negotiations has not been helpful, and to say the very least, germany s mixed messages, especially on the nord stream 2 pipeline, are certainly benefiting mr putin s calculus instead of the calculus for europe and the united states. the next stop on a very uncertain diplomaticjourney is uncertain diplomatic journey is in uncertain diplomaticjourney is in the course of tuesday, antony blinken will be holding talks with the russian foreign minister sir calabro. sergey lavrov. a usjudge has rejected a plea deal between federal prosecutors and two of the three white men convicted of murdering blackjogger ahmaud arbery. the ruling comes after one of the convicted men admitted for the first time that race was his motivation behind the attack. prosecutors had reached plea agreements with travis and gregory mcmichael to the shock of mr arbery s family. we didn t know anything about
from the new york judge. absolutely. it followed an energetic two-hour hearing. at one point the judge threw his hands up and said i will have a decision for you at 3:00 p.m. he came out sharply at 3:00. trump s lawyers argued he shouldn t have to sit for a deposition because leticia james, new york attorney general, was part of a criminal investigation, parallel investigation by the manhattan district attorney s office. in this back and forth during the hearing the judge said, well, why couldn t they invoke the fifth amendment and not answer questions? that s what eric trump did 500 times. . 500 times. two years ago. things have changed. there is a criminal investigation that didn t exist then. the judge was taking issue with some of the other statements from the trump. the accounting firm resigned and said you shouldn t rely on nearly a decades worth of financials. the trumps said they didn t find any material discrepancies. they didn t find fraud. this investigation is moot. i
we need to be honest about what s actually happening right now. yeah and i just get nervous when, you know, black folks who are dna-wise black who don t identify as black. that s always a question mark for me. but i will digress and save that for another time. i have to ask, and i will say in transparency, my supervisors had to remind me who is playing in the super bowl. i want to know who you ve got in this game tomorrow. honestly, my guess is as good as yours, even though you don t know. i m going to go with the rams. i feel like they re the more talented team. normally that works, but i think the bengals have beaten a couple of teams on their way up that were better than them. i m going with the favorite because that s who you re supposed to do. i m going with the rams, and i m going to regurgitate everything you said, i m going with the rams, they re the favorite, that s what you got to do. it doesn t mean anything. dominique, i m so happy that
for a 3-month prescription. what are you recommending for muscle pain? based on clinical data, i recommend salonpas. agreed. my patients like these patches because they work for up to 12 hours, even on moderate pain. salonpas. it s good medicine we re back with melissa murray, neal katyal, ben rhodes and john heilemann. neal, i saw the republicans who voted for judge ketanji brown jackson when she was nominated not too long ago already saying, oh, i don t lindsey graham had a ludicrous tweet that i m not going to read on the air, but even senator lisa murkowski said, oh, it doesn t mean anything. what is your sense of how important it might have been to president biden that she had very recently garnered three republican votes in the u.s. senate, which doesn t sound like a lot, maybe, to someone who doesn t follow this every day
woman. the best male swimmer in the world is always faster than the best female swimmer. but the thing is, you and i could sit here and talk about it. i could defend women s sports myself from the outside, which i have done, and talk about the fundamental truth. but i think, you know, there s nothing that can replace the women that were involved or on the ground who are in these sports. nothing that could replace them taking a stand and protest this. that s good that some of them are starting to it takes a lot of courage. we talk a lot about courage in our society, a lot of false courage is applauded. it takes real courage to take a stand against this as some of these swimmers have. i think the next step, though, is for the female swimmers or female competitors or any of these any of these sporting events when a male shows up to realize that because the man is there, this is all a charade now. it doesn t mean anything. so refuse to participate at all until this is this doesn t ha