election campaign center here and they've run towers and above all i would like to thank the many candidates old young everybody who's come to us the people who have helped is supported us with so much enthusiasm a very very deep thank you to your lender above all there is one group would like to thank that's the young socialists who penned up on about at all times of day out on the streets who really fought for us. i'm a. guest on i'm sorry. this is the sort of evening where we come up with an inflationary number of explanations for the success or defeat of parties but first of all let me say quite obviously we didn't manage to keep and maintain our traditional voter bases even though there were so many social democratic successes that we fought for in the last parliament we all of us men women all of us here are actually standing for an extraordinary successful policy of this government for which we are responsible we are proud of the achievement that these men and women have fought for whether we're talking the national minimum wage to social housing to supporting the family caregiving pe

federal election commission, former attorney for senator john mccain and president george hw bush, i assume not at the same time, founder, president and general counsel of the campaign legal center which is working in areas of campaign finance and elections, political communication and government ethics. a superb co-moderator, adam grushan, is vice president of our student group, a standalone student group, we are proud to be associated with them. he is a senior at the university of southern california and he will kick it off with the first question which all of you could take a whack at. >> first off, you for being here. we really appreciate it is students hearing from you guys and hearing your expert opinions and thoughts on such an important issue. what i am interested in is the fact that we tried to reform the electoral college for 60 years, we proposed 700 amendments and they have all failed. is this tenable? can we reform the college? what are your thoughts? >> who wants to go first? >> i will take the initial crack. first of all i want to thank everybody involved for the extraordinary opportunity and i thank all of us for figuring out ways to address the extreme partisans

trump campaign chairman before and after the election of the this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance on a high-ranking campaign official. and of course, manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling investigation. we're told that there are intercepted communications that raise concern about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help with the campaign. now, other sources tell us that this intelligence was not conclusive enough. special counsel robert mueller's team has been provided all of these communications, anderson. >> and evan, what do you mean by encouraging? >> well, there's a lot we don't know about exactly what was said. but what we're told is that the fbi has communications between suspected russian operatives relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort, as well as communications involving manafort. now, none of this has amounted to what people consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there's still more work to be done to determine whether there's a criminal violation here. we didn't get a comment from paul manafort spokesman, but he has previously denied that he ever knowingly communicated with russian intelligence opera

european election campaign we're speaking about the german elections arrived but also in the german our main topic for social equality the social democrats didn't say whether or not they wanted a center left coalition with the greens and the left party were this a crucial mistake not giving the voters a clear choice. no you don't know how parties can develop if you look at the left part in the left part of us here the crucial point you advocated that well as i just said the decision was not been taken away that this is an option and if the left party would have swing in some form political points there might have been in ability to correlate together and so comes from different parties and so that option was then been brought down throughout the election going to s.p.d. didn't take any decision they didn't say either yes with the left's perhaps or never with the left perhaps the voters didn't know what will be your reaction at the end of the election i don't think that the coalition question what it is to avoid or not to vote for this beauty let me ask you something else. with this election results in mind shouldn't martin short step down as the leader of the s.p.d. i mean twenty one

national elections mankell campaigned in the northeast including the city of christ where she was invited to support the week of reanimation. short's was hoping to revive his chances at a rally of the center left social democrats in the western city of aachen. polls show his party far behind merkel's conservatives it's likely she'll have to continue a coalition with the social democrats or create a new one with other parties the far right alternative for germany is expected to enter the bundestag for the first time. by fighter jets are flown in international airspace over the waters east of north korea was the farthest north of the demilitarized zone that any u.s. fighter jet obama has flown this century the show of force came after tens of thousands of north koreans joined a rally against the u.s. in pyongyang tensions have been rising around the korean peninsula ever since north korea carried out its six nuclear test earlier this month prompting a new round of u.n. sanctions addressing the u.n. general assembly north korea's foreign minister said trump was on a suicide mission. u.s. president donald trump has said iran's test firing of a new missile calls into question its nuclear deal

election campaigns ahead of. hello and welcome back across europe we have a low pressure center across the central areas with them some quite nasty storms associated with a high pressure area which is trying to push back into awards the west and certainly hold out some of these fronts out towards the northwest look at the forecast this frontal system pushing towards western parts the u.k. much of dr fine london there are twenty one which isn't too bad for this time the warm air coming up from the south a woman in madrid we've got some showers for ukraine care of there could see one or two downpours so decent temperatures across parts of greece and turkey and that continued head on through into monday with some pretty heavy showers down through the adriatic and the balkans as you head into north africa with the risk of showers developing through the gulf of sirte certainly showers on sunday will clear through but those shows are moving into tripoli karo looks as though it should be quite pleasant over temperatures into the low thirty's for central parts of africa we still have lots of charity extending from so sit

election. this is a step for the fbi to do surveillance on a high-ranking campaign official. manafort is at the center of russia meddling investigation. we are told there are imoccasions raising concerns about whether manafort was encouraging rushes to help with the campaign. other sources tell us this was not conclusive enough. mueller's team has been provided all these imoccasions anderson. >> what document by encouraging? >> we don't know exactly what was said. communications involving manafort and none of this has amounted to what people consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there's still more work to be done to determine whether there's a criminal violation here. we didn't get a comment from paul manafort's spokesman, but manafort previously denied he ever knowingly communicated with russia during campaign. >> they monitored him on two separate occasions or at two separate times, correct? >> that's right. that centered on work don't by a group of washington consulting firms, four ukraine's parties. the surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for a lack of evidence, according

are up for reelection next year >> during the campaign, there was a lot of talk about donald trump once he was elected and in office coming back to the centerittle bit. niles, you tweeted that a senior democratic several months ago he thought donald trump might run independent as 2020. you wrote you scuffed at the time but now not so sure. we're looking at your to tweet there. you're not so sure >> it wouldn't be the first time i'd be wrong about donald trump for starters. but the one suggestion was that because he is a base that is very loyal to him, but it's relatively small, 37, 38% of the population, you can win without a three person or four-person, the green party race in a way that you can't with true parties, could he present himself as above the two existing traditional parties? someone described it to me as trump angulation, a version of try anglation. >> we've heard talk there may be other members of the gop who might run. this may be a way to position himself to stave that off >> and to really distance himself from the image of the leaders i more unpopular than he is, we talk a lot about donald trump's ratings. he actually has b

campaign chair before and after the election. extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. of course, manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling probe. there are intercepted communications that raise concerns about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help the campaign. other sources tell us that this intelligence was actually not very conclusive. special mueller's team has now been provided all these communications. >> evan, what do they mean by encouraging the russians? >> reporter: right. there's a lot we don't know about exactly what was said. now, we're told that the fbi has communications between suspected russian operatives relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort as well as communications involving manafort himself. none of this has amounted to what people would consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there's still much more work being done to determine whether there's a criminal violation here. we didn't get a comment from paul manafort's spokesperson but he has previously denied he knowingly communicated with russian operatives during the election and also denied

strong challenge from thirty seven religious center ardan who took over the labor party leadership just weeks out from the election. it's the final day of campaigning in germany ahead of the general elections on sunday the poll suggests chance longer merkel has a widely over other candidates her main rival martin shells of the social democrat party a loss to appears others who have lost support in the last month analysts don't believe he has even an outside chance of pulling an upset more than seventy thousand people in puerto rico have been ordered to leave their homes or a few years of a dam collapsing in the wake of hurricane maria heavy rain brought in by maria put stress on the one who talk a dam with the u.s. national weather service warning of its imminent failure at least six people were killed when that hurricane hit the island on wednesday those are the headlines news continues in al-jazeera after the listening post thanks for your time keeper. and for you. hillary clinton in her own words on feel like you've done a horse but i was also refusing to accept the blame for being on the wrong and the biggest political upset that hillary kind o

campaign chairman before before and after the election. this is an extraordinary sten for the fbi to do swale lant of a high ranking campaign official and of course he's now the center're intercepting communications that raised concerns about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help with the campaign. other sources told us the nelg was nod conclusive. especially counsel robert mueller's team has provided all these communications. they have them in hand. we did not get a comment from paul manafort's spokesman but he has previously denied he ever knowingly communicated with russian intelligence operatives during the election and he's also denied helping russia under mine u.s. interests. what's interesting here, is that in the same time frame that there was a pfizer warrant according to our sources there were communications between the president, president president trump and manafort, it's unclear if the president was ever picked up as part of the surveillance. back to you. >> thank you. facebook still has key information about russia's meddling in the election, so why isn't the company disclosing more of it? facebook admits to selling ads to 0 pro kremlin gr

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elections. today, we're presenting the two arguments that the court will hear. wisconsin attorney general brad schimel r the state of wisconsin and gerry hebert with the campaign legal center representing the i've asked both men to outline and argue their case for me. mr. schimel, start for me. tell me thl be presenting on behalf of the the things we' that the legislature wisconsin actually followed the traditional redistricting d to keep the districts compac they followed the rules for contiguousness and they follo a avoided splitting up municipal boundaries. the supreme cot has in the past accepted that redistricting is a political process and that winning elections leaves y able to draw the maps and that there's -- they're not go one of the factors in wisconsine ist the demographics. where voters are pa milwaukee c cohe is, we have huge percentages of democratic voters they're clustered very tight together. you have other places waukesha county or washington opposite, republican voters. there's variances around primar big populatire primarily those big populationatar them able to get a perfect mix. but the plaintiffs are -- they won't t but they're really seeming to cla

mark: german chancellor angela merkel and her center-left opponent square off sunday in the only tv debate of the german election campaign the debate increases his chances with just over three weeks to go. the polls have merkel's party ahead by at least 12 points. the associated press reports smoke was seen coming from the russian consulate in san francisco on friday. the trump administration recently ordered the closing of the consulate and other russian-affiliated offices in washington and new york. it is retaliation for the kremlin's demand last month that the u.s. substantially reduce the size of its diplomatic staff in russia. kenya's incumbent president says he's ready to campaign again and told reporters it is time to get back to work. he spoke in nairobi after the court nullified last month's election and called for a new vote in 60 days. >> i respect it. i disagree with it. millions of kenyans made their choice, and six people have decided they will go against the will of the people. mark: security forces in colombia killed one of the most wanted drug fugitives, the alleged second in charge of a ruthless crimina

campaign to influence the 2016 election. to that end, secured borders used facebook's event and invitation tool to promote an anti-immigrant rally in twin falls, idaho. a city it called a center of refugee resettlement, responsible for a huge upsurge of violence towards american citizens. that was false, and the rally itself, never happened in spite of the russian campaign. >> they were using these new social media sites, a wild, wild west, very few rules, to influence the election. >> mark warner its the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee which is investigating russian interference in the election. >> i think what we have seen so far from facebook is only the tip of the iceberg. >> face book shut down secured borders. there are other groups including this one, that worked out of texas. cbs news has learned that investigators believed there were many more and are scramble ing to identify them. last week, face book disclosed an internal investigation, disclosed 3,000 ads costing $100 t containing message as but divisive issues. those ads were also linked to russian internet trolls. a face book official says because of federal laws, and the ongoing russia inv

about social security better jobs with better pay which is what center left opposition was talking about so much in the election campaign. largely live for us and our land all right thank you. monday marks a month since the rihanna crisis began in myanmar as for kind state military crackdown has forced nearly four hundred thirty thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh china hollis and cox's of star near the bangladeshi border with me and mar and. it was it's been chaotic and there. are the camps and getting more organized more subtle what is it like there now. well the didn't full swing international aid organizations are very evident joining the bangladeshi and those that have been. on the job since day one there. has been the void the rains have held off for the last three or four days which has allowed them to make a lot of progress very very quickly and among. the best organized yes the situation is much much improved there's better access to food better access to water and to help see is. because of disease very very real indeed they've come a long way toward meeting the most basic needs of a large portio

election. mueller's team obtained a search warrant to get those. >> politics taking center stage at the emmy awards. >> even during the campaign, trump would not let it go. this actually happened. this exchange actually happened in the debate. >> there was even a time when he didn't get an emmy for his tv program three years in a row and he started tweeting the emmys were rigged. >> should have gotten it. >> but he didn't. because unlike the presidency, emmys go to the winner of the popular vote. >> i suppose i should say at long last, mr. president, here is your emmy. >> trump certainly the theme of the night. alec baldwin after winning his for the portrayal. the award also pulling out the major surprise, sean spicer stunning the audience. >> unfortunately, at this point, we have no way of knowing how big our audience is. the is there anyone who can say how big the audience is? shaun, do you know? [ applause ] >> this will be the largest audience to witness an emmy, period. both in person and around the world. >> wow. that reallishoots my tragic ego. i can understand why you'd want one of these guys around. melissa mccarthy, everybody, give it up

campaign chairman paul manafort. manafort, who helped the president win the november election, appears to be at the center of the russiameddling investigation. the snooping occurred before and after the election. three sources tell cnn...some intelligence collected...ácould suggest manafort encouraged the russians to help the trump campaign. (anchor) time now to check on our weather... with chief meterologist brittney shipp. (vo) a california basketball team is crying foul tonight. ahead at five... what thieves made off with that could put some games in jeopardy. (vo) and next... the controversial homecoming proposal that is stirring outrage at one high school. food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. we just want fast internet for one, simple rate. for all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all... for the this. internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. police have tracked down a young man seen in a series of videos - beating peo

campaign chairman, both before and after the election as you mentioned. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. of course manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling probe, and we're told that there are intercepted communications, don, that did raise concerns among investigators about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help the campaign. some sources told us though others cautioned the intelligence was not conclusive. special counsel robert mueller's team has been provided all of these communications, so it is part of the ongoing investigation into paul manafort. don? >> so what do you mean by encouraging, pamela? >> well, to be clear here and transparent, there's a lot we don't know about exactly what was said, but we are told that the fbi has communications between suspected russian operatives relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort as well as communications involving manafort himself. now, none of this has amounted to what people would consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there is still more work being done to determine whether there's a criminal violation here. we did not get a commen

campaign the influence the 2016 election. to that end, secured borders used facebook's event and invitation tool to promote an anti-immigrant rally in twin falls, idaho, a city it called a center of refugee resettlement, responsible for a huge upsurge of violence toward american citizens. that was false, and the rally itself never happened in spite of the russian campaign. >> they were using these new social media sites, which was kind of a wild, wild west with very few rules, to influence the election. >> reporter: mark warner is the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee investigating russian interference in the election. >> i think what we've seen so far from facebook is only the tip of the iceberg. >> reporter: facebook shut down secured borders. there are other group, including this one that worked out of texas. cbs news has learned that investigators believe there were many more and are scrambling to identify them. just last week facebook disclosed that an internal investigation identified about 3,000 ads costing $100,000 containing messages about divisive issues. those ads also were linked to russian internet trolls. a facebook official says because of fe

election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. and, of course, manafort is at the center of the russia meddling probe. we're told that are intercepted communications whether manafort was encouraging russians to help with the campaign. other sources cautioned that this intelligence was not conclusive. robert mueller's team has been provided all these communications. >> what do you mean by the word encouraging? >> to be clear, there's a lot we don't know exactly about what was said in these intercepted communications. but what we're told by sources is the fbi has communications between suspected russian operatives and manafort himself. this is not a smoking gun in this investigation, and there's still more work being done to determine whether it's a criminal violation here. we didn't get a comment from a part of an part of an spokesman, but manafort previously denied that he knowingly communicated with russian intelligence operatives during the election and he's denied them undermining u.s. interests. >> do we know exactly when? >> we have a little insight into when this se

an election that has fast become about voting for stability or change the incumbent bill english thought he was guaranteed victory but has been forced to campaign hard to see a fourth term play center right nationals party six weeks ago labor changed leadership pitting him against the charismatic thirty seven year old just dern sending labor's support surging prime minister has described himself as boring but he's turning it to his advantage he's starting himself as a dependable steady hand with strong economic policies would say new zealand is through a political volatile world and job thing so mike sure i understand that. choice . mike a. national building on the streets saying you're saying here and trying to bridge an across the board cuts out and labor wanting to take back would stall the economy. in a meteoric rise dern has pulled her party out of almost a decade of isolation even putting it ahead of the nationals in some polls over the last few weeks the new zealand made ia have dubbed the just cinda effect or just in the mania and likened her to other young leaders like canada's justin trudeau or francis emmanuel necron. believes the youth vote could decide the election thi

campaign chairman paul manafort before and after the election. manafort, who helped the president win the november election, appears to be at the center of the russiang investigation. sources tell c-n-n some intelligence collected ácould suggest manafort encouraged the russians to help the trump campaign. (darya) house minority leader nancy pelosi had to abruptly leave a news conference after she was bombarded by protesters. <"nats of cheering"> this happened yesterday morning in san francisco. the group was protesting her recent conversations with president trump about immigration. pelosi was holding a news conference... calling for legislation to protect daca members. after the president announced plans to halt daca ... he has been holding meetings with pelosi and other top democrats ( darya ) in the south bay... arson investigators are looking into a fire that destroyed a trailer full of donated goods. the fire broke out at the salvation army store off camino arroyo in gilroy yesterday morning. it destroyed a trailer loaded with donations. the trailer was attached to the store's loading dock. the fire caused at least three- thousand- dollars in

here, a strategy to destroy the election for hillary by dividing up the left and center vote, it worked. my question to you, when they write the history of this campaignt the russian involvement in dividing and conquering the political spectrum was decisive? >> chris, good evening. also note the level of sophistication. the hash tag on what you just read said "grow a spine, vote jill stein." that was an idiom. the smartest political scientists in russia probably wouldn't understand how to use u.s. idioms. they were trying to alienate likely clinton voters and peel them out of the way. that's what we're seeking to understand. >> do you know the technology that would prove what you just said, how facebook was used, how smart intel spotting on the ground, like you suggested, knowing the idioms and that kind of stuff, how it worked to be a collusion? >> one way we could do that is look if advertisement a, the jill stein advertisement that was funded by russians, if there's a similar or identical advertisement funded by another foreign entity or a u.s. person. you could probably assume that they were in some way working together but using cutouts to post i

election campaign promise he's pleased his supporters but he still faces a battle on the streets with al-jazeera. six people have been injured in a so-called acid attack in britain it happened near a shopping center in stratford in the east of london a teenager has been arrested the country's home secretary has vowed to crack down on attacks involving corrosive substances after a series of similar incidents this year that in protest in mexico after reports that partly collapsed buildings were bodies could still be buried will be demolished five days after the earthquake their relatives have been demonstrating calling for rescue efforts to continue but i'm sure of confirmed dead is not close to three hundred following the seven point one magnitude quake. rescue efforts have resumed following another earthquake that hit mexico on saturday zero jocasta reports before dawn the sight of an ambulance gave hope that another survivor had been pulled out of this collapsed office building in mexico city but that was not so the patient was a rescuer who suffered a leg injury then surely before eight a.m. local time a six point two magnitude aftershock sent everyone running from the teetering rubble the new

wiretapped former trump campaign manager paul manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, an extraordinary step video offing a high ranking official now at the center of the russian meddling probe. there was a period in which mr. manafort was known to talk to president donald trump. to hear what this means for the investigation, ashley parker, reporter with "washington post" and political analyst. former federal prosecutor paul butler, also an msnbc analyst, jeremy bash is a former national security analyst and the former chief justice of the department of justice also an msnbc analyst. jeremy, let me start off with you, because you and i have talked on so many occasions about what incremental bits of news about this investigation could portend, what they might mean, this seems like a big one. explain how and why one goes about obtaining permission to wiretap someone? they skr have to go to a special court, and as i understand it, it's called a fisa court, can you walk us through all of this? >> sure. the government needs to show that there was probable cause to believe that paul manafort was not only committing crimes, but that he was an agent of

campaign chairman before and after the election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance on a high-ranking official. manafort is now at the center of the russian probe. raising concerns about whether manafort was encouraging russia to help with the campaign. special mueller's team now has been provided all these communications. >> evan, what do they mean by encouraging the russians? >> there's a lot we don't know, alisyn, about exactly what was said. we're told the fbi has communications between suspected russian operatives, relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort as well as communications involving manafort himself. none of this has amounted to what people would consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there's still work being done as to whether there's a criminal violation here. we didn't get a comment from paul manafort's spokesman. he has denied communicating with russian operatives and also denied helping russia undermine u.s. interests. >> the timing here is crucial. two separate time periods where he was monitored. explain that. >> yeah. there was a secret order that began after manafort became the

election. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do such surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official and, of course, manafort is now at the centere russian meddling probe. we're told there are intercepted communications that raise concerns about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help the campaign. other sources have told us that this intelligence was not conclusive. as you know special counsel bob mueller who's looking into this has been provided all these communications. >> what exactly do we mean by encouraging? >> we're told that fbi has communications, right, that these are talks between suspected russian operatives, relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort, as well as communications involving manafort himself. none of this has amounted to what people consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there's still more work being done to determine whether there's a criminal violation here. manafort has previously denied he ever knowingly communicated with russian intelligence during the election, and he's also denied helping russiaens undermine u.s. interests. >> from your reporting we know he was und

2016 election and served as first lady, center from new york and secretary of state and received more votes than any other candidate in history except to donald trump and she reflects on the 2016 campaign in her new book. it is called "what happened," appropriately titled. i'm please to have her back. welcome. >> it's good to be here. >> charlie: first of all, it's a runaway best-seller. the fastest selling non-fiction book. one reviewer said it's a funny account in the aftermath and a post mortem where she's coroner and corpse and a feminist manifester and a rant against james comey and vladamir putin and james b. comey and thumping of trump and if you add up the time in golf, twitter and others what's left. i know you've been reviewing this a lot of on the book tour. 9:00 p.m., election night. you thought you were going to win. >> i did. the first returns that came in were not what we thought from florida and north carolina but we knew that those would be challenging states. we still felt good about everything we knew about the states to come to get to the electoral college majority and it went down hill from there. it was a shocking, devastating evening. i write in great detail abou

election commission, the former attorney for senator john mccain and president george h.w. bush. i assume not at the same time. founder president general counter of -- council of the campaign legal center working in political committee case embedded this superb co-moderator who is the vice president of unruh associates our student group. it's a stand-alone student group but we are very proud to be associated with him. he's a senior at the university of southern california and he's going to kick off with the first question which all of you can take a whack at. >> first off, thank you for being here. we all appreciate as students hearing from you guys and hearing your expert opinions and thoughts on such an important issue. what i'm interested in is the fact that we tried to reform the electoral college for over 60 years. we propose they think over 700 amendments and they have all failed. is this tenable? can we reform the college? what are your thoughts? >> who wants to go first? i will take the initial at it. first of all i do want to thank everybody involved for the extraordinary opportunity they think all of us are trying to figure out ways to address the extreme partisanship and the

election integrity was simply a biased panel bent on voters suppression. well, now we know at least one member wants that to bes case. in a redacted e-mail obtained by the campaign legal center, sent to the justice department in february, hans vons baskofsky a member of the commission, named academics serving on the commission would guaranteed its failure, quote/unquote. joining me now, author of "give up the ballot." and the ncaa legal defense fund and former vermont governor. ari, this commission put together includes very choice and interesting members. tell us who hans is. >> he is with the heritage foundation which is picking judges for donald trump among other things. he was a longtime official in the bush justice department. he's really been leading the effort along with chris cobecause to implement strict voter i.d. laws, implement strict measureses and pushing the myth of widespread voter fraud for decades and wrote the smoking gun e-mail that was released the same day that the presidential commission on election integrity had they're second meeting where he called for excluding the democrats academics and revealingly, mainstream republicans from this commission. sh

election. the far left anti-capitalist left party -- so, that's definitely, it's upsetting merkel somewhat. theme repeatedly on the campaign trail and she has been -- to keep the centerf the political setting strong. without directly saying, do not vote for the asd. she's hinting very strongly she does not want the electorate to split to the periphery and more polarization pressure once a strong center in germany. francine: what are her coalition options? the moment, the polls are very clear that she only has two. either a continuation of the grand coalition with the current partner, the social democrats, which is also her main route, opponent in the selection. wayn untested three coalition with the greens and the free democrats. inhough it is being tried one of the german states. so, we know that merkel would prefer stability. so, it would suggest that she would prefer to the continuation of the current line up, but it obviously depends on the result. francine: thank you so much. alan crawford overseeing all of our german coverage and the election is on sunday. we welcome the chief executive officer for ema. i don't know what this means for euro bonds and integratio

collusion between the trump campaign and the russians in their interference and our election and after there was obstruction of justice, which is very much front and centere other area that i think is important in the meeting this morning, following the money that may have involved transactions between the russians and the trump organizations in moscow. the letter of intent to build the major residential complex or trump tower or whatever else was contemplated. because the russian play book is to entangle and compromise foreign officials, and in this instance, may have been a reason that the white house wanted to conceal or deny evidence, and may have fired jim comey when the fbi was investigating. >> so, senator, obviously for the audience watching now, he's going to under oath when he testifies. >> he will probably not be put directly under oath in this setting. >> then how can you get him for perjury if he's not under oath? >> because the federal statutes make punishable any untruth in these circumstances as for example happened with poin j poindexter. put aside that issue. he will be testifying under oath in public. i have, in effect, demanded it. ot

campaigned for strange. moore is an outspoken evangelical christian who won the election with a fierce anti-washington message and a call to put religion at the center of public life. >>> republicans have abandoned plans to vote on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare, this after they failed to secure enough support to pass it. the bill's sponsors vowed to fight again but will face steeper sisteep er odds after sunday >>> republicans will roll out a long-awaited tax blueprint later today. for more on tacks, we're joined by ramina bochia from thomas a. rowe institute for economic policies at the heritage foundation help us try to understand what you think we'll hear today >> i think the tax plan will be very much focused on bo pprovid tax relief to businesses so they can create more jobs we're talking about a corporate rate of about 20%. applying a lower rate for businesses who follow through the personal income rate code. the pass-throughs. there will be full expensing the idea that the businesses can write off the full value of expenses in the first year that may be temporary, five years for tax scoring reasons to make sure that the plan does not

brenda i'm at traffic a nightclub in the center of carolyn and this location was chosen by the as deed to watch the election results of a party that campaigned on an anti migrant and time akhil and anti muslim platform is set to enter the german parliament for the first time and is also set to become the first far right party after the second world war to clear the five percent hurdle the a.f.d. members i've gotten a chance to talk to tonight they are hoping and even expecting to have results in the double digits and to even become the search strongest party in the german problem and. killer is with the left party tonight is there going to be anything for the left party to celebrate tonight. well there still was. battling case and they choose for their election party in the district of prime back a band named people starting to flood in from the outside big on the problem at. the aim is to come in third. as they did during the last elections but it is highly doubtful that most will succeed because they are competing against the right wing i have to be. your girl and your lot of thoughts tonight on the story for us at the left party and of th

elections. campaigned in the northeast including the city of christ where she was invited to support the week of reanimation. short's was hoping to revive his chances at a rally of the center left social democrats in the western city of aachen. polls show his party far behind merkel's conservatives it's likely she'll have to continue a coalition with the social democrats or create a new one with other parties the far right alternative for germany is expected to enter the bundestag for the first time. by fighter jets have flown in international airspace over the waters east of north korea it was the farthest north of the demilitarized zone that any u.s. fighter jet obama has flying the century and show of force came after tens of thousands of north koreans joined a rally against the u.s. in pyongyang tensions have been rising around the korean peninsula ever since north korea carried out its six nuclear test earlier this month prompting a new round of u.n. sanctions addressing the u.n. general assembly north korea's foreign minister said trump was on a suicide mission. demonstrators have filled the streets of paris in protest at president emanuel macro's labor reforms tens