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for albania,nited plenty of games taking place tomorrow and over the week.kstaying with football, the french superstar will be taking over as coach in montreal. the former striker has signed a two-year deal, saying it was an honor to coach the montreal impacts. they qualified ninth and failed to qualify for playoffs in the ninth -- 93 seasons. he spent time in the american league, having spent four years there, retiring back in 2014. tennis now, where the atp finals, matteo berrettini has become the third italian to win a match in london after a impressive performance against dominic thiem. his third set was a 5-4 after breaking him in the previous game. he handed the brake back to the austrian. berrettini made it 7-3 as the finished the first set on a tiebreak. another brick in the second allow him to close the second game. 7-3, butre 7-6, berrettini has actually bowed out of the tournament, having lost his first. mr. thiem has advanced in the final. he has already beaten roger federer and novak djokovic and has earlier games. the italian seems s a little l

they did it while having ways and means, where the usmca, nited states-mexcio-canada trade agreement can only make our top two traders stronger as we have negotiations with china. it only emphasized, again, what is not being done in congress and what should be being done in congress. impeachment has overtaken every single committee. we're less than a year away from the election, but these democrats do not trust the american public. they will continue to try to make something up when we have the facts of the phone call. we know there was no pressure to either leader, and the money was released. and ukraine is actually stronger today with a new administration leading america. with that, let me open up to questions. yes, sir. reporter: james rosen. i wonder if you can explain to the american people why they shouldn't see-- on the part of house republicans to hear you assert on the one hand that these witnesses lack credibility because they are only offering second and thirdhand information at the same time you support the white house blocking testimony from those witnesses, like john bo

i think most americans will say, maybe the president of the nited states should be looking into these things. i think they will say we want the president looking into in our corruption government and interference in our elections. to the ortantly, i say majority, show me how president to these ed aid investigations. of mr. speaker, president rump's phone call with ukraine's president zelensky, you know, the one that the whistle ower blew the on, it's on the internet. everyone can read it and i hope nowhere will, because in that call did president trump ver link any aid to ukraine in exchange for anything. the president did not one time, one time, even mention any kind of hold on the aid. not once. this is not bribery. conduct.ot impeachable yet, here we are trying to remove the president of the united states, the leader of country, the man chosen by the voters over these newest allegations. mr. speaker, the american people see past this charade. is a now that this partisan political scheme, and at this point, i think most are paying attention, those who haven't tuned out, now this is

. -- we cannot have a nited states president withholding aid, using that as a carrot to try to get a foreign once again, russia was accused of interfering in election, and here red-handed, a u.s. president, onald trump, is asking another country to find -- come up with something. do me a favor because i've been to me. you haven't been that good to me. do -- find -- please investigate on joe biden. mind you, this could be a smear. up with it. ukraine is a very poor country. they are at the mercy of russia. they need western aid to he fend off the russian army. they could come up with something totally fictitious, corrupt, totally fictitious to get the aid and oe biden could not defend himself against that. host: forrest, appreciate the call. want to get to a few more callers. we you and others know that do have a website where we've gathered all of the information impeachment inquiry so far, and you can find that online, c-span.org. you can go to c-span.org/impeachment or go to our homepage. is a big icon right there that you can click on to find transcripts and other things that have

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among the other revelations: camp inmatesdeould be held nitely, camps are run on a points system whereates earn credits for compliance, weekly e one calls or monthly video calls e only contact allowed and preventing escape is paramount. r the chinese foreign minsid documents leaked earlier this moh by the "times" were fabricated. >> ( translated ): they are also sensationalising these internal cuments by using poor tactics like taking them out of context and grafting them onto another, to undermine and tarnish china's efforts on anti-terrorism and depolarization in xinjiang. >> reporter: foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin sat wn with national security advisor robert o'brain over the weekend, at the halifax security forum inoncentration examples,n people that's an outrage. president xi has the power of writ in china, what he says goes, and those camps should be closed, dismantled, but it's not just the camps, it'she surveillance infrastructure that's been built in the region. >> susan shirk, as we reported, that is the second trove of leaked documents to be publisved in a week,

announcer: the tonight show starring johnny carson and late nite with david letterman will be seen in their entirety following this nbc news special report. [cheering] tom: east berlin tonight. tens of thousands of people crossing into west berlin, pouring through the berlin wall which opened today. not waiting for special visas or even daybreak. they are still coming. announcer: this is an nbc news special report. here is garrick utley. garrick: berlin, you are looking at a live picture of the berlin wall shortly before the dawn of a new day, a day that will see this border built by the communists open for freedom to all in east germany. and what you are seeing now is taking place at 5:30 in the morning, berlin time. these crowds, mostly young people, have been there all night, celebrating the opening all of the wall, welcoming the tens of thousands of east germans coming across to the west. good evening. we are truly privileged tonight. we are eyewitnesses to history. who on either side of the berlin wall or in this country would have believed this morning that this day would end th

nited educators of san francisco and the other is from mid-penn housing. the department recommends that the commission approve the proposed ordinance. the department supports the overall goals of this ordinance because it will allow for the construction of future educator housing projects. it will also ensure dwelling unit mixed requirements and it will benefit the educators meant to occupy the housing. additionally the dwelling unit mixed standards proposed in the ordinance are in closer alignment with the own requirements, in zoning districts that regulate those bedroom mixes. this concludes staff presentation. i'm available for questions as is kate connor. thank you. >> thank you audrey. we will now take public comment on this item. i don't have any speaker cards. oh, wait. yeah. anastasia has a speaker card. anybody else who wants to speak you can do so now. hi. >> hi. good afternoon everyone. legislative aide for supervisor gordon mar. we are really excited about this legislation. as you all know, we have the first educator housing project in our dist

have thenot least, we ambassador and permanent representative of denmark to the .nited nations before taking up this position, the ambassador served as a state secretary for development in the danish ministry of foreign affairs. heor to this appointment, served as ambassador to indonesia and was also papua new guinea. before that, he worked for the undp and bhutan. the panel will spend about an hour debating the issue of multilateralism institutions. after that, we will open it up for questions from the audience. >> i will start. lisa: you have just written a book about multilateral institutions that will is about to come out or will come out. can you briefly describe how you see the role of multilateral institutions in today's world order, where we have these fluctuating alliance patterns, trade wars, rising authoritarianism. do these trends mean that these institutions are counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order? are they taken over by authoritarian regime with little respect for basic liberal market and economic principles? how should we read it? kathryn: thank you fo

he needs supplies and for the nited states, people not commited to the revolution this disaffection. and again, it's an effort of how philadelphia and overwhelmingly the people will not swear that oath. can never get enough support to draf the british out, the british can not to expand support and this will end in not an epic battle but it's not ort anymore.f and you can take it to new york. and patriots are going to win this war. america will be independent and as you might expect, they're not eager to include dissenting and disaffected voices and they want unified.n america is and the consenting unified republic, and it's enemies like outsiders and traitors. count. whose voices don't original house, it is still there. it, and you isit should. he oldest son makes an enry almost every day. the remarkable thing is how incredibly boring it s1775, 1779. lexington, declaration of independence. invasion of pennsylvania and occupation of philadelphia. retreat from philadelphia. delaware. crossing none of that is in his diary. instead he writes about cows. a lot about cows. s.d fence and hi

vindman said he has not had direct contact w president o nited states, but he was on that phone call and said as soon he heard it, he knew it had to go straight up the chain of command. he went to white house lawyers and he laid out his concerns. and that line that you pointed out in terms of lieutenant colonel vindman's phrase that he felt this was seeking foreign interference in an election, that is key to the case democr are trying to prosecute here. that this isn't just about breaking protocol, being disruptive as a president, that this is using the public office of the presidency for personal political gain. >> and not only that, he then added that the -- if that were ever to get public, it would undermine u.s. national security. >> exactly. >> so even more so than the political interference which he called improper and inappropriate to demand an investigation, he said it could be perceived as a partisan ploy and undermine our national security. to the benefit of whom? >> to the benefit of the man running against joe biden here, the president of the united states. >> and the ben