Ukraine. Its an ancient and proud land. With a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. Ukraine is a border land. A place where east meets west. This is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. Ukraine is a prize many have sought. And much blood has spilled in the quest to possess it. Ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. In world war one. And world war 2. And every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. History doesnt repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. If one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. Being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and they are they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. In the middle of the 17th century ukrainian leader bogged down who. Broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more pow
Evening to you thanks for joining us this is art. Donald trumps demanding to meet with the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week over possible collusion with a foreign power the us president claims that the whistleblowers account of what was said was quote totally inaccurate in all reports of the most pointing out the Us Intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form around the time the ukraine called scandal broke the version that required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intelligence but the new form made another tick box option available meaning relayed information would be considered also. Now the timing of the change it is indeed noteworthy because the latest version of the document says it was revised the all good to stop and to be the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed and the
Was involved in high profile terrorism and kidnapping ioinvestigations, manage the bureau munication in response to crisis incidents. Overseas he was on multiple diplomatic operational assignments has been awarded the fbi combat awarded four times for his work embedded with military special operation. Hes presently a cnn Law Enforcement analysty on cnn. He is a term member of the council of the Foreign Relations and teaches National Security law at usc. He received his masters from Johns Hopkins universityop and much board for from our perspective in austin hes a graduate of the university of texas. [applause]. Most relevant to his book is that he was james comeys special assistant. The book crossfire hurricane gets its name, that was the codename for the fbi rush nvinvestigation and as james comeys assistant hes able to offer a fly on the wall perspective, account on the early days of the investigation as well as really insightful analysis into the investigation up to the present. He
Are slowing down, the Manufacturing Sector in this Country Contracting a little bit. To the wall street journals Jillian Melchior who follows this very closely. Our own susan li as well. Susan, one thing surprised folks with the china data, this was not something to be expected and were seeing more and more data like that, less ominous than thought. Now stronger than thought. Reflation as well in the month of august. I love to remind people that china is no longer just a manufacturing hub. Services like here in the u. S. Account for more than 50 of the economy now. So it is not cheap factory floors. If you go to shanghai, beautiful skyscrapers, really fast train this is very positive, especially for an economy that saw the weakest growth in 2years. Neil one of the reasons why the futures was up. Hang seng was up 4 . It owed itself as well to the talk that they will meet some of the protesters demands. Well get into that in a second. Couldnt you flip it around, say Better Things look fo
Cspan is also here so before we get to the meat of the program please make sure phones are turned off or in silent mode to hamper our discussion and the q a portion as we get to the end of this and wait for the microphone and then ill have you announce your name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular fascinating and terrifying book and i have to point out a video version from lord of the rings for the content of this book and what we are discussing but six years ago this month the nsa by the name of edwa snowden with his absolutely amazing revelations about government surveillance taking place with the war on terror. And with those revelations and in some respects and with electronic surveillance. And i guess todayod brings us and with that technological news with those minority reports scenario is not so farfetched but theolog was inspired by a different movie. So now o here a journalist researcher and founder and codirector. A from Johns Hopkins in 2014 and in between is