Respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. Ms. Lerner, in june, 2011, you requested that holly pawes obtain a copy of the tax exempt application filed by crossroads g. P. S. So that your senior technical advisor, judy kindell, could review it and summarize the issues for you. Ms. Lerner, why did you want to personally order that they pull crossroads g. P. S. , karl roves organizations application. On the advice of my counsel i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. Ms. Lerner in june of 2012, you were part of an email exchange that appeared to be about writing new regulations on political speech for 501c4 groups and in trent sis your quote, off plan in 2013. Ms. Lerner, what does off plan mean . On the advice of my counsel i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. Ms. Lerner, in february of 2014, president obama stated that there was not a smidgen of corrupt
Here is more of what is ahead. Expect other nations to respect kievs sovereignty. Russia will inspect the territorial sovereignty. I urge russia not to do anything to escalate tension. A day of action an under way around the world to draw attention to our colleagues. Attention to the imprisonment of our colleagues. Theres action taking place. Half a billion tweets of that hash tag. We begin with tensions rising in ukraine. Armed gunmen seize control of the crimea region. The scenes reminiscent of the protests sending Viktor Yanukovych into hiding last week. He has surfaced in russia, claiming he is ukraines limb mate leader. We are joined by al jazeeras correspondent Jennifer Glasse who is in ukraine. Good to have you as always on the show. Leaders in crimea have distanced themselves in the changing regime in kiev and announced plans therell be a referendum on the political future of the reason and whether it should be autonomous. What is the latest from there . The real question is wh
They feel that they were left out antonio of what has been happening in kiev. One thing that particularly angered people here is the fact that the new authorities in kiev, one of the first things they did was make ukranian the official language of the country. Most people here speak russian. And that made people feel very left out and very angry. And that is what we have been seeing here in crimea as we have been here over the last few days. Crimea is used to be a part of russia. There must be fear in ukraine about keeping it separate. Is there a danger that crimea and other parts of the Eastern Ukraine could want to somehow split off from the rest of the country . Well, i think they very much want to make sure that the ties with russia stay not the same certainly as strong as they are largely industrial soviet area industrial. And 70 of the industrial exports go to russia. So, much of its economy is dependent on russia. The ties very, very close. Obviously you have the borders very cl
Does. Expect other nations toll respect ukraines sovereignty. I urge russia not to take any action that could escalate tension. The idea that you can make a fix before babies are born and have a healthy baby is terrific. This will work for humans. What kinds of failures will we tolerate . A day of action is under waifrmthsways around the world to draw attention to the plight of our colleagues. To call attention to the continued imprisonment of journalists in egypt is action taking place in over 30 countries. Half a billion tweets and hash tags. We begin with tensions rising in ukraine. Heavily armed gunmen raised russian flags and seized control of government buildings in the crimean region. They remember reminiscent to sending Viktor Yanukovych into hiding. He claims he is still ukraines legitimate leader. We are joined by Al Jazeera Americas foreign correspondent, jennifer glass who is in ukraine. Jennifer, good to have you, as always, on the show. Leaders in cry crimimea announced t
Security council before us. They fail to recognize that this friend, the United States of america, that has done more to support israel than any other country. This friend that has blocked countless efforts to delegitimize israel, cannot be true to our own values or even the stated Democratic Values of israel. And we cannot properly defend and protect israel if we allow a viable twostate solution to be destroyed before our own eyes. Here is a fundamental reality, if the choice is one state, israel can either be jewish or democratic, cannot be both. And hours later, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to secretary kerry, watch this. I must express my deep disappointment with the speech today of john kerry. The speech that was almost as unbalanced as the antiisrael resolution passed at the u. N. Last week. Secretary kerry paid lip service to the unremitting campaign of terrorism that has been waged by the palestinians against the jewish state for nearly a century. What he