what are you doing -- elliot. welcome to st.is we're glad to have you. >> very good to be here. >> so you happen to be here on the one year anniversary of the fall of kabul to the taliban. were you surprised when this happened and why? w >> first of all, thanks so much for having me carrie thank you so much for hosting me again great to be back in st. louis this city gives me a warm welcome as we welcome back in doing in person events nice to be with you all tonight. and it was not planned that we would actually do this on the one year so it is serendipitous that i'm here and what i was doing last year and i was actually -- of all places in my mother-in-law's kitchen with my wife and i just sort of turned on the tv. and was catching the headlines as kabul was falling and -- from florida heading up to washington to grab my kids because we were going to go on a long planned holiday to europe. so did i think at that point was kabul was going to fall? yes, you know, it seem as though it was trending that way but that was only after

help me welcome elliot ackerman and kathy. [applause] >> hello. how are you doing, elliot? >> good, thank you. >> welcome to st. louis, we're glad to have you. >> very good to be here. >> so you happened to be here on the one-year anniversary of the fall of kabul to the taliban. were you surprised when this happened? and why? >> first of all, thanks so much for having me, carrie. thank you for hosting me again and great to be back in st. louis, this city always gives me a warm welcome as i appreciate as we transition into doing in-person events, so it's nice to be with you all tonight. it was not planned that they woo actually do this on the one-year and it's serendipitous tonight. awas thinking about what i was doing last year and i was actually of all places, in my mother-in-law's kitchen with my wife and i just sort of turned on the tv and was catching the headlines as kabul was falling and i was in florida and headed back up to washington to grab my kids because we were going on a long planned family holiday to europe. so did i think at that point that kabul was going t

if elliot is right and there's a georgia case and it's removed, that will make news. i don't think with the political challenges donald trump already has, the failure of his election denial movement, his chosen candidates failing, that is going to be another anvil around his neck, this criminality as your previous segment said, people are tired of the fight -- >> i have to disagree a little bit with you, norm, though is that that assumes either the president or the supporters of the president actually regard being charged with a crime or being investigated by, frankly democratically elected officials or appointed officials as a bad thing, and it could actually be motivating for the supporters. i hear you, and that's the way it should be, right? but there might be a motivating element to some of this too, i think. >> well, gentlemen, there was a time in all of our lives when being investigated by doj would not have been a badge of honor, but, you know, i'm not getting any younger so we'll see what happens next about these issues. thank you so much. we'll leave it for a

elliot provided reams of material that fed into the official investigation, including details of theade of the russian ground forces, suspected of transporting the missile system. when we first started doing the investigative work on mh17, bellingcat was basically me and a bunch of volunteers kind of figuring out all the stuff as we went along and we were not thinking of the work we're doing in the context of legal accountability either. that only came quite some time later, when we started being contacted by the joint investigation team, i was interviewed as a witness and we had more people reaching out to us about using what we had found as evidence in legal processes. based on his findings, elliot is confident that the downing of flight mh17 was an early warning of what was to come and what could perhaps have been avoided. i think we really need to think about would the events of february occurred had there been a strong response to what happened in 2014? notjust in regards to mh17, but the increasingly clear evidence that there was russian troops and russian military equipment cr

hello, elliot. i mean 1st, ellis. what are your thoughts on the findings? well, the report for none of this is surprising, the past 8 years looks at be the hottest of our lives in. and what were bearing in mind her that the will, may certainly be among the coldest of the rest of our lives. for scientists have shown this very clearly burning fossil fuels release of gases that like greenhouse around the earth trappings, unlike baking the planet. and all of this makes extreme weather was it makes you levels rise. and this is something scientists have been for decades, oil companies as well. hm. and for decades, but to try to suppress those findings. and now what time does the kind of screaming governments to do is actually put in place policies to stop the v planet? heating up and talking about what to do based on the reports. what should that climate conference at gently tackle for the number one thing is reducing the greenhouse gas emission, greenhouse gas pollution, but if heating the planet, and that's one thing that well need is murder they have to do. an

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>> elliot: it is hard to fire a special counsel.id of him or her if they broke the law and violated rules. at the end of the day whether donald trump is a candidate or not it will still be. and it is seen as a political attack to charge them. at the end of the day the justice department if they have the evidence to prosecute him just prosecute him bringing a third party does not change inks. >> jamie: and can i add we have seen him play this before with the mueller investigation the political follow-up will be he will try to use this if they go down the road. and how will his political base react to it? he knows how to rip them up. i think it would be interesting to see how other gop presidential hopefuls react to it. >> it is politicized either way and we have seen that. thank you for the conversation. justst ahead is a major battle brewing over a russian heleld major city in southern ukraine. liveve from ukraine. before & bath fitter. now's the time to call bath fitter to get a beautiful "after." with our unique tub over tub proce

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elliot williams, you're our legal analyst was.his the right decision by the attorney general of the united states? >> wolf, let's go right to the regulations that set up why we have special councils sometimes. and if there is a conflict or a, quote, other extraordinary circumstance, and the justice department can bring in a special council. there is no more extraordinary circumstance than a former president of the united states coming back and running as a candidate for office and potentially being investigated. so, look, by the book, it's probably the right decision. now as a practical matter, does it change things or slow things down dramatically? that remains to be seen. but at the end of the day if you just look at the regulations, it's probably right. >> you're a legal analyst as well, you know this subject very well. does it slow things down, the time line now that there's a special council? that's the concern that some people are having. >> i think there's a question as to whether or not it will slow it down. there could be

you have to apply the law freely and fairly even against former presidents. >> and elliot, we have to remember that this is an attorney general who came into this role saying that he wanted to return even the image and the work of the justice department to something that was apolitical after the former politicized the investigations going into the 2020 election. so after the announcement from trump, was this inevitable that there would be a special counsel? >> you know, i think that's a great question, victor. an account of the fact that even if the outcome were to be the same, right? even if at the end of this all the attorney general himself would have gone forward with charging the former president or if a special counsel did, there would still have been from some a political pushback as to how partisan or how politicized it would have been. the attorney yengeneral had to this to take those questions off the table or at least buy like we said the last hour, by the textbook, put it in a special counsel. what they've done to their credit is pick someone who basically checks every sin

. >>> our legal analyst, elliot williams joins our conversation.iot, i want to read something from the police affidavit about this attack. depape articulated he viewed nancy as the leader of the pack of lies. by breaking her kneecaps she would have to be wheeled into congress which would show other members there are consequences to his actions. in the conversation here if you look at his online posting you see he posts conspiracy theories about covid vaccines and the 2020 election including links to mike lindell videos saying the election was stolen posted to youtube attacking the january 6th commission. from what you have seen as a former prosecutor, politics, building up into rage. >> and, look, i don't know if it's politics building up into rage as it is the internet a allowing people to be radicalized that believe this nonsense. look, does this ever get to trial, john? i don't know because of the fact that it's rare that you have a confession, a police officer who sees the crime and a victim who can testify about it. if i'm his attorneys right

and when he gets home his brother elliot has remarked. there's a curse on this house mother is dying. and alice is dying, too. february 14th 1884 his mother died of typhoid fever and then a few hours apart his wife. pictured here alice roosevelt passed away from brights disease. that was probably just not detected during her presidency. so the two deaths weren't related to there wasn't a plague or whatever. but they both passed away within a few hours of each other. at this point in his life roosevelt wasn't writing as consistently in his diary as he had as a younger man, but he took up his pen. to record the document you see here. a big black x and then that one kind of haunting sentence. the light has gone out of my life. and he's 25 when this happens. okay, so you just have to use your imagination your historical empathy to think about what it would be like at 25 years old to be a brand new father as alice a given birth to a daughter also named alice. but then to lose your wife and your mother in the same house on the same day. this is

and when he gets home his brother elliot has remarked. there's a curse on this house mother is dying. and alice is dying, too. february 14th 1884 his mother died of typhoid fever and then a few hours apart his wife. pictured here alice roosevelt passed away from brights disease. that was probably just not detected during her presidency. so the two deaths weren't related to there wasn't a plague or whatever. but they both passed away within a few hours of each other. at this point in his life roosevelt wasn't writing as consistently in his diary as he had as a younger man, but he took up his pen. to record the document you see here. a big black x and then that one kind of haunting sentence. the light has gone out of my life. and he's 25 when this happens. okay, so you just have to use your imagination your historical empathy to think about what it would be like at 25 years old to be a brand new father as alice a given birth to a daughter also named alice. but then to lose your wife and your mother in the same house on the same day. this is

. >>> joining us now, we have cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot grahams. the oath keepers, they have been convicted of seditious conspiracy which rarely happens, maybe once this century. it carries a 20-year maximum sentence. how long in prison do you think these guys are going to get? >> oh, goodness. i can't tell you that, alisyn, and it's not because i'm being coy and cute here. that will be a complicated formula based on a number of factors. there's the federal sentencing guidelines that set a range for every defendant based on the crime that they have been convicted of, and the range, you know, a signing will depend on what kind of weapons were used, what's the person's criminal history. what's their personal history? have they accepted responsibility? have they admit thated that thed it, acknowledged what they did was wrong, and so on? the judge will sentence. they're not going to get 20 years. that's highly unlikely for anybody to get the statutory maximum, but they're going to jail for aening long time. >> you've got two convictions and three acqui

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the bonus tag internationally, the spotlighted on hollywood stars like elliot page or mikaela, j rodriguez, who raise awareness about diversity. there were many decades of activism and resistance and risk taking by many people, particularly by people who could not, who could not hide who they were. and who can't hide, who they are. oftentimes it's people who don't fit into the categories and who can't, who don't have the option of hiding. right? it's, it's people who who are trans and present as trans. i think the history off, like the queer community in berlin is still important till today because like our cheese and family, our ancestors did a lot of work like also and the very hash condition. and i think like is their work and their passion, which allows us today to have this spaces to have knowledge and to have the idea of what it could mean being trans, being queer. and i am very thankful and a thing leg is one of the important part of being queered to honor the people. yeah. who have worked for it was dad for it. well suffered for it and a thing, it's important to acknowledge that ev

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this was under the watchful eye of the united states and in fact, elliot abrams not too long ago when, when being grilled by an omar, you know, had to defend his statement that well, it was worth it, you know, the bloodshed was, was worth it. my mother's home country of thought would work. there's the most often massacre with thousands of civilian tens of thousands of civilians taken out of their homes and massacred by us trained military officials, children, thousands of children's bothered. so it's, it's really been a disaster to say that the united states, the excuse that the united states says that they are getting involved in us latin american affairs because of human rights is not anything that can be held up by any evidence. it's, it's quite the contrary. yeah, i have to have to agree. it looks like the evidence on the ground shows that it's exactly the opposite of what they're presenting to us at dr. enrique rivera. thank you so much for sharing your expert insight with us today. i look forward to talking with you again, my friend, thank you. thanks. mm hm. and next, as us, so

i know a good i can lay down well, go naughty and elliot don't. despite the funding received by ici, ending in 2020, the project continues to live on with the and your support and the punch i've leadership for the residents here. continuing to set a model in wet land, conservation is as important a task as protecting and consulting the league that nourishes and 15th staff. are hungerford raw materials has scarred landscapes around the world from storm quarries and india's already shall states that newton to hillsides to the gaping hole left by germany's open fit lig knife. mice for what can be done with these regions once extracted practices in a former industrial hub near berlin, off was hope of a total transformation. the east german village. of course. caution is bustling with summer visitors. it's just 150 kilometer south of berlin and not far from the polish border. the bikes offered at a cat hoist rental are in high demand with visitors came to explore the region. what is that side of the 16th or is finally going for a spin? it's been idle. old i wikker started his business her

whenjames elliot began picking litter out of the river freshney in north east lincolnshire a few years along the way. this is his story. hello, my name is james, also known as the canoe river cleaner. i just thought, something has got to be done. i've got a canoe, let's crack on. when i first started, it was typically ten bags every time i went out. he's doing a fantasticjob. whilst it's not the longest river in the country, it's a little bit much for me to manage. it's good for the environment, it's good for the local area. so i started a group called the freshney comrades. nobody likes seeing litter, especially on the river, because of all the wildlife. swans, ducks and things. that's why we come and do our bit and hopefully make it a nice place for everyone. this is kind of meditation for me. i like being around nature, it de—stresses me, and as well as everything, i'm making a difference so it is a win—win. so, together with what i'm doing on a regular basis and all my volunteers, we see the river in a lot better condition. the river with a bit more care. it's glorious to have this

in elliot court, russia confirming that its defense force hit targets, and the denise pro ends up a regia regions that ukrainian civilians continue to fall victim to the attacks which show no sign of easing as the warney as its 10th month. mike martin is war studies senior visiting fellow at kings college landed a war on electricity and hate. how clever a strategy is that to make territorial guys? good morning. it's not actually it. russia is largely fighting a defensive war at the moment. they are very keen to shore up deposition over the winter. i think they're aware that ukraine will be continuing to push forward and attack over the winter. and so what they're doing by targeting civilian infrastructure, which is by the way, a war crime is. it basically means that the ukrainian government have to focus on delivering power to the civilians. rather than spending that energy to paring suits and motion positions. how can support us abroad allies of ukraine to been sending weapons try to support or help the millions of ukrainians without power right now? it's very difficult if not impossible

he is the godfather of canyon graffiti portraying from us africans like the long distance runa elliot could kill gay or practise. remember the 1st democratic elected prime minister of the republic of congo. gimme called monthly, was st activist because he makes art for change. ah, kevin and sandy vicky a monkeys is one of kenya's best known graffiti artist, courier planning over 20 years. going through the artists bank live is known for painting only in the good spaces. i started find nuts for my 3 there. we used to go out and do graph to gigs, and this was more, in fact full because it's in the streets and there's more audio done when you have it in a gallery where no dance might be not as much as it is in the streets bank lifting floor, so as you get traction can spread his message to the world. he uses his put up socially conscious pieces that make people think. i use it as a voice as well. i use it as a tool just to communicate, to just to bring a dialogue to the wild or anyone else who wants to view this piece of walk and probably get inspires or not of it. so it's important for

and so repairs a complete, elliot rushes, representative to the u. n. said the moscow's air strikes on ukrainian infrastructure, or response to weapons deliveries by western states. the goal of the strikes beans undermine the combat capabilities of the ukranian army. in other news, peace could be on the horizon in the democratic republic of congo as, as east african nations have agreed to help jointly fight the m 20. the rebel group in the east of the country. a softer talks in gold as capital where we got reaction from some congo least people on the news of learning. the most important thing is that we want peace between the d r. c and rwanda. rwandans have long lived in the territory of d r c. that is why we need peace, only peace and good mutual understanding that this is the most important thing for us is that we want peace so that our children who remain in the east of the country are mothers, fathers, children, older brothers will live in peace. we need help. peace is expected to return to the ma, craddick, republic of congo on friday after enactm

ah, elliot higgins, welcome to conflict zone. thanks have me on naming kilo's going after war criminals . you've poked some extremely powerful bears in painful places to worry about what kind of danger they might post to you. well, it's something this always constant concern both to myself and belling has an organization really since 2015 on which we've been talked in various ways. first off and with this information campaigns from the russian media, then cyber attacks have really been a constant feature of our lives really at belling cats. and of course now as we're looking more, more into the behavior of the russian intelligence services this year, increasing security issues that we have to be concerned about. in july, the russian prosecutor general designated you as an undesirable organization, presenting what they called a threat to russia is constitutional order and security. did you treat that as a warning you suddenly got under the skin? or do you see that of the badge of honor? and really, both i real concern is that we c

and so, repairs are, completes, elliot rushes, representatives of un said the moscow's air strikes on ukrainian infrastructure, a response to weapons deliveries by western states with the goal of the strikes beans undermined the combat capabilities of the ukrainian army. you know, the news piece could be on the horizon in the democratic republic of the congo as east african nations have agreed to help jointly fights the m 23 rebel group in the east of the country. us after talks in angola as capital, where we got reaction from congolese people on the latest news, as well as their expectations on the cooperation between african states flew the most important thing is that we want peace between the d r c and rwanda. rwandans have long lived in the territory of the d r. c. that is why we need peace, only peace and good mutual understanding. yes, it does. if the most important thing for us is that we want peace, so that our children who remain in the east of the country, our mothers, fathers, children, older brothers, will live in peace. we need help. piece is expected to return to the mc

i'm victoria elliot, and i am the platforms and power reporter with wired get daddy hello gillian, satellite audience, around the world. tell them who you are and what you do. hi, i'm the director for international freedom of expression at the electronic frontier foundation, a digital rights organization. all right, great to have you, jillian and meredith. welcome to the stream. these introduce yourself to out audience around the world. thank you for having me. my name is meredith clark. i'm an associate professor in journalism and communication studies at northeastern university and boston. all right, ladies. i had to look to see when you oh, join twitter, victoria june 2012. thank you for your service, meredith. oh, my goodness, 2000. and 9 extraordinary, you've been there for a long time, gillian, you're virtually an o g u joy and february of 2008. i'm going to take some around view as back to the very beginning with a little timeline that takes us back to 2060, remember that 1st treat the i short show d 12006 to, to launch as a micro blogging site. and then in the past 16 years, they hav

there is another big day coming up on saturday for elliot o messy. he's playing in his final world cup and argentina looking to recover from the biggest shock of the tournament. so saw that 21 defeats against saudi arabia. they are up against mexico. and what really is a must win 2nd game that match last up on saturday at lou sales state in before that's is, june is here and australia who kicked things off in greek d. then that saudi arabia will look for this 2nd win against poland and defending champions, france also looking at to make it 2 out of 2 against denmark. so plenty, it's look forward to you on day 7 of the torments and our team. it will have it all covered right here on out to 0. ah and sales to come here and i'll just see the see style game and tested in east india. c. m. 22 fight is refused to withdraw from territory. they we share your pain, the message from russia, president, se me, mothers, a soldiers fighting in ukraine. ah, with a notice but sydney is not been very warm this spring nice large because they are taught to care, kept b

england had a kallum watkins' try disallowed before elliot whitehead scored to get them back on termsahead. it is samoa who are leading 10—6 at the moment. with nine minutes to go until half time ligi sao powered them back into the lead. that try was converted so samoa lead 10—6. brentford pulled off a shock victory at the etihad to beat manchester city 2—1. ivan toney gave the visitors the lead after 15 minutes but city found the equaliser early in the second half through phil foden. an injury to aymeric laporte meant there was ten minutes of stoppage time, enough for toney to double brentford's lead and secure all three points. plenty of football this afternoon i had of the world cup beginning next week. there are five three o'clock kick—offs today. bournemouth are hosting everton 0—0. it's nathanjones' first game in charge of southampton, they're at anfield playing liverpool and are tied i—i. roberto firmino, che adams with the goals. goal is between forest and leeds. leicester is leading at west ham. celtic could extend their lead at the top of the scottish premiership to nine poi