newman for the draft letter? k. >> i am told that in mark newman's deposition, he denied any such event. >> okay. there are a lot of lawyers at department of justice, secretary, with expertise on voting rights and lot of experts within the commerce department with expertise on the census. there's no legitimate reason for this former trump transition team member to be drafting letters for them. unless there is some kind of political scheme happening behind closed doors, mr. secretary. you have tried to make it look like this request came from the department of justice. why? but the involvement of mr. newman is yet one more indication that the department of justice was not in the driver's seat. it was political operatives behind the scenes. do you agree? >> anyone who thinks that mark newman or i or anyone else could push attorney general sessions around hasn't been paying very good attention to his career. >> so -- >> i'm sorry, i'm not quite finished. >> it that's okay. so i'm middle eastern descent. i'm arab-ame

second year in dana newman shares impressions of her trip to thailand. and we'll take a look at travel destinations that only opened their doors to women. in berlin that is a big city it's home to around four million. people so naturally there's a lot to do if you're visiting for first timers it can be tough to figure the city out. is an author who knows berlin like the back of her hand i mean i know better right nice to meet you nice to meet you too this is the book. cove wrote the guide berlin for women only we're meeting at one of her favorite locations to overhaul its cafe on. better magill why did you want to meet here of all places. is a co-working space which very often useful means things work it has a pleasant atmosphere you can concentrate well but i think it's also kind of cozy. for this was the idea behind berlin for women only. a concept a symbol with a city the publisher nicole traveled a great deal as a journalist from a distance and in some cities she didn't have any female friends. so that god was perhaps designed to be a friend at his s

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newman about the citizenship question. he said he spoke to mr. newman in early october 2017. according to mr. gore, when they spoke, mr. newman gave him, quote, a draft letter that would request reinstatement of the citizenship question on the census questionnaire. two months later, the department of justice issued the final letter requesting the citizenship question. we don't know how much it was in influenced by mr. newman's draft. were you aware that mr. newman provided a draft letter to department of justice, if so, can you provide that draft to this committee? sec. ross: first of all, i didn't even know that he was going over to the department of justice, let alone that he might have brought a letter. i believe from what i've been told your characterization of mr. gore's testimony is not exactly correct. i believe that what mr. gore testified was that he wasn't sure who brought him a letter, a draft letter. he thought it might have been mark newman. but i'm also told that -- i'm sorry. i'm not finished with my answer. 05:56:10 secretary, i want to make sure -- you didn't

. - omarosa manigault-newman, better known as omarosa to people who like to watch "the apprentice, shel be leaving the white house effective january 20th. - general kelly was tired of it. he was tired of all the drama. kelly confronted her. she was very vulgar, very, um... she was cursing. she tried to go see the president. security alerted general kelly. he came back down, told secret service to take her out of there. - wow. - she was escorted off the property. it was very ugly. it was high drama. - oh, yeah! the trump administration is having its season one finale, people, i'm loving this! that is so wild. can you imagine being there when general kelly was fighting with omarosa? something like, "goddamn, this some bull! i'm sick a this crap! [bleep]!" and then omarosa was like, "okay, fine, i'll leave." - i resigned, and i didn't do that in the residence as being reported. but when i have a chance to tell my story, michael, quite a story to tell. as the only african-american woman in this white house, as a senior staff and assistant to the president, i have seen things that have made

henry newman speaking to me earlier.bodies of two climbers who went missing in pakistan have been found — briton tom ballard and italian daniele nardi last made contact two weeks ago. the home secretary, sajid javid, is facing criticism after the death of the baby son of shamima begum — the british teenager whose citizenship he revoked forjoining the islamic state group. a man charged with murdering jodie chesney has been remanded in custody. the 17—year—old was stabbed to death in a park in east london last friday. and in sport, wales remain on course for the six nations grand slam, they lead scotland 15—6, josh adams among the try scorers, the second half under way now live on bbc one. england thumped italy 55—0 in the women's six nations. the men plate their fixture this afternoon and this stunner helped brighton to beat crystal palace 2—1 at selhurst park, moving his site eight points clear of the premier league relegation zone. but for now it is all from the bbc sports centre. plenty more to come ina bbc sports cent

>> hemy newman was a killer.at the prosecutor told the jury, what his alleged mistress told the jury. even hemy newman said he did it, a police detective testified. >> he admits to the shooting, correct? >> yes. >> hemy newman's defense attorney says their client shouldn't go to prison because the 48-year-old engineer, outwardly so calm and rational, had one more secret to confess. he had been tormented by demons since he was a boy. defense attorney bob rubin -- >> mr. neuman's problems really began years ago, and they went undiagnosed over the course of his lifetime and, as a result, he got progressively worse. >> and the defense made a bold allegation to the jury that hemy's violent act against rusty was triggered by none other than rusty's wife andrea. >> she had planted the seed and she had stoked the fire. and she knew that what she set out to do with somebody who was sick, that she had accomplished. >> his psyche was so fragile, the defense argued, that it hadn't taken much from andrea to send hemy over the

so newman resigned as dean. remain on the faculty in a different role. the university says it respects her choice but that the chick-fil-a decision was in no way a judgment on religious beliefs. >>> a major career milestone for lebron james. andy scholes has this story in the "bleacher report" next. ♪ now audible members get free fitness and wellness programs to transform your mind and body. download the audible app and start listening today. ♪ of every great meal is always the potato?t bite that's why it should always be an idaho potato. only genuine idaho potatoes have the perfect taste and texture to get your meal started right. new johnson's cottontouch™ a wholwash and lotionre for newborns is born made with real cotton and enhances your gentle touch a new soft a new touch a new gentle new johnson's cottontouch™ (baby cooing) choose gentle i'm a dancer, casting directors will send me a video of choreography. i need my phone to work while i'm on the subway. you'll see me streaming a video, trying not to fall.

henry newman, thank you. it clearly is a big week for british politics.table as it is changing. on tuesday, mps are due to vote for a second time on theresa may's withdrawal agreement — including any changes she has agreed with the eu. if they reject the deal again, mps have been promised a further vote on wednesday, on whether they support leaving the eu without a deal. and if that fails, then mps have been promised another vote on thursday, on requesting an extension to the two—year article 50 process, thereby delaying brexit beyond the 29th of march. if you want to find out more on all that, there is a full diagram of the options on the website and it is worth a read ahead of this busy few days. let's move on now to the rest of today's news. a man has appeared in court, after being charged with the murder of 17—year—old jodie chesney. jodie was stabbed in a park in east london last friday. 20—year—old manuel petrovich was arrested in leicester on tuesday. another man, who was also arrested, remains in custody. 0ur correspondent jane—frances kelly gave

i'll talk to former white house insider omarosa manigault-newman about how he'll use this to his political advantage. >>> and political fallout. democrats and republicans drawing new battle lines in the wake of the mueller probe with laser focus on 2020. buckle up. the ride is not over. robert mueller's investigation is done, and now the focus shifts to two key questions. how much of the report will we see? what will congress do with the report? attorney general william barr says the investigation found no evidence that the trump campaign or administration coordinated with russia. mueller says there was no conclusion about whether the president obstructed justice. evidence on both sides of that question. president trump's reaction to the report, complete and total exoneration. meanwhile, any minute now, one of the president's key allies on the hill, chairman lindsey graham, is going to be talking to reporters. senator graham spent the weekend at mar-a-lago with the president. we will go live to that event once it happens. there is a live look. senator graham headed to the podium right now.

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well it's expected that paul newman is voting against just that scenario brian so we're expecting that m.p.'s really think that's crashing out of the european union at the end of march so in just two weeks time is for many of them something that they want to avoid at all cost and there is a vote later on and it's expected that it's going to voted against the question of cause what comes next and the government and really parliament here in the u.k. is an absolute disarray we don't know what's going to happen if you fell mentioned jeremy corbett in your piece of the door of the opposition asking for president actually and that's something that even us some loyalists into reserve mais own party all asking for so the future as of today extremely unclear ok if as expected as we just heard there from barry go on parliament kicks this very battered can down the road once again will the e.u. give london more time and a chance for more talks. there already been voices today brian politicians in the european union for example a minister in germany calling for a good explanation to actually acce

so newman rae signesigned as de.ty says they respect her decision, but that the chick-fil-a decision was in no way a judgment on religious values. >>> gets to james. lebron takes to the rim and finishes with the left. and he is fouled. the legend of lebron continues. >> and with that, lebron james reaching another career milestone last night, passing his basketball idol the g.o.a.t. michael jordan for fourth place on the nba all-time scoring list. james now has 32,311 points. next on the list, kobe bryant. it has been a disappointing year for lebron, likely missing the playoffs. but congratulations. you can see how emotional he was. >>> retaliatory tariffs on whiskey are creating problems for the maker of jack daniels. cnn business is next. begins a three year prison term i had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. (coughs) ah! i missed you! then i discovered mucinex. one pill lasts 12 hours, and i'm good. mucinex releases fast and lasts 12 hours, not 4. let's end this. [ sighing ] ♪ oh my momma she gave

george conway is basically newman from seinfeld.rump is basically seinfeld and kellyanne is elaine but you have to have a newman. or maybe he's like mr. roper from threes company and trump is jack tripper. he's always staring at him with his beady eyes. he's always mad at him. this whole thing has amazing characters. we have to be honest about what america wants to know. what is it like at home? is it just some kind of knockdown, drag out fight or is there love life so insane that it doesn't matter? this is none of my business, right? but i am forced to think about them having sex. this is what happens in the trump presidency. we have a crazy sitcom. we have domestic fights publicly. this is the most transparent administration ever because there's no such thing as behind closed doors. >> jesse: it's like when the president says you know when i leave office, you're going to have nothing to write about. that's true. >> emily: i feel like it's an episode of billions. the husband and the boss. i do feel like it's not about you. poor kel

joining now is peter newman.er is the director of the international center for the study of radicalization and political sy leviolence. we were talking about the moment of the arrest. let's just talk about what happened, itself. these two attacks on two mosques, so many people killed. what do you make of the motive behind all of this? >> having read the manifesto that the attacker produced before the attack, i think it is very clear. in the manifesto, he asks himself questions. he asks himself, is is this a racist attack? he answers, yes. he asks him himself, is this an islamophobia attack? he answers yes. he says is this an anti-immigrant attack? he says, yes. based on his own attack, i don't think there is any doubt at all what he intended to do. there is this entire rhetoric about invaders coming into western countries. there is this entire rhetoric about the crusades about wanting to fight islam back. and he sees himself as a crusader who is a part of a global army fighting against the alleged invasion of isl

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president emmanuel mccraw to resign the protest began a vendor over a proposal to raise fuel taxes newman has since grown into anti-government rallies . former president of brazil luis inacio lula da silva has been granted temporary permission to leave prison to attend the funeral of a seven year old grandson who was transported in a helicopter to south paolo after leaving his jail cell for the first time since he was imprisoned in april last year. is serving a twelve year sentence for corruption and money laundering space x. has launched its astral capsule for the first time the end manned test flight is a major step forward for the company owned by billionaire long musk hyundai but d.c. has more. it's said that. nasa describes it as a historic moment that could pave the way for a new era of space exploration vehicle down here at kennedy space center in florida billionaire elon musk's company space x. successfully launched an unmanned test flight bound for the international space station. what to what today really represents is a new era in space flight and an era where we are looking fo

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." ♪ ♪ >> reporter: performed by celloist clancy newman, bright sheng's composition "seven tunes hearda" was olly written for cello virtuoso yo yo ma in 1995. it originates, sheng says, from his teenage years spent in the sweeping plains of tibet during mao tse tung's cultural revolution. ♪ ♪ >> when i was in tibet, i could never imagine this day. it reminded me of my youth. and many of my compositions were inspired by the folk music and the environment of theair environment and-- when i hear it every time, when it's performed right, my heart pumps. >> reporter: the night before, sheng's hot pepper for violin and marimba kicked-off opening night at moab's star hall, a tiny performance space in downtown moab. part of the thematic bookends of this year's festival, the program-- callewedme acari--ns wa composers who, like sheng, had immigrated to the united states and become american citizens. >> it's looking at their music, how they've interpreted their own american experience, what their musical voices are. have they taken from their home countries, and somehow integrated that into thei

think theresa may should resign if it helps get brecht's it through paul newman's frankly i couldn't care less. well it is it is it is the british people who have to make up my mind and i'm really tired of thinking about what should help and what not sorry. or to do with. board with that was the kind of reaction that reporters got today here in europe the events in the british parliament late last night only added to the high level of brags that fatigue and frustration and there is more to come tomorrow the lawmakers will once again debate and vote on prime minister teresa mayes divorce deal with the european union now keep in mind they already rejected it twice by huge margins perhaps a third time is what it will take time by the way is running out quickly the european union has given the u.k. until tomorrow to pass to rescind may's plan in exchange for a delay if that does not happen britain crashing out of the e.u. without a deal could become reality e.u. leaders tired and worried tonight teri schultz has more from brussels. brussels gave the u.k. until midnight here or eleven pm

the plain clothes officer newman ra nouman raja. the whole encounter was recorded on a phone call the tow truck company had. >> if it was not for the tape recording, then this police officer would have got away with murder. >> raja is the first florida officer to be convicted of an on duty shooting in nearly 30 years. he's set to be sentenced next month and faces life in prison. >>> president trump's former lawyer michael cohen is suing the trump organization. he says the company broke a contract and refused to pay his legal fees after he started to cooperate with federal prosecutors. cohen says he is owed nearly $2 million from costs associated with investigations by congress and special counsel robert mueller. in august cohen ead decrimpl, l congress and campaign finance violations. >>> a live look outside. we're still watching a chance of some light scattered showers around the bay area, getting a break in the rain, but not going to last too long, paul? >> the funny thing is even the break in the rainfall, allen, is not a total b

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with the prospect still potentially to pick up on the conversation you are having there with henry newmanight fall in her direction but it rather resembles at the moment a world record attempt that we occasionally report on bbc news, 1,000,001 domino pieces snaking through an entire auditorium, or theatre or whatever, and every single one needs to fall for the world record to be beaten. going back to the events in the commons, we have heard in the last half hour or so from oliver letwin, conservative mp behind the central amendment that we are keeping an eye on, the idea of indicative votes, he says it is absolutely vital now, albeit he thinks it is way too late, that the commons gets a chance to properly set out its views on a potential way forward, very complicated conversation going on, about the mechanism through which you do that. all the votes taking place, there isn't a row about the order in which they are table. affecting how people might vote on any given one, even a story about —— even a conversation about how the voting needs to be different from just endorsing or rejecting, a

officer newman raja was in plain clothes driving an unmarked van and did not identify himself when he confronted corey jones. raja claims he pulled a gun and was justified returning fire. turns out jones was on the phone with roadside assistance and the entire incident was recorded. >>> we turn the clocks forward this weekend and that means we lose an hour of sleep making driving more dangerous. aaa says morning commutes in the dark combined with drowsy driving add to the risk on the road. in fact, missing one hour of sleep takes a toll on your brain. our gio benitez tested his driving skills after missing sleep the night before. experts measured his alertness by tracking his brain waves. >> reporter: here's what stunned me. in those 30 minutes of driving i experienced about 30 episodes of what experts call microsleep when the brain goes offline for one to three seconds essentially even though i appeared awake my brain would briefly go into sleep mode. >> the frequency with which it was occurring was really to me very dramatic. >> do you think it made any difference at all that i even

let's speak to henry newman now.ou forjoining us. what did you make of what theresa may had to say last night and the way that she said it? significant of course in how it might influence mps to vote next week, if indeed the third meaningful vote happens next week on her deal? good morning. if you are sitting at home and watching that on the news last night you were probably nodding along to it. most of the people i speak to outside of politics, whatever their views on the referendum, do want mps to come to some kind of decision. i did think there is a huge desire for more politics and another election, although some people do want a second referendum, but not a majority of the public. to find a deal and support for that deal, that requires mps in parliament behind us voting for it. that audience will have been very annoyed, on two different sides. the labour mps that she needed to back a dealfound it arrogant and rude, and also the key labour moderates who might be prepared to back a version of brexit, coming out la

how economic hardship is taking its toll on vulnerable venezuelans our lot america editor lucien newman reports on the state of mental health facilities from the. states just a warning viewers may find some images disturbing. half hidden at the end of this road is what was one of the news whalers most respected psychiatrically have been the taishan centers that now the only person left there is but not of the are seeing it the watchman for the last fifteen years give us a level why did they close the institute i ask. because there was no medicine or food there used to be three hundred patients but in may the last fifty were transferred dr phillips the last call worked at the institute until the last day and he tells a disturbing story documented was shocking images. it began five or six years ago the state national government started cutting the budget half of the three hundred patients were released to their families the rest had nowhere to go they began dying from starvation eventually we had one hundred and insufficient funds for food or medicine between forty five and fifty five mor

some argue arming teachers would have prevented the killing of students in sao paolo latin america newman. business has never been better at the colt forty five shooting academy in rio de janeiro. twenty seven year old lao deni is one of those eager to learn the basics after the rules and theory course comes the most important part relating to aim and fire. the police would take too long to arrive if i'm attacked at home so i want to be able to defend myself. brazil leads the world in homicides sixty three thousand murders last year alone the vast majority using firearms defenseless brazilians say they're sitting ducks valley to fight fire with fire right when president jade was not or has signed a decree to increase rather than reduce the number of guns by relaxing the requirements for ordinary citizens to buy a weapon for one thing they no longer need to prove they need a gun just. say that instead of strengthening public safety the government is actually passing on the responsibility to the individual when we have some problems in health system for example we don't say you know you mak

power that happened to have won the election you say that's really unfair conservative lawmaker devon newman is his at this point suing twitter saying that it discriminates against conservatives that it hides the message of conservatives and highlights libel and slander against conservatives at this point there is widespread criticism of social media outlets for the fact that they seem to have a huge amount of influence in crafting public opinion not only in the united states but around the world and many of the conservatives who are now criticizing social media mana. they essentially argue that they're abusing that power and censorship concerns are also being debated in australia at the moment for very different reasons and i on tuesday the country's largest telecoms company blocked access to a number of websites that are continuing to display footage of friday's mosque attacks in new zealand to says that while it's considered the implications for freedom of speech it believes the measures necessary given the circumstances. we have moved to temporarily block a number of websites that contin

we all saw this coming of thousand miles where are we newman's not going about it for ages right but nobody else is it's like everybody in the streets talking about it like hades you know so all these major stores are closing up with no one is really coming in to put those place i mean you know they say warehouse jobs are going to like make up for it i guess but like there's a big difference between being someone who sells clothes for a living and going and likes put you know packing boxes where this is going to wal-mart come segues i thought wal-mart wants their workers to be more like amazon workers in a warehouse now so one of the things they're changing you know where member they were they had put out a big announcement last year during me. hoax tax plan i mean republican tax plan and so they had said we're going to fifteen dollars an hour well now we know how they're going to afford it they told greeters around the country that their jobs would be eliminated and people are a little bit older people who have disabilities who have physical ambulatory issues they can't work a wal-m

how the economic hardships taking its toll on vulnerable venezuelans a latin america editor lucy newman reports on the state of mental health facilities from the town of that's and she had a state and a warning viewers may find some of these images disturbing. half hidden at the end of this road is what was one of the news whalers most respected psychiatrically have been the taishan centers. now the only person left there is but not of the are seeing it as the watchman for the last fifteen years evil get us to have a why did they close the institute i ask. because there was no medicine or food there used to be three hundred patients but in may the last fifty were transferred dr phil expel lascaux worked at the institute until the last day and he tells a disturbing story documented was shocking images. it began five or six years ago the state national government started cutting the budget half of the three hundred patients were released to their families the rest had nowhere to go they began dying from starvation eventually we had one hundred and insufficient funds for food or medicine b

arming teachers would have prevented the killing of students in sao paulo here's our latin america newman. business has never been better at the colt forty five shooting academy in rio de janeiro. twenty seven year old lau deni is one of those eager to learn the basics after the rules and theory course comes the most important part relating to aim and fire. the police would take too long to arrive if i'm attacked at home so i want to be able to defend myself. brazil leads the world in homicides sixty three thousand murders last year alone the vast majority using firearms defenseless brazilians say they're sitting ducks. volume to fight fire with fire right wing president jalal sonata has signed a decree to increase rather than reduce the number of guns by relaxing the requirements for ordinary citizens to buy a weapon for one thing they no longer need to prove they need a gun just experts say that instead of strengthening public safety the government is actually passing on the responsibility to the individual and when we have some problems in health system for example we don't say you kno

ok british politicians jus to vote for a third time on the prime minister's deal paul newman's must approve to reason made agreements in order to ensure the departure is delayed until may the twenty second if no the u.k. will crash out of the e.u. . without a deal the only covers remain truly agreement. about future relations between the two as you can see there already to. this issue. let's go outside parliament where we can join. join us live from westminster. what's your sense of what's going on here is it treason mase proposal finally going to get the numbers. i think it's very difficult for her i mean everything is that maybe at this stage. the numbers are really the focus of everyone at this moment you have to bear in mind that the unionist parties of northern ireland said that they would not back this deal because it goes against the interests. opposition saying that they wouldn't. vote for this withdrawal agreement because it doesn't have the political declaration and that for them it feels that they get their blindfolded briggs's so you do have a lot still a lot of opposition to th

earlier i spoke to henry newman, the director of open europe, a think tank working on britain s relationshipto ministers including michael gove. i started by asking him what he made of michel barnier‘s comments yesterday. yesterday i think what we saw was a misstep from brussels. we are used to the government being clumsy and mishandling its presentation but i thought brussels misstepped because in their announcement they said an exchange of letters, commitments had been made by donald tusk and jean—claude juncker in january, they had made commitments to the uk about how the backstop would work and these were rejected by people who said they were not legally binding enough and the eu said, we will make those commitments legally binding — that was a significant move but that got overshadowed by an announcement that they would offer to get rid of the uk—wide bits of the backstop if you went back to the northern ireland bits and without getting confused in the details, we've been discussing this for months and it was rejected a year ago by the prime minister who said we would never accept a cus