the environment analyst roger harriman.f manchester, a landscape devastated by digging for pete to make garden compost. so many wildlife sites degraded in england and the government has pledged to improve them. here is one way how, i’ow improve them. here is one way how, row on i’ow, improve them. here is one way how, row on row, of tiny plants. being nurtured in a poly tunnel. planted out, they are helping to recreate a peat bog, that stores carbon and a tt ra cts peat bog, that stores carbon and attracts wildlife. and what about this? meadows used to be a common delight. now more than 90% of them are delight. now more than 90% of them a re lost. delight. now more than 90% of them are lost. the government has promised to safeguard them, but its nature protection policy is long delayed. cities are supposed to benefit from the government ‘s nature strategy to. i'm in south london, standing on top of the lost river evra. lost because it is in case the need my feet in a victorian sewer. the ghost of the river still gets its re

but maggie harriman said the president's insistence he will be proven right. wiretaps he sounded less certain in private condos. trump knows little about the government as well as separation of powers. he assumes it's not that different from how he ran trump tower where he was known to tape call, et cetera. how much is this just the president being incorrect? >> an important figure in all of this is don mcgee on the white house council. because as the preside began tweeting on saturday morning, a lot of guessing began happening inside of the white house. people thought and suggested inside of the white house in my conversations and with others, and maybe there was some kind of fisa warrant. maybe there was some kind of activity. maybe there was whatever out there without evidence, without fact. and they made these suggestions because the president was making these suggestions. but mcgann said there might not be a fisa warrant. don't be making these accusations. we've got to be careful here, sensitive to ongoing investigations. >> final question here. i thought

my name is alex cooley, director of the harriman institute here at columbia university. it is my great pleasure to introduce today's speaker, david phillips, who is the director of the program on peace building and rights at columbia institute for the study of human rights for a talk about his new book, "an uncertain ally: turkey under erdogan's dictatorship." david has long experience in both academic and policy settings. he has been advisor to three presidents and the state department. he is also as a senior advisor to united nations office for the coronation of humanitarian affairs. in his own scholarship he has written on numerous topics but books on iraq, a book on turkish armenian reconciliation and of course years of practice in various levels of track two as well as formal diplomacy. so the way we're going to proceed to date is i'll engage in some discussion with david over the key arguments in parts of the book, then we will open it up to questions and answers from the audience. and again welcome everyone. the david, tell us a little bit about what inspired you

for harriman, they stayed dry into the 20th century because the original land deeds have locked into the very deed that you received when you purchased your house, that if you ever bought, sold, or consumed liquor on site, there is a consumption one, that your house reverts back to the land company. there are creative ways to keep in area dry if that is your overall operation. jeffrey: i cannot resist asking, if the supreme court is held in the reproductive autonomy cases, the right to privacy includes the right to provide your own -- have any of these laws challenged the right to autonomy? lisa: i can't think of any. it winds up being less repeal and more, meh, people kind of do what they will do. a sense that this would be something worth the investment of rigorous enforcement is largely lost. they are mostly symbolic. i'm sure we can find an exception to that but in most cases it seems to be mostly symbolic. jeffrey: alcohol consumption by the 1970's went up to its pre-prohibition levels? lisa: yes. but at the same time those numbers can be interpreted differently. even though the

chandlers now is marc of brown brothers harriman, global head of currency strategy. glad have you with us. do you agree with the statement? >> this is what the market you well. it is not just looking at that news and tracing that in. it is about anticipating future news. they are anticipating that inflation has come to an end, and we have reflation going on around the world. the chinese data looks better than it did a year ago. now, we need to see some delivery. jonathan: i hear a lot about that synchronized global growth. if you look at the abundant treasury spread right now on a two-year basis, we have loan out wide.ro era what does that chart tell you about the state of affairs now? >> we have to look at what is driving that spread. last week, it was the u.s. because we had fed officials talking about a rate hike last week. we also had downward pressure on the german two-year yield due to the french elections in the ecb buying these two-year notes at -40 basis points. ofated this scarcity instruments. jonathan: on the latest data, we see the average maturity of bo

for harriman, they stay dry into the 20th century because the original land deeds have locked into the very deed that you received when you purchase your house, if you ever bought, sold, or consumed liquor on site, there is a consumption one at your house reverts back to the land company. there are creative ways to keep an area dry. resist asking,ot if the supreme court is held in the reproductive autonomy cases, these lawses -- to violate any of this? winds up being less repeal and more of, people kind of do what they will do. a sense that this would be something worth the investment of rigorous enforcement is largely lost. there mostly symbolic. -- they are mostly symbolic. jeffrey: alcohol consumption by the 1970's when up to its pre-prohibition levels? lisa: yes. at the same time those numbers can be interpreted differently. even though the average american by the 1970's is consuming us much as the american in 1915, nonetheless, since that is being shared more widely between men and women, it is distributed more evenly. we are no longer counting people 14-21. between those things t

fry is a professor of post-soviet foreign policy at columbia university and former director at the harrimanstitute. i was looking at the "washington post," drawing lines on a big circle of russian government, russian businesses then the ambassador from russia to the united states. and they had almost a dozen known connections to the trump team. they also had almost half a dozen suspected links to these three russian groups that i just mentioned. i'm talking about a dozen and a half different lines. we want to show how complex this is. uncommon, in your research? >> it's very common for u.s. government officials to reach out to foreign diplomats. the sense to which the trump administration has done that on russia is really remarkable and not the extent of it, it's also the timing of some of these meetings which seem to happen right before there are, for example, changes in the plats form at the republican national convention and also jeff sessions met with kislyak right after -- >> ambassador kislyak. >> -- mr. clapper declared for the first time they thought the russians were behind the hac