes you feel, i dont know, grown up, i guess . Its not just learning, its experiencing. Ifill and we close with a first person account of the struggle for human rights in china. Ray suarez sits down with an activist who spent two years under house arrest. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshou
Funding. He accused the organization of not being aggressive enough countering the global spread of the coronavirus. They called it wrong. They called it wrong. They really they missed the call. They could have called months earlier. They would have known. And they should have known. And they probably did know. So well be looking into that very carefully. And were going to put a hold on money spent to the w. H. O. Were going to put a very powerful hold on it. But just minutes after making that statement, the president then reversed course and walked back what he said about funding. Is the time to freeze funding during the w. H. O. During a pandemic . I mean, im not saying im going to do it, but im going to look at it. You did say no, i didnt. I said were going to investigate it. Were going to look at it. If you look back over the year, theyre very much everything seems to be very biased toward china. Thats not right. All right. Lets do a brief factcheck here. So President Trump accused
A hazmat suit telling wisconsin voters that they were, quote ris, incredibly safe to go out. Of all the things that ive seen in my 25 years of politics and being associated with politics and reporting on politics, i dont know that ive ever seen anything as reckless and irresponsible with the Public Health as what i saw yesterday where republicans, republicans jammed down the throat of wisconsin voters an election in the middle of a pandemic where they had to stand in lines close to each other. And, yes, you can say this, the republicans that jammed this election through risked the lives of countless wisconsin voters and those in other states. This is, afterall, mika, if you want to know what this is about as we look at these pictures, this is about a Wisconsin Legislature and a Wisconsin Republican party in wisconsin that has spent the last decade doing everything they could do to twist and distort voting outcomes and elections. You dont believe me . In 2018 the numbers here, Democrati
Good afternoon. Im chuck todd here in washington. Here are the facts that we know at this hour. More promising news out of new york. The epicenter of the pandemic, governor andrew cuomo, says the curve is flattening with icu and hospital admissions down. The number of deaths was up by 100 yesterday so this plateauing will look good on the curve perhaps in a week but there will be these daytoday ups and downs. Were also expected to hear from the president. He may announce the Advisory Board that will help guide the reopening of the economy. Hell make that announcement, we think, this evening, during the Coronavirus Task force briefing. This council has already begun meeting behind closed doors. Right now two groups of governors on both coasts are joining forces to determine when the best time will be to ease shutdowns regionally and reopen their economies collectively. At 3 00 p. M. , governor gavin newsom of california will reveal a plan that will begin easing restrictions. More than 5
The fbi has investigated that shooting, the fbi has found that shooting to be kosher and has exonerated itself 151 times out of 151 times. They almost always are the only ones to investigate their own shootings and they always find themselves to be justified every single time and so it was interesting and newsworthy when a local state prosecutor in florida decided to look into a shooting where an fbi agent killed someone in florida a little less than a year ago. Its very rare to have a Law Enforcement authority other than the fbi to look into a shooting by the fbi. Heres the surprise. When that state prosecutor in florida looked into that shooting and released this report on what happened, that state prosecutor inadvertently released the name of the fbi agent who did that shooting. They werent trying to. They were in fact trying hard not to residentiese lee lease t agents name. This is how they explained it. They said the name. Fbi agent was, quote, confirmed but unredacting the prosec