Impeachment trial showed President Trumps leadership style. He says it has led to the mismanagement of the pandemic. Programme to todays coming to you virtually. This program is part of the Commonwealth Club virtual series addressing the impact of covid19 on our community and society at large. We would like to thank the members, donors, and supporters for making todays program possible. It is so important to support programs like this right now. Today i am very excited to be speaking with congressman adam schiff, chair of the house Intelligence Committee. National recognition and prominence for his role in the russia and ukraine investigations and President Trumps subsequent impeachment. In the last few weeks, congressman schiff and some of his colleagues have proposed a 9 11 Style Bipartisan Commission to investigate the governments response to covid and see if it ignored key warning signs. If you are watching online and have a question for congressman schiff, please put the comments
And sally you take. While we get lost in all of the pomp and circumstance of u. S. President ial elections and fears of a virus pandemic i want to solve remember that one of the most important aspects of these 2 major stories is the reporting that has brought them to our doorsteps and newsfeeds. Its journalism the 4th the state that gives us the ability to question candidates seeking Public Office and hold officials accountable for their actions in times of crisis and that for the state has been under attack for quite some time not only from its own internal greedy thirst for higher readerships and the advertising dollars but also externally by governments individuals and corporations seeking to control the narrative and this external threat was on full display recently in southeast London England at the war its crown court where the extradition hearings of wiki leaks founder and publisher Julian Assange have been under way accused of conspiring with former Us Army Intelligence analyst
Sure everyone sort of read it read about in the newspapers in the in the media we had this incident where julian stood up in the courtroom. To kind of complain about the lack of confidential time he was getting with his lawyer is you know there was reports say it didnt you know strip searched multiple times and he held in 5 different Holding Cells and his legal papers take taken away from him so we had an afternoon in the courtroom where you know the lawyers was made a petition for him to come and sit in the next you know next to the lawyers in the benches to remove him out of this glass stock that hes been sitting in the back in the back of the courtroom you know where hes not able to hear the proceedings not you not able to take part. You know we had about 2 or 3 hours of legal discussion about this where the lawyers present the evidence in precedence for other cases where defendants were able to sit with their lawyers. And. All these arguments despite the prosecution saying they hav
Making a do or die stand. Are you trying to say im dumb . Fear and loathing in las vegas. None of them accused me except they didnt like a joke i told. The candidates democrats saw as the answer to sanders flas line flat lines in wednesdays debate. I have been nice to some women. Can Michael Bloombergs money buy his way out of that performance. And President Trump dismisses as democratic propaganda and Intelligence Report from his own administration that the russians are again trying to help him win. Its disinformation. Thats the only thing they are good at. As a result he dismisses his intelligence chief. Ill talk to mark short of the white house. Joining me are hugh hewitt. Kimberly atkins, dan pfeiffer, and betsy swan of the daily beast. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Goornd morning, if there wa any question about the front runner Bernie Sanders put that to re
Good morning im phillip mena. And im cori coffin a judge has handed down the fate of roger stone, but will it stick, or will President Trump intervene . Longtime adviser and friend to the president was sentenced to just over three years behind bars for obstructing a and the oner is a movie from congressional investigation of south korea. What the hell was that all russias 2016 election meddling. The judge avoided any direct about . We got enough problems with references to the elephant in the room, if you will, south korea, with trade. Mr. Trumps frequent complaints on top of it they give them the that the prosecution of stone best movie of the year was unfair was it good . But the president has left the i dont know door open to a pardon. Thats our president. Doesnt seem very pleased with our Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams has more parasites history making win at the Academy Awards this year. Reporter 13 months after he President Trump went on to say was arrested by the