interesting to see tomorrow if the outlook in washington is different than it was 24 hours ago boris foreman always good to have you all of us sell it in washington to both of you gentlemen thank you. in poland anti-gay sentiment appears to be growing with some blaming the conservative governments and populist politicians but the media is also no friend to gays and lesbians a right wing news magazine is offering its readers stickers to post on their homes or business is the stickers read this is an l g b t free zone you see it right there and for those in the bt community who dare to march in public hate and violence can be waiting just around the corner. these are painful memories for warsaw based artist i was 5 minutes he was and be obvious joke over the weekend simply to speak up for his rights as a gay man. but i thought of knowledge it was very depressing it is usually a festival of tolerance for that and then we were suddenly confronted with this aggressions and hum a phobia shimmy as which. it was called the equality parade for be obvious joke participants wanted to send a message i t

salad he's been following these hearings for us in washington and here at the big table with me is boris foreman he is a u.s. politics analyst for us and a professor at bard college here in berlin gentlemen it's good to see both of you again oliver let me start with you these hearings they've been called the most anticipated congressional hearings in decades i mean there were high expectations today were those expectations met by mr moeller. well i'd say if you expect a lot of new material to come out of these hearings here today if you expected robert mahler to liver anything substantial to what's already in the report then you might be disappointed right now 3. that was not the purpose of these hearings and the democrats really did not consider this to happen at all robert mala actually was even given the order yesterday by the department of justice to strictly focus on the report one democratic lawmaker even said the main goal is to get driver dollars say what robert rowe it's now if you want you can consider these hearings here today is something like a political blockbuster because what's h