Portnoy s Joining me is we getting ready for the hearing to gavel in the witnesses have yet to take the table so we have a moment or so and let s talk about Bill Taylor and George can t for a moment Stephen they ve already given depositions behind closed doors but who are they and just how key are they to the investigation will Democrats believe these 2 witnesses are key because they ll be able to describe the irregular channel that featured Rudy Giuliani the president s personal attorney and other officials like Kurt Volker and Gordon Sohn plan to apply pressure on the Ukrainian president Linsky to get him to announce an investigation into a very some other gas company that employed Joe Biden s son Hunter Now it s important to note what you have already said Bill and that is the fact that the committee that is convening this hearing has already heard this testimony this is for the public s benefit Democrats are hoping to increase public support for the president s impeachment our c.b
Miller s team this week once one of the most powerful people in the White House it s fought his testimony could prove crucial to the inquiry into allegations of killing between the trunk campaign and Russia and possible obstruction of justice on the part of the president himself Steve Benen also appeared before a closed door meeting of the House Intelligence Committee today which is running a parallel investigation to the miller inquiry but confined himself to a list of questions pre-approved by the White House and refused to answer anything to do with his time inside the administration police in New York City of arrested a former schoolteacher and his twin brother on bomb making charges has Peter Voser after Christie and Tara resigned from his job as a teacher in January his brother returned his school laptop when the computer was examined a technician found a document called the explosives book New York police say they also discovered a diary with a reference to Operation flush and
Famine to suppress the nationalist movement in Ukraine and strengthen Russian influence millions of people died we talked with and Applebaum about her book The Red famine so much of why the Ukrainian famine was possible because of the way in which the Soviet Union used to descend from Asian propaganda and what we would now call hate speech to encourage people to do terrible things Applebaum also monitors current this information campaigns including Russian interference in Germany s recent election She s a professor at lated States right now with a kind of distress that you would feel if you were stranded on a desert island and you saw off in the distance the ship that was coming to rescue you sinking that and more coming up on fresh air. First news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer. Fire consuming a house east of Napa today one of more than a dozen now burning in northern California the shills there say fires have claimed at least 10 lives and left others injured the