Mr. Rosenstein good morning. The indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three Russian Companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere with the United States political system, including the 2016 president ial election. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system. According to the allegations of the indictment, 12 of the individual defendants worked at various times for a Company Called Internet Research Company Research agency llc, a Russian Company based in st. Petersburg. The other defendant funded the conspiracy through companies known as concorde management and consulting llc, concorde catering, and many other affiliates and subsidiaries. The conspiracy was part of a larger operation called project latka. Project latka included multiple components, some including domestic audiences and others targeting foreign audien
To book passage. Thank you for not only supporting an afternoon event which is not very common. But for supporting local, your local independent bookstore. Im paula ill be your host. As always, youre welcome to take photos of todays vent and share with friends and family about how wonderful book passage is. But please remember to silence your phones. If you havent bought the book todays featured book, feel free to do so either now or right afterwards because both of the authors will be happy to sign your books. And with that we can get started in 1971 timmy leery exharvard professor dubbed high priest of lsd run for governor against Ronald Reagan. Escaped from prison and a set off a dynamic chain of events involving groups such as the Weather Underground and black panther an president nixon there was almost too wild to belief. But true they were in its all chronicled in todays featured book the most dangerous man in america. Authors bill minatalglio combined research of events, with ju
released a statement earlier this week which says, unlike most olympic teams around the world the u.s. olympic team is privately funded and we re grateful for the support of our sponsors. we re proud of our partnership with ralph lauren, an iconic american committee and excited to watch america s finest athletes compete at the upcoming games in london. and ralph lauren, we reached out for comment. they told me they are not giving any statement about this, soledad. i was e-mailing with someone inside the company at ralph lauren, when i first told the person i was doing the story, the person said, is the story also focusing on the other olympic sponsors who do not manufacturer in the usa? when i said this is a story about ralph lauren and its uniforms being made in china, this person added so an athletes winning a medal not wearing products from the usa is okay? ralph lauren does not make the products for the athletes while competing or on the paodium. and that s going to be
white and blue ensemble made entirely in china. lawmakers are outraged for outsourcing the clothing. alina cho joins us with more on that. there s rare bipartisan backlash on capitol hill about this. good morning, everything in the uniform from the beret to the blazer and shoes made in china. they are made by american designer ralph lauren as soledad said and they are just for the opening and closing ceremonies, recently i got an opportunity to look at the olympic gear with david lauren, ralph lauren s son and executive vice president of the company. he said they are focused on making olympians look good. you re meeting athletes and walking in the first olympics, many have never worn a tie or jacket or been on television before. we want the american team and athletes to really look like ambassadors. but the chinese manufacturing has lawmakers furious, kirsten gillibrand and steve israel sent a letter to the chairman of the u.s. olympic committee asking that the committe
theblaze.com. nice to have you all. another trayvon martin march this morning, this time of course the defense team for the martin family is hoping to bring some pressure on investigators, not only to arrest george zimmerman as they ve continually maintained, they also want to look into the attorney who apparently sort of dismissed the lead investigator s efforts to have george zimmerman charged. that s right. it was on the original police reports as manslaughter and supposedly they re alleging it was interfered with and want the department of justice to open a second investigation. they re opening an investigation into the case of trayvon martin s death and they want to open a second one to see if the florida officials interfered. it will be interesting to see hate crimes of course are notoriously difficult to prove anyway, but you ve heard from lawyers on all sides saying that early on that they thought in this particular case it s going to be more difficult to prove.