• WATCH: Haley says world leaders 'appreciated how blunt and honest' Trump was in UN speech

    WATCH: Haley says world leaders 'appreciated how blunt and honest' Trump was in UN speech

    Sep 21, 2017 09:12 PM EST

    U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley gave an update Thursday on the latest developments emerging from the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, telling reporters that countries at the UN responded "very positive to [Trump's] speech" earlier in the week. "They appreciated how blunt and honest he was ...

  • Shields and Brooks on Trump’s contrasting speeches, GOP ruptured relations

    Shields and Brooks on Trump’s contrasting speeches, GOP ruptured relations

    Aug 25, 2017 11:09 PM EST

    Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s political news, including President Trump’s wildly different approaches to his address on Afghanistan strategy and his remarks in Phoenix, his attacks on top Republicans in Congress, and his Pentagon directive to ban transgender people from joining the...

  • Within 24 hours, a pair of wildly different Trump speeches

    Within 24 hours, a pair of wildly different Trump speeches

    Aug 24, 2017 01:22 PM EST

    RENO, Nev. — Within a 24-hour span, President Donald Trump delivered one speech in which he tore into the media and members of his own party, and a second in which he called for national unity and love. The about-face seemed to reflect the president's real-time internal ...

  • In unfiltered Phoenix speech, Trump attacks critics and threatens shutdown over border wall

    In unfiltered Phoenix speech, Trump attacks critics and threatens shutdown over border wall

    Aug 23, 2017 11:54 PM EST

    ... leader of the white separatist movement, which calls itself the alt-right, tweeted: Trump has never denounced the alt-right. Nor will he. Before the speech, Mr. Trump met with Border Patrol officers along the Mexican border, and later declared he will do whatever it takes to achieve a signature ...

  • President Trump revisits his Charlottesville comments in angry speech

    President Trump revisits his Charlottesville comments in angry speech

    Aug 23, 2017 02:09 PM EST

    ... the kitchen. A Trump opponent hoisted a sign depicting the president with horns. A day of noisy but largely peaceful protests turned unruly after his speech, as police fired pepper spray at crowds after someone apparently lobbed rocks and bottles at officers. Trump is on a two-day trip to ...

  • How the world is reacting to Trump’s speech on Afghanistan

    How the world is reacting to Trump’s speech on Afghanistan

    Aug 22, 2017 11:32 PM EST

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: U.S. military and diplomatic leaders are moving ahead on the Afghanistan strategy that President Trump laid out in a speech to the nation last night. His remarks brought reaction today from the region, and the world. Nick Schifrin begins our coverage. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) NICK SCHIFRIN: Today ...

  • WATCH: Trump gives speech on Afghanistan strategy

    WATCH: Trump gives speech on Afghanistan strategy

    Aug 21, 2017 06:51 PM EST

    President Donald Trump will delivered a televised address Monday on how the U.S. will proceed in the nation's 16-year war in Afghanistan. Trump refused during his prime-time speech on Afghanistan to discuss the size of the American force that his new strategy requires. White House talking ...

  • Thousands counter-protest 'free speech' rally in Boston

    Thousands counter-protest 'free speech' rally in Boston

    Aug 19, 2017 05:44 PM EST

    As many as 40,000 counter-protesters overpowered a scheduled "free speech" rally by far-right groups in Boston on Saturday in a largely peaceful showing that did not lead to the violence seen one week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia. By 11 a.m. on Saturday, the counter-protesters -- who ...

  • WATCH: Tillerson condemns hate speech, says bigotry is un-American

    WATCH: Tillerson condemns hate speech, says bigotry is un-American

    Aug 18, 2017 03:40 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning hate speech and bigotry as un-American and antithetical to the values the U.S. was founded on and promotes abroad. In his most extensive comments on race and diversity since last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Tillerson on Friday called ...

  • Trump was 'making a joke' in don't-be-too-nice police speech, White House says

    Trump was 'making a joke' in don't-be-too-nice police speech, White House says

    Jul 31, 2017 09:51 PM EST

    ... has so far been silent on the president's remarks, and the Justice Department did not immediately say whether he would mention them during the speech. Sessions has said far-reaching federal civil rights investigations of police departments can malign entire agencies and make officers less effective on the streets ...