is a close ally of ours about the putin government is rooting for america success. they re probably not. but when a country goes from being an afterthought, as russia was just recently, to the target of war drums, as it is now, it all changes in a single election cycle, as it has, it s fair to ask, what exactly is going on? almost certainly more than meets the eye, probably a lot more. if you live in washington, you know for a fact that there is a lot happening behind the scenes. the press out to be asking questions about this. but they haven t. instead, they ve attacked anyone who does. not on this show. with those questions hanging in the air, we are joined by one of the very few people in the country who might credibly answer them. he is stephen cohen prayed for decades, he taught and researched russian politics at e joins us tonight. professor cohen, thanks a lot for coming on. to start with the first of these two stories, the president is accused of passing critical intelligence t
first degree. that was one of the prosecutors just a short time ago there in pennsylvania announcing the charges against bill cosby. again, he is set to be arraigned this afternoon. the 78-year-old actor, legendary comedian, philanthropist will stand before a judge and he is expected to enter a not guilty plea. i m joined live on the phone now by senior writer for people magazine. [ no audio ] hello? [ no audio ] you ve been covering this story since the allegations first surfaced. i m also joined now by melanie romly, chief news kpnt correspo at e who has been covering this story. let me start with you in the newsroom. just general reaction so far. what are you hearing? what are you seeing? it s interesting how this has come to light.
grandparents. now, you got to think that through. we got him on that one. son of immigrant grandparents. that sounds like it s straight out of your article. so give us some of your best examples of this. there are a ton of them. first of all, one of the feat e featured characters is george demos who s running for congress in the hamptons. he talks all about his grandfather, a greek immigrant who went to work washing dishes in the diner in new britain, connecticut. did of course end up owning the diner. george, of course, went to trinity high school in manhattan, went to columbia, went to warton law school. he barely knew his grandfather at all. and that s the first line of his website. we hear all about his grandfather. i mean, there are a ton of examples. again, look, everyone wants to put themselves in the continuum of the great american story and to do that you connect with the
you know, in governor jindal s louisiana they have a ranking, ab, c, d, e, and f. only the children from those at e and f, the children of those schools are able to get the program. and it discriminates against the other children no question, violating that. and gregg, back to the other subject, 85% of private schools now are now religious in nature. so, this is a very different argument that took place in the 60 s, 70s and 80s, a strong establishment clause right now and also create discrimination and it segregates kids into different religious sects because the schools are different religions. gregg: rachel, what do you think of that. the equal protection has more teeth. the establishment clause, the supreme court made clear how they feel about that, but the equal protection argument is
and a slide against the banister. then they talk about the fact that the scooter wouldn t have landed where rebecca said it landed. rebecca the girlfriend of your ex-husband and the injury is totally inconsistent with an accident and wouldn t have accounted for the abraugss in the inner eye and et cetera. without getting too in the weeds here you believe it was an intentional act of homicide? i believe the independent experts have presented me with an assault scenario which led to the death and categorized it as a homicide. the injuries on maxie s back and eyes above his forehead is a contusion or the prfracture at e top of the head and the back i believe those findings or those