The News Roundup

The News Roundup

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Congress and the NRA are putting more scrutiny on a gun enhancer used by the shooter in Las Vegas, the Cabinet remains in focus regarding who is keeping order and who might be calling whom names and Facebook opens up on aiding the investigation into Russian meddling with the election. Also, the US prepares to make some major foreign policy moves, a Kurdish icon dies as Iraq tries to prevent its Kurds from seceding and Spain also continues fighting a secession effort by Catalonian separatists. Discussing the week’s top news stories are Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington correspondent at The New York Times, Jeff Mason, White House correspondent with Reuters, Kimberly Adams, reporter for Marketplace, Yeganeh Torbati, immigration reporter with Reuters, Nick Schifrin Special correspondent at PBS NewsHour and Eli Lake, a columnist with Bloomberg View.