these actions were consistent with president trump's previous efforts to undermine the united states government investigations into foreign interference in united states elections. through these actions, president trump sought to arrogate to himself the right to determine the propriety, scope, and nature of the impeachment inquiry into his own conduct, as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny all information to the house of representatives in the exercise of its sole power of impeachment. in the history of the republic, no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the house to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors. this abuse of office to cover up the president own misconduct and seize and control the power of impeachment and thus nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested solely in the house of representatives. in all of this, president trump acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law an

these actions were consistent with president trump's previous efforts to undermine united states government investigations into foreign interference in united states elections. through these actions, president trump sought to arrogate to himself the right to determine the propriety, scope, and nature of an impeachment inquiry into his own conduct, as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and all information to the house of representatives in the exercise of its "sole power of impeachment". in the history of the republic, no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the house of representatives to investigate "high crimes and misdemeanors". this abuse of office served to cover up the president's own repeated misconduct and to seize and control the power of impeachment -- and thus to nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested solely in the house of representatives. in all of this, president trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constituti

united states presidential election. number two, the same corrupt motives, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within andtw outside the united states government condition to official acts, on the public announcement of that he had requested. eight, the release of io390 million 91 million dollars of the united states taxpayer funds, the congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian aggressions, i wish president trump had ordered suspended. nb, head of state meeting at the white house which the president of ukraine sought to demonstrate continued than the united states support for the government of ukraine in the face of russian aggression. number three, faced with the public revelation of his actions, president trump ultimately released the military to the governments of ukraine. but has persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal e political benefit. these actions were consistent with president trump's previous imitations of foreign interference in the united states elections in al

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these actions were consistent with president trump's previous efforts to undermine united states government investigations into foreign interference in united states elections. through these actions, president trump sought to arrogate to himself the right to determine the propriety, scope, and nature of an impeachment inquiry into his own conduct, as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and all information to the house of representatives in the exercise of its "sole power of impeachment." in the history of the republic, no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the house of representatives to investigate "high crimes and misdemeanors." this abuse of office served to cover up the president's own repeated misconduct and to seize and control the power of impeachment and thus to nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested solely in the house of representatives. in all of this, president trump acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional go

basically my video showed how us media tailors its line according to the precepts of the united states government and that was deemed apparently a threat they said it violated community standards and therefore was unpublished which is some orwellian double speak term unpublished that simply just means censorship that's what we're dealing with here and were you surprised when that happened oh did you expect it. i i certainly didn't expect it to happen but it's not the 1st time we've seen this happen before and it's part of a much broader campaign of attacks on independent media on any state sponsored media of course including a r t the that deemed adversarial or that you know the united states government doesn't like but i mean my video is really not controversial at all so it should really raise alarms for americans who think that we have free speech in this country but really it's only as long as it stays within the confines of what the u.s. government and the silicon valley giants deem is acceptable free speech i think he rania do you see this as a concerted effort to sign a civil he says not o

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united states presidential election. number two, with the same culture motives, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within the united states government, to code official acts on the public announcement that he had requested. a, the release of $391 million of the united states taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian aggression, to which president trump had ordered suspended. and b, head of state meeting at the white house, which the president of ukraine sought to demonstrate continued united states support for the government of ukraine in the face of russian aggression. number three. faced with the public revelation of his actions, president trump ultimately release the military and security systems to the government of ukraine but has persisted and openly and corruptly urging and soliciting ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal political benefit. these actions were consistent with president trump's previous invitations of foreign interference in the united states elections. and all of this, presi

united states presidential election. number 2, with the same corrupt motives, president trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the united states government conditioned two official acts on the public announcement that he had requested. a, the release of $391 million of united states taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian aggression, and which president trump had ordered suspended. and b, a head of state meeting at the white house which the president of ukraine sought to demonstrate continued united states support for the government of ukraine in the face of russian aggression. number 3, faced with a public revelation of his actions, president trump ultimately released the military and security assistance to the government of ukraine, but has persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting ukraine to undertake investigations for his personal, political benefit. these actions were consistent with president trump's previous invitations of foreign interference in united states elections. in all of this, presid

they are making every possible effort they can to squeeze every possible dime out of the united states government, but it is really hard to price gouge the united states government. only time you've ever heard that from academic talk, right? there are a series of problems for it, though. first off, although four big companies dominate 70% of the supply, there's another 30% of companies that don't traditionally get military contracts. those companies are attempting to use the civil war as an opportunity to break into a lucrative market so they regularly offer their gunpowder at below-market rates. to keep contracts the duponts and hazards are also forced to sell the government powder at below the rays of sporting powder or civilian powder in the markets where they're trading. so the u.s. government's actually genning gunpowder, a 2 cent discounters have us per rate per pound in 1863. the other big problem they have is that the government keeps insisting that it's maintaining its own saltpeter stores. the dupont would love to have saltpeter government and charge a commission on it. instead, though,

if they give the united states government a backdoor, they have to give that same backdoor to china. same backdoor to india. they have to make it like the united states government when it needs a physical unlock can get one but no one else can. or do what they've been doing, leave icloud backups unencrypted. they thought about encrypting the icloud backups but they decided not because of the fbi pressuring them. that is a problem. the data is far less secure than the marketing suggests the government can get a warrant and get your icloud messages everyone's icloud data except the chinese population is stored in the united states that means if you're a foreign government and have an iphone and backing up to icloud, it is potentially possible for the united states government to spy on your leaders. that is an entirely thorny mess of issues. it's hard to see a clear solution i think trump's sophisticated understanding of the situation has led him to a place that i think is sort of morally wrong which is to say i gave you a tariff waiver. now you have to unlock the phone and open up pand

president trump's obstruction is quote consistent with his previous efforts to undermine united states government investigation into foreign interference in united states elections. another example is president trump's attempts to impede the special counsel's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election as well as the president's sustained efforts to obstruct the special counsel after learning that he was under investigation for obstruction of justice. the special counsel's investigation addressed an issue of extraordinary importance to our national security and democracy. the integrity of our elections themselves. rather than aid the special counsel's investigation, however, president trump sought to thwart its and use the powers of his office to do it. after learning that he himself was under investigation, president trump ordered the firing of the special counsel. sought to curtail the special counsel's investigation, instructed the white house counsel to create a false record and make false public statements, and tampered with at least two key witnesses in the investigation. t

president trump's obstruction is, quote, consistent with his previous efforts to undermine united states governmenterference in united states elections. another example is president trump's attempts to impede the special counsel's investigation into russian interference with the 2016 election as well as the president's sustained evidence to obstruct the special counsel after learning that he was under investigation for obstruction of justice. the special counsel's investigation addressed an issue of extraordinary importance to our national security and democracy. the integrity of our elections themselves. rather than aid the special counsel's investigation, however, president trump sought to thwart it and use the power of his office to do it. after learning he himself is under investigation, president trump ordered the firing of the special counsel, sought to curtail the special counsel's investigation, instructed false statements, and tampered with at least two key witnesses in the investigation. the pattern is as unmistakable as it is unnerving. in one moment, president trump welcomed and invited

. >> secretary of state mike pompeo: it is the united states government that will help the iraqi people get what they deserve, and to take down terrorism from isis and others that is in defense of the american people and iraqi people, too. >> brennan: what are you doing diplomatically behind the scenes to try to de-escalate. >> secretary of state mike pompeo: it is not just behind-the-scenes. we're doing it some publicly. my counterpart knows exactly what president trump believes, wants, and desires, and is demanding from the iranian leadership. make no mistake about it. it is not just the past few days. we've built out an enormous coalition. gulf states, israel, we built a maritime initiative, we've flowed american forces, but we've had forces coming in from our european friends and partners as well. and the canadians. this is a multi-effort -- >> brennan: but the u.s. has now taken out a foreign military leader on foreign soil. >> secretary of state mike pompeo: he is a terrorist. >> brennan: maybe, but this is a significant action. do you really believe that iran is going to sit down

entrepreneurs and we also witnessed how the government of the united date is complicit and allows the installation of this coup. then we see how the united statesvernment continues toto support government in honduras, which are highly obsessive and violators of human rights. the united states supports these governments, particularly in the area of militarization. at the time of my mother's murder, one of the things that caught our attentionon is that t was said that members of the fbi were investigating her killing -- which the u.s. embassy never clarified, even though it was not true. and the u.s. embassy allow the honduran state to create that false narrative. but the most obvious evidence about t how soldiers are trained by the u.s. government to kill land and water defenders is the training that both chavez and castille received from the united states and aided them in carrying out the murder of my mother. the united states government has also never got funding for the government of hernandez, which is a dictatorship that continues to kill and generate impunity on my mother's case and others. amy: can you talk about the independent investig

iraq is done by an agreement security agreement between the iraq a fully fledged iraqi government and the united states the government of the united states the current government is a caretaking government this means it doesn't have the authority of the parliament . by nature it is unable to opt out of such extreme and the government that has to renegotiate the security deal with the united states has to be an elected and for the less government the current one is a caretaker one so that's why really they the decision of that of the parliament is neither here nor there. surely. approaching your none of them. are right. this is the only reason i'm pausing everybody is because there's so much response coming on from people who are watching the show if you confess and i'm going to put a couple of these points to you from on high i think that the point is very important for president trump and i think maybe unfortunately for americans even more broadly than that the relevance of iraq as an individual sovereign country is really falling by the wayside and i think that was dramatically shown in president tru

discusses also the immigration policies of the united states during that time and raises troubling questions about immigration policy of the united states government under president roosevelt. our second author sitting next to me was born in york england 1966. he attended oxford where he studied politics philosophy and economics and taught history for a while before becoming a journalist for several british newspapers including the guardian and sunday times. his articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines and has worked as a screenwriter and in television including the narrator for the history channels the last man of world war ii he has led several battlefield tours in europe for the world war ii museum and the author of several books on world war ii including the longest winter from the battle of the bulge and the bedford boys who sacrifice extraordinarily large number of soldiers from virginia. his latest book the first wave and focuses upon the experiences of the very first american british and canadian soldiers landing in normandy june 61944 the third author holds a bachelors degree from northwestern university and a doctorate

president trump's obstruction is quote consistent with his previous efforts to undermine united states government investigation into foreign interference in united states elections. another example is president trump's attempts to impede the special counsel's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election as well as the president's sustained efforts to obstruct the special counsel after learning that he was under investigation for obstruction of justice. the special counsel's investigation addressed an issue of extraordinary importance to our national security and democracy. the integrity of our elections themselves. rather than aid the special counsel's investigation, however, president trump sought to thwart its and use the powers of his office to do it. after learning that he himself was under investigation, president trump ordered the firing of the special counsel. sought to curtail the special counsel's investigation, instructed the white house counsel to create a false record and make false public statements, and tampered with at least two key witnesses in the investigation. t

huawei in aus blacklist, are there other mainland companies also on the watchlist of the united states governmentuawei is certainly not the only one on the watchlist, there are other companies, mostly chinese, on the watchlist but huawei has really been at the centre of us ire. they have been put on a watchlist and they publicly labelled it a security threat and they said china may use its products for spying and they've put a lot of pressure on other countries to block huawei for being involved in the development of their sg networks, and that is hurting huawei and they've taken a step back to figure out how they will get access to equipment and programmes they need and how they will get an operating system for the phone it uses operating system for the phone it uses because it has been using google's android services. it will be unclear what they are going to do but huawei is making plans to get around that because they know regardless of what happens at this trial, they will have to deal with a us government not happy with them. this outcome certainly will have an impact on the future of high—

government. trying to run foreign affairs united states. these events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements we've heard talk of a grave constitutional crisis and even been treated to talk about a coup in the white house not only does cheney sort of defend iran contra but he argues that iran contra is actually a model for how the u.s. should be conducting its national security policy he is a radical subscriber to this notion of the unitary executive effectively what you're doing is saying on certain parts of american policy we don't have a democracy we have a dictatorship as a matter of fact i was. very definitely involved in the decisions about support to the freedom fighters my idea to begin with. in my opinion there is no justification for further restrictions on the power and flexibility a future president. of the national security lead today is mostly composed of people who hit the revolving door multiple times during their last nomination of richard b. cheney to be secretary of the friends is going to. make a name fo

. 30% of our bs is outside the united states with governments around the world. david: you were recently voted the 22nd most powerful woman in the entire esrld, not just busut everything. so when you saw that, did you say, "i should be higher?" or did you say, "that's pretty high?" i mean. and how does it feel to be the 22nd most powerful female on the entire planet of 3.6 billion women? marillyn: you know, i don't focus that much on it, david. i get a note from my brother that said, "well, why was oprah higher than you?" or something like that. david: o marillyn: but, you know, that's not something i focus-- there's lots of lists. it really comes down to having the privilege of leading tional asset and a company that's doing so of the most important a intere. david: when you started out, were you often the only woman in the room at lockheed? marillyn: i was, yes. david: and so was that intimidating or was it the ki of thing where you said, i can shan them i'm better hem, the men? marillyn: you know, i think it's like any team you come into. you

has been widely questioned allies of the united states seem to insist that the syrian government is responsible and the opi c.w. report is conclusive and shouldn't be question so once again we have debate over the chemical incident i think peter tunes are going to continue to turn from a view of it is clearly what they don't want to uphold their narrative and in fact what we heard is a final report and then also one of these whistleblowers who are made up of the actual scientists and the americans are saying we'd like to report let's just move on and the russians are saying wait a minute let's listen to the national scientists because it sounds like this science didn't actually go into the final core so obviously the russians and americans can sell you a big stand with the o.p.c. don't you depends on whether you're talking about troop or. what are the scientists who are pushing it goes to think that it doesn't actually represent the 5. we spoke with journalist who was previously barred by newsweek from reporting the story on the o.p.c. w. leaks he quit in protest after the magazine's management

spectrum of tools that are available not only to the intelligence community, but to the united states government to counter foreign influence. speaking for the intelligence communities, first and foremost, we seem to not only collect against this activity and develop insights, those momentum in our community. but i think as you rightfully point out, there is not a fixed either you are in or you are out. as i mentioned minutes ago, this is part of an involving posture against what i think the better backdrop is foreign malign influence. at any moment in time, that is a 365 and ever and that the election is but one moment in that 365 posture, that an adversary may look at a moment that is a presidential election and it could be down at the local level. i think that is a very important revelation, that this does not just start every four years with presidential elections. this can also find its way in the very early stages of some of our political leaders as they start their careers out at the local level. that influence can frankly spend an entire career. to your point, it is important to recogniz

government of the person assassinated. secondly, it is law and international institutions that stand between us and anarchy, and the united statesd to make the law and to set international institutions at not. it would be wise for the british government to retain some distance from the united states, if it wishes to play an effective role in the diplomacy which britain is calling for. the fact is, there should now bea for. the fact is, there should now be a comprehensive international initiative to address the root causes of these tensions, which include the united states setting aside its observance of the iranian nuclear agreement back in 2018, and include the anarchy across the region, in which innumerable countries, from turkey, saudi arabia, the united states, israel and iran, are all meddling and intervening. we need international rules of the road and having wasted all the opportunities after previous worst to set in train regional security cooperation, we should be making a leap now towards addressing those fundamental questions through multilateral diplomacy. —— wars. what does the us one from iran? you mention the nucl

provided on the espionage act and despite the craziness of this law i have argued to the united states government i have said i will return and volunteer myself for trial on a single condition which is that i get to tell the jury why i did what i did and the government has refused instead they sent me back a letter signed by the attorney general that says well we promise not to torture you when we see the failures in the system it is incumbent on us to do something about even in small small ways you know people make this big question for me because of course i have so many critics i have so many supporters who are hero or traitor or hero or traitor which one are you and i say i'm neither i'm a citizen there are no heroes i'm just an ordinary person who did something unusual or do i think your hero you did something really brave but no no this isn't silly i don't we were and i think this is better when we say things like you know i'm not a hero. i'm saying that in the context of there are no heroes there are only horowitz choices in many sattar just a fish i'd like to ask you would you do it all o

they're defending him against the united states government. >> that's exactly right. that's exactly what they're doing here, and thousands of innocent as thes killed even in his own country are let known that e he bombed those tankers are bomb the e refinery and remember what they just did within the last six months not only kill an american. but tried to burn our embassy. and here we have a president who i think was very calm in how he dealt with knocking down our drone and others. trying to make sure that it got deescalated but what do they do? they went and killed an american now we have administration that when it has a red line it holds them accountable. correctly what president trump did. but what's more importantly through here he's making this country safer by doing it. it reminds me a lot of ronald reagan could anybody else had that berlin wall come down? this is a president who understands why iran should never have a nuclear weapon, but here we have a majority party in congress. that all they want to do to investigate him you have adam schiff ahead of the i

basically my video showed how us media tailors its line according to the precepts of the united states government and that was deemed apparently a threat they said it violated community standards and therefore was unpublished which is some orwellian doublespeak term unpublished that simply just means censorship that's what we're dealing with here less government is always raising you know a stink about oh china censoring this or iran is censoring not but in this case you know unlike those cases which are domestic censorship that only affect those countries what the us government is doing here is it's it's basically forcing these social media giants to censor things globally to cancel out any actual information that challenges the state department narrative about countries seem to be official enemies and it's really really disturbing because what you have here is it's almost like here any through algorithm becoming increasingly difficult when you have a social media environment that's dominated needed by these major big tech conglomerates like google and facebook. so i mean all the best thing that

there will not be a united frond for the united states government for the next few days tore weeks. to see how it plays out in the long run on campaign trail near term an long term. they're trying to stop him doing acts like this, trying to impeach him at the same time. thank you byron for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you, melissa. connell: get to the carlos ghosn story. melissa: wow, wow. connell: exactly. >> wow, if anybody watched this morning, he is still insisting he is innocent. this is the news conference, former nissan chairman earlier in beirut today, on and on, all kinds of questions. it is some story. he absolutely slammed the japanese judicial system. we'll talk about that coming up. plus impact, devastating australia fires are have globally. now it is affecting parts of south america. that is just ahead as well. ♪ ♪ most people think as a reliable phone company. but to businesses, we're a reliable partner. we keep companies ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business. (second man) virtualize their operations. (woman) and build ai customer

in diplomatic efforts informing decisions made by the united states or some of our partners, information related to foreign be it from governments, terrorist organizations, so there is a priority for the united states to have a say and at least express concerns related to how the information that we are providing, that could link back to someone else, should be safeguarded. peter: do you agree with the trump administration approach , don't don't use huawei use cte equipment in your systems? rep. spanberger: some of the threat information is pretty clear in terms of the threat to the security of that information, the risks that might be provided. the fullt read into scope of those threats, but i think that if there is an effort by the trump administration or any administration to ensure we are safeguarding american information, in particular information we provide in sharing, that is a concern i would take very seriously. memberse have a lot of of congress on this program and every one, we ask the same question, would you use a huawei phone? last week we had andy purdy of that toand i mentioned him, and here is his response. >> m

force if necessary only 15 countries around the world officially recognize taiwan's government and the united states is not one of them but washington is the island's most important ally and trading partner taiwan has its own military its own currency and a passport that that's accepted in most countries but crucially it doesn't have a seat at the united nations. thank you all right let's introduce our guests now in taipei the taiwanese capital we have joseph chang a retired professor of political science at city university of hong kong in beijing we have and democracy in your research fellow with the center for china and globalization in singapore drew thompson a visiting senior research fellow with the league kuan yew school of public policy and a former u.s. defense department official welcome to you a bit joseph can i come to you 1st you are in the taiwanese capital but usually you're in hong kong of course and i was just wondering what your thoughts are about the influence the unrest in over the last 8 months in hong kong of had on the politics of taiwan. on the basis of clear cut public opinio

and i think if you look at what the united states government is doing they are investing heavily in military capabilities they are investing in economic development they are putting a lot of diplomatic effort into coordinating with allies and partners to strengthen this is the whole indo-pacific strategy they're talking about the u.s. government is increasingly focused on the region and in an effort to bolster that credibility so while it's being questioned the government's responding and it's spending a lot of money and capital into building up those partnerships and relationships so that its credibility isn't questioned anymore but it's always going to be in china's interest to question that credibility just as andy has done and all of his comment about not being sure not being sure about trump the reality is the u.s. interests are in the region and they're going to protect them and taiwan is a critical interest all right we could talk forever couldn't we thank you very much gentlemen judge of chang normally in hong kong but luckily for us in the taiwanese capital taipei thank you so much

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