Donald trumps trial in the senate, but some important things have been happening in russia as well, particularly the announcement wednesday by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins own plans to relinquish the presidency, or not, in a few years here so we are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa, who is the moscow correspondent for the new yorker. Hes been covering russia from much of the past decade. His new book between two fires offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact that the putin era has had on above all the nations psyche and the moral struggles and calculation that Many Russians confront. Josh has written a very nuanced portrait of russia, nothing le the simplistic view of that country, and oppressed people lorded over by a kgb trained dictator. Josh describes the people who fall somewhere in the middle between an oppressor and op
President donald trump made a rare appearance in the White House Briefing room to downplay the threat of coronavirus the risk to the American People remains very low trump the klein told point to socalled corona virus czar as some lawmakers in the u. S. Have urged instead naming Vice President mike pence as the point person to lead the u. S. Response to the growing outbreak were doing really well and mike is going to be in georgia and mike will report back to me Top Public Health officials are warning americans to prepare for more corona virus infections in the United States the degree of risk has the potential to change quickly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States the trajectory of what were looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain but even with those warnings trump continued to contradict the message of Career Health professionals with his all i dont think its inevitable probably will it possibly will it could be at a very small level or could
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Kill 3 networks in the a. P. We have now won the battle looked at by rob ronalds has more from las vegas. The supporters and volunteers for senator Bernie Sanders are partying here in the streets of las vegas they are very enthusiastic celebrating what was indeed a very formidable victory by sanders who racked up twice as many votes as 2nd place finisher joe biden he did so by well the together a coalition of young people lachie knows and liberals who responded to his platform of universal Health Care Immigration reform and forgive this of all student debts now the army of sanders volunteers many of whom you see enjoying the night behind me knocked on doors thousands of them spent weeks or months working on the campaign pounding the pavement and now they are enjoying their the fruits of their victory the attention will now shift to the South Carolina primary which takes place in a week and but more importantly to the super tuesday on march the 3rd thats when big diverse delegate rich s
States im deeply concerned that we are way behind the a fondness at a hearing on capitol hill on tuesday the u. S. Health and Human Services secretary said development of a vaccine for the virus may still be a year away he openly admitted the trouble right house needs 2500000000 dollars in emergency funding from congress to fight the spread of the global outbreak so we do have in the Strategic National stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough for part will of course not or we wouldnt be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that for hours later a top u. S. Health official issued this ominous warning now its not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected now even members of President Trumps own Republican Party are questioning a top u. S. Border official about whether its efforts to contain the virus are even adequate but you can