we are all celebrating the birthday of you, symone. i m going to light it up for your birthday. happy birthday, symone. thank, you reverend, i love you so much. i love you. and to all of you watching, good evening and welcome to politicsnation, tonight s lead, the clock is taking. lawmakers will return to capitol hill this week with less than two weeks to go. if they hope to pass a military aid bill before christmas. republicans have pushed to add border security to the bill, alongside the politically thorny issues of funding for israel and ukraine. they have so far been unable to find much common ground with the white house. in the middle of it all, how speaker mike johnson is poised to move forward on an impeachment inquiry against president biden. adding to the partisan gridlock. delaware representative lisa blunt rochester joins us shortly as the clock ticks down on 2023. we ve got a real treat for you later, elder statesman of saturday night live, comedian and acto
[background sounds] neil: one month in, and israeli troops continue heading in, now encircling gaza city, home base to hamas, as the war with expands to close-up urban combat. at this are hour, a three-hour window announced by the israeli military for evacuees to flee along a main highway in the gaza strip. it was just closed. we re going to talk to a u.s. citizen who who escaped the war zone with her husband and five kids. terrifying, the say the least, but alive. also at this hour, secretary antony blinken in jordan meeting with arab leaders. they want a ceasefire while the u.s. wants a humanitarian pause. israel wants hostages freed before considering either. and are we any closer right now to ultimately seeing something, anything constructive happening? i ll ask israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s top adviser and former u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo. and get ready, protest are everywhere again from iran s capital to england s capital, to a massive pro-fall s
a recent poll of international climate scientists pointed to growing despair. are we humans bungling our chance to avert disaster? jim skea, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for the invite. it is great to have you in this studio. let s start with a blunt first question. is it time for the international community to junk this idea that there s any possibility of limiting worldwide temperature rise to below the 1.5 degrees celsius? when we produced our landmark report five years ago, we said it was possible within the laws of physics and chemistry, and the biggest obstacle to keeping within the limit was actually on the social and institutional side. we, i think, now need to move to the position, we have to look very hard at whether we will be pushing against technical and economic barriers in terms of limiting warming to1.5. it is not absolutely impossible, but the chances are diminishing. and, really, it s hanging on a thread at the moment. right. isn t that a tactful way of sayin
i m not going to bore you with the jury instruction budget lawyers budging with words like willful unlawful and intent an important shortcoming it kind of like bill clinton once testifying that it depends on the meaning of it is will you should lines come up for two crucial developers be for the both sides in the 2012 rested their case without testimony from double trump in the defense calling just one major witness. it is like that with me applies but michael cohen, lying to congress and lying to going to the breast, all of that was to come of the bombshell was this come up former fix it cross-examination that he was supposed to pay $50000 per contractor culprit hired to soften the impact of - polls for trump in: testified give the companies must $20000 in cash in a brown paper bag, not too suspicious right, and he kept the other $30000 and you stole from the trump organization right trump lawyer asked me said yes cohen replied and even liberal commentators called to save th