Good morning, everyone. Happy new year. This is a very serious time here in america, both as it relates to president ial accountability that we continue to address, perhaps most importantly this moment of great tension and conflict in the world, in the middle east, in iraq, with u. S. Troops and americans in harms way unnecessarily in the view of many because of the provocative, potentially unlawful actions of the president of the United States. Mr. Jeffries with respect to the recent strike. At our meeting today we had a very robust discussion as it relates to the moment that we are in, the situation that we confront in the middle east. We were graced by the presence of ambassador wendy sherman, who was one of the lead negotiators of the jcpoa, the iran nuclear agreement. That the president s reckless actions have all but disintegrated making us less safe here in america and throughout the world. We also heard from deputy it relates tos as the underlying legal basis of the president s
Or broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our new International Im sean thomas certainly granted to have you with us. Our france has been paralyzed by its biggest strike in years with this thursday workers are protesting in mass against of the governments plans to overhaul the Pension System transport networks have been brought to a standstill with schools and hospitals badly affected as well demonstrations have been held right across the country one of the largest trade unions in france says 1500000 people marched in support of the protest while the interior ministry estimates 800000 took part. Was in paris following protests force. This is to put these changes by the french government the Pension System even fronts the idea is that they will see a model come a number of different systems around food. 2 different systems into a universal system but people say that i will have a massive impact on their pensions because it will mean that their pensions perhaps could be low
U. S. Trade deficit has fallen to recent lows in the midst of the ongoing trade war but what could this mean for negotiations Going Forward were going to break it all down and analyze much more with todd horwitz above the trade and later the f. C. C. Is a Communications Agency not a National Security agency it has no expertise in National Security nor did his have authority to make National Security judgments. And yet another front of the trade fight we follow up on the realm of telecom as weiwei has made some major moves to wean the u. S. Government are the one is there a lot of a ocollins of the hands of sort through the latest in wall ways lawsuit against the f. C. C. We have a pack chill day so lets get to it. And we start by taking you again to france where these massive strikes have brought the nation to a screeching halt in fact these are the largest single demonstrations that have taken so place so. Or under the administration of president emanuel mccrone in fact president has
Friday evening late here in moscow money welcome to world news from C International 1st. A member of the anti migrant alternative for Germany Party has said shes received an assassination threat from left wing extremists christina biome is now working the media and other Political Parties to stop what she claims is a hate campaign against her Party Reporting next from berlin heres evangelist. The i if the politician christina has posted a picture on social media of a cross with number of insults written on it but also a very serious threat towards her the cross was this covered by the if there politician near her office where she works as a dentist on wednesday evening the police do not know who the perpetrators are but since this is a threat towards a local politician they have passed on the investigation to the Domestic Intelligence Services Office the alternative for Germany Party has quick to condemn the attack and urged the media and Political Parties to stop spreading their hatre
The committee will come to order. That objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report part two bipartisan perspective. I will not recognize myself in Opening Statements. Last week we heard from two former United States attorneys who described President Trumps repeated efforts to undermine special counsel muellers investigation of russias interference in the 2016 election. We also heard from president nixons former white House Counsel who told us that the actions by this administration were substantially similar to the measures that nixon and the admin efficient took to undermine the watergate administration. There is one important difference. The special counselor mueller was investigating a different kind of break in. The target was similar to that in watergate. The burglar was a hostile foreign nation. The crime was carried out through a hacking operation that still hundreds of thousands of doc