The speech is expected to last about 35 minutes, after which, well talk with our panel and bring you highlights from his remarks, but we obviously will bring President Obama in full, we expect him to come out in the next minute or so. This is something George Washington we were talking about was the first president , obviously who chose to give a farewell address. Right, when he did it, he did it because there was no such thing as a twoterm president. He could have been president for years and years and years, and he wanted to make clear to america that we didnt have a king anymore. Sounds like we could be seeing the president . Oh, maybe not. [ applause ] certainly sounded like the music coming out, but that was the purpose of that is to say, look, we are a democracy, we are not a monarchy. So thats where the tradition started. Lets listen in. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 44th president of the United States, barack obama. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] hello
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Alongside manafort and even stole several hundred thousand dollars from him. I want to quickly go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider, monitoring all these developments. Whats the biggest takeaway so far from todays dramatic testimony . The biggest takeaway, woman, just how elaborate this financial scheme was and how involved is Paul Manafort really seemed to be, directing the movement of money here. Rick gates has been testifying about these hundreds of emails where manafort actually signs off on transferring the money their Consulting Company earned throughout these various foreign bank accounts. Paul manafort would always write back, approving these transfers and signing it with his initial p. This is the prosecution laying out that it was, in fact, Paul Manafort in charge. Also, rick gates is talking about some of these fake invoices that he actually created. We heard about them from the accountants
Right now in the ideological struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. and china s watching very carefully. they are stressing taiwan s air defenses with those massive number of incursions. they want to win that fight without firing a shot, and they re watching very carefully about whether the united states and our allies will stand up to russia and ukraine. and if we don t to that effectively, there are severe implication not just in europe if for our nato allies on the border including the baltic states, but also for asia and ukraine. arthel: ukraine and taiwan on the geopolitical fault line are. dan hoffman, thank you very much for joining us. thanks. arthel: rich? rich: arthel, hundreds of truckers have blockaded parliament hill in ottawa to protest canada s covid mandates and restrictions, and now gofundme is canceling a fundraiser in support of the so-called freedom convoy 202. it cites reports of violence among the protesters which it
Disputed donbas areas but that ukraine would no longer object to those territories being an russian control. if putin manages to ring that out of the now practically under fire ukrainian government, then without firing a shot, he s gotten from this massive troop buildup what he couldn t get at the negotiating table through the minsk process. and in that way, if you ukraine blink blinks and allows him control of those territories, then this would also rob some of the sanctions that are on russia right now of their legal basis. so, you know, that would be a way of avoiding war. but in the end, that would be the moscow bully getting what he s pushing for which is salami slices territory under russian control without ukraine objecting. okay, michael, very confusing
Before. he is wanting to see if he gets what he wants without firing a shot, that might be how he decides to proceed forward despite these dramatic warnings we are hearing today. i dramatic warnings we are hearing toda . ., ., , ., today. i want to bring in a little of what secretary today. i want to bring in a little of what secretary blinken - today. i want to bring in a little of what secretary blinken was. of what secretary blinken was saying about potential scenarios that russia might induce. let s listen together. the highest levels of the russian government may theatrically convene emergency meetings to address the so called crisis. the government will issue proclamations declaring that russia must respond to defend russian citizens or ethnic russians in ukraine. next, the attack is planned to begin. russian missiles and bombs will drop across ukraine. communications will be jammed, cyber attacks will shut down key ukrainian institutions. after that, russian tanks and soldiers