Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con
Been the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company for almost 15 years. In that time the company has bought some of the biggest media brands in the world pixar animation, marvel and lucasfilm, and most recently 21st century fox. Hes been speaking to the bbcs media editor amol rajan about his career and what hes learnt along the way. Who is the most powerful person in global media today . You could say is someone from a tech giants but theyd be run very close by the boss of the Walt Disney Company. Its ceo is bob iger. He has been in charge since 2005 and has pulled off some of the most outrageous acquisitions in immediate history. He persuaded stevejobs to sell him pixar and bought marvel and even persuaded george lucas to sell him star wars and even got 21st century fox. If there is one person who understands the past present and future of media it is bob iger the disney ceo. Welcome to bbc. There is a century of heritage and sound anywhere from the beatles to adele, led zeppelin, ro
The first part is a memoir of your career and then reflections and leadership for 45 years at disney. Ill follow the same structure if that is ok. Lets start with the childhood in brooklyn and then oceanside, new york. Whats your earliest memory . Earliest memory is of watching the Mickey Mouse Club on a small black and White Television set. Probably three or four years old, about the time my younger sister was born. I remember that quite vividly actually. Youve been very open about the family dynamic at home, which was largely driven by the fact that your father was manic depressive at a time when that was rather taboo. What impact did your Fathers Mental Health having family . What impact did it have on you . Well, it created a fair amount of uncertainty. I never felt unsafe. But there was a general uncertainty in the household, mostly tied to what mood he was in. In other words, wed wait for him to come home from work not knowing whether he was happy dad orangry dad. And i think tha
Online on cspan. Org. Or listen on the free cspan radio app. House Republican Leaders held a News Conference resizing nancy pelosi and democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry without first looking at the memo of the conversation between President Trump and uniqu the ukrainian president. Ms. Cheney good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here this morning. We have just come from our conference and really focused on the discussion about what the speaker of the house and the House Democrats did yesterday. You know, we have watched now ever since President Trump was elected the House Democrats have been careening from impeachment theory to impeachment theory. Theyve careened from target to target a while. 10 days ago they were focused on impeaching justice kavanaugh. Now President Trump. What we have seen is a complete lack of focus on, concern about evidence and facts and what Speaker Pelosi did yesterday really was the worst weve seen yet. Where she announced an impeachment i
Trump. What we have seen is a complete lack of focus on, concern about evidence and facts, and what Speaker Pelosi did yesterday really was the worst weve seen yet. Where she announced an impeachment inquiry without any evidence, without seeing the transcript of the phone call at issue, without seeing any details from the supposed whistleblower, and when you think about what that does, both from the perspective of our constitutional obligation and from the perspective of our National Security, it ought to give every american grave concerns that theyre dealing this in a way thats absolutely so such a flagrant disregard of their constitutional responsibility. When Speaker Pelosi announced there would be an impeachment inquiry of the president of the United States, at that moment our president was at the General Assembly in new york having meetings, as president s do during those sessions, bilateral meetings with other heads of state. There was no justification to launch this impeachment