ravel, that was what was going on in your case. mr. were donors in california who the money went to virginia to arizona back to california. it was all about laundering the identity out of that contribution. isn't that correct? >> yes, mr. chair. the initial request for the money in california was, if you want your identity to be known, you can give directly to a p.a.c. if you do not want your identity to be known, and you want to remain anonymous, it can go to this virginia nonprofit. and so the money that went to the virginia nonprofit was specifically for the purpose of not revealing identity, and it was then moved circuitously through all the other nonprofits for the same reason. >> mr. ornstein, thank you. that's the way it appeared. mr. ornstein, one of the situations is whenever you try to do something about an issue like this -- by wait i enjoyed this morning sitting literally in the center between senator roberts and senator schumer, but when you try to do something, everybody thinks of it in partisan terms. does this advantage

ravel, you that, ms. were talking about dark money and virginia and arizona and the casey worked on, one of the things debated the impact of these decisions on foreign entities being involved in funding. if you can do this from a two state and it is all hidden, do you think these decisions can make it easier for foreign entities to fund united states elections? what i don't -- >> i don't think there's any questions about that. one of the positive things about transparency and disclosure for all groups, regardless of their status, tax status or how they are set up, is that the public will know, or prosecutors would not some of the contributions are made you legally, and that includes foreign money. >> just last, a trust issue. under federal law, super pac's are not allowed to coordinate activities with candidate campaigns. i know you already have a smirk on your face, mr. ornstein. but there has been discussion about the fact that the organizers of some super pacs have had very close ties to the candidates

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car next panel member is ann ravel. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member roberts, center. thank you for inviting me to testify today. as indicated, i am the vice chair of the federal election commission, but i am not testifying in that capacity today, nor am i speaking for the commission. instead, my testimony concerns a case pursued during my tenure as chair of the california fair political practices commission to expose start money in a california election. i am going to use the word of the day, a byzantine story of campaign contributions being funneled all over the country in an apparent effort to avoid revealing to the public who is behind political campaigns. we discovered that networks of nonprofits anonymously injected millions of dollars into our elections by using shell corporate entities, wire transfers, and fun to swapping. this allowed donors to skirt disclosure laws and cloak their identity from the public view. just a few weeks before the 2012 election the california political "-- action committee which was focused on supporting one and beating another ballot

the one -- raveled. the happiest is edward snowden. he gets to put his head on his pillow every night knowing he took actions in deference of his principles. >> you talk to him often? >> i talk to him very regularly yes. >> you talk to him online? >> we use secure chat technologies. >> what is his life like? >> he spends a lot of time following the debate around the world that is unfolding and the reform movements that take place. he's asked to speak all the time at various events. he's increasingly asked to do that. he speaks to events. he has been a person of the internet, spending vast amounts of time inside an he continues to do that. >> what is it like? >> if you're doing journalism then you have to expect that you will alienate and anger a lot of people. if you are not prepared for that you shouldn't go into journalism. >> what is your biggest beef in mainstream journalism? >> the idea of why there's a free press is supposed to be that journalists are a with adversarially force for those who weekend power. over the last several d

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ann ravel, former chair of the california fair political practices commission, currently vice chair of the federal election commission. finally, neil reiff who is a founding member of the law firm and a former deputy general counsel for the democratic national committee. thank you all for joining yesterday, and i welcome your opening statements. if you have more lengthy statements, they can be submitted for the record. we look forward to hearing from you. we will discuss these issues. >> chairman, ranking member, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. it is an honor and privilege, particularly in light of the appearance of former justice john paul stevens. i have submitted testimony prior to the hearing. mr. neil reiff and i our practitioners and the area of campaign finance and nephews are shaped in decades of experience in advising people who wish to participate in in the complaint manner. although we have similar plans and are not here to represent any of the views of those particular clients, we differ in serious ways. such a partisan di

had supporters say was a reflex response to his unwanted grope optimist who witnessed events of raveling that night also say that the woman did not receive due medical assistance occupier said many facts including the past record of the officer from sessile he claims grabbed her were not even considered in court for this case we're now joined by activist and photographer stacey lanyon so you see thanks so much for joining us you were there the nights that these events unraveled with saucily what did you see it was probably the scariest night of occupy that i've ever experienced i didn't see her at first it is such a number of people. that had been arrested some were face down some of their shirts torn and she and the officer befehl the one who actually attacked her in the park was the one to lift her up in my photographs and. i noticed right away that she was in distress she could not she couldn't stand and he continued to try and make her stand the fact that she was charged with a crime at all was was. was an outrage to begin with some of the activists are saying this is not good enough

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but is this mission as noble and justified as it appears or is there a far more complex context on ravel in order understand the international implications of this story or discuss just that this is what it means for the future of u.s. nigerian relations i'm joined now by dr hyla lamb professor of african studies at howard university professor richard america of georgetown university thank you so much both of you for coming on. dr who would start with the book around came into being in two thousand to the group has been linked to an estimated ten thousand deaths how does organization been able to thrive and why is the nigerian government so ineffective in dealing with the rising insurgency. problem. has good group of athletes you know because of the sad tragedy of the two hundred over the two hundred good so are held hostage you know but the problem goes deeper than that because it touches on issues of budget governance issues of political. problems that have been raised both by the activists these instead to non-state actors in the idea of the idea the deal is done is that the place but

as the events in and around ukraine keep on raveling at a fast pace you can always go online to our website there our internet team is keeping a minute by minute timeline of the ongoing crisis. the u.s. has rolled out have the welcome mat two afghans who have worked with american forces thousands have moved to the country and a brother of the outgoing president who ran as a candidate himself enables presidential elections among them another is a man who has been called the country's torturer in chief and he's going to church can't cometary. we're standing next to a restaurant that belongs to how many times i'd rather tell you parts i guess at least for here in baltimore maryland this was his first cars i first came to the u.s. forty years ago and since then we had one foot here the other in afghanistan when the u.s. brought his brother to power you have got to stay where you are say became fully involved in afghan politics even ran for president then withdrew his nomination and came here. karzai is not the only afghan leader who kept a foot in another world long life who ran afghan intellig

and bruises from being pushed on the ground during her arrest activists who witnessed events of raveling that night also say that the woman did not receive due medical assistance this case has received lots. support from activists in the us who have been demanding justice for sesame and accountability for the n.y.p.d. officer outraged with the seven year sentence as we have been facing up until this week occupiers said many facts including the past record of the officer himself silly claims grabbed her were not even considered in court occupiers see this is riddled with injustices and that certainly shouldn't be serving any time at all mcmillan's defense team has already filed an appeal for second degree assault conviction as soon as the most serious against an occupy activist since the movement started and twenty eleven and associates are going to be. the former governor of virginia and his wife learned tomorrow if corruption charges against them will be dropped u.s. district judge james spencer heard arguments today in richmond from attorneys for mcdonnell and his wife maureen the coup

he has a car and has also called for the region wide mobilization so this is just the latest on raveling you can say in the event which the officials like you are calling the antiterrorist operation which has everybody literally on the brink brink of their seats waiting for the inevitable inevitable fighting to break out on a full scale. he's going to show line from the region thank you very much. the adult three day economic forum has kicked off in st petersburg as movers and shakers from around the world meet had what's been dubbed the russian doubles. thousands of business leaders and politicians are coming to the brand a number of c.e.o.'s from major western companies have pulled out of the forum but that representatives are still said to be president and marina of course he reports now it pays to stay away from politics now. this year fifteen percent of delegates invited to attend the form are uncommon many of them backed out over the divisive issue of ukraine and also were heard from lot amir peretz and spokes person who says that many u.s. companies have faced unprecedented and di

wrapped up with one another that says that we think we can pull one string in the whole thing might on ravel alexis mentioned that these are confined animal feeding operations and one of the problems is the way and we treat animals and there are a lot of groups that are involved in the animal welfare part of it and if we couldn't just cram lots of animals in small confined spaces and feed the manta about ics if you could deal with the animal husbandry the animal welfare and deal with the antibiotics that would help if you could deal with the concentration of control that you were describing that would certainly be helpful if you if we had greater enforcement of the clean water act and we didn't exempt a big ag from other environmental laws we they wouldn't be able to artificially reduce the price of their products and and really take the cost of their products and have us as taxpayers. and as neighbors and as community is really absorbing the cost of that it really takes two to to farm these days or to have these facilities and so there are a lot of things we can do starting with people maki