it started when thecu posting pictures of terry's cat naps, and he went viral. were you surprised by the fame? >> oh, god, pet and brush cats and fall asleep. b world famousr doing this? >> reporter: world famous and a calendar guy. even has his mug o a local coffee blend. for safe haven, brother terry has turned out to be marketing manna from heaven. how much have you raised because of him? >> near $100,000. >> reporter: a guy sleeping can have that kind of impact? >> i wish i could fall asleep and make $100,000. >> reporter: the money allows the rescue, which caters to special needs cats to expand its reach. >> good kitty. >> reporter: terry says it just goes the show that changing the world can be a lot eas than >> when you retire, you can do all kinds of neat things. find something and do it. >> reporter: i'll sleep on that. >> yeah. >> reporter: steve hartman, on the road in green bay, wisconsin. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later for the morning news and of course

. >>> and terry moran tonight with the bottom line. in a polarized country, what happens next in a senate trial? and where are american voters tonight? >>> the other major news this wednesday night, the deadly attack on a shopping center. several injured. the suspect escaping. the hunt that followed. >>> a dangerous night in the northeast for millions of commuters. vehicles piling up on the highway. and bracing for wind chills below zero. >>> the alarming warning tonight after a woman is killed in new york's times square from falling debris from a 17-story building. tonight, there is word 1,300 other buildings are at risk. >>> the security breach, a plane stolen. the crash and the arrest. >>> and the u.s. coast guard tonight, the major discovery surrounding this boat and the bust. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and as we come on the air tonight, we do have breaking news. a deeply divided moment is playing out right now in american history. the house has voted to impeach president trump on

and terry haines with pangaea policy, terry, single best chart, let's bring it up right now. it was the chart of the year last year, deficit, fiscal and trade, they summed up to a deficit, on the edge of reagan, we are really getting down here to -8% drummed in as well. is there any concern about our deficit in washington? terry: you know, i think both parties -- my view of this is both parties come along ago, made the decision -- parties, long ago, made the decision not to worry about deficits. when either party is in the --icit, that concern goe is in the majority, that concern goes out the window. 2017 tax bill, when the drive was to get the rate as low as possible, and how you get that is the agreements to increased deficits by $1.5 trillion over years, and officially come you can go to members and say, look, it is only $100 billion a year, and it will get mostly made up with growth. come on, why don't you just be with us? and that is what is up happening. tom: jens nordvig with us as well. there's some academic papers long ago that said we should not concern ourselves wi

schulte the summit for us in london good day to you terry we just heard in our report there are a number of problems can confronting nato if you could take one what is the biggest issue confronting the alliance right yeah. well it depends on the day and that is probably the biggest problem that there are so many tensions within the alliance that we haven't even been focusing in recent months on the challenges coming from outside the alliance the threats to nato allies we have been talking solely in the last few weeks about these comments by president mcclellan that nato is brain dead before that it's whether the u.s. will pull out of europe the u.s. pressing european allies on their defense spending so all of these are internal questions and that's pretty frustrating for secretary general stoltenberg who of course wants to portray nato as as an alliance that is unified and ready to face the external threats so really it's these internal questions that are the biggest problem the alliance has at the moment including today here in london ok to a new external threats one is chinese 5 g. tel

following terry martin good to have you with us police in new zealand are investigating the deaths of at least 5 tourists in monday's volcanic eruption the threat level was raised last week prompting questions about whether tour groups should have been allowed to visit the destination off new zealand's north island 8 people are still missing presumed dead after the eruption dozens of suffered severe burns. to disastrous chockful cari island russell clark was one of the 1st responder the paramedics flew in on a helicopter from auckland what he saw when he arrived just shocking. it was just it was just blanketed the nation it was it was quite. an eyeful welding risk there was a helicopter on the wall and it did it all see being there at the time. was that's right if lights were off it. it was monday afternoon local time when the volcano erupted at 47 people were on the island at the time some made a narrow escape but other some missing with little hope of finding them alive. the scale of this tragedy is devastating police and defense force personnel have undertaken a number of ereal rec

>> terry moran leading us off again tonight. terry, thank you. >>> and president trump, meanwhile, returning to the white house tonight, lashing out at the inquiry and returning home from the nato summit, where he took aim today at canadian prime minister justin trudeau, after what trudeau was caught saying on mic about president trump. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl traveling with the president. >> reporter: president trump was outside of london, meeting with nato leaders as today's impeachment hearings got under way. thousands of miles away, but paying close attention to what was happening on capitol hill. >> but think of it, they get three constitutional lawyers and we get one. what's that all about? it is the most unfair thing that anybody's ever seen. i don't think too many people are going to watch, because it's going to be boring, all right? >> reporter: the president was also paying attention to this. a video clip from a reception last night in buckingham palace where several leaders -- including the

let's begin with terry. boca raton florida. hi, terry. terry, are you with us? he is not. >> sorry about that. >> terri, please go go ahead you know what, terry, we are going to have to put you on hold. we will try again. richard. michigan. >> you are on book tv. >> i have two questions. is there a prescription for reversing this where we are destroying our liberalism? is this part of the thomas coombs theory about paradigms once a theory starts to be established it destroys itself? that is it. >> these are both excellent questions. let me focus on the second one. in some ways, whether a system always has self-destruction. this is a very old view. this is the one that informed my book. it was a view that informed the great work democracy on america. it is the understanding that every political order has potentially the seeds of its own self-destruction. when that order in some ways becomes an extreme version of itself it can no longer self-correct. i think that we are at that point today. the liberal order is facing not a threat as it has from the outside, espec

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but i do regret having said that." >> in the meantime, terry, where does this go from here? news tonight from the president's legal team, suggesting they believe a senate trial is a certainty. and what do they want to see in a trial? >> reporter: well, the president is a tough it will gator and he's planning a scorched earth defense. they want a full senate trial, including the president wants the ability to call witnesses, perhaps live in the senate chamber itself. he wants the republican leadership, already blacked out the entire month of january. this is, essentially, a way -- no one should be surprised, the president using the trial to put his accusers on trial. david? >> terry moran, thank you. >>> and president trump, meanwhile, returning to the white house tonight, lashing out at the inquiry and returning home from the nato summit where he took aim today at canadian prime minister justin trudeau, after what trudeau was caught saying on mic about president trump. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl traveling with the president. >> reporter: president tr

hello i'm terry march and welcome to the program in new zealand at least one person has been killed in a ball kind of corruption on a white island a popular tourist resort police say a number of people have been injured and more fatalities are likely this as it's currently too dangerous to carry out rescue operations around 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time of the eruption new zealand's prime minister just into our 10 has said foreigners are among those affected. well for the very latest let's cross over to journalist caruso paramita choose an auckland new zealand crew so what more can you tell us about the people caught up in this eruption. and yes terry as you know just half an hour ago prime minister just into art and new zealand police wrapped up a joint press conference to answer questions from the press so far 23 people have been rescued from the island including the one who died leaving up to possibly $27.00 people currently still on the on white island and out of the $23.00 people rescued most of them suffer from burn injuries and however they didn't

>> all right, terry moran up on the hill tonight. terry, thank you. >>> and, of course, all of this playing out today as president trump took aim at his own hand-picked fbi director. just 24 hours after fbi director christopher wray told abc news there was no deep state, no spying on the trump campaign, a notion backed up by the inspector general, finding no anti-trump bias in the russia investigation. the president was not happy with either of them. here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: president trump took aim at fbi director christopher wray just 24 hours after wray spoke with abc's pierre thomas. >> do you have any evidence that the fbi targeted the trump campaign unfairly? >> i don't. >> reporter: wray was reacting to the internal justice department investigation that criticized actions of lower level fbi officials, but concluded the probe of russia and the trump campaign was launched properly and without political bias. "i don't know what report current director of the fbi christopher

>> terry moran leading us off from the hill tonight. terry, thank you. >>> a furious president trump reacting to the impeachment report overseas in london, calling it a hoax, as he's received by the queen and then by the prime minister at 10 downing street. and that wasn't the only headline he made today. there was the moment with french president emmanuel macron. what he said to him, macron replying, "let's be serious." abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl traveling with the president. >> reporter: as democrats released their impeachment report, president trump was heading into a reception at number 10 downing street, hosted by the british prime minister. on the world stage, with impeachment very much on his mind. >> i think it's very unpatriotic of the democrats to put on a performance where they do that. i do. i think it's a bad thing for our country. >> reporter: later, the president made a severe personal attack on the man leading the impeachment charge for democrats. >> i think adam schiff is a deranged human being.

hello i'm terry martin thanks for being with us be on mars leader aung sun suu kyi is preparing to defend her country against genocide charges at the u.s. highest court in the hague said she arrived at the international court of justice for the start of hearings on tuesday she and the court heard graphic testimony of how myanmar's military allegedly carried out mass killings and other atrocities against the countries were injured minority. has previously denied any wrongdoing by her. well she was not obliged to appear at the hagan person but chose to do so critics say also suit she's aim is to raise her profile ahead of elections in myanmar her supporters see her as a defender of her and battled nation on the global stage more than 700000 are hinges fled myanmar majority are now lived and are now living in cramped refugee camps in neighboring countries mostly in bangladesh some have been talking about the abuse they say they suffered at the hands of the myanmar military some viewers may find their accounts disturbing. and the refugee camps of cox's bizarre a woman who once represented hop

terry and mike hawthorne took them in. high school sweet hearts, married 36 years. they'd already raised four adult biological kids giving new meaning to the phrase big happy family. while mike earns a living landscaping, it's 54-year-old terry whose full-time job is to care for the extended brood. >> we searched all over for that yesterday. >> reporter: why did you end up with this gigantic family? >> we started fostering and went through about 80 children. we got corgin, knew we couldn't let him go. and they try to keep sibling groups together. we found a larger sibling group, we thought there were only three. then we found out there was five. then a little brother, six. it kept on going from there. >> reporter: how do you make room in your heart for that many children? >> it's something the good lord does. i don't know how else. >> reporter: life has been far from easy for these kids, but in some ways, they are lucklucky. more than 690,000 children were in foster care in 2017. bouncing between state homes and foster families for an average of two years. >> y'all

hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is a step closer to becoming only the 3rd u.s. president ever to be impeached democrats in the house of representatives have set the process in motion by announcing 2 articles of impeachment against him they cuse trial of obstructing congress and abusing the power of his office for personal gain . 2 articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of congress the challenges of based on presidents donald trump's alleged efforts to solicit foreign interference in next year's presidential election and tied to any evidence from congress this latest political crisis could lead to a vote in the house of representatives as early as next week. president trump solicited a foreign nation ukraine to publicly announce investigations into his opponent and a baseless conspiracy theory promoted by russia to help his reelection campaign president trump abused the power of his office by conditioning 2 official acts to get ukraine to help his reelection the release of hundr

as terry said, the hardest part i found was the last-minute crisis. the first lady is not a first responder, that is the president, but if something really terrible happens she does have to acknowledge it. and it is often really stressful to type out that last-minute paragraph to acknowledge it, say the right thing, make sure you are not contradicting the president, it can be intense. john: yes, i remember being with the president in europe and we were about to fly back to washington in word arrived pope john had gone to the hospital and was not well at all. and so it was decided that if the pope were to die that day while the president was flying across the atlantic, when he landed at andrews air force base, he would get down off the plane and read a statement. so it was my job on that flight to prepare a statement for the president to read. usually when you are coming back from a foreign trip, you are working on something. but in that case -- then a rumor came to me by telephone on the plane that president ford was dying. and so i asked andy card, t

terry moran live at the white house. thank you. >>> we have new reporting tonight after that deadly attack on london bridge. the heroes who ran toward the convicted terrorist, taking him down with whatever they could find. one with a fire extinguisher. and they did this even though at the time it appeared he was wearing what was a suicide vest. it would turn out to be a fake, but they did it anyway. abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell with the american who witnessed this. >> reporter: this is the dramatic takedown. citizens attacking a terrorist with a fire extinguisher, another wielding a whale tusk. and for the first time, details from inside the building when the attack started. an american eyewitness watching jack merritt lay down his life. >> he was the first line of defense. he was the first person to confront him at the door. >> reporter: people taking on terrorist usman khan, even though he appeared to be wearing a suicide vest, later turning out to be fake. khan was shot dead by police. khan was one o

hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program leaders of russia and ukraine have agreed to implement a cease fire in eastern ukraine as part of efforts to end the conflict there. sides have agreed to release and exchange all detainees by the end of the year to 2 weeks to disengage military forces in 3 regions and to hold more talks in 4 months to check on the progress of the ceasefire but the meeting in paris brokered by germany and france has left many issues unresolved the 2 leaders have made separate announcements after the closed door talks station a little this was a meeting was long and difficult but the mood was rather positive and that's the truth and i really want to emphasize that point is we will continue the discussions and for months and see the results of what we've achieved it is not. enough for months this is certainly an important step towards deescalating the situation in eastern ukraine as well as easing tensions in our correspondent nick connelly is in paris and he's been covering those talks nic the russian and ukrainian leaders have agreed to a prisoner swap i u

the killing in berlin could be similar to the poison gas attack terry days in britain on double agent sergei and his daughter in march 2017 that prompted many western countries to impose sanctions on russia the russian government meanwhile has consistently denied any involvement and is refusing to cooperate in the investigation. that tony jones or kate they did give what do we know about the man who was being kids his name doesn't even come come gorst really and why he might have been the target of an assassination. exactly he was killed just around the corner from here in the klein a tear gotten in or guest of this year and what we know so far is that he was an asylum seeker of chechen descent from georgia and he actually fought on against the russians in the 2nd chechen war in the early 2000 so he fought against the russians 'd and also after the war he reportedly also worked in ukraine and in georgia and those were thought to be on jobs that were against russian interests is what we've learned so far and each of you actually spoke to his ex-wife earlier this year as well and in her

gail and terry raised their own families and having babies started to change terry's way of looking at her sister's disappearance. >> as unhappy as you might be in your life, you might leave your husband, you'd take your kids with you. >> so when you began to suspect it she wouldn't leave her children, what did that mean to you? >> that something happened to her. >> in 1996, 15 years since they had heard from carol, the police came around again. this time they scanned the backyard with ground penetrating radar. even dug up the ground didn't find a thing. funny thing though, about four months later the daily breeze did a little story and interviewed mike and this time his memory was slightly different. he remembered that on that terrible morning when carol left he heard the garage door go up before she drove away. just one more little detail though nothing profoundly different and of course no evidence whatsoever of any crime. and then one day in 2002, a detective was rummaging through some cabinets behind his sergeant's desk. >> i was being nose y. i thought what was this? >> it was th

let's go straight to london and to our correspondent terry shows welcome terry even before the meeting has got underway does all of this acrimony we heard what donald trump had to say about the french president where does this all leave us of why are we seeing this kind of action many what can we expect from this meeting. i'm reading of course every time nato leaders get together they all want to use the spotlight to get their own points across i think that maybe some allies will actually be encouraged to hear what president trump said about president mcclellan's criticism of the alliance of course normally it's trump who's the critic in chief of nato so if he's defending the alliance perhaps it's a good thing although i don't think it's completely true to say that france needs needs nato most there may be some countries along the russian border who feel like it's even more essential to their survival so yeah this is this breakfast where president truck made these comments could remind all of us of the kind of things he said last year at a breakfast with president sultan about chancell

abc's terry moran leads us off from the hill tonight. >> reporter: a historic moment in the capitol. adam schiff stepping before the cameras to lay out the case for impeachment, accusing president trump of subverting u.s. national security through a scheme to exploit ukraine's desperate need for u.s. military assistance in their fight against russian-backed separatists. >> at the same time, there was something president trump desperately wanted and believed that he needed. and that was an investigation that would damage the rival that he feared apparently the most, joe biden, as well as an investigation into a debunked ukraine, not russia, that was interfered in our last election. >> reporter: schiff said the ev ceenid amassed says that the president uedntne taikrhose "sham investigations" and he was willing id widit fhholald lyne anthers neevidce sce e inlligence committee's public hearings, schiff said. phone records between the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and the office of management of budget. >> certainly the phone records show that there was considerable coord

terry got out. he got a dsc for this. >> my battalion spent the night on the high ground to the south. all night long we saw no german troops or heard nothing of them. however, we did have one straggler come to the rear who , who told us they were east of us in the area. by 10:00 in the morning, they came down the road and shot out the artillery observers tank and one or two other tanks. we fought all morning long and part of the afternoon, staying in the same position there, keeping the germans at bay. [shooting] >> at first, the defense of bastogne rested with three units of the division in the tas task force in the intheast, task force cherry the east, and task force o'hare in the southeast. i am general anthony mcauliffe, united states army retired. i was at bastogne with the 101st airborne division in mid -december, 1944. the 101st airborne division was at a camp in france. we were recuperating from the holland airborne operation, where we had suffered 30% casualties. and we were absorbing our

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hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us a passenger jet with 98 people on board has crashed in kazakhstan authorities say at least 12 people have been killed the back airplane came down shortly after takeoff from the city of el monte on route to the capital ton more than 60 others on board have survived with injuries. well joining me now from perth is aviation industry expert geoffrey thomas geoffrey what more can you tell us about the circumstances of this crash is there any indication what might have caused it. look there are a couple of scripts from asian from passengers from passenger interviews one person talked about a large bang just off the tiger off another person however spoke of a loud shot up and the plane vibrating now that could have been caused by an ice buildup on the wing the plane possibly may not have been dion asked and when the plane took off the air over the wing. broke up and we get into an aerodynamic stronghold and the classic symptom of a classic sign of that if you like is a shattering of the aircraft and then a kind it crash back down he got to a 40

and of course i thank terri sewell who is from selma, alabama. who has been a fighter for voting rights all of her life. i thank her for sponsoring this bill along with myself and so many others. was in selma in 1965 that another friend and one of our dearest colleagues, john lewis, was nearly beaten to death for having the audacity to demand the right to vote, the right to register, the right to participate in a meaningful way until our democracy. that year after that bloody sunday in march of 1965, and the later march to montgomery that followed soon after, congress enacted the voting rights act to protect against voter suppression and disenfranchisement. one of its core provisions required that the federal justice department preclear any changes to voting rules in jurisdiction that is have a history of discrimination and voter suppression. let me as an aside say that these elections are federal elections. so very frakely -- frankly, my constituents have an interest in making sure the constituents of every other district have an opportunity to

fellow i'm terry martin welcome to the program some breaking news coming in hey passenger jet with 98 people on board has crashed in kazakhstan authorities say at least 15 people have been killed the back air plane came down shortly after takeoff from the city of amati on route to the capital times at least 30 pine people on board survived with injuries. well joining me now is our moscow correspondent emily shore when emily what more do we know at this point. well because the constituents have said that over 60 injured people have been taken to hospital several of them are in serious condition so it does seem that there are quite a lot of survivors as well but of course this accident just happened so those numbers could change the plane that crashed and just left monte when it crashed that's the biggest city in kazakhstan and it was on its way to the administrative capital north to tom there are frequent flights between those 2 cities and of course this is a very dramatic accident resident in oman to have been asked to give blood the president of kazakhstan cousin john mark karr kind

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us authorities in smally in the small the capital mogadishu say at least 70 people have been killed by a car bomb explosion hit during morning rush hour at a busy security checkpoint is the most deadly attack to rock the somali capital in yours. survivors of a massive truck bomb explosion being ferried to hospital out of all the attacks the capital suffered in 2019. this is the worst. i've been here all the beauty of it knocked me to the ground with its force i've never seen such an explosion in my entire life with him out of the hospital even with the mention of that was once a blast took place as i was getting off a minibus. i was on my way to work. my leg got injured some of. the tangled wreckage on saturday morning the people of mogadishu were gearing up for the new working week when the bombers struck. a truck loaded with explosives was detonated at a busy control checkpoint the explosion led to many deaths and injuries. that it was that most of those most of those who died here were students who were going to school or university. but in

well i'm terry martin welcome to the program would be give us some breaking news just coming in the russian foreign ministry has summoned the german about the dispute over the killing of a former chechen commander in berlin it looks likely that moscow will expel 2 german diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats by berlin last week this is the former chechen commander who was killed in berlin last summer he was gunned down in a berlin park german prosecutors believe russia was behind the killing and 2 russian diplomats were expelled last week because berlin said moscow was not cooperating sufficiently in the investigation also has denied any involvement in the killing. well for the very latest now let's cross over to our correspondent emily sherwin who study by force in moscow good to see you emily post russia decided to expel german diplomats well we don't actually know yet what we do know is that various russian agencies are reporting that the ambassador has been summoned to the foreign ministry there citing sources within the russian establishment to say that and

following terry martin welcome to the program russia is expelling 2 german diplomats in retaliation for the expulsion of 2 russian diplomats by berlin last week it's also do with the killing of this man a former chechen commander in berlin last summer he was gunned down in a public park german prosecutors believe russia was behind the killing and russian diplomats were expelled because berlin said moscow was not cooperating sufficiently in the investigation bosco has denied any involvement in the killing. well for more now we're joined by our correspondent sure win in moscow emily why has russia decided to expel german diplomats while russia expelled these 2 german diplomats in response to berlin expelling russian diplomats last week last week we already heard from the foreign ministry that they were threatening reciprocal response to that measure that's the usual response from russia this kind of tit for tat tactic and even putin on monday said that it's the kind of unwritten law as he put it that if you expel our diplomats we're going to value as well these expulsions evilly are happe

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us syrian government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the it liberates in the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and hope. home to 3000000 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkey's president edge of time fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly 3700000 syrians the largest refugee population in the world everyone has warned there will be consequences for europe if that happens. the desperate search for people buried in the rubble left by another bombing in syria as strikes by russian and syrian forces continued throughout the weekend. they're aiming for al qaeda linked militants what they hit here was a busy market. we were here when the missiles hit and we have nothing to do with this gk we are all civilians here my son was wounded this is a civilian area what can i do. the smoke rises from another drop the bomb on for another family it's time to pack up and leave. taking his family away from the violence. we're fleeing again becaus

schultz is covering these divides at this nato session for us and joins us now from london to debut terry what's the atmosphere like after that very public dustup between mccraw and trump. well not surprisingly all the leaders are saying they had great meetings yesterday nato secretary general and stoltenberg even tweeted that a very good meeting with president trump even though both of these bilateral meetings with president mccall and as we've just seen and with that the nato secretary general devolved into basically unilateral press conferences by the u.s. president where he discussed everything under the sun including a lot of domestic politics so i think that with the way things are going in washington with the impeachment inquiry and of course here in london where there are tensions between between leaders i think people are awaiting perhaps a quite fractious day no matter what they say british prime minister boris johnson just arrived and was asked these questions and said there's more that unites us than divides us so i'm expecting that we will have a show of unity here in london

alone i'm terry martin welcome to the program a passenger jet with 98 people on board has crashed in kazakhstan authorities say at least 14 people have been killed in the back plane came down shortly after takeoff from the city of on route to the capital no zal ton more than 60 others on board have survived with injuries. our moscow correspondent emily sure one is covering this story and she joins us now from there. emily what more do we know at this point. well we know that officials have said that all the injured are receiving receiving treatment at the moment around 50 people have apparently been taken to the hospital and several people are severely injured according to officials these numbers of course could change this accident happened very recently the plane has just left when it crashed that's the biggest city in kazakhstan and it was on route to the administrative capital nor soltani that's a very frequent route for flights in. and this really is a very dramatic accident the residents in monte have been asked to give blood if they can because a stones president. has expresse

another very contentious issue which is expected to come up terry is president. time from turkey sort of thing he will block need to plans to make progress in protect better protecting the border take states what does it do on wanton isn't likely to get it . yes these are very serious issues on reader because of course in alliance that act by consensus any country can block further progress and what turkey is saying is that it wants more support from other allies to declare groups kurdish groups that it considers as terrorist organizations also as terrorists that would mean that the united states would have to declare the kurdish group in northern syria with which is allied itself the y.p. g. as a terrorist organization that's not going to happen the u.s. has made clear so we'll have to see if turkey stands on this statement as a way to block further progress on anything of course turkey has a lot it wants from other allies it wants the patriot missile systems to remain in turkey it once more back up on in northern syria so this is a bargaining chip and we'll see

terry jeffrey. removal one was the limits on some of the deductions on tax cuts that president trump signed. and quite simply, you have more people working, a record number of people working in the united states. unemployment is at a recent historic low. more people working, more people paying income taxes. cut it is true that the tax benefited corporations more than individuals. robert is next on the phone from greenville, texas, independent line. caller: good morning. a hypothetical here, why can't we have our budget that congress be basically transferred over to the irs to adjust its tax rates on a year-to-year basis, to actually come to some kind of a balanced budget? i know it would be a bitter pill to swallow, that $9,000 per household you are talking about earlier, but why not have it where -- because politics, these politicians, they would have to get their house in order real quick or they would be voted out if they don't figure out how to balance the budget. host: thank you for the call. w

hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us in new zealand at least 5 people have been killed in a bowl cannick eruption on white island a popular tourist destination police say a number of people have been injured and more fatalities are likely they say it's currently too dangerous to carry out rescue operations around 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time of the eruption new zealand's prime minister to send our duren has said foreign tourists were among. well for the very latest now let's cross over to journalist caruso who is standing by for us in auckland new zealand chris a authorities now say 5 people are confirmed dead in this direction is everyone there accounted for. terry unfortunately the number is likely to go up still as to dozen people are still unaccounted for on white island new zealand's most active volcano erupted on monday afternoon local time 5 people are now confirmed dead 23 have been rescued including the 5 people killed and at least 20 of those rescued were injured 7 critically with burns being the main injury prime minister just in

we talked about this at length yesterday on the alleged chemical report terry pitched the idea to his editors to write about the watchdogs leaked e-mails that are a binder of the conclusions of the report that led to the united states france and the u.k. conducting air strikes against syrian military targets so we could get believes his case shows the failings of the mainstream media over this. let's look at the evidence that we have available to us at the moment there are scientists from a nonpolitical body of the united nations. that say that their report their findings from a chemical weapon site were not representative in the in the final report that was released to the world to me this is you know doesn't really need explaining why this is a newsworthy story is that these organizations have taken a long time for us to get here in terms of a historical point of view when we shouldn't be weaponized in them to kind of create the public opinion needed to go to war of the moment there are very few well mainstream western journalists that are reporting on this so i would say this compl

correspond to the show schools following the story for us from london welcome to terry now even before the meeting has got underway this acrimony specially between the u.s. and france what donald trump's comments tell us about his commitment to nato. well i read it would take me a while to fact check of that sound bite that you just use even though i think we should do that and you know i think that even some of the baltic allies will be taking issue with what president trump said because it's not in their interest that he's saying that france is the one that needs the alliance most that the truth is that every one of the $29.00 members needs the alliance needs to be able to know that article 5 is solid and that they will all come to its defense if threatened so i think that this statement alone will be something that is discussed quite intensely here at nato today but this isn't the only tension in the weeks and months leading up to this meeting there is also of course the events that made president mcclaren say that nato is brain dead and that was the u.s. decision to abruptly pull o

abc's terry moran tonight up on the hill. >> reporter: a fateful step -- under speaker nancy pelosi's watchful eye, house democrats declare they will impeach president trump. >> the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the president of the united states, donald j. trump, with committing high crimes and misdemeanors. >> reporter: the two articles -- those are the charges against the president -- abuse of power in his dealings with ukraine and obstruction of congress. on abuse of power, the charge that donald trump "ignored and injured the interests of the nation." and "betrayed the nation by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections." on obstruction of congress, the charge that trump, "without lawful cause or excuse," rejected every subpoena or request for evidence, the article declaring, "in the history of the republic, no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry." >> no one, not even the president, is above the law. >> reporter: democrats are moving fast, some

well good morning terry i think if they managed to converge on those promises alone that already will be a big step after all over these 5 years of conflict 20 attempts been made to create a lasting cease fire none of those have been successful none of those have stopped for more than a couple of days at best in terms of the prisoner exchange that is obviously a deeply emotive act especially ahead of the new year's celebrations and christmas in russia and ukraine so that deep symbolism in that if those prisoners are able to return to families in time for those holidays on the real sticking points on the crunch points and that's basically about who compromises 1st does ukraine give the separatist regions and autonomy status allow them to hold elections 1st or does russia and the separatists compromise 1st and how ukraine to regain control over its eastern border with russia that is essentially a game of chicken that's been going on for 5 years and maybe unsurprisingly not much progress was made on that those real hard issues staying irresolvable at this meeting you got the sense that b