Now asked not to stand against preparing is the next big step as commander of the International Space station. Im sumi someones got to go to have you with us french president a man on the call has condemned a rise in authoritarianism in the e. U. And urged europeans to defend their Democracy Mccall was outlining his vision for the future of europe in a speech to the European Parliament in strasbourg he said the e. U. Was failing to address the fears and concerns of its citizens and that change is long overdue. He should read dont think there is doubt in a number of European Countries and month after month these doubts seeing others call our foundation this into question the fundamental there seems to be a sort of european Civil War National selfishness and egotism taking precedence
directly what the e. U. Stands for what the European Union values are and what the benefits are for citizenship for his citizens this was a highly anticipated Speech Max The French President s vision for the
ordered plans to move 7,000 u.s. troops out of afghanistan. he has seen the quit of his defense secretary, james mattis, regarded by both democrats and republicans as helping to keep the president s erratic impulses and ideas in check. mattis quitting in protest, unable to reconcile fundamental beliefs about the role of the united states in the world with president trump. just minutes ago, more bad news for the president. the supreme court upholding a ruling to block president trump from being able to implement new restrictions for asylum-seekers. oh, and did i mention that the federal government is on the brink of a shutdown, just eight hours away. a shutdown president trump said he would be proud to own in the name of fighting for a border wall. yet among the hundreds of thousands of people who will be affected, as many as 54,000 customs and border protection employees. including border patrol agents currently working to keep the u.s. border secure. they will continue to work, except
prisons to house the growing number of detainees says he has carried out this crackdown in the name of fighting terrorism but organizations like media reported widespread human rights abuses egyptian authorities shut down the game centers clinic in february but they have continued to work without it. as a human rights defender who worked for than a deep center until two thousand and sixteen and the founders were not allowed to leave egypt so he accepted the award on behalf of the winners yesterday in berlin to hear thank you very much for joining us on our program thank you for the things i want to start with the question about yourself you were detained in egypt but you were not turned tortured is that correct yes i was. force of the month and i was just beaten for once but i was lucky that are you more than that in the systematic way like what is happening with other victims and other be people in prison for example i was in burgos our own thirty beds twenty eight of them were subjec
president so far to the right. reagan did slash taxes, but when his eight years were up, the federal government had grown bigger and more expensive. it happened again in the 1990s. by newt gingrich, republicans scored a stunning midterm triumph in 1994. they won the house for the first time in 40 years, finally conservatives believed their moment was here. the gingrich republicans forced an immediate confrontation with bill clinton, but it was a pr nightmare. clinton accused the gop of targeting medicare and the gop backed off. this is the backdrop to keep in mind as the current drama plays out. the polling data is clear, this shutdown, the threat of the default, all of this is killing the republican party. it is hurting the party s prospects of being anything more than a minority party that happens to control the house. this doesn t seem to bother the tea party that much. maybe it makes sense, because as we re now seeing, they can do an awful lot of damage even if they only control th
party, the spirit that has led the gop to shut down the government and threaten a default in the name of fighting the president s health care law, if you want to find the root of all of this, you can do worse than to look to the night of november 4th, 2008, barack obama won his job. simple reality of a democrat being elected president of the united states, triggered on the right, reflects relentless and at times way over the top opposition to everything that barack obama did, said or tried to do from that point forward this wasn t exactly new. knee jerk opposition reaction that he contends with is what bill clinton came up against when he took office. this is how the right reacts when democrats win the white house. but there is a key difference. back in the 1990s, clinton beat the gop in a series of confrontation, the government shutdown, the 1996 election impeach. and republicans responded by changing. at least a little. that s how we got george w. bush and what he called compassionat