But, you know, without an american advisory effort and american units to partner with, theres no one there to oversee bad commanders, to say this guy needs to be relieved. When we were there, for instance, maliki removed every single bedivide commander in the Brigade Commander in the National Police and twothirds of the [inaudible] some of them twice. So we forced accountability on the state. But when we removed that check on malikis baser tendencies, he was able to do whatever he wanted to do starting with the attempted arrest of the Vice President of the state of iraq. And just to follow up on that , maliki has his own set of Political Considerations only some of which are to have an effective fighting force and some of which are to create Patronage Networks and all those sorts of things. One of the things that was interesting to me about your account of the charge of the knights is it wasnt clear to me whether maliki thought the u. S. Was actually vital in his inning. And maliki may
Of the government aid bill. Without this bipartisan bill being funded government aid will be delayed and the government will shut down on monday. Leaders on capitol hill are simultaneously grapple with the president s veto of a massive and overwhelmingly bipartisan defense bill to fund the military which congress will soon try to override. And in addition to the chaos on capitol hill, the president is also sparking controversy with his latest round of pardons. Paul manafort, roger stone, Jared Kushners father charles. They headline a group of Close Associates and individuals that have some legal experts wondering whether President Trump will select rudy giuliani, his adult children, or even himself to be part of the next round of pardons. Lets get started with garrett haak haake. House republicans trying to spin what they are seeing as them standing with the president on funding foreign aid. Is this a message that will resonate with americans . The foreign aid portion, its almost impos
Columns of books and another score on culture, im not doing my job. The country is obsessed with the presidency. Hes the head of one of our three branches of many governments. His job as outlined in article ii was to take care that the laws are basically executed which makes it secondary to those to make the laws in article i, congress. But we have this presidency that absorbs all the energies and takes up a lot of the space. The first task of a Political Columnist is to say im not really a Political Columnist. Host it seems to me what this stood out about you as a younger person coming up Political Writer should than score points instead of make points but maybe its because you can focus on politics. You think people should focus more on advocates . Theres always a purpose to what you are doing when you sit downp guest you have to be observers first and understand whats going on in the country before they could make judgments and they ought to do what i try to do in each column. Bear
Uvalde fan of the American Enterprise institute and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this conversation about matthew continent is important and excellent new book the right the hundred year war for american conservatism. This book is both an intellectual and a political history of the american right over the past century. It takes up the ideas behind the right the Electoral Coalition that has composed it the ways that their coalition has sought power and used power and our politics the way that its thought about the country and its future the book explores some important tensions between populism and conservatism between libertarians and traditionalists between pragmatists and purists. So it gives us a lot to talk about and that is what we will be doing this morning. Well do it through a conversation between the books author matt cottonetti and you might say one of its subjects former House Speaker paul, ryan. A practitioner and a thinker about politics on the modern, right . A word
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Literally, elon musk unveiling his latest space age creation. We will talk about that a little bit later. Speaking of big numbers, a slamdunk for Steve Ballmer, maybe. His 2 billion offer for the l. A. Clippers. That is a Basketball Team if you didnt know. We begin with bnp paribas. Shares sliding today. Frances biggest bank facing the largest criminal fine in u. S. History. Authorities are seeking more than 10 billion over sanctions violations. Manus cranny is here with more. For 1. 1 billion. This could be bigger than 10 billion further down the road. Pay a finep paribas of 10 billion . It sort of reaches into the realm of major adjustment and provisions. The bond market is already pricing in big moves. Credit is reacting. You can understand why. Pressure is going to mount. Nine of the most active bonds trade in europe are. Bob bonds. Bonds. E paribas how are they going to earn 10 billion . They have only done it twice in t