Numbered. The United Kingdom is once again at odds with the rest of europe this time over the corona virus pandemic the u. K. Has sent a mandatory 14 day quarantine for all International Arrivals just as other countries are easing their travel restrictions. And berlins to both listening in teams thrash out their close time football rivalry in an empty stadium have to. Highlights in the show. Welcome to the program pressure on brazils embattled president bashar both are not who has intensified after the supreme courts release of an explosive video the recording of a Cabinet Meeting shows the president on a profane rant to as he. Expresses frustration over his inability to replace Law Enforcement officials it was released as part of a probe into allegations that bolton i will try to interfere in federal Police Investigations into his sons. Was put off. From my family or my friends to get screwed because i cant change someone from the security i tried to in Rio De Janeiro and i couldnt. T
S p down just over a point and the dow down around 27 points. A lot of this watching what was happening in the market. Seeing the facts and circumstances that yield has continued to pick up as well getting to washington lawmakers voting along party lines to impeach the president we have more now good morning the House Chamber got a little roudy as leaders from both parties made their final speeches democrats did not choose this impeach. We did not wish for it i see coming out of a president who will put his head down and do his job. He will put the American People first. Ultimately, both articles did pass on mere party line votes and the discussion has merely shifted to what comes next House Speaker was not committal when asked whether the democrats will send the article over to the senate she even got a little combative after the vote well make a decision when we see what they are doing on the senate side. That is a decision well make fluently the Senate Majority leader does plan to m
Brookings. I am briefly playing the role of mc to say hello beforehand it over to our moderator. Tom is a distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Really thrilled he would join us. He spent a lot of time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units in other parts of the broader effort there that is now approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. , my copanelist, acting laura miller. She has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently, where she recently completed a 200 page study on in afghanistan Peace Agreement, written as a simulated or model agreement that parties themselves could consider because even though we are aware that america is not gonna write the ultimate peace deal, the parties could benefit from some provocation. Weve been talking about having a peace negotiation for a long time but its not clear how specific people have gotten in there overall concepts about how that would be. She is now with the International Crisis group. A remarkable or
We are going to open up regional lines for this conversation this morning. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. In mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 always3, and we are reading on social media. You can reach us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Again, the idea and concerns about government surveillance has been on peoples minds recently. Infact, there was a story nbc today that i wanted to read to you that talks about some of the concerns about government surveillance. The unsupported claims that President Donald Trump has made for two years about the fbis russia investigation, calling it a witch hunt cooked up by his political opponents, the conclusion by the Justice Department watchdog of the that the probe was justified was big news. But the other major findings of the Inspector Generals rep
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har