Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. President biden has reportedly paused arms sales to saudi arabia as his administration reviews relations with his long time strategic ally. Not long ago, candidate biden described the kingdom as a pariah, but is there any prospect of external or internal pressure challenging the authority of saudi arabias De Facto Leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman . Well, my guest is exiled saudi opposition activist, madawi al rasheed. What next for saudi arabia reform, repression or maybe both . Madawi al rasheed, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. I just wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the World Economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an Investment Opportunity for the entire world. What did you make of that . Well, its a familiar image and a fami
The 2020 election. 18 others charged as well, including big names. Rudy giuliani, measuring meadows, with that many people, does it make it more likely that someone could flip. Prosecutors call it a Criminal Enterprise and they are leaning hard on Racketeering Laws to make their case. Im kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. This is cnn news central. Donald trump and 18 codefendants have 10 days to turn themselves in and surrender in georgia. In a 98page indictment, the former president , who is also the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination is accused of plotting against the Very Constitution he swore to protect. And the office he hopes to hold again. Fulton County District attorney fani willis argues all 19 defendants refuseed to accept that trump lost and knowingly joined a conspiracy to change the outcome of the election. I make decisions base d on te facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Thats how decisions are made in every cay case. We
good morning. it is saturday, february 10th. you re watching velshi on msnbc. i m charles coleman junior filling in for my friend and colleague, ali velshi. we have got a lot to talk about. we begin this morning with donald trump s new reality tv show. we all remember the apprentice. the whole, you re fired, thing? what we are watching now is more like, the defendant. a terrifying real-life spinoff series played out in actual courtrooms and along the campaign trail each and every day. talk about reality tv. the stakes in this game show are, quite literally, american democracy and the rule of law. let s be clear, no one is watching it as their, quote on quote, guilty pleasure. everyone is watching. this week s episode contained plot twist, new characters, and twist that left us all wondering what is happening next. let s discuss. donald trump has not had many good days in court in the last two years. for the guy who wants infamously predicted we will get tired of so much winni
and today he took his gaffeshe on tour to my country. biden stopped by to visit king charles at windsor castle. and here s what happened. joe biden will look to the lost in me and my king is no spring chicken. he literally had to guide the president and show him where to gg o. it was pretty painful to watch. and it is a bottom line. would you trust someone like that to drive you down the interstated , say, 80 miles an hour? you wouldn t, would you? would you trust him to pick up your laundry? probably not. m tothat s why it s increasingly unnerving to me that he s the president of united states, the most important, intensive, energy sapping, pressurized job on the entire planet. biden also met his u.k. counterpart, prime minister rishi sunak, earlier today. since his own problemsounterpa,s just look and compare the two men. on the one side, biden routinely appears to forgeter who or where he ise or. on the other 43-year-old sunak you can question his policies often do not his
asw, as a result, judge doty issued unhinge ad sanctioneral against all federal government employees from having contac tntact with social media companies and discouraging or removingwi free speech. that means the cdc, the fbi, the doeansj, the white house. the judge specifically. namechecked. white house spokeswoman. karine jean-pierre. hhs secretary xavier becerracrer and surgeon general vivek murthy. noy n generalw on your screen if prohibited activities for the feds, which include meeting, emailing, flagging, callin meetingg, collaborating, threatening, urging, following up or issuing bolo g,s. be on the lookout for censoredt content with social media. it is an absolutelye ce stunning rebuke of the censorship deep state and the biden administrationnsp and it s a win for free speech. r, the bidenou administration has appealed this judge s injunction. k now, judges don t usually talk like this. they don t issue such scathinghi opinions or broad injunctions. why here? well,