Course as tensions in the middle east are very high also new chapter for u. S. Cosmetics giant avon its not part of the brazilian personal care group nutura the groups new ceo will join us later this hour. Stocks are extending a selloff, oil and gold prices continue to climb. This is iran and the white house, trade threats following of course the u. S. Air strike that killed irans top commander. Jim, happy new year. Happy new year. Nice to see you, my friend. Good to see you, buddy, way too long i missed you. I know you feel the same but i havent heard you opine on this market and what risk there is in the geopolitics, in the backandforth, our viewers im sure are familiar with the president s tweets over the last lets call it 24 to 48 hours, sort of saying weve identified 52 sites that we would take action against if in fact you do something, and also notifying the congress, he said, as well, if iran should strike any u. S. Person or target wed quickly and fully strike back, perhaps in
Confronting donald trump on issue after issue without ever naming the former president. And starting with an impassioned plea to help ukraine defend its country against Vladimir Putin. Bowing down to a russian leader, i think it is outrageous, dangerous and unacceptable. Taking to task donald trump and far right republicans for whitewashing january 6. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6. I will not do that. Here is the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Calling out House Republicans telling them to stop Playing Politics on the border and pass the bipartisan bill. We have the simple choice. We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it. Im ready to fix it. Send me the border bill now. And he delivered a forceful defense of womens Reproductive Freedom, critical Campaign Issue for democrats. Those bragging about overturning roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women. But they found out when Reproductive Freedom
declining to answer more than 440 questions during a civil deposition in new york on wednesday. i will be joined by former national security advisor and u.n. ambassador john bolton to talk about the iranian plots to kill him and four other top trump national security officials and to get his reaction to the new legal troubles surrounding his former boss. and i will speak to chef and global humanitarian jose andres from ukraine to update the work by his non-profit to keep communities fed after more than five months of war. he met with president zelenskyy today. let s talk about the internal deliberations within the justice department. barbara, we understand that there are concerns inside the fbi and others that the fbi chief chris wray was so careful about the justice department guidance that he did not push back when he was in nebraska yesterday against the false claims by the president and others the fbi could have planted information there. yeah. that is a baseless piece
Action against iran particularly in light of additional resources, can we do that and can Congress Work with the administration to strengthen those tools without violating the jcpla . I want to know how the administration is updating its Regional Strategies against the various iranian activities and how we are going to work with our partners to build up their capacities to counter iran especially israel. The chairman mentioned the lifting of the International Arms embargo. That is a great concern. How will it impact the arms race in that region of the world . These are questions that we need to get the best information we can in making our decisions. And lastly, let me mention this because i think it is critically important. What are our options if United States walks away . How will we be perceived internationally . Will we be able to maintain effective enforcement of sanctions with our International Partners and will iran come back to a negotiating table with a country that has walke
This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tropical storm erika is dumping five inches of rain on puerto rico, as it continues its path through the caribbean. Four were killed as erika dumped 15 inches of rain on that small island nation. Twenty people are missing there. Fastflowing rivers swept up cars, landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies knocked out. The storm now heading towards florida. Kevin joins us with details. This storm has been inconsistent and hasnt gotten its act together. Since yesterday, taking a look at the satellite and radar, you can see the rain showers in puerto rico. The radar ends here, but the satellite as you can see, the Actual Center of the storm is not here, its here towards the west. We do think that as randall said, puerto rico will be getting up to about five inches of rain over the next several hours, but my concern as we go through the rest of the morning into the afternoon is the Dominican Repub