on the other hand, i don't think thing.blic opinion is a ,efore the hacking in the d&c trump was not leading in the polls. we are talking about 2% or percent that can make a difference, but it is not a large amount of things. melinda: one things that both fake news and hacking clearly do is undermined trust. let's take a look at a recent case of fake news that did target germany. >> about a year r ago, members f germany's russian-german unity protested after reports that police were trying to cover up an assault. reports said that migrants did the crime. there were nasty online crime -- comments about migrants and the police. the german authorities were criticized for their handling of the case but it later turned out that the girl had made up this tory. is there any way to stop this flood of disinformation? it turned up that the girl made up the story. fornda: we are seeing calls holding social media accountable . possibly holding mark zuckerberg accountable for not controlling the stream of faking news. >> it is hard to implement something like this. anybody running a platform shou

heading to was russia's military base in syria .efore it crashed in sochi we are joined by our moscow correspondent. can you bring us up to speed on the investigation into why this crash happened and the latest on the search and rescue operation. >> the short and long of it is there is not that much that is new. they are waiting for is to find the black boxes. the defense ministry has been crucial to get these black boxes. they have said they have a special group of divers that have been looking for them. they are aware of how important they were. the commission is being set up to investigate it. technical causes of the accident -- of the accident. at the moment there was no evidence this was a terror act. >> it does have a polar record. there have been high profile when it went down on russian soil. is there speculation that it is just flawed from its design? >> that is true. it is an old-style plane. this one will specifically was built in 1983, before i was born. as you say it has had a number of bad accidents. things like bad weather, pilot error. but it has left hundreds of peopl

b>>efore making it as an actor, he was a farm hand, security guard, a dating consultant who matched uped minister. >> how many marriages have you performed? >> i've performed probably a dozen or so. >> you could perform a marriage if you wanted to today? >> yeah. it's still legal, and i can't help, but wonder if there's someone at one point watching "breaking bad," oh, my god, i think walter white married us. honey! >> he has endured a lot of pain. when he was a kid, his father, an actor, abandoned the family. and in his new memoir, "a life in parts" he writes about one of the most terrifying experiences he had with a troubled girlfriend. >> she acted insanely and threatened to kill me or have me killed and i had this epiphany. i saw myself hurt k >> in your imagination. >> oh, my god, it was so real, i didn't know it was my imagination. >> wow! >> until i found myself shaking on my floor, and sweating and realizing this is what i've come to. one of the most disturbing times i've ever had. >> you say you channelled this a little bit in playing walter white. >> if it's useful in anythin

evman, a meless man who se efore. hicals didn't kno so t coron ask r helpn his loved ones. as wor spread so did e notion that his service to his country should be honored, spec th of us still here state veterans cemetery near casper, was filled to overflowing for steven ryman's funeral. his death is a reminder of all the other homeless veterans. while they have done their duty, our duty to them remains unfulfilled. harry smith, nbc news. >>> and that will do it for us on a thursday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and ?? >> announcer: this is today's tmj4, live at 6:00. >> now at 6:00, a pewaukee man charged with his 5th dui after he nearly crashed his car into a house. that crash happened on thanksgiving, the aftermath all caught on camera. >> rikki mitchell joins us from headquarters in waukesha. >> state trooper first noticed the driver, justin murphy, when he was going more than 100 miles an hour on a frontage road. the trooper loss sight of the driver, but learned murphy crashed his car very close to somebody's house. this dashc

. >> what appears to be a road rage incident closed down i 8 a efor some time this afternoon the driver of a honda was was hiting when he made a rude gesture. allegedly passed on the center land, and fired multiple shots. leat car hit with several allets. during last couple of hours, it has been reopened. wer ous than an hour ago a healtc health advisory was listed near martinez. you might have seen it or e arled it, a power outage this afternoon prompted flaring at ere toldlity. they warned people with breathing conditions to leave the area. again, the advisory has been lifted about an hour ago. let's bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. >>> we do have stagnant air in place for the entire bay area unrelated to the refinery issue. i do want to show you at the martinez refineries we have light winds. so, what we had in martinez happening today pretty much we'll stay there when it comes to the wind at least to this point. for the entire bay area, we have air quality issues again because of the clear skies and this area of high pressure it will help to keep the unhealthy air in

after reports that russia influenced the presidential election, why officials may have waited bfr eforeeleasing thos reports. >>> a celebration of african american community. next, we are speaking with the head of a local theater production company about the impact of their latest production during this time of year. ♪ >>> for ten years now john graves and his production company have been putting on plays. graves is back with another play which explores a little boy's journey through time. joining us live in studio this morning writer and director -- i know there are a bunch more titles we can add to that, gravegravjohn graves. let's get right into it. >> it is about a young man that suffered through tragedy but he learned through the history and value of his life. we do that through music, dancing, a number of different scenarios. the big point is bringing joy back to the community at large not just to the black community but to the community at large especially philadelphia because that's where i'm from. all of the performers are from philadelphia or surrounding areas. >> tell me what

you have the population here .efore we are going through a renaissance right now of another explosion of population going right now. >> this weekend, we are featuring the history of tempe,. we are going through a renaissance right now arizona, together with our cox communication cable partners. learn more about tempe and other spots on our cities tour at www.c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. so i decided to spend much more time at west point trying to understand how this man could finish 21st out of 39 at west point, and therefore sometimes viewed by these biographers as historical lightweight. and yet he said of himself i must apologize, i spent all of my time reading novels. day, aght on cue and historian talks but the life and career of the 18th u.s. president in his latest book american ulysses, a life of ulysses s. grant. presidency, he convened african-american leaders and the white house and said i look over to the day when you can write on a railroad car, when you can even a restaurant, where you can do so along

but it's worse today than ever efore. mr. pence: the truth is, we have not had a government as good as our people in washington dc for some time. it is worse today than ever before. at home, the errors are almost too numerous to count whether it is a government takeover of health care, the internet, the president's unconstitutional amnesty or the war on coal, the dministration's policies are snapping the vitality and threatening prosperity. most americans understand you cannot improve health care by ordering every american to buy health insurance whether they wanted or needed or not. you cannot expect the internet to thrive with these unwarranted and unjustifiable regulations. you cannot change the laws by executive fiats and you cannot build an energy policy by putting it on americans. the sec's rule must be reversed and the precedents action rescinded and the war on energy must and. onight, allow me to offer some advice. to the rising generation of leaders who may be gathering in looking on the country and how we might onfr

michael: one or two follow-ups efore i start a swing to the arabian peninsula. we had a complicated. bank in dealing with -- a collocated period in dealing with egypt from 2011 to 2013, and everything from the conflict desperately confusing signals about when president mubarak should step down to resident morsi and his period, i recognize that some of this is getting into the broader relationship, but you are arguably the highest level american official dealing with egypt, and therefore i know these issues are on your mind. the final question would be, have you seen consequences that affect the relationship between the united states and egypt from that 2011-2013 period and a harmful way that has pushed them away from us, and therefore there is not as much trust and cooperation as there might have been? gen. votel: certainly we have. we have seen average to russia lately. i think that is some concern for us, and it is something we are to take notice of and look at what that means to us long-term. i don't know that that is particularly helpful to the things we are

bush was talking about looking soul of putin and nixon, each ck to efore vietnam was completely finished was in china making trade, so it seems drifted have all towards communist countries and kissinger was -- had a lot to do with deals in and vietnam and chile and -- i'm not going to trump until i see how he does, but i can judge nixon and bush and those on what they did and that is my comment. host: all right. thank you for taking part in the dale.am, carol in pittsburgh. carol. caller: thanks to c-span. to be ou for trying unbiassed through this year.tely crazy but i just want to say a couple things. democrat coming from a blue collar background in pittsburgh. father was a foreman at u.s. steel. i'm old enough to remember the etc, ons, the industry, etc. i was disappoint third degree ear in the way things were handled. 'm old enough to remember the clintons, understand how have perated in life, the legal limit thinking their toitlements enabled them not be prosecuted for a lot of things. things disappointed when started coming out about the collision toward bernie sanders, etc, etc, i

>> look at where we were several months ago. ,efore that it was like central-bank cammie 30 target, negativeelds and disinflation going on, that seems to be abated. it is one of the themes of the past six months. can that continue? >> we discussed the psychological import of that. not hit thatill today. your -- what is your sense of how long this can continue? how long to be give them to do based on different what we have heard? moree consensus is optimism about it. list will turnty think is important. it might be a short-term boost but as far as dividends and how they handle that if they do pass the law, when they did it in 2004, the bill said you're not allowed to use the money for buybacks and dividends. but there are studies showing that most of the repatriated money is used for buybacks and dividends. they have been the back one of the market. they are showing signs of weakness and higher interest rates make it harder to borrow but if you have got repatriated earnings, at least in the short-term, it would be positive. david: thank you. mike is bloomberg news senior markets editor. comin

. >> can you give assurance that when the plan appears it will be efore article 50 is triggered and there will be sufficient time for us to do our job looking at it. p.m. may: as i have said, parliament need not have any concerned about its ability to have opportunity to comment on the matters. i expect parliament will have proper opportunity to look at the matters before triggering article 50. a what would be your view of reasonable time before the triggering of article 50? p.m. may: that is another way of asking when i will publish a plan. i do not have a date. i will not set out a time. we will ensure that parliament has an opportunity to look at these issues. will factor into the timetable the question of the supreme court judgment. if they find in favor of the government that leaves one course of action, against the government, there will be a need to respond to the supreme court judgment. >> is it your intention that parliament will have a final vote? will haveparliament every opportunity to vote through the great repeal ill on the negotiations with the european union. >> the questi