No welcome to todays program u. S. China and pandemic in 1951 classic the day vrap stood still we were visited by an alien spacecraft in human form with a very sobering message. The movie concludes with World Leaders pondering their choice. It would be wonderful to believe whether in the form of a Global Pandemic or threat from outer space of the world would end differently but by the looks of things the rivalries and disputes will only grow certainly magnified in the time of the pandemic and they are likely to continue accelerating preexisting patterns and competition. Nowhere are those tensions more evident than u. S. Tensions with the rise in russia and a decline in china exerting themselves regionally and globally. It may well be that these three powers will be working by the current pandemic and to paraphrase Alexander Bonn off could it be an opportunity for growth in the sense of all the ability by three leaders focused on their own internal politics make us more not less eager t
For the public. Sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and that would help us and the aspirations of our shells and that they will hold for and democracy and that we have tried to do everything we can can make sure. That. Tribe called those impeachment proceedings an attempted coup he says its a desperate effort by the democrats to win the 2020 election trump is accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden. You are the ones interfering in americas elections you are the one subverting americas democracy we did nothing wrong nothing whatsoever this is just an excuse. You are the ones that struck the just. You have the mind bringing the suffering to our republic for your own selfish personal political and partisan. Michigan is a battleground state in next years president ial election and as john hendren reports trump a spent most of his time leveraging the impeachment proceedings in his favor. The presiden
Were not entitled to witnesses were not entitled to anything in the house its a total sham and when you have a guy like shifty chef go out and make up a statement that i made sure he said this is what he said but i never said it he totally made it up one of the us president roh say a strongly worded letter is House Speaker nancy pelosi describing the process as an impeachment crusade which is an unprecedented an unconstitutional abuse of power roslyn jordan has more. Well the letter was 6 pages long and it basically recounted every objection which donald trump has raised to the impeachment inquiry and now what appears to be on the eve of the vote to formally impeach him on 2 charges the president essentially told congress that what it is about to do is patently illegal however the House Speaker nancy pelosi who herself was long resistant to even allowing an impeachment inquiry to take place until the information about the president s pressure on the ukrainian president of a lot of the
With 364 of 650 seats in parliament that has been described as the u. K. s most important vote in a generation johnson says his government now has a clear mandate to get franks at darden roy chalons has more. Boris johnson returned to damning street triumphant the conservatives have read dream britains political map with their biggest majority since 1987 earlier he spoke to cuban supporters why thank you very evident i think very dates we date were told they are playing week weve pulled it off we break the deadlock we ended the gridlock we smashed the roadblock and with this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what. Was paying attention. Hes very aware that this victory wouldnt have happened without many labor voters popping sides your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper as before you put your cross in the conservative box and you may intend to return to labor next time around and if that is the case i am humbled that you have put your trust in me from the
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