segment. i m going to tell you what else we have coming because we are tracking a separate a new criminal subpoena for trial lawyer rudy giuliani. there s also some signs of the january 6th probe is breaking through with independence and the younger tiktok crowd. michael steele will be here for a segment that we hope will be as sharp as it is viral. perhaps. tiktok reference. by the end of the hour, we will be talking bob dylan, barack obama and kurt cobain with the right icon you see. the one and only dave grown on the beat tonight for our special mavericks interview. you might say the energy is contagious. here we are now. entertain us. but it s too early in the broadcast for lyrics. even for the beat. so let s just get to this top story. judgment day for steve bannon. the prosecution resting after calling the witnesses that they say will prove this and send him to prison. we will get into this with mr. gerstein as i mentioned but there is a method to the speed of the d
the presidents presentation this morning. i will make a few remarks, i let my colleague address some of the procedural arguments that counsel made and then we will be happy to respond to a couple of questions. first of all, what was most striking to me about the president presentation today is they don t contest the basic architecture. they do not contest but the president solicited foreign nation to interfere in our election. to help them teach. i think they acknowledge, by not even contesting this but the facts are overwhelming. the president invited ukraine to get involved in our election to help achieve against joe biden. that is uncontested. uncontested in our presentation and in theirs. they do argue the following. first, they argue that the july 25 transcript doesn t show the two leaders making explicit reference to a corrupt this for that quid pro quo or bribery scheme. as if you would expect the two leaders on the phone to say okay, this is how the bribery is going t
Maloney, Deputy Director of Brookings Foreign Policy Program and following the conversation theyll take questions from the audience. Live coverage is here on cspan2. Cspan2. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for braving the aftermath of cyclone bomb and polar vortex. Im the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via cspan at home. We have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. We often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u. S. Should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest and we often have debates what the u. S. Should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both and this is one of them. It pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years
Aftermath of the cyclone bomb and polar vortex and Everything Else and on behalf of brookings and everybody joining through cspan at home. We have an extremely important topic this morning and what those interest should do and also have to have those debates with the division of what the world should look like this pertains directly to the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years or decades with t2 in play with the president about to make a decision and with the public of iran and those calling for a change. I will mention one more logistical thing iran protest if you are tweeting about it. We are pleased and honored to have a canadian journalist with us as well as a human rights activist for many years 1998 through 2011 and another time that was reminiscent of this one and he wrote the New York Times bestseller that later a movie was based on that from jon stewart. The iran wire citizen newspaper very important source of information for many people to kno
On behalf of brookings and the center of middle east policy, i am the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via cspan at home. We have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. We often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u. S. Should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest, and we often have debates what the u. S. Should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both, and this is one of them. It pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years and decades even, with the jcpoa in play, and the president about to make decisions about that. And we also have the issue of democracy in the Islamic Republic of iran, and the people on the streets call