Permission from Judge Chutkan Jack Smith released a filing with never before seen evidence he has compiled against Donald Trump in his investigation of the federal Election Interference Case. It begins with the defense of Jack Smiths entire case in light of the supreme courts immunity decision which divides official acts from private acts, giving president s immunity for official ones. It reads in part, quote, the defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 president ial election, because he claims it entailed official conduct. Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. This motion provides a comprehensive account of the defendants private criminal conduct. This quote comprehensive account of Donald Trumps criminal conduct is 165 pages long. Its here on our desk, we just got it a few minutes ago. Fortunately for us we have an entire team of
My name is karen. Thank you for joining us here at the center on National Security. We are delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is awardwinning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spymasters how the cia director shaped the future and we are going to talk about this book today but first i want to say welcome and thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here thanks for having me. So this is a wonderful read. When i started it i was like this is going to be too much information i wont be able to take it in but its fantastic. Its based on your own knowledge and research over 70 interviews and among those the directors of the cia except for the current ones and its not so much about the cia directors of their relationshitherelationship to te and the president would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book because what i try to do may be above all else is humanize these directors. I was lucky because as a
A possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 u. S. Drug giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective. Also in the news there i mean to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u. N. Backed talks have begun paving the way for a political transition. And uncertainty in peru is the president faces a 2nd impeachment trial in just 2 months coming up a live update from the capital lima. And bumpy december the legal sports news 27 seen masters champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament of the testing positive for corona virus. But were starting with breaking news this hour 1 pm in washington d. C. And literally in the last 2 minutes the u. S. President donald trump has fired his secretary of state. In his words. Has been terminated straight to kimberly how could a White House Correspondent cant believe its begun. Yes thats right mark else for is the secretary of defense or at least he was until this announcement by the u. S. President on twi
How he plans to wipe out the disease. Still, no concession from President Trump who has been flooding facebook and twitter with unfounded messages that the election was stolen. Expecteddministration not to play so nice with big tex. Expect more public engagement, public oversight, and regulation. Those stories in a moment. Paring gains. Ocks markets widely mixed at the end of the day on a bit of an ugly close despite intraday record highs. What are we seeing here . Abigail if you had a dollar for every time i said this, you would have a nice pile of money. It was another wild day. Stocks surging out of the open. The dow up nearly 6 . Russell 2000 hitting its first record high, more than 6 . At the close, we had stocks pullback to some degree. Up. Dow closing where we had losses, the nasdaq 100 down 2. 2 . The faang complex, those make a cap stocks, down 3. 2 . The reopening trade clearly doing very well with pfizer which itself was up about 8 on that vaccine. Certainly a light at the e
Later, a book about the federal government forced migration of native americans in the territories west of the mississippi in the mid 19th century. Applicants 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on cspan2. My name is karen, thank you for joining us here at the National Security. We are delighted to bring you, closer. With me today, chris, awardwinning author, documentary maker, his new book is the spy masters. Can you see it . Shaping history of the teacher were going to talk a lot about this today but first, what is welcome, chris. Thank you for joining us. Thanks so much for having me be back this is a wonderful read. I started it, i was like zero no, this is going to be too much information, i wont be able to take an but its fantastic. In addition to your own knowledge and research, it is based on over 70 interviews and you interviewed among those, the directors of the cia, except for the current one and just going to say it, it is not so much about the cia