world ella and alexander clooney. congratulations, george and amal, or as i'm calling you ocean's four. >> being a parent of twins, having twins is literally four-times as hard. >> that's true. >> i don't know how you do it. i give you so much credit. you talk about it like, i got twins, like it's no big deal. it's a big deal to raise twins. >> these days, she's going through tonight and the next few months is hard. once they get to 3, 4 -- >> yeah. then, they have a play buddy for life. >> you find the positive. >>> coming up, dylan, a huge announcement. how you can win the ultimate father's day giveaway. and maybe hang with her, too. right after this. g with her, to. g with her, to. watch. nothing can stop crizal® no-glare lenses. neither water. nor smudge. nor scratch. nor damaging uv rays. nor glare of night can keep you from the clearest vision possible. ask for crizal no-glare lenses. and live life in the clear. finance your glasses with no interest if paid in full within 6 months, and get up to $30 back when y

hairman alexander: -- senator alexander. mr. secretary, welcome. democrats have set some records for delaying president trump's cabinet nominees, but president trump is setting some records for not setting up subcabinet nominees for us to consider. under president obama had sent 10 department of labor nominees by now. president bush sent nine. petroleum set two -- president trump set two. when are we going to get more nominations for your department? secretary acosta: well, senator, mr. chairman, i appreciate the question. i can say this. i'm approaching my own 60-day mark as a secretary. and i have set it as a personal goal to have the vast majority subdepartment leadership identified and in clearance by the 60-day mark. i believe that that goal is something that can be reached. then ultimately they do have to go through background check and clearance. senator alexander: i would urge the white house, the president, and you -- this is the senate's opportunity to confirm, to vet the question these nominees. we can move them quickly through the commi

i'll point out that one of the babies is named alexander and as the father of an alexander, i salute them. >> fine name. >> fine name. >> strong name. >> senatorial even. >>> but first here's some really scary moments at a festival featuring hot air balloons. >> strong winds caused midair collisions leaving one of these balloons without a pilot. abc's eva pilgrim joins us with the dramatic video. good morning. >> good morning. talk about a close call. what was supposed to be a fun ride in a hot air balloon blown off course. the pilot knocked out of the basket. the two passengers left to figure it out for themselves. chaos at a central illinois festival. >> oh, no. >> reporter: a sudden gust of wind causing one balloon to lift up sending it crashing into two others. the basket tipping, one person dangling out. >> he's hanging out. oh, my god. >> no. >> oh, my god. he's hanging. please, please, please. >> reporter: eventually he's safely makes it on the ground >> i hope he's not the one who runs it. >> reporter: but that man was the pilot left inside the basket, his two passengers now

good day to you i'm peter alexander in this afternoon for andrea mitchell. president trump and south korean president moon just wrapping up their remarks in the rose garden. president moon pledging to stand with the united states to put pressure on north korea to stop north korea's nuclear threat. among the headlines we just heard, president trump said the relationship between the two is the cornerstone of peace and security in that dangerous part of the world. he referred to north korea as a menace, saying the regime there was both brutal and reckless and said it had no respect for human

joining us from brussels is alexander weber. which problem is the european commission here trying movelve by suggesting that into the eu? alexander: at the moment, the majority of euro dominated thevatives is done by london stock exchange. the european central banks already tried to move euro clearing to the euro area in 2011. a legal battle with the u.k. which the u.k. one in 2015. then brexit happened, after the u.k. leaves the eu, it will take place out of the eu. it is a special situation that this will take place outside of the eu. it is not exactly surprising the commission tried to solve the issue. we understand that they are mostly trying to more directly supervise the business in london , but also they would keep the shift to inside the eu what does this actually mean in reality for companies that have to work with? this costs, etc. roll me through the details on the ground. meansder: definitely this more complexity for u.k.-based firms. not only will he have to engage with u.k. authorities and u.s. authorities, but als

blunt: senator, alexander. senator alexander thank you, mr. : chairman. madam secretary, welcome. first, a very quick question about elementary and secondary education. better teacher evaluation. the other is orders from washington. i think the reason we got 85 votes for the law fixing no child left behind was because so many people from unions to governors were tired of so many orders from washington. you are going to be approving a plan from every state about how to spend its title i funds. the law says you can only approve them. you can only fail to approve it if it doesn't follow the law. will you follow the law or will you be tempted to use your own policy ideas in approving or rejecting state plans? betsy devos: senator, we will be following the law and approve plans as congress has intended. sen. alexander: we also put in a prohibition to say that while there is a waiver in the law for exceptional circumstances, we did not want the secretary of education conditioning the waiver by using the secretary's own ideas about what a community might do. will you respect the law sayi

that was peter alexander reporting. nbc's megyn kelly is in russia tonight. she'll ask putin about the shift in an exclusive one-on-one interview. you can see her reporting on the premiere of sunday night with megyn kelly this sunday evening at 7:00 here on >> we had a beautiful day today. let's ask doug, if we got more coming up. >> magic eight ball says yes. more over the coming days. a phenomenal afternoon on thursday. fantastic friday too. numbers today. high temperature. 85. 80 in frederick. i think we will see similar numbers tomorrow. maybe a degree or two cooler. but still a very nice afternoon. take a look at the headlines here. fantastic friday. continued warm through the weekend. and we'll be talking about weekend rain chances. one day better chance of rain than the other. unsettled next week. not all that bad. updated forecast. see you back here in eight minutes. >> thank you, doug. >> new at 11:00, former head of the naacp lets us know which small businesses should be paying $15 minimum wage. kicked off his campaign in baltimore as progresve news

a son named alexander and a daughter named ella. now, julia roberts who has twins offered up this advice for the clooneys. there's so much things as wisdom whou and prayers and tears and holding on tight to each other. julia is just one of many parents in hollywood who has somehow survived the arrival of two babies at one time. >> when both need to be held, they're like 22 pounds each now, when i do change the diaper, always one has to wait. >> celine tends to two little >> saline knows how hard it is to be a mom tending to two little ones. they've become her little helpers. >> they like to paint me. they like to paint me with makeup. emme had rollers in her hair. >> and sarah jessica parker's twins. >> the first time lor et that >> the first time loretta put on a pair of like oh, and you're seeing them shuffle around and it was kind of tender. it was kind of sweet. >> mariah's twins have become used to jet set lifestyle. they want to go this the airplane. if we stay somewhere too long they don't like it. they're travelers. they lov

i've already mentioned michelle alexander civil rights lawyer advocate legal scholar and best selling author. and i should also tell you that -- later after the discussion, the book of becoming will be on sale be downstairs in our bookstore. where's ms. graham make sure i'm right about this. now down stairs in our bookstore soy encourage you all to go down after it is over and get a copy. you're signing them -- yes ms. byrd will be signing them and i'm sure after you hear this discussion you will want to get a copy. moderator tonight is archer an award-winning author and journalist and first detained recognition when she pinned her 1999 cay debut book the prisoners wife it's a powerful lyrical memoir about a young black woman romance and marriage with a man who was serving a 20 to life sentence in prison. with a hope that they would live as a couple in the outside world she became pregnant with her daughter. a former feature editor for essence magazine, she also wrote something like beautiful. the continuation of her love with emotional disappointment and a serious bout of depression.

peter alexander is live at the white house. peter, president trump summoned all republican senators to the white house yesterday. how big r >> reporter: to this point, he played a more limited role than he did when the house passed its bill. the scene yesterday was strikingly different. when the house bill passed, they had a celebration in the rose garden. yesterday, you saw dozens of republican senators coming here, brainstorming, expressing frustrations about what in effect is a failure, the stunning delay in what was expected to be a vote tomorrow for the republican bill to try to repeal obamacare, something they have been working on for the course of seven years. now republicans over the course of the next 24 to 48 hours will try to gather a plan to be reviewed by the independent budget score keeper, congressional budget office, while they then head away for their fourth of july recess. the goal being when they come back that they get a chance to vote on a new bill, suffice it to say this is not the way they carved it out.

no time table for an answer. >> thanks to peter alexander for that. as he mentioned we're hours from attorney general sessions' testimony before the senate intelligence committee, where he will be publicly interrogated. nbc's edward lawrence sin d.c. this morning. so originally we thought this was a closed hearing. sessions requested it to be public testimony. what can we expect? >> reporter: expect very tough questions from democrats, the attorney general will be grilled about his failing to disclose meetings with the russian ambassador on his security clearance paperwork and be asked if fill in the blanks left by former director james comey's testimony when specifically talking about a meeting in the oval office where the president cleared the room and including sessions to talk about the flynn investigation, comey testified at that meeting is where the president said i hope you can let this go, now we do expect the attorney general may invoke executive privilege on a few of the answers. the white house basically is not as worried about this testimo

alexander hitchins. this is a terror attack, pure and simple no matter what the people who carried it out think it was. >> yes. we have to see how premeditated it was. it looks like it was. it looks like he knew the area was predominantly muslim. i saw reports that the van was rented from wales, 200 miles west of london. this was something that was planned in the long term. that makes it even more worrying. we'll be interested to see what connections this attacker had, perhaps, to some extremists, anti-muslim movements and far right political parties, which he thought maybe weren't going far enough and wanted to sort of take their rhetoric a step further. it will be interesting to see where that all leads the investigation. >> first moments of the investigation we're in right now. dr. alexander meleagrou-hitchens, thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> explain what the president said or what he meant despite what he said over the weekend, a member of president trump's legal team insisted multiple ti

breaking news on the birth of ella and alexander clooney. from julia's twins advice for george and amal to those who paid a secret visit. why george told us this would never be his life. >> then days after the terror attacks, james corden takes the "late late show" to london. >> trying to find the right words to say is impossible. >> behind the scenes as he shoots his musical spoof. what he has been forced to scrap in light of the attacks. ♪ extra >>> mudslinging. a bad boy return and showdown. we've got rachel on her crazy night on the bachelorette. >> what's the one thing that is a deal breaker? ♪ extra >>> "extra" inside new york star-packed fashion awards. >> this is it. >> we break down the black and white red carpet. >>> plus, heidi on her rumored feud with new agt host tyra banks. ♪ extra >>> and the women on "the mummy." a.j. has them. ♪ extra

despite bipartisan calls he come clean, no time fable for an answer. >> thanks to peter alexander for that. as he mentioned we're hours from attorney general sessions' testimony before the senate intelligence committee, where he will be publicly interrogated by his colleagues. nbc's edward lawrence is in d.c. this morning. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions will be grilled about why he didn't disclose meetings with the russian ambassador on his security clearance paperwork. he'll also be asked to fill in the blanks on testimony concerning the testimony of former fbi director james comey. specifically a meeting in the oval office where the president cleared the room, even sessions, to talk about the flynn investigation. comey testified that's where the president said i hope you can let this go. we do expect jeff sessions to invoke executive privilege on some of his answers. however, the white house is not as concerned about this testimony because they do know basically what he's going to say. it should be some surprise answers for us and the rest of us watching. back to you, f

diane: twins ella and alexander in the u.k. they say ella, alexander and amal are happy, healthy and doing fine. george is sedated and should recover in a few days. >> it's classic george clooney to have a wit and sense of humor about life. diane: clooney tied the knott with amal at 53 and admitted being a first time dad later in life has made him the butt of his friends' jokes. george: a table of eight guys and all their kids are away in college and we're sitting there and they're all being very supportive, it's going to be fine, it will be great, you'll love it and then it got really quiet and they all started making baby crying, and the whole table just busted up laughing. diane: here's his friend matt damon talking about george and fatherhood on "ellen." >> he says to me you have four, i said yeah, but not at once. we had them one at a time. i don't know how anybody does twins. diane: clooney has been very george: we're really happy and excited and it's going to be an adventure. diane: the best wishes are pouring in from so

and ehrenberg and alexander hamilton, destined to fight the most famous duel in american history. i think there was a musical or some other play -- something, i can't remember the people. during the autumn of 1777, monroe fonts in the battle of brandywine and germantown. leading a scouting party in june 7078, monroe sent messages to george washington. monmouth was the last time james monroe would be under fire in the revolutionary war. he became a lieutenant colonel but was unsuccessful in being able to recruit enough soldiers for a regimen of his own to command. seeing very little prospects for being able to further his military career, monroe left the army and begin to study with jefferson in williamsburg than in richmond when the virginia capital moved to that city. 13 years older than his protÉge, jefferson became an rose political mentor. describing monroe to another of his disciples, james madison, jefferson turned his soul outwards and there's not a suspect on it. on figure very 16, 1786, james monroe married a woman from new york. their union produced to daughters. and on

. >> blaine alexander is in washington with details from comey's opening statement. >> reporter: in a statement president trump said he felt vindicated after comey reiterated as president said that the president was not personally under investigation. this release was released at the direct request of james comey a head start ahead of tomorrow's highly anticipated testimony. today a detailed first look at what fired fbi director james comey will say to congress about his interactions with president trump. in his opening statement released today comey recounts nine different conversations with the president. he describes a january 27 dinner at the white house which comey says was orchestrated to have him beg to keep his job. comey writes the president says i need loyalty. i expect loyalty. i didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during awkward silence that followed. a phone call from the president who quote described the russia investigation as a cloud that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country and asked what the fbi could do to lift the cloud

alexander and ella, the couple's publicist sent an e-mail. >> it read, ella and alexander and amal are healthy, happy, doing fine. george on the other hand is sedated and should recover in a few days. >> meanwhile, clooney's good friend, julia roberts who also has twins, had this advice for the happy couple on ellen. >> nobody is there with you at 3:00 in the morning when you are just going what are we doing? where did they come from? when are they going? then you sort of, you, you get through it. apers.nation, tequila, need >> tequila with your orange. >> good twist. >> new segment, orange is the new snack. joining likes of madmen, downton abby, game of thrones, orange is the new black, sesame street parody treatment. the arrival of piper snackman who introduces her students to healthy eating habits. often smuggling oranges in her >> mm, this is delicious. >> uh-huh. >> juicy, sweet. i love this snack. for that you get time out in the shoe. >> the shoe? >> but why? >> because you didn't tell me about oranges before the i could have been eating them for years. >> but i just met you. >>

the couple welcomed their twins, ella and alexander this morning, george clooney's pub lisest joked ella, alexander, and amal are happy and healthy and fine, george is sedated and should recover in a few days. these are the first children for the high profile couple. >>> june all about warmer weather, sunshine, and no chance of rain. zero for three later on this week. coming up, which days where nobody hits 70, and which day is still looking wet. coming up. >>> coming up, all new at 6:00 tonight, justice delays for thousands of rape victims while their cases sit on a shelf. the fight to track the massive back log of untested rape kits. >>> the surprising opization. >>> but first, the market closed down again today, here is closing numbers from wall street. >>> yeah, i will do a little gardening tomorrow, it will be a lit cooler from what you said yesterday. >> yes, i am holding you to that. >> okay. >> or else, what, ken? threats here on the stage. it is going to get cooler and wetter. if you have been sneezing and coughing and itching your eyes, little relief coming up later this week.

peter alexander is at the white house. peter, good morni >> good moin mmoats toy saying jeff sessions was bobbing and weaving. the president is praising sessions' performance. this was a dramatic day of testimony. the nation's top prosecutor playing defense often indignant insisting line with russia. less forthcoming about his conversations with the president. attorney general jeff sessions fiercely defending himself on questions of coordination with russia. >> the suggestion that i participated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with th run government to hurt this country is an appalling and detestable lie. >> reporter: and on the parameters from his russia probe. >> i did not recuse myself from defending my honor against false allegations. >> reporter:sessns' testimony before the senate intelligence committee often contentious. >> i am not stone called. >> reporter: including this heated exchange about testimony about james comey. suggesting there we problematic reasons for the >> what are they? >> there

we get more on that from nbc's peter alexander. ♪ >> reporter: president trump today flipping through what he calls nonsense paperwork, vowing to cut federal regulations. >> it's only the first step in renewing america's roads, rails, runways, and rivers. >> reporter: a first step, but so far no legislative plan to rebuild america's infrastructure. more than four months in, the president's bold agenda is at risk of stalling on multiple fronts. >> obamacare is in a total death spiral. >> reporter: but health care reform which they got through the house is now stuck in the senate. americans like bob swails are worried. the self-employed ohio mechanic has rheumatoid arthritis, and his insurer just announced due to uncertainty it's pulling out of the obamacare exchange. >> i'm afraid if i lose my health care which i'm quite certain will happen, i might not be able to work. >> reporter: the president promising tax reform, too. >> we have also proposed a historic tax cut. >> reporter: republicans in congress yet to fill in the blanks. >> we need to get tax reform done sooner than later. >>

prosecutors say alexander capaso and his girlfriend sexually abused a boy and girl to make child pornography. he worked at restaurants in collingswood and philadelphia before his arrest in 2015. his sentencing is scheduled for september. >>> in montgomery county, neighbors have a clearer picture of a proposed improvement project. the community was invited to review plans and talk about the project, ask questions. the project includes adding new signals and turn lanes along with adding another eastbound lane between church and manor roads. the commissioners say the project will relieve traffic and improve safety. >>> the memory of a new jersey state trooper killed in the line of duty lives on in burlington county. a tree was dedicated to trooper sean cullen outside the cinnaminson post office yesterday. cullen was hit and killed while he was helping at a car fire along i-295 last year. >>> your electricity bills will soon start fall figure you're an atlantic city electric customer. starting this month, customers will get a monthly bill credit that will average around $4.40. the money is the r

it was founded seven years ago by alexander mcoven. today students for liberty includes more than 1300 groups around the world. jorge start ad group in honduras. jorge, how did you find out about students for liberty. >> all started in 2009 when my country went through a deep crisis. it was under those circumstances i was trying to understand everything going on in my country i started to get interested in political science and economic science. john: he went to youtube, you put in how does the economy work? >> that is right. i how does the economy work. i found milton friedman videos from liberty and a liberty videos from the institute for human studies. john: learn liberty, four ways economists think we're all wron wh 1% of history have 90% of the wealth. sexonomics, what not to do on tinder. from this you learned that we know what makes a country prosper. they weren't doing it in honduras. >> they weren't doing it. i'm also a law student. when i read legislation of my country i started to get what was wrong. and i thought, it had to

. >> yes, the power couple just welcomed alexander and ella into the clooney fold. an e-mail from the couple's publicist read ella and alexander and amal are all healthy, happy and doing fine. george is sedated and should recover in a few days. >>> ellen degeneres tweeted her congratulations saying she's now calling them ocean's four. this was the scene at clooney's liquor company. business partner rande gerber stacking up for a special delivery of tequila and topped off with a few boxes of diapers as well. >> i think he'll go for the tequila first no doubt. >>> michelle obama made a surprising revelation about her time in the white house. >> so she was those formal occasions when she wore designer dresses, each one carefully chosen. fashion reporters and bloggers scrutinized every look. >> okay, so she said while everyone was looking at her, they didn't notice that the president wore the same tuxedo all eight years, same tux, same shoes which she jokingly said was totally unfair. >> kendis hasn't changed a suit in like three years. >> this is the same, same thing.

don't get wrapped around the axle of the investigation. >> that was peter alexander reporting. >> we're joined by axios reporter sara fischer. almost three minutes away from the longest twitter doubt ever and then he tweets. he says, despite so many false statements and lie, total and complete vindication, dot, dot, dot. and wow, comey is a leaker. how much should we read into the timing of it, three minutes from the longest. and also the words he used in his first tweet. >> we knew he would focus on comey as a leaker narrative. this is something coming out of the white house immediately following the testimony, we knew they had talking points, things they were going to emphasize. one of which is that comey was the leaker, the other is that the president felt vindicated, and the third is that the president, of course, did not commit any -- three minutes of the longest time of going without tweeting, he's very much aware we're watching everything he does on twitter. he knows he had to be quiet during the testimony. he waited until he felt it was a comfortable time to tweet. it's also wor

university as well as author of shadow wars the secret struggle for the middle east in london we have alexander mchugh he is a writer on legal affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com and in new york we have richard murphy he is a former u.s. career in boston or to syria and currently an adjunct scholar at the middle east institute all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always encourage it alexander let me go to you first in london how are russia and the united states going to avoid going to war in syria. well i think that's a good question because at the moment we have a.

. >> reporter: kent alexander hired wray when he was u.s. attorney in georgia. >> i think the f.b.i. could use a little less politics, and he's a very non-partisan guy. i was a clinton appointee when i hired him. chris is a republican. >> reporter: the appointment comes at a time when president trump's relationship with attorney general jeff sessions remains strained. for the second day in a row, the white house declined to say if the president had confidence in sessions. early senate reaction the wray's until nation was positive, even among some democrats. scott, in the aftermath of comey's firing, wray's biggest confirmation hurdle will be proving his ability and willingness to deflect all forms of political pressure. >> pelly: major garrett at the white house. major, thanks. in another important story tonight, isis has claimed responsibility for a pair of attacks that occurred today in tehran. at least 12 were killed in what's believed to be the first time that isis has struck inside iran. mark phillips is following this. [explosion] >> r

ella and alexander. >> i love the names. these are traditional names. i like that. >> i think that's great. they're on the path to normalcy. i was expecting more like hey, i'll call you key grip and boy or something likth. but no. >> you need to get off the set. >> okay. i literally live in a youth hostile or on the set. >> it's true like sky or blaze. ella is the 17th most popular in the name in the u.s. and it can be translated to light or beautiful fairy woman. aleck sander is the 11th most popular in the u.s. i like the name, defender of men. manly. alexander the great. >> it's no ken, but whatever. >> ellen tweeted and said become to the world. congratulations george and amal or as i'm now calling you, oceans 4. >> would you have any advice for them with twins? >> you also being a parent of twins, having twins are twice as hard as four times. >> i don't know how you guys do it. i give you so much credit. you talk about it like yeah, i have twins. it's a >> once they get to three or four -- >> then they have a play buddy for life. >> coming up, dyla

senator alexander. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, welcome. democrats have set some records for delaying president trump's cabinet nominees. president trump is setting records for not sending up sub cab nat nominees. under president obama, ten had been sent by now, president bush had sent nine. we had one nominee for the nrb. when are we going to get more nominations for your department? >> senator, mr. chairman, i appreciate the question. i can this. i'm approaching my own 60-day mark as secretary. i have set as a personal goal to have the vast majority of my b subdepartmentment leadership identified and in clearance by the 60-day mark. i believe that goal is something that can be reached and ultimately they do have to go through background check and clearance. >> i know. but i just would urge the white house, the president and you. this is the senate's opportunity to confirm, to vet, to question these nominees. we want to do that. we can move them quickly through the committee. let me go to a second -- i want to ask you to respond to this. i

>> blayne alexander on the hill, thank you. the attorney general has become a key figure in the russia investigation. we've posted a review of his service in the senate, his history with donald trump, and his work in the justice department. you can find all that on our nbc washington app. just search sessions to check it out during the break. >>> north korea has release the uva student otto warmbier, but he's reportedly in a coma. the medical flight returning him to the u.s. is expected to arrive home in cincinnati tonight. warm be he was visiting north korea in 2016 when he was arrested allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. his family told "the washington post" that they have been told he fell ill from bot yu limp and lapsed into a coma. but a senior official told "the new york times" that intelligence reports indicate that he was repeatedly beaten while in custody. gabe gutierrez is in cincinnati and will have a live report in the next half hour. his release comes the same day that fo

nbc's peter alexander has the latest. >> reporter: president trump face-to-face with jeff sessions. the attorney general preparing to break his silence on russia testifying in public before congressional investigators tomorrow. just days after james comey addressed potential conflicts about session's role in the controversy. >> we also were aware of facts i can't discuss in an open setting that would make his continued engagement in a russia related investigation problematic. >> reporter: will the white house invoke privilege? >> it depends on the scope of questions to get into a hypothetical at this point would be premature. >> reporter: session is likely to face bruising questions about his failure to discuss questions about the meeting with the russian ambassador. and possibilities of a third sessions denies. >> when sessions failed to disclose these meetings with the russians, was it an honest mistake or part of a coverup? >> reporter: unphased as his cabinet meeting, the president touting this claim. >> we've been as active as you can possibly be at a record-setting pace. >> re

alexander de croo, in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. there you sit as a senior minister in a european government and, as luck would have it, in the institutional capital of the european union. be honest with me, how much attention do you pay to what is happening in british politics right now? well, we do pay a lot of attention to what is happening there, because we know that the discussion on brexit is one where time is of the essence. we have a two—year period to negotiate a good deal with the united kingdom, but three months have gone already and the time is ticking. so we are ready to go to the table to have a good negotiation, but i think now the moment has come to really start talking, to get beyond the theatrical rhetoric and to get down to business. you say that, if i may say so, with such gentility, but i get the sense that frustration is creeping into the european position. i can quote to you geeva hostadt the eu parliament chief participant negotiator in the expected brexit talks, who also happens to be a former leader of yo

not well to discuss the scandal further i'm joined by a board member of the russian football union alexander is old toff you're very welcome to the program first of all how serious are these allegations. well they sound really serious to me i mean if if everything that is said in this report is true then we have a situation where. very high ranking people in the u.k. were trying to buy. the world. to be hosted in the in the u.k. so i mean it's a big scandal i think. the report was finished i believe in twenty forty and just reading through some of the details here but was kept secret or it wasn't made available until no why do you think it wasn't made public and media play three years ago. why i don't know i mean it's hard for me to speculate i understand that it was made public and now only because there was. one the newspaper that was about to publish it so that's why it's appeared now why it was kept for three years i don't know but i'm sure there are a lot of secrets like that lying on the carpet and we will find them out maybe later but i'm sure there's a lot of things like that happeni

in our place to say we're going to discuss these issues in a bit more detail joined first of all by alexander sort of he's a board member of the russian football union head of the russian plays football association as well and also. our sound who is head of we all russia against discrimination the perfect guest to speak to first today alexander so presumably when there is an incident of alleged racism in a football match or in russia the place will come to your organization and make some kind of complaint what processes are in place what is not only one source of cash have. to come also or any sort of pressure have cross-like they're not being paid or their problems through our current reach we have four different institutions in place in the federation like the ethics committee we have also disparate resolution chamber we have the players start of committees depending on the case it's it will be here or heard by any of these three organisations and if it's. racism or. xenophobia or whatever or. this kind of discrimination then it's sort of course it's going to. against discrimination tell us

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the guys later but we'll go back to some petersburg now we can talk to alexander sackhoff who is. also russia's all time. top scorer for the national team he joins us in russia's northern capital now welcome to r.t. sale stadium looks pretty magnificent i want to ask you first if i may about the opening game russia versus new zealand achilles the cat was a little hesitant how do you rate russia's chances. well first of all. i'm happy to welcome all of you to our wonderful city you can see the weather is nice and everything is ready for the kickoff of my cast for the opening match. on like. you don't have any hesitation so i feel confident that russia will win today we'll beat new zealand and we'll start our path to qualifying from our group. which of the games are you looking forward to the most in the group stages. it was nice to see a much well to me all the games will be interesting of course i'll be rooting for russia first and foremost our next match vs portugal will be the decisive game for us. what's your impression of the atmosphere so far june summer in some petersburg co