we have the c.i.a. director who was the head of central intelligence when the russia investigation began. president trump has not only gone after him as a traitor, tried to strip his security clearance as a punitive action because this is such a terrible person. the guy who was the director of national intelligence when the russia investigation is opened, has been denounced by the president, by the president's supporters. the whole framework of upper echelon intelligence and law enforcement officials, republican and democrat and neither, especially the ones who had direct contact with this investigation or who were experts in russian counter intelligence or russian organized crime. they have all already been drummed out of the government, and in many cases turned into household name villains by the president and his supporters. now under william barr, this attack on all of those people -- everybody involved in the russia investigation from the very beginning -- apparently has risen to the level that it

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c.i.a.ector from the obama days not being able to slough it off as we've seen james comey do with previous inspector general reports that had recommendations and the like. this is serious business and a potential criminal prosecution. we may finally get to the bottom of the origins of all of th. >> sandra: lindsey graham went on with hannity last night. >> i'll be calling horowitz before the country as a whole to let him go through his report. tell us what happened with the fisa warrant application. was the counter intelligence investigation properly opened. was there any wrongdoing by d.o.j. and f.b.i.? somebody has to watch those who watch us. here is what you can't fix. you can't unring a bell. what's happened to president trump in the house it's done a lot of damage. >> sandra: juan. >> i think both did durham report and now the durham investigation as well as the horowitz report are anxiously awaited by president trump's defenders because i think the president is very much taken with wh

but house democrats say the state department has reached out and nbc news is reporting that the c.i.a.'s top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the justice department about the allegations made by the whistle-blower against the president. democrats are gathering evidence and testimony, yesterday the intelligence inspector general testified there behind closed doors. next friday it's the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine's turn to testify. so we learned that tuesday the u.s. ambassador to the european union is also set to testify. ambassador gordon sondland was one of three u.s. diplomats whose text messages revealed how they were to persuade ukraine to publicly commit to investigate the president's political opponent. >>> joe biden responding. keep in mind there's no evidence of wrongdoing here by the former vice president or his son, hunter. >> all this talk by the president about corruption, comes from the most corrupt president we've had in modern history. he's the definition of corruption, he's indicted himself by his own statements this is not about me,

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he also did acknowledge the c.i.a. director who was key to so much of. this you learned it was delta force commandos who told this out. >> that's what i've learned. >> brennan: the president didn't reveal that detail in his remarks. >> the army equivalent to the navy seals. i haven't had anybody tell me. this i would imagine there was small group of delta force that would go into the compound, the compound would be surrounded by a larger group of probably army rangers providing security to keep anybody from coming to the compound. >> brennan: david martin, you have been busy reporting. thank you very much for joining us. we doant to take a closer look at abu bakr al-baghdadi, who he was, why he was such a high-value target. he was not only the leader of isis, he was blamed for that rea fnd followers allve. around the world. foreign correspondent holly williams has more on who he was. >> reporter: he proclaimed himself the caliph or leader of the so-called islamic state, but in reality abu bakr al-baghdadi was a hate preacher who presided over a death cul

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the c.i.a.as concluded with medium to high confidence that you personally targeted khashoggi and you probably ordered his death. >> ( translated ): i hope this information can be brought forward. if there is any such information that charges me, i hope it is brought forward publicly. >> o'donnell: what kind of threat is a newspaper columnist to the kingdom of saudi arabia that he would deserve to be brutally murdered? >> ( translated ): there is no threat from any journalist. the threat to saudi arabia is iom such actions against a saudi journalist. this heinous crime that took place in a saudi consulate. >> o'donnell: now, the crown prince is also battling critics over the imprisonment of women, including lou-jane al-hathlool, a prominent advocate for women's rights, specifically the right to drive. you understand the criticism. why give women the freedom to drive and then imprison one of the most high-profile women who fought for the right to drive? >> ( translated ): the issue has nothing to

who could believe the c.i.a.? good god, i could go on and on for an hour. hierarchy in this country stealing the election, in our own country. look at the knees mudia. they prop up their person they want for the election. we're the ones. host: all right. guest: first, the company is called crowd strike, and the -- ll, the number of american intelligence offices and the u.s. senate, a bipartisan report in the united states senate that just came out detailed the russian efforts to interfere in our -- again not just our election, it's our societal conversation and the way that we talk to and relate to each other. so i think that's pretty much without dispute at the moment. i mean, i think the average american won't see it. we're not going to see a bunch showing up on our facebook feeds or something that said paid for by putin. but the efforts to interfere have continued a pace the law enforcement officials have talked about their efforts to fight back even in more recent elections. something we're going to have to do in the long run. host: you can find it if y

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he general counsel of the c.i.a. was so troubled by the that sheower complaint referred the complaint to the of justice for prosecution.inal she's a trump appointee. national director of intelligence testified in front f the american people that the whistleblower acted in good law. and followed the the acting director of national ntelligence is a trump appointee. what in the world are my republican colleagues in the talking about when they fruit of the tree?ous reporter: the process. mr. jeffries: the american people care about lowering costs, and that's what we're going to continue to on. the american people care about fixing our crumbling bridges, and , tunnels, airports, mass transportation system. that's what we're going to continue to work on. about rican people care defending our democracy and of law.g the rule that's what this impeachment inquiry is all about. day, they of the don't care about process and about the process is ransparent, is legitimate, and is constitutional reporter: can you explain the wisdom

weaponized the c.i.a. the branches of government that were mobilized to attack not only conservatives and republicans, and -- but to attack the candidate for president, donald trump, who said during that period of time he believed that he had been wiretapped in trump towers in new york. that turns out to be true. the only way the left can argue with that, mr. speaker is that they say that definition of wiretap doesn't apply anymore because we have so much wireless we're not actually wiretap, we're just doing surveillance. well, an archaic term, been most recently archaic doesn't mean president trump wasn't right. he understood he was being bugged. in trump towers. and once he was advised of that, by an admirable admiral, rogers, he moved his operations as president elect out of trump towers in new york out to the golf course in new jersey where he could operate with a level of confidence that he wasn't being bugged in every conversation that he had. but there was a concerted effort and it's a matter of fac

the general counsel of the c.i.a. was so troubled by the whistleblower complaint that she referred the complaint to the department of justice for possible criminal prosecution. she's a trump appointee. the acting director of national intelligence testified in front of the american people that the whistleblower acted in good faith and followed the law. the acting director of national intelligence is a trump appointee. what in the world are my republican colleagues in the house talking about when they refer to the fruit of the poisonous tree? reporter: the process. rep. jeffries: the american people care about lowering health care costs, and that's what we're going to continue to work on. the american people care about fixing our crumbling bridges, roads, tunnels, airports, and mass transportation system. that's what we're going to continue to work on. the american people care about defending our democracy and upholding the rule of law. that's what this impeachment inquiry is all about. at the end of the day, they don't

that he is being called outrageous things every single day, that obama's c.i.a.irector is calling him a traiter on national television and you're worried about your car being keyed? show some backbone. because we are in a fight. we are in a fight for the survival of the republic as the founding fathers gave it to us. and don't be misled the decision last week by nancy, her capitulation to the squad who i prefer to call the -- the our horsewomen of the democrat acop clipping. they've been planning that since he was sworn in in 2017 because they've decided that america chose the wrong candidate. instead, it should have been a woman who thought it was owed to her because of her gender and her last name. perhaps the most corrupt politician in modern american history. cheers and applause] so i ask you, what are you prepared to do in the next 389 days? you can knock on doors, be a poll monitor. it's all great. but it's not enough. it is not enough. because you know that they will be organized. you know they will cheat, lie, and bus people to the polling stations. so i

we were probably working for the c.i.a. people like joseph mipsa who you probably have heard of. stephon, charles, some of you have read my book. you are familiar with these names. others haven't. probablely heard them on some my interviews. these people were not there to ever root out or find out if donald trump or his campaign wasco lewding with russia because these people, ladies and gentlemen, know what you had for breakfast before you even had it. they were tailing us for months and months and months. there were fisa warrants issued. michael flynn, the great michael flynn, right? [cheers and applause] seven months before i had this bizarre stefan, the guy they call the walrus from cambridge, he was targeting and spying on him. seven months before i even met michael flynn. they are starting to say that this was all just because we believed that the donald trump campaign and associates of his were in the pocket of putin. this was a setup. this was preplanned. this was orchestrated. and this came approximately from the top of the obama white house. ok. i hear a lot of pundits g

but then came the c.i.a.icer whistl resulted from the summary of a july phone call tween trump and ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky, where the american president repeatedlysie asked ukraine to investigate his main political opponent, joe biden. i'm here in kyiv to speak to ukrainians who were key players in the events that led up to the dismissal of prosecutor general shokin, to find out mp's f theory about why he was fired holds any water. i started with the man who then at the top: ukraine's former presidt, petro poroshenko, who personally faced the pressure from biden to dismiss his own prosecutor. he told me it was never about biden, or his son's business with burisma. >> ( translated ): we talking only about the reform of the prosecutor office. to make it independent, to make it more transparent. >> reporter: ukraine's independence square, known as the maidan, was the epicenter of mass protests that toppled the pro-ian regime of viktor yanukovych in 2014, and led to poroshenko's election. it was al

a c.i.a. officer specializing in russia and ukraine, this person was detailed over to the national security council from the agency, being the c.i.a., in the summer of 2015, working under susan rice, president obama's national security advisor. he also worked closely with the former vice president. that's the same susan rice, according to a book in the recent few years, after -- according to that book, it reported that secretary clinton called her husband and said, they're wanting me to go out there and say this attack in enghazi was all about a video. and the advice was, you know, you can't be the one that goes on the sunday shows because nobody's going to buy that. so, susan rice was picked to go out and tell people the attack in benghazi was based on a video, when most everybody, maybe not susan rice, but most people that had looked into it at all knew it was not about a video. at all. and the administration, obama administration, had been warned repeatedly of the threat that was coming and

officials tell nbc news that the c.i.a.'s top lawyer courtney simmons elwood made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the justice department about the whistle-blower's allegations that president trump abused his office in pressuring the ukrainian president. okay, lots to get to. we will get straight to our panel. hands nichols, chief ethics white house lawyer under george bush, and ed rendell and msnbc legal analyst barbara, and we will start with hans nichols. hans, we have a lot to cover here. let's get to first potentially this second whistle-blower. what do we know? >> we know, according to "the new york times," and they're citing people who have been briefed on it, that there is a second whistle-blower that is weighing, considering filing an official complaint. we know that this whistle-blower has also according to the "times" spoken to the inspector general of the intelligence committee, the ic ig, in that terminology. it is unclear if an actual second report, a filed report, is necessary, to trigger an in

and cbs news senior national security contributor michael morrell, a former acting director of the c.i.awelcome to you both. holly, what impact will this have on isis? >> well, it's a blow, norah, but a blow that isis has probably been planning for, given how much of its leadership has been killed. we're hearing today that the top isis spokesman has also been killed in a u.s. raid. al-baghdadi has a likely successor, a character known by many names, including abdullah qardash. like al-baghdadi, he apparently joined al qaeda's offshoot in iraq before isis split from that group. but to be clear, isis is not about one man, whether it's al- baghdadi or someone else. it's about an ideology, a violent interpretation of islam, some would say a perversion of their religion. >> o'donnell: so the fight continues. michael, one of the things we learned today is that special forces captured two adult males alive and that they gathered other intelligence. what could we learn from that? >> so from both of those, norah, from both the individuals and from the materials that were gathered, we're looking f

. >> brennan: and the president clinton thanked gina haspel, the c.i.a. director. >> absolutely. i this i well eel learn more in the days ahead about what the intelligence was and how we got it and thank even more people. it bothered me a little bit some of what the president did in providing detail about taking back to the united states pieces of baghdadi's body. it bothered me a little bit hearing the president talk about some of that searian oil being ours. that's what inspires some extremists. you know, the oil comment, margaret, really validate at least it sounds like it validates 40 to 50 years of conspiracy theories about what american foreign policy is all about, and it's not. a great, great day, but i think the president could have handled the press conference a little bit better. >> brennan: >> margaret, we do these operations all the time. this difference in this one is the prominence of the target. you're always worried about operational security. we rarely have a problem before the raid, because they know what the stakes are. they don't want anyone to get hurt, but a

informant passing information on to the kurds which they passed to the c.i.a.bu bakr al baghdadi was not an easy target but the spy was still able to collect vital information. >> the informant had a piece of baghdadi's underwear and u.s. forces had it to get a dna sample to be ready to make a positive identification when baghdadi died. ( laughter ) >> trevor: wait, hold up. they found al baghdadi because an informant stole his underwear? ( laughter ) i feel like the informant just had a weird underwear fetish, and the army walked in on him one day and he was, like, no, i'm spying for you, yeah, these are how you find him. give them back when you're done. ( laughter ) also, did you see al baghdadi's house? the united states does not mess around. they'll kill you and destroy your entire house. i'd love to see i.s.i.s. try and get the security deposit back from the landlord. yes, there's no walls anynor but we vacuumed. come on, meet us halfway. ( laughter ) finally, here's a fun story from the world of sports. >> the landmark advancement in professional sports,

deputy director of the c.i.a. was a real player and modest person and wouldn't know that was true of her. she was a major player in the last go-around and remains very active. so would you please take over. [applause] >> thank you so much. honestly, i'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to briefly introduce samantha this afternoon for her lecture as the winner of the daniel patrick moynihan prize. it's an opportunity to have sam in a ballroom full of people to hear what i think because she would never stand for the smoke i'm about to blow. in large part because i really believe this prize suits her. there are the obvious parallels between moynihan and samantha. they both have irish roots and she was born in ireland and is a proud immigrant and they are both authors. sam, i have to say she won a pull itser prize for her book in her 20's after spending as a war reporter in the balkans. and they were both harvard professors and still is and is u.s. ambassador to united nations. and like moynihan, samantha is an

one thing i learned as an undercover officer in the c.i.a. is that america only succeeds when our enemies fear us and our allies trust us. as members of nato, both the u.s. and turkey have committed to unite their efforts for collective defense and for preservation of peace and security. i hope our turkeyish counterparts will recommit to these -- turkish counterparts will recommit to these principles and work with us to protect the successes of joint u.s.-kurdish efforts to drive isis out of syria. thank you to my friends, the gentleman from new york and the gentleman from texas, for their work and commitment on this important bipartisan bill. i urge my colleagues to support it and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back. the gentleman from texas reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm

marty mccarry, offering his thoughts health care, amarilis fox talks about her time as c.i.a. operative. wive our live weekend coverage of the texas book festival today starting at noon eastern. catch the miami book fair next onth on book tv on c-span 2. >> shortly before 9:30 this morning president trump spoke to reporters about a military operation in northern syria against the isis leader al-baghadadi .

former c.i.a. acting director mike morrell says the spy game between the u.s. is on the rise. >> this arrest is the fourth case we've seen of chinese vel o i think it's both a reflection of how aggressive the chinese are being and how aggressive we're being in trying to push back on it. >> reporter: a u.s. attorney said today that northern california was ground zero in the fight to protect technology and intellectual property. u.s. investigators say that they had tight controls over the u.s. control over classified information that was turned over in these dead drops to peng who immigrated to the u.s. in 2001. >> big changes are coming to college sports, at least in california, the governor signed a law to allow hiring of agents and make money on deals. ncaa has a strict rule against all of that. >> i understand what those kids are going through. i feel for those kids. >> reporter: n.b.a. star lebron james invited california governor gavin newsom on his show to sign the historic bill allowing the state's college athletes to be paid for their name, image, and li

phillip mud and brandon and other former clapper directors of the c.i.a. have made very threatening statements and i am praying the marines will execute them. these are epic times, ladies and gentlemen. it's hard to cram two hours into two minutes. i made a mistake at san jose, supervisors, we only got one minute a couple months ago and i said i was counting how many words and the bird landed on me and that was not true. because i tried an hour into 60 seconds i made a mistake. if there's anyone out there watching that live, pray for me that god will help me in jesus name. now what really happened was that i was praying after i counted how many words elijah had spoken and i was just pondering, you know, what he said and how god told him to a joint jesus to be king over israel and other things and i wrapped my head in the green flanel cotton shirt and a bird landed on my head it quacked and it flew off. it's interesting because it says here in second kings that the house they have their master may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood o

director hayden, c.i.a. director brennan and acting c.i.a. director morrell. it stated, the russian government continues to use local being aers in a number of ways, including closer to a target especially one who would be hesitant to offer assistance to russian operative directly or manipulate a target to suit their needs. they use these agents to probe individual targets, to see if they might be open to a relationship or blackmail, and they recruit individuals within a country to help them understand how to appeal to u.s. populations and target and shape the contours of disinformation campaigns. the recent senate intelligence committee report affirmed these tactics, explaining, russian-backed trolls pushing disinformation have also sought to connect with and potentially co-opt individuals to take action in the real world. the special counsel's report described how the kremlin and kremlin-linked actors deployed these tactics in the united states to interfere in the 2016 election, including as early as 2014 the internet research agency instructed its employees

if this c.i.a.tive is going to be the guy that brings down my president, i want to know all about him! i want to know what kind of dogs they have, how many marriages they've had, if they have a d.u.i., i want to know if they're a partisan, i want to know everything. >> stephen: (as levin) "we need to know everything. how many dogs does he have? are they cute dogs? does he have a picture? can i see the picture? is he a good boy? who's a good boy?" ( cheers and applause ) at long last, sir! "who? " ( laughter ) trump was so pleased by levin's performance, that he retweeted 20 tweets about levin's performance, including one tweet from an account called "trump, but about sharks"-- which is a novelty twitter account that replaces words in trump's tweets to make them about sharks. which is why it says, "amen mark levin, preach brother! you shut down ed henry and the pro shark media." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) the president of the united states just tweeted the phrase, "proshark media," which me

marty mccarry, offering his thoughts health care, amarilis fox talks about her time as c.i.a. operative. wive our live weekend coverage of the texas book festival today starting at noon eastern. catch the miami book fair next onth on book tv on c-span 2. >> shortly before 9:30 this morning president trump spoke to reporters about a military operation in northern syria against the isis leader al-baghadadi . president trump: last night the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead. he was the founder and leader of isis. the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world. the united states has been searching for baghdaddy for many years, capturing or killing baghdadi has been the top national security priority of my administration. u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwestern syria and accomplished their ission in grand style. the u.s. personnel were incredible. i got to watch most of it. no personnel were lost in the operation, while a large number o

. >> dana: and on the cia, he declined -- >> and the c.i.a. has lawyered up. >> dana: yeah. the previous administration found no criminal wrong doing. we have something else. a battle over impeachment is still raging. republicans are demanding that the whistle-blower testify. now democrats are reportedly claim that hearing from the whistle-blower is no longer necessary. comes as the left and the media continue to mock and attack the gop after they stormed the closed-door hearing this week. >> this looked like a klan group outside of a jail trying to get the sheriff to let them in so they can deliver their own justice against somebody inside. it's not a good look for our democracy or for the republican party. iaoc is joining in, calling it a little flash mob or entitlement of privilege. greg, they did a stunt, trying to make a point. they won the news cycle for the day. did it look like the klan? >> greg: how can it be a klan if there's no democrats? it's all republicans. i seem to remember the klan was made up of democrats. what kills me -- >> this was racist. this was a rac

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he serve the director of the c.i.a. and then secretary of defense during the obama administration.imon served as senior director for middle eastern and north african affairs on the national secuirty council staff during the obama administration. he's now professor of the practice of international relations at colby college. gentlemen, welcome to you both. secretary panetta, i'd like to begin with you. how big a change in u.s. policy is this latest move? >> well, i think this is a serious foreign policy blunder that is going to undermine united states leadership and further weaken our role in e world. i mean, we're putting a knife in the back of the kurds who basically fought alongside of us in trying to destroy the i.s.i.s. calaiphate. in basically leaving the kurds vulnerable, we've also opened up the possibility that syria will nto the hands of russia, iran and that i.s.i.s. will further strengthen itself. so, from every aspect, i consider this to be a very serious blunder on the part of the president. >> nawe praz: steve simon, you have long argued this was a long time coming, t

in other words, we know brennan, he hates donald trump and he's a former c.i.a. director.as a lot of power and a lot of deep-state friends still working there. susan rice's name is mentioned in sperry's article. what about a relationship with adam schiff? where and when did he meet with people in schiff's office? did schiff's office recommend hiring a lawyer? was it a specific lawyer? did they recommend going to the i.g.? did that recommendation come from the compromised, corrupt schiff's office? we know schiff lied about the whistleblower. we know he lied for three years about russia. here is what he said. >> we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. we would like to. i'm sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advised as the law requires by the inspector general or the director of national intelligence just as to how he is to communicate with congress. >> sean: that was another lie by the compromised, corrupt, congenital liar adam schiff. tonight, we need answers. republicans, it is now time for you to stand up for due process, for the constitu

one of the things i learned when i was in the c.i.a., nice with nice guys, and tough with tough guys. because of this decision and inaction that led up to this decision, we have let our friends down, we have hurt our national security and we have creeded leadership in the region to russia and iran. i hope we can change our course but i fear it may be too late. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas, mr. hurd, yields back. the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york, mr. engel is recognized. mr. engel: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. moulton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. moulton: colleagues, right now with president trump's permission turkey is slaughtering our kurdish allies, the only people that stand between us and isis, men and women who have died by the thousands to protect americans from terrorism. the families of our american from tuents, like shamas, my district. and as a result russian and syrian forces are taking our posi

will hurd of texas and alisa swat kin of michigan, both former c.i.a. officers, and addie -- andy kim of new jersey, a former national security official in the obama administration, it's hosted by the n.y.u. school of law, live coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. eastern over on c-span3. and canada's holding its national elections today that will determine what weather justin trudeau continues as prime minister. cbc news provides coverage and analysis of the results and we'll carry that live tonight starting at 9:00 eastern on our ompanion network, c-span2. >> the new c-span ipso survey on voting and elections found 60% of americans want to amend the u.s. constitution and elect the president by popular vote rather than the electoral college. 38% want to keep the current system. while only 1/3 of republicans support the change, 84% of democrats and nearly 2/3 of independents favor the popular vote for president. americans do not want to change the way votes are counted in most states and localities, with a person with the most votes wins. even if they do not re

on the intelligence picture a new lead, c.i.a., pentagon and other agencies are doing a preliminary assessment on the baghdadi records. officials believe they will likely show baghdadi no longer ran the terror group's day to day operations but there may be new information on recruitment and operations. sean. >> sean: a mass murderer, serial rapist and con man, he directed a genocide against yasidis and christians, forcing women to become six slaves, ordered his enemies burned alive in cages, you might remember this scene. heads chopped off. he inspired terrorist attacks all over the globe. hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives because of isis and baghdadi. but this is how "the washington post" chose to remember him in an obituary titl >> sean: "austere religious scholar dies at 48"? jeff bezos, your newspaper. baghdadi was no scholar. he was a radical islamic extremist, an evil s.o.b., he got cornered by members of the toughest, greatest military heroes on the face of this earth and blew himself up like the coward he is, and baghdadi is i'm pretty certain rotting in hell as we speak

health research, the f.b.i., the c.i.a., you know, everything else. the agencies. the forest service. it's actually only about 15% of our spending. your government is functionally an insurance company with an army. i know that sounds a little right to, but it's sort of a little bit funny -- trite, but it's sort of a little bit funny and actually quite true. so how do you deal with the reality? the reality of it is back to that very first board. there is a path. it will require democrats and republicans to actually understand a calculator, understand the benefits of growth and growth being moral, but growth also doing stunningly good things for americans. and also that growth gives us a fighting chance not to break the 95% debt to g.d.p. ratio that we're heading towards very, very soon. this erstanding where debt is coming from, why this is portant, is all day long members of congress come behind these microphones and we talk about all the things we want to do. but what happens when you can't do the things because the current promises are consuming everything? so re

and nbc news is reporting that c.i.a.'s top lawyer, made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the justice department, about the allegations made by the whistle-blower, against the president. and democrats are quickly gathering evidence and testimony yesterday, the intelligence inspector general testified behind closed doors. next friday, it's the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine's turn. and we have learned that tuesday, the u.s. ambassador to the eu, the european union, is set to testify as well. and sondland was one of three u.s. diplomats whose text messages reveal how they worked to persuade ukraine to publicly commit to investigate the president's political opponent. >>> meanwhile, joe biden, the former vice president, has responded, and keep in mind there is no evidence here of wrongdoing by either the former vice president, or his son hunter. >> all this talk about corruption comes from the most corrupt president we've had in modern history. it's the definition of corruption. he's indicted himself by his

military and c.i.a. in missions across afghanistan and the middle east.he protests come weeks after a u.s. drone strike in afghghanistan killed 3 30 civil farm workers who were resting in a field after harvesting pine nuts. 40 others were injured. in a statement, protest organizer toby said, quote, men, women and children are violently murdered on suspicion alone for standing in the wrong place at the wrong time for just living their lives, for being, are of the wrong race or culture, for attending a wedding, for picking pine nuts it. it has to stop now, he said. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report, i'm amy goodman. we're broadcasting today from san francisco where president trump is continuing an all-out attack on the city's homeless population and political leaders. on wednesday, the trump administration filed an environmental notice of violation against san francisco, falsely claiming the city's homelessness crisis has caused water pollulution. this is trump announcing the move in a ti