Papadopoulos r. Guilty plea yeand the indictments that came down yesterday is serious stuff as it relates to collusion. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] we are live on capitol hill this afternoon as congressional committees are holding three hearings today and tomorrow. Looking at russian influence on the 2016 president ial election. This is the first hearing that were about to show you. This is the Senate Judiciary committee here on cspan. Officials from twitter, facebook and google will be explaining how russian organizations purchased ads and they spread fake news. Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. I think senator grassley comes, hell certainly be allowed to do so
Buenos aires, to begin the new year in shanghai, apparently becoming the worlds highest paid footballer. £32 million a season in the csl, its rumoured. Trevor watkins, a sports lawyer whos worked in china, told me these deals will force the world to pay attention. We have a situation where the csl is commanding the way in which the Transfer Market is moving. They are the ones with the big money, the ones prepared to put it down on the table. They have a slightly different Transfer Window to european football, and arguably they are distorting, or actually advancing the european market. Consider oscar, 25, at his peak, and leaving chelsea tojoin a different shanghai side. So, are chinese clubs now a threat to the Premier League . Sam allardyce said today hed rejected a chance to manage in china, but thinks more players will go there. With their population and the fact that the people will go out and watch football at that level, only time will tell whether its the right thing to do or n
Tunisian. We are keeping a keen eye on stocks, leisure stocks getting hit today and markets have taken a turn to the downside. London for the down one third of 1 . The german tax down 1 . Stocks down, the s p pulling back a little bit down 11 for the dow, s p futures down to a half. Amy kellogg has the latest from nice. Reporter the scene of the terrorist attack is a sea of people, a lot of gawkers, a lot of journalists, people clearly stunned by what happened and wanting to see the truck, it still sits in the middle of the promenade, a horrible eyesore on the beautiful strip that runs along the mediterranean sea. French president Francois Hollande was quick to call this a terrorist attack even before people were talking about the identity of the attacker, before much information had come forward at all but it is a sign of the times, france is at war with radical groups. We still here 18 people are in Critical Condition so there is a lot of concern the death toll could rise, local busi
Year and a great 2013. My colleague wolf blitzer and the situation room up now. Deb, thanks very much. Happening now how we solve this thing, then theyve got another thing coming. Thats not the way a president should lead. This is, these are draconian effects. A fever pitch here in washington with only eight hours left before the country tumbles over that socalled fiscal cliff. Were live with the very latest. Also, cries of outrage from americans across the country. What the impasse means for Small Business owners, and whos to blame. And a blood clot lands Hillary Clinton in the hospital this new years eve. Our dr. Gupta tells us just how serious this condition could be. We want to welcome viewers from the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were now less than eight hours away from what could be a dire moment for the United States economy, if president obama and the congress cant agree on a deal to keep the country from plunging over that f
Correspondent jim acosta. As i mentioned, the president s critics are warning him against pardoning stone. Have you heard any response yet from the president on his friend . Reporter not just yet, brooke, and we should point out the president is speaking live right now in las vegas. He just took the stage at an event for former prisoners who are transitioning back into the work force. This has been a subject the president has been talking about. He talked about it during the state of the union speech, prison reform, and hes going to be talking about it here. It is quite the venue, i suppose, symbolically if the president were to go ahead and announce hes offering some sort of pardon or commutation of sentence to roger stone. I will tell you, brooke, if you look at the president s twitter feed, there are some tea leaves. Just as soon as judge jackson handed down her sentence, the president tweeted his displeasure with the fact that Andrew Mccabe was not prosecuted for misleading investi