ambassador to europe gordon someone confirms aid was withheld unless you krane investigated trump travel. and in search of her husband what it means if you're married to a human rights activist who disappeared in china. i'm told me a lot of both thanks for joining us. the german capital is marking 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall on the 9th of november 1989 east germany's communist regime opened the border that separated it from the west of germany the announcement allowed its citizens to cross safely to the west for the 1st time in 3 decades until then crossing you without permission often meant a daring run for it and was often fatal hundreds of people were killed trying to escape the country but after the berlin wall fell friends and families were finally able to reunite without fear paving the way for the 2 geminis to do the same in less than a year and one of the central spots to change was a berlin church. 30 years ago a wind of change was blowing through east germany in just 4 more days the berlin wall would fall although no one knew that yet and this church in what was

ambassador to europe gordon sumlin confirms aid was withheld unless you krane investing.

i agree with you completely that we are not pushing back hard enough on russia and that we owe you krane a great deal of support or does it matter. russia is trying to up and has security in europe and it's trying to reassert its domination of neighboring countries whether it's georgia or ukraine or the baltic states it has led to war in europe the war in ukraine has left more people dead in europe in a european war than anything since the balkans more people displaced by a war in europe since anything since world war 2 these are people who stand up for freedom for democracy they want reform they want to see their country be successful like germany like sweden like us and they are fighting a war of aggression against them designed to hold them back and if we want to live in a world of freedom for the united states we ought to be supporting freedom for people around the world. thank you for that so we're here in part because under cover of a concern for general corruption some of us believe there wasn't in fact there was something quite nefarious as the alternative. that there wasn't a co

level aides made the explicit request to an advisor to the president of ukraine saying unless you krane says publicly that it's opening these investigations there would be no aid money and all of that boils down to the heart of this impeachment inquiry it's the question of whether trump used u.s. foreign policy for the purpose of furthering his personal political ambitions over the interests of national security and that case will now be made starting next week directly into the living rooms of the american public who will for the 1st time be able to see more of these testimonies in the open they've only occurred behind closed doors up until this point but democrats are hoping to give that case directly with these public hearings starting next wednesday castro from washington d.c. thank you. and in the last few minutes we've heard that a judge in new york has ordered president donald trump to pay $2000000.00 for misusing his charitable foundation to further his political and business interests the judges also signed off on an agreement to close the trump foundation. still to come this h

earlier testimony it was his understanding trump would withhold critical military aid to kiev unless you krane investigated his political rival joe biden and his son bolivians are angry at an election they see is fraudulent they've been protesting since the vote last month they want president the remodelers to step down but his people wait for the results of an international audit of the election divisions in the country are deepening so is a boner. was inside the google at the heart of livia's agricultural industry a move is underway to disregard the presidency if there was a. government we are symbolically taking over public institutions because that meeting's nationally we have decided up livings are not in agreement with the frog this fraud that is being seen internationally we want the vote to be respected by all citizens from bolivia last month it will more or less won the presidency with a 10 point difference he's opponent denounce fraud when the vote count was halted for at least 24 hours when the vote showed a shift that favored abel more or less and that's why people are demanding a

friend and campaign chair and was ultimately appointed to the head of the security services if you kraneindicated to me privately that he had been contacted by quote someone named giuliani who said he was an advisor to the vice president i reported mr mcconnell as message to deputy assistant secretary of state george kant over the following months it became apparent that mr giuliani was having a direct influence on the foreign policy agenda that the 3 amigos were executing on the ground in ukraine in fact at one point during a preliminary meeting of the inaugural delegation someone wondered aloud why mr giuliani was so active in the media with respect to ukraine my recollection is that ambassador sohn stated quote damn it rudy every time rudy gets involved he goes and after everything up the inauguration took place on may 20th and i took notes in the delegations meeting with presidents on ski during the meetings secretary perry past presidents alinsky a list that perry described as quote people he trusts secretary perry told presidents alinsky that he could seek advice from the people on