Crisis in syria and how western nations can respond from the center for strategic and International Studies this is one hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the center for strategic and International Studies. Welcome as well to our viewers online print my name is jacob, acting director of economic humanitarian agenda. The humanitarian agenda is a project that cis speaks to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to shine a light on the most pressing humanitarian issues in the world today and offer policy solutions. Before we begin i like to direct everyones attention to our emergency exit and safety and security plan and encourage you all to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our partner has with the agency for International Disaster systems whose support allows us to put on events that works with this discussion. We have a short time today so i will be brief. All of us here are keenly aware of the immen
A few moments and they are expected to unveil the exact text of proposals articles of impeachment those would still have to be approved by the fall house is something that could take place in the coming days and we have our White House Correspondent kimberly hocket who is standing by for us also with us. On capitol hill in washington heidi we start with you how do we expect this to play out. Fully there is a caution that these articles are not yet finalized will see them veiled in the minutes that come but the reports are to expect 2 articles of impeachment to be read they will be abuse of power saying on allegations that trump put his own political interests above that of the country when he asked for investigations into his political opponents and the 2nd article of impeachment likely to be obstruction of Congress Based on the president s efforts to not cooperate with impeachment investigators refusing to allow members of his staff to testify and refusing to hand over documents now t
Before the aid happened. That is true, but only after congress began an investigation. Only after the president s lawyers learned of a whistleblower complaint. Reporter both sides aiming to persuade a nationwide audience while the man at the center of the storm its a witch hunt. Its a hoax. Reporter says hes not even watching. Alice barr, nbc news, washington. And that really is the concern for republicans that this is just a partisan attack against the president. Today we saw two of our bay area democrats, the representatives Eric Swalwell and Jackie Speier in action. Representative speier asked one witness about his concerns that ukraines president was being pressured. Yes, maam. I wrote a memo to the file on august 16th. But we dont have access to that memo, do we . I submitted to it the state department subject to the subpoena. And we have not received one piece of paper from the state department. The president tweeted multiple times about this hearing, and he put in all caps, neve
Reporter you may remember nghectober meeting there was a heavy police presence. Tonight police were here but out of sight while protesters took over the meeting. Tonights Oakland School Board Meeting packed with people protesting School Closures. And they came to express anger over what happened at the Board Meeting last month. On october 23rd parents and teachers angry over the districts plan to close and merge a number of schools because of declining enrollment got into a violent clash with police after a protester jumped over a barricade. A number of people were injured. Tonight at least one person demanding an apology. Your cop took me to the hospital strapped to a gurney in handcuffs. Ive been coming to school Board Meetings most of my life. Weve never had it like this where the police have been used against us here. There will be an outside investigator coming in to look at what happened, fully analyze if things went wrong, why they went wrong, whos responsible. Reporter as prote
Everybody elses. A lot of cloud cover streaming over. 40s, 50s. These temperatures are stocked. And the high got kicked out of there and that low continues to swing. Thats whats moving through. Thats also whats underneath that. A vail of high clouds and theres also a lot of low clouds and the computers waking up like you are. Trust me it will be cooler today. 50s, 50s, 60s, 60s. No 70s. 4 01 did you make it . You dont have to worry about the train anymore. I saw the train. I was up at 3 45. It never used to. I dont know why its doing that, steve. Wow. New schedule. Good morning everyone. Lets go out and take a look at the commute here if you are driving on 580 at 205, it looks pretty good. There have been no major issues here and thats why people get up so early you can get a nice early commute all the way out to hayward in castro valley. You can see interstate 880 traffic looks good and there are no problems here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Lets go back to the desk. Former Massachus