Enthusiastic audience, im sure. We ask you to be respectful, remind everyone that holding up signs or making verbal outbursts is disruptive and appropriate action will be taken if need be. This morning, we have a hearing on a matter that is really of pressing National Security importance. That is the relationship of the United States and for that matter the world with iran. This hearing is intended to do three things. Number one, we will consider the facts behind the maximum Pressure Campaign against iran. We will examine the elements of irans necessary Behavioral Changes that would satisfy u. S. And the worlds National Security interests. And thirdly, assess irans willingness to behave as a responsible member of the International Community. Their pursuit of regional domination following 1979 revolution transformed the fabric of the middle east. Dangerouslyregime weaponized religion against its neighbors. The regime triggered a sunnishieh war, threatens to unravel the greater middle ea
Mr. Hook the departments acting Legal Advisory acting Legal Advisor testified before this committee. I have nothing new to add beyond what he said. Id for to his answers. I defer to him for his answers. But we are not looking for military conflict with iran. The troop enhanced posture with saudi is purely defensive to help saudi arabia defend itself. Im not so sure iran sees it that way when we take sides like we have. How many times have you met with President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani about any topic of Foreign Policy, and what topics did you discuss . Mr. Hook when i directed the office of legal policy, i am ends with michael mu Casey Michael mukasey, and he asked for a meeting when i was in legal policy, and he brought Rudy Giuliani to the meeting with him. Meetings were regarding a counselor issue. There was no action taken regarding the meeting topic. Senator and that is the only meeting you had with him . Methook general mukasey with ami met with me twice and Rudy G
That 2016 election. Among the actions that attention drew their was steins attendance at a 2015 dinner in moscow sponsored by russian staterun Television Network rt, where she sat at a table with russian president Vladimir Putin. Also there, another american, general michael flynn. Well get response from stein , who says shes the focus of a new mccarthyism. Of receipt taylor. Then the rape of recy taylor. Amy we look at what happened in 1944 with a 24yearold black mother and sharecropper was gave rate by six white teens in alabama. She refused to be silenced. She spoke up with the help of the naacps chief rape investigator, none other than rosa parks, who rallied support for taylor, triggering a movement to seek justice 11 buss before the montgomery boycott. We will speak with the films director Nancy Buirski and with yale historian crystal feimster. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congress is on the
Does that speak to the fact that hes just a lot more interested in dividing americans than bringing them together and when he has a chance to talk about how america comes together, he still lies and suggests that its torn apart. Hes fighting for the next five minutes, not for not even the next five weeks, much less the next five years or next five decades. Basically hes going to keep doing this because he has been rewarded for t hes the president of the United States, he gets the feedback loop he wants from those of his supporters. I think he thinks of us as an audience, not as a country, and is happy to have, in the professional wrestling sense, the people who boo him he thinks are booing him partly because its their role. I dont think he takes on any kind of constructive criticism. So i think where we are is we have a president who now or has for quite a long time, hes incapable of changing because the way hes acted has been rewarded. I think that the only thing people can do at this
And host of casey d. C. Casey hunt. All right. We will talk about that later. We have a lot to talk about moving forward here. Jonathan, we are reviewing the year. The story of the year, of course is the boston red sox. World series championships. We were consistent. This team is going to fall short. Take that with a grain of salt as we predict 2019. I want to talk about, though, you are at a white house. You followed so many stories. Looking back over the year, sum it up in 15 seconds. Where do we find ourselves at the end of 2018 . How much has the election of nancy pelosi, the speaker, how much has that changed the dynamics . More than anything, its a year the wall creeped closer and closer to the president. Hes under investigation on a number of fronts, not just the special counsel. We have probes in the inaugural committee and the foundation and the trump organization. We have michael cohen, his former fixer say, in court, he committed crimes at the direction of individual one, th