After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. Who knows how many friends, how much wisdom we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegation, and he took us all on a tour of the creme lip. Kremlin. Priceless. Jim, your command of russia, its history and its culture shows up everyone here. Y
Heather james comey is set to testify in the russia investigation and his claim of the president asked him to back off. Jon lets get the latest from john roberts who is live on the north line. Good morning to you. James comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee as soon as next week. We are told that he has been running by his testimony with the special prosecutor to ensure there is no conflict between what comey might say and congress under oath before Senate Intelligence committee and the investigation that Robert Mueller is conducting. On the house side of things, things are starting to move quickly. The fbi, the cia, and the nsa requested documents on susan rice, the former National Security advisor and the obama white house, john brennan, and Samantha Power who was the ambassador to the United Nations under president obama. Power has never been mentioned until now in connection with the investigation, but intelligence chairman devon nunez believes she ha