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Trying to persuade the ukrainian leader to investigate his rival joe biden the allegations and name at the center of an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats john hendren reports from washington d. C. Democrats have a new word for the white house response to a whistleblower this is a cover up the accusation follows a newly released whistleblowers report that says the white house trying to lock down the transcript of a phone call in that july call President Donald Trump pressed ukraines president to find dirt on a rival president ial candidate in this case former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden reads like a classic organized crime shakedown the report says u. S. Officials told the unnamed whistleblower that they were directed by white house lawyers to transfer the transcript of a conversation to a separate Electronic System that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information even though the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive that left trumps new acting direct
online at c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. is rendon why shirt brandon weichert. thank you for being with us on c-span. guest: thank you for having me. host: how do we remain a superpower? guest: we will need to have a coordinated strategy that high-tech strategy in the bellman, specifically related to the human spaceflight program in nasa. and a large, dedicated investment into the new united states spaceports. host: you write the following quote. the situation between russia and the united states is far more akin to that of the united states and imperial japan, leading into the second world war. the strategic cultures are distinct. what s more, they are separated by geography and time. but the rationale is eerily the same. can you explain? guest: basically, we see this also with china. with russia, they have a very explicit strategic aim. that is they basically want to create buffer zones around what they think is weak and permeable borders. and w
host: how do we remain a superpower? guest: we will need to have a coordinated strategy that high-tech strategy in the bellman, specifically related to the human spaceflight program in nasa. and a large, dedicated investment into the new united states spaceports. host: you write the following quote. the situation between russia and the united states is far more akin to that of the united states and imperial japan, leading into the second world war. the strategic cultures are distinct. what s more, they are separated by geography and time. but the rationale is eerily the same. can you explain? guest: basically, we see this also with china. with russia, they have a very explicit strategic aim. that is they basically want to create buffer zones around what they think is weak and permeable borders. and we see this with their current attempts to reclaim parts of ukraine. you see this with their attempts to meddle in eastern europe and evenpoland and moldova or finland or norway as
With me, zeinab badawi. My guest is South African jazz legend and political activist Hugh Masekela. His life and music have reflected the struggles of the anti apartheid hero, and the years of black majority rule. So, why does he now describe south africa as fast turning into a rubbish dump, and becoming removed from its authentic african culture . Hugh masekela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1939 in witbank, 100 miles east ofjohannesburg. You said if i have a trumpet, i wont bother anybody. You say music is your religion . Well, i was obsessed. I was actually bewitched by music from infancy. When i was five years old, my parents had to get me away from the gramophone and help me play the piano, with piano lessons. Nine years later, i saw a movie about a trumpet player. It was a biopic, called the young man with the horn. I had to play the trumpet. In fact, it was a man of religion, father Trevor Huddlestone, who gave you your first trumpet . He wa