dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcastingriand by cotions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. after a week in which president trump announced top members of his administration are leaving and court filings revealed allegatis that the president directed hush money payments-- this morning, mr. trump contind his attack on his former f.b.i. director. late yesterday republicans on ary, ande judici government reform and oversight committees released the transcript from form.i. director james comey's closed- door testimony before them on friday in his five-hour testimony the republican-led committees asked pl. comey

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosand p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate nding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company.ti adal support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in w york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. george h.w. bush, the 41st president of the united states, has died at the age of 94 at his home in houston. mr. bush died last night less than eight months after his wife of 73 years, barbara bush, passed away. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> sreenivasan: george herbert walker bush becam

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporatfunding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: or and by the corporation public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. ank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivas. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. plans are underway for a state funeraand national day of mourning this wednesday for former president george h.w. bush, who died friday evening in his houston home. one of his closest friends, james baker, who served as his secretary of state, was with him on friday. >> he opened both eyes, he looked at me, he said "hey, bake, where are we going today?" iand i said, "well, jefe, said, "we're going to heaven." he said, "good, that's where i want to go." little did i know or did he know, of course, that by 10:00 that nigh

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rolind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation forca public broing, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. ythan from the tisch wnet studios at oln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and th the secretary of the interior, ryan zinke, is leaving the trump ration at the end of the year. president trump announced zinke's exit on twitter this morning. zinke played a significant role in trump's agenda to scale back environmental regulations and to promerote engy development on public lands. the former navy seal and montana congressman was under scrutiny in multiple investigations ove his nearly two-year tenure, including ethical questions into his travel and real estate dealings. zinke was being investigated for a land deal in his hometow

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundatio rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg.nd corporate g is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirent products. at's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. federal agencies are preparing for a partial government shutdown at the end of t week, if congress doesn't meet friday's midnight deadline. at issue is paying for a wall on the mexicaborder. pamocratic leaders say there are not enough votes t a bill with president trump's requested $5 billion to waild a wall. , the president claimed during his campaign, mexico was going to pay for. last tuesday, president trump publicly srred with top democrats over the potential shutdown. senate minority leer chuck schumer said they o

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening, and thanks for joining us. president trump's chief of staff john kelly is leaving the administration. the four-star retired general replaced the president's first chief of staff, reince priebus, in july of 2017. the president told reporters the news as he left the white house this afternoon to go to the army-navy football game in philadelphia. >> john kelly will be leaving. i don't know if i can say "retiring," but, he's a great guy. john kelly will be l at the end of the year. we'll be announcing who will be taking john's place. it might

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized ianividual group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. b additional support hn provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. ank you. from the tisch wnet studios at teincoln center in new york, alisonrt. >> stewart: good evening and thank you for joining us. as the partial goverent shutdown marks its ninth day, the standoff between the president and his republican party and the democrats remains the same. president trump stayed at the ite house again today. he started the morning tweeting d pinning blame on senat minority leader democrat chuck schumer. mr. trump called it a "schume" shutdown." after lunch with the president at the white house rhis afternooublican senator lindsey graham, said they mscussed syria and their agreement that thet be money for border security to end the shutd

dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thk you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, alison stewart. >> stewa: good evening and thank you for joining us. yed.ng their pay will be, butwn last night all but essential e.p.a. employees were notified they are being furloughed. the smithsonian museums and national zoo in washington, d.c. will close january 2, if the shutdown continues. in all, nine major government agencies, including homeland security, interior and state, are affected. this morning, president trump tweeted that he is "waiting for mocrats to come on over and make a deal on border security." democratic leaders say they are waiting for the president to propose a bi

dr. p. roy v and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company.on addi support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, megan thompson. >> thompson: good evening and thank you for joining us. the partial government shuondown willnue until at least next thursday. lawmakers were back in the capital today, after failing to meet predent trump's demand for $5 billion for a border wall and fund nine agencies. president trump postponed his holiday trip to mar-a-lago in flthida, and hosted a lunch staff and republican lawmakers. in a video posted on twitter last night, the presblamed democrats, despite saying a week ago that he would onoudly take rebility for a shutdown. the senate minoritleader, chuck schumer, met

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dr. iap. roy vagelos and t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing lcustomized individ and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additionpo s has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contritions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at k,lincoln center in new yo megan thompso>>n. hompson: good evening and thank you for joining us. on the second day of a partial government shutdown, preside trump announced he is accelerating the departure of defense secretary james mattis. the president tweeted at" deputy secretary of defense, g trick shanahan, will assume the title of actcretary of defense starting january 1, 2019." mattis was expected to stay in the role until the end of february. hree submitted hignation three days ago in protest of the president's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria which has strained relations with international allies. the ne

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dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. rosalind p. walter. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america--

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