California. Then we look at one of Donald Trumps most powerful advisors, Stephen Miller, a 31yearold former aide to senator Jeff Sessions. The end result of this is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned. Amy we will look at how Stephen Miller went from pestering latino students to designing trumps immigration policy. We will speak with one of his former classmates and a reporter at univision. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Washington Post reports the white house is in fullblown crisis following the resignation of former National Security advisor Michael Flynn. On tuesday, the white house admitted that President Trump new for weeks Michael Flynn had discussed center than a call on december 29 with the Russian Ambassador and then lied
Russia amidst reports that members of trumps team made repeated contact with russian intelligence officials before the november election. We will speak with democratic commerce member ted lieu of california. Then we look at one of Donald Trumps most powerful advisors, Stephen Miller, a 31yearold former aide to senator Jeff Sessions. The end result of this is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions that the powers of the president to protect our c couny are very substantial and will not be questioned. Amy we will look at how Stephen Miller went from pestering latino students to designing trumps immigration policy. We will speak with one of his former classmates and a reporter at univision. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Washington Post reports the white house is in fullblown crisis following the resignation of former National Security ad
Russia amidst reports that members of trumps team made repeated contact with russian intelligence officials before the november election. We will speak with democratic commerce member ted lieu of california. Then we look at one of Donald Trumps most powerful advisors, Stephen Miller, a 31yearold former aide to senator Jeff Sessions. The end result of this is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions that the powers of the president to protect our c couny are very substantial and will not be questioned. Amy we will look at how Stephen Miller went from pestering latino students to designing trumps immigration policy. We will speak with one of his former classmates and a reporter at univision. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Washington Post reports the white house is in fullblown crisis following the resignation of former National Security ad
For influence. So in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. We are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. What are they doing there . Well talk about big ideas. I want to talk about this. Who is that . Armstrong. Yes. You were probably hesitant to say. You know who it is. There he is. You cant miss that smile and that gaze. You know, he gaives people that gaze when he is talking. Probably americas most prominent jazz musician during this whole period. Certainly when it starts and also before that. He already toured europe commercially and he was prominent figure but just American Culture generally. And so before we get into unpacking this image the reading was from a different book than this. It is kind of extract this part that deal with africa. You got jazz and the cold war in africa. The rest of this book blows up the world. Fabulous book. I recommend it. It is goi
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that