amy: elliott abrams, the u.s. special envoy to venezuela, testifying before the house foreign affairs committee chaired by new york democrat eliot engel. abrams was later questioned by congressmember ilhan omar of minnesota. >> mr. adams, in 19 91 that you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from congress regarding your involvement in the iran-contra affair, for which you are later pardoned by president george h.w. bush. i fail to understand why members of this committee or the american people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful. folks if i can respond to that. folks it wasn't a question. it was not a question. to my time.e right >> it is not right. >> it is not a question. to reply.mitted >> that was not a q question. thank you for your participation. on february 8, 1982, you testified before the senate foreign relations committee about u.s. policy in all salvador. in that hearing, you dismissed as common as per began of report about the massacre of -- in which more th

that's better than elliott asked for.ources familiar with the situation say the move is in the works before this. the major bone of contention is the breakup. the conference call talked about how stub hub and the classified business drive traffic to ebay's online marketplace but we'll evaluate the assets and continue to do so so maybe they're more open to the idea than it seems personally, i think elliott is dead right on this one ebay's classified businesses are designed to operate independently. they compete with ebay's marketplace. stub hub could be a lot more valuable as an independent company or a take over progress for live nation, the owner of ticket master. ebay spun off paypal in 2014 that's been a huge win for share holers do it again. i think stub hub is incredibly value property you can't really tell because it's so deep inside ebay as for the operational issues, i think everybody involved wants to see ebay's margins go higher. it may be easy for elliott and ebay to work in a glove together to fix this. especi

well elliott abrams appointment was a clear signal from the trumpet ministration in. from bolton and they all go back a long time i mean elliott abrams is a convicted felon he lied to congress he violated u.s. laws to maintain the iran contra arms sales to counter revolutionary somoza national guardsmen who functioned as the as the security forces for the somoza dictatorship before the revolution in seventy nine elliott abrams has been carrying out and exercising regime change options in latin america he's a main primary hawk to overthrow the the cuban government you had john bolton at the same time talking about the church the troika of tyranny reminding us of ronald reagan's axis. the evil empire and george w. bush's axis of evil in two thousand before the invasion of iraq elliott abrams is a clear signal that the us is probably going to go to war against venezuela especially if they're cool plans don't work out i believe that's what's on the agenda. elliott abrams is there for one purpose and one purpose alone and that's to initiate a confrontation with venezuela t

point out there elliott abrams of course we all know from the reagan era what he did in latin america he basically helped institue and then cover up all the death squads in el salvador seventy thousand people were killed in el salvador by the salvadoran government children rates the only comparable force in terms of how gruesome their murders were is isis in the modern era so you know gross stuff there here is a headline as well from vanity fair in two thousand and eight about elliott abrams the gaza bombshell after failing to anticipate hamas is victory over fatah in the two thousand and six palestinian election the white house cooked up yet another scandalously kovar in self defeating middle east the bottle part iran contra part bay of pigs with confidential documents corroborated by outraged former and current u.s. officials the author reveals how president bush congolese surprise deputy national security advisor elliott abrams backed an armed force under fatah strong man muhammad dahlan touching off a bloody civil war in gaza leaving hamas stronger than ever so that's quads are hi

appoints elliott abrams ok and here we have the progressive news loving trump for once again invading a country because just like the british empire and the spanish empire they had their religious missionaries who were like we're just we were going to save some more savages or so. you know we don't like you right wing people but we're good and we're going to go deliver these people some god and well here we have the same thing as you know the rachel maddow of the world think that we're going. and you know you know some sort of left wing ideologies and this is going to be great but elliott abrams that's bringing it so i want to point out that elliott abrams of course we all know from the reagan era what he did in latin america he basically helped institue and then cover up all the death squads in el salvador seventy thousand people were killed in el salvador by the salvadoran government children were raped the only comparable force in terms of how gruesome their murders were is isis in the modern era so you know gross stuff there here is a headline as well from vanity fair in two thous

unfortunately, elliott richardson used magic markers.ometimes, i guess he did not like his doodles and he would crumple them up and throw them in the wastebasket. as soon as the meeting was over, we would dive for the wastebasket to retrieve these doodles. 16 years before he died, he gave this interview. you have to listen closely as to what the accusation is. >> i didn't know what general haig meant when he said anything may be in the offing. all i knew was that each ride on five separate occasions in two months to force my resignation. >> there were men around richard nixon, either in the white house oriented official mechanism of the cia, who are capable of killing a vice president of the united states if they felt he was an embarrassment. >> i don't doubt that at all. brian: do you think he felt any threat of being killed by the cia? tim: what he felt was the threat of going to prison. he was terrified of going to prison. that was his whole impetus for exempting -- accepting some kind of a deal with us. brian: in the end, how much mo

we were really lucky we had elliott richardson. we had george bell.e had a bunch of revenue agents like marvin case and others. the whole team, we were very lucky in that all these wonderful people were in the right places. ron: chemistry was great and we were young but serious. the way the case involved -- the and our involvement, in addition to the pride that i have and i know tim and the others do in the job we did, in the terms of my development as a lawyer, it was an incredible experience. brian: who is the boss of george bell at the time? ron: the attorney general of the united states, elliott richardson. tim: there's a hierarchy. brian: what direct line does the president of the united states have two or u.s. attorney if they want to? can they fire him? tim: u.s. attorneys are presidential appointees. i suppose he could. he would direct the attorney general to fire him, windy? r -- wouldn't he? ron: our present president fired the u.s. attorney of new york. brian: there was a funeral for richard nixon. looking for the date. back in april 27, 19

policy towards venezuela elliott abrams was recently appointed u.s. special envoy to venezuela and has previously held the position assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs it's alleged he was involved in a coup attempt in venezuela in two thousand and ten two and he's also been accused of shipping weapons weapons to nicaraguan rebels under the guise of humanitarian aid back in the nine hundred eighty s. assistant secretary of state elliott abrams has defended his role in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid flight to nicaraguan rebels saying the operation was strictly by the book. comeback so i guess now max blumenthal at max in license will that do you think madeira has a good excuse to block they say and to suspects that the u.s. could use the humanitarian crisis as a cover for military plans. well you know i was in. implausible leave already yesterday where tens of thousands of venezuelans were lining up to sign a declaration to the american people declaring their opposition to u.s. intervention a

wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for us invasion. the us they remain still engine its support of the self declared me to one quiet day and with washington piling the pressure on nicholas schmidle re a failure of the night during one of his recent speeches proved an easy target. time to play the field. the lights are going off from the jury mafia in venezuela. to work like we building up our. thanks is there a little light show going on there i have full faith in our intelligence agencies if they just turn off the life of privilege and say. terror you know it's ok yes ok maybe to be at the show. i wasn't sure what you discover what. the. u.s. ambassador to germany has called for nato to be strengthened becau

abrams and elliott abrams has quite a history in latin america south of the us border apparently was convicted for misrepresenting and essentially lying to congress regarding his that work and support for organizations in nicaragua that engaged in violent terrorism with the intention of overthrowing the sandinista government during the one nine hundred eighty s. elliott abrams was also apparently involved in the shipping in of weapons into nicaragua under the guise of humanitarian aid now the foreign minister of venezuela spoke and he pointed out that these humanitarian aid convoys seem to have some rather suspicious content here is what he said. and here we also have trunks and let me tell you that when the truck was inspected there wasn't just food and medicine in the truck there was a quip in for barry keys there was nails. this is what was in the truck nails wire when security forces inspected this is what they found so he was going over the fact that it appears that these trucks supposedly containing humanitarian aid had other content within them content that could have been use

bush's axis of evil in two thousand before the invasion of iraq elliott abrams is a clear signal that the us is probably going to go to war against venezuela especially if they're cool plans don't work out i believe that's what's on the agenda. elliott abrams is there for one purpose and one purpose alone and that's to initiate a confrontation with venezuela that's very dangerous even though the venezuelan government is mired in a profound economic crisis and facing enormous economic sanctions the people of venezuela including many people in the opposition don't fancy a war they don't fancy the united states dictating who their government's going to be they don't look kindly at the right wing colombian government with its paramilitaries beginning to carry carrying out screw machine activities which will be a pretext at the border that's very very serious this could blow up in the united states mexico bolivia of course cuba are standing with venezuela de lima group is basically functioning as a proxy or as an extension of american power again the u.s. has no legal right to carry out th

washington's effets in the south american country and led by elliott abrams his appointment as the u.s. envoy to venice weyler has surprised many given his previous track record in latin america back in two thousand and two abrams was the suspect architect of a coup attempts in fairness whaler while in the one nine hundred eighty s. then a member of the reagan administration he funneled weapons through iran to nicaraguan right wing rebels he was also accused of using humanitarian aid planes to the skies weapons shipments to malicious. assistant secretary of state elliott abrams has defended his role in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid flight to nicaraguan rebels saying the operation was strictly by the book. we have to consider that trump czar who is in charge of his venezuelan policy right now is elliott abrams who pioneered the strategy of using humanitarian aid as a disguise for delivering weapons to u.s. proxy forces first during the. wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal

special representative for venezuela now elliott abrams he essentially took to the floor he accused the that israel and government. of blocking humanitarian aid he called for more sanctions against the country here's some of what we heard from elliott abrams. of general and call on member states to consider what resources and tools they have to contribute to venezuelan democracy and to pressure the illegitimate woodrell regime to peacefully step down we ask that others join us in sanctioning those who've been involved in the violence over the last weekend and who are fattened. well the spoils of them are dural regimes corruption and it's important to note that elliott abrams has quite a history in latin america he was actually convicted of lying to congress about his role in cooperating and coordinating with forces in nicaragua and other parts of latin america that violated human rights and engaged and engaged in other atrocities elliott abrams himself was involved in the shipping of weapons into nicaragua under the guise of humanitarian aid now later in the meeting elliott abrams accus

elliott abrams was also apparently involved in the shipping in weapons into nicaragua under the guise of humanitarian aid now after we heard from the various countries that are on the security council we then heard from a number of other countries because under rule thirty seven of the un procedures under the u.n. procedures these various countries were then allowed to speak for the first among them was venezuela and we heard from the venezuelan foreign minister who had quite a bit to say about the allegations being leveled against his country by the international media by the united states and others this is some of what we heard from the venezuelan foreign minister. and here we also have trucks and let me tell you that when the truck was inspected there wasn't just food and medicine in the trunk it was a quip and for barricades it was nails i don't know what this is what was in the truck nails wire with security forces inspection this is what they found so he was going over the fact that it appears that these trucks supposedly containing humanitarian aid had other content within the

is orchestrating and we can certainly see that with elliott abrams guilty first at norma's crimes in central america actually convicted in the u.s. for his crimes there were in genocides and wanted in el salvador and guatemala and this is what elliott abrams wants to again or going on under the cover of a humanitarian intervention so he said you don't to see u.s. sanctions removed it looks like the opposite could be happening your security advisor john bolton the threatening new sanctions against venezuela so it looks like the u.s. could be doubling down on this what do you anticipate the u.s. will do next. well there are certainly attempting with threats and arrogant intimidation to get the venezuelan government to collapse and venezuelan government and many countries around the world who are coming to their assistance. i do think that there's going to be real resistance to those but of course u.s. economic power is capable of exerting a normal pressure and great hardship on the people of venezuela we should take note that in venezuela today there's more than six million families wh

wars on central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for us invasion. the us though remains staunch in its support of the self declared leader one and with washington piling the pressure on nicholas modo a failure of the lights during one of his recent speeches proved an easy target. back to work right now are we building up america. is there a little light show i have. in our intelligence agencies if they just turn over. there it's ok yes ok. french police are investigating anti semitic graffiti that appeared on the window of a jewish bagel shop in paris or for some were quick to point the finger at yellow vest protesters as reports outrage yet another sematic attack in paris the latest in the fourth decent of the city th

mr elliott abrams the current special on what about as well on the one nine hundred eighty s. was in the state department was actually using plain earmark for humanitarian purposes the shuttle arm to the neck but i want i'm military and i think well for supporting just wasn't as followers and what that might there's definitely a lot of skepticism towards united effort also given that the u.s. is currently imposing an oil embargo on going to what is on the my the country over a lot of billion dollars this year and last are earning earnings from oil exports and you know in contracts that humanitarian aid is twenty billion dollars or one hundred million dollars and not long this in the soil and are going to run as well as thirty million dollars a day which you know obviously is going to drag that humanitarian conflict is how people say it in caracas i keep coming back to this because when you read about it side of venezuela you look at the international media and the problems in venezuela have all been the fault of the dog but the people perhaps sense the crippling sanctions bein

washington's efforts in the south american country are led by elliott abrams he was recently appointed u.s. special envoy to venezuela he previously held the position of assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs it's alleged he was involved in a coup attempt in venezuela back in two thousand and two he's also been accused of shipping weapons directly to nick around here when the rebels under the guise of humanitarian aid and that was back in the one nine hundred eighty s. assistant secretary of state elliott abrams has defended his role in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid flight to nicaraguan rebels saying the operation was strictly by the book we have to consider that trumps are who is in charge of his venezuelan policy right now is elliott abrams who pioneered the strategy of using humanitarian aid as a disguise for delivering weapons to us proxy forces first during the. wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan

envoy for venezuela elliott abrams called for more sanctions on caracas in response russian representative ceiling a benza raised the u.s. history of military interventions and called other countries naive for supporting the u.s. position more dural and his cronies and some in this body claim that delivering humanitarian assistance is a political show what took place on saturday was reminiscent not of help but by what the u.s. calls force feeding which apparently having trained on guantanamo prisoners the american authorities decided to force feed the whole country we ask that others join us in sanctioning those who've been involved in the violence over the last weekend and stead of a hypocritical attempt to introduce assistance for twenty million dollars it is necessary to lift the blocking of accounts of venezuelan state owned enterprises in american banks which totals eleven billion dollars what about venezuelan gold in great britain washington and london just recently stole thirty billion dollars from the venezuelan people in oil and bank assets a lot of money is owed. to russia. and y

how would you describe your dialogue with elliott at this point in time? well, as normal, to be fair, elliott is one of our shareholders we like having an open and construct i dialogue with all our shareholders, including, of course, elliott, who is now a shareholder and has been for the last several months since november as far as i can tell. we have an open dialogue, of course, and so do we with our other shareholders >> excellent that was the chairman and ceo of pernod ricard here in paris after a very strong set of results. back to you in the studio. >> thank you very much for that, juliana. >>> publicist shares are on track for their worst day since 1992, and weighing down rival wpp after the french firm missed fourth quarter revenue forecasts. it cited cost cuts and the streamlining of its structure. shares meantime have fallen to their lowest ins level since june 2009 after the german tour operator slashed its profit outlook. you can see the shares tanking by 15%, 16%. >>> coming your way still, stay tuned for our special coverage of the yurp even c

abrams you remember our good buddy elliott abrams he was one of the ronald reagan era types who found himself in hot water when he was convicted of lying to congress over the iran contra affair he was later pardoned by george w. bush which is out of the game is played here in washington but mr abrams duties in the reagan administration didn't end with just secretly selling arms to iran to fund contras and a note he also focused on supporting brutal human rights violating armed anti-communist groups which was us latin american policy at the time it was this record of our boy and brooms that representative omar felt needed to be acknowledged in a wednesday house foreign affairs committee hearing on the current situation in venezuela let's take a listen to how this played out. doing that massacre some of those troops bragged about raping a twelve year old girl before they killed the. girls before they killed them you later said that the u.s. policy in el salvador was a fabulous achievement do you think that massacre. was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch that is a ridi

fact when you look at the people that have surrounded him pale bolton the new addition to the team elliott abrams it seems like more of a combination of the bush and obama administration foreign policy there's nothing really an authentic call there and it seems like when we look at the claim that he does not like foreign interventions well he's full geared up in public steaming ahead for regime change in venezuela which the game is a contradiction to what he ran on so how do you account for this is he held hostage by the deeds the deep state he's indifferent to it how do you account for it go ahead george. well what trump did when in twenty sixteen and he made his slogan america first what he meant by that was that america would rectify the problems that it had been suffering from from many years so he would address the deindustrialization of america the financialization of the economy. he would address the immigration problem which is basically driven down wages for many decades and he would address the. the growth of china that china is now becoming the major economic power. potentially

now in his remarks elliott abrams said that only the government of venezuela was engaging in violence however many have pointed out that the opposition in venezuela has been involved in a number of violent acts including assassinations and other activities now it's also important to note that elliott abrams has a long record in latin america and for example many critics of elliot abrams have pointed out that in nicaragua he was involved in the smuggling in of weapons under the guise of humanitarian aid and he was convicted for lying to congress about certain activities in latin american support for certain organizations in central america nicaragua and elsewhere and now it's important also to know that we have heard from the secretary of the russian state security council indicating that the united states seems to be planning some kind of military intervention in venezuela this is what we heard from a russian official. soon sarcasm and arrogance towards the missouri when people the u.s. is preparing a military invasion of an independent state. special forces to put three coup landing

elliott, you've been watching along with us, and joyce. he seems to be not adept, shall we say, at answering these kinds of tough questions from house judiciary committee members. >> that was an incredibly charitable way you put it, andrea. this is what you get when someone is just unfit for the job they have. even on this question of, did you have conversations with donald trump, well, he says i didn't have those conversations but is now refusing to answer other questions about other conversations he has. he's giving inconsistent answers. and that's sort of the kinds of performance or conduct we see in people who just aren't used to testifying. this is not easy to do, and he's just not, you know, sort of up to it. another big one is picking a fight with members of congress over how long their rounds of questioning were. that's just not the -- probably over 100 hearings that i've held people prepare for, including attorneys general lynch and holder. that's just not behavior i've seen from anyone. >> you've worked for the senate judiciary c

connected with and elliott abrams and have not condemned his nomination.ame thing with john bolton. say, we do notdo want troops on the table? we do not want u.s. marines or john bolton talking about how he will benefit u.s. companies from our oil? we do not want marco rubio talking about the conditions in venezuela or john bolton making as part of your geopolitical arrangement for the troika of tyranny and reviving a cold war in latin america. elliottt want u.s. -- abrams running policy from the united states because we do not want his bloodstained hands. we are not here and that from the opposition and they do not want to talk about this being a coup. amy: on friday, john bolton threatened to send president maduro to guantanamo, in a radio interview with hugh hewitt. >> mussolini met a bad end. is that the choice facing maduro? yesterday, i wish him a long, quiet retirement on a pretty beach far from venezuela. the sooner he takes advantage of that, the sooner he is to be there rather than guantanamo. amy: t that is the u.s. national security advisor joh

elliott, let me go to you first. what does the redacted memo that has been released by the mueller investigators, what significance does it have if it doesn't state any direct connection, collusion between russians and the campaign? >> it's another instance of criminality by an individual by the president of the united states. again, when we talk about collusion, that's not a word used in the criminal code. what we should be talking about is is there a conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws or national security laws or something like that. one of the first lines in the sentencing memorandum, one of the things he's committed is lying to judges and federal investigators. they refer to this as crimes that strike to the heart of our criminal justice system, crimes that strike to the heart of the integrity of our justice system. these are serious crimes, and one of the reasons they're sentencing him like you said, reverend, for 17 to 24 years, is to deter other acts to know they can't lie to federal investigators and

save and a cover by elliott! my oh my. fresh players on the ice for the penguins after t turnover by voracek. thenere comes phil kessel. kessel, lk, johnson, couturier and gostisbehere out therealong with konecny. uturier slammed it around stbehind. gobehere took over there. 1:10 into the fe minute sudden death overtime.ie coutur run into by malkin. overss to el. konecny is able to o cut itff there and he rushes back p ice with it. sized up by kess. konecny a shot! that didn't go. hustling after it is kessel. he breezes back in and it's shot, save and a cover by elliott. then he turns it loose again. but the whistle had blown. >> eddie: after that shot by travis konecny, couturier has no idea where this puck is. see h looking back? and the puck was in front of him. here comes phil kessel. another good stop by brian elliott. >> pierre: the flyer bench was screaming, it's in the air, it's in the air! it's easy for them to say. >> mike: there's a lot of air out here. where? >> pierre: they were trying to help. >> mike: patric

over the 24 hours of two weeks, elliott's eyes started creeping in. weeks later, ginny's did the same overnight. she woke up and herself were over. they went to the e.r., but there was nothing to worry about. after a vision test, they ended up with the exact same prescription. what's going to happen here is they're going to be given the glasses that they need. up until now, because of the issue, they haven't been able to see up close. mom and dad have no idea. first up is ginny. put the glasses on. >> hey. >> if you get one for one, you got the to get one for the other when you have kids. >> hey, i want that. >> time for elliott to have a go, as well. >> can you see? >> oh, my goodness, you're adorable. >> you've got twins, got them with their glasses on. what do you do? you deploy spongebob. >> kids love spongebob. at this point they've almost forgotten about anybody else in the room. they're into it -- >> i'm glad it was glasses they needed instead of surgery and other stuff. that's cool. >> sometimes that is necessary. but they definitely took adva

wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for u.s. invasion. there's been a spike in violence against farmers in south africa we've got the details and speak to some of the victims of this. we're witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nineteen we're watching a country for a test bed and a nineteenth century bubble really for. almost two hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first century. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shout

wars and central america the proxy wars during which elliott abrams was overseeing several death squads and their genocidal humanitarian violations the venezuelan see this aid delivery especially in the in the light of abrams history of using aid as a cover for delivering arms to proxy forces as a violation of venezuelan sovereignty as an actual us invasion of venezuela and so in many ways this is seen as a trojan horse for u.s. invasion still to come this hour taking on trump of his twitter pictures we have from an iranian photographer who is unhappy with the u.s. president using her property online we'll have details on that after the break. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see a. few days states does that all the time it always tries to influence elections when people who are running who are friendly to the united states are running against people who are unfriendly we certainly did that all through central america and south america for many many years we know that these effo