return of president trump and a return of this conversation about whether america needs to dramatically change its troop presence around the world and start asking allies to carry much more of their own weight in a way that breaks from post-cold war or post-world war ii american policies around the world. so the context of this election is, i think, very much on the mind of the south korean leadership and leadership across asia and around the world right now. of course, president yoon is new to his role leading the south korean people. he was a prosecutor just elected in the last year or so, relatively young, 62 years old, known to be more conservative than his predecessor, but it s interesting because at least one foreign policy expert has said he shares a key value with americans, and that is his focus on freedom and democracy as a core theme of his foreign
2020 election being stolen. whitney, this just crossed. i have to tell you, the letter in this language, is stunning. reporter: what they are trying to do is draw this line between efforts by newt gingrich to get people angry and to get people to act on that anger. that is the core theme at the center of this letter. the committee is accusing newt gingrich of trying to push others to pursue and exploit claims of election fraud before and even after the riot at the capitol. the committee wants to learn more about communications gingrich had with donald trump s white house about television ads that per petuated false claims. here is the key quote. they are trying to build this letter on this. this is a letter newt gingrich
in the middle of this russian invasion of ukraine, president biden delivers his first state of the union address, clearly it has to be weighing on his mind as he sympathy hes to congress and the nation tonight. joining us now, cnn senior political analyst john avlon, author of the new book lincoln and the fight for peace, even more relevant with peace and democracy hanging in the balance right now in europe. john, president biden has to give a speech tonight, which isn t the one he expected to give a month ago. that s exactly right. the speeches are worked on for months. rarely have you had a state of the union with a sense of real time high drama, of an international crisis unfolding, the u.s. and u.s. president marshalling a coalition to defend democracy. this is one of biden s core