Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along
And good evening from the Reagan Library in simi valley, just outside los angeles. This as the name suggests, dedicated to preserving the history of the 40th president s term in office. But it was the 45th president and current republican front runner who took center stage by his absence. The former president was in michigan tonight, Florida Governor ron desantis pointed that out. He also tried to do what he and the other six government grappling with without much success so far. Namely, how to set themselves apart from the former president without also ilion eighting his supporters. We will take that up in our coverage tonight and speak with some of the candidates as well as iowa voters that watch the debate tonight. We will also watch the first, one i want to start with one of the key moments on, tonight candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who was a vocal in the first debate including in this clash with former South Carolina governor nikki haley who is reacting to the answer he gave one asked
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Former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day, ifeel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar, and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then, im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i have to kind of stop myself a