New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Giuliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. George kent testified last month before the house impeachment inquiry and the transcript has only just been released. The bbcs david willis has been taking a look. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smear Campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani against the Us Ambassador to the ukrain
National archives. Find the chief Service Branch which is a fancy way of saying i run the public side of the buildings. And to provide the welcoming remarks today. Im pleased you could join us in the room were participating on facebook or youtube and also those of you joining us on cspan today. Allan pinkerton, elizabeth and baker. The correspondent for newsweek and he has authored six books on military and intelligence including bestsellers into the commandos and critically acclaimed question of loyalty. James mcpherson described the book as a fast paced narrative of union intelligence operations in Eastern Theater with the fabrications that grew up. It is my honor to be here today and a pleasure to welcome back someone who spent countless hours if not months researching the holdings especially when it culminates with such a good narrative as this one. The section is a testament to the research conducted. You will find numerous. This narrative opens with chapters devoted to the agents
Steve forbes, most recent book is reviving america. This has been built tv on cspan2 indepth. Cspan cremate americas cablevision company. [applause] all night. All day. Were going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, were going to be fighting for freddie gray. First of all, let me say that its an honor and a pleasure to be back here at red emmas. I was here months ago to introduce other new books i had written, and i consider it to be quite an honor theyve invited me back again. For those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was a young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore, and he is in a long list of such young black people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. Im speaking of tamara rice in cleveland, and eric garner new york, and Michael Brown in ferguson, and sandra bland in texas, and hopefully what im going to be talking about this evening, that is to say, these events that span the period from the onset of the
Of sad to think somebody would do that in this kind of area. Reporter but who is responsible is what police are working on tonight. After miguel was interviewed on sunday, another child came forward. Investigators sent us these pictures of candy bars with sewing needles inside. Six pieces total they say theyve found and police say the kids who reported the tainted candy do not know each other but the candy they collected on halloween came from the same neighborhood of the borough that runs along south union and west south street. Terrible thing. Reporter the neighborhood is filled with children and residents say police were visible on saturday night, making the whole case even more shocking. We checked the candy. We want to be careful with what they eat. Probably we want to throw some away. Reporter when in doubt thats exactly what police say you should do. At this point they have not been able to tell us if they have tracked the origins of the candy, if they think it was tampered in s
Im michael mer. This has been a tragic week for the world and pitiful week in american politics. To my ear, no one person has set forth both a strong and yet thoughtful response. Several things stand out. Last saturday night in des moines, despite isis claim of responsible for the paris attacks, none of the democratic debaters would use the word radical islam. Hillary clinton, bernie sanders, mart. Omalley, they all took a page out of the president s book assuming that using the term would be badmouthing all muslims. Not true. Look at what just happened in mali. Gunmen stormed the radisson shouting allahu akbar and then reportedly released some hostages because they could recite the koran. Why ignore the obvious religious motivation of the terrorists where its entirely possible to distinguish their actions from peace loving muslims . On sunday, at a middle school in myrtle beach, ted cruz told reporters the u. S. Should accept only Christian Refugees from syria. Senator cruz, our const