at the time, trump was threatening to declare a national emergency in order to try to build his precious border wall without congressional approval. it was that threat from trump which prompted this counter threat from house speaker, nancy pelosi. if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the american people. you want to talk about a national emergency? let s talk about today, the one year anniversary of a another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in america, that is a national emergency. why don t you declare that an emergency, mister president? i wish he would. why don t you declare that an emergency, mister president? if trump declares a national emergency, at the border, she
multiple magazines of ammunition entered marjorie stone in high school and murdered 17 people, that shooting sparked a nationwide youth lead movement for new gun safety legislation. a year later, little had been done at the federal level to curb gun violence. by valentine valentine s day, 2019, then president donald trump was trying to push attention back to his pet issue, building a wall to stop immigrants. at the time, trump was threatening to declare a national emergency in order to try to build his precious border wall without congressional approval. it was that threat from trump which prompted this counter threat from house speaker, nancy pelosi. if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the american people. you want to talk about a national emergency?
suggestion. the german chancellor olaf scholz said that germany needed reliable, safe energy supplies and therefore it wasn t the time to be attempting to cut them off. also we had the dutch prime minister as well saying very much the same kind of thing. so the chances of a wide ranging ban on imports of russian oil and not that high, so this is a counter threat from russia, saying that if there were to be a ban on imports of russian oil, into the west, then russia would take its own countermeasures. now, that would hurt russia, a lot scott russia supplies about 40% of europe s needs. it needs that money stock it is making a lot of money, but that can help push up the prices of energy, which russia benefits from you have to be cynical, i think, benefits from you have to be cynical, ithink, this benefits from you have to be cynical, i think, this is a counter threat against something that probably won t happen that has the option of distorting energy markets a bit and pushing up the
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oil, then russia might cut supplies of gas to europe. now, i think she was referring to if europe did this, because obviously, the united states, which is already imposing a ban, accounts for a smaller proportion of russia s exports. so, there is no chance that europe will do that at the moment. we have the german chancellor saying yesterday that europe needed to continue buying oil and gas from russia, and other leaders concurred with that. given what we had from russia was a kind of counter threat, i don t think they would go through with it. there is a more important issue there as well, which is that russian really need to money at the moment. its economy has been squeezed on all sides by sanctions, and its main source of revenue right now is exports of oil and gas, much of it to europe. if it cut off the taps and stop supplying gas to germany, for example, it would be reducing