ok now we're joined by john laughlin in france he is a lecturer in political philosophy at isis the catholic university and john welcome and welcome to our program today. we do speaking to my producers you said you wanted to paint a broad canvas of what's going on in the country known as ukraine we this have presidential elections where we have a comedian a political unknown about to be inaugurated and since then. we get a mixed signals from this zone and ski character during the campaign he used russian and ukrainian which was obviously. a move towards some kind of reconciliation and then now after being elected he seems to echo more of what puerto shanker was saying and then i hear he wants to meet with putin but merkel and mccrone have to be there i guess as some kind of chaperon i don't know john give us a broad picture of what's going on in ukraine. well you know peter i think that this is an occasion not for political commentary but instead for literary criticism . there is a strong tradition in the twentieth century and incidentally a tradition that's in many ways linked to ukraine of

the founder of the center of political strategic analysis trap well and in france we cross with john laughlin he is a lecturer in political philosophy at i says the catholic university are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go first to france a job and i was reading an excellent article by chris hedges which was a republican consortium news title chris hedges the moderate martyr room of julian assange is julian assange a martyr a martyr for journalism a martyr for the law maybe a martyr for justice go ahead. i think there's absolutely no doubt about that i mean we know from the moment that he left the ecuadorian embassy in london that his original claim made seven years ago that he was trying to escape extradition to the united states was true even though all his enemies denied this the extradition demand was produced immediately he was released from ecuadorian asylum and they you also know peter better than anyone the video of that moment when he came out of the embassy door came of course from rockley from r.t. bec

he's the founder of the center of political strategic analysis trap and in france we cross with john laughlin he is a lecturer in political philosophy at i says the catholic university of and.

lori laughlin will appear in a courtroom today where they may plea in the largest college admissions scheme in u.s. history. bryn gingrass is live in boston with the latest. >> reporter: hi, johnin have become the face of the admissions scheme. there is media waiting for their 2:30 court appearance. let's recap what they are accused of doing. felicity huffman accused of paying $15,000 to alter the scores of her daughter to get into college. she researched a way to do it for her second daughter but never went through with the plan. we don't know if we'll see her husband william h. macy in court. he was mentioned in the criminal complaints but not charged. lori laughlin and her husband are accused of paying $50,000 to get their two daughters into usc as crew recruits though neither of them ever rowed in the sport. they are just two, three people accused in this case that are going to appear in court of 13 parents in all who will appear before a judge. really, we get a sense of how they might defend themselves against these charges. that's what we have seen with other parents. remember, they are only charged in a criminal complaint at this point. it is possible an indictment coul