Weve waited for this for a long time in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient this may have a serious impact on the future fight against. That if that we were helping for justice and this is prevailed its not just a victory for the russian athletes its a victory for all clean athletes of the cats decision does not mean that these twenty athletes declared innocent. Also coming up on the day ill ask a german lawmaker a member of the green party how she is coping with the new populism that is now part of the parliament. Its like theyre building up the walls are not brick walls but these are wall soft minds and about behavior. We begin the day with a classified memo that could be a political ticking time bomb the f. B. I. Has condemned plans by the white house and House Republicans to release the memo on friday and republicans claim that it reveals how the f. B. I. Abused its powers when it investigated the trump president ial Campaign Democrats say the memo is a fabrication by the g. O. P. To undermine robert motors investigation into russian ties to truong and possible interference in the election that may drop the president. Was released. On. A Quick Exchange overheard after donald trump state of the union speech on tuesday night the u. S. President reassures a republican lawmaker that he has every intention of putting out the memo thats polarizing washington. I just read the memo was commissioned by devin newness chairman of the Republican HouseIntelligence Committee and it describes alleges surveillance abuses by f. B. I. And Justice Department officials looking into possible ties between the Truck Campaign and russia investigators are accused of failing to disclose that their probe was partly based on research financed by Hillary Clintons campaign republicans claim this shows ante trumped by its at the f. B. I. Theyre calling for the memo to be released. There may have been milf easons at the f. B. I. By certain individuals so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the lead of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that sunshine is the best disinfectant and so what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur but the f. B. I. Has warned against releasing the doxy in a rare public rebuke we have grave concerns about material admissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy for their part democrats claim the memo cherry picks and ill be classified information in an effort to discredit the russian investigators been led by robert mueller. This is not about the facts this is about and there it is true that the chairman wants to put out misleading narrative to undermine the f. B. I. Undermine the department and ultimately undermine bob gentleman tensions between the Trump White House and investigators have been mounting days ago the f. B. I. Deputy director Andrew Mccabe quit and now an open confrontation looms between the head of americas top Domestic Intelligence agency and the administration. But we want to go to washington now and pull in Chris Faulkner he is a republican political strategist chris its good to see you again you know weve got the white house saying that the president wants to release the memo to morrow can you maybe explain to our audience why that he wants to make that memo public is the purpose to undermine the Robert Moeller investigation. No of course that the purpose here is to make sure that the public has complete faith in total trust in the f. B. I. Since late eleven almost no federal agency has been more instrumental in keeping americans safe than the f. B. I. That everyone believes its very much likely true that ninety nine percent of the folks the f. B. I. Are doing their darndest to keep everyone safe and to protect our country from any threats for the best the concern is here there may have been a few bad actors a few folks who with a partisan angle with a very unfortunate politics bent to their views were involved in this investigation in unfortunate making the rest of the f. B. I. Look bad when you and i cant we cant be sure of what is in the document because we havent seen the document sure your agree with me on that and we also have a lot of members of congress on capitol hill who have come out and said that they want the memo released and they havent seen the memo either what do you make of the claims that mr newness himself the man who authored this memo that he altered it and that the copy that the president has is different from the copy that the other members of the House Intelligence Committee have. Well im sure chairman doing is is not an idiot he knows full well if there was any alteration that its quickly quickly going to become public because of there might be if if people are saying this there might be two actual copies of this report its unlikely thats the case i did not familiar with the original documents i dont know if its been altered or not well see in this again this transparency this move to release the memo will clear up any any confusion or concerns that people have about this issue. Ive been trying to explain to a lot of our viewers whove written in asking about what the president was overheard saying after the state of the Union Address earlier this week saying that telling members of congress yes im going to release the memo now he said that on tuesday evening and he had not seen the memo at that point so doesnt it make then the the motivation the motive of the president doesnt bring it into question if he hasnt even seen the contents that hes willing to say yes i will make it public. Im not aware of exactly what the president said to members as he was leaving the chamber after the state of the union but what is clear whether is this president or any president for that matter if there is insinuation of wrongdoing especially something as insidious is collision with a Foreign Government and we have evidence that clearly refutes that that shows that there was no interference in our democratic elections then of course hes going to want to get out there you want to restore the american peoples faith in the integrity of our elections and this is a clear way to do that all right republican strategist chris falter based in l. A. But he is paying us a visit in our studio in washington tonight chris thank you very much we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us. Here in germany lawmakers have reached an agreement on the contentious issue of reuniting Refugee Families the new plan allows close family members to join Asylum Seekers here beginning in august but their numbers will be limited to a maximum of one thousand per month now the deal is part of a larger plan to end months of deadlock between the german chancellor merkels conservatives and the social democrat says they seek to form a new coalition government. Asylum seekers made their voices heard outside the German Parliament it could be a very long time before many of them see their family again in march twenty sixth in the German Government halted family reunions for hundreds of thousands of refugees with socalled subsidiary protection a status less than full asylum. Family reunions for this group were set to begin next month thursdays vote delayed that until august but is then set to restart on a limited basis Germanys Green Party was sharply critical it said the safety and well being of families was paramount. At issue here is whether families will be reunited whether children will be able to get on planes and come safely to germany thats the core question this coalition needs to address thats the question for this country and. Under the new law beginning august first up to one thousand family members per month will be allowed to join their relatives in germany the far right a. F. D. Party firmly opposes any admission of refugee family members into the country. Is in the office on that we believe that family reunification should not take place in our country but in protected zones in syria where most parts are peaceful. The two parties behind the deal hailed their agreement as a success. Our compromise stands for humanity and responsibility for integration and limits for generosity and realism and in this spirit i ask for your approval. When you finish i think we should all be proud of the fact that germany has become a place people long to be a cosmopolitan country where Human Dignity is our most important basic right. After the debate the policy was voted through by a large majority lawmakers have until this summer to fine tune the details. Joining me here now with the studio is a member of the German Parliament to the goods a member of the green party its good to have you here on this show you voted against the legislation today. For these family reunions watch the evening run well the thing as were talking about people who are not entitled to as a love they are in germany because we cannot send them back especially to syria star or any other country because they are crisis their existence is not secure we dont want to send them back because they could die they could there is a big trade off their lives so just thing in germany and now were talking about their families most of the children most of the women are still in those countries for example in syria are un refugee camps and the fathers are the mothers are especially the minority children once a parents to come to germany to bring the Families Together and since today its not allowed anymore and germany and thats against all the last we have its against the general law of germany its against the u. N. Charter to turn conventional what with a proper wall looked like to you what do you want to see the parliament here do well were talking about fifty thousand people outside who wants to come in and they want just dont want coming to germany to come into europe who will europe should allow them we need car doors of the people to come in a secure way to germany the longing for their parents and their families. Want to broaden things out a little bit and talk about what its like to be in the Current Parliament and what its like to work with the far right d. D. Alternative for germany youre a member of the greens and youre also you sit on the Budget Committee in the Budget Committee has of the chairman the chairman is from the a. S. D. And if you could explain to me how is how is it possible how do you how do you work in government together with a member of the far right party when you yourself are from the greens but its a hard time for me as you know i am on my car and by myself im born in turkey but i grew up in the very end germany and days they were talking a lot off about german law and german existence and germany us especially and they want to show by each speaking by each talking in the parliament they want to show us that germany is a closed shop and we dont belong to death and you know im going to have you experienced that personally oh yes i do every day what do they say or do to get out of. The normal life you know were talking about nor titian for example and theyre talking about your attention and theres nothing like that you know you have a reason and coffee are german t. V. Are jarman benign us and its like theyre building up the walls are not brick walls but these are walsall mines and about behavior and so we even when youve got these barriers what do you do though because i mean they are democratically elected theyre in the parliament with the you have to govern some way how how do you find a path to govern well they have to mix up as a part of the parliament but i dont have to accept them as personally and i dont have to accept their politic and our way of thinking and about their minds and about their real speaking so we try to cope with this and showed up people that the the things. We won against the human rights against our for thinking off democratic re and about this kind of germany were living in this guy germany is multicultural a lot of migrants there are people from the from vault and this has to be like that because you have to thing that germany also lives from there migrants who are working here who are paying in the Security Systems does this germany and this is my germany and not better do do you see the possibility that the far right is extending its power and its influence in germany because i know when a party makes it over the five percent hurdle in parliament you know the they have rights to all kinds of things they have connections to foundations for example across the country and it allows them to spread you know their Party Philosophy do you see that happening well those of us what is happening this is a populist party its the right line the party they have to cope with they have to be of they are off this but you cannot for bed to them because of fifteen to twenty percent of the people are voting for this party we have to work against this against this mind makers but we cannot work against the democratic way off behavior did is what it does what it does there are a part of the German Parliament now it depends on how we the democrats are going to getting along with us and doing against this we are doing very important work and we appreciate you taking the time thank you the evening here to come and talk with this. Is a member of the greens and a member of the German Parliament thank you thank you. I. Well now to a story about doping in the russians and the olympics today the court of arbitration for sport overturned it wife time doping bans for twenty eight russian athletes those bands were imposed by the International Olympic committee for sin. Systematic manipulation of the antidoping system now the i. O. C. Condemned todays reversal is still uncertain if todays ruling will or while the russians to compete in the young chung winter games they start next week. The russian doping scandal has dominated the sporting headlines for almost two years after an investigation into state sponsored doping the International Olympic committee banned a host of russian athletes from the olympics. Forty two athletes took their case to the court of arbitration for sport thirty nine had their appeals up held on thursday. The gas arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the you see in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case cas overturned the bands of twenty eight athletes due to insufficient evidence that doping violations were committed. This does not mean that these twenty. Innocents but in their case due to insufficient evidence held the sanctions and their individual results achieved in such reinstated. Those athletes could now take part in the winter games which start next week botts they will have to be cleared to do so by the i. O. C. First the remaining eleven athletes however you know it will for the Olympic Games in south korea the sports court found they did commit to it people are lation spots their lifetime bans have been revoked. All right nic mechanic line from our sports desk drawers were here the big table good to see you surprised foreigners surprised today i think first it was a big surprise but in hindsight it really shouldnt be because theres so many bans in sport which are retrospectively retracted overdue weve had Maria Sharapova had a twenty four month ban reduced to fifteen months old Justin Gatlin the american sprinter who had an eight year ban reduced to four years and he went on to win a gold medal at the World Championships last year or even a football pollock where obese and they had a twelve month ban for cocaine use reduced to six months and he is surprising not going to be the captain aside of the world cup this coming summer so these but this does happen quite often the reason why it happened is because the court of arbitration for sport said there wasnt there was insufficient evidence to just say that the athletes have broken anti doping rules and this also means in time that these athletes from twenty forty and impacts will have their results in states and have their medals reinstated which is quite a big thing all in all this is essentially like courts of law it doesnt matter how guilty these athletes mill may be seen if the facts that support the accusations you cannot convict theyre not convicted theyre also not exonerated. I mean its unusual place to be and it begs the question where will they be next week this time are they going to be able to go to the Winter Olympics in theory if this happened then probably but his battle against the clock theyve missed all the deadlines to apply to the Olympic Games it is highly unlikely theyll be able to go three hundred sixty four russian athletes have been invited by there you see who have pos they have digital eligibility criteria. Well be competing in a neutral flag of course as of next week i find it highly unlikely that the twenty eight from today will be going however they can in theory go to the court of arbitration for sport they could sue their way into the Olympic Games. Exactly but its a week and a half that have to go as far as foxy type but we have been surprised in this saga before and i would be a fool to say that we might not be surprised to get the investigative journalist vote which you know he is a known commodity when youre talking about the antidoping world he called todays decision by the court a declaration of bank robber c. Take a listen what he had