With sports and football jose marino leads his new team tottenham to a big win in the English Premier League. The Us State Department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine the near 100. 00 page document was only made public after a freedom information lawsuit was brought by an ethics watchdog so it confirms multiple contacts between the secretary of state mike pompei o and Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this year those exchanges took place in the months before then u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie bitch was recalled it supports testimony at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were aware of efforts to pressure kenya and to investigating Donald Trumps rival joe biden all right so lets go to john hendren for more on this hes live for us in washington d. C. Tell us what else was in these documents john. Well as you know there are a call logs in these documents you were talking about those contacts between Rudy Giuliani and the officials i
How social media and messaging platforms played a role in recent political unrest in venezuela and brazil. Good morning. Buenos dias. Im glad to see that most of you survived the aztec patio last night which was very good. We have a tremendous panel this morning and a great subject. Its not news to say that the world is facing a time of change, uncertainty, the liberal, multilateral order that we were accustomed to is fraying. Nationalism and populism are on the rise. The geopolitics is back, autocracy has been on the rise, liberal democracy has been on the defensive in many ways. Latin america is no stranger to those trends. This year, last year marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the third wave, what Samuel Huntington called the third wave of democratization and latin america was a big protagonist of that, moving very swiftly from dictatorship as the predominant form of government to democracy. In the last couple of years weve had many elections in the region, and i think
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Margaret Hoover and trevor potter. Okay. Here we go. Good morning. Good morning, margaret good morning to all you. Thank you for being in celebration of our democracy. Its furtherance elections, Election Integrity and, the importance of free and Fair Elections in a democracy. One small topic. I wonder if we could just maybe start start small. Who votes . So you referred to it as a democracy. We have all spent last day and a half here discussing is that a republic . Is it a democracy . Is it a Representative Democracy . Which is what i think it has been from the start, what nowadays . Political scientist call a liberal democracy, meaning majority vote wins, but it cant take away the rights of minorities, which has been a issue throughout american history. So who votes is obviously most basic question and as weve talked about a little bit already, we started as a country in which white males, but not all white males. Many states White Property owners
An hour and 50 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Welcome. Im very i think the committee is privileged to see our distinguished careful joining us. Ed rice. Thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing with nikki haley, our ambassador to the United Nations, and important briefing in the afternoon was on the congo. Thank you chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elections one year ago this month. In order to achieve the required transition by december 19th, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government of the drc failed to hold elections last year. And relied on a constitutional provision that Joseph Kabilla could not step down until an election was held to select a replace. Both the chairman and i and others have had ongoing meetings with the officials, including high level people who have flown here to washington. Time and time again we have admonished them stick to the schedule and
The hearing will come to order. I think committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman joining us monopo. I thank him for his leadership on africa. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing on nikki haley our ambassador to the United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the congo. So thank you, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elekdss one year ago this month to achieve the required transition of political power by december 19th. However, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government failed to hold elections last year and relied on a provision that he could not step down until an election was held. Our Ranking Member have had had ongoing meetings with the roc officials, including high level people who have flown to washington and time and time again we haved a monished them stick to the schedule and ins