all along this pathway. an urgent international appeal is launched to help the millions of people affected by the flooding in pakistan. just look at all this water. it s like being in the middle of the ocean, except those are people s houses, and the water levels here are rising. and japan declares war on retro technology after discovering almost 2,000 government processes are still carried out using minidiscs, floppy disks and cds. president biden has made an impassioned speech in defence of american democracy. he warned that donald trump and what he termed maga republicans represent a form of extremism that threaten the us way of life. he urged all americans to come together to defend american democracy regardless of their ideology. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. i want to be very clear. applause. very clear up front. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga repub
president s speech for us. not since abraham lincoln has a president delivered a speech like this, declaring that there was a fundamental threat to american democracy that was internal, not external. and that encompassed the other party, and more than that, the supreme court, which sees itself as bulwark, of reactionary partisanship, rescinding basic american rights as we saw in roe vs wade. this was his launch before the mid terms to attempt to retain democratic control of congress. iwonder, though, listening to his speech and some of the threats there, do you think voters will get