i agree with what asha just said.es, and i agree with asha, there are other crimes he committed, at the very least, failing to register as a foreign agent. it seems to me the deal he got here was essentially being charged with this instead of something else. but i got to say flynn has exercised such poor judgment from day one, and really it's emblematic of the entire rens. flynn was the guy chanting lock her up. here you have a man who is, you know, a general, a person who has intel experience, who certainly has experience with how our justice system works chanting that the political opponent of the president should be, you know, thrown in jail without any due process for something that has never been charged as a crime before in that manner. so to me, the fact that that guy -- i agree with asha -- is inserting himself and interjecting himself in a presidential campaign, talking about foreign policy when he's being paid by another government to be their advocate, it shows such colossally poor judgment that it's not re

with me now asha ran rana g gap. mueller's team only spoke for a couple minutes and said cohen was indeed cooperative. as we reported, he's not going to prison until march. do you anticipate him cooperating until that time and even further until that final? >> i do. he got a downward departure partly because of his cooperation. he is cooperating with the special counsel's office. you know, what they've submitted to the court is dependent on him fulfilling his obligations with them. so i do -- i also think that his statements, the statements of his lawyer, lanny davis, make it sound like he is not only to help the special counsel but at some point to come be public about what he knows as well. >> so, lisa, talk of continued cooperation. he doesn't go to prison until march. we know he's still cooperating on the whole trump organization investigation. pam brown talked to rudy giuliani saying their response was that cohen had been blindly disloyal. the fact that he could still talk, how worried should this white house be

asha, i want to bring you in. the president seems to be saying that this was a case of entrapment, that michael flynn was essentially pressured into lying. what is your response as a former fbi agent? >> i think that's hogwash. you know, i read that 302 that was released by mueller's team last night. and michael flynn was anything but pressured into lying. in fact, the fbi agents who interviewed him reminded him of conversations that he had, that they were asking him about that he initially would not disclose. so they were trying to prompt his memory, trying to get him to, you know, talk about things that they knew about that he was trying to conceal. they even used his own words that he had used in conversations. and what is really telling is what mueller said in the sentencing memo, that flynn was committed to his story. and that he wasn't even sweating it. he wasn't showing any signs of deception. from a counterintelligence perspective, this is really concerning because that means there is already a cover story

asha rangapa.you believe it is wrong to go after general flynn in the first case or do you think it's that flynn really did cooperate and provide value? >> i think it's clear from the filing, even with the redactions, that this is about flynn cooperating. as i mentioned on previous show last night, there is enough in that memo that's not redacted to demonstrate that flynn could have been charged with other crimes, like not registering as a foreign agent. so i think he got a good deal because of what he provided. >> all right. so, let's put up some of the avenues of intrigue here on the basis of the theory that flynn was helpful, okay. flynn offered firsthand information about interactions between trump transition team members, plural, and russia government officials. that flynn shows cooperation on three different investigations. and he has participated in 19 interviews. impressive or no? >> very impressive. and you missed one important note. that the contacts with russia were material to the inves

i want to bring back asha and jack to talk about this.t's so unusual when you think about it on the most basic level, jack, of you now have in the last few minutes now an admitted russian spy talking about what she was trying to do, and now going to be working with the federal government. how important is this that she now admits to the judge that she engaged in a conspiracy against the united states to basically infiltrate herself amongst the powerful politicians and power brokers in u.s. politics? >> well, it's seemingly relatively unimportant in and of itself, but it's part of a bigger picture that enhances its importance. it's important because as the prosecutors have said, all of this activity on her part and while the president was thinking about the moscow tower and stuff, this was all taking place at a time when russia was engaged in a sustained campaign of interference with our elections. and you know, so you have the gru intelligence officers, who have hacked into e-mails of various democrats, including the campaign manager for

. >> i think she has a better timeline from the time i spoke asha but then it was nine months later. somebody came to me and said you have a book and you. i wasn't thinking about that i was thinking about black lives matter and the next stage of the movement were that was going i played with the idea and wrote an outline but then i went back to the daily grind of organizing. but then the trump candidacy happened and as i started to see the ramping up of the right wing really calling black lives matter a terrorist group and to see my face on the bill o'reilly former show. and and then to collaborate and co-author i called asha immediately and said would you be interested in getting the book out? before i even finish he said for sure. then i spent the next month how do we want to shape this? not just 2018 but 20 years from now. . >> but it was her on the west coast 6:00 a.m. and then she wrote out the first draft i took it over where she sent me a pair of questions i would write how i wanted it written. i really wanted to get into that research part of it we would go back and forth. an

>> i want to say i agree 100% with asha on, why would flynn make that argument?> because he wanted more leniency. >> right, but he already had leniency. he already had a deal. he is poking the bear. that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. but also, in that memo they typically don't comment on credibility in those types of memos, and they did here. likely because the issue was raised. but i think that's important, and i find it more important on the issue of what are we going to see down the road and what is mueller looking at. down the road, he's going to see the president -- >> state of mind, as you guys both know, jim, i want to talk to you about why you did things and what was going through your head. we know two things, one, you are not a sidebar. i am not just asking you for information. i'm looking at you. two, i can't get it in writing. you have to sit down with me. do you agree or not? >> the forecast is he's going to see the president and his legal team is going to attack this one. we saw the tweet today. they're going to attack the credibility of s

we've got asha, counter intelligence expert, and kbram -- it's a pleasure to be here. to your point, it was a mueller smackdown to michael flynn, and i don't know how much general flynn is paying his lawyers, but i think they really -- they -- they misstepped whenever they decided they were going to attack investigators. he was obviously on the road to possibly not getting a sentence. you know, the investigator said he had provided so much cooperation. then they said, no, we're going to take a page from president trump's playbook. mueller came back and said, no, you're not going to do that. you know better. a 33-year veteran of the armds forces, a former intelligence chief. you don't have to have someone tell you that lying to the fbi is wrong. bob mueller is an impatient person, and i imagine when he saw that he said, no, i'm not going to stand and i'm going to speak out telling mielk flynn you are out of line. you should have known better. >> utd i'll let you jump in and finish the question later. >> i think that sort of one of the things that got overlooked in that

. >> asha? >> yeah. i just want to make clear because there is always this red herring thrown out that well, it doesn't mention collusion, but it might be counter intelligence. collusion is the counter intelligence way of describing conspiracy. okay? collusion is when you are secretly agreeing to work with somebody to get to some goal. if that agreement is about a crime, it is conspiracy. if you are working with a foreign government to execute their intelligence operation in the united states to defraud the people of the united states, that's collusion. and that also makes you, if you are working on their behalf, a foreign agent. so when we hear these words, fara and redacted things that may deal with counter intelligence investigations, that is all what collusion is about. >> right. >> fara is about lobbying and being a foreign representative -- >> that's not true. jim, that's not true. >> having to register -- >> the registration act covers lobbying. >> i understand. but you're ruepresenting it for pur

former fbi special agent and yale law lecturer asha rangappa. and former new jersey governor, former federal prosecutor, and abc news contributor chris christie. dan, let me start with you. a lot of different investigations. a lot of strands here. let's go piece by piece and start with the southern district of new york and its sentencing memo on michael cohen. one of the biggest headlines out of that report relates to campaign finance violations that came out of the so-called "hush money" payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougall. they note in the report cohen played a central role in two similar schemes to purchase the rights to the stories. each from women who claimed to have had an affair with individual 1, so as so suppress the stories and thereby prevent them from affecting the election. the president being, quote, individual 1. so the government appears to directly implicate the president in something that is a federal crime. how much of a legal threat does this pose to the president? >> i think this is the biggest legal threat we hav

try including those like asha boy have been farming and foraging and adi and this and jug and the national parks for centuries but almost none of them have documents to prove ownership of the land. more very well let us have got a read somewhere little. guy choir's is one of the sixty odd family was that have been made to relocate from their home in the forest to two hundred fifty square feet apartments under the government's lundy have believed ation scheme and just into the change however has been anything but easy. final small than one acre of land when i lived there i would be out and about collecting firewood planting vegetables back then i used to sell microchips and make about two or three hundred rupees he would help me run. house now i don't know what to do or how to and. green activists will tell you that the government had seven alternative sites for building the metro deep pool all of which were finally rejected it serving a situation where your high temperatures and hyper usually levels and these forests are the last remaining green spaces in the city of mumbai and they give y

. >> this is 11-year-old sebastian meeting the kids amanda, asha and jamus. sebastian is from colombia. he's a child up for adoption and he has come for a five-week stay through this charity called kid safe.org. what this does is enables families in america or other places to host these children as adoptive family or just an advocate family. but unfortunately, at the end of five weeks, sebastian has to leave and go back to colombia. >> oh, look at all the love. >> yeah, there is so much love between these children. for the last five weeks, even though they didn't speak the same language, they've been living under the same roof, playing every day. there is a moment where everybody gets down. there's a huge group hug. at some point over the last five weeks, each one of the children came up to the parents, can he stay? why does he have to go home? at this point the parents let them in on a little secret, a secret they have been legally obligated to keep. >> what do you guys think if mommy and daddy decided to also be a mommy and daddy for sebastian? >> yeah! >>

of russia's anti doping agency has asked president vladimir putin for help in avoiding another ban asha's doping body could be suspended again because the world anti-doping agency inspection team is still waiting to receive key information a ban was lifted in september on the condition that laboratory data was handed over by the end of the here washer is in need to rebuild its reputation after evidence emerged of state sponsored doping and twenty fifteen. did you do your research over the course of three months we haven't been able to provide the data on the samples which have been kept at the moscow laboratory and which are also owned by the international olympic committee and their international sports federation continuous speculations are made based on the moscow anti-doping agency data and it hurts our sport russert should be more interest than anyone else in sorting out it's past. the end of the season break is over for the world's best tennis players as they build up to the first grand slam of twenty nine team the australian open starts on january the fourteenth defending men's cha

well known as a member of asha to have up we were all human knowledge about what's on the interpreter says these aren't his questions they're mine and he doesn't have to answer that or it's best if we don't talk about the substances that are added. according to my research some chinese concentrate contains up to fifty five percent additives. yet it is such cheaper than tomatoes so this low with production costs. the companies that purchased chinese tomato concentrate don't seem to mind the additives. despite this rather dubious practice the company has no difficulty obtaining exports difficult it's. only the consumer is kept in the dock. i was saying i must say is that these people. are declaring that to the buyer they're telling the buyer that we're going to put so much of this and this and this . and this is the price we don't put this this is the price was the only high price but it's pure too much of based then they add five or twenty percent fiber three percent color or whatever that it's a live the another price so the buyer knows it she's aware of it doesn't appear late. but th

i believe we've been joined by my colleague, asha safai. thank you. at a time when the lgbtq community and trans people in particular are under siege from a hostile and toxic presidential administration, it is clear -- it is crucial for san francisco to stand with and support the community. i want to thank mayor breed for her strong and immediate repudiation of the president's attempt to erase transgendered people by undermining them. as a supervisor for district eight and the only supervisor, i feel a special responsibility to represent our entire queer community and to be very gay doing it. and until we have a transit supervisor, and i suspect there may be one or more of those out in the audience or behind me, it is my honor to advocate for the trans community and to be here today. in san francisco, i think we all know the transgender community continues to face disproportionate and unacceptably high rates of violence, homelessness and unemployment. despite the advances we've made as a city, it is clear we need to invest in additional support servic

to asha's point, that may not happen during the presidency, it doesn't rule out that perhaps that could come if the material is there. it could come after the presidency. >> certainly it could, but it is a myth that this is a settled rule that you can't indict a sitting president. there was a huge debate about it behind the scenes in the watergate special prosecution and most of the lawyers thought you could indeed indict a sitting president. the prosecutor decided i'm not going to deal with this. i'm going to let congress deal with this because the inquiry started already. it's an unsettled question. the key right now is how does the grand jury get the information it has on this conspiracy to the house? there used to be a law, the independent prosecutor law, which has run out. which made it a matter of house this kind of material would go to congress. there is no real mechanism to get it to congress. that's what the house should be looking at. not impeachment hearings yet, but there should be a way to get this information to the house and perhaps this might be a reason for an inquiry a

you're welcome, asha. you are welcome. and i hope you paid attention on how to ask questions. we have a lot of lawyers on this body, but sometimes we have to pull back and get to the nitty gritty to get to the crux of what we're trying to solve here. if we want to keep reform in the front of mind, we have to have people in all stations and levels. i want to recognize our sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, making sure everything is safe. i always joke, if something goes down, come get me first. but we celebrated 40 years of harvey milk. we celebrated the memory dan white and muss coney. and i want to say those safety concerns that were prevalent 40 years ago i think are more relevant today. and we need to do a better job protect the safety of this building and the people that are coming here. whether they're coming to get married or testify. we need to step up when it comes to the safety of our building, i hope sheriff hennessey is listening. i'll be writing you a letter, but i want to highlight this is the beautiful building and make sure it is with standing any future, god forbid, at

i wish i knew and had a good answer for this because asha scientists we want to do, what we're alwayso is show more data ha more graphs, like there's going to be some magic equation that's going to convince everybody, and there isn't. you know, i don think that a lot of the reluctance to accept climate change, i don't really think that's about the science. i think that's about values. i think that's about the sort of deep story of how people see themselves. so i think it's i reallyortant for scientists to go out in communities and engage withnt what's imporo people in communities. >> it feels overwhelming. >> it does feel. overwhelmi >> the science feels overwhelming, i'll be honest. it just does. is there a way of figuring out how to prioritize? >> i mean, that's the thing. it is overwhelming, because we are talking aboutomething that affects the planet that we live on. we'realking about global warming, but we're also talking l out changes to rainf patterns, changes to extreme events like heat waves and floods and droughts and hurricanes, so it should feel seoverwhelming bec it is ov

you're welcome, asha. you are welcome. and i hope you paid attention on how to ask questions. we have a lot of lawyers on this body, but sometimes we have to pull back and get to the nitty gritty to get to the crux of what we're trying to solve here. if we want to keep reform in the front of

you are probably also familiar with all ashes, saul asha. >> me and names is a troubled thing. i knew about benjamin, i went back to my study of the civil war. why don't you tell me? >> caller: a black jew. they were moved. >> guest: okay, yeah. >> caller: a black plantation owner who is a member of the confederate cabinet and he goes to an auction in new orleans, a black slave unknown to him, he is a flasher from ethiopia. so i have a black jewish plantation owner unknown to him, owning black jewish slave, anyway, something i want to share with you. >> guest: i like that story. >> host: how much research do you use for your books? >> guest: i will tell you about the first time i was asked that question. i was making devil in a blue dress. jennifer beale called me, i want to have dinner with you and ask you some questions. i love jennifer biel. and she asked me how much research do you do? i want to research my character. i tried to figure out how i could lie but i couldn't. i said i don't research. when i finish writing a book i go through to make sure things aren't wrong, mak

from the time i spoke to asha nine months later we were getting a book deal. it was pretty quick in the literary world but i came to her because someone had come to me and said you have a book in you. it was at the height of black lives matter i was thinking where the movement was going what was the next stage and i played with the idea i wrote an outline and then i went back to the daily grind but then the trump presidency happened but then i started to see the ramping up of the right wing calling black lives matter a terrorist group or to be on bill o'reilly's former show and i said i need to write something and i said somebody had artie asked if i wanted to publish a book what do you think she said yes and you should talk to asha and she could collaborate and co-author i called her a immediately before i could even get it all out she said for sure but i spent the next month how do you want to shape this and what is the central theme what is important for people to read? not just in 2018 but 30 or 40 years from now so that was the centerpiece. >> was it you