this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you around the world, i m coming to you from davos, switzerland. as titans of industry gather here for the world economic forum, today on the program, my talk with the foreign ministers of two of the most powerful nations in the middle east. saudi arabia and iran. we ll discuss the war in gaza, threat of a broader war and the prospects for peace. then on to the other major war in ukraine. this one has been disrupting the region and the world for almost two years now. i ll talk to two of ukraine s brave soldiers about what it is like to be on the front lines pushing back against putin s invaders. i also have the great pleasure of sitting down with that gift of humanity and animals, jane goodall. she s still going strong at almost 90 and you won t want to miss my conversation with her. but first, here is my take. the conversations swirling around the chilly mountain air of davos this week keep returning to one
an autocrat facing dozens of ny charges with an ax to grind against the government he seeks to lead. that s a question that republican candidates are either unable to answer or unwilling to answer at this moment. there s now just one major challenger to ex-president trump after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. it s hard to remember but for a time, ron desantis was seen as the much vaunted trump slayer, the one candidate who could break the hold on trump that he had on the voters in the republican party. appeal to those alienated by trump and ultimately beat joe biden. back in 2022, the new yorker asked, can ron desantis displace donald trump as the combatant in chief? the new york times asked, quote, is ron desantis the future of the republican party? but a las as it turned out, voters didn t want a trump alternative, they wanted trump. that became clear as his legal troubles mounted with every indictment the trump got stronger in the pol
miguel joins us live this hour to discuss what this means for higher learning in america. and breaking news out of moscow. cnn has new reporting on the top russian general who appears to be missing after the mutiny. documents indicating he was a secret vip member of the wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion. and the former school deputy who failed to confront the park l parkland shooter is found not guilty. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story. the united states supreme court ruling that united states supreme court ruling gutting affirmative action in college admissions. the concern with majority upended precedent and prompting a fiery dissent by liberal justices on the court. cnn s senior supreme court analyst is joining us right now. joan, how did the conservative majority reach this decision and what are the real world impacts of it? well i ll tell
toward a multi front war? it depends on the united states. the united states could have stopped this genocide from day one. they chose not to do so. and now the united states seems to be giving a green light to the israeli regime to expand the war. and the united states itself is carrying out assassinations in iraq as well as missile strikes on yemen. so instead of stopping the problem, the genocide in gaza, we are moving in the opposite direction. well, in that first answer you ve given me an awful lot to unpick, and we ll try and do it bit by bit. i asked you about the expansion, escalation, of the conflict. you chose to put all responsibility on the united states and on israel. i would put it to you that if one looks at what is happening right now across the region the greatest fear, immediate fear, of expansion is to be found in the red sea and in the fact that the houthis, supported by and armed by iran, are firing their missiles, pretty much as we speak, toward commerci
every body. ha ha ha ha ha. okay.. right. they use their might to spyne on the right. a new report from the houseciar you did theory committee reveals that under the guise of investigating six, the feds duked banks to do a search of transactions for indicatorsja of homegrown violent extremists. problenuary h thm is, according to congressman jim jordan, the treasury department asked the banktremistsed thes to condh using terms like trump and maga in an effort to track gun purchases. they also asked the bank tos to query terms like query terms. query like. yeah, i don t knowd the bank lis pro shops and sporting goods. so in other words, if you so much as bought a jockstrap, then you could have ended up on a federal list of domestic violent extremists. luckily, i did my own takes two of yarn. but domestic violent extremists, that s quite a mouthful right. why don t we just shorten it to what the feds really mean? republicans now, of course, they re using january 6 to justify a