boost russia's image you had of the winter olympics in sochi but legal expert and blogger alexander mccourt it's believed it was first and foremost because of plea for clemency. i don't think it's got anything to do with nobody it was going to stay away from sochi because of vista holder god being in prison i think the first point to make is that he is guilty and i i want to say that because this constant attempts to say that he was a political prisoner there's been six or seven decisions by the european court of human rights i've lost count how many there are which is said unequivocally that mr holder koskie is guilty of massive tax evasion on a simply enormous scale now he has been punished he's been imprisoned for that for ten years what what has changed the situation and has led to his release is that mr holder called ski did what he had previously consistently said he would not do and that is that he wrote a letter to mr putin asking for a pardon so i don't personally see that there's any compelling reason to keep him in prison longer of course we are closely following the latest devel

mccourt achieve peace. this afternoon as i was in some enterprising cut seventy agents presence in on the two thousand tones of biochemical reactions in the evening auntie happened to see these incidents. nor does he not announced on the intricacies of housing nutrition tomatoes changed his life completely though he or she a blue moon when it was. i used to maintain that would have been setting days for women and men with what i started this job since i was full of his students. i've taken the money i've saved and went on saddam's intent to conduct is off the design of masa the perfection of the shaft i'm communicating among friends in the usa and the uk eu and to exchange recipes i've started studying the nation's wealth. it is the mind. lots of people in kazakhstan and interested in this issue and would like to switch to publication for which he did not but in the class who at the time it so much. after switching to go into that these changes is voting on that front the question of the response to changes

american and european politicians doing there among the protesters a legal expert and blogger alexander mccourt has told us why he thinks these officials are constantly turning up in the ukrainian capital. but the reason they are there is bluntly because i think these people want to detach the ukraine from russia as they see it and they think that by supporting the protesters and here they might actually achieve that the problem with that strategy is that it's simply not working the bonds between the ukraine and russia economically and culturally ethnically and simply too strong and i think for american politicians and indeed european politicians to go to the ukraine and to try to do that is actually very unwise and very dangerous and he simply exacerbating making worse the differences the divisions in the ukraine which are already very great. plantin on how the situation is unfolding in ukraine on our website buddy dot com has also got a live update timeline which does give a very fair a bright down of everything that is happening across the country say to take a look at that. in syria governm

. >> check out officer tony mccourt showing off his moves in the snow.year-old has entertained drivers. he retired but because of his pr popularity he was resworn in as a full-time perform he were. here he is breaking it down for us in the fox newsroom last year. >> no snow many across the country are bracing for bitter cold temperatures. anoth >> another storm could be on the way. maria molina is in the weather center tracking it all for us. >> we are looking at another storm coming in but i want to mention we have areas of lake-effect snow. lake-effect snow is very localized. very few areas dealing with the snowfall. generally today we are expecting the snow to stay north of the city of syracuse and south of the city of buffalo. we have warnings in effect and we are expecting significant snowfall accumulations through the up of michigan. north of syracuse they can pick up up to three feet of snow otherwise an additional 1-2 feet of snow forecast downwind of lake ontario and also lake erie otherwise current temperatures it is bitterly cold out here. tak

frank mccourt, and so they had to bring in the l.a.p.d. for future games to take over security. we don't want to turn our games into occupied territory. owners need to pony up with security guards. >> 15 seconds left but it does seem like it's happening more at baseball games than football games. is it mostly because of tailgating at those kinds of games? basketball and hockey? >> yeah. it's just not the same tailgating culture in basketball and hockey. it's as sample as that. it's where the stadiums are. it's the access to tailgating versus access to public transportation. baseball and football have more money in parking. tailgating. >> dave, always great to have you with us. thank you for the joining us tonight. the show may be over but the conversation continues on our website aljazeera.com/considerthis and check check >> president obama focussing on income and equality, calling it a threat to the american people. he says the growing gap between the rich and the poor is a defining challenge of our time. mexican authorities recover a truck filled with radioactive material. it

. >> they're going after former dodgers owner frank mccourt because of the financial problems he was through the divorce and trying to sell the team that they had budget concerns and one of the things they neglected was security and especially in that big parking lot, it was so dark carol, they could not have surveillance in the parking lot because it couldn't cover all of the dark corners of it. they didn't have adequate security there especially when the games were letting out, and it was poorly lit and when this attack happened, it even took security 15 minutes to get to the scene of where it was going down. this is in some reports i looked at it, it's going to be an uphill battle for the stowe family in terms of winning this civil lawsuit. in california, you're not liable just because an attack happened on your property. you have to proof there was some some sort of negligence. they have to prove frank mccourt did not adequately address security. >> i read the lawsuit this morning, i find the whole story sad and tragic and it is interesting, it says in the lawsuit that the dodger

professor judith feder is a professor of public policy at the mccourt school of public policy at georgetown university and a fellow with dearborn institute. mr. edmund heiss of mire. i do that every time. welcome back. a senior research fellow for health policy studies at the heritage foundation and doctorow a., m.d. is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research. eshoo saw on the first panel pursuant to the rules of the committee would you please rise and raise your right hand to take the oath? do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give us the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth? please be seated in left the record reflect all answered in the affirmative. dr. roy. >> chairman issa ranking member coming seven members of the oversight committee thanks for inviting me to speak with you today about the affordable care act. my name is opec right i'm a senior fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research in which the capacity i said conduct research on entitlement reform. i'm an advocate of market-based universal coverage. i believe