Eastern. Washington journal continues. Host and now, a roundtable discussion on the Robert Mueller hearings taking center stage on capitol hill tomorrow. Joining us for this discussion this morning is Morgan Chalfant on national our National Security for the held news paper, Andrew Desiderio from politico. This gets underway at 8 30 a. M. Tomorrow and the House Judiciary Committee explain what they will be covering. Guest they will focus on volume two of the report, exclusively on the idea the president was seeking to obstruct the mother investigation. A lot of democrats, even the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, said the evidence is clear the president at least sought to obstruct the investigation. The decision was made not to charge the president with a crime in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about that states you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold a sitting president accountable would be outside of the crimi
The rhetoric is much more aggressive much more pursuit for us the agenda is much more pernicious and its become a centerpiece of u. S. Partisan politics the whole russia gate issue troubles announced he had signed an executive order to keep the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center open that is despite get mo becoming notorious for various human rights abuses including torture from the predecessor barack obama vowed to close the facility back in two thousand and nine but was blocked by congress and was never able to deliver on that promise. In the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists only to meet again on the battlefield including the isis leader. Who we captured who we had who we released. So today im keeping another promise i just shy. Prior to walking in an order directing secretary to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay thank you when trump came into power he said not only that he bel
Killed did not belong to i saw all the taliban they were in their houses during the bombardment a man a woman and their son were killed in that incident. There were eleven of us in the vehicle only i survived the other ten people including my parents and cousin were all killed why didnt they see the children and women while they were carrying out the bombing why did they say theyre able to protect everything on the ground from the air and then when they observe people on the ground why do they target us over the last year the United States dropped more than four thousand bombs in afghanistan its reported that twice as many airstrikes were carried out in the space of just a few months compared with the last two years combined Robert Naiman the director of the group just Foreign Policy says washington apparently has no strategy to end the longest war in u. S. History. There is no way to do this kind of bombing without producing civilian casualties the main problem is the escalation the f
A well if life were got to weigh with a lot of things if Proven Guilty the officers that may face twenty to one hundred years in prison and six of them have already pleaded guilty and are now acting as witnesses in hopes of softening the moving verdict and their lawyers claim the officer spilled guilt over what theyve done mr jenkins is extremely remorseful hes been remorseful for a long time even before these charges were brought and hes relieved that today finally he was publicly able to accept responsibility for their client sorry for what they did or should. Be so regretful of what what happened. I really dont have any comment meanwhile officers cases continue to be dismissed with hundreds under review and most of them involve incidents of officer switching off their body cameras to plant drugs or guns and then reenact seizing the evidence they had already planted. We talked to christopher urban who founded a group that helps former convicts back into society hes concerned about in
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