Soderberg of the implications of the ukraine phone call. And at 9 00 a. M. , fix the Court Executive director gain roth discusses roth discusses Public Opinion of the u. S. Supreme court. Is tuesday, november 5, 2019, election day in five states and one year until the 2020 president ial election. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. We will spend the first hour talking about your candidate, the top issues, and the trends you are seeing. Here is how to be a part of it, if you are a8000 democrat. Republicans use 2027488001. For democrats for independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That number is 2027488003. Use your name or where you are texting from. At twitter cspanwj and feel free to post comments on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. We will start off with usa today and their front page take on the election day today. Battlegrounds could help define 2020. Stake writingjor the off year elections are state and local affairs, but they will tell us something a
Hearing of tchment inquiry. Wednesday. This mornings witness former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. She has already arrived at the hill this morning. More than 30 years she spent a veteran of the u. S. Foreign Service Serving under both republican and democratic president s. She became a target of President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Guiliani and was ousted by the president earlier this year. Helping us follow it all this morning we have chuck todd our meet the press moderator in washington. Andrea mitchell is here. Richard engel and former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weisman now an nbc news legal analyst. Lets start on the hill. Nbcs jeff bennett at his post with what to expect this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Marie yovanovitch has been a Foreign Service officer for some 33 years serving in six president ial administrations, three times as an ambassador in hot spots all around the world, two times appointed by a republican president in
[background sounds] the meeting will come to order. Thank you all for attending today. Today were going to hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. Our nominee today is the honorable john j sullivan, to be the u. S. Investor to the Russian Federation. First we have two distinguished very distinguished, i might add colleagues of ours, was to introduce our nominees and were going to allow them to proceed with introductions. If im going to post on my opening statement. Lets hold that until the nominees had been introduced. Were glad to be joined today by senator Stan Sullivan of alaska and garden of maryland, and i understand that senator sullivan is like the straw to go first. Thank you mr. Chairman thank you very much. It is an honor to be before the committee, again, on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States investor to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name which is just, we would we are not related. Off of occa
Accuses iran of Nuclear Extortion has to hand takes more steps to reduce its commitments to 2050 nuclear deal. And mexicos president is under pressure to step up the war on drug cartels after gunmen killed mine americans in an ambush. How to Apollo Donald trump has altered his testimony in the impeachment inquiry gordon so on balance now with mits the us president offered a quid pro quo with ukraine to investigate a political rival in newly released transcripts the u. S. Envoy to the European Union acknowledges that American Military aid to ukraine was contingents on investigating joe biden well jumpers accused of pressing ukrainian president zelinsky in july to launch a probe into biden answers son hunter over corruption allegations transcripts of kurt volker the former special envoy to ukraine have also been made public investigators have. Summons trumps acting chief of stack Mick Mulvaney but he is unlikely to attend since the white house has told us officials not to comply why did
We start with japanese conglomerate softbank which is well known around the world as a savvy investment giant. But its reputation for making winning bets on start ups has taken a knock with the near collapse of the the shared working company wework. Softbank was forced to provide an embarassing bailout and is expected to announce stricter measures on founders when it reveals its latest Financial Results shortly. Vivienne nunis reports from new york on softbanks latest challenge. From hot property to a humiliating bailout. Office sharing firm wework faced a cash crunch until softbank came to the rescue. Now they will be looking at how much damage wework has caused to the bottom line and what it plans to do next. There are things that they might want to try to shrink the company a bit, grow a little more slowly, and focus more on the profitability. You have gone from a 47 billion valuation to Something Else of 8 million valuation. Things have happened very quickly, i think that softbank