Taliban confident peace deal ahead

Peace talks between the US and Taliban are continuing as Washington hopes to reach a deal by Sunday. A transcript of a town hall style meeting at the New York Times has revealed that the newspaper created a special news desk to spend two years covering the Mueller investigation. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former Times’ Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges, host of RT America’s On Contact, discusses the state of journalism in America. Another governor scandal once again involving blackface rocks headlines. Alabama Republic Governor Kay Ivey apologized on Thursday for taking part in a blackface skit in 1967. Award winning professor and editor-at-large for Salon D. Watkins weighs in.