he has been in prague today where he has been calling on the nato alliance to supply him with longer range weapons he needs. but it is the white house decision to supply cluster munitions to ukraine which has divided the alliance. over 100 countries have signed up to a moratorium on cluster munitions including the uk france and germany. let s talk about the counteroffensive because it has been slow to take hold. there are soldiers and western observers starting to wonder if a breakthrough is possible, or whether russia s defensive lines, built up and heavily reinforced over the winter months, are simply too much of a barrier. today in prague, president zelensky said his country needs longer range weapons. without them he said the counter offensive will be blunted. there has long been a debate within the nato alliance about these longer range weapons. there are concerns that military strikes within russia, might lead to further escalation.but in just the last hour, the us ha
senator lindsey graham relates to something much deeper and more important. tells us about where not only the republican party is but why we have so many problems defending our democracy these days. you may know him. really one of the people who has had kind of a self-defeating obsession of winning over trump even though he initially warned more than many about how bad trump is and that made graham a politically troubled character because the public record shows he knows exactly what he s doing. that may be different from someone who gets caught up in the emotion of it or is a true believer. he was humiliated even though he has tried so hard to win trump back over after warning about him. this was in graham s home state of california. politics matter to him there. even though he has gone on a long, long road trying to win over trump and we ll get into some of that, just watch as this crowd unleashes before he even speaks. thank y all. welcome to pickens. thank y all for com
things of what happen in texas also some of the allegations there, it s going to be interesting in just a few weeks during that trial. indeed. thank you, my friend and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. for the past several months we have watched the far right wing of the republican party hold the u.s. hostage far right republicans in congress demanded major concessions from the biden house or else it would blow up the pretty fragile u.s. economy, they would tank the stock market and push hundreds of thousands of people onto the unemployment so potential catastrophe of their own making. and now there s a deal on the table to stop that catastrophe from actually coming to pass. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. and republicans, they got some of what they wanted in this deal. itd claws back unspent covid relief funds. it creates new hurdles for some people
former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that raid. he also fundraised off of it and really, he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was for a deep state which hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement said exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order the documentary from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be cool declassify the open moment he met them. they idea that a paper pushing delegate delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification, is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all of these documents. whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ri
come on and run. i mean, you know, real talk about like the sociologist teaching intro to sociology of race at 40 universities. stand back new college. all right, thank you as always, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. remember back in august of last year when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that, right? he also fund raised off of it, and really he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was of the deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news. quote, president trump had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified t