.] >> i am julie roberts speaking on behalf of the san francisco families union. i like the idea of listen to learn. as equity minded school i imagine the new school is familiar with impact over intent. i don't doubt the intent. we have to look at the impact. if we are asked to vote on whether or not they will implement the program put forth. in 2014 they said diverse by design k-through 12. the board of education thought they would be unable to implement. the board -- implement. they have created a majority white school with 52% white families. there are only five public schools in sfusd. they serve a fifth of the percentage of low income students and third of percentage of english language. if what they are asking for it would cap at 33%, one of the most affluent schools in the city. the impact on the students that is new school is not serving. there is another beautiful school community last board meeting mlk facing $300,000 in budget cuts related to enrollment. the board was able to restore that. each class of 60 students if new school were to expand to middle

at an hearing in july, dr. robertent in product advertising testified the vape giant juul hocked adds to young people. the cofounder james unsy and bowen were students in product design at stanford and their masters product was about, quote, disrupting the tobacco industry through innovation. jackler said when he met muncy last year he accused juul of ripping off the colors of american spirit cigarette ads for the vapor campaign and muncy did not disagree. >> he thanked us for the database we have for traditional 50,000 tobacco ads on line and they say helped juul design their ads. we know after studying advertising, juul's marketing faithfully uses the cigarette ads to rg tat young people. >> testifying the next day, muncy denied the allegations. >> i did not make that statement to dr. jackler. i think dr. jackler may have misheard my commentary. the resource he compiled was an useful resource and at that point we were interested in using the resource to understand what bad actions the tobacco companies have taken to

roberts. many of you were here in july when cokie and steve roberts very graciously came out and participated in an advent -- an event. we had a wonderful dinner afterward. to say that our thoughts and prayers are dedicated to them. as we are getting started here, i want to general -- i want to gently remind you all to silence your cell phones. i would like to thank four seasons books for your support and organizing the book signing that's going to all at's call. this will be a similar format from what we normally do. wonderfulve a reception. i want to recognize mr. tom moses's three daughters, meryl husbands.nd their thishave helped us with wonderful program this past decade and a half. working together, we have brought u.s. senators, policy experts, legal scholars, -- ,steemed political scientist and a few historians here for constitution day to talk about historical contemporary and constitutional issues. much appreciate their continuing support. want to tellmind i you about mr. tom moses. the man this lecture series is named for. we learned tonight he was a medic at the battle of the bulg

. >> robert mueller testified on july 24th and the call the next morning. >> will any republican voteeachment in your view? >> having seen the transcripts, having listened to my conference, i haven't heard one member from any element inside there tell he me this rises to impeachment. >> since our interview one republican representative has announced support for the impeachment inquiry and the dais chair of the campaign in nevada. >> some will say there's nothing that rises to the level of high crime. >> they're wrong. it remains to be seen. it is not just the call but sequence of events. you withdraw couple hundred million dollars worth of assistance to a country and couple days later say by the way can you help me with my campaign. there's a sequencing there. >> what's your message to the white house in terms of cooperation. >> to the white house? speak the truth. honor your oath of office to the constitution of the united states. speak the truth and let us work together to have this be a unifying experience, n a >>> to mark the 50 years anniversary of the beatles "abbey road" there'

roberts. many of you were here in july when cokie and steve roberts very graciously came out and event on thein an stage to help us raise money for our internship program and we and we had a wonderful dinner afterward. they could not have been more generous and considerate. i just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are dedicated to them. as we are getting started here, i want to gently remind you all to silence your cell phones. i would like to thank four seasons books for your support and organizing the book signing that is going to follow tonight's talk. this will be a similar format from what we normally do. we will have a wonderful reception and a book signing. i want to recognize mr. tom s's three- mose daughters and their husbands. they have helped us with this wonderful program this past decade and a half. they have carried forward his legacy of activism, which is more important. working together, we have brought u.s. senator's, policy scholars,egal esteemed political scientists, and a few historians here for constitution day to talk about historical contemporary and constitutiona

election 2016 but this time it's before election 2020 here in the states back in july however the federal judge who slammed robert mueller along with attorney general william barr for saying that was all russia when there is absolutely no evidence of that a u.s. district judge dabney frederick he wanted to say that muller prejudiced a potential jury in this case of the russian firm concord management consulting l.l.c. which they're facing a legal battle with the department of justice right now and the u.s. government says that concorde funded be quote social media meddling campaign but says that there was a lack of evidence supporting that and concluded that russian president putin and president donald trump didn't conspire to win the 2016 election so the biggest point of judge rebuke of muller was that muller tied the internet research agency to basically all of russia rather it was individuals that happened to be russian so the timing of this report. it's also pretty interesting you know because this latest report comes as house democrats well they've started an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump i

roberts. many of you were here in july when cokie and steve roberts very graciously came out and participated in an advent -- an event. here on the stage to help us raise money for our internship program. we had a wonderful dinner afterward. they could haven't been more generous and considerate. and so i just want to sort of say that, you know, our thoughts and prayers are -- are dedicated to them tonight. as we are getting started here, i want to gently rep mind you all to silence your cell phones. i would like to thank four seasons books for your support nd organizing the book signing that's going follow tonight's talk. this will be a similar format from what we normally do. we will have a wonderful reception. want to recognize mr. tom moses's three daughters, meryl crawford and their husbands. ing to, they have helped us with this wonderful program over the past 15 years, the past decade and a half. and they've carried forward mr. moses' legacy of activism, which is is more important. working together, we have brought u.s. senators, policy experts, legal scholars, -- esteemed political sci

we have heard from our intelligence community and from robert mueller when he came and testified before congress in july that russia governments interfered in the 2016 election and is working to do so every single day. for the 20/20 election. this is a chance to come together, protect that fundamental right to vote and to make sure that we are keeping our elections free from foreign interference. and i'd also like to just pull our attention back to unfinished business. we passed over 200 days ago to commonsense provisions that can help reduce gun violence in this country. and they are still collecting dust mitch mcconnell's door. we know that americans across the political ideology are with us on these provisions. it is one of the many examples of how the house democrats are legislating and being blocked by this administration and our republican colleagues in the senate. so with that, i will yield back to the great chairman from brooklyn and take your questions. >> weird feeling that each otherthis morning . [inaudible] >> you talk about how pelosi made the right decisions on how to handle impeachment,

robert mueller denied it in july under oath. >> it was my understanding i was not applying for the job take to do the job. which triggered the interview you are talking about. >> you don't a recall may 16, 2017 you interviewed with the president regarding the fbi director job? >> i interviewed with the president but it was with the job and not about me applying for the job. >> your statement is you didn't interview to applied for the fbi director job? >> that's correct. >> the man who questioned robert mueller, greg steube joins me right now. administration officials are telling our bret baier that they have government documents showing mueller was indeed pursuing the job as a candidate himself. so if that's the case, is robert mueller lying under oath? and if so, why? >> that's the reason why i ask the question. and it's a follow-up yes question to that. the specific conversation he had with the vice president. it was our understanding in that meeting on that day the purpose of him being there was to interview for the fbi director job and it was sphraitd what we were told directly to

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unanimous judgment of the intelligence community was that russia attacked our democracy, robert mueller testified in his july4th testimony -- july 23rd testimony a giant joke, putin and trump. >> it's not a laughing matter. it's a very, very serious matter. russia did interfere, continues to isnterfere. and the fact that donald trump and putin can make jokes about this i think just shows how unable donald trump is to defend this country's national security. and it's something that i think all americans should be outraged over. >> and if you think about some of the high-level departures. john bolton gave a speech last week and sort of voiced his disagreements about disengagement on iran, on north korea. on this sort of emboldening of putin to treat the entire issue of election meddling as a joke. do you think that that puts some steel in the spine of former security officials to come out? >> i certainly hope so. i think that john bolton and others, even though i disagree with them from a policy perspective, i do think they are concerned about the national security of this country. they have seen up close and

his national security adviser robert blair was on that july 25th call. he came up in fionna hill's testimony yesterday. hill's testimony also brought up the fact that john bolton was her boss and would have known about this. so what we're seeing is a wider and wider circle of aides from the white house being brought into this. at the same time internally there is a lot of disagreement, a lot of different factions in the white house fighting over who should control that impeachment strategy and what the messaging should be. and it is just sort of chaos. and they haven't been able to settle on a coordinated message yet. i know a lot of trump advisers outside of the white house and conservatives feel very frustrated by that, and the president meanwhile sort of is acting like he can fight this himself through twitter and through his own aggressive doubling down on it. >> danny, when you look at all of the evidence, in terms of do they have enough to make a real case for impeachment? >> they do. and there is a strong argument that they don't need to really ke

july 2020. not too long to go. robertg a majority. and there is language in the good friday agreement which sets out that that sort of double majority should be used for major changes. i have heard it argued the other way. saying if you want to ta ke other way. saying if you want to take that literally, why shouldn't there be a double majority in northern ireland for leaving the eu in the first place. that is a massive change in northern ireland's status. what we have in this proposed deal as robert points out, isa proposed deal as robert points out, is a single majority. if this deal goes through, after the end of a transition period, in about 2024 at the earliest, there would be a vote in the northern ireland assembly about whether they want to continue with the economic arrangements which this agreement sets out. that would only be by a simple majority in the assembly. it wouldn't have to have a majority both communities. the argument about whether that breaks the good friday agreement or not, it's going to run and run

. >> sandra: that was robert mueller testifying in july 2019.e difference in what we heard then versus july 2019? >> i don't know. you will have to ask bob mueller again. here is what i know. it underscores how important the investigation that mr. durham is doing that bill barr has tasked him to do to get to the origins how the whole false trump/russia accusation started. the president is falsely accused of conspiring with russia to impact the 2016 election. a 10 month investigation by the f.b.i. jim comey -- we deposed comey and said they had nothing at the time. bob mueller is then hired as special counsel. he does a 22-month investigation. after 22 months he tells us no conspiracy, no collusion, no coordination. 32 months of investigation, nothing there. and the democrats say we'll keep going after the president. bill barr said maybe a better use of our time and taxpayer dollars is to figure out how the whole false accusation started in the first place and what mr. durham is doing. i look forward to the completion of that investigation and th

robert e. lee and ap hill. why would anderson's division with partly engage? only three brigade brigades out of the five total brigades in anderson's division engaged on july 2nd to support long streets attack. anderson was supposed to be the replacement for picket division that is widely gave long streak anderson's division, because picket was not in the field yet. so free mental account on the second day where he talks about where lee was located on the second day, with hill and the third core confederate third court is extremely important, to allow us to question why didn't anderson division full engage until i second? why didn't lee, hill or anderson put forth all five brigades of just instead of just three? >> a gettysburg headlong street ever ever been question as far as obeying orders or his integrity or anything like, that in any previous battles? >> not during the war itself. not during the war itself. other issues came up in the post war years. second mass comes to mind when some post war writers alleged that long street held off too long in coming to the aid stonewall jackson. but no, not during the war no. none of his actions really came up. subseq

july with no clear breakthroughs. china's vice premier was greeted by treasury secretary steven mnuchin and trade representative robertighthizer before talks resumed thursday. the stakes were extremely high as president donald trump threatened to raise tariffs on $215 billion worth of chinese goods on october 15 if there was no progress. the technology sector paying close attention to those sessions as intellectual property is playing a prominent role in the negotiations. i spoke to someone from a firm who helps u.s. firms protect intellectual property. eric: a fairly large company in china, just saw $100 million in revenue that files and protects intellectual property for clients that have previously mostly been in china and is now expanding into the u.s. that's what we are doing here based out of boston. taylor: what kind of ip theft language do you need to see to get a deal? eric: regardless of the status of the trade talks, the importance of securing ip protection for u.s. companies that are operating in china should not get lost anywhere. u.s. companies should not be missing out on that opportunity if there going

july with no clear breakthroughs. china's vice premier was greeted by treasury secretary steven mnuchin and trade representative robertighthizer before talks resumed thursday. the stakes were extremely high as president donald trump threatened to raise tariffs on $215 billion worth of chinese goods on october 15 if there was no progress. the technology sector paying close attention to those sessions as intellectual property is playing a prominent role in the negotiations. to someone from a firm who helps u.s. firms protect intellectual property. >> a fairly large company in china, just saw $100 million in revenue that files and protects intellectual property for clients that have previously mostly been in china and is now expanding into the u.s. that's what we are doing here based out of boston. taylor: what kind of ip theft language do you need to see to get a deal? regardless of the status of the trade talks, the importance of securing ip protection for u.s. companies that are operating in china should not get lost anywhere. be. companies should not missing out on that opportunity if there going to work in the chine

but it still puts the timeline beyond july 25 that the president had with president zelensky of ukraine. >> martha: will keep following it. thank you. john roberts of the white house. also today, president trump says turkey has agreed to a permanent cease-fire. the president said you never know how permanent anything is in the middle east but this is obviously happening along the border in syria after forcing critters allies out of the area. the president says he's lifting all the sanctions for now against turkey. >> the government of turkey informed my administration they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and it will indeed be permanent. however, you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world a somewhat questionable. we all understand that. we've saved the lives of many, many kurds. >> martha: president trump's decision to pull back u.s. troops from syria. reports on the ground have been disturbing. turkish fact finders accused of ethnic cleansing, intentionally releasing isis prisoners, and brutally executing our kurdish partners who fought and died alongside the united states special forces against the

july. zoe kravitz is getting catty multiple sources reports the actress has been cast as catwoman in the batman kravitz's familiar with the characters. she voiced catwoman in the batman lego movie robertson is set for the title role in the batman which is due in theaters june 25th 2021. travis scott has his first debut number one on the billboard hot 100 highest in the room lived up to its title. topping the chart its first week out. no wonder fans are hungry for new music from scott it's his first single of the year hollywood. i'm david daniel. >>and we're checking in on the bay bridge and we have a long of strong here near cash lanes will be back with a complete wrap it checked after the break stay with us. >>sounds like a roaring monster right who are following breaking news out of the east bay were 4.5 magnitude quake shook the bay area last night. this video that you're seeing right here. this is from com heard and shows the moment that the quake hit right in someone's backyard, and you can share that violent roar that violent shaking the quake wds centered in pleasant hill at around 1030 that's a little red dot that you see there on your map and all the little orange dots those

let's not forget this is the first time since july that the chinese vice premier liu he has actually been in the room with u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer, u.s. trade secretary steve mnuchin and now as you have been covering, liz, 30 minutes ago, the delegation, chinese delegation along with of course, our leaders, meeting here at the white house right behind me here. they arrived about 30 minutes ago and this idea of a potential trade functions around these two components. agricultural concsions, you highlighted at,he possibility of the fact that the chinese may agree to buy more u.s. soybeans. as we know, that is our biggest agra export. it is worth anywhere between $15 billion and $18 billion depending on the year. in exchange, this is just according to our sources, this is certainly not a done deal yet, in exchange, the u.s. government would refrain from lifting tariffs that are set to kick in on tuesday. as we know, there are 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of chinese goods. that 25% level on tuesday is predicted, has been telegraphed to go higher to 30% so if the u.s. refrains from kicking up that last 5%, our sources

july. joining us from dallas is michael mckee. you are also talking to robert kaplan later on in the program. walk me through what the conversation is. michael: you take a look at the bloomberg,on on your and markets have already all but decided we will get a rate cut, but the minutes have suggested not everyone at the fed are on board with that. there's also a question of whether they will accomplish that much now as chairman powell said this week the economy's real problems are slowing growth overseas and trade. coming up, we will ask the dallas fed president whether he thinks more cuts are necessary, and whether they are worthwhile. we will also get his take on companies in his district. what are they thinking about in terms of investment and expansion for 2020 in these trade war times? not to get you all excited, alix, but he has a lot of oil, nice in his district. the cpi may be on the move today, but in september, it was falling. does that push down on inflation, and what does that mean for a fed that is desperate to get inflation higher? a lot to talk to

took over for anderson in july after spending two years ak a director covering ukraine over on the national security council. this morning she told lawmakers that lobbyist robert livingston, you may remember this man, longtime republican congressman from louisiana. he is the former house speaker-elect during the time of president clinton's impeachment. that he pushed to remove the onetime u.s. ambassador to ukraine, maria yovanovitch, calling her, quote, an obama holdover. we're also learning more about what lieutenant colonel alexander vindman told members of congress during his testimony yesterday. nbc news reports he testified that a white house meeting between trump and the president of ukraine as well as that military aid package was contingent on ukrainian officials carrying out multiple investigations. politico reporting vindman also said an associate of republican congressman devin nunes misrepresented himself to trump in an attempt to influence ukraine policy. some of the key aspects of the impeachment inquiry specifically, who knew about what, also emerged today during a senate foreign relations e committee hearing. under oath was this man, number tw

. >> julie: i want to talk to you about the white house continuing to defy those congressional subpoenas amid the impeachment inquiry and our own john roberts actually asked vice president if that strategy could warrant an article of impeachment for obstruction and here is how vice president pence responded. >> the suggestion that standing by the history and tradition of the house of representatives where i proudly served for 12 years which is a body that acts on the majority of its members vote represents obstruction. >> julie: you could argue, and i want your opinion, are democrats breaking with tradition when it comes to their inquiry? and if they are, does that lend a hand to the white house to them rightfully defy subpoenas? >> the important thing to remember is is is a political dispute even if you accept the legitimacy of the impeachment inquiry and the political impeachment process, not a legal one. so the impeachment power is committed to the house of representatives, not to the speaker, not to the chairman of the committees, it is to the house as an institution and the house has not voted which is how the house acts as an institut

july phone call between the two presidents. national security aide tim morrison is scheduled to testify. friday the senior advisor to acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, roberts expected to give his deposition. going to talk about all of this now with cnn's chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, dana bash and cnn political analyst and "new york times"/white house correspondent maggie haberman. what's your thoughts at the white house after this latest testimony? >> there was a fair amount of calm at the white house earlier today. i think they recognized that vindman was going to be somebody whose credibility they had to attack in a different way. we saw that in ways that were condemned by adam schiff's statement. they're looking at it as there is not a whole lot of new information as best as we can tell because we don't know what was said, but as best as we can tell from going into it, they did not anticipate up a ton new information that house investigators already had, whether that's true remains to be seen when we learn more about the transcript of today's testimony, we can find out but, look, the white house is looking at this as this is a single event. we

july peak but this was a company once valued at $47 billion, now $8 billion. cheryl: congressional negotiators are expected to meet with u.s. trade representative roberty amid concerns they that talks on the usmca trade deal might actually be backsliding. richard neil disagrees, he says most of the issues have been worked through after negotiators had a couple speed bumps. peter navarro was on bulls and bears and he had this warning for house speaker nancy pelosi. >> there's only a few more days left in october in the legislative calendar and november the first couple weeks, they're gone. the house is gone. the senate's there. but the house is there. so they're back for a few days before thanksgiving and this is going to be a real turkey if than you sigh blows this. i -- nancy blows this. i worry about that that. cheryl: congress is set to adjourn for the holidays on december 12th. lauren: president trump is going to talk energy and jobs today in pittsburgh as rival joe biden tries to sway voters in scranton, pennsylvania. all of this shows after a new l shows that a majority of voters don't want president trump impeached. cheryl: griff jenkins joins

let's bring in robert mcill lean, a federal air marshal. he blew whistle on the tsa in july and paul butler, federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst. welcome to both of you. you've heard the president there, you've seen all that he's been saying since this whistle-blower scandal began. when you hear a president says something like that, what emotions, what thoughts do you have? does it give you chills? what happens? >> no, this is something that has gone on for the last three administrations. i've served six administrations throughout my federal career, and the hypocrisy that is going on with all politicians is laughable because i've blown the whistle on the bush administration, the obama administration which actually campaigned on protecting whistle-blowers and on the trump administration. so this is nothing new at all. >> it is nothing new, but that said it also means as a fellow whistle-blower, somebody who came forward and blew the whistle there on two different administrations, it is a tall order, isn't it, to come forward and say something about your government. can you i

on that july phone call between the two presidents, national security aide tim morrison is scheduled to testify. also on friday, the senior adviser to acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, robert blair, is expected to give his deposition. i want to talk about all this now with cnn's chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin, zada bash and maggie haberman. maggie, i wonder what your sense of things is at the white house tonight after this latest testimony. >> so there was actually a fair amount of calm at the white house earlier today. i think that they recognized that vindman was going to be somebody whose credibility they had to attack in a different way, and we certainly saw that in ways that were condemned by adam schiff a second ago, but ways that questioned vindman's patriotism, ways that questioned his allegiance and what his actual goal was in testifying. they're looking at it as there is not a whole lot of new information as best as they can tell because we don't know what yet was said. but as best as they can tell from him going into it, they did not anticipate he was going to offer up a ton new information over the picture that house investigat

july 18, 1864, including colonel joseph buber and being outnumbered by almost a margin of 2-1 stock eating on display his remarkable tactical abilities as he shoveled troops to meet repeated attempts by robertmes ricketts to cross the shenandoah over the river to support him. and of course the dogged persistence of roads command to not relent. a persistence that resulted in his tactical victory. all of these things and more proved important to those who fought at cool springs -- cool springs or were wounded. it is these individual stories like those of energy -- any civil war battlefield that give cool spring greater meeting. while forgotten today by some. there is no doubt that individuals such as colonel james washburn thought about cool spring for the remainder of his life. on the late afternoon of july 18, just as washburn had finished his task of hastily moving his buckeyes to the division-esque above northern flank, the confederate bullet passed through washburn's left eye and exited the back of his head. on the ground in agony his men believed him a goner. before his body was carried to the shenandoah river's eastern shore, at part of the data field that is owned by the university. h

july the 25th call at the center of the whistle-blower complaint. and we're getting more signs from the white house that president trump plans to stonewall house democrats just as he did today. john roberts with the latest on that live from the white house. first, catherine herridge reporting live from outside the hearing room on capitol hill. catherine? >> in the last few minutes, we reached out to the whistle-blower's legal team. we have new information from sources familiar with the testimony this morning from the intelligence community's watch dog michael atkinson. we're told that the whistle-blower volunteered that they are a registered democrat and they had a prior working relationship with a prominent democrat who is linked to the current presidential campaigns. meantime, we received a prepared testimony from the former special envoy to the ukraine, kurt volcker. there's a key section that he makes clear to distance himself from the independent work of rudy guliani. he said to the ukrainians that guliani was doing this work and that it was reaching the president and that the work about the ukraine was very negative and it did not reflect the current position on u.s. government pol

robert frank joins us at post nine to explain. >> hey, jon. how to value a person's wealth that's tied to a volatile stock. netflix ceo, reedhastings woul have paid 120 million in julyh $4 billion, today would pay 30 million less because of what happened to netflix stock. warren said a wealth tax would be based on a person's net worth the end of the year, presumably december 31st. accountants say that could lead them to talk down stock price toward end of the year runup to the date, talk it back up, allow it to bounce up in january once they pay the tax bill. also have the issue of stocks possibly suffering in december because executives and founders would need to sell the stock, some cases millions of shares, just to pay the tax. look at jeff bezos he would owe 3 million under warren's tax plan, 8 million under sanders' plan. he would have to sell millions of shares. the other problem with tax and wealth tied to stocks of course is that you have big swings in tax revenues harold hamm was worth 19 billion last october, now worth less than half that his consolation, he would pay $300 million less in wealth taxes because the stock has gone down the issues with wealth

robert mueller was appointed special counsel. no word on when durham's investigation will be completed. fox news has also learned that mueller was not accurate when he told congress on july 24th that he was not interviewing for the position of fbi director when he met president trump in the oval office in may of 2017. >> my understanding i was not applying for the job. i was asked to give my input on what it would take to do the job. >> multiple administration officials tell fox news that when mueller met the president on may 16th, 2017, he was indeed pursuing the post left open by the firing of james comey a week earlier. in fact, mueller was looking at two possible jobs. fbi director and special special counsel. according to documents obtained by judicial watch in a freedom of information request, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had talked with mueller about the possibility of becoming special counsel before he met with president trump. in an email dated may 12th, rosenstein wrote to mueller, quote, the boss and his staff do not know about our discussions. the day after mueller met with the president, rosenstein appointed him as special counsel. the president's