Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form
Narrator following the attacks of september 11, china drew at least temporarily closer to the u. S. The reason beijing fears separatist forces in their islamic western provinces. China has a delicate relationship with its ethnic and religious minorities. To understand the interactions between two asian cultures, we travel to the frontiers of han and muslim china in the city of lanzhou. But lanzhous location and its future on this frontier have much to do with the regions physical geography and Natural Resources. blowing heavily narrator for centuries in this part of china, rafts like this were an important means of transportation. Made of sheepskin, inflated and tied together, these rafts, called yangpi fazi, navigated the huang he, or yellow river. By looking only at the huang he, you might think lanzhou is a wet place. In fact it only receives about 12 inches of rain a year. Geographer chai yangwei, in the green, follows these farmers to see how they cope with such low rainfall. Pecu
Has closed the door to negotiations, both donald trump and irans president are in new york city setting the stage for a possible showdown as fallout deepens. The state Department Spokesman Morgan Ortagus joins us live in moments. Also tonight a cornerstone of this administration, protecting religious freedom and donald trump is allocating 25 billion to because. We will speak to the ambassador at large for International Religious freedom. Welcome to fox news at night. We begin with correspondent Jillian Turner who has the latest from donald trump on this whistleblower complaint. Sources are confirming to fox news the whistleblower doesnt have firsthand knowledge of the phone calls between donald trump and president is a linsky of ukraine. The president and white house aides debating whether to release a transcript of that call. Donald trump says it is fine to talk to foreign leaders about corruption admitting he spoke to ukraines president about joe and hunter biden on july 25th, he say
2021 will largely go down as a year in recovery, major political and societal events have nonetheless rattled the status quo in MENA and beyond. Culture and film made a comeback too. The New Arab takes stock of the most captivating stories from 2021