here. it is presidents day today, february 20th. presidential historian gonna be with us tonight. she s gonna be with us here live very very much looking forward to that conversation. but it was on this date, which won february 20th in 2014 when the group they call the heavenly hundred was killed. it was actually 118 people, call them the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. the oldest of them was 83 years old. it all happened as the culmination of protests that had started the previous november, people were protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe. a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, it was definitely something that would bring ukraine closer to europe. closer to the west. people in ukraine frothy war, really looking forward to. it this is a popular thing they very much wanted it. but the president of ukraine at the time decided he was
issue for all families. the governor and mayor pointing finishes about who is at fault, but a lot of residents want to know when will it get fixed. mikhail gorbachev is credited with bringing down the iron curtain and bringing together unity in europe. after 12 years under putin, gorbachev was in charge. he wasn t alone. welcome, it is wednesday, august 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and palm beach where donald trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to some explosive new allegations from the justice department. federal prosecutors claim government documents were likely concealed and removed from storage at mar-a-lago s resort as part of an effort to obstruct their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the gover
somehow discounted or ignored, as you have said earlier in the program. president putin is going to make a speech tomorrow which may well call for a new mobilization. he might call for the move to a war economy. he might close the borders. all kinds of things are possible. but i also think we could keep in mind, ukrainians have been working very hard to think about new and different ways to fight. they are good at reinventing weapons, changing the way they work, you know, whether it is cheap drones or more expensive american equipment. they sometimes have made it work in new ways. they used it and unusual ways. i know that there are thinking hard about what advantages they can have against, you know a, large military russian force. and i think it is important not to underestimate them, again, either. you, know it is also a war in which i think we have to take into consideration the possibility of black swan events. we don t really know what is