Smith documents case, where judge Aileen Cannon has a big decision to make, is she going to throw out the testimony of tabarras, the team member whos cooperating with the team. Ken, good to have you. Talk to me about the meadows appeal and the request hes making of the court while the appeal goes forward. Hes requesting that the judge grant a temporary stay of his own order. Which ruled obviously that mark meadows could not have his case removed to Federal Court but that it should go back down to state court. Meadows is saying he could be irreparably harmed by this decision. He wants to appeal and have the judge put a pause on things while he appeals. If this judge doesnt do that, hes going to ask the Appeals Court to do that. Generally you get a stay if you have a chance of winning on appeal, and this judges opinion was pretty resounding that mark meadows didnt meet any of the tests to remove his case to Federal Court, and what the judge said is it was clear that mark meadows, when lo
Smith documents case, where judge Aileen Cannon has a big decision to make, is she going to throw out the testimony of tabarras, the team member whos cooperating with the team. Ken, good to have you. Talk to me about the meadows appeal and the request hes making of the court while the appeal goes forward. Hes requesting that the judge grant a temporary stay of his own order. Which ruled obviously that mark meadows could not have his case removed to Federal Court but that it should go back down to state court. Meadows is saying he could be irreparably harmed by this decision. He wants to appeal and have the judge put a pause on things while he appeals. If this judge doesnt do that, hes going to ask the Appeals Court to do that. Generally you get a stay if you have a chance of winning on appeal, and this judges opinion was pretty resounding that mark meadows didnt meet any of the tests to remove his case to Federal Court, and what the judge said is it was clear that mark meadows, when lo
so all things considered, you say they re behind schedule but the schedule is being pursued and may not get to their goals within the timeframe that the west would like. but they always say, we re trying to meet the schedule, the west schedule without the tools that they themselves would use in a military operation. ruth, let s talk about the people that joe biden has brought together. a world in which we weren t sure five years ago whether nato was really a functional organization under donald trump s leadership. now we ve got nato. but we have these issues. we ve got meloni, we ve got poland which wasn t on the side of much since the war began, but they have been staunchly in favor of ukraine. we ve got hungary, always a question mark. outside of nato would leads were to places like india, modi got the red carpet at the white house but not a vertically democratic place these days. tell me about the alliances we have to form to fight russia there would otherwise be considered uns
a world in which we weren t sure five years ago whether nato was really a functional organization under donald trump s leadership. now we ve got nato. but we have these issues. we ve got meloni, we ve got poland which wasn t on the side of much since the war began, but they have been staunchly in favor of ukraine. we ve got hungary, always a question mark. outside of nato would leads were to places like india, modi got the red carpet at the white house but not a vertically democratic place these days. tell me about the alliances we have to form to fight russia there would otherwise be considered unsavory. this is very tricky. we have a blueprint world war ii allying with us, thinking stalin from his great patriot phase. from the point of view of democracy, what is tough is take meloni, who s kind of playing a double game.
in drones and drone parts to russia. so much for efforts to convince china to stay out of it, but china s support of putin s war underscores how the fight to defeat russia and ukraine is also about world power and values. who s going to win? the authoritarian invader or the upstart young democracy? the western alliance support is absolutely essential for ukraine, but even inside battle lines the lines are not as clear as you would hope. yesterday president biden welcomed the italian prime minister, giorgia meloni, to the white house after previously expressing valid concerns about her election because of her far-right stances on issues like abortion and white nationalism. and despite nervousness that maloney s far-right coalition would be cozy with russia and putin, italy has remained staunch ally on the war in ukraine. the president has enjoyed working with her and certainly on issues of foreign policy