Hello and welcome. In breaking news this hour, there are reports that the us president s special representative for ukraine, kurt volker, has resigned. Its after he was named in the whistleblower complaint at the centre of impeachment proceedings into donald trump. Meanwhile those impeachment proceedings appear to be gathering pace in the us as democrats say theyre hoping to hold hearings into President Trump, as early as next week. The subpoenas are already flying secretary of state mike pompeo has been ordered to hand over documents concerning contact with the Ukrainian Government by next friday. President trump has lashed out at the inquiry saying its a witch hunt. Our north america editor jon sopel looks at the days events in washington. We will bring you those details. We will be speaking to our correspondence shortly about that. Now we get the background and everything that has been happening. We have also been hearing about mike pompeo, he has been subpoenaed by those impeachmen
I leave my grandkids to be born here. Reporter the fear and hostilities is higher than in reporter just a few minutes ago the state Department Released a statement about tariq saying Mahmoud Abbas said the same thing to the Security Council in the last couple of hours. Nick schifrin live from jerusalem. Thank you. Iraqi Government Forces push north and west of baghdad into territory claimed by the the latest news and hottest trends in celebrity, style and more. Zeina khodr has the store yix. Reporter another funeral of a kurdistan fighter. The kurdistan government said they would not get involved in the battle between shia forces and sunniarmed groups. They are caught up in the conflict nonetheless. Theres no official casualty. Kurdish forces are suffering casualties. The fighting has been fierce in this corner of the eastern province. Jel owla up to is an urban battle ground. Many of the 40,000 kurd and arab residents have left. Peshmerga fighters show us the area under control. As th
The Potomac Institute brought together former Defense Department and fbi officials to discuss the growing strength of the terrorist group isis. Groupsmine the evolution and discuss why the International Community did not detect them earlier. You can see the discussion today at 10 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now, New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg on afghanistan. He was expelled from kabul recently after the publication of his story on the formation of an interim government. The two candidates now vying to be providence president s say they welcome the reporter back to the country. This is 50 minutes. I am the president of the National Press club and host for todays newsmakers news conference. First, as we always do, here are the guidelines. After this biggest presentation, open the floor for q a. When you are recognized, please identified yourself and your organization before asking your question. No speeches please. Just a question. Our guest today is Matthew Rosenberg who was e
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Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was expelled from kabul by the homage karzai government muster karzai government last week. The Afghanistan Government attributed the expulsion to an article mr. Rosenberg had written reporting that highlevel Government Officials were discussing forming an interim government as a possible solution treaty government to the countries current electoral crisis, an action that would effectively map amount to accrue. Mr. Rosenberg will discuss his own situation and the outlook for afghanistan based on his many years of reporting from the country. He has been covering afghanistan since 2008, first as the south asia correspondent for the wall and then forl, the New York Times, which he joined in november 2011. He did a stint in afghanistan in 2002 when he was a reporter for the Associated Press based in nairobi. The National Press club released a Statement Last week criticizing his expulsion by the karzai government and welcoming the statements by the pres