Distinguished leaders in the field of athletes rights and representation who can speak to a number of current challenges facing athletes across the movement. As we do, i want to take a moment to remind our witnesses and to all those who are here with us and listening on the live stream, that this commission is not just focused on olympic sports, but paralympic sports as well and i hope we will all be mindful of that. Id like to introduce our witnesses. First we have donald. Until last year he served as executive director of the National Hockey League Players association and he was previously the executive director of the Players Association for major league baseball. He has spent nearly half a century as an advocate for athletes and in doing so, not only help make our favorite pastimes more equitable and fair, but stronger and more commercially successful as well. We are also joined by a former prosecutor, champion athlete, pastor of the u. S. Opc, a longtime advocate for athletes Due
Death for the two state solution. Also coming up the Russian Olympic Committee is suspended with immediate effect a limb pick officials ban russia from the upcoming winter games over state sponsored doping clean athletes will only be allowed to compete as neutrals. Or. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Great to have you with us. U. S. President donald trump is expected to announce today that he will move americas embassy in israel to jerusalem recognizing the city as the capital of the jewish state it is a major change in american policy and one that the palestinians and arab states say could threaten the middle east Peace Process one palestinian diplomat has called it the kiss of death for the proposed two state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Israel long ago declared jerusalem as its eternal capital but the rest of the world never recognized the move and to date no major countries have an embassy in the ancient city Donald Trumps decision would change that and could
A very warm welcome to you watching our C International with me and he aaron. The wiki leaks chief has been granted an ecuadorian i. D. Cards in what some are seeing as an attempted step towards ending his five year confinement and the countrys London Embassy laura smith has more details after a while of nothing no movement from inside the Ecuadorian Embassy theres been a series of developments in the last twenty four hours joining us on the post is a photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesnt do things unless they mean something and then we saw reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a National Identity number so hes been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador so the strong suggestion is that from this National Identity number he will then possibly get a passport we went on to the. To see how people fe
Congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events in washington, d. C. And around the country. Cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Jim walden is an attorney for the russian doctor who led and later publicly disclosed a staterun sports doping program. He talked about his clients experience. It was part of an event hosted by the u. S. Helsinki commission. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Ranging from military affairs my name is paul. Im the International Economic policy adviser at the commission, responsible primarily for anticorruption and sanctionsrelated issues. I am joined today by jim walden, he attorney for russian doping whistle blower for this work into the dark underworld of fraud in sports and what we can do about it. As an administrative aside, would like to mention that camera crews are permitted to record the briefing in its ntirety. Our topic today is a russian doping scandal, a story of corruption and fraud on an unprecedented sc
Won, i want the gold i watched a couple hours of it unbelievable, right . Im still trying to understand you try to get it in the center thing or not you want to new york the other guy out. Whats the hammer if you have the hammer. I dont know the terminology come on i know we won by knocking them out those guys are intense. This guy has been there for several olympics when the guys get what is he called . Who does the pushing . Yeah. They score. Hes like 9 or something. When the guy on the other side is holding the brush i think theyre getting rid of the friction in between to make sure it goes the right direction. I know, but the guy at the other end, he is not moving, theyre aiming it . Theres a lot more skill involved than we have given them credit for yeah. And what if theyre running down and a foot hits is that a technical they have to be careful it is slippery theres a deal breaking not a curling deal. General mills buying blue buffalo for 8 billion in cash or 40 a share. Blue buf