but what happens when the geopolitical weather changes? when great power hostility and economic nationalism hold sway? well, my guest is singapore s long serving home minister, k shanmugam. is singapore s political and economic balancing act sustainable in a world of rising tensions? minister k shanmugam in singapore, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, mr sackur. let me ask you about singapore s model. it was sort of set up by lee kuan yew. it s been in effect for well over six decades. it combines economic openness with a real sense of political control and social control. do you think that model needs to change? well, i disagree with the assumptions in your question about political control and economic control. you know, in the last elections, we had 61%, the opposition had 40% of the votes. voting is free and fair. the reason why the pap has managed a substantial dominance is because in 1965, when the pap came to. when we took independence, or when we had independence thrust
preventing another january 6th. plus, trump s pick for governor in arizona takes a page right out of his playbook. kari lake is declaring victory before all of the votes are counted and struggles to explain how her win doesn t clash with her claims of voter fraud. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this thursday august 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for being with us. the number two democrat in the senate is calling on the department of defense to open an internal investigation into missing texts from key officials on january 6th. in a letter yesterday, majority whip and judiciary committee chair dick durbin of illinois asked the d.o.d. s inspector general to launch a probe into the deleted communications of several trump appointed officials, who were were tasked with deploying the national guard during the capitol riot. the letter reads this way. the disappearance of this critical information could jeopardize efforts to learn the full truth about january 6
former president trump disputes this and says the records have been declassified. other documents that were seized from mar-a-lago included binders of photos and oddly clemency for roger stone. the raid was also apparently far more expensive than initially thought. they granted fbi agents the authority to seize all physical documents and records that contain evidence of crimes dating all the way back from january 20th 2017 to they don t trust left office in 2021. in other words, every single document from his presidency was potentially up for grabs. and we know the fbi waited three days to execute the raid after the judge signed off on the warrant. this was truly a matter of national security, the attorney general told us if you look at intricate want to take federal agents so long to raid mar-a-lago? to answer this and many more questions that we turn to fox news chief legal correspondent and that no host of fox news sunday, shannon bream. hi, shannon, how are you? reporte
house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pelosi. f
sandra: begin with house speaker nancy pelosi arriving in taiwan, it happened a short time ago for her trip there, raising concerns of how china could, and could still respond. and already beijing issuing a series of threats. hello, welcome, everyone. john, great to be with you. john: happy tuesday to you, i m john roberts in new york. chinese fighter jets flew nearby, the speaker arriving safely but the u.s. and taiwan remain on high alert, as four u.s. warships have been repositioned east of taiwan in an effort to deter chinese action. sandra: chinese state media is reporting beijing will conduct live fire military exercises surrounding taiwan over the next few days, and is warning of severe punishment to the united states. congressional correspondent. china is coming out with really strong words, they are calling this trip by speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan a serious violation of the one china principle, and they are saying it infringes on china s sovereignty, and t