Was her own but her supporters saying she was pressure shes calling for an end to protest over an election that she has described as rigged. Golf its good to have you with us we begin with breaking news just a few moments ago the u. S. Democrats president ial candidate joe biden announced his running mate for novembers election he have selected california senator Kamali Harris to be his running mate and she is the 1st black woman to be a major partys candidate for Vice President this decision comes just a week ahead of the Democratic National convention where biden and harris will be officially confirmed to challenge President Donald Trump and Vice President mike pence for the white house. We will be going live to washington for more on that decision in just a moment but 1st we want to go to belo roots now where the oppositions top president ial candidate has left the country amid a Massive Police crackdown in a video message today but lana the head of scalia said that she was safe wit
With all of our upcoming events, podcasts and publications and more on our website at wilsoncenter. Org and in particular, i want to invite you to give a listen to our podcast reference to the x article and the newest podcast, the russia file. Let me just remind everybody tut the conversation and weve already gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, and please list your name and affiliation as if a live event at the wilson kennan center, and im more likely to call out than if youre unidentified. And fiona hill from Brookings Institution and as many of you know for the Russian Affairs on the National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006, National Intelligence office for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council ap coauthor of the wellreceived and widery read book mr. Putin, operative in the kremlin, an update of a previous book. And i want it note that the two of them authored a useful piece still for those of us thinking about russias develop
Podcast the russia file. Let me just remind everybody throughout the conversation we were ready gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email at wilson center. Org buyer twitter and facebook pages and please include your name and affiliation just as if you are attending an event at the center which i hope we can do again soon and be more likely to call on you if youre not an anonymous aspect. I am joined today by the ark under doctor fiona who is the center of the United States of europe and the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and as everyone knows wears recently a Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for European National Security Council that was 2017 to 19 in 2006 2009 she served as the National Officer at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of the very well received in the kremlin 2015 update of previously published books, i also want to note, i want to know this is a very useful with everybody thinking about russia
I want to invite you to give a listen to our ken and podcasts and art art news podcast, the russian file. Let me just remind everybody that throughout the conversation and we forgot quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, via twitter and facebook pages and please do include your name and affiliation just as if youre attending a live event of the Wilson Center which hope we can do against it. Id be more likely to call on you for not an anonymous blurt out. Im join today i dr. Fiona hill was a senior fellow and center for the next its a joke in the Foreign Policy program of the Brookings Institution and, of course, is that one will knows served as Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs on National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006nine she also served as National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of of the very well received and widely read book mr. Put
Some of you. And are looking at. So thiis weak little brin t weat so pack that umbrella as you head out the door for work in school. Daytime highs for today, seasonal. 56 in San Francisco. 55 concord and 61 for san jose. Were going to timeout that showers coming up. Gianna . No major accidents to report right now. We have reports of a broken down vehicle. Typically that would not cause too many delays. It is on the upper deck of the bay bridge. Traffic backs up very quickly. As you work your way out of the east bay into San Francisco, you can see speed stepping down to 21 miles per hour. Just past Treasure Island. That upper deck heading into the city. It is blocking one lane there. Chp is on thing. They are trying to move it out of the lanes as quickly as possible. So hopefully that will happen soon. With that means, youre going to see some brake lights there as you work your way on the upper deck of the bay bridge. Things are starting to back up just slightly. A few more cars now at