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A president s judicial nominee but it created a new rule of the mcconnell rule absolutely no hearing or no vote for a nominee in Election Year period no coffee 7 outs and Many Republican senators agreed with him including the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who at the time said quote verbatim heres what he said quote i want you to use my words against me if theres a republican president in 2060. And a vacancy occurs in the last year of the 1st term you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president whoever it might be make the nomination continue to quote and you could use my words against me and youd be absolutely right and of quote. Well in our other top stories irans president has warned of a crushing response to the u. S. After it made a unilateral move to reimpose sanctions has an rouhani vowed never to yield to american bullying claiming that washingtons latest move to pressure to iran has left it isolated from need to
Allowed to leave the greek island of last boss. Wildfires leave a trail of devastation along the u. S. West coast killing dozens and forcing hoffa 1000000 to flee their homes. And desperately needed International Aid begins to make its way into flood ravaged sudan. A top story the gulf state of bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize ties with israel u. S. President donald trump announced the deal on twitter after speaking with bahrains king had been isa honey for and the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the 3 nations of hailed the move as a historic breakthrough to furthering peace in the middle east officials from bahrain the u. A. E. And israel will formalize their relationship during a signing ceremony due to take place at the white house next week. There had been 2 Peace Agreements with israel in the last 72 years this is the 2nd Peace Agreement that weve announced in the last month and i am very hopeful that there will be more to follow i can
Condemnation. Emergency in china is story floods forced more than 100000 people from their homes and threaten an ancient statue of the good. And sport byron munich of set up the Champions League final with. The german champions beat lee all 3 nil to reach the biggest game in European Club football. Welcome to the program our top story protesters in baton rouge have defied the governments warnings of a tough crackdown on dissent Alexander Lukashenko has told Law Enforcement agencies to restore order on the streets but protesters in minsk are piling on the pressure accusing the president of rigging use election victory earlier this month and demanding he step down stuff a state run chemical plants have walked off the job joining other factory workers who typically was his supporters in the past but on now calling for a nationwide general strike the protestors have found support with the European Union which has announced a new raft of sanctions and says it wont recognize the Election Res
People from their homes and threatening an ancient statue of the buddha. And love in the time of corona virus how the pandemic is forcing pakistanis to scale down their flamboyant fairy tale wedding its. A protest as in about a ruse of defied the president s warnings of a tough crackdown on dissent Alexander Lukashenko has told Law Enforcement agencies to restore order on the streets but protests because protesters in the capital minsk a piling on the precious accusing the president of rigging his overwhelming election victory earlier this month and demanding he step down soften a state on chemical problems of walked off the job joining other factory workers who have been supporters of looking shanker until now calling for a nationwide general strike the protesters have also found some support with the European Union which has announced a new round of sanctions and says it will not recognize the election result aljazeera step vasan was at one of the largest protests today at Independen