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AP News Radio
In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead
"On the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both sides are preparing for a potentially more disastrous phase of the war that may lie ahead. For Russia, the year has brought forceful attacks and humiliating retreats, Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance. However, more recently Russia has intensified its push to capture all of Ukraine's eastern donbas region with many in Ukraine and the west, fearing a wider attack to come along the front line, war experts Justin bronc believes that Russia will try to disrupt the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The bad outcome is it, as it were, is that Ukraine runs out of steamers unable to take back most of the remaining occupied territory before that new wave of Russian trained mobilizes and industrial equipment starts to come in at the end of the year. And at that point, we're headed towards, I think, a long-term stalemate. Speaking earlier this year, former NSC official Fiona hill believes Russia won't back down easily. We're already seeing here is that the Russians are digging in for the long haul. They have no intention of losing. I'm Karen Chammas
Bloomberg Radio New York
"fiona hill" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Olivia man accused of helping make the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight one O three over Scotland in 1988 is in custody. Foreign correspondent Aaliyah rusie explains what happens next. According to the Department of Justice, he's expected to make his initial appearance in the U.S. district court for the District of Columbia. The New York Times says Olivia and intelligence operative was arrested by the FBI, the Justice Department has led a decades long effort to prosecute the operative. The explosion killed 270 people, including 190 Americans. A democratic congressman is trading an innocent American for a guilty Russian, creates an incentive for others to use Americans as bargaining chips, appearing on CBS's face the nation, California's Adam Schiff said the prisoner swapped that involved WNBA star Brittany griner, and Russian arms dealer Victor put was a calculated move by Russian president Vladimir Putin. He can just roil the American body politic by picking one to send back to the United States. And leaving others in custody. Chef said Putin knows that picking griner to send back and leaving others like Paul Whelan and Russia would stir in the United States of America. He added that U.S. citizens need to be aware when they visit places like Russia, Iran or North Korea, that they could be grabbed for no reason at all except to be used as a political chip. The House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the capitol is set to meet later today to discuss possible criminal referrals. The panel's chairman said earlier this week those referrals will be made to the Justice Department. However, committee chair, Democrat Vinny Thompson didn't reveal details. NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down today off the coast of San Diego, hundreds of navy sailors and teams of divers are working to recover the capsule returning from orbit around the moon. The Artemis one rocket carrying the uncrewed spacecraft blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida last month, today's splash down comes 50 years to the day after the last moon mission, Apollo 17 landed on the lunar surface in 1972. I'm Tammy trejo. Face the nation on Bloomberg radio. I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on face the nation. President Biden reaches a deal with Vladimir Putin to free in American, but where does this high stakes diplomacy leave? Basketball star Brittany griner woke up at a military facility in Texas this morning after nearly ten months behind bars in Russia. Meanwhile, Putin steps up his nuclear threats and plunges Ukraine into darkness as the cold sets in. We'll check in this morning with House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff, and unpack security concerns at home in abroad with two former top national security officials, Fiona hill, and Chris krebs. Then, President Biden has declared hostage taking a national emergency, as dozens of other Americans are held by hostile countries around the world. We'll hear from the family of Ahmad Shah ghi detained in Iran since 2018. Plus what we should be thinking about, how can America do great in the next hundred years? The CEO of America's largest bank on the resilience of the U.S. economy and the storm clouds ahead, a wide ranging conversation with Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase. It's all just ahead on face the nation. Good morning, and welcome to face the nation. Within historic
The Dan Bongino Show
Kash Patel: Either Russia or China Sabotaged the Nord Stream
"The brookings institution cash which is the pee pee hoax place They are freaking out that me and me personally they wrote a whole piece on it today because I've been honestly covering the explosion at the Nord stream pipeline I'm very careful I do not know who did it I chalk it up to its probably either Russia or the United States Russia would do it because I believe Putin may be looking for a reason to escalate So they could say look we were sitting in meanwhile sabotaging his own pipeline U.S. we would do it because one it appeals to the greens and second it kind of creates more of a crisis to get NATO involved If we were looking for it I don't know which one of those things is true But brookings seems really concerned with me talking about it Why do you think that is Well we should take everything the brookings Institutes for a 100% truth value Let's just rewind the clock a little bit Brookings institute the employer Fiona hill the lady in between Christopher Steele eager Dante COFF and the total russiagate hoax Both of whom broke the law and she hired those people at brookings Now that they're personally attacking you Dan is because you're doing the job of reporting the truth and burying their donor class And you've got it right Dan I don't know I don't have access to the classified Intel anymore but former deputy director of national intelligence I have an idea of what these guys do My money's on the Russians or the Chinese I think the Russians did it or the Chinese did it to make it look like America did it Either way circling back to our conversation about nuclear warhead talk Vladimir Putin now has the ultimate justification from his perspective he thought he had it by the growth of NATO on the iron curtain in the country in the 80s We said would never join I'm not saying he's right I'm just saying from his perspective Right Now he has the ultimate And we're never going to be able to prove it What are we going to go deep dive into North Sea to 2000 feet down Exactly It's the perfect crime It's perfect And unfortunately the tragic for our national security
The Dan Bongino Show
Fiona Hill Tries Blaming the Current Russia Situation on Trump
"But here's another one Remember Fiona hill Remember her from the impeachment hearings Fiona hills came off all professional Hitting Donald Trump during the impeachment hearings implying his administration didn't know what they were doing even though she was part of it Here's Fiona hill She was on with was it meet the press this weekend Here's Fiona hill part of the whole fiasco Still trying to blame the current Russia situation on Donald Trump Check this out Certainly there was an awful lot done by the administration also by Congress and by ambassador herself at the United Nations I think that just the one point that sums everything up that you yourself touched on is that president Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine that was desperate for us at that particular juncture Basically to get volodymyr zelensky to do a personal further And what message does that send to Putin Well that sends a message to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him Have you himself as well under the United States And that nobody's really serious about turbo protecting Ukraine And that was ultimately a sign of weakness It's our political divisions our parties are in fighting which was on full display there But Putin I think is quite shock now that we've got some collective action together Ladies and gentlemen this is a total conspiracy theory Fiona hill is making that up The Trump withheld javelins so that he could get information from zelensky With regard to Biden is a conspiracy theory that's already been discredited The Biden Hunter Biden fiasco in Ukraine was a real was not a conspiracy It really happened It was a conspiracy but it wasn't a theory And Trump had every single right to ask for Ukrainians why prominent Americans kids and prominent Americans themselves were profiting off the chaos in Ukraine
Bloomberg Radio New York
"fiona hill" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Continue our conversation I never get to say that with general Mark kimmitt Retired Brigadier general former assistant Secretary of State for political military affairs who was with us in our first hour as I see the headline on the terminal Russia insists invasion is going to plan Of course you can believe what you want from Russia But Moscow is countering claims by the U.S. and European officials that its attack on Ukraine is bogged down with tough resistance Vladimir Putin saying the military operation is quote going according to plan he told Emmanuel Macron of France that he plans to fulfill the goals of his invasion And I'll tell you that is not good for the people of Ukraine of course as he aims to remove the government in Kyiv General as we pick up where we left off this idea of propping up a government in Kyiv does he need to take over the whole country first or is that simply getting into the capital city and installing that government letting the rest fall behind it Well I think what would mean is that he can take over the city install a puppet government but then the rest of the country will need to be occupied and it's unlikely that the Ukrainian people will take kindly to that I would expect to see significant partisan warfare against the Russians And I would expect there to be significant assassination threats on a daily basis against the puppet government They claim to foil one yesterday in a tempted assassination of president zelensky How long can he stay alive Is he in hiding to the Russians know where he is Oh no he may be in a quote undisclosed location but he did a press conference this morning Right Obviously he is being protected but I don't think he's cowering down in a bunker somewhere We heard from him today to your point As he again appealed to Vladimir Putin to meet with him here as president zelensky It's not about I want to talk with Putin I think I have to talk with Putin The world has to talk with Putin because there are no other ways to stop this war General are we not beyond talks with Putin Well I don't think so I think that's still a possibility I think that zelensky would be talking about a ceasefire but the problem that we have right now is that the Russians are on the offensive And they may want to stop this fight but I really doubt it They've got the wind at their back right now and they'll want to continue to fight But there may be so much pressure from the international community on Putin That he may decide to take a ceasefire offer but there will certainly not be a surrender And sadly I don't think there will be a long-term ceasefire We heard from Fiona hill the wanted to ask you about this you might have seized written a biography of Vladimir Putin It could be a real read And says in excerpts that she believes that Vladimir Putin would in fact use nuclear weapons She talked about being in the room with him that he essentially threatened to use nukes during a meeting with then president Donald Trump Do you believe that Well I think it's important to understand the context of nuclear weapons For us there is a significant firebreak between conventional war and nuclear war For the Russians it's a continuum They don't see the difference between a thermobaric bomb the vacuum bomb in a nuclear weapon In fact the thermobaric war bomb probably has more effective killing power than a small nuke does which they use with their artillery Ukraine claims they already dropped one of those is that true The pictures that I've seen would indicate that they have used that vacuum bomb An incredible mushroom cloud although it was a glow on the horizon it was horrifying It did to your point It looked like an atomic blast Does that equate to a war crime It does when you use it in populated areas It is indiscriminate use of thermobaric weapons that is a war crime And against the Geneva convention we have used those weapons but we used one the mother of all bombs in Afghanistan but it was well away from populated areas That's interesting People might remember that name general That's the same technology right At the same time The mother of all bombs Our NATO and allies prepared to let Vladimir Putin and Russia take over Ukraine in order to avoid an unlimited escalation of war at some point Does zelensky let this happen I think zelensky understands that NATO will not put troops inside of Ukraine will not put aircraft inside of Ukraine NATO has declared that they will not put into effect a no fly zone So sadly I think we can continue to supply weapons ammunition money logistics but that's as far as the western world is prepared to go at this time What do they actually need at this point You and I last hour we're talking about the prospect of urban warfare You think of the marines and Fallujah for instance banging down doors going into houses what can we do to help Ukraine stand up to that kind of a mission Well I think the most important thing is the defender has a significant advantage in door to door fighting probably about ten to one But there's still will be constant air interdiction They'll still be missiles firing They'll still be artillery firing We should be able to give them advanced technology to locate the artillery missile sites so they can respond to it We use what we call counter battery radio radars in drones But we also need to give them something a little beyond a stinger to take down their aircraft These aircraft are smart enough to stay above the effective range of the stinger but there are more powerful anti aircraft weapons out there Republicans weeks maybe even months ago this has been building for some time we're calling for an Iron Dome type of missile defense system like Israel Is it too late for that now It probably is too late to get it in there because the length of time it would take to get in there by that time I think those bombardments will have already had the effect they're trying to achieve We discussed the amphibious landing that apparently is imminent down in the south by Crimea Odessa is apparently one of the next cities that Russia is going to be moving into here We've also seen paratroopers to the north do they plan to meet in the middle somewhere general if you were actually looking at this map and drawing strategy Is that how you would do this Oh I think what I would do is in the south continued the fight towards Odessa and down along the Black Sea But with the paratroopers what their mission will be is to drop into airfields so that you can flow other equipment behind them into these airfields like and they would expand out like an oil spot So I think the units in the north will surround Kyiv and likely will use these parachute assaults to bring in more equipment more personnel more fighting capability to take over the other parts of the country And these are the higher trained Russian forces right not the drunk slobs you described last hour the conscripts Yeah that may have been a bit difficult on a bit hard on the Russians It conjures an image Well that's what worked in World War II But they are conscripts they're draftees paratroopers by contrast are professional soldiers that have been in for a while Like commanded in Boston and one of the units under me was a Russian parachute unit and they're tough hard soldiers and that nobody should underrate their capabilities Is that tank column the armor column coming from the north ever going to get to Kyiv It probably will But I think we've got to understand that it's a bulldozer and maybe a slow moving bulldozer but if we can get if they can get that kind of capability to surround Kyiv it will be a tough fight Fascinating conversation as always when I hear we're going to talk to the general I look forward to it We thank you retired Brigadier general Mark kimmitt Coming up on balance of power Congress.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Can We Expect Next From the Durham Investigation?
"What can we expect from this point forward? So is Durham wrapping up his investigation? There's still some skeptics out there, cash. There's still some cynics. Hey look, there'll be a couple process crimes, but don't hold your breath. You're not going to get a Comey. You're not going to get a struck. You're not going to get a page. You're not going to get him a cave. You're not going to get anyone from the senior level of the Clinton campaign. What do you think? Look, I've run these massive conspiracy, massive national security cases, and they take two. I spent two three four years on some cases. John Barnes in his second year. And he's working against literally everyone in government because Merrick Garland's Department of Justice doesn't want to prosecute this. And the Chris ray and the FBI don't want to. So I don't think you issue 40 page indictments for process crimes and tell the world what you're working on if you're just going to stop. That's my opinion. And remember to your audience, an indictment is the only way a prosecutor can tell the world what they're doing because they're not allowed to disclose their evidence. So John Durham has taken the time to methodically issue indictments totaling over a 101 hundred pages now for three people. That's it. And he's identified 15 individuals like the Clinton operative in the matter like Fiona hill like Michael sussman and the like, and I think that's why he's building a larger conspiracy. Now, look, I'm not married to this pipe dream that we're going to get Comey. I wish we could, but I unfortunately just don't think we have the Jews to do it. I do think we have a shot at Andy mccabe and that's probably why the likes of Peter strzok are out in the media now, parading around. Just like Christopher Steele did, parading around his false credibility, now Peter strzok's turn. And that should tell you something that may be something else that's coming down the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"fiona hill" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Three men are in custody after a shooting that left a woman dead and 14 people injured at a crowded bar in St. Paul Minnesota Police say three suspects are being treated for gunshot wounds and will be booked into jail as soon as they're discharged from the hospital The mass shooting happened shortly after midnight Sunday at the 7th street truck park a bar in eatery in downtown St. Paul There were gunshot wound victims lying in the street outside the bar there were gunshot wound victims lying on the sidewalk outside the bar and they were gunshot wound victims lying on the floor inside the bar St. Paul police spokesman Steve linders says a woman in her 20s was pronounced dead at the scene the 14 other victims are being treated at local hospitals and are expected to survive Former White House official Fiona hill says it's an incredibly dangerous time right now for our democracy Unfortunately I'm seeing the populism on the right is the most threatening at the moment The populism on the left contributes to the overall atmosphere of polarization Appearing on CBS's face the nation hill spoke about former president Trump's rally in Iowa yesterday and called it a major problem that he continues to project the 2020 election was stolen She says the events of the past year should be scary to all Americans Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar says the U.S. needs major legal reforms when it comes to social media companies You need privacy legislation We're one of the few countries that doesn't have a federal privacy policy that fits the sophistication of these tech companies Appearing on CNN State of the Union the Minnesota Democrats said lawmakers listen to tech lobbyists instead of holding the industry accountable for the misinformation often posted on their platforms Northeast seafood products is recalling a number of fish products sold at grocery stores in Colorado after they were linked to a salmonella outbreak and Georgia based crider foods is recalling over a half million pounds of canned beef with gravy products which may be contaminated with unsafe levels of lead I'm Chris courage I make shift memorial honoring the memory of Gabby patito is coming down Officials in northport Florida say crews will remove the teddy bears candles and signs next week because of damage done by the sun and rain Plans for a permanent memorial including a park bench or in the works in consultation with Gabby's family in New York The 22 year old women's remains were found last month in Wyoming after her fiance returned from across country trip without her Police in Florida said the manhunt continues for Brian laundry after nearly one month of searching Former president Donald Trump is endorsing Iowa senator chuck grassley for reelection speaking at a rally at the Iowa state fair Saturday Trump said the Republican senator has his complete and total endorsement grassley made a brief appearance on stage and said he is happy to accept an endorsement from a politician who has 91% of Republican voters in Iowa The 88 year old announced last month he would be seeking an 8th term One of the top NFL quarterbacks will not be playing on this Sunday and will miss a lot of time actually Joel stern has more Seattle's Russell Wilson will miss four to 8 weeks after undergoing surgery on a ruptured tendon and a fracture of his middle finger on his throwing hand The 8 time pro bowler suffered the injury in Thursday's home loss for the rams coach Pete Carroll says Wilson who never missed a game during his NFL career would play if he could Ain't nobody out there that can challenge his will and his desire and his toughness Back up quarterback Geno Smith is expected to start against the Steelers next Sunday Night A North Carolina man almost missed out on winning the lottery Gregory Warren says he doesn't buy lottery tickets very often which is why it took him so long to check after he purchased a cash 5 lottery ticket after work one day Warren says he bought the ticket on September 29th and didn't realize until October 4th that he had won half the jackpot He took home more than $100,000 and said he will use the money to start a lawn mowing business with his son I'm Chris courage And I've denied Pellegrini in the Bloomberg newsroom Facebook doing some explaining today That's up to a former employee came forward and blew the whistle on what she said were the social media platforms algorithms designed she said to harm children stoke division and weaken our democracy Facebook vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg saying today that Facebook is about to launch a new program to redirect young people away from harmful content If we see that a Tierra system see that a team is dwelling on content that may be correlated with something that's not good for their well-being We would nudge them to look at other content And clinic also telling ABCs this week heard here on Bloomberg radio It's all about tweaking the content And klug says people all over the world are telling Facebook they want to see more Friends and less politics Health officials warning about a so called twindemic but possibly severe flu season on top of the coronavirus pandemic Doctor Julie morita former White House COVID advisory board member and vice president of the Robert wood Johnson foundation says vaccinations are key right now It's critical that people get vaccinated with the COVID vaccine We have this moment right now where disease rates are coming down Things seem to be a little bit safer We can't really let our guard down and molitor says Americans can get a flu shot in any of the available approved COVID vaccinations at the same time Star Trek actor William Shatner now set to blast off Wednesday on a Blue Origin rocket for a sub orbital trip to space He is the oldest person ever to make that flight and that flight as we've been reporting is being delayed by a day to Wednesday because of the weather Shatner says he's nervous but ready I plan to be looking out the window with my nose pressed against the window One thing I don't want to see is a little gremlin looking back at me Global news 24 hours a day on air at hum Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries I'm Denis Pellegrini and this.
Lovett or Leave It
"fiona hill" Discussed on Lovett or Leave It
"I have not worked for hillary clinton in over a decade one. More chance to make her laugh. One more chance one never did get it never gonna get a single laugh. Sees that would just drive me wild and i get it. That's the point. We should cut that in another section. Maybe that question my answer to you if we could just know leave. Ashley's part in. In another section gruesome says fiona hill believe putin hand selected his translator to distract trump. Who apparently reacts to women with brown hair that we have cartoon wolf reacts to betty. Boop rights gruesome as the meeting began. Fiona hill leaned over and asked me if i had noticed putin's translator who was a very attractive brunette with long hair a pretty face a wonderful figure. She proceeded to tell me that she suspected the woman had been selected by putin's specifically to distract our president. The man is ancient. He has seen hundreds of attractive brunettes. He can't abnormal around any of them. Anyway actually that brings me to my next oprah question. What if anything have you learned from this author story that i can't hold a lot of power as a woman with dark hair. People like disabled on some more fun nona necessarily you can be deployed as a honeypot. Nba brunette and that's progress. That is the definition of progress in another segment of the book. Describes realizing trump's temper wasn't just for shock value of the cameras and was often directed white house counsel pet sip baloney or others attending to give him advice. Here's a quote. He didn't like them telling him that things he wanted to do. Were unethical or illegal. So he'd scream at them but then he usually listen and then yell at them again later ashley. If you could ask the author any question what would it be what was like the worst thing trump yelled at you like i want to know what his temper tantrums are fully like feel like he'd just have the dumbest like insults like. You can't even afford mcdonald's like was that a brilliant trump impression for those. Snl thanks you get that snl. Thank you overnight. It printed and overnight. it's ass lauren. We'll be waiting for that one. But i just feel like it would be like have like curse words and have just like what are you. You buy your pants coles or something. I just like the idea that this is the book of a person who decided to be. Trump's press secretary in year five and is acting like this was some kind of a revelation. Like how i came to discover the most obvious fucking thing on planet earth. Yeah by stephanie. Grissom. in an incredible moment she describes being called from air force wanna being made to agree with trump that his penis was normal after stormy daniels described it as resembling the mushroom character. In mario kart and just shot up to totes on his whole family. That is so unfair. Just live in your life being the worst choice and super mario to not his fault. Search into this grissom. Yes i know that toadstools in mario kart but i don't choose towed because it's for more advanced players because he's fast but you got to have good controls on them turns to weekly. I like a lot of agility there. I i like a bowser. I'd like to take more of a kind of driving. Miss daisy approach to mario kart a slow acceleration. A slow decelerating ocean. That's what you get with bows safer. You know what i mean. Slow and steady. i never win. That's what the show's about now so anyway. Back to the book. Trump's penises like toad stool his press secretary to reassure him. Otherwise voice by keegan. Michael key coming. How much money is he getting to voice trump's movie which begs the book club question. How did this book change your mood anytime. i have to think about trump's penis. I'm in a bad mood. That's immediately setting me on a path. I don't want to be on. You know i'm happy. That trump has people around him who don't body. shame. I gotta say that that's good. I wouldn't expect that team trump. That's nice to see this phone call from air force one and it just occurs to me now that the technology involved in connecting that secure phone their people in the military on the line spink patched through satellites. No sir it's quite normal. I believe one hundred is your as your press secretary sir. Let me reassure you. I'm sure it's great. Did she have to see it. I don't know i hope not. I don't wanna know and finally perhaps most bizarrely of all grissom reports that an unnamed staffer had you constantly play the song memory from the musical cats to calm trump down if he started to fly off the handle. Final oprah book club question ashley. Do you think the author was honest. Yeah i need that to be true. I need this to be one hundred percent because it's amazing thought of donald trump just like crying to memory from cats like to calm himself just like so on the emotional break of just the story of cats like it could be. It could be any song from like les miz. And he's like no. I don't get that shit. I want cats. I just love how frozen and fucking amber. He is in like late. Eighties early nineties new york because for those of us who are from the new york metropolitan area cats at the winter garden theatre. I mean this was. It was unstoppable. Never went saying. I just saw the commercials over and over again and i my whole childhood. I was like what is this. What are these costumes. What are these people doing on this sage. And yeah and trump. Who i assume is ever like so many broadway plays fan of the opera. Probably like he has a world he could choose from and he goes with cats. I need that to be true. They're pretty good songs. Cats could be worse could be. It could be worse. I was trying to think of a worse musical. But honestly i hate cats so much. I don't think cats comes from a moment in time when you were allowed to do cocaine at work unapologetically and just say hey. I know what you're thinking. I only went into my office for seven hours but believe it or not. I wrote literally seventeen songs. On being honest three are reprieve and while there is technically no story. It's perfect and done. I'm done and i need to go home so this is cats and now i'm rich forever. Which is such a cool thing about cats. i see why trump would be into it. I see why trump will be into and that's the do not buy this book book club. Thank you to read. we come back. We have some.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"fiona hill" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Advisor to former president Trump says Russia knows what boundaries not to cross when it comes to interfering with US systems. We've made those red lines clear in the past to Russia on a number of fronts, not just in cyber but also in the military realm, and I've been some red lines that one of the Russians across them. We have responded on CBS's face The Nation. Fiona Hill, who also advise President Biden before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says the problem is making sure the consequences for cyber attacks have an impact. Tropical depression, Claudette is leaving a deadly wake as it prepares to head out to the Atlantic. The weekend storm is being blamed for at least 12 deaths in Alabama. Most of those dying in a multi vehicle collision Saturday that was likely caused by storm related hydro planing. Nine of the 10 people killed in that crash were Children, a 24 year old man in his three year old son. Died when a tree fell on their home in Tuscaloosa. American Airlines says it will cancel 1% of its flights in July so it can ensure it can take care of its customers and minimize surprises at the airport, it announced Sunday. The uptick in travel demand plus labor shortages and unprecedented weather is behind the move. Most airlines are seeing more bookings as Americans feel safe to travel in the latter stages of the pandemic. Los Angeles County health officials say they're recording increasing numbers of Covid 19, known as the Delta variant. The Kodiak has details. The variant was first identified in India and has since spread to Europe and the United States in L. A county. Most of the 64 cases reported in recent weeks have been of the delta variant. Scientists say the delta variant is more highly transmissible than other versions of the virus, but that the latest vaccines are still highly effective against them. Any Kodiak reporting actor will Smith says his upcoming autobiography will is being released in November. The two time Academy Award nominee share the news on Instagram, he wrote. He's been working on it for two years, and it's finally ready. I'm Chris Caravaggio. South Carolina senator says states should be in charge of how they run their elections more from Rosario Rivera on Fox News Sunday, Republican Lindsey Graham said While he likes Joe Manchin and appreciates his proposal, he believes the federal government should stay out of the state's ability to run their own elections. Mention proposed this past week to narrow the scope of the for the People Act voting rights bill in efforts to build bipartisan consensus and pushed through a compromise. But many GOP lawmakers came out against the proposal, including Graham. You noted that more people voted in the last presidential election than any previous election. Graham called the original proposal the biggest power grab in the history of the country. And said Democrats are trying to fix the problem that GOP lawmakers have a completely different view on Ambrosia. Rivera model Chrissy Teagan is considering taking legal action against fashion designer Michael Costello amid her bullying scandal. Shortly after taking apologized for her past awful tweets. Costello shared what he said were Screenshots from 2014 showing Teagan bullying him. However, Teagan says the photos were completely fabricated and explained, her user name was spelled wrong in them. She told Costello to stop or else things would go further in an actual court.
The Brookings Cafeteria
"fiona hill" Discussed on The Brookings Cafeteria
"That. Nato question for a moment then you mentioned throughout the book. It's a very important issue in you argue for not expanding nato beyond its current configuration. Can you explain the listeners. Why expanding nato to countries like ukraine in georgia is a bad idea. Sure but i'll start by asking. Why did we expand nato by fourteen more countries since the cold war ended. It's done and i'm not suggesting we undo it and there were some reasons that had to do more with protecting and promoting democracy in europe because during a lot of that theory. We didn't really think. Russia would be a threat again and we didn't really think about bringing. In former warsaw pact countries and the baltic states and many of the balkans states in terms of defending them from russia. But i think we indirectly contributed to a worsening tensions with russia. Need george kennan. Mikhail gorbachev lot of people told us back in the nineties. This could probably be big mistake and yet we did it anyway. Even though the reason that nato was created no longer even existed which was of course the soviet threat to europe western europe particular. So i think we got sloppy thinking about a military tool as an instrument of democracy promotion when you confused purposes like that. I think you're asking for trouble so now. Nato includes thirty countries it only had sixteen members at the end of the cold war. It only had twelve when it was created in nineteen forty nine. So i just want to ask people to put this idea on pause. What do we think we're doing with expansion of nato. Do we really want promise. That will risk. American lives in the most far-reaching and relatively peripheral areas of europe and even into asia because the country of georgia is actually in asia and nato explicitly says in its founding charter. It's for north. America and europe and yet we gotten so ambitious in our vision for what the alliance can usefully do that. We're now ever since. George w bush promising that someday georgia will be as well. I just think we turned the whole logic upside down. And the way. I answered your question directly about why we should not bring. These countries said is in addition to the military practicality of not wanting to send my kids your kid or anybody else's kids in the united states six seven thousand miles away into the heartland of the european eurasian step into a place that russia considers to be sort of its own historical heartland to defend a country right next to russia. In addition to that. I would say i like to go back to the great greek philosopher through cities or the historian. Strategist you mentioned. Sunda who of course was a great chinese thinker back in ancient times but the city's wrote during roughly four hundred bc period when sparta and athens were war. And it's a beautiful book because he really gets. I think a lot of the nature of human beings and human competition in the security space in a way that holds up today in many regards and he said that people go to war for one of three reasons greed. That's explains a lot of imperialism historically fear because they think they're about to be attacked they don't attack first and then finally in. Here's the pride or honour. Acidifies put it and i think vladimir putin is all about wounded pride and he saw the united states in his judgment. Rub the face of russia metaphorically into the sand. After the cold war ended when his opinion the soviets had done a good thing by conceding the cold war and ending it gives and yet we chose them to expand nato and us military power throughout the broader middle east. when you re putin's views as for example laid out in our great colleague fiona hills book with cliff. Gatty mr putin operas been the kremlin which was a book. They wrote about seven or eight years ago. You really sense that this is genuine. Putin used the world now. He's a bad guy. He's corrupt he's got a lot of friends. I'm not suggesting. We should really wanna please vladimir putin but i am suggesting that he is typical of the way humans and russians. Thank about security. And if you bring a western military construct right into their heartland for reasons that are not particularly apparent. They're not going to like it. And you're basically guaranteeing a bad relationship so you can sit on the principle that you are allowing all of europe to be free and democratic and make its own sovereign choices and to me that say or dettori. Goal that say abstract goal. That sounds good. But it doesn't really square with the realities of international politics. I'm not saying russia deserves. Its own spirit influence but for russia. We're trying to make ukraine and georgia to into our sphere of influence and it's right up against their borders and it's formerly part of their own country. And i just think you're asking for trouble if you do that. There are better ways to help. Ukraine georgia make progress. And frankly when we promise nato membership i think we encourage russia to do enough to stabilize those countries that they won't be eligible which is why thirteen years after the promise was. I made to each of them. Neither one is in data russia's managed to destabilize and it will continue to do that. We just got a revamped. The whole concept. And i believe in a zone of non-alignment in eastern europe to me is the right answer talk a little bit more than about that tension as it exists in actual nato countries that do border russia. I think estonia and lithuania them. You talk about that someone the can you explore that for this. Please begin the chapter. On europe with a passage from my trip to lithuania two years ago sponsored by the atlantic council and done in conjunction with our colleagues deeper great trip. And it's a beautiful country. Was this time of year. So even though it's north it was bound to be gorgeous..
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"The State Department now where the trump years were particularly hard ones. The former president often ridiculed it as the deep State Department and diplomats were drawn into Trump's first impeachment over his and his associates dealings with Ukraine. The new secretary of state is trying to restore the nonpartisan nature of diplomacy. But as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, it's no easy task. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to employees during his visit to Ukraine this past week, he alluded to Trump's first impeachment. I know that The past couple of years have been particularly difficult even before Kobe Ukraine and this mission were Hold into matters that should not have been the case trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani was trying to dig up dirt about Joe Biden son, who was on the board of the Ukrainian energy company, Giuliani smeared US Ambassador Maria Ivanovich. He was then fired by Trump, and she and other diplomats were summoned to Capitol Hill to testify in the impeachment trial. Blanken is trying to reassure his employees that those days are over. One thing That's very important is that politics stops at the C Street door on that's very much. The case. Now See Street is the State Department front entrance, while Blinken was making those remarks in Kiev, the former U. S ambassador at the center of the impeachment case, Maria Ivanovich, Was speaking on a panel about public service. Ideally, nobody in America would know my name. That's not the case anymore. You. Ivanovich retired from the foreign service and is writing her memoir and working at Georgetown University and the Carnegie Endowment, She says the last few years have been a wake up call not just because of the first impeachment trial, but also the second one over Trump's rolling, inciting a mob attack on Capitol Hill. Even if it says the U. S needs nonpartisan public servants to revitalize democratic institutions that includes the State Department. We work under the radar, and what we do is what Secretary Shultz used to call tending the garden. Every day. We work on relationships, and we Nurture those powers and we pull out the nasty weeds again in there and choke off good relationships and create bad relationships. The day to day job of diplomats who served both Democratic and Republican presidents is not particularly glamorous, she told the panel organized by the Partnership for Public Service and nonprofit organization, But it is absolutely critical to keeping America secure and strong and advancing our interests. Three other Big names from the Ukraine impeachment drama were also on the panel, including former National Security Council officials, Fiona Hill and Alexander of Inman, as well as Bill Taylor. He's the diplomat who was brought back out of retirement to run the embassy in Ukraine. After you've on a bitch was ousted, took some extraordinary Actions by some people and some bravery, real bravery by some people to stand up and point out the problems. Taylor thinks the State Department survived the Trump Arum and he still encouraging young people to serve, so I'm optimistic. I think that institution came through and I think other institutions will be the same way. But as Ambassador Manson Dex work. We need to work hard. He is now back at the US Institute of Peace, writing about Ukraine and Russia and other topics that he dealt with in his decades long career in public service. Michele Kelemen. NPR NEWS Washington The number of births in the US dropped in 2020 during the pandemic, but it's also been dropping for years Now. Is that a problem? Learn more tomorrow on weekend edition. Just ask your smart speaker to play NPR or your station by name. This'd is W N Y. C. It's all things considered on.
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"fiona hill" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"Heading to the State Department now where the trump years were particularly hard ones. The former president often ridiculed it as the deep State Department and diplomats were drawn into Trump's first impeachment over his and his associates dealings with Ukraine. The new secretary of state is trying to restore the nonpartisan nature of diplomacy. But as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, it's no easy task. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to employees during his visit to Ukraine this past week, he alluded to Trump's first impeachment. I know that the past couple of years Have been particularly difficult even before Kobe Ukraine and this mission were Hold into matters that should not have been the case trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani was trying to dig up dirt about Joe Biden son, who was on the board of the Ukrainian energy company, Giuliani smeared US Ambassador Maria Ivanovich, who was then fired by Trump, and she and other diplomats were summoned to Capitol Hill to testify in the impeachment trial. Lincoln is trying to reassure his employees that those days are over. One thing That's very important is that politics stops at the C Street door on that's very much. The case. Now See Street is the State Department front entrance, while Blinken was making those remarks in Kiev, the former U. S ambassador at the center of the impeachment case, Maria Ivanovich was speaking on a panel about public service Ideally, Nobody in America would know my name. That's not the case anymore. You. Ivanovich retired from the foreign service and is writing her memoir and working at Georgetown University and the Carnegie Endowment, She says the last few years have been a wake up call, not just because of the first impeachment trial, but also the second one over Trump's rolling, inciting a mob attack on Capitol Hill you've done of it says the U. S. Needs nonpartisan public servants to revitalize democratic institutions. That includes the State Department. We work under the radar, and what we do is what Secretary Shultz used to call tending the garden. Every day. We work on relationships, and we nurture those powers and we pull out the nasty weeds and get it in there and choke off good relationships and create bad relationships. A day to day job of diplomats who served both Democratic and Republican presidents is not particularly glamorous, she told the panel organized by the Partnership for Public Service and nonprofit organization, But it is absolutely critical to keeping America secure and strong and advancing our interests. Three other big names from the Ukraine impeachment drama were also on the panel, including former National Security Council officials, Fiona Hill and Alexander of Inman. As well as Bill Taylor. He's the diplomat who was brought back out of retirement to run the embassy in Ukraine. After you've on a bitch was ousted, took some extraordinary Actions by some people and some bravery, real bravery by some people to stand up and point out the problems. Taylor thinks the State Department survived the Trump Arum and he still encouraging young people to serve, so I'm optimistic. I think that institution came through and I think other institutions will be the same way. But as a bastard, you're Manson. Dicks work. We need to work hard. He is now back at the US Institute of Peace, writing about Ukraine and Russia and other topics that he dealt with in his decades long career in public service. Michele Kelemen NPR NEWS Washington The number of births in the.
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"So as many of you know, the past few months have been really difficult for my family, and I really want to help other people battle. It's this disease, and I wanna help. People that need help with this similar situation. So I've teamed up with my classmates to help raise money for the lymphoma and leukemia Society. Sorry, Lucy Lucy is making an appearance on the show. All right, uh, And this money will help to provide research and access to treatments for patients. I really appreciate any support that you could give, and my dad will include the link in today's show Nuts. Thank you. Thank you so much good job. Lucy made a guest appearance on this show that was totally unintentional. She saw her. Isabella came right over to her. You could see, Lucy said. If you want to watch rubble dot com slash month, you know the link. It's It's very long. That's why I'm not reading it Specifically, you won't remember it. But the link If you go to our show notes today, it's the first link at the top of the show. Notes Bongino dot com slash newsletter. Anything you can spare a dollar $10. $100 whatever you could spare. Isabella's her heart's in it. Obviously, we've been through a lot this. So are we really appreciate it. The lake will be in the show notes today to help the lymphoma society raise some money there, so thank you is about we appreciate good job, sweetheart. Thank you very much, All right. Where I told you where it might be. My last book. Follow the money. I wrote the whole book Batter. The impeachment hoax, the Ukraine impeachment hooks and spy gate. We're all tied together. They were the exact same players. It was a continuation of Spy gate went into impeachment because they felt like they were going to get caught. Well, we have some new D classifications stuff. Some of the declassification, by the way, are largely a joke. I'm really sorry. Most of them worried acted than the original. But remember Fiona Hill. The noted international policy specialists in the national security apparatus under the Trump administration. Why these people were allowed to stay have no idea, but Fiona Hill gave some testimony. Member back in the impeachment hopes and was really interesting. I want to put that up, and I want to read it because it doesn't seem to comport exactly with reality. So Fiona Hill was one of their witnesses in the impeachment hoax basically insinuating that that you know the Trump team did some really bad things and should be impeached should say that directly, but she implied it so she was asked by Congressman Lee Zeldin. About the dossier. And she said, quote. I have no knowledge whatsoever of how steel developed that dossier. None. None, she said. I just want to state that. There you go, Fiona Hill. This science of truth and justice. It's a foreign policy analyst. Well, we just got our myths on some new testimony Christopher Steele gave or some death. Some depositions he gave So Fiona Hill, Joe just to be clear, Nationalist national security specialist in the Trump White House National who attacked Donald Trump repeatedly. She says she knows nothing about stealing his dossier. Whatever her words, not mine. It's interesting. It's kind of like two chapters in my book on this house is all related. There's Christopher Steele. Not exactly what Christopher Steele said. Christopher Steele told the U. S government officials that funeral Hill knows that the primary sub source was involved in the dossier. When the primary sub source went to ground in January. Again, just more evidence that the real misinformation specialists are the people who are attacking Donald Trump in the impeachment hopes and spy gate hoax, But I'm sure Fiona Hill get a nice couple of speaking gigs. She'll probably be rewarded nicely should probably be declared, you know, ahead of the National Security Council Truth and Misinformation Council tomorrow morning. You ever gonna have to answer for that? So Christopher Steele saying You knew exactly about the dossier and who the sub source was. While you said unequivocally that you had none. No idea who's telling the truth? Have my suspicions. Right, folks. Thanks again for tuning in..
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"Is gonna join us in studio here for a couple of hours. Other people making news, Kitty Kirk on Trump supporters. My clindell responding to the million voting and we'll take a look at the McConnells and their ties to the Chai calms a little bit later on in the program. So, Bruce, Here we go again. You know, these people are just they're They're obsessed. They're deranged. There. They're 100% certifiably insane. I'm talking about Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi yesterday on Clinton's podcast, you and me, both she and Pelosi. We're talking about the Capitol Hill riots, in course, that conversation and drifted into the president of the United States. And Hillary said this about President Trump and Vladimir Putin. Putin Way learned a lot about our system of government over the last four years with a president who Sustains democracy. And as you have said numerous times has other agendas. What they all are. I don't think we have no, I hope Historically we will find out who he's beholden to. Who pulls his strings. I would love to see his phone records to see whether he was talking to Putin the day that the insurgents invaded our capital O Lord, she wants the president a schoolgirl crush. She is so bitter, she kid. Let it go. Even even the course you know the be in in a legitimate president Sworn in tomorrow. It's still not good enough. Wait, There's more she imposed. He now want to create a commission to look into this, But we now know that not just him, but his enablers, his accomplices his cult members. Have the same disregard for democracy. Do you think we need a 9 11 type Commission to investigate and report everything that they can pull together and explain what happened. I do let me again to your point of Who is he? Behold into it. As I've said, over and over this in the policy as I said to him in that picture with my blue suit. Right as I was leaving, but I'm saying the missile was pointing rudely at him. With you, Mr President, all roads the to Putin. I don't know what Putin has on him politically, financially or personally. What happened last week was a gift to Putin because that's who wants to undermine democracy in our country and throughout the world and these people under unbeknownst to them, maybe our Putin puppets they were doing Putin's business when they did that at the incitement. Of an insurrection by the president of the United States. So, yes, we should have a 9 11 commission, and there's strong support in the congress to do that. I don't want to have a question for you. What we're Pelosi just said. Is that non slanders? I realized slander is very difficult to prove where they public person, but she has just accused. She's not on the floor of the house. She's on a radio show us her podcast. She has accused the president of making this happen of making though he's responsible. He is personally responsible. Why is that? Not slander? Why can she not be taken to court for slandering this girl? It's a great question one that you have to take up with a defamation attorney in a lot of lonely Glenwood. Well, he might be out of the picture now, but But here's the thing. The obsession with Putin and this comes and it's curious. This comes just a day or two after Fiona Hill. Remember the page boy Burnett with English accent National 30 counsel that testified against the president at his impeachment, first impeachment. We find out that she's the one that recruited Christopher Steele. She's the one she had the relationship with Christopher Steele. She's the one that believed that when he was selling on created this partnership with them, chanko, the Russian who was now have been discredited. This whole dog dossier thing, and this was all done. All done because Hillary Clinton was concerned about her emails had not been cleaned up. They had to create a distraction and blood you with a cloth or something. Yeah, 6 13 traffic and weather on the threes. Check. Whitaker. Boy. We sure missed you yesterday, man. Yeah. You know whether it's you against the whole the show it was you lost yesterday. By the way, I choose your fake news. So your record goes down. How much its improve Now that I'm here Still a nasty old Yeah, but we could put a name on that big, empty hole song. It's true. It's true, but we don't want to go.
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"fiona hill" Discussed on KTOK
"Classify a whole bunch of stuff about Russia collusion. So we're going to find out that Hillary Clinton was a fraud in this whole thing, and she knew what was going on that she used the Russia collusion scam. To try to offset her very real email scam, which was not going away the email crisis for her for the election. And that this was all manufactured by the DNC and Christopher Steele has ties to you know Fiona Hill that's coming out, and there's all these different moving pieces. I'm glad that will get some truth and transparency on this, And I know there is still a Durham probe. There is still a special counsel that could do something, but I think it's unrealistic to believe That this is somehow going to be so much better. This is gonna be so much better now. Um You know? We are going into abide administration. They're going to be in charge of the government, and we're going to know Maura of the truth of Russia collusion. And then what are we going to do? What are we gonna do about it? You know, this is this is where we are. I've wanted this to get out two years ago. I said Ruby to release information now. And no. Oh, no, You know, trust trust in the four D chess. That's what we were told. Well, Yeah. It's not not not really the plan that it needed to be. I've also been very, very clear with you about how the purge of Trump from Twitter. Was just the beginning of a longer term effort. You have Jack Dorsey. This is from a Twitter, a Twitter insider recording Jack Dorsey talking about the political censorship that we should all be expecting going forward. So, as I've said, They want us all the concede on this stuff. Oh, Trump's a clear and present danger. We need the right to make political determinations about whether someone's just too dangerous to public discourse to kick them off of social media platforms. But We've been led to believe that that stops when Biden comes in the office and that everything will calm down. No, no. Why would they do that? They They like this. This is enormously helpful to them. Um, here is Jack Dorsey himself, telling everybody, this is a bigger plan. Folks play 15 way are focused on one the time right now, But this.
NewsRadio WIOD
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"Now what? Community classify a whole bunch of stuff about Russia collusion. So we're going to find out that Hillary Clinton was a fraud in this whole thing, and she knew what was going on that she used the Russia collusion scam. Try to offset her very real email scam, which was not going away the email crisis for her for the election. On. But this was all manufactured by the DNC and Christopher Steele has ties to you know Fiona Hill, and that's coming out, and there's all these different moving pieces. I'm glad that will get some truth and transparency on this, And I know there is still a Durham probe. There is still a special counsel that could do something, but I think it's unrealistic to believe That this is somehow going to be so much better. This is gonna be so much better now. Um You know? We are going into abide administration. They're going to be in charge of the government, and we're going to know Maura of the truth of Russia collusion. And then what are we going to do? What are we gonna do about it? You know, this is just this is where we are. I've wanted this to get out two years ago. I said Ruby to release information now. And no. Oh, no, You know, trust trust in the four D chess. That's what we were told. Well, Yeah. That's not not not really the plan that it needed to be. I've also been very, very clear with you about how the purge of Trump from Twitter. Was just the beginning of a longer term effort. You have Jack Dorsey. This is from a Twitter, a Twitter insider recording Jack Dorsey talking about the political censorship that we should all be expecting going forward. So, as I've said, They want us all the concede on this stuff. Oh, Trump's a clear and present danger. We need the right to make political determinations about whether someone's just too dangerous to public discourse to kick them off of social media platforms. But We've been led to believe that that stops when Biden comes in the office and that everything will calm down. No, no. Why would they do that? They They like this. This is enormously helpful to them. Um, here is Jack Dorsey himself, telling everybody, this is a bigger plan. Folks play 15 way are focused on one that.
News Talk 1130 WISN
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"Of it's been released and he has all of it. I've also given him authorization to release it to whoever he wants. Now we were told that these documents released the 2 30 today, not on at least some of them. But then I'm hearing from other people that maybe there's still some whole backs. Anyway. Well, he's been fighting harder even than I have been and getting these documents now for years. It's John Solomon is the editor in chief of just the news dot com And author of the book Fall out, Um and you know, we've been wanting waiting, even knowing what's in some of these documents unable to talk about them until they come out, John, But there's things that you and I both know exist. That would really blow this wide open, but we can't get access to it. Why? It's the extraordinary power of the bureaucracy and each of these agencies, every agency claims to have the antiquities the rights to make their decisions. To review these to make sure there aren't any national security secrets that would harm alive for harm our national security and, of course, at the last minute as the president has already authorized the release of these documents, all the bureaucracy is worried about what We're gonna learn about their agencies has taken one last run it trying to redact slow down. Stop. Review the information in there. There's not right away. If the president of the United States says to release it, they don't they have to release it. You would sure think that that would be the case, But we've seen time and again that Thies. These agencies have an eco system of their own. They can sport slow, obvious Cape for as long as you want. I have a high degree of confidence that the were just a few hours or maybe 48 hours or less away from this. I think it said on your show last night, some weird dream somewhere between Friday and Monday. These documents will become available. I still feel confident it will happen. But I have a good sense already. What's in there and and there are some big stories that we can prepare ourselves for? We could look at the documents, but The big The big new reveals are pretty clear to me from the reporting I've done Right, Let's go through it because we're talking about a stack. I'm told at least a foot high released by the Justice Department ordered released by the Justice Department. They've had a lot of this for years. I mean, it's when Rick Coronel was acting director of National Intelligence record. L. You know, released a lot. Then then Ratcliffe after him. But these are documents that would corroborate a lot of your reporting and a lot of what we said on the show. Yeah, they have things that I'm totally shocked by as I've done reporting, Let's take for one to just the real shocker to me, and I'm 100% certain is true. It's gonna be in these documents. The um the Christopher Steele when he needs with the FBI year after he's been fired. Remember he's fired November 16 for leaking to the media. Ah, year later he comes back, and the FBI is now dubious of his entire dossier. And he says, Guess where I got my primary sub source from and this is what he said from Fiona Hill. If you don't remember who feel in the hell is she was one of the star impeachment witnesses against Donald Trump and Late 2019. She was National Security Council expert on Russia very well respected as a Russian expert, But it turns out she is the person according to steal that introduced him to the sub source who gave him all that malarkey all that bad. Hope that was in his dossier that turned out to be rushing this information or just completely uncorroborated garbage. So respected and see. Stabber who becomes a witness against the president is involved in the earlier Russia collusion, narrative building remarkable revelations and even I have felt all the reporting I've done That one caught me completely off guard. I think the big story the story that everyone will remember from these documents, and it is the final story of Russia collusion. Why did it happen? Because Hillary Clinton and their team, including Christopher Steele wanted to change the topic away from problems with her email server. To a false story that would vilify Donald Trump on Russia. That is the headline that will come in Christopher Steele debrief with the F B, I remember was fired for leaking. Hold the FBI why he was leaking and this will be corroborated. We expect by these documents because he wanted to help Hillary cover up her email problem. But remember when they went to the sub source in January of 2017. The substance said none of this is true. This is Bart talk is was never meant for for this what they've used it for. It's all none of it's corroborated or and at that point, they still were signing Fiza warrants. And didn't call me a McCabe and all these people have to know what that point those people putting their signatures on these go back earlier, So I have 2016, the CIA director walks into President of the United States, President Barack Obama would have sunk it. That's Brennan. Yeah. John Brennan, the CIA director, goes in and says, we have intelligence indicating Hillary Clinton has concocted this Russia story. To possibly deflect from concerns in her email. That's an intelligence intercept that we don't know. Jack Nature of It was pretty clear what the president was told it, then sent to the FBI, which means Pete's truck and his team gets it. They knew it even.
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"Very high quality person. Named William Barr. And he's doing He's comptel you he's working so hard, And rather than just doing a total release I gave I gave him a total release. In other words, he's got everything anything he needs. He's got easy attorney general of the United States. He's got a lot of A very good people under him that I guess are involved and I gave them a total release. So all of it's been released and he has all of it. I've also given him authorization to release it to whoever he wants. Now we were told that these documents were released the 2 30 today, not on at least some of them. But then I'm hearing from other people that maybe there's still some whole backs. Anyway. Well, he's been fighting harder even than I have been and getting these documents now for years. It's John Solomon is the editor in chief of just the news dot com And author of the book Fall out, Um and you know, we've been wanting waiting, even knowing what's in some of these documents unable to talk about them until they come out, John, But there's things that you and I both know exist. That would really blow this wide open, but we can't get access to it. Why? It's the extraordinary power of the bureaucracy In each of these agencies. Every agency claims to have the antiquities the rights to make their decisions. Review these to make sure there aren't any national security secrets that would harm alive for harm our national security and, of course, at the last minute as the president has already authorized the release of these documents, all the bureaucracy is worried about what We're gonna learn about their agencies has taken one last run it trying to redact slow down. Stop. Review the information in there. There's not pretty little if the president of the United States says to release it, they don't they have to release it. You would sure think that that would be the case, But we've seen time and again that Thies. These agencies have an eco system of their own. They can sport slow off the escape for as long as you want. I have a high degree of confidence that the were just a few hours or, well, maybe 48 hours or less away from this. I think it said on your show last night, some weird dream somewhere between Friday and Monday, these documents will become available. I still feel confident it will happen. But I have a good sense already. What's in there and and there are some big stories that we can prepare ourselves form. We could look at the documents, but The big The big new reveals are pretty clear to me from the reporting I've done all right, let's go through it because we're talking about a stack. I'm told at least a foot high, released by the Justice Department ordered released by the Justice Department. They've had a lot of this for years. I mean, it's when Rick Coronel was acting director of National Intelligence record. L. You know, released a lot. Then then Ratcliffe after him. But these are documents that would corroborate a lot of your reporting and a lot of what we said on the show. Yeah, they have things that I'm totally shocked by as I've done reporting. Let's take for one that just the real shocker to me and I'm 100% certain is true. It's going to be in these documents. The the Christopher Steele when he needs with the FBI year after he's been fired. Remember he's fired November 16 for leaking to the media. Ah, year later he comes back, and the FBI is not dubious of his entire dossier. And he says, you guess where I got my, uh, primary sub source from and they said what he said from Fiona Hill. If you don't remember who feel the hell is she was one of the star impeachment witnesses against Donald Trump and late 2019. She was a National Security Council expert on Russia, very well respected as a Russian expert. But it turns out she is the person according to steal that introduced him to the sub source who gave him all that malarkey. All that bad dope that was in his dossier that turned out to be Russian disinformation or just completely uncorroborated garbage. So respected NSC staffer who becomes a witness against the president is involved in the earlier Russia collusion, narrative building remarkable revelation, and even I felt all the reporting I've done That one caught me completely off guard. I think the big story the story that everyone will remember from these documents, and it is the final story of Russia collusion. Why did it happen? Because Hillary Clinton and their team, including Christopher Steele wanted to change the topic away from problems with their email server to a false story that would vilify Donald Trump on Russia. That is the headline that will come on. Christopher Steele debrief with the F B. I remember was fired for leaking told the FBI why he was leaking and this will be corroborated. We expect by these documents. Because he wanted to help Hillary cover up her email problem. But remember when they went to the sub source in January of 2017 substance, said none of this is true. This is Bart talk is was never meant for for this what they've used it for. It's all or none of it's corroborated or And at that point, they still were signing Fiza warrants and didn't call me a McCabe and all these people have to know what that point those people putting their signatures on these go back earlier, So I have 2016, the CIA director walks into the president of the United States President Barack Obama would have sunk it. That's Brennan. Yeah. John Brennan, the CIA director, goes in and says We have intelligence indicating Hillary Clinton has concocted this Russia story to possibly deflect from concerns in her email. That's an intelligence intercept that we don't know exact nature of it, but it's pretty clear what the president was told it, then sent to the FBI, which means Pete's truck and his team gets it. They knew it even before.
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"fiona hill" Discussed on KCRW
"Your voice, which is something that fascist said As a matter of fact, the three word chance Come on Theo idea that the press or the enemy of the people, and it's become the enemy of the people. He's there all fascist concepts. It doesn't mean that Trump is quite a fascist himself. Imagine what comes after that. Right. Imagine if the big lie continues. Imagine if there's someone who's more skillful and using it. And he is then we're starting to move into clearly Fascist territory. People will say, Oh, it couldn't possibly happen here. But so many things that we said couldn't possibly happen happen. That's Fiona Hill, a historian who spent decades studying Russia and the former Soviet Union. Looking at how disinformation and lies are woven into authoritarians regimes. Hill was also on the National Security Council staff under President Trump. You may remember her testimony from Trump's impeachment hearing in 2019. When she refuted what she called the fictional narrative that Ukraine, not Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Even the big lies roots in Nazi Germany. I asked Fiona Hill. Is it a stretch? A poor analogy to call Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election of big lie, Hill says, No, we get so bogged down. On the terminology that we don't then just kind of catalog what has been happening? Uninspected for what it is what it is, says Hill is a colossal falsehood meant to subvert the transfer of presidential power and to incite violence, So I don't actually think that we should get caught up. And the origins of where this turn, the big light comes from because this is clearly a lie on a large scale that was meant to have political consequences. I was also intended to pit one group of people within society against another. Trump has told so many falsehoods that he is effectively normalized lying, Hill says. He's taking his cues from the autocrats he publicly admires. President Trump was also talking openly about removing term limits. Wouldn't that be great on the thing is everyone thought he was joking? But as I learned from observing him, he says things in these throw where manners but he's deadly serious. He's not joking. It all Trump's use of the big lie comes from an age old authoritarians playbook, says Ruth Ben got history professor at N. Y. U and author of the book Strong Men, Mussolini to the present. It's part of a much larger discourse of Throwing any mechanism of democracy, any democratic institution. Into doubt Looking forward, then he, Ott says, While Trump will soon be gone from the White House, he's also going to carry his victim. Hood called with him, which will be stronger than ever. So we haven't seen the last of those lies and the pernicious effects they're going to have on our democracy. Put another way. As historian Timothy Snyder writes the lie outlasts the liar. Melissa Block NPR news Off the 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to impeach President Trump. Perhaps none was more surprising than Tom Rice of South Carolina. Republicans in his conservative district are stunned, and some of them are saying he's doomed to lose to a GOP challenger next year. Steve Harrison from member station W F A has the story. When Tom Rice voted to impeach some people thought it was a mistake. After all, Rice had voted against certifying Joe Biden's victory the week before. In an interview with WNBF News, Rice said he doesn't know of President Trump incited the right wing mob. But he says he was appalled by his actions or lack thereof. While the capital was being attacked. Razor drop was tweeting that vice president past didn't have the courage to do what was right and you know, just further angering the crowd, he says. While he and other congressmen were huddled on the floor, the president offered only very tepid. Request sure scrapes things like you know, the vote was stolen, but don't be too violent and things like that. Some Republicans who voted to impeach came from swing district's not Rice. Since 2013. He's represented the deep Red Seventh District, which includes Myrtle Beach, He won reelection with more than 60% of the vote, or a Democratic County chair. Tom Cohen praised Rice for in his words voting. His conscience is definitely not been known as a maverick. I can't recall one example. I could give you where I thought he really went against the party on anything that was significant Republicans like Dreamer, Purdue, the chair of the Ori county, GOP or stunt. That's where I started his political career on the county Council. I've already had phone calls. There will be several. I think that will throw their hats in the ring against him. Crisis said that if his impeachment vote cost him his job in 2022, then so be it. For NPR news. I'm.
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"fiona hill" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Which is something that fascist said As a matter of fact, the three word chance lock them all up. Theo idea that the press or the enemy of the people, and it's become the enemy of the people. He's their old fascist concepts. It doesn't mean that Trump is quite a fascist himself. Imagine what comes after that, right. Imagine if the big light continues. Imagine if there's someone who's more skillful and using it. And he is then we're starting to move into clearly Fascist territory, People said. Oh, it couldn't possibly happen here. But so many things that we said couldn't possibly happen happen. That's Fiona Hill, a historian who spent decades studying Russia and the former Soviet Union. Looking at how disinformation and lies are woven into authoritarians regimes. Hill was also on the National Security Council staff under President Trump. You may remember her testimony from Trump's impeachment hearing in 2019 when she refuted what she called the fictional narrative that Ukraine, not Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Even the big lies roots in Nazi Germany. I asked Fiona Hill. Is it a stretch? A poor analogy to call Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election. A big lie. Well says no. We get so bogged down on the terminology that we don't then just kind of catalog what has been happening? Uninspected for what it is what it is, says Hill is a colossal falsehood meant to subvert the transfer of presidential power and to incite violence. So I don't touch you think that we should get caught up. And the origins of where this term, the big light comes from, because this is clearly a lie on a large scale that was meant to have political consequences. I was also intended to pit one group of people within society against another. Trump has told so many falsehoods that he is effectively normalized lying, Hill says. He's taking his cues from the autocrats he publicly admires. President Trump was also talking openly about removing term limits. Wouldn't that be great on the thing is everyone thought he was joking? But as I learned from observing him, he says things in these 12 where manners but he's deadly serious. He's not joking at all. Trump's use of the big lie comes from an age old authoritarians playbook, says Ruth. Ben got History professor at N. Y. U and author of the book Strong Men Mussolini To the present. It's part of a much larger discourse of throwing any mechanism of democracy, any democratic institution. Into doubt Looking forward then he at says While Trump will soon be gone from the White House, he's also going to carry his victim. Hood called with him, which will be stronger than ever. So we haven't seen the last of those lies and the pernicious effects they're going to have on our democracy. Put another way. As historian Timothy Snyder writes the lie outlasts the liar. Melissa Block NPR news Of the 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to impeach President Trump. Perhaps none was more surprising than Tom Rice of South Carolina. Republicans in his conservative district are stunned, and some of them are saying he's doomed to lose to a GOP challenger next year. Steve Harrison from member station W F A has the story when Tom Rice voted to impeach some people thought it was a mistake. After all, Rice had voted against certifying Joe Biden's victory the week before. In an interview with WNBF News, Rice said he doesn't know if President Trump incited the right wing mob. He says he was appalled by his actions or lack thereof. While the capital was being attacked. Drop was tweeting that vice president Pants didn't have the courage to do what was right and you know, just further angering the crowd, he says. While he and other congressmen were huddled on the floor, the president offered only very tepid. Request sure scrapes things like you know the boat was stolen, but don't be too violent and things like that. Some Republicans who voted to impeach came from swing district's not Rice. Since 2013. He's represented the deep Red Seventh District, which includes Myrtle Beach, He won reelection with more than 60% of the vote, or a Democratic County chair. Tom Cohen praised Rice for in his words voting his conscience. He's definitely not been known as a maverick. I can't recall one example. I could give you where I thought he really went against the party on anything that was significant Republicans like Dreamer, Purdue, the chair of the Ori County GOP or stunned That's where I started his political career on the county Council. I'm already had phone calls. There will be several. I think that will throw their hats in the ring against him. Crisis said that if his impeachment vote cost him his job in 2022, then so be it. For NPR News. I'm Steve Harrison.
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"fiona hill" Discussed on KCRW
"Which is something that fascist said As a matter of fact, the three word chance Come on Theo idea that the press or the enemy of the people, and it's become the enemy of the people. He's there all fascist concepts. It doesn't mean that Trump is quite a fascist himself. Imagine what comes after that. Right. Imagine if the big lie continues. Imagine if there's someone who's more skillful and using it. And he is then we're starting to move into clearly Fascist territory. People will say, Oh, it couldn't possibly happen here. But so many things that we said couldn't possibly happen happen. That's Fiona Hill, a historian who spent decades studying Russia and the former Soviet Union. Looking at how disinformation and lies are woven into authoritarians regimes. Hill was also on the National Security Council staff under President Trump. You may remember her testimony from Trump's impeachment hearing in 2019. When she refuted what she called the fictional narrative that Ukraine, not Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Even the big lies roots in Nazi Germany. I asked Fiona Hill. Is it a stretch? A poor analogy to call Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election. A big lie. Bill says, No, we get so bogged down on the terminology that we don't then just kind of catalog what has been happening? Uninspected for what it is what it is, says Hill is a colossal falsehood meant to subvert the transfer of presidential power and to incite violence, So I don't actually think that we should get caught up. And the origins of where this turn, the big light comes from because this is clearly a lie on a large scale that was meant to have political consequences. I was also intended to pit one group of people within society against another. Trump has told so many falsehoods that he is effectively normalized lying, Hill says. He's taking his cues from the autocrats he publicly admires. President Trump was also talking openly about removing term limits. Wouldn't that be great on the thing is everyone thought he was joking? But as I learned from observing him, he says things in these throwaway manners, but he's deadly serious. He's not joking at all. Trump's use of the big lie comes from an age old authoritarians playbook, says Ruth. Ben got History professor at N. Y. U and author of the book Strong Men Mussolini To the present. It's part of a much larger discourse of throwing any mechanism of democracy, any democratic institution. Into doubt Looking forward, then he, Ott says, While Trump will soon be gone from the White House, he's also going to carry his victim. Hood called with him, which will be stronger than ever. So we haven't seen the last of those lies and the pernicious effects they're going to have on our democracy. Put another way. As historian Timothy Snyder writes the lie outlasts the liar. Melissa Block NPR news Off the 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to impeach President Trump. Perhaps none was more surprising than Tom Rice of South Carolina. Republicans in his conservative district are stunned, and some of them are saying he's doomed to lose to a GOP challenger next year. Steve Harrison from member station W F A has the story. When Tom Rice voted to impeach some people thought it was a mistake. After all, Rice had voted against certifying Joe Biden's victory the week before. In an interview with WNBF News, Rice said he doesn't know of President Trump incited the right wing mob. But he says he was appalled by his actions or lack thereof. While the capital was being attacked. President Trump was tweeting that vice president Pants didn't have the courage. Newell's right and you know, just further angering the crowd, he says. While he and other congressmen were huddled on the floor, the president offered only very tepid. Request sure scrapes things like you know, the vote was stolen, but don't be too violent and things like that. Some Republicans who voted to impeach came from swing district's not Rice. Since 2013. He's represented the deep Red Seventh District, which includes Myrtle Beach, He won reelection with more than 60% of the vote, or a Democratic County chair. Tom Cohen praised Rice for in his words voting his conscience. He's definitely not been known as a maverick. I can't recall one example. I could give you where I thought he really went against the party on anything that was significant Republicans like Dreamer, Purdue, the chair of the Ori county, GOP or stunt. That's where I started his political career on the county Council. I've already had phone calls. There will be several. I think that will throw their hats in the ring against him. Crisis said that if his impeachment vote cost him his job in 2022, then so be it. For NPR news. I'm Steve.
All Things Considered
Fiona Hill Discusses Massive Cyberattack on Government Agencies
"Those were the words of Thomas Bossert, who advised both President George W. Bush and President Donald Trump on Homeland Security. Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney compared it to Russian bombers flying undetected over our entire country. Both men, Of course, we're talking about the massive cyber attack believed to have been perpetuated by Russia on scores of US government and private networks. The attack went undetected for months on let's bring in Fiona Hill. She has spent her career studying Russia. She served until last year as President Trump's most senior Russia advisor on the National Security Council field. Hell hey there! Welcome back. Thanks so much Mercury's thanks. Start with something you just heard me say that this breach is believed to have been perpetuated by Russia. Is there any reason to believe this was anyone other than Russia? No, I don't think so. I mean, given the number off private sector entities of other government entities who have attributed it to Russia. There's also you know, longstanding hallmarks of a Russian operation that many of them very familiar with me. People have bean on the lookout for these kinds of attacks, and obviously, you know they have discovered one and this is I've been able to do all the forensics, so I don't think there's any reason to question it. When you say there are hallmarks that seem familiar to the way Russian hackers do their work that's like that. Yes, suddenly having worked with Many of the people who've been looking at this a cybersecurity experts, you know they're very familiar with the telltale signs that Russians and other actors leave behind. You'll have seen President Trump's tweet raising the possibility that this was China. Is it possible this was China? Well, China's certainly done actions on this kind of scale. A few years ago, we had Chinese hack which, of course, export trade and all kinds of data out of U. S. Government systems, including the personal data of many of the people had filled out security clearances and full time. Part time employees of the government. But you're saying the signature on this one appears to be consistent with Russia. Exactly. So, I mean the fact that he's saying Well, China, you know, could have done this well. China could have done an operation on this scale, but I don't think there's any question that this is Russia. Someone who has advised President Trump. Why, In your view, is he so resistant to blaming Russia or confronting Russia? I'm afraid to say that there's a very personal element to this. President. Trump has been fixated on President Putin for some considerable period of time. It's President Putin style of governance, it says. Seemingly unchecked power. It's the word that he presents himself personally. Azad leader. I think that there's a lot that Trump admires in Putin style, and I think he finds it extraordinary hard because he was convinced that they had personal chemistry to think that Putin would do something like this on his watch. I mean, I think we've seen that President Trump is the same person private in public. Who takes everything very personally, who believes my mention his own personal question. His own personal role on he's become personally invested in Vladimir Putin as a result of thinking that they have a relationship and he's lost sight. Unfortunately, then of the national security perspective of all of us, I think that's one of the reasons why he's both in denial to himself has said very little about this. How did this happen? Understanding you're out of government now. But do you think the U. S was asleep at the wheel, distracted by the pandemic, the election? Other things? Look, I think all of these things and issues I think part of is also problem. When your team is getting undermined. Then we were also in the midst of an election. Of course. In which we were extraordinary worried about a repeat performance of 2016 a hack of the election, But I think as a result of that we put a lot of resource is onto this. I mean, I can't say for sure, because I mean, I know that we have a new awful lot of very technically capable, hard working people across the entire system. But it was certainly the case that we were being pushed to look in one particular area. On any other pointed as well that the president is actually undermined The intelligence community at every turn has bean you know, pitted against them, since you know very much the beginning of his presidency. On a date has bean you know, putting political loyalists in place essentially to investigate the intelligence community. He's also sacked s O money. Cabinet members and senior people in The key purses that one would want to see pulling together as a piece of team to tackle. This kind of issue on has been a odds with the branches of government. Congress haven't Bean pulling together without the executive branch of the Department of Agencies, either this it takes the whole of government effort on the whole of society effort. May I say I've interviewed you now. A number of times, Fiona Hill. I have never heard you speak so openly in such an openly critical way of the administration. You served has something changed. I think that really what we've heard is more of an accumulation of facts to basically point out to people. I know what I've been trying to do all along, including last year when I was testifying is trying not to politicize everything we talked about in the impeachment inquiry. This is actually part of our problem. When we politicize Russia on we get into parties and fights. This is exactly when we lay ourselves vulnerable on the whole message that I've been trying to get across is we need to pull together, you know, thinking a part of the problem for many of the people have been trying to speak out like myself in earlier times. Is gonna get painted His disgruntled employees as somebody with an agenda while speaking out is a political act doesn't have to be partisan. You have to speak out on behalf of the country on I think that this kind of stirred it should be inescapable to everyone about. You know our failure to tackle Cove in our failure to get ahead at this kind of hack. All failure, frankly, should be able to hand off the president. Seeing a smooth fashion President Trump is already talking about massive demonstrations on the streets of Washington, D. C on January 6th. I'm talking in the language of in another country. In another setting that people would say, Hey, he's trying to basically instigate a coup. So I mean, I think at this point if the larger population has not quite got the message that I feel like I've got to speak out a bit more strongly. It was Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution. She served his director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council in the Trump Administration. Great to speak with you as always. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
60 Minutes
Why does Fiona Hill think President Trump is reluctant to criticize Vladimir Putin?
"Since softly has got all of our political class every single one of those including the media exactly where he wants us Dr Fiona hill was president trump's top adviser on Russia in her first interview since testifying in the impeachment we asked her about her name expertise Russian president Vladimir Putin do you think that he studied president trump and did find some vulnerabilities and honed in on them with US president he does this with opportunity everybody that
All In with Chris Hayes
Mitt Romney breaks with GOP and votes to remove Trump from office
"You believe that Donald Trump is is unfit to serve as president and should be removed from office. I do believe he should be removed from office. That's the vote that I will take an in just a short while if this means the end of your our political career broad shoulders to be able to to whether personal changes in my in my career political or otherwise. But what I don't have is the capacity to ignore my conscience the first time in American history sitting. US Senator voted to convict and remove president of his own party. Republican Senator Mitt Romney Utah Shocked. I gotta say just about everyone me as much as anyone without announcement and vote today before he did that before he decided trump was guilty of abuse the power given interviews the Atlantic's McKay coppins talking about his rationale. He said that this is the last place he wanted to find himself quote. I did not want to get here. In fact. He said that heard the reason he wanted. Former national security adviser John Bolton to testify about what president trump had told him was quote. I had the hope that Bolton would be able to say something it's to create reasonable doubt so I wouldn't have to vote to convict to talk more about Senator Romney's vote to android with a guy who got that big interview. McKay coppins staffer of the Atlantic and Neil Cacho former acting solicitor. Sir General in the Obama Administration who co-authored an opinion piece in the Times today titled This will come back to haunt trump and his enablers. Kayla me start with you a remarkable ccable moment in politics often. We don't surprise us because it's like well everyone's GonNa just do. What the partisan incense here? What was your sense of talking to him about what this meant and how he got there you know? I have to say that when I was told by his office that he was willing to talk to me yesterday and that he would reveal his vote. I went there with the assumption that he would probably be telling me he was gonNA vote to acquit. That wasn't to say I was. I wasn't open to the possibility. Maybe I think I actually said on your show last fall that I thought of all the Republican senators. Romney was the biggest threat to vote to convict. But you know I watched this kind of wrathful. Aw response from the right over. The last few months directed at him and I kind of expected him to be cowed and have like a bunch of excuses for why he had decided to to vote to acquit instead. He was very kind of almost indignant about what he saw as the president's misconduct he was dismayed by by his party. Ready and what. What's become of it and you know one thing that was remarkable to me was the degree to which he was talking about? Very personal issues of conscience and faith faith morality. He told me you know. I'm a fellow Mormon. And he was talking. He was quoting scripture to me quoting from hymns kind of talking about how he had he had had to pray eight for wisdom throughout this ordeal and so this really was something that was very personal for him and something seemed really committed to kneel. You wrote today about History history haunting the Republican senators or even in the near term being haunted by this. But what do you mean by that. Why do you think that's the case as opposed to it being consigned the memory hole like so so much that happens in our in our political world? Yeah I think that the GOP is now like the grand old cover party. And I think there's kind of three structural girl features that if I were publican outside of Romney I'd be really worried about number one. Is that seventy five percent of Americans wanted witnesses and seventy five percent of Americans. I think the president. That's something wrong in Ukraine. And that's even though we're so bitterly divided as a country so many Americans share that same core belief. The second is is the Democratic Party which has been told from the start impeachments assure loser the president keeps saying it and the like and they did it anyway. They did it despite the cost. Because has like Senator Romney they thought it was the right thing and third underappreciated and this is also the role of The folks in the Federal Government People like Dr Dr Fiona Hill and colonel of inman and the brave whistle blower all of whom came forward to say. Hey this is a real problem those three things together. So let's say to me if the president continues doing this stuff. He's going to face those three problems again. And then there's one other thing which is a consequence of the president's own legal arguments he said it to the Senate to things he said number one that there weren't any first-hand witnesses and the house should have gotten them and number two he said. Let the voters decide in November. Those two things together say the House tomorrow should be subpoenaing Bolton and gone launching a full-scale investigation. And that's what the president's President's own lawyers said should be done and so yeah. I'd be really worried if I'm the president I'd be worried about every senator who enabled this cover up McKay Don Jr. in Europe somewhat predictably tweeting about how Mitt Romney should be expelled from the GOP that he's now officially a member of the resistance and should be expelled and then of course Romney's niece Ronna Romney mcdaniel. Who is the chair of the? GOP said this is not the first time I disagree with Mitt. I imagine not be the last. The bottom line is president trump. Did nothing wrong. Republican Party's ladies more united than ever behind him. I got to imagine everyone's GonNa Watch the predictable kind of nuclear reaction that they will get from from from trump and the Republican party on this well. That's that's the whole point that's the strategy and that's been the strategy from day one that Donald trump goes after Mitt Romney when he steps out of line not because he he thinks he's going to be able to intimidate Mitt Romney necessarily because he's sending a message to all the other Republicans who might consider stepping out of line. I will say that you know when I was talking to Romney. He was bracing for this political backlash yesterday and he said Look. I know this is going to be really bad. I know that the vast majority of my party is lined up behind trump. He told me when he he's in airports. Every walk down the street random people will shout things at him in call him a traitor. Tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself and that was before he took this vote. So you know the the backlash is going to be by kind kind of deliberately. A spectacle to try to make an example out of Mitt Romney and I think that's part of the reason that Romney it'll be interesting to continue to watch him both both how he reacts to that and and how he kind of weather is that because while I do think there's GonNa be a lot of anger from the White House presidents allies the grassroots. I'm not actually sure that his Republican colleagues in the Senate are going to be quite as vicious and and you know Romney wants to show that you can do this. You can take this so you can stand up to trump and continue to resist. Do Your job. The president also of course tweeting a as I said earlier kind of nonsensical video targeting Romney I also I also wonder Neil and this is sort of different calculation but but but folks in the civil service I mean this seems to be key so many of them wrist stuck their neck out to go to go testify. We we know that there were people in the administration some political mostly civil servants. who were saying this is wrong? This is wrong. We shouldn't be doing this and I wonder what today means for them as well. In terms of restraining the president going forward so two things I just with respect to the conversation you were just having it so striking to me that this is the same person who evidently said something according to CBS opponents head is going to put on a pike and that led all the Republican senators to freak out when representative Schiff made that argument. But now that's exactly what's Howard's to Romney. We don't hear any of the any of that back and then with respect to the federal bureaucracy. I think you're absolutely right. You could take two different lessons from at one is it. Didn't work but I think the lesson that dead there is being taken in America. I'm starting to hear it from people in the federal government including when people who've seen some bad stuff and haven't come forward yet is the truth has got to come out. If the truth keeps coming out then the president is going to be stymied and all of the horrible things that he's trying to do and so I think this is going to be a lesson that's going to empower future whistleblowers. It's not going to hold them back And I certainly encouraged anyone with information to come forward McKay coppins and Neil Cacho. Thanks Janet from raking time tonight.
Chris Plante
House impeachment managers to deliver final day of arguments
"House impeachment manager set to begin their final day of arguments in the Senate impeachment trial Republican senators such as John morass so of Wyoming complaining that the democratic arguments have been repetitive some of the videos that they've been playing for this the third day they have played thanks Fiona hill I think must've seen one of those videos five or six or seven times in a year for most senators after they see something a couple of times they don't need to see
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
Trump's Russia adviser is put on administrative leave
"Am not part of the this. Whatever drug deal that Mulvaney in sunland cooking up on a hill former top Russia official on the National Security Council giving explosive explosive testimony in the impeachment inquiry in November testifying that she was essentially witness to the quid pro quo the center of the scandal for which president trump's now been impeached in the house house? That testimony put former national security adviser John Bolton at the top of Democrats wishlist for witnesses for the Senate trial of President Trump Fiona on a hill interacted with all the players at the center of the Ukraine scandal. She was there for many of the meetings at the center of the scandal because her position top Russia officials at the White House. Just put her at the center of the drama. She ended up being at the center of the inquiry. So here's something to watch for. Nail when Fiona Hill left her job as the top Russia Russia official on the National Security Council. Last summer she was replaced in that job by Tim. Morrison seen here also giving critical testimony in the impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison lasted less than four months at that job. He quit literally the night before he gave his first closed-door impeachment testimony he walked into that deposition and announced. Oh It's surprise. He had resigned from the White House the previous night. Well after that in November that job top Russia job on the National Security Council at the White House House went to a new guy. This guy's name is Andrew Peak. Mr Pique had been at the State Department before moving over to the White House. He has been in this job less than three months surfed. Morrison was there for less than four months but on Friday this weekend. He was reportedly escorted off the White House grounds. According to Bloomberg News Axios the first to report. NBC News has since confirmed that peak was put on indefinite administrative leave amid a security related investigation. It was expected to travel with President trump to Davos this week but not anymore not after getting frogmarched off the White House grounds. We don't have details yet as to what this is all about. But I mean this job of old jobs right. This is the top Russia post at the White House. It is now vacant for the third time in less than a year since Fiona Hill
Politics and Public Policy Today
No sign of end to standoff over Trump impeachment trial
"And now to the impeachment debate here in Washington the Senate Republican leader is accusing house speaker Nancy Pelosi and what he is calling shamelessly game playing those comments from senator McConnell came after the speaker again stated she does not plan to send articles of impeachment of the Senate until seeing proposed rules for trial a president trump the continuing standoff between the speaker and the Senate Republican leader focusing on the president's conduct toward Ukraine comes as the president addressed the nation on the hostilities with Iran a crisis that is now over shadowing the impeachment drama from the Senate floor Republican John Thune of South Dakota but as a very straightforward process one as I said that met with the approval of all one hundred senators both Democrats and Republicans back in nineteen ninety nine the Clinton president is seems to me at least to be a fair way in which to proceed and and won that Senate Republicans have agreed to move forward with soul if and when the house Democrats under speaker Pelosi determine that they are ready to send those articles over here seems like maybe they're waiting for something to rescue what I think is an otherwise fairly weak argument that they have to make but when those articles arrive here we will have a process in place in which to move forward and and and get this trial under way in the Senate and hopefully hear the arguments and at some point in I hope in the not too distant future I conclude this and get it behind us in on to the work that the American people I think sent his here to do obviously there is an election coming up in November the first of all we'll start being cast just a few weeks from now in the state of Iowa and New Hampshire and other states followed very closely on by super Tuesday so the election process is already under way and I think that is the means by which most Americans believe we ought to deal with our leadership and in a democratic system of government we have the opportunities people to express our opinions and the voice argues in that manner and I would hope that that is where we can settle these political differences industries that we have that from Republican John Thune of South Dakota on the Senate floor the hill newspaper reporting a democratic senators are quote growing impatient over the delayed start of the impeachment trial some saying it's time for speaker Pelosi to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate in fact this from democratic senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut telling The Washington Post yesterday quote I think the time is past we should send the articles over reacting to all of that the house democratic caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York sorry say has no the resolution going to like what do you gain by waiting for one of our as speaker has consistently indicated it's very difficult for her to determine who would be appropriate impeachment managers to present the house's case in the absence of understanding the rules of engagement and what the contours of a trial would look like beyond of course chairmanship and chairman Nadler who one would think we're going to be logical choices and participants to lead the effort but what we have seen over the last several weeks all the additional disclosure of documents that continue to highlight that the president did abuse his power by targeting an American citizen for political gain while withholding intentionally three hundred and ninety one million dollars in military aid from a vulnerable Ukraine additional documents subsequent to the speaker's decision to hold the articles have come out that's a gain in terms of information to the American people and we've also seen during this period of time that a critically important potential witness John Bolton has said he will testify if subpoenaed John Bolton had direct communication with the president about this sordid matter and abuse of power and we know from testimony from doctor Fiona hill characterize this whole scheme as a drug deal and the president's main operative Rudolph Giuliani as a hand grenade that from democratic congressman who keen Jeffries part of the house democratic leadership in this note regarding the house California governor Gavin Newsom today saying that he will not call for a special election in the district held by resigning Republican congressman Duncan hunter saying that we received his letter of resignation based on the timing a special election will not be called Duncan hunter officially steps down next Monday after pleading guilty to charges of campaign finance
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Rep. Jackie Speier blames Trump for harassment of Fiona Hill
"Until a congresswoman Jackie spear is linking the recent harassment of a key impeachment witness to president trump's behavior according to The Washington Post former White House Russia adviser Fiona hill has received obscene phone calls death threats and attacks from far right media since she testified before the house intelligence committee Congress woman spare who sits on that committee says the attacks are consistent with trump's conduct but he sees competent women who do not bow to him and kiss his ring he attacks them viciously spear says she's also concerned the president is surrounding himself with staff who have little foreign policy expertise and she criticized his most recent appointment to the National Security Council
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Debunking the Trump-backed conspiracy theory on Ukraine election meddling
"President trump repeated again on Friday a defunct conspiracy theory that it was you crane and not Russia that intervened in the twenty sixteen election this even after multiple US intelligence agencies have repeatedly stated that that's simply not true in her testimony in the impeachment hearings this past week former National Security Council officer Fiona hill said that the president and his supporters are parroting Russian disinformation this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated in propagated by the Russian security services themselves the unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked democratic institutions in twenty sixteen this is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies confirmed in bipartisan congressional reports it is beyond dispute even if some of the underlying details Mister mental suffice the second installment of the report she's referring to was written by the Senate intelligence committee and released last month need a junk which is the disinformation fellow at the Wilson center science technology and innovation program here in Washington DC and she joins me now welcome thanks for having me Leila alright let's start with this one it was kind of extraordinary to see in these impeachment hearings the need to repeat over and over and over again that it was the Russian government and not Ukraine that interfered in the twenty sixteen election so that strike you as significant it struck me as significant because by spreading the rumor that Ukraine interfered in our elections it's undermining the unanimous conclusions not only of the intelligence community but I have this bipartisan Senate report the Kremlin is stoking these divisions in our society and of course they don't want to see Ukraine reach its goals of Europe lentic integration they want to see you crane thought of as a corrupt nation and and right now the folks are peddling those theories are helping the Kremlin in that goal we should say for sure that we don't know that it was Russia that started the Ukraine rumor I'm we do know that Russia interfered in our election but we don't know that it was Russia that started the rumor that Ukraine was the one that did it instead of them doing well there is reporting that just came out from the New York times at the end of this week that sad that intelligence community was briefing members of Congress over the past couple of months saying that indeed Russian intelligence did plant that rumor among journalists and Ukrainian oligarchs and that's how it made its way into our
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Trump Impeachment Inquiry: A Quick Recap
"More as Democrats and Republicans on the house intelligence committee ended what is likely their final impeachment hearing chairman Adam Schiff asserted president trump's conduct went beyond Watergate this president believes he is up all the law beyond accountability ranking member Devin newness called the hearings a show trial the latest attempt by Democrats to oust the president from office and their Russian dossiers and investigations fail to do the job they moved to plan B. the Ukraine helps those closing statements as this impeachment inquiry prepares to move to the house Judiciary Committee followed almost thirty three hours of witness testimony it began with ambassador bill Taylor who tried to show the importance of Ukraine to America's national security premiums or fighting Russians and counted on not only the training and weapons but also the assurance of U. S. support Taylor said in a regular policy making channel had taken over in Ukraine view reinforced by ambassador Marie Evanovich who questioned whether president trump was listening to people with interest be on national security they found Americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of the US ambassador and colonel Alexander vin men raised alarms about making diplomacy personal is improper for the president of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a US citizen and a political opponent and then came ambassador Gordon saman central assertion Mr Giuliani's requests were a quid pro hello for arranging a White House visit for presidents Lynskey and that brought us to David Holmes and Fiona hill to normally unseen players want a career foreign service officer the other a national security analyst they entered the spotlight and provided a cinematic finish to the public impeachment hearings I could hear the president's voice through the ear piece of the phone isn't voice was loud and recognizable David Holmes called it a distinctive experience to over here president trump on the phone with ambassador Gordon Solomon I dinner president trump ask so he's gonna do the investigation master Stalin replied that he's going to do it adding a presence Lynskey will do anything asked him to do when the call ended home stole democratic staff attorney Daniel Goldman he asks on then for his impression of the president's view of Ukraine what ambassador son one say to you it is it doesn't really care about Ukraine use
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Trump hosts heated White House vaping debate
"On Wednesday ten candidates faced off in Atlanta for a democratic presidential debate no one candidate broke out of the pack reflecting his surge in the polls people to judge came under fire for his political and experience while calmly Heris tried to regain momentum meanwhile on Capitol Hill house Democrats heard from nine witnesses this week and they're impeachment investigation of president trump ambassador Gordon Tomlin and former White House adviser Fiona hill were among those who testified someone said there was in fact a quid pro quo for the release of military aid to Ukraine while Fiona hell characterize the pressure campaign as a quote domestic political errands with us now is Joe carefully senior political writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and founder and president of she the people Amy Allison thanks for being with us Joe let's start with you much has been made of south bend Indiana mayor Pete booted Chad and his recent rise in the polls particularly in Iowa and New Hampshire what was his goal on Wednesday night and do you think he achieved it was gold what was it for in it not to be a a peek down like everybody just the young people who just because he's the the poll leader he's got bigger problems he is the head in that state that's ninety percent white which is you know that's that's nice but when it comes to California the stats here say that you know half of Latinos don't even know who he is so he's got some real problems and when he goes to South Carolina and he's been a long time there no black folks there are not into his campaign at all it is it's really amazing about people the church is that there is no path to victory in the primary without winning significant black support to go around black women he's as close to zero as they come and so I thought last night or late this week was his opportunity to make his case an authentic way to really appeal to black voters particular black women who are the power house Democratic Party voters and he was challenged on his racial justice record in south bend and I feel like he fell flat and so he didn't gain momentum there and therefore I I think as it relates to black voters would you put a judge did not to gain and he says I I asked in this of the California Democratic Party convention were at those at last week about this and he said no I'm I'm looking for to making out reaches into the communities and then Latinos and blacks but he didn't show up to the to the like the to the African American caucus of the California Democratic Party convention so you know there's a gap right now between the rhetoric and the reality for him come here she called him out on that on the stage in Amy you were actually at the debate I was right there and I what was the mood like there it's interesting because of the tight it's Tyler Perry studios it said Lana this is a state that was electrified and literally transformed by the campaign is Stacey Abrams who did that the pre show rally you don't it was the moment where I was sitting among people it was very clear when we heard from the mayor of Atlanta is Stacey Abrams a congressman Lewis as well as Tom for as the Georgia is the middle of the middle of the battleground states there one point four points from being a blue state and they recognize that not only do they have to deal with voter suppression and we didn't hear enough about that on stage about the reality voter suppression in a state like Georgia but they they need to invest now in order to elevate turn out even more than we saw record numbers for twenty eighteen so there was a sense of people in the audience they're really looking for signals from the the candidates who was who is able to speak the language of a multiracial coalition they can be a man or woman of any race but are they going to appeal to people like in Georgia and some did did a very good job on that and others fell on their face and so that was a good measure of who's going to be positioned to reassemble the Obama coalition into twenty twenty one of the most striking things for me in this debate was that this was the first debate were all for moderators were women Amy and you can answer this also if you'd like to do you think that that that affected the tenor of the debate and what was talked about I actually thought it was good I I in the in the sense that child care was brought up that's a universal fit you know our concern of parents in terms of being a burden and there's not a lot really but national solution to this so we have we're able to really hear from the candidates much more deeply around an issue that affects a lot of us and I think having women on the stage did make a difference in that way I think the issue of abortion in in choice was addressed more than before but again there are there were many many more issues or round they talked about workplace harassment in the need to movement and right that was really funny talk about housing to which hasn't gotten a lot of play so far too which is which is another issue that we yeah we have but for five debates since the first time I've really have discussion about housing is interesting because if you look at women in particular women of color are going to be the that the swing vote in these battleground states for the white and battle the White House they're also going to be the vote that ultimately decides who is a standard bearer for the Democratic Party these issues matter and she the people just worked with us center for American progress on a report that basically said look if you talk issues with the good witch and issues that speak to the base like some of the issues were talking about those are things that excite people and get them to the polls this is this is what needs to happen more and more these debates are coming up well California senator Kamel Harris she came out swinging at this debate she's trying to revitalize her campaign and there was one particularly testy exchange between her and congressman Tulsi Gabbard let's listen to that it's unfortunate that we have someone on the stage who is attempting to be the democratic nominee for president United States during the Obama administration spent four years full time on foxnews criticizing president Obama
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Fiona Hill gives nation and Republicans stark warning
"A former White House adviser on Russia delivered more than just riveting testimony in the president's impeachment inquiry A. P. that Jackie Quinn reports she also had a warning for the U. S. about Russian election interference doctor Fiona hill is an expert on Russia who served on the president's National Security Council she expressed disapproval about the trump administration was pushing Ukraine's new president and she urged lawmakers to stop saying that you crane might have been meddling in the U. S. selection of twenty sixteen but if used to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U. S. address three of the Ukraine not Russia talked in twenty sixteen president trump has been part of that narrative she warns that Russia is currently working to interfere in the twenty twenty election and that's where Washington spoke it should be we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly
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Filmmaker Barry Levinson on Ukraine scandal
"We have an email from Oscar winning director and screenwriter. Barry Levinson. Who writes if this hearing was a fictional oh piece of material it would be presented in a totally different manner? One of the democratic players would ask this question. How is it possible? That president trump was looking into corruption in in Ukraine. Suddenly he is crimefighter has the president has has the president ever tried to end corruption anywhere at any time in his his life over the years he's been found guilty of stealing from his own charity. Also the president has been found guilty of running fake university and stealing money from people who believed in him. The president has paid off women because of his sexual aggressive behavior. Now out of the blue. He wants to clean up corruption in Ukraine not Russia where Putin has killed off opposition players poisoning them in far off countries. President trump has no real problem with the Saudi prince. NBS having his butcher's chop up a Washington Post Post reporter not a real problem or turkeys aggression against Kurds not a big problem but the Ukraine is corrupt. That needs to change. Are we supposed to believe this. Donald Trump wants to clean up corruption. Starting with Biden's son. In Ukraine the Democrats have not yet emphasized this absurdity at the center of the Republican defensive. Donald Trump might that moment. Come in the house. Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings or art in the impeachment trial in the United States. Senate we are joined now by one of the jurors in the possible impeachment trial of Donald J trump if he is impeached by the House of Representatives. Senator Amy Klobuchar is a Democrat from Minnesota and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is also a candidate for president of the United States. Senator and it's because you're candidate for President United States Florida. I believe you have all you already have the strength but have built up the strength to deal with the kind of frustration. Australian that Barry Levinson is feeling and people all over the country my feeling about this movie person. He knows that truth has become stranger than fiction. I think makes that point. The second thing yesterday member is you can't that long of a question would take your time. The third thing is I think that Adam Schiff I was trying to focus and did a very good job of this on what was in front of him and I think these arguments will be made later but remember this phase of this was gathering offering me evidence from career diplomats career military. I will never forget. Seeing Fiona Hill today I saw snippets of it of course and just her STOIC STOIC nature and the thought of her my favorite story that I read today about her was when she was a little girl in school and some boy behind her set her pigtails on fire and she doused it out with their own hands there. She was and she was focused on what was before her. And that was what Russia did the Ukraine didn't do and I learned from going to Ukraine twice now and once with Senator McCain and Graham I mean Russia tried to influence as as we know in a big way Ukrainian elections they put up a puppet and not only that they invaded their country an annex Crimea so this this thought that it was Ukraine that was the bad actor is absurd and I was really glad that you pointed this out. It's not to say they don't have problems in their country with corruption option but I loved how she explained today that for the president corruption in this case was code word for going after getting dirt on by I they had a different introduction for this segment tonight until I got this email just minutes before the show and what what I thought it captured was the kind of viewer frustration. That there is out. They're in watching this and just to clarify we know that in a courtroom. That wouldn't be admissible if if Donald Trump is on trial for ex. You couldn't bring up all these other things you know that. Art The About his life but this is a different arena. Would we hear something like that said for example in the Judiciary Committee when they're considering impeachment or could that be said that kind of thing be said in the Senate impeachment trial. This is example of evidence because the fact that In this case he was allegedly that corruption crimefighter and when you have other countries and other things that happened including the murder of journalists Jamal Kashogi he showed no care Really absurd relevant. I would think it would be but I think again a lot of this is going to depend pen and what our Republican colleagues do and this is their moment to decide. Are they going to put their country first or not. What would your reaction to Mitt Romney Susan Collins and others having lunch with the president today it disappoints me It's legal or anything like that. I could see if they were going over there on a major issue. That of course would be fine but instead this is what's happening and I just hope that they listened to the evidence and that they remember what this is really about. It's putting private interest partisan interests in front of our
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Fiona Hill warns of "fictional narrative" on Ukraine in testimony
"Former White House national security adviser Fiona hills is the contention from some Republicans Ukraine interfered in the twenty sixteen election is fictional during house testimony and president trump's impeachment probe she warned lawmakers not to advance a politically motivated narrative helpful to Russia as they defend trump hill who stress she's non partisans of Russia and its proxies of geared up for twenty twenty election
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Impeachment hearing takeaways: A ‘domestic political errand’
"Dr Fiona hill is an expert on Russia who served on the president's National Security Council she expressed disapproval about the trump administration was pushing Ukraine's new president and she urged lawmakers to stop saying that you crane might have been meddling in the U. S. selection of twenty sixteen but if used to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative the Ukrainian government is a U. S. address three of the Ukraine not Russia talked in twenty sixteen president trump has been part of that narrative she warns that Russia is currently working to interfere in the twenty twenty election and that's where Washington spoke it should be we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly wishes harm Jackie Quinn Washington