Vote could come as soon as this week President Trump has called the impeachment proceedings against him quote a witch hunt a watchdog report on the Russia probe is finding no evidence of political bias despite performance failures Overall the report found the f.b.i. And the Justice Department acted without political bias in the broad frame of the Russian vest a geisha But investigators discovered some 17 significant errors and omissions in the application for surveillance on Carter page an advisor to Trump s 2016 campaign speaking to N.P.R. s All Things Considered today former f.b.i. Director James Comey says he thinks the current director is acting appropriately as the leader you have to take responsibility when their mistakes in your organization a matter how far down they are it s your responsibility and if I was still director of you doing what Chris raised doing which is figuring out how we make sure they don t happen again f.b.i. Director Christopher Ray says the problems found
Germany Russia and Ukraine sit down to negotiate how to end the violence more more than 14000 people have been killed in the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine is Donbass region a conflict that rarely commands headlines anymore but remains a hot war French president a Manuma clone has taken the initiative to restart a dormant peace process called the Normandy format which brings the Russian and Ukrainian sides together along with Germany all eyes are on Ukrainian president billowed emirs Alinsky a novice politician will be negotiating with his experienced Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Reporting Asian markets are trading higher at this hour the Nikkei up nearly half percent this is n.p.r. To American business leaders were denied entry to the Chinese territory of how this weekend N.P.R. s Emily Fang reports the rejection from the island comes amid growing tensions between the u.s. And China over Beijing s handling of the anti-government protests in Hong Kong Tara Joseph and Robert Gra
We were foreign service officer for more than 27 years under 5 different presidents Democrats and Republicans alike and he wrote or updated notes to File on 4 different occasions to record his grave contemporaneous concerns about the president s conduct Mr Golden What were the events that led Mr Kent to drop drop these notes to his file there were several there was a conversation at the end of June where several American officials had indicated to President Selenski that he needed to go forward with these investigations there was one on August 16th I recall that he talked about it but you bring up a very important point which is all of these State Department witnesses in particular and frankly almost all of the witnesses other than Ambassador song and took unbelievable meticulous notes I would have dreamed for a witness like that as a prosecutor and it makes for a very clear and compelling record and clear and compelling evidence that s based on contemporaneous notes so do we have Mr
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B.b. King and sweet 16 stay where you are we ve got more blues and now here s the news live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jenny Herbst in Florida a vigil was held today for the shooting victims at Naval Air Station Pensacola yesterday after a Saudi military pilot opened fire killing 3 people he was shot and killed by sheriff s deputies and he was on the base for training the f.b.i. Says it continues to search for a motive for the attack but defense secretary Mark esper says he s not ready to call it terrorism yet meanwhile esper has ordered a review of procedures for vetting foreign nationals on military installations and feel for N.P.R. s Franco or Daniels has more from the Reagan National Defense forum the Pentagon chief said it s too early to call the shooting at a naval base in Pensacola Florida an act of terrorism by a Saudi national at the base training but he said he s asked for review of safety precautions at u.s. Bases I also directed that we look at our voting procedure