professor abbas milani we thank you very much indeed for being on our program while the aircraft shot down by iran was from ukrainian international airlines and 11 of those killed were citizens of ukraine in the wake of the disaster the country's president vladimir selenski has been speaking to his iranian counterpart her son rouhani in a video statement selenski said he received a full apology from iran for shooting down the aircraft but he also called on tehran to punish those responsible and repatriate the bodies of those killed as soon as possible. or for more from kiev let's bring in correspondent david stern hello to you david so now that iran has admitted to accidentally shooting down the ukrainian plane president selenski says iran must pay compensation why is he insisting on this point. well the president didn't go into details about that he did this was one of many points and should be said towards the end he emphasized that the lives of ukrainians are the most important thing in this cannot be returned but it also should be said that this is fairly common practice we saw th

professor abbas milani there.heir perfect match. the firm's found success by doing things the old fashioned way to suit a culture of arranged marriages. new year celebrations have been taking place around the world, with many cities holding spectacular firework displays to welcome in the new decade. a short time ago, celebrations in new york began. a very happy new year wherever you are. we leave you with these pictures. hello. we've ended 2019 on a fairly quiet note. the best of the sunshine through new year's eve was across northern and eastern england, parts of scotland we saw some spectacular sunsets to end the year and the decade. and this quieter theme continues through new year's eve underneath this area of high pressure. but notice that the isobars are closer together across northern ireland and scotland, so, a windier day here. and also, a cloudier day across the uk to start 2020. that cloud could be thick enough for the odd patch of drizzle. for most it's mainly dry through daylight hours with some brigh

i'm joined now by abbas milani he is the director of iranian studies at the hoover institution . stanford university professor milani thank you for joining our program now just how significant are these protests underway in tehran and are they any different from previous ones. i think they are different than the previous than stray sions it's if you look at the previous those situations 2 months ago were sent to the dispossess well the poor marginalized these elites in society. are going to that. many of the wrong means in. recent. there. and they're objecting to the. law about its complicity try to i guess has since been up should be building here in the street. people who are more link or the loved ones well right after the united states assassinated iran's top general silliman there were wise fred anti american protests there was an outpouring of nationalist pride and now it's just a few days later we're seeing these protests against the iranian regime professor what do you make of this shift. i'm not very surprised because i think people are wise people they were trying to sh

professor abbas milani is director of the iranian studies programme at stanford university.uch for your time. first of all, the attack on the american embassy, the us blames iran for it, do we know whether iran is to blame?” blames iran for it, do we know whether iran is to blame? i think it's clear that groups of that were directly involved with these attacks, are very close to iran. they were not do anything like this without iran was my prior approval. but i think there is also a direct link, a spokesperson for khomenei, literally wrote an essay saying the way out of the crisis in iraqi, remember at that time there were demonstrations against the iraqi government, he said the way out was the occupation of the us embassy, and the same way we got rid of the us by occupying their embassy a0 yea rs us by occupying their embassy a0 years ago, the young fighters in iran should do the same. it is a complicated picture that led up to this point. we have had a few incidents in the last week or so. but at its core, is this essentially a proxy war that is developing between iran and

this was professor -- this is professor abbas milani joining us this morning. >>washington journal, live every day. coming up this morning, john lawrence, former chief of staff to nancy pelosi discusses the impeachment strategy. michael walt talks about yesterday's house vote on a war powers resolution. washingtonn's journal, live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. live friday on the c-span networks, the house returns at 9:00 a.m. for work on epa regulation to require the designation of chemicals as hazardous. army secretary ryan mccarthy will speak at the brookings institution about how a modernized army will operate in the indo pacific. analyst for the u.s. and china talk about the emerging economic challenges for china as it sets out to achieve its centennial goal over the next three decades. at her weekly news conference nancy pelosi reiterated she would not send over articles of impeachment to the senate until she sees the arena in which house managers would proceed. she talked about a resolution on the house floor to limit president trump'

gerry: i am with staten university director of iran studies abbas milani.fessor in the last decade or so iran is really spread their influence in iraq. lewis to dom hussein at spin very serious it's propped up the regime it comments very influential in lebanon through its proxy has a blog, yemen and his struggle is saudi arabia, as you mentioned at the beginning, i was starting to see some pushback to that iranian influence? how do you see that going now in the next year so? is are going to be further resistance to their influence? >> every indication i have seen is there would be more. iraq for example where iran has had most of the culturally embedded influence because of the number of shiites, the number of leaders who lived part of the years and iran. there is pushback there. [inaudible] if you read between the lines, every statement he has made is essentially here that iran needs to set up a rocky politics. the report he had one time even asked soleimani to leave iraq because he thought he was influencing too much. in lebanon it was the same way. has b

. >> reporter: professor ab ababa abas milani is one of the founding directors of iranian studies at stanford. he's been studying the region for decades. >> the iranian regime i think wants to retaliate to show that they're still a contender, but i don't think they want a full confrontation. >> reporter: they are members of the iranian american community of northern california. both still have friends and family in iran. >> i want the president to acknowledge the iranian people inside iran. i want him to acknowledge the iraqi people and these people who are protesting against this regime. >> and i'm glad that i have this chance in this country to be able to speak my mind and talk about my brothers and sisters in iran, the young kids in the streets of teheran who cannot do the same thing. >> reporter: they hit the streets of downtown san francisco over the weekend along with dozens of their community members in support of the iranian general's killing, while thousands more marched to denounce the attack, concerned about a full-blown war. >> a regional war i think is possible. world wa

. >> reporter: professor ab ababa abas milani is one of the founding directors of iranian studies at stanford. he's been studying the region for decades. >> the iranian regime i think wants to retaliate to show that they're still a contender, but i don't think they want a full confrontation. >> reporter: they are members of the iranian american community of northern california. both still have friends and family in iran. >> i want the president to acknowledge the iranian people inside iran. i want him to acknowledge the iraqi people and these people who are protesting against this regime. >> and i'm glad that i have this chance in this country to be able to speak my mind and talk about my brothers and sisters in iran, the young kids in the streets of teheran who cannot do the same thing. >> reporter: they hit the streets of downtown san francisco over the weekend along with dozens of their community members in support of the iranian general's killing, while thousands more marched to denounce the attack, concerned about a full-blown war. >> a regional war i think is possible. world wa

. >> host: this is professor abbas milani at stanford university joining us for this discussion on iranand joining us from stanford california. professor thanks for your time this morning. >> guest: thank you for having me produce a pleasure joining you. the impeachment of president trump. continue to follow the process on c-span leading to a senate trial live unfiltered coverage on c-span. >> we have the great body of evidence already before us. we have much of which is sworn testimony already and being cross-examined that it would be possible in my own mind for us to conduct the trial without having witnesses called. this is representative ted guild hall avril republican of the third district to member of the foreign affairs committee. what did you learn from the briefing on iran? >> guest: is probably one of the best briefings we have had. i've gone to a lot of in the amount p

this was professor -- this is professor abbas milani joining us this morning.ou for your time. guest: thank you. a pleasure talking to you and your listeners. host: thank you. resolution vote is set for the house today. speaker pelosi will hold a press conference and will be essentially asked about impeachment and where they stand. for close to c-span.org more information on those events. we have more information coming your way at 7:00 tomorrow morning. right now, we take you to the house of representatives. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [applause]

jon: again the president their live descending the steps of air force one with the milani and his sonfter spending the holidays in florida. again if the president speaks we will have it for your life. you noted jamie that president is unpredictable as many people say. the threats on twitter in his unpredictability may make around think twice before responding in any significant way. >> i think they're even some republican senators who are uncomfortable during a time of great consequence like this with the way the president has used twitter. but as you mentioned if you some of the presidents allies, they would say what is trying to do, is make their risk to our ron very clear. let them know with the red line is that if they cross it, there will be serious consequences in the hopes that they will not want to cross it. at the end of the day, the president made that call, he will deserve praise if it works out and he is able to push back on iranian aggression. but if things turn south, he probably will get a lot of the blame. jon: perhaps to no surprise joe biden is critical of this parti

[cheering] [cheering] south jersey is my home, donald trump is my president milani at tromp is my firstless you. [cheering] >> thank you kellyanne. so i just want to thank republicans, because what they have been doing is incredible. republican leadership in this country, we are winning winning winning like never before. we are winning again and we have a party that is a very different party a much stronger party much more inclusive party, we have a party that we love. we have a party that has the votes, we have a party like they have never had before. the republican party is respected again. [cheering] and i have to say this, america is winning again, and america is thriving again like never before. so since the election we have created 7 million new jobs. the average unemployment rate under my administration is lower than any previous administration, listen to this one, and united states history. [cheering] that's a good fact. the lowest in history. [cheering] four more years. four more years. four more years. four more years. four more years. >> we are doing good for the veterans i h

gerry: i am with staten university director of iran studies abbas milani.s really spread their influence in iraq. lewis to dom hussein at spin very serious it's propped up the regime it comments very influential in lebanon through its proxy has a blog, yemen and his struggle is saudi arabia, as you mentioned at the beginning, i was starting to see some pushback to that iranian influence? how do you see that going now in the next year so? is are going to be further resistance to their influence? >> every indication i have seen is there would be more. iraq for example where iran has had most of the culturally embedded influence because of the number of shiites, the number of leaders who lived part of the years and iran. there is pushback there. [inaudible] if you read between the lines, every statement he has made is essentially here that iran needs to set up a rocky politics. the report he had one time even asked soleimani to leave iraq because he thought he was influencing too much. in lebanon it was the same way. has below was on the liberal defensive. so

this was professor -- this is professor abbas milani joining us this morning. thank you for your time. guest: thank you. a pleasure talking to you and your listeners. host: thank you. resolution vote is set for the house today. speaker pelosi will hold a press conference and will be essentially asked about impeachment and where they stand. for close to c-span.org more information on those events. we have more information coming your way at 7:00 tomorrow morning. right now, we take you to the house of representatives. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] the speaker: the house will be in order pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists smitsed by the majority and minority leaders for horkr morning hour debate -- for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the partie

joining us now live is doctor abbas milani the director of iranian studies at stanford university doctor thanks for joining us. i think what we're all wondering is as bad as things are. what are the chances of them getting worse or do you think there's going to be some restraint on either side. there's some cultural sign that there might be restrained. the president's tweet as one of them. >>there's another tweets from a foreign minister i'm so jealous 8th, which indicated that iran has made an attack but that it has concluded attacks other words, this is a whole the intend to do. well i'm not best there are this might be the end of that and hopefully there are no. losses of tonight's american or iraqi. and we can begin to see the escalation otherwise i think we have no can get very serious regional confrontation. >>iran state tv is have been describing this as a revenge attack for the the drone attack and the death of a iran's top commander. >>you feel perceive this as something was it done to assuage to to be able to calm other people other ran to show that there was a tip for tat. >>a

tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock vicki and i spoke earlier to doctor abbas milani he's the director of iraniananford university, he says iran really had no choice but to act after the death of qassem soleimani who was the second most powerful person and iran the us taking him out yesterday. but he says that the move today was strategic. clearly they have tried to show. this sense of resolve in responding day has picked a a chance to build a 2 bases. >>that are not in action bases to to to quote interim president trump makes that very clear that not an american base there might have been match a loss of ice. there were some tense warnings. some of last moments might have come from antimissile defense system might have come from rockies and what has come from allies. the might have told you about because i think they wanted to show some resolve in retaliating but they didn't want to just come in they can't full frontal war and i hope that the united states takes this opportunity and also >>and then unclear if this is in any way related to the conflicts. but a stunning development just hours afte

and he met milani a so he can get stormy in there. would we accept that? is this all acceptable? don't know, i know what happens. we heard what happened, the lawyers sure got everybody's saying is, and, or but. vanessa on thes independent line from new jersey. caller: thank you for giving me a chance to say a few words. i am unhappy seeing people's comments, and surprised to talk about lawyers like that. i want to thank the lawyer from the independent line when he said so beautifully about our reality. that is exactly what this is. we have many chances on our level to talk about political -- for this one particularly, i -- people say i want him out, i want him jailed. that is why hillary clinton called us deplorables. people should be careful with what kind of terminology they use. did not find any impeachable offense. host: a half-hour left of your phone calls and comments on the final day of the impeachment question and answer phase. 848-8000 for democrats. for republicans, 202-748-8001. .ll others, 202-748-8002 let's check in with john mcardle. john: as the viewer mention, lev