paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i
fox that it was found in a cubby used by guests and west wing staffers. reporters absolutely bombarding her with cocaine questions, as they should. she gave essentially no information but the repeatedly state that the president and first family were out of town when this happened. where exactly inside the west wing was the substance discovered who would have access to the west wing. have you done interviews with law enforcement. are you doing testing? would there be consequences for that individual or if they were a guest of a white house staffer. can you give any more details where the secret service found the cocaine in the west wing and how it got there? i would have to refer you to the secret service on all of this. one thing i can share that i will share a little bit more information as you know, the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend. julie: the president yesterday during a meeting with sweden s prime minister. [shoute
public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming you to live from new york. today on the program. the united states versus iran. american soeldiers killed in jordan. u.s. ships attacked in the red sea. and missiles and drones launched at american bases and iran s proxies claim responsibility for it all. america has begun to respond. is it the right way? how can an all-out war be avoided? i ll ask an expert panel. then, american aid to ukraine and israel is being held up until the troubles at america s border with mexico are fixed. david frum will explain why he called this the gop s great betrayal. and also we ll tell you about the most interesting world leader to break on to the scene in quite a while. argentina s halfjavier milei. but first here is my take. it is fitting that the line that best describes u.s. foreign policy over the middle east in the last 15 years comes from the godfather. michael has been tr
this is gps global public square. i m fareed zacaria coming to you live from new york. today on the program, united states versus iron. american soldiers killed in jordan. u.s. ships attacking the red sea. missiles and drones launched at american bases. and iran s proxies claim responsibility for it all. america has begun to respond. how can an all-out war be avoided? i ll ask an expert panel. then, american aid to ukraine and israel the being held up until the troubles at america s border with mexico are fixed. david crumb will explain why he calls this the gop s great betrayal. and we ll tell you about the most interesting world leader to break on to the scene in quite a while. first, here s my take. it s perhaps fitting that the line that best describes the u.s. foreign policy of the middle east comes from the godfather. in the third movie, the aging michael corleone is trying to distance himself and a crisis flares up. just when i thought i was out, they pull me
good morning. it s saturday, february the 3rd. i m ali velshi. the israel, gaza war continues. it s steady creep outward, threatening to explode into a widespread regional conflict or worse at any moment. now, the united states has upped the ante, conducting what the biden administration says is the first in a series of strategic retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed proxy forces operating in iraq and syria. and their iranian handlers operating alongside them. these groups are among those responsible for more than 160 tags on u.s. troops in the region since the october 7th attack on israel. that include last sunday s deadly attack on tower 22. it s a u.s. base in the extreme northeast corner of jordan. right near the border with iraq and syria. more than 40 u.s. service members were wounded and three u.s. soldiers died in that attack. 24-year-old specialist, kennedy sanders, was posthumously promoted to sergeant. 46-year-old sergeant, william jerome rivers, and 23 year o