[cheering] the president of the International Good afternoon everybody. Thank you all for being here. President joe biden, doesnt that sound great. [cheering] so i am supporting joe biden for a number of reasons but there are four main ones. First of all, i trust joe biden. Joe biden is going to restore the soul of the country and the character of the white house. Wouldnt that be nice . [cheering] joe biden will bring integrity with ethics and decency and honesty to the white house. [cheering] joe biden will be able to build a team of outstanding policy advisors, domestic policy advisers and Foreign Policy advisers and staff them with confident people, something we do not see with the current white house. [cheering] the second reason, i like joe biden. He is genuine, caring, authentic and such a decent wonderful person. I cannot wait for him to get into the white house. [cheering] the third reason im supporting joe biden is joe biden will be donald trump. [cheering] in the fourth reaso
At the Global Crisis in retail. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, have you started Christmas Shopping . If so, are you heading to the high street or shopping online . As amazon becomes the worlds biggest retailer tell us what you think about the crisis on the high street. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The impeachment inquiry in washington is about to go public. Until now, the testimony has been heard behind closed doors. House democrats are looking at whether President Trump abused his power by witholding military aid from ukraine, while pressing for an investigation into the bidens. Mr trump calls the inquiry a hoax. The first two people in front of congress on wednesday are William Taylor the top us diplomat in ukraine, and George Kent Deputy assistant secretary for european and eurasian affairs. And on friday, former Us Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is due to testify. But,
Captioning performed by vitac two witnesses are scheduled to testify today, William Taylor is the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, officially, the acting u. S. Ambassador, and george kent is a kept assistant secretary of state for eurasia affairs. Todays hearing will look like a regular hearing. Dani each side is allotted 45 minutes and then after that, each member of the committee gets up to five minutes to ask questions or make statements, youre watching live coverage on cspan3. Youre watching cspan3, live coverage of the impeachment inquiry hearing which will begin in about 50 minutes. The hearing room you see is located in the long worth house office building. Its the ways and Means Committee room. In about 50 minutes, the hearing itself will begin. Cspan has seven cameras inside the room and several cameras are set up outside the hearing to capture lawmakers reaction and other comments. Cspan is whats called the pool. Were providing the video for the other Networks Covering the hear
And another billionaire enters the fold. What a Mike Bloomberg candidacy means for the democratic field. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Ever since the president got elected hes been on the quest to make the role of attorney general, the peoples lawyer his personal lawyer. Its tempted to ask where is my roy cohn. Roy cone he went on to be a consigliere for the new york mob. He was also a lawyer and mentor to one donald trump. And for donald trump he represented the perfect lawyer. It appears in the president s infamous phone call with ukraines president he has not one but two roy cohns. On multiple occasions trump tells the ukrainian president to expect a call from those two people. One of them is the current attorney general, the top Law Enforcement officer in the United States, thats william barr. And one of them is trumps private attorney Rudy Giuliani. I quote from the call notes here, i will have mr. Giuliani give you a call and im also go
Will proceed. And another billionaire enters the fold. What a Mike Bloomberg candidacy means for the democratic field. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Ever since the president has got elected hes been on the quest to make the role of attorney general, the peoples lawyer his personal lawyer. Its tempted to ask where is my roy cohn. He went onto be a conciliary for the new york mob and also a lawyer and mentor to one donald trump. And for donald trump he represented the perfect lawyer. It appears in the president s infamous phone call with ukraines president he has not one but two roy cohns. On multiple occasions trump tells the ukrainian president to expect a call from those two people. One of them is the current attorney general, the top Law Enforcement officer in the United States, thats william barr. And one of them is trumps private attorney general, Rudy Giuliani. I quote from the call notes here, i will have mr. Giuliani give you a call an