That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. On twitter and on facebook. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now. We want to show you from the senate floor this week, former george bush trade representative senatorrent ohio rob portman. [video clip] nationave seen become a the culmination of nearly three years of efforts by this administration to deliver for farmers, businesses, and consumers. This is a big week. While the media is focused on impeachment, here we are on the floor talking about something that directly affects the constituents we represent. Allink it is positive in three areas, china, canada, and mexico. In a way, it is like the world series and a super bowl trade in one week. These are big agreements that make a big difference. Host rob portman from the senate floor this week. A quick recap from some of the major provisions of those trade agreements, starting with phas
I am jane harman, president and ceo of the Wilson Center and i am delighted to be here. It is august, which means that congress and the president are on vacation. But todays topic is not on vacation and will not be, at least through the 2020 election. So the Wilson Center is not putting off of the conversation. That being said, disinformation is hardly any problem. A new problem. In the midst of the cold war, the u. S. And the soviet union both tried to influence narratives on other parts of the globe. For example, a new article published by the Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program look at translated russian documents related to operation denver. A campaign in the 1980s not to spread the lie that h. I. V. Was created as a result of the pentagons biological weapons research. So, disinformation was not invented in 2016 and is sadly unlikely to be buried in 2020, but today, we delve into the context. And we have the right moderator and speakers to do that. Our first panel, whi
hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. boris sanchez, everyone boris great to be with you. i m jessica dean and we begin with breaking details another major legal blow to former president donald trump. on the day his attorney had to testify before a federal grand jury. in one case. we re learning. in a separate case, his former top administration aides have now been ordered to testify, and that includes his past white house chief of staff mark meadows. this specific investigation is the federal criminal. probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election loss. cnn senior crime and justice reporter caitlin poland s is with us live standing outside of the department of justice on a rainy day. caitlin tell us so much about this development, the claim of executive privilege by the former president thrown out by this judge. right so this is another attempt where donald trump was coming into court secretly behind closed doors and trying to say that people around him sh
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am isabella, welcome to the Wilson Center. Toill use the moment advertise our Upcoming Event that will happen next week on friday, january 19th, 10 30 to 12 00. We will have a book talk, the ukrainian night and intimate history of revolution. Speaking will be the author of the book, associate professor of history at Yale University as well as a former Wilson Center as during i will also well as a former Wilson Center fellow. I will also take the opportunity to ask you to follow us on twitter and facebook. Read our twoure to excellent blogs. And theses on russia other focuses on ukraine. Todays event, all you need to know about Russian Hackers. We are pleased to have a speaker who is here with us for a few months as an expert at the Canon Institute and an eight investigative journalist and an investigative journalist based in moscow, russia. At theted his career biggest russian news website at the time. After the editor in chief was fired by the pub
Democratic convention. How do we know it was russia . Guest well, we cant be 100 certain, first of all, that it was russia. The evidence that we have so far points strongly in that direction. The u. S. Government, certainly the administration has been careful because they dont want to politicize the domestic side of this to the extent they have avoid it, but hints have been dropped pretty strong that will the evidence persuasive that the hackers who did this, they may have been private actors, but that they were acting at the direction of the russian state. That kind of plugs into a history that we know about of hacking by the russian state, where a lot of the cyberattacks we see against highprofile, political other targets, sometimes what seems to be hackivism, but may have an ulterior motive as well, is also statelinked. Its very commonly coming from russian territory, if you can trace the servers back and sometimes chain sandeeze other ajor state actors. Host what does russia have t