Reporters now talking about the gunman who opened fire from the mandalay bay hotel. Did he seem suspicious . And super bowl countdown. Our birdseye view of how prot public and walking the field with homeland security. Plus, all the fun from the celeit oneal playing d. J. Hey, good morning, everybody. Lets get right to our top story. Its dominating the headlines this morning. The storm over a controversial memo from republicans in congress which accuses officials in the fbi and in the department of justice of abusing their power. That is in the russia investigation. Now, this is a layered story. We are going to unpack it for you through the morning. Overnight the president who agreed to declassify that memo, he arrived in florida at maralago. He is facing uproar from democrats who say the memo omits facts and may ultimately be used as motivation for trump to fire the Justice Department official thats overseeing the russia investigation. Our political analysts and Law Enforcement analyst
We will take you live to the Brookings Institution to hear who willgal advisor talk about Critical Issues of International Law leading International Law relating to cyber security. Live coverage getting underway here on cspan. Good morning. Moreis going to be edifying and a more settled event here at brookings in comparison to the one we had yesterday. I see a couple of heads nodding around here. We were honored by having the president of turkey here and not so honored by having some very vigorous protests outside massachusetts avenue. Today we are going to step back more angry and fear driven issues of the day and look at the world from the standpoint of International Law. Let me say a couple of words about the origin of the Stephen Breyer lecture. Is associate justice himself a friend of this institution. He is a friend of many of us who work here. He is certainly a friend and admirer of our lecture today. Various connections with brookings, including writing his first book under the
How the euro bank could be prescribing a strong dose of economic medicine. At least 13 people have been killed when a bus was hit by shelling in the eastern ukrainian city of donetsk. The attack happened in a part of the city under control of prorussian separatists. This is the approximate area that is right now under the control of the separatists in ukraine. We have a report. A city bus shelled the passengers killed instantly. The force of the explosion was so great it blew out windows of a nearby building. We live in fear every day. Every day we wait for something nasty from over there. Its unclear whos behind this attack in the divided city of donetsk, but it happened in an area controlled by prorussian separatists. In recent days, theyve engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian Forces for the citied airport. The violence underscores how fragile talk of truce is. Just hours earlier the russians and ukrainians agreed on a procedure for pulling back arms. Today there has finally been
That its more than just making access available. If access is denied it doesnt make any difference whether or not you have sold those leases. Its all about being able to access them. Let me move to a second question here. And this relates to my on going frustration on behalf of king cove. You made that decision to abandon the opportunity for a roughly 300 to 1 exchange to facilitate a 10mile onelane gravel road. You made that decision december 23rd of 2013. Do you know when king cove saw its most recent medivac . Im not aware of their most recent it was sunday. Sunday night. Do you know how many medivacs have been carried out so far . Is theres been five. Do you know how many were carried out last year . There were 16. 16 were coast guard, ten were noncoast guard. Do you know how many have been carried out . 21 medivacs. 7 coast guard, 14 noncoast guard. Now, as you and i know, its not the coast guards mission to provide merks edivacs services. But they do so because they are the only
Apply and a lot of people are getting hit with these huge bills that they do not know about. A lot of the consumer advocates that we talked to said that lawmakers really need to step up on this and take some sort of action to close the loophole in the overall law for Debt Collection so that it does include government Debt Collection as well as consumers consumer Debt Collection so that everyone is on the same Playing Field and that consumers do not end up in these situations. Host the story can be found on cnnmoneys pace. The headline is the secret world of government Debt Collection. I want to thank both blake ellis and melanie heck of a for joining us as one. Guest think you very much. Host were taking it to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. There is a hearing their. There is a hearing there. Well see you right back here at 7 a. M. Eastern, for pacific on washington journal. Call the hearing to order this morning. We are here this morning with secretary jewell and mr