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Russian president vladamir putin held a record breaking fourhour and 20 minute News Conference today. His annual address included 1600 journalists vying for the chance to ask a question. Elizabeth palmer was one of them. And she joins us from moscow tonight. Liz, president putin seemed to have warm word for just one man. Thats right, jeff it may surprise you to know it was president donald trump. President putin spoke almost nonstop with his usual kind of swaggering confidence. He actually had praise for President Trump. He said, that he should be credited for significant achievements. He pointed to the booming financial markets. That he restored the confidence of investors. As for the allegations of, russian meddling in the american election, those were said president putin to be blamed on people who oppose donald trump and trying to undermine his legitimacy which as you know is an argument we have heard in the past from President Trump himself. And liz, besides President Trump. Presi
And how a young actress is getting to play the role of a lifetime in more ways than one. With you on a friday morning. This morning, reports are swirling, House Speaker may soon leave his job. With political claiming, they are seeing his journey coming to an end, as he engineers his legislative dream. That dream, tax reform. Lets jump in to the 1. 25 trillion tax plan. With them hitting more than a few snags as the last minute behind the scenes deal making is going on. We are learning that some last minute republican holdouts could complicate matters. For more, we good to tracy potts who is in washington, how are you . You saw him there, Floridas Marco Rubio may not be backing his partys bill. He said that he wants more of the Child Tax Credit refundable to low income families if they cannot work it out, he may be a novote, listen. Unless they figure out a way to increase the refundable part, higher than 1100. The way they figured out a way to give corporations an extra year of cuts an
Women abut the me too movement. Alex wagner talks to men who are also speaking up. You watch these stories unfold, every day, there is a new story. Where are you guys as this all unfolds . It certainly is a tidal wave that its happening. But i look at it like isnt it amazing that, that, so many people have felt the need to be silent for so long. How tear brrible must the environment be, that right now, as a result of the internet and as a result of just, confluence of Events People feel safe speaking up. Men are kind of grouped together from a very young age. There becomes a vernacular that its negative towards women. And there becomes an expectation of other men to place ideology on conquering women. Leland, that brings to the fore, the question of masculinity and how young men are indoctrinated at an early age . You have written about this. I was 5 years old. And, you know, i talk about this in my book because it is like how can i help other kids get over this. Because so many kids t
All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. Welcome. I my name is Amanda Woodword and im the dean of the division of social sciences here at the university of chicago. Im just delighted to be here with this group of faculty for this event. This evening is continuing a yearlong series of events at the university of chicago commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first controlled selfsustaining Nuclear Chain reaction which happened just over there. Over the past five months, there have been events across campus xh commemorating the breakthrough and exploring the experiments long term impact, and the events have presented u opportunities to engage scientists, artists and policy makers and the public around a set of events that grew from that original event 75 years ago. This evenings discussion im particularly delighted because it brings in social science in just the way it should be. Our panelists will be introduced in a moment. Each is a scholar and International Relation