Thank you all for coming today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im brian catoulus for the center for American Progress. Every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board and on iran, in particular, it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear. We are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was important work under the Obama Administration. Many people in the room were part of that inside the government or outside. And we have a great panel which john has introduced and im not going to go through the bios and things like that. What were going to do today is have a bit of a conversation for a few minutes, talking about where are we and where do we go from here. Thats the main thrust, but then were going to draw you in. Theres so mu
Court ruling his suspension of parliament was unlawful. And nigeria seeks to help local Dairy Farmers but theres a danger that the move could backfire. Now u. S. Democrats are opening a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over claims he sought political help from ukraine House Speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement to trump acknowledged a phone call with ukraines president in which he discussed democratic president ial hopeful joe biden now trying to admitted to withholding aid to ukraine but denied using it as political leverage. The actions of the Trump Presidency reviewed dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our National Security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be he
Mr. Orourke also announced that he will continue his run for the democratic president ial nomination in 2020, after temporarily suspending his campaign. This is just over 35 minutes. [marching band playing in distance] [crowd talking] mr. Orourke good morning. Buenos dias. Isnt it beautiful to hear the el paso high band practicing behind us . We may hear the strains of the next song coming through over the course of this conversation , but i was just thinking about the fact that charlotte and i, raised by melissa and pat and our sister aaron grew up four blocks from here and when i would walk to el paso high i would walk through this park, climb over this wall, and make my way to the side of this mountain and see chris and jim and robert and our friends at el paso high, and its definitely a part of who i am. Helped to form me and shape me , and makes me proud of this community, who we are, looking out at everyone who has taken the time to be here this morning. I just want to begin with
Is their headline, israel denies entry to reps omar and tlaib. Followed unusual intervention by the president who advisors say is trying to sow divisions by shining a spotlight on its most liberal members. In the New York Times, they frame it this way. By enlisting a foreign power to take action against two american citizens, mr. Trump crossed a line others have not, exporting his partisan battles between and he demonstrated the length see will go to target domestic opponents. The president yesterday sending out several tweets about this. In one of his tweets, he said the following, it would show great weakness it israel allowed the represented haves to visit. They hate israel and all jewish people and there can be nothing that could be said done to change their mind. For a Campaign Rally yesterday, this is what the president had to say. [video clip] the need tou feel get involved in the two congresswomens trip to israel . I am only involved in that they are very antijewish and antiisr
2022 politics war room, and the author. The book Mary Llewellyn mcneil. More them later, though. Since the book has not been released before tonight, the presenters asked that i give you a very brief bit of. Who was wallace and why should we care about him . Wallace carroll although largely unknown, today was of the most respected and influential journalists, editors and publishers of the 20th century. A reporter. The united press in europe during, the 1930s and early 1940, carol covered of the most significant events leading to and during World War Two. Then went on to work for the u. S. Office of war information, undertook two stints as editor and later publisher of the Winston Salem journal and served as number two to james reston in the Washington Bureau of the New York Times. Again more details to come, but was much more than a globetrotting journalist giving us eyewitness accounts of events, or even just your run of the mill editor. As alan mary will tell us, carol was a mentor,