As you all know [inaudible] with your support that we are able to bring wonderful authors like tony to the literary community. So we really appreciate, you know, your support. So several events and author of Overground Railroad will be joining us on the 13th, the roots of black travel america. Theyll feature author and journalist charles jecko. Be sure toe check online. A bunch of events coming up in february. Journalists, activist from st. Louis, missouri, a member to have communist party usa and serves for the party in kansas, missouri and senate seat. [inaudible] served as a member on political and labor organizations including [inaudible] unique and neglected aspects of the communist party usa. Places within the political and historical contest. Topical aspects of the partys ongoing work especially in post 1956 period. Hope is that each individual story helps build and adds to completer and more complex usa history. So tonight, tony will be discussing, answering your questions and
3 am here in moscow thanks for joining us tonight r. T. International and welcome to the program. Well the oil stocks are taking a major hits following the failure of crude producing countries to agree to production cuts as the month for oil full of it fears about the coronavirus saudi arabia says it will increase output after a dispute with russia with more has. Quite a somber atmosphere here on wall street they are already calling it black monday we saw a 15 minutes free on futures trading when the stock market opened big dramatic plunge on the stock market the biggest drop weve seen since the 2008 financial crisis and on top of all of that weve got an Oil Price Drop 30 percent decline in the price of oil a plunge in the price of oil the biggest drop weve ever seen in oil cents in 1901 and at this point it being traced back essentially to the negotiations with opec saudi arabia has come forward and called for a decrease in Oil Production due to limited demand around the coronavirus w
Evening to you thanks for joining us this is art. Donald trumps demanding to meet with the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week over possible collusion with a foreign power the us president claims that the whistleblowers account of what was said was quote totally inaccurate in all reports of the most pointing out the Us Intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form around the time the ukraine called scandal broke the version that required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intelligence but the new form made another tick box option available meaning relayed information would be considered also. Now the timing of the change it is indeed noteworthy because the latest version of the document says it was revised the all good to stop and to be the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed and the
The house impeachment inquiry of President Trump dominated the sunday news shows this morning. Next, we will hear from congressman Hakeem Jeffries of new york about other Administration Appointees stepping forward. Onator roy blunt of missouri the Senate Investigation into the president in ukraine and mark sanford and joe walsh on whether they would vote to support the housing. House inquiry. This is a matter of Urgent National concern
Security out there we need to get started because things are still moving fast and furious. As a wrap up business for the break they are about to take. This is a unique opportunity because for this afternoon has accumulated quite a reputation and resume on the issues of the house of representatives. But Marsha Blackburn has immediately become a stalled board in the senate on all these issues. With a new legislative session given an important position on the Senate Judiciary committee to not only see all the legislative work but significant voices when the time comes that only the Circuit Court judges that may come about. So as we work through so welcome to the stage senator blackburn from tennessee. [applause] greetings to meet off campus is usually where vr when i have joined you. Each year i want to say thank you to you for your interest and your willingness to pay your own way here to attend a conference that will really sure you up to give you the information that you need to your