sat by while donald trump used the rally to go farther than he has before in this cultish alliance with this dangerous sometimes amorphous group called qanon by pushing lies that may sound bizarre and absurdist you can underestimate how serious they are and how they re building a following. i m not going to repeat or amplify all of them, but among them is the claim that certain hollywood actors and democrats are part of some secret pedophile group aligned with satan or who eat children. it goes on like that. i m not going to do much more of it for you tonight. i ll tell you why that is the top story. what does that have to do with midterm campaigns other than villainizing a few democrats? one of the theories is that trump will lead a battle against the forces and by the way, there are many versions and it rations of these conspiracy theories. it matters in many ways. you may recall right after donald trump was elected, a gunman opened fire in a washington, d.c. restaurant und
playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
To date on all of the latest news of the day and take your calls at 186655press. And word is out this morning that roger ails told David Petraeus when he was still in iraq that he should quit and run for president of the United States against barack obama and if he did so, roger ails said he would quit fox news and run his campaign. How about it. Dont tell me fox news is not the broadcast arm of the Republican Party. That proves it all right. Well get into that and a whole lot more here. First we get the latest current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in los angeles. Hi lisa. Good morning. Hey bill. Good morning everyone. So far the president seems to be staying strong when it comes to taxes. As you all know by now House Republicans sent in a fiscal cliff counter offer yesterday but the white house is calling it no good. I want to give you an idea of where the two sides stand right now. Boehners new plan would raise 2. 2 trillion. Now it would extend the bush tax cuts for everyone an
A special survey by nbc news and esquire magazine that maps out a very large america. Its called a new American Center. Meantime, left and right are trying to find the middle as harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell are edging closer to getting the senate to sign off on a deal to reopen the government and fund the government. But the fate in the house is uncertain. And ted cruz having a Public Private meeting with house leaders many the basement of a texmex restaurant. One of the colleagues is calling it the Senate Surrender Caucus on the front page of the new york times. Going to be a long 48 hours, folks. Good morning from new york. Its tuesday, object 15th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. We have much more on the new American Center throughout this special edition of the daily rundown. But we have to begin with the latest on the shutdown. First read begins now. If youre rooting for an end to the fiscal standoff, we have a senate deal at least in principle, kinda sorta. The bad news, no on
Gwen against good news which warranted a president ial hug. I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today. Gwen and we remember Washington Post editor ben bradlee. Covering the week, john harwood, chief washington correspondent of cnbc. Dan balz, chief correspondent for the Washington Post. Jeanne cummings, Deputy Managing Editor for bloomberg politics. And alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nations capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40. 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. Well, if you start putting that money toward your retirement every week, and let it grow over time, over 20, 30 years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. The future of surge