Second chad wolf and Ken Cuccinelli offered to be changed because they made the president look bad. Murphy said he was told focus on the sbrrch activities by china and iran and he said that wolf told him that these instructions came from White House National security advisor robert obrien. I dont think theres anyone whos been tougher on russia than very. Murphy said he was told to modify intelligence on white supreme cysts in a manner that will made appear less severe. In line with the president s public comments. Antifas a criminal organization. Mark seine is nur fis attorney. Information pertaining to russia and the analysis and the russian intelligence reports was downplayed in order to assure additional favorable information to President Trump. Which was something mr. Murphy said no, he would not do. The w hou denst briever dictated such changes. Meanwhile on capitol hill, house intelligence chairman adam schiff wants murphy to testify before his Committee Later on this month. Murp
How a new outlook on Racial Justice might show up on the field. And Climate Change warriors. In eye on innovation, how a tiny deep sea animal could be showing us the way to a cleaner planet. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic. Newly released recordings show what the president knew about the coronavirus and when. Its clear the president knows what the stakes are, but hes not sharing that with the public. This is the tragedy. The president of the United States has a duty to warn. Knowingly and willingly lied about the threat to the country. Im not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. Reporter a whistleblower at the department of Homeland Security says he was demoets forward refusing to change intelligence reports. I dont know who he is, and its hearsay. The whole community is decimated. We need more firefighting resources. An epic wildfire battle up and down the west coast. Or
Good friend nick kristof and just one minute. Following that, we will have an interview with the ambassador of china. Missile, nbcdrea is our corporate strategic partner. Be5 30, our last event will beinterview who will interviewed by margaret rendon. A word about my friend nicholas kristof. Thee we can bring him up on screen. Hes a longtime friend and a member of the aspen strategy group. He writes a very important twiceweekly college for the column for the New York Times. When i read your column and read it avidly, you put people first. You dont put government first. He put human rights and dignity first. Because of his extraordinary repair extra ordinary career, hes won two pulitzer prizes, one for reporting on china and one for darfur. Hes just wrote a book with his wife which we will talk about. I think it has deep meaning for him personally. He has had an extra neri journalistic life full top he has lived on for continents. He has traveled to 160 countries and his biography says
With lawrence right wright and Nicholas Kris staff. Kristof. Want to thank you for being here and supporting us through these everchanging times. Were happy to keep in touch with you and keep wang what we said. Want to welcome Lawrence Wright, staff write are for the knockerrer, and the author of ten books including the looming tower, going clear and god save texas and one previous novel, gods favorite. His books have received many honors including a Pulitzer Prize for looming power. He is and if wore longtime residents of austin, texas. Nicholas kristof has coauthored several books with his wife, including a path of here and half the sky. Together they were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for the coverage of china. They also received the literary peace prize for the Lifetime Achievement in 2009. Now a column nist for the New York Times bureau chief in beijing, tokyo, won a second pull litter in 2006 and with that id like to welcome Lawrence Wright and Nicholas Kristof. Thank you, kri
Affairs from all Different Directions into some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why lex guest we were running around covering humanitarian crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my Old School Bus were gone from drugs, alcohol and suicide. I tried to process back. The kids that got on the bus right after me [inaudible] and then nathan and their sister virginia, smart talented kids. One died of drug and alcohol abuse, one in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and one blew himself up cooking meth and died of hepatitis from drug use. Hunter biden the Oregon State Penitentiary for 13 years. So, for a while, we wondered is it something that this is a National Problem that we have depths of despair and Life Expectancy is falling for three years in a row in america and god my old loves this kind of a microcosm to see that opinion across